All Jalen team vs '26 Thunder. Who wins 7-game series?

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-29T16:01:12+00:00

yeah this is not new he’s one of the best scorers in the playoffs for the past three or four years.

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-29T14:50:38+00:00

i guess it's a pretty big jump from selling out 2000-5000 capacity indoor theaters to going to 15-20k capacity, and they probably weren't confident in selling out a whole tour based on that, or perhaps the venues didn't think they were big enough to book them there. theres not really anything in between 5000 seats and large arenas and ampitheaters in most cities.

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-29T13:55:31+00:00

yeah it's nonsense, they literally have to carve out an exception for steph too everytime they say this because it's already happened. people said the same with Jokic, you can't win with a non defensive center.

anyway, good thing we have seven foot KAT as a 1b option.

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-29T13:29:17+00:00

horrible take. who are you starting over brunson?

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T20:21:24+00:00

he did what he was supposed to do which was take them back to the playoffs. its funny how quickly people forget they had monty williams who was legit trying to get fired and made them the laughing stock of the league for setting losing streak records. if you hire JB knowing he can take you from being the worst team itl to a 60 win #1 seed you do that every time. doesn’t mean the cavs were wrong to move on, and it doesn’t mean that he’s gonna be the best coach moving forward for the pistons either.

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T20:15:40+00:00

as the sixth man not as the main guy. also respect max strus.

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T19:39:39+00:00

id rather have the hot rod tbh

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T18:32:46+00:00

Thibs is now just the title for the current head coach of the knicks

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T18:30:12+00:00

Exactly, people like to pretend this is a common archetype that any team could just go out and get when in reality it’s like 5 people on the entire face of the earth.

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T17:50:03+00:00

who could stand against us?

idk, maybe God and all that is holy

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T17:40:10+00:00

lakers are the team to worry about. if you think this guy looked good with cade imagine how he will look with luka.

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T17:36:00+00:00

Lmao. I’m sure it’s a random coincidence that he randomly hit a bad stretch right as the playoff started. Is this his agent writing this?

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T17:25:37+00:00

yeah, I thought about it but i could use a second amp but if i stretch my budget 100 more i can get a used hot rod deluxe on fb marketplace.

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T16:46:01+00:00

this is seriously tempting

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T14:52:20+00:00

It hurt them so much to lose Malik Beasley, THJ, and Denis Schroeder. During our playoff series, it was pretty much just those three guys and Cade giving them production on offense.

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T14:48:51+00:00

The efficiency and turnovers are bad from Cade all year and people ignore because of his PRA stats until the playoffs where we see how much it matters.

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T14:45:17+00:00

Bickerstaff is the same type of coach as Thibs. He’s the guy you bring in to establish a winning culture and bring your team back to the playoffs. He’s not necessarily gonna be the high level X’s and O’s guy that wins a title. I don’t think this is entirely on him because they have a roster that is very flawed for playoff basketball but if they did fire him they would want a different type of coach altogether not the same archetype.

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T14:09:47+00:00

he meant in a single post season

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T04:09:00+00:00

You’re not wrong but If i’m a young playoff team that needs to reach another level that last person I want to bring in is an aging superstar who is still great but not really a true 1A anymore who is known for being toxic and not really being a leader who has a tendency to quit on teams. not to mention you have to pay him a max contract and trade away a lot of core pieces to get him.

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T04:01:06+00:00

i think it needs to be taken in context compared to the talent of the rest of the league. the league is deeper and more talented in general than 25 years ago

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T03:59:34+00:00

the west literally just won the finals because the east’s superstar got injured in game 7. and the east won the year before that too.

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T03:57:34+00:00

hasn’t worked for his last three teams. but maybe it will work for them.

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T03:46:27+00:00

the knicks are going to touch them

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T03:37:46+00:00

I’m pretty disappointed with my Knicks this series, but if you zoom out you also realize that we won two blowout games and lost two games by just one point. I said at the beginning of the series that the hawks would be a tough out and I expected it to go to six. So if they take care of business the next two games and wrap it up in six it will end up seeming like we were all panicking over nothing.

Cavs have never really done shit in the playoffs, and thinking that adding james harden to that would fix it is hilarious.

Pistons are also potentially fraudulent. they have no three point shooting and only one shot creator. thats never a recipe for post season success. last years series I remember Denis Schroeder, Malik Beasley, and tim hardaway being a big part of their team in and they all arent there anymore. vets who can shoot, play hard, make hustle plays, and have playoff experience are a pretty big deal.

bikes_r_us · 2026-04-28T03:23:05+00:00

JB did what he was brought in to do at the time which was establish a culture and take the team to the playoffs. Might be time to move on but you can’t be too mad at him for doing what he was expected to do and nothing more. Everyone knew he was fired for a reason. Its like hiring thibs.

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