Wow they are saying it’s Lowry’s hammy now. Maybe that series can go 7?

6 minutes ago, Khani1 said:

Wow they are saying it’s Lowry’s hammy now. Maybe that series can go 7?

Saw that. Miami better win game 4 or they are in BIG trouble.

1 minute ago, Blazehound said:

Saw that. Miami better win game 4 or they are in BIG trouble.

Apparently Butler doesn’t like to play with Dipo so it should be interesting if he fills in. 

20 hours ago, DaEagles4Life said:

I don't need to justify anything. Jokic did more for his team with less talent around him and  that really isn't a debate.

I'm glad you finally spelled his name right though. 

The debate is Jokic had a historic season, not his surrounding cast.  Nonetheless, Embiid carried the Sixers most of the year and was dominant start to finish.  Jokic is a modern day Tim Duncan, he plays boring but effective basketball.

5 hours ago, Khani1 said:

Have you been watching this series? The playoff Hawks are really bad. They can shoot 3’s and that’s about it. Young can’t get passed Tucker who is a good defender but he isn’t Scottie Pippen. And without Capela, he has no floater or lob move. Also since they changed the rules, he doesn’t get calls similar to Harden. Their defense is really really bad, especially with Capela out. If they can somehow take Miami to 6, and we sweep today, that should give us nearly a week of rest while they might get 3 days. Now Chubby Hubby is out with a leg injury for Miami too, so it’s something to keep an eye on. And I don’t see anyone on their team being able to stay in front of Maxey. I think we win that series in 7. 

Again atlanta coming into the playoffs as one of the better teams in the eastern conference for over 3 months. Similar to last year. So when you say they are a crappy 8 seed, they’ve had a top 6 record in the east for over 3 months dating back to Jan 17th. The heat were 26-13 over that time. The bucks were 24-13 over that time. The sixers were 26-14 over that time. The hawks were 28-14. They were playing at the same consistency as three of the top four teams in the Eastern conference over a 3 month period of time to finish the season. SO It was not going to be as easy as a normal 8 seed as they had playoff experience a year ago and finally started playing like they did for long stretches last year. that’s been my point. It’s not a typical 8 seed with how they were playing coming into the postseason. Their bad start put them where they are. Their finish to the season helped them  

Yes they take a lot of threes that isn’t by accident. Also young won  game 3 on a floater where he was able to get to the paint. Also game 2, young was 2-10 from 3. Meaning inside the 3 point line he was 8-10. 80% is pretty good. Meaning they had massive issues trying to guard him when he didn’t just settle for threes. We said the same thing you have last year in that sixers series. atlanta when they got down 2-1 and were really handled in games 2 and 3. And we said they aren’t really playing well. I’d actually say atlanta first 3 games vs Miami they’ve been better than first 3 games with the sixers last year. The sixers obliterated the hawks in games 2 and 3. They got worse over the first 3 games of the series against the sixers. This series they seem to be getting a little better each game. That said i don’t see them winning the series unless Miami just completely collapses (which without Lowry maybe it happens) 

Second they haven’t been horribly bad outside of game 1, they just aren’t a true contender so your expectations for them are too high. That’s what they look like.  I would argue with you that they have kept 2 of the 3 games within reach against a team who is considered a NBA finals contender and a one seed. Miami with their coach and the team that they have they are going to make every series look ugly. When/if the Sixers play Miami, it’s going to be an ugly series. 

Third just because they were good the last 3.5 months does not mean they are better than Miami. Miami is a better coach team, has better talent. So obviously they aren’t going to look like world beaters. They are an underdog with many disadvantages in this series yet down 2-1. it easily could’ve been up 2-1 if not for Jimmy butler going off in game two especially the last 3 mins saving miami

Fourth there’s plenty of other teams playing worse than atlanta.  a team that’s playing bad right now,  the Denver Nuggets. They’ve been far worse. The hawks are playing better than the nuggets especially the last 2 games. I would argue the Utah jazz have been bad in that series considering the fact Luka Doncic has been out, they’re still down 2-1 and really were fortunate to win game 1. Brunson is averaging 32 points in that series. I like Brunson but he’s not some superstar player that should be averaging 32 in a playoff series especially without luka out there. I’d also say atlanta is playing better than the raptors. Granted raptors have had some injuries but they’ve been worse than atlanta. Game 1 the hawks were bad. Really bad. But game 2 on the road they had a chance to win that game with 3 mins left until butler went bananas and on his own 7-0 run to win it. Which you can say they can’t guard Jimmy Butler but Jimmy Butler did something similar to the Toronto Raptors in game 7 a couple years ago and got us back to a tie game before kawhi hit his shot. and the raptors had Kawhi Leonard out there to guard him. 

It would be pretty fitting if Atlanta takes out Miami. Let the Sixers avenge the ‘19 loss to Toronto in round 1, then get payback against Atlanta. 
 

Then Boston in the ECF… would be a great storyline if the Sixers were able to beat each of the teams that have knocked them out of the playoffs during the Embiid era on their way to the finals. 
 

Now let’s sweep the raptors today and get the guys some rest. 

11 minutes ago, nipples said:

It would be pretty fitting if Atlanta takes out Miami. Let the Sixers avenge the ‘19 loss to Toronto in round 1, then get payback against Atlanta. 

I’d still be shocked if atlanta won this series. I wouldn’t be surprised if it went 6 or 7 simply cause the hawks at home have played great for a while now. They are 21-3 in their past 24 home games. They are a much better team at home. However in their stretch where they went 28-14 to close out the year, they were 8-11 on the road. They just really struggle to win games on the road. The best road win they’ve had in the last 3 months is that Cleveland play in game. They lost road games to the pistons twice. 

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

Again atlanta coming into the playoffs as one of the better teams in the eastern conference for over 3.5 months. Similar to last year. So when you say they are a crappy 8 seed, they’ve had a top 6 record in the east for over 3 months dating back to Jan 17th. The heat were 26-13 over that time. The bucks were 24-13 over that time. The sixers were 26-14 over that time. The hawks were 28-14. They were playing at the same consistency as three of the top four teams in the Eastern conference over a 3 month period of time to finish the season. SO It was not going to be as easy as a normal 8 seed as they had playoff experience a year ago and finally started playing like they did for long stretches last year. that’s been my point. It’s not a typical 8 seed with how they were playing coming into the postseason. Their bad start put them where they are. Their finish to the season helped them  

Yes they take a lot of threes that isn’t by accident. Also young won  game 3 on a floater where he was able to get to the paint. Also game 2, young was 2-10 from 3. Meaning inside the 3 point line he was 8-10. 80% is pretty good. Meaning they had massive issues trying to guard him when he didn’t just settle for threes. We said the same thing you have last year in that sixers series. atlanta when they got down 2-1 and were really handled in games 2 and 3. And we said they aren’t really playing well. I’d actually say atlanta first 3 games vs Miami they’ve been better than first 3 games with the sixers last year. The sixers obliterated the hawks in games 2 and 3. They got worse over the first 3 games of the series against the sixers. This series they seem to be getting a little better each game. That said i don’t see them winning the series unless Miami just completely collapses (which without Lowry maybe it happens) 

Second they haven’t been horribly bad outside of game 1, they just aren’t a true contender so your expectations for them are too high. That’s what they look like.  I would argue with you that they have kept 2 of the 3 games within reach against a team who is considered a NBA finals contender and a one seed. Miami with their coach and the team that they have they are going to make every series look ugly. When/if the Sixers play Miami, it’s going to be an ugly series. 

Third just because they were good the last 3.5 months does not mean they are better than Miami. Miami is a better coach team, has better talent. So obviously they aren’t going to look like world beaters. They are an underdog with many disadvantages in this series yet down 2-1. it easily could’ve been up 2-1 if not for Jimmy butler going off in game two especially the last 3 mins saving miami

Fourth there’s plenty of other teams playing worse than atlanta.  a team that’s playing bad right now,  the Denver Nuggets. They’ve been far worse. The hawks are playing better than the nuggets especially the last 2 games. I would argue the Utah jazz have been bad in that series considering the fact Luka Doncic has been out, they’re still down 2-1 and really were fortunate to win game 1. Brunson is averaging 32 points in that series. I like Brunson but he’s not some superstar player that should be averaging 32 in a playoff series especially without luka out there. I’d also say atlanta is playing better than the raptors. Granted raptors have had some injuries but they’ve been worse than atlanta. Game 1 the hawks were bad. Really bad. But game 2 on the road they had a chance to win that game with 3 mins left until butler went bananas and on his own 7-0 run to win it. Which you can say they can’t guard Jimmy Butler but Jimmy Butler did something similar to the Toronto Raptors in game 7 a couple years ago and got us back to a tie game before kawhi hit his shot. and the raptors had Kawhi Leonard out there to guard him. 

I asked a simple question, if you watched this playoff series and you write a novel. I’m not that invested. If you wanna send cliffs notes, I might engage. Otherwise, all good man. 

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

I’d still be shocked if atlanta won this series. I wouldn’t be surprised if it went 6 or 7 simply cause the hawks at home have played great for a while now. They are 21-3 in their past 24 home games. They are a much better team at home. However in their stretch where they went 28-14 to close out the year, they were 8-11 on the road. They just really struggle to win games on the road. The best road win they’ve had in the last 3 months is that Cleveland play in game. They lost road games to the pistons twice. 

I’d be surprised too but I really want the Sixers to beat those ****es. 

No way the Hawks/Heat series isn’t done in 6. 

12 minutes ago, Khani1 said:

I asked a simple question, if you watched this playoff series and you write a novel. I’m not that invested. If you wanna send cliffs notes, I might engage. Otherwise, all good man. 

Yeah I’ve watched it.  They are playing better in this series to start the first 3 games then they did against the Sixers last year. They got obliterated in games 2 and 3. Actually got worse from game 1 to game 3. This series they seem to be getting better with each consecutive game. Also young was 2-10 from 3 in game 2 but 8-10 inside the 3 point line. Game 3 he was 4-8 inside the 3 point line and 2-6 from 3. If Trae Young would actually start attacking inside the three-point line miami really doesn’t have an answer to him. He was horrific in game 1 as was the entire team. But since then he’s shooting 12-18 inside the 3 point line. That’s 67%. The problem is he’s settling on way too many 3s. And even this is a little skewed cause he got to the line 12 times in game 3. So if he starts to attack more he’s likely to be much better off as will atlanta. 

15 minutes ago, nipples said:

I’d be surprised too but I really want the Sixers to beat those ****es. 

I dislike atlanta and would love to return the favor from last year. I’d hate atlanta a lot more but If we can’t win a series where in consecutive games we are up 25 and 18 on the hawks and lose those games that’s on Our team not putting them out of their misery. Imo the series last year showed just how fragile nature of the sixers with doc’s coaching and BS then the hawks. Also showed our margin of error was razor thin once Danny got hurt. Which speaks to sixers dumb moves over the year putting them in that spot. 

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

Yeah I’ve watched it.  They are playing better in this series to start the first 3 games then they did against the Sixers last year. They got obliterated in games 2 and 3. Actually got worse from game 1 to game 3. This series they seem to be getting better with each consecutive game. Also young was 2-10 from 3 in game 2 but 8-10 inside the 3 point line. Game 3 he was 4-8 inside the 3 point line and 2-6 from 3. If Trae Young would actually start attacking inside the three-point line miami really doesn’t have an answer to him. He was horrific in game 1 as was the entire team. But since then he’s shooting 12-18 inside the 3 point line. That’s 67%. The problem is he’s settling on way too many 3s. And even this is a little skewed cause he got to the line 12 times in game 3. So if he starts to attack more he’s likely to be much better off as will atlanta. 

Thanks…

 

I just see the defense without Capela being really bad. Maybe he comes back and they are much improved. If somehow Atlanta wins the series, which I think there is no chance, even without Lowry, we destroy Atlanta in 5 or 6 at the most. I just want that series extended and our sweep today so we can get 6-7 days off. 

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

I dislike atlanta and would love to return the favor from last year. I’d hate atlanta a lot more but If we can’t win a series where in consecutive games we are up 25 and 18 on the hawks and lose those games that’s on Our team not putting them out of their misery. 

I think this team is too good to let Doc ruin multiple big leads, especially at home, at least for the next round. Plus, no Ben Simmons in the 4th to kill us now. 

1 minute ago, Khani1 said:

Thanks…

 

I just see the defense without Capela being really bad. Maybe he comes back and they are much improved. If somehow Atlanta wins the series, which I think there is no chance, even without Lowry, we destroy Atlanta in 5 or 6 at the most. I just want that series extended and our sweep today so we can get 6-7 days off. 

i would think the sixers win it in 5. Cause i think this team offensively is better equipped to beat atlanta this year than last year. Maybe not guarding trey young but i think offensively we won’t score in the low 100s or high 90s 3 consecutive games  

I see Miami beating atlanta in 5 or 6 depending on how game 4 goes. Lowry contract is going to look worse for Miami next year. He wasn’t worth the money when healthy so far this year. Could’ve been spent better. 

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

i would think the sixers win it in 5. Cause i think this team offensively is better equipped to beat atlanta this year than last year. Maybe not guarding trey young but i think offensively we won’t score in the low 100s or high 90s 3 consecutive games  

I see Miami beating atlanta in 5 or 6 depending on how game 4 goes. Lowry contract is going to look worse for Miami next year. He wasn’t worth the money when healthy so far this year. Could’ve been spent better. 

We dodged a bullet not making that trade. 

Harden, find your freaking legs and give us 25/9/9 todays please. 

"You don't want to beat a team that isn't at full strength" 

I don't give a crap if they beat the ball boys and dance team.   Just win. 

Scottie "Pippen” is down again. 

22 minutes ago, Khani1 said:

Scottie "Pippen” is down again. 

Tbh He shouldn’t have been playing. Down 3-0 and how bad that injury looked. Felt like it wasn’t a week long injury by the looks of it. Plus it wasn’t saving their season. I much rather not have him hurt it worse then run him out there 0-3  

Harden needs to shoot more

Toronto fans going nuts like any of this matters. This game, next game, doesn't matter.

Not going to win this game being outrebounded by 10 and embiid and maxey having 5 points on a combined 1-9 shooting. 

Siakam is the guy who is the pirate in Captain Phillips. Change my mind!

Just now, Khani1 said:

Siakam is the guy who is the pirate in Captain Phillips. Change my mind!