2024 NBA Season

[Naida_BR]

Amazing performance from Harden once again.
Now Houston leads the series with 2-0. I believe that James Harden deserves a ring but there are teams like Bucks or GSW that Rockets are difficult to compete.

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[Reid]

Okay now Toronto made sure of that win for a tie in their first round at 1-1.

Playoff Zero Lowry made something happen now. I guess he had come back to his senses. He was like a shaking rat scared of the cat when the playoff starts. Now,  he is back to his old self doing what a Kyle Lowry should be.

It is a big hit for the young Orlando. They need new strategy on how to stop those veterans.

Kyle Lowry made 22 points in game 2 after not scoring in game 1.
He know he needs to score for them to win, now they prove how strong they are if the stars of the team are scoring.
Going to game 3, I'm still with the Raptors as they are also a good road team, hopefully they already exposed the Magic.

He bounce back from a mediocre performance in game 1. It's a chess battle in a lot of first round playoffs right now. As @fasdorcas said, it's really entertaining to see on both conference to be very tough to pick.

And it looks like the Toronto Raptors has now the momentum, but I wouldn't discounted that fact that Orlando will try to win the game by their defense.

Portland though leads OKC now, 2-0 with a win 114-94, but I'm sure Westbrook and P. George doesn't want to be sweep by Trailblazers.

This seems like a good series to watch, so far only Blazers were able to have won the first 2 games in the series and now it's a tough job for the OKC to defend their home and win both to even the series. I was backing for the OKC to win, but the 2 guard duol of Blazers are just really good, while westbrook is not shooting well and no other players that could help PG.

I agree with you. It is a good series now. There is really no handicap match except for Utah Jazz and Houston.
Watch their game over and over again and they just cannot stop Harden.
Why can Bucks do it while they cannot?
Rubio is not the right defender for him. They need someone who will really focus on defending Harden and would not care about his stats. Something like what Beverley did with Durant.
All defense and just making Durant uncomfortable to shoot the basketball.
If Utah could somehow find that guy where he could defend left and still stay on his front after a penetration then it would be the key to winning.
They are being eaten by Harden's left. I am not impressed with how Rubio does it. The speed and body of Harden is not a match for him.

[Ipwich]

Amazing performance from Harden once again.
Now Houston leads the series with 2-0. I believe that James Harden deserves a ring but there are teams like Bucks or GSW that Rockets are difficult to compete.

Harden tallied a triple double in this game, it's clearly an MVP's performance.
Bucks is good as a team and that gives them an advantage over the Rockets IMO, but let's see if they will face, but tough for the Rockets
since they have to beat the warriors in the 2nd round in case they will win the first round against the Jazz.

I hope I'm not wrong with my prediction because Clippers are also having a chance to win against the champ.

[Jating]

Amazing performance from Harden once again.
Now Houston leads the series with 2-0. I believe that James Harden deserves a ring but there are teams like Bucks or GSW that Rockets are difficult to compete.

It's because no one can defend Harden on Utah's side. He is making a field day out there making shots and passing the ball. Someone  should stick up with him, willing to bodied and make Harden somewhat uncomfortable. If not then they will be simply swept by Houston.

Last year's Utah though seems to be very aggressive as far as I can remember. As far as James deserves a ring? Obviously yes but he has a long road ahead. He needs to go to the West finals first and then we can discuss about his chances of getting a ring this year.

[Viscore]

Amazing performance from Harden once again.
Now Houston leads the series with 2-0. I believe that James Harden deserves a ring but there are teams like Bucks or GSW that Rockets are difficult to compete.

It's because no one can defend Harden on Utah's side. He is making a field day out there making shots and passing the ball. Someone  should stick up with him, willing to bodied and make Harden somewhat uncomfortable. If not then they will be simply swept by Houston.

Last year's Utah though seems to be very aggressive as far as I can remember. As far as James deserves a ring? Obviously yes but he has a long road ahead. He needs to go to the West finals first and then we can discuss about his chances of getting a ring this year.

Don't know about the chances of winning, but I believe whoever gets the first 2-0 in the series will win the series most of the time.
The Rockets/Jazz series is so boring if you are a Jazz fan, of course you like to see a close game for this two like they did last playoffs, but it seems like
Harden is more unstoppable now and his teammates have improve as they have better chemistry this season.

He is a true leader, having a triple double in playoffs ain't easy.

[Caladonian]

Amazing performance from Harden once again.
Now Houston leads the series with 2-0. I believe that James Harden deserves a ring but there are teams like Bucks or GSW that Rockets are difficult to compete.

It's because no one can defend Harden on Utah's side. He is making a field day out there making shots and passing the ball. Someone  should stick up with him, willing to bodied and make Harden somewhat uncomfortable. If not then they will be simply swept by Houston.

Last year's Utah though seems to be very aggressive as far as I can remember. As far as James deserves a ring? Obviously yes but he has a long road ahead. He needs to go to the West finals first and then we can discuss about his chances of getting a ring this year.

That's right, It's still a long way to go before we can discussed about that, he needs to past the second round and then the west finals, after that
we can talk about this future ring, there's still the defending champ which still alive in this series not unless the clippers disappointed them from
this first round and be eliminated by the underdog very far from reality but who knows, if Clippers abled to escape the game 2 no one can assure
if they can't do the same in game three.

[Ranly123]

Amazing performance from Harden once again.
Now Houston leads the series with 2-0. I believe that James Harden deserves a ring but there are teams like Bucks or GSW that Rockets are difficult to compete.

It's because no one can defend Harden on Utah's side. He is making a field day out there making shots and passing the ball. Someone  should stick up with him, willing to bodied and make Harden somewhat uncomfortable. If not then they will be simply swept by Houston.

Last year's Utah though seems to be very aggressive as far as I can remember. As far as James deserves a ring? Obviously yes but he has a long road ahead. He needs to go to the West finals first and then we can discuss about his chances of getting a ring this year.

That's right, It's still a long way to go before we can discussed about that, he needs to past the second round and then the west finals, after that
we can talk about this future ring, there's still the defending champ which still alive in this series not unless the clippers disappointed them from
this first round and be eliminated by the underdog very far from reality but who knows, if Clippers abled to escape the game 2 no one can assure
if they can't do the same in game three.

Yeah, it's difficult for the clippers to win this first round in the playoffs. But if they play like what they did in their last outing,then they could have chances to defeat the top team in the NBA.

[peter0425]

Amazing performance from Harden once again.
Now Houston leads the series with 2-0. I believe that James Harden deserves a ring but there are teams like Bucks or GSW that Rockets are difficult to compete.

It's because no one can defend Harden on Utah's side. He is making a field day out there making shots and passing the ball. Someone  should stick up with him, willing to bodied and make Harden somewhat uncomfortable. If not then they will be simply swept by Houston.

Last year's Utah though seems to be very aggressive as far as I can remember. As far as James deserves a ring? Obviously yes but he has a long road ahead. He needs to go to the West finals first and then we can discuss about his chances of getting a ring this year.

That's right, It's still a long way to go before we can discussed about that, he needs to past the second round and then the west finals, after that
we can talk about this future ring, there's still the defending champ which still alive in this series not unless the clippers disappointed them from
this first round and be eliminated by the underdog very far from reality but who knows, if Clippers abled to escape the game 2 no one can assure
if they can't do the same in game three.

Yeah, it's difficult for the clippers to win this first round in the playoffs. But if they play like what they did in their last outing,then they could have chances to defeat the top team in the NBA.

They just made if more interesting when they won game 2. But we all know that GSW is the defending champ, they have gone through a lot and I wouldn't be surprised if they are going to win this series by 4-2. Durant has been shutdown, but we all know that great players rises to the occasion so I'm expecting Durant to show his true form in game 3.

[davinchi]

Harden has been working on his right side as well, bucks defended him by giving him the right side of the court and that did stopped him a bit to be honest with you and on the win at the first game harden once again played with 11/26 which jazz could consider as "stopping" him, 29 points for him is not that bad because he shot the ball 26 times so it was expected but the rest of the team played well that is why rockets won, this time around even harden played better and than others helped so this one wasn't even that close. That is what great players do, they realize their mistakes and shortages and they fix those things to get better at it and not have issues, Lebron had mismatches on all games at 2011 finals but failed to post up, now he is a good post up player, harden had troubles with going right and now he can do that, great players work on their weakness'.

[harizen]

Utah Jazz really can't stand the Houston Rockets firepower. Too much indeed. If you guys remember these team faced-off at Conference Semfinals last year's playoffs on which the Rockets sealed the series at 4 wins to 1. A version 2.0 looks likely to happen.

Jazz fans is expected to go full force when they host Game 3, creating tremor to crashed Houston Rockets momentum. They will also celebrate the Jazz 3rd consecutive playoffs appearance. Unfortunately, the same intensity was felt by the Rockets team last year, so I guess nothing will changed.

[spadormie]

Utah Jazz really can't stand the Houston Rockets firepower. Too much indeed. If you guys remember these team faced-off at Conference Semfinals last year's playoffs on which the Rockets sealed the series at 4 wins to 1. A version 2.0 looks likely to happen.

Jazz fans is expected to go full force when they host Game 3, creating tremor to crashed Houston Rockets momentum. They will also celebrate the Jazz 3rd consecutive playoffs appearance. Unfortunately, the same intensity was felt by the Rockets team last year, so I guess nothing will changed.

I think the version 2.0 would probably be a 4 games to none. We can see a more improved Harden in this playoffs. It's the real playoff activate than LeBronto's playoff activate meme. I wonder why they are not benching Ricky Rubio. The last time they faced off each other last year, the only game UTAH won was Donovan being the PG of the team. And the rest, no win for them. Donovan is more consistent on ball.

[Pamadar]

Utah Jazz really can't stand the Houston Rockets firepower. Too much indeed. If you guys remember these team faced-off at Conference Semfinals last year's playoffs on which the Rockets sealed the series at 4 wins to 1. A version 2.0 looks likely to happen.

Jazz fans is expected to go full force when they host Game 3, creating tremor to crashed Houston Rockets momentum. They will also celebrate the Jazz 3rd consecutive playoffs appearance. Unfortunately, the same intensity was felt by the Rockets team last year, so I guess nothing will changed.

I think the version 2.0 would probably be a 4 games to none. We can see a more improved Harden in this playoffs. It's the real playoff activate than LeBronto's playoff activate meme. I wonder why they are not benching Ricky Rubio. The last time they faced off each other last year, the only game UTAH won was Donovan being the PG of the team. And the rest, no win for them. Donovan is more consistent on ball.

It's not impossible to sweep the Jazz as they can't do anything to stop harden or give some hard work for him, if they will not adjust this man will keep beating them even if the game will now be play in front of their crowd, the intensity of Houston needs to be intercept by Jazz if they really wanted to win.

[bisdak40]

great players work on their weakness'.

Agreed, they just need to add variety on their moves to be unpredictable sometimes. But some weakness can't be worked on like Free throws, if Shaq improved his free throws he could have add a couple of championship rings to his fingers.

[Questat]

great players work on their weakness'.

Agreed, they just need to add variety on their moves to be unpredictable sometimes. But some weakness can't be worked on like Free throws, if Shaq improved his free throws he could have add a couple of championship rings to his fingers.

He can't be perfect and no player is perfect, usually big guy which are athletic at the same time are not good in FT.
I believe Shaq was also the heaviest big man in the NBA history ( correct me if I'm wrong), so that's expected, what's good for him is he won a championship.

[Baofeng]

Game 3 results between Warriors and Clippers: Warriors 132 - Clippers 105, GSW lead 2-1. So much for Durant being shutdown by Beverley as he exploded with 38 points.

Spurs win as well 118-110 to lead Denver 2-1 as well. Derrick White proves to be the game changer as he goes to score a career high 36 points, 5 rebounds with 5 assists.

No Joel Embiid? No problem, as Ben Simmons put on a show with postseason career-high 31 points, together with 4, rebounds 9 assists and 3 blocks defeating the Brooklyn Nets 131-115 and also lead the series with 2-1.

[Fredomago]

Game 3 results between Warriors and Clippers: Warriors 132 - Clippers 105, GSW lead 2-1. So much for Durant being shutdown by Beverley as he exploded with 38 points.

Spurs win as well 118-110 to lead Denver 2-1 as well. Derrick White proves to be the game changer as he goes to score a career high 36 points, 5 rebounds with 5 assists.

No Joel Embiid? No problem, as Ben Simmons put on a show with postseason career-high 31 points, together with 4, rebounds 9 assists and 3 blocks defeating the Brooklyn Nets 131-115 and also lead the series with 2-1.

Denver keeps on frustrating themselves, losing the momentum giving the Spurs the edge and confidence to beat them from this series, the playoffs  really too different as the veteran Spurs dominating the Young guns of Denver, this series still far, Denver needs to win to tie it up and bring the hope for their journey to the next round.

[mirakal]

Spurs win as well 118-110 to lead Denver 2-1 as well. Derrick White proves to be the game changer as he goes to score a career high 36 points, 5 rebounds with 5 assists.

I am going to watch the highlights, I was not able to watch this game live as it's not available in my TV channel, were only able to watch the spurs/Nuggets and the Sixers/nets game.

Just looking at the scoreboard now, and i'm surprise there are other players who are stepping up for the spurs, the usual 5 who should score are not owning more minutes tonight, glad coach trusted young players and it resulted a good victory.

[gabmen]

Spurs win as well 118-110 to lead Denver 2-1 as well. Derrick White proves to be the game changer as he goes to score a career high 36 points, 5 rebounds with 5 assists.

I am going to watch the highlights, I was not able to watch this game live as it's not available in my TV channel, were only able to watch the spurs/Nuggets and the Sixers/nets game.

Just looking at the scoreboard now, and i'm surprise there are other players who are stepping up for the spurs, the usual 5 who should score are not owning more minutes tonight, glad coach trusted young players and it resulted a good victory.

Well well, we're seeing coach pop doing what he does best lol. He's probably the best right now in developing and inspiring players to the point where they will step up when they need to. Among the 4 matches in the west, i think there will be a lower seed team to move to the second round 😁😁😁

[peter0425]

Spurs win as well 118-110 to lead Denver 2-1 as well. Derrick White proves to be the game changer as he goes to score a career high 36 points, 5 rebounds with 5 assists.

I am going to watch the highlights, I was not able to watch this game live as it's not available in my TV channel, were only able to watch the spurs/Nuggets and the Sixers/nets game.

Just looking at the scoreboard now, and i'm surprise there are other players who are stepping up for the spurs, the usual 5 who should score are not owning more minutes tonight, glad coach trusted young players and it resulted a good victory.

Well well, we're seeing coach pop doing what he does best lol. He's probably the best right now in developing and inspiring players to the point where they will step up when they need to. Among the 4 matches in the west, i think there will be a lower seed team to move to the second round 😁😁😁

We all know that coach pop has still some magic behind his sleeves. Such disappointment though when Kawhi left the team. I think San Antonio now has the numbers to really upset Denver and move to the next round. Their experience is their number one tools right now as Denver are having a hard time against them.

[Reid]

Spurs win as well 118-110 to lead Denver 2-1 as well. Derrick White proves to be the game changer as he goes to score a career high 36 points, 5 rebounds with 5 assists.

I am going to watch the highlights, I was not able to watch this game live as it's not available in my TV channel, were only able to watch the spurs/Nuggets and the Sixers/nets game.

Just looking at the scoreboard now, and i'm surprise there are other players who are stepping up for the spurs, the usual 5 who should score are not owning more minutes tonight, glad coach trusted young players and it resulted a good victory.

Well well, we're seeing coach pop doing what he does best lol. He's probably the best right now in developing and inspiring players to the point where they will step up when they need to. Among the 4 matches in the west, i think there will be a lower seed team to move to the second round 😁😁😁

It aint over but it looks like Denver is having a problem finding their offense.

One commentator have said it before. They might be the second seed of the West but yet they work with their good defense only. Where will they get their offensive guy?
Coach Pops is really something, I think he does see that already and tried to target Denver for the playoffs match to succeed to the 2nd round.
But we cannot tell it yet. Something might change with Denver's gameplay.