22 minutes ago, Mat said:

Unless the Hawks win again 

Monday no matter what 

Game 7 would be Saturday and next series starts on Monday 

9 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Depends on who matches up. I’d still favor the Celtics, bucks and sixers.

Don’t think the lakers would be favorites but if AD and LeBron’s health actually hold up they have a chance to win the finals if they make it. I think they did an outstanding job at the trade deadline putting the guys around them and giving them depth. That’s one of the better 8 man rotations in the league. Hachimura, reeves, Russell, Schroeder and Vanderbilt play their roles well alongside those two. I’ve liked hachimura since Gonzaga. Also he had a really good series against the sixers a couple years ago. i don’t think they’d be a favorite but if they are healthy they are really dangerous  

Imo i don’t think the warriors or nuggets win a title if they somehow make it out. Warriors have a punchers chance just cause of Steph, klay, Wiggins and draymond but i just don’t think they make it out of the west. Also i feel like there’s something off with them and they just can’t win on the road enough to do it. I think nuggets would be beat by the sixers, Celtics or bucks. Imo suns have the star power but their bench is terrible. i don’t trust guys to make it through this postseason healthy or playing the amount of mins they are over the next couple series will eventually catch up to them.

Unfortunately for the clippers, if kawhi and PG were healthy i think they might have had the deepest roster and ability to beat a team like Boston and the bucks but feels like that organization is snakebit and it’s never gonna happen with kawhi/Pg being healthy together. 

Nuggets, Lakers, Warriors 

Celtics, Bucks, Sixers 

Pretty much those 6 teams, Suns literally have zero depth and can Paul/KD hold up. 

I may add the Knicks but Randle has been horrific. They have a great bench that can change the course of a game or two. 

26 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

Nuggets, Lakers, Warriors 

Celtics, Bucks, Sixers 

Pretty much those 6 teams, Suns literally have zero depth and can Paul/KD hold up. 

I may add the Knicks but Randle has been horrific. They have a great bench that can change the course of a game or two. 

I think the nuggets can win a title but i wouldn’t take them over the Boston, bucks and sixers (if embiid is closer to what he was regular season). I think if i were the nuggets and i had to face one of those 3 id probably choose the sixers cause i think it’s a much closer matchup than the other two. 

The warriors definitely have the talent to be able to win a title. They have the experience and guys that just did it last year. there’s two things that throw me off with that team. They are absolutely miserable on the road. I don’t think that starts changing deeper in the postseason.  they might win tonight at Sacramento but I think that’s more because Fox is playing through a broken finger and that could be the difference to turn the tide in their favor. when they get to a team like the Lakers in the next round (if they hold off grizzlies) or if they face the Nuggets in the conference finals then they’re gonna win on the road cause imo those teams are good enough to steal games on the road and have the experience to do so. And I’m not sure the Warriors are winning on the road as they’ve only 11-32 so far this year. Second feels like there’s just something off with that team all year since the beginning of the year when draymond punched poole. 

If Miami finishes off the bucks, the Knicks have a shot at the finals. I think they can beat Miami and they always play hard and will be a pain in the ass for Boston or the sixers in the ECF.  They are gonna need randle to be good in order to beat the top 3 teams in the east and nuggets, lakers, warriors and even subs out the west

Butler knocks out the Bucks 

31 minutes ago, Mat said:

Butler knocks out the Bucks 

 

 

1) If Embiid missed 13 free throws in a home playoff game we'd go nuts.

2) I remember when the Bucks signed Goran Dragic after he was waived and there were hosts on the radio, as well as callers, saying how the Sixers missed out and how this sealed the Bucks trip to the Finals. 

If the Celtics win tomorrow or Saturday, I wonder how big the calls are going to be for the NBA to re-seed after the first round as in that scenario, the Celtics would have home court against the Heat while the Sixers would have home court against the Knicks (and if the Hawks won Games 6 & 7, the Sixers would have home court against the Heat while the Knicks would have home court against the Hawks in Round 2) as opposed to the Celtics having home court against the Sixers while the Knicks do have home court against the Heat in Round 2.  

 

The Hawks let us down.  Bring on the Cs.  We CAN DO THIS! 💪

Never change Harden, never change 

 

 

 

The fact that be 11 days since he last played a game and he’s still doubtful for game one feels like this injury is likely worse than what we know 

Gamesmanship.

8 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

The fact that be 11 days since he last played a game and he’s still doubtful for game one feels like this injury is likely worse than what we know 

Seems like it. They could be bating the Celts but who knows. Celts now a -9 favorite game 1.

2 hours ago, Blazehound said:

Seems like it. They could be bating the Celts but who knows. Celts now a -9 favorite game 1.

I’m getting more and more to the point he might not even play this series. Because if you’re not ready to play on Wednesday night game 2, I do not imagine you’re gonna be ready to play on Friday night for game 3. (Also if dumas is accurate on 4-6 weeks it means it’s a grade 2 and not a grade 1) 

 

HE can also touch on this. 

 

 

I never saw this coming, an Embid playoff injury followed promptly by a 2nd round exit, I'm absolutely shocked!

1 hour ago, NYEagle said:

I never saw this coming, an Embid playoff injury followed promptly by a 2nd round exit, I'm absolutely shocked!

Yeah but he’ll likely win mvp this year so at least he’ll be happy  

1 hour ago, mikemack8 said:

Yeah but he’ll likely win mvp this year so at least he’ll be happy  

He can use the trophy as a foot rest for his busted leg....

Notice this time around...no panic, no surprise.  Just...oh well, we expected that.

So, when Harden walks, and we trade Harris to clear max cap space

Do we keep it going and completely the tear down by trading Embiid? Or do we give it one more go trying to build on a busted foundation?

 

3 hours ago, mikemack8 said:

Yeah but he’ll likely win mvp this year so at least he’ll be happy  

his regular season minutes need to go way down next season...maybe he'll actually agree to that after he gets his mvp.

35 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

So, when Harden walks, and we trade Harris to clear max cap space

Do we keep it going and completely the tear down by trading Embiid? Or do we give it one more go trying to build on a busted foundation?

They are going to give it one more go with the same foundation again. The fact that they don’t have some of their future draft picks is probably the reason why I think they do that. Another they will milk whatever they can out of embiid’s career until they can’t anymore. They’ll keep embiid until he wants out or he just completely declined  

my thoughts have always been if they get to the end of next year and they still couldn’t get out of the second round then Embiid is going to ask to be traded. However, it’s becoming more it’s not just Roster construction, but Embiid can’t stay as healthy in the playoffs. A good part of the Sixers failures in the playoffs is roster construction and coaching but also some of this is Embiid not being healthy at the right time. Like that game seven against the Raptors they might not have gotten to a game 7 if Embiid didn’t get sick for 2 out of the seven games. It feels like every year  he is always hurt when they get to the second round. I get injuries happen and not always his fault but it is what it is. It is hard for any organization to put a roster together that can win a second round series with your main guy continuously injured and not close to 100%. I know there’s been other times but it feels like the only time he was ever at 100% during the playoffs was in the bubble because he had all that time off until the bubble

No brace. Looks pretty good. Obviously not doing much lateral movement, but encouraging.