[NBA] Unofficial Discussion Thread

[Baofeng]

Any news if Tatum is going to play against the Suns?

If not then I will take them as the underdog here, game is at their homecourt, and they are @3.00 underdog so I will take that right. Won their last 4 games and fighting their playoff alive with their 10th spot for a play-in.

Will tail you on this one mate. As what @Harkorede have said that the Celtics are not risking their players to injury because they are already got a spot in the playoffs so i think this 3.10 odds for the Suns is worth taking.

I don't know what happened to the Suns, they are really inconsistent in this game as KD and Booker wasn't able to bring their A-game here.

Miami Heat vs the Hawks, - I'm leaning towards the Heat playing at their homecourt, -1.5 @1.88.

Great game between the Lakers and the Pacers, Lebron with another game ending winner with a tip.

[Harkorede]

Miami Heat vs the Hawks, - I'm leaning towards the Heat playing at their homecourt, -1.5 @1.88.

I'm really not buying into the Heat right now, they don't seem to have an idea of how exactly they want to play, they might have won a couple of games lately but I'm far from being impressed to be honest.

I'm riding on the Luka and Lebron James horse tonight as the Lakers go against the free scoring Chicago Bulls, with how well the Bulls have been scoring this past few games, I should be going for the Over, but I'm sticking with the Lakers spread -4.5 @ 1.98, depending on this goes I also have an eye on the Kings vs Blazers.

[bisdak40]

Miami Heat vs the Hawks, - I'm leaning towards the Heat playing at their homecourt, -1.5 @1.88.

I'm really not buying into the Heat right now, they don't seem to have an idea of how exactly they want to play, they might have won a couple of games lately but I'm far from being impressed to be honest.

I'm riding on the Luka and Lebron James horse tonight as the Lakers go against the free scoring Chicago Bulls, with how well the Bulls have been scoring this past few games, I should be going for the Over, but I'm sticking with the Lakers spread -4.5 @ 1.98, depending on this goes I also have an eye on the Kings vs Blazers.

Will tail you on the Lakers though the Bulls is on a streak right now but i do think they will lose somehow and that time would be now hehe. Lebron wasn't playing good last night abut i don't think that he will be having a bad game twice in a row.

[Harkorede]

Miami Heat vs the Hawks, - I'm leaning towards the Heat playing at their homecourt, -1.5 @1.88.

I'm really not buying into the Heat right now, they don't seem to have an idea of how exactly they want to play, they might have won a couple of games lately but I'm far from being impressed to be honest.

I'm riding on the Luka and Lebron James horse tonight as the Lakers go against the free scoring Chicago Bulls, with how well the Bulls have been scoring this past few games, I should be going for the Over, but I'm sticking with the Lakers spread -4.5 @ 1.98, depending on this goes I also have an eye on the Kings vs Blazers.

Will tail you on the Lakers though the Bulls is on a streak right now but i do think they will lose somehow and that time would be now hehe. Lebron wasn't playing good last night abut i don't think that he will be having a bad game twice in a row.

Damn!

It's such an awful way to lose a bet, but can I say I enjoyed that surreal final 10 seconds sequence, even though it cost me some bucks. Lakers really got sloppy and complacent which cost them that game, Lebron is usually never the type to make those kinds of mistakes, first he turned the ball over for the Bulls to take the lead, and after the Reaves layup, he was the closest to Josh Giddey, and he barely made any attempt to obstruct Giddey's view at the basket! Big win for Bulls, they kept their hot streak going.

[Baofeng]

Miami Heat vs the Hawks, - I'm leaning towards the Heat playing at their homecourt, -1.5 @1.88.

I'm really not buying into the Heat right now, they don't seem to have an idea of how exactly they want to play, they might have won a couple of games lately but I'm far from being impressed to be honest.

I'm riding on the Luka and Lebron James horse tonight as the Lakers go against the free scoring Chicago Bulls, with how well the Bulls have been scoring this past few games, I should be going for the Over, but I'm sticking with the Lakers spread -4.5 @ 1.98, depending on this goes I also have an eye on the Kings vs Blazers.

Will tail you on the Lakers though the Bulls is on a streak right now but i do think they will lose somehow and that time would be now hehe. Lebron wasn't playing good last night abut i don't think that he will be having a bad game twice in a row.

Damn!

It's such an awful way to lose a bet, but can I say I enjoyed that surreal final 10 seconds sequence, even though it cost me some bucks. Lakers really got sloppy and complacent which cost them that game, Lebron is usually never the type to make those kinds of mistakes, first he turned the ball over for the Bulls to take the lead, and after the Reaves layup, he was the closest to Josh Giddey, and he barely made any attempt to obstruct Giddey's view at the basket! Big win for Bulls, they kept their hot streak going.

Easy win by the Heat against the Hawks, good that I stay away from the Lakers game. Lol. But it was crazy ending indeed, the Lakers was on the way out to the dug out to celebrate their win.

But as fate interfere, they lost the game on a buzzer beater just like what they did against the Pacer the other night. And in the center of it again, it was Lebron, if he could have given that pass in the inbound and not be lazy as for sure the Bulls would have to foul them, but instead he just give it away and then the Bulls score a 3. Although Reaves give the lead to them, Lebron didn't put any defense on Giddey and so he take that advantage and score for the win.

[Jating]

A lot of news about the coach of Memphis Grizzlies being fired last night. And everyone wondered what is the reason,

The Memphis Grizzlies fired Taylor Jenkins, their winningest coach, on Friday with the team struggling down the stretch and at risk of losing home-court advantage for the postseason.

Still sitting at No. 5 in the Western Conference standings, the Grizzlies decided to dump Jenkins anyway and waited until Friday night to announce assistant Tuomas Iisalo as their interim head coach for the remainder of this season.

https://www.nba.com/news/grizzlies-part-ways-taylor-jenkins

Any thoughts though of what is the reason of the firing? He is as very successful coach for them, guided them in the last couple of years and has one of the winningest record for their franchise.

What could be the reason for the firing?

[Baofeng]

^^ Very hard to say what are the reasons behind. There are speculations that Ja Morant might have to do with it. But Memphis are playing the Lakers and then Ja is back in the lineup.

I read that he was force to play before by the coach and he doesn't like it. Nevertheless, the management might have the compelling reasons why they fired their best coach in franchise and maybe we will learn it later.

[bisdak40]

My only bet for today after taking a few days leave.

This is a very risky bet, knowing how unpredictable this Suns but i do think that the Rockets would blast them in their homecourt.

[Harkorede]

My only bet for today after taking a few days leave.

This is a very risky bet, knowing how unpredictable this Suns but i do think that the Rockets would blast them in their homecourt.

It turned out to be an easy win after all, and things couldn't have gotten any worse for Phoenix Suns, Kevin Durant twisted is ankle and couldn't return for the rest of the game, it looked a tard serious and with their season on the line, if he misses out for long then, there is literally no saving grace for them imo.

[Baofeng]

I'm looking at the Bulls vs OKC, OKC is on a roll lately, so I will take them to win by double digits -13.5 @1.83.

There are a lot of games tonight, but I will just go and bet this one first and then look at the other games later.

[bisdak40]

It turned out to be an easy win after all, and things couldn't have gotten any worse for Phoenix Suns, Kevin Durant twisted is ankle and couldn't return for the rest of the game, it looked a tard serious and with their season on the line, if he misses out for long then, there is literally no saving grace for them imo.

Too bad for the Suns, they could have at least compete for the play-in but with Durant out i think their chances of making it into the play-in is dim now.



The Lakers is back on their winning ways so i'll be backing them against the Rockets tonight.

[LogitechMouse]

It turned out to be an easy win after all, and things couldn't have gotten any worse for Phoenix Suns, Kevin Durant twisted is ankle and couldn't return for the rest of the game, it looked a tard serious and with their season on the line, if he misses out for long then, there is literally no saving grace for them imo.

Durant will be out with Phoenix after this season. Seeing him being injured really hurts especially if you're a fan of him, but with how things are going on with Phoenix, let's expect that he will be out next season with Phoenix and will request for a trade.

There's no saving grace for Phoenix this season, and as much as I want them to clinch at least the play-in tournament, the team is somewhat dysfunctional TBH so the best thing for them to do right IMO is to just forget about competing this season, trade Durant, and maybe Booker as well, get some draft picks and start a rebuild alongside the draft picks that you will get when you trade those 2 superstars. I know this might sound like it will not happen, but with the current roster of Phoenix, they can't even reach the playoffs. They need to rebuild IMO.

[Harkorede]

It turned out to be an easy win after all, and things couldn't have gotten any worse for Phoenix Suns, Kevin Durant twisted is ankle and couldn't return for the rest of the game, it looked a tard serious and with their season on the line, if he misses out for long then, there is literally no saving grace for them imo.

Durant will be out with Phoenix after this season. Seeing him being injured really hurts especially if you're a fan of him, but with how things are going on with Phoenix, let's expect that he will be out next season with Phoenix and will request for a trade.

There's no saving grace for Phoenix this season, and as much as I want them to clinch at least the play-in tournament, the team is somewhat dysfunctional TBH so the best thing for them to do right IMO is to just forget about competing this season, trade Durant, and maybe Booker as well, get some draft picks and start a rebuild alongside the draft picks that you will get when you trade those 2 superstars. I know this might sound like it will not happen, but with the current roster of Phoenix, they can't even reach the playoffs. They need to rebuild IMO.

I think it's definitely going to happen in the off season, It might end that not only Durant would get traded, If Phoenix can find a way to renegotiate Bradley Beal's no trade clause, I'm sure he'll likely get traded too. The problem here is that it might take a long while for Suns to be any close to the team that reached the NBA Finals some seasons ago because they have almost zero draft assets to work with.  I really can't believe this same thing had Chris Paul, Mikael Bridges, Cam Johnson and DeAndre Ayton all togther alongside Booker as some point with some really good bench too, like Payne and Jae Crowder, damn!

[bisdak40]

The Warriors and the Grizzlies needed every win they can get to avoid the play-in but i'm more incline that the Warriors will win today's battle against the Grizzlies.

[Harkorede]

The Warriors and the Grizzlies needed every win they can get to avoid the play-in but i'm more incline that the Warriors will win today's battle against the Grizzlies.

You're on a roll lately, too bad I'm still taking a break, the Grizzlies showing that while they are one of the best offensive teams in the league, their defense is nothing to write home about, at this rate I don't even see them extending any playoffs series to 6 games, because when it comes to the playoffs, you'll definitely struggle to find offense most of the time, it's most about how well your defense can carry, and theirs is leading them no where.