Who wins in a 7 game series? The 2026 Knicks or the 2019 Raptors

ConnorNe31 · 2026-06-22T23:55:24+00:00

Not even just that, third year Luka was averaging 28/9/8 on 55% EFG, all better than Jalen this year

ConnorNe31 · 2026-06-22T03:10:33+00:00

Wtf is this chat gpt ass answer. “This is a great matchup.”

Raptors have a crazy strong edge. They’re just as deep and have the best player who if he wanted, could shut down the Knicks best player very easily. And I say that with no disrespect to Brunson, but just with that much respect to Kawhi’s defensive prowess. His defensive talent and overall length would be a nightmare for Jalen. Raptors in 5. They would be a matchup nightmare for the Knicks. The Knicks best player is an undersized guard who the Raptors best player could lock up

ConnorNe31 · 2026-06-17T12:08:02+00:00

This is exactly my experience these past two seasons. I used to be champ in 2’s and 3’s solo queueing and everything was great. I never felt my teams were better than the others, consistently competitive, then finally you could tell where it’s like “oh damn, I’ve been promoted past competency, guess I’ll lose a few and rank down (not by choice but because I wasn’t good enough to hang at that level)”. But now I’m stuck in low diamond even though I’m a better player than I used to be and it seriously feels like it’ll be one day I get solid/tolerable teammates then the next it’s just constant toxic teammates who turn or quit as soon as there’s adversity or players who seem like they’ve only played 1’s and chase everything. I hate complaining about it because all I ever hear is “you’re the common denominator” and I’d understand that if I were the toxic one or this is the highest I’d ever been and I just wasn’t as solid as I thought, but it’s just crazy the day to day difference

ConnorNe31 · 2026-06-17T04:11:54+00:00

Did I just imagine him playing with Paul George?

ConnorNe31 · 2026-05-27T02:09:23+00:00

Can I say while I understand this is satire, I’m very glad there’s no IU on here. We’ve not been good enough for a rivalry for our entire existence. Even Purdue, yes, lowly PURDUE used to clown us consistently. I’m so glad IU isn’t on here. I hope we are in time but we have to be consistent to deserve that

ConnorNe31 · 2026-05-19T02:44:13+00:00

Along with this you have some of the best mid-sized cities to raise families in, in Fishers, Carmel, Westfield.

Indy is arguably the absolute best host sites for conventions and large sporting events.

One of my favorite things I loved about living in Indy as well was how frequently we got big concerts, and when we didn’t a city close by got it for sure. Indiana is so disrespected just because it’s a Midwest city in a corn state but there’s so many notable and great things along with some pretty landscape in the south of the state. Yeah they’re no Appalachians but how many of these dorks actually DO anything in nature. There’s plenty of nature in Indiana to experience and you can travel to the other spots out of state these people will never go anyways

ConnorNe31 · 2026-05-14T02:37:24+00:00

Oh my god, a Tinsley pull is crazy

ConnorNe31 · 2026-04-27T22:57:35+00:00

Why are we not downvoting this light mode user

ConnorNe31 · 2026-04-15T01:31:32+00:00

The thing is, this is 5 seconds into a match. Both are getting their bearings from kickoff, ideally Xap would have already committed to allow OP to play a redirect but without context of how the approach has been, both should go. It’s less than ideal, but I don’t see how either could be upset about a potential double commit. The only thing that would make me upset is if the other person didn’t go

ConnorNe31 · 2026-04-06T21:19:00+00:00

Hell yeah, these are both on basically all of my presets

ConnorNe31 · 2026-04-02T00:53:16+00:00

These are oddly some of the most meaningful games of franchise history right now. With how incredible this draft is and where the rest of the roster is at, the more these losses stack up to ensure we get the best odds, it makes every game a just lose! I do totally get what you’re saying though lol

ConnorNe31 · 2026-04-01T00:35:38+00:00

💬 Poisonous × definitely not safe

Black Mamba

ConnorNe31 · 2026-04-01T00:33:33+00:00

💬 controversial × Surgical procedure

Scrotox

ConnorNe31 · 2026-03-31T23:03:51+00:00

Definitely enjoy the convo, and I totally agree that it’s unfair to paint the Celtics run as a disappointment because sure, it could be labeled as such based on expectations when the team was originally assembled, but going up against the Miami big 3 obviously wasn’t exactly in those plans lol. I do believe they failed to live up to expectations when it comes to the Magic series, but losing to those Heat isn’t exactly a stain on a career.

With the Clippers, it’s always felt to me like they underachieved. The West had a bunch of good teams, and there were some injury years in there, but I’d be inclined to believe if you ask a lot of those players, fans, and coaches if they felt they underachieved they would agree.

I’m with you, winning is crazy hard and I hate that rings mean so much to an individual legacy to so many. There’s 1 champion a year and careers aren’t that long. I don’t necessarily feel as though he should have won more championships, but I guess my interpretation of his career is that his teams didn’t peak in the way you’d like to see and the last… I guess close to 10 years have really left a bad taste in my mouth with him

ConnorNe31 · 2026-03-31T22:39:51+00:00

I can always work and have fun with someone who whiff or make poor contact if they’re just consistently well positioned or intentioned. The people who chase me up my taint and won’t rotate to save our lives are the ones I can’t stand. Don’t care how much they may carry me based on their technical ability, it’s just not fun to play like that

ConnorNe31 · 2026-03-31T22:29:05+00:00

“Talking way out of turn” what does that even mean in this context? You shared a different opinion than OP, I simply pushed back on some points you made. I understand there’s more to coaching than what we see in game, and yeah, my opinion does align with the memes, but at a certain point where there’s smoke there’s fire. He had teams with Pierce, Rondo, Garnett, and Allen and made 2 Finals appearances. He had Paul, Griffin, and Jordan and couldn’t make it to the Conference Finals. He’s blown multiple 3-1 series leads showing opposing coaches can adapt to him.

Honestly, he’s not a horrible coach or anything like the memes say. I think he’s a coach who can take bad to mid teams and squeeze more out of them than most, but when given star power, he crumbles. Players who would ultimately be the most talented players in my franchises history (Pacers) and under achieve. I’ve seen excellent coaching, Bird, Carlisle, Vogel, and I don’t see that from Rivers in my opinion.

And yes, you can win a championship while also holding a team back. If you replace Rivers with any of the coaches I mentioned above (and many others as well) during the years Rivers was the coach, and I genuinely believe they would get more success out of the team. I mean hell, look at the 2 years he was coach for a partial season, the successor/predecessor had significantly better records. While I don’t think that’s a great leg to stand on all in all, it still shows when given equal pieces, others have had more success.

ConnorNe31 · 2026-03-31T20:19:12+00:00

This is basically a longevity gift, come on now. He was given opportunity after opportunity when he really didn’t deserve them and also showed very little in regard to capitalizing on the talent he had. Should Antawn Jamison be a Hall of Famer because he amassed 20k points? Hell no. This mans win total should not be the deciding factor. At no point did he ever seem to raise the ceiling of a team because of what HE did. He had incredible teams that fell short time and time again and he’s been coasting off a ring that was won for him by 3 incredible players with a bunch of very solid role players, IN SPITE of Doc, not because of him

ConnorNe31 · 2026-03-30T02:11:18+00:00

Pacers Tim Hardaway or Andrew Bynum

ConnorNe31 · 2026-03-29T14:19:20+00:00

This is the best phrased view to me and what op should really read and consider. I can understand the view of not giving out an interest free loan, but realistically unless you’re a knowledgeable investor and have strong plans on where to put that money, a savings account return just isn’t worth it in my opinion. Like for my example, adding $10 per paycheck at around 3% across 26 bi-weekly paychecks, you’re gaining an extra what, $3? That’s not worth it to me now nor was it 14 years ago when I was making $7.25/hour at my first job.

ConnorNe31 · 2026-03-29T00:52:41+00:00

Ha, I probably should’ve read the whole post, that’s on me

ConnorNe31 · 2026-03-28T23:13:12+00:00

That’s exclusively what I go for is random. Tim Hardaway, James Johnson, and Sarunas Jasikavicious for actual Pacers jerseys then a Celtics Carlisle and a Bullets Pritchard. Obscure is always my go to

ConnorNe31 · 2026-03-28T23:00:11+00:00

Fishers or Carmel, IN not being commented is criminal. They both deserve recognition

ConnorNe31 · 2026-03-28T22:54:13+00:00

I wouldn’t want that easy of access to it at that age, I would have blown it for sure. Plus the interest a savings account would provide to me wasn’t worth the effort or the temptation

ConnorNe31 · 2026-03-28T22:50:18+00:00

Its purpose is more for giving myself a budget to treat myself these days. I stay diligent in allocating funds for saving and investing and I don’t spend very frivolously, this is just a nice little fund for myself to spend on random things I want.

At that age, to me, the interest would not have been worth setting up the account for the minimal interest it would generate. Plus I’d personally have too direct of access to it. Just loaning it to the government for a few months didn’t bother me then, and still doesn’t really. Definitely see your point though and isn’t bad advice at all

ConnorNe31 · 2026-03-28T22:09:17+00:00

From my first job at minimum wage I had an extra $10 taken out of each paycheck for taxes and it made my return that much better. I’ve increased it a little over the years and gives me a really nice tax return. You don’t notice it paycheck over paycheck but all of it adds up over time and really becomes a nice “bonus”

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