2024 NBA Season

[Finestream]

Lakers 0-2 vs Denver, Miami 1-1 vs Celtics.

What's happening here? I think Lebron has to get in touch with Coach Spo and ask him one more time to join the Miami Heat for him to get a ring. Who expected that win by Miami in game 2? No one.. That's how good coach Spo was, if Lebron stayed with Miami, there's a big chance that he'll get more rings but he thought he doesn't trust the coach anymore after giving him 2 championships.

I can say now that currently, it's coach Spo is the best coach in the NBA.

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[dwyane36]

^ Ya, the 3 point shooting performance from the Miami Heat was something else tonight. Boston didn’t have much of a chance against a shooting barrage like that. It isn’t very often you see a team shoot over 50% from three point range. If that’s what it’s going to take for them to win the next game, that’s a tall order…

Yes, the number of three-point attempts and makes by the Heat in this game is impressive. On the one hand, I'm surprised that the Heat without Butler were able to tie the series against the Celtics. On the other hand, even before the playoffs, there was speculation that the Heat could be a nasty surprise for their playoff opponents, and the result of this game confirms it.

[Japinat]

^ Ya, the 3 point shooting performance from the Miami Heat was something else tonight. Boston didn’t have much of a chance against a shooting barrage like that. It isn’t very often you see a team shoot over 50% from three point range. If that’s what it’s going to take for them to win the next game, that’s a tall order…

Yes, the number of three-point attempts and makes by the Heat in this game is impressive. On the one hand, I'm surprised that the Heat without Butler were able to tie the series against the Celtics. On the other hand, even before the playoffs, there was speculation that the Heat could be a nasty surprise for their playoff opponents, and the result of this game confirms it.

They did it once before the playoffs, and now they proved it again. People should not doubting the Heat anymore, they are consistent in the playoffs dispite Butler's injury issue and been inconsistent sometimes. This game proved that when the Heat are moving the ball well, good things will happen.

So let's look forward in game 3, as long as the Heat take the lead in the series, they'll be in a comfortable situation and if this could reach game 7, it's more fun to watch. Herro was the Hero but everyone do their takes, it's a total team effort.

[Questat]

^ Ya, the 3 point shooting performance from the Miami Heat was something else tonight. Boston didn’t have much of a chance against a shooting barrage like that. It isn’t very often you see a team shoot over 50% from three point range. If that’s what it’s going to take for them to win the next game, that’s a tall order…

Yes, the number of three-point attempts and makes by the Heat in this game is impressive. On the one hand, I'm surprised that the Heat without Butler were able to tie the series against the Celtics. On the other hand, even before the playoffs, there was speculation that the Heat could be a nasty surprise for their playoff opponents, and the result of this game confirms it.

They did it once before the playoffs, and now they proved it again. People should not doubting the Heat anymore, they are consistent in the playoffs dispite Butler's injury issue and been inconsistent sometimes. This game proved that when the Heat are moving the ball well, good things will happen.

I remember that time, Jovic also have a great game in that particular meeting and they did it again. I thought that was only in the playoffs since Celtics may not be serious anymore since they already earned the top spot, but at their home court in game 2? This is quite surprising because the Celtics have won 90% or more of their games at home. I like coach Spo encouragement to his players, making them believe on themselves and allow them to too a shot when they see an opening, it's not a one person game, it's a team and I like Herro here being a facitator aside from his scoring.

So let's look forward in game 3, as long as the Heat take the lead in the series, they'll be in a comfortable situation and if this could reach game 7, it's more fun to watch. Herro was the Hero but everyone do their takes, it's a total team effort.

They should win game 3 as that's their home and the Celtics might not be able to to adjust yet. Now, it will be another battle of the minds, the Celtics has to be mentally touch and forget about what happen in game 2, it's just one game anymore and the series is far from over.

[btc_angela]

^ Ya, the 3 point shooting performance from the Miami Heat was something else tonight. Boston didn’t have much of a chance against a shooting barrage like that. It isn’t very often you see a team shoot over 50% from three point range. If that’s what it’s going to take for them to win the next game, that’s a tall order…

53% to be exact, and so that's hard to beat even if you are the Boston Celtics and playing at home. It will be interesting how the Celtics are going to adjust in game 3. The Heat steal one game from them in their homecourt, so they might be thinking of getting one back at a hostile environment.

So this is a big test for them, but as we've seen before, not the first time that the Miami Heat did this kind of upset. Although I would like to see Jimmy Butler in this kind of situation, unfortunately, he is injured.

[LogitechMouse]

Lakers 0-2 vs Denver, Miami 1-1 vs Celtics.

What's happening here? I think Lebron has to get in touch with Coach Spo and ask him one more time to join the Miami Heat for him to get a ring. Who expected that win by Miami in game 2? No one.. That's how good coach Spo was, if Lebron stayed with Miami, there's a big chance that he'll get more rings but he thought he doesn't trust the coach anymore after giving him 2 championships.

I can say now that currently, it's coach Spo is the best coach in the NBA.

Who knows? Maybe the Miami Heat will draft Bronny in the next draft combine, and they get Lebron as well. A happy reunion indeed.

Kidding aside, I don't think that Pat Riley will like reuniting with Lebron again especially now that they are performing well like in Game 2 where they just won against the top team in Celtics with the help of 3-pt shooting - a thing where the Celtics is good at. Kind of ironic that you're the best team in three-point shooting, but you lost because of that.

Coach Spo has been known for being one of the best coaches in NBA history, and many call him a "TACTICIAN" and it fits well from him. No Butler in that game Vs. 4 all-star players and a bunch of good role players and they still won. The adjustments that Coach Spo did was just amazing. Now what the Heat need is to defend their home court in the next 2 games. The Celtics has one of the best records on the road with 27-14 during the regular season. As for the Lakers-Nuggets, I'll bet on the Nuggets in Game 3. I'll stand in my prediction that they will sweep the Lakers yet again.

[livingfree]

I won't say that they've choke, yeah, they build a early lead and it was eaten slowly by the Nuggets. But they were able to stay in the game, albeit, AD was in foul trouble. But Lebron did try to rally the team, but it's wasn't meant for them as Murray had the last say. If they lost like in the 4th quarter and then the Nuggets won big then yeah you can call it choke.

But it was tied and they could have go to OT and maybe the outcome could be different. Now, it's need to survived and win game 3 to stay in this series, otherwise as I have said, it could be 4-1 for the Nuggets.

Analyzing that game, I'm seeing a lot of blame to Lebron and Darvin Ham. This only shows the love of the fans to Lakers and they want to see them move on to the semis.

A lose is a lose and Nuggets was just too good and composed with it. They've been into these kinds of situations and also with the Lakers but we can see on how AD is a valuable guy to the team.

He's made a lot of points but when he's got into foul trouble, we've seen them that they've become like limited.

4-1 is also what I am seeing a lot of people saying.

I think man for man, it could be a split 50/50 between the two teams. But in the end, the Lakers failed to protect their lead and execute their plays. There are even moments that James look frustrated, but he still managed to go and the game was closed. That is the heart of the champion, Nuggets shows composure and we have seen that championship DNA in them in this two games as the Lakers will take the lead and then they make a huge comeback and then this winning shot by Murray. 4-1? Maybe, it will all depend on the next game at Lakers homecourt. Darvin Ham should show his strength here as a coach as a exit in this playoff could also mean that he will have to find another coaching job somewhere.

I won't be surprised if by the next season the Lakers management will choose another coach if ever Ham fails to make the team beat the Nuggets which is unlikely.

And if the Nuggets continue to win against the Lakers for this playoffs, how many times did they've been beaten every playoffs?

It's going to be written on their books of history then. We'd see if the homecourt advantage will do a thing.

[Coin_trader]

Lakers 0-2 vs Denver, Miami 1-1 vs Celtics.

What's happening here? I think Lebron has to get in touch with Coach Spo and ask him one more time to join the Miami Heat for him to get a ring. Who expected that win by Miami in game 2? No one.. That's how good coach Spo was, if Lebron stayed with Miami, there's a big chance that he'll get more rings but he thought he doesn't trust the coach anymore after giving him 2 championships.

I can say now that currently, it's coach Spo is the best coach in the NBA.

Good coaching is already there but their hot hands on 3’s makes them do the impossible to beat the Celtics which the coach can’t control during the game. I think the players eagerness and determination to win despite the odds is what makes them unleash the beast for their 3 points shooting.

I feel goosebumps watching the match because I see Warriors back then during the day when everyone is shooting 3 without any sweat. Everyone step up on today’s games as shown on the score distribution among the players of Miami. Celtics is trying to recover until the end but it’s very hard to come back when the opponent team is in the zone.

Literally anyone 3s from Miami is successful as if it was magnetized by the ring. 

[danherbias07]

Lakers 0-2 vs Denver, Miami 1-1 vs Celtics.

What's happening here? I think Lebron has to get in touch with Coach Spo and ask him one more time to join the Miami Heat for him to get a ring. Who expected that win by Miami in game 2? No one.. That's how good coach Spo was, if Lebron stayed with Miami, there's a big chance that he'll get more rings but he thought he doesn't trust the coach anymore after giving him 2 championships.

I can say now that currently, it's coach Spo is the best coach in the NBA.

Good coaching is already there but their hot hands on 3’s makes them do the impossible to beat the Celtics which the coach can’t control during the game. I think the players eagerness and determination to win despite the odds is what makes them unleash the beast for their 3 points shooting.

I feel goosebumps watching the match because I see Warriors back then during the day when everyone is shooting 3 without any sweat. Everyone step up on today’s games as shown on the score distribution among the players of Miami. Celtics is trying to recover until the end but it’s very hard to come back when the opponent team is in the zone.

Literally anyone 3s from Miami is successful as if it was magnetized by the ring. 

Nasty 3-point shooting. 23/43. That's above 50 percent and absolutely high for any team. If you are a Miami fan and missed the game, you would think this is all done by Duncan Robinson, but it's not him, he only made 2 of 7. It's Tyler Herro who made 6 of them, Jacquez Jr. with 3, and Caleb Martin 5 of 6. Wow! That undrafted player is really something else, he proved his worth last playoffs and he is doing it again this year. Stepping up his game whenever it is needed especially when one of their stars is not around.
This is big for the Miami Heat, it will be a confidence builder as they go back to their homecourt, and they will probably play at a high level there.
Damn, I was wrong taking that +12.5 I should've trusted them more, especially their bench. This is the reason why they hate being called undermanned whenever their stars are not playing, they were never undermanned.

[püsür]

The Miami Heat just pulled the biggest upset since the start of the playoffs. I wonder what will be the mental effect of this defeat to Tatum and Brown. I thought Boston will win both home games and might lose 1 or 2 in Miami. But here we are again, Miami stealing a road game. The tough Miami mentality might once again make a huge upset by beating Boston in their series.

Breaking down the game, it's really effective when Miami scattered their offense and not just focus on Herro. Adebayo should continue pushing like this and not limit his offense even when the defense is tight. Boston might remain favorites even at Miami, especially without Butler.

I agree completely. Your point about their offense and Adebayo is very right. Their offense was great throughout the game, especially the second half. Their 3 points percentage was great. How they were ahead of Celtics the whole game was very impressive. And without Butler. You gotta respect the Heat. They've done it last year very very impressively and they've done it this year again. I mean, considering how Celtics are the favorites for the series and even the title. Erik Spoelstra may be the best coach by far. For years, he has made the miami heat a feared playoff team with rookies drafted or not drafted from the lower ranks, mediocre task men, star-like players(except butler).

[dwyane36]

I like coach Spo encouragement to his players, making them believe on themselves and allow them to too a shot when they see an opening, it's not a one person game, it's a team and I like Herro here being a facitator aside from his scoring.

I think if Herro continues to perform in the upcoming games as well as he did in the second game of this series, he can almost fully compensate for Butler's absence from the court.
Who knows, maybe the Heat could have even won the title last year if Herro hadn't been injured at the time and performed as well as he is performing now.

[Questat]

I like coach Spo encouragement to his players, making them believe on themselves and allow them to too a shot when they see an opening, it's not a one person game, it's a team and I like Herro here being a facitator aside from his scoring.

I think if Herro continues to perform in the upcoming games as well as he did in the second game of this series, he can almost fully compensate for Butler's absence from the court.
Who knows, maybe the Heat could have even won the title last year if Herro hadn't been injured at the time and performed as well as he is performing now.

The Heat will in the series if they continue to shot well outside, 53% shooting percentage beyond the arc, that's hard to maintain. The problem with the Heat is if they struggle outside, no one would be able to score inside except Adebayo, if they have Butler, he can attack the paint, and could kick out to the outside shooter if someone is open. Well, let's just see what's gonna happen, a coach that are good in making adjustment, that's the team that will win.

[yazher]

Lakers 0-2 vs Denver, Miami 1-1 vs Celtics.

What's happening here? I think Lebron has to get in touch with Coach Spo and ask him one more time to join the Miami Heat for him to get a ring. Who expected that win by Miami in game 2? No one.. That's how good coach Spo was, if Lebron stayed with Miami, there's a big chance that he'll get more rings but he thought he doesn't trust the coach anymore after giving him 2 championships.

I can say now that currently, it's coach Spo is the best coach in the NBA.

Coach Spo is the best man, I never expected such a thing to happen but I think since they have been rivals for years now against the Celtics in the Eastern Conference, Coach Spo already knew how to counter some of their movements and we witnessed how he executed a perfect plan to beat them. next game in the Miami Heat court will be filled with excited cheering fans for the Heat and they have the court advantage, with this hype, they could get another win in their next game and the Celtics will be in serious trouble because of all the teams in the East, Heat in the last one they want to be their opponent in a do or die situations.

[Hypnosis00]

Lakers 0-2 vs Denver, Miami 1-1 vs Celtics.

What's happening here? I think Lebron has to get in touch with Coach Spo and ask him one more time to join the Miami Heat for him to get a ring. Who expected that win by Miami in game 2? No one.. That's how good coach Spo was, if Lebron stayed with Miami, there's a big chance that he'll get more rings but he thought he doesn't trust the coach anymore after giving him 2 championships.

I can say now that currently, it's coach Spo is the best coach in the NBA.

Coach Spo is the best man, I never expected such a thing to happen but I think since they have been rivals for years now against the Celtics in the Eastern Conference, Coach Spo already knew how to counter some of their movements and we witnessed how he executed a perfect plan to beat them. next game in the Miami Heat court will be filled with excited cheering fans for the Heat and they have the court advantage, with this hype, they could get another win in their next game and the Celtics will be in serious trouble because of all the teams in the East, Heat in the last one they want to be their opponent in a do or die situations.

Because of that win, the Miami heat fans are now more confident that despite not having Jimmy in the line up, the current roster will be able to beat the powerhouse Boston Celtics. I wonder what would be the changes of the Celtics if they still lose to the Heat, and I just hope they'll not trade players, instead they'll change a coach that are more experience in the post season than the regular season. They don't need to be at the top, they just need to be in the playoffs and advance in the Finals again, and only a coach like Spo could do that.

[Fredomago]

Lakers 0-2 vs Denver, Miami 1-1 vs Celtics.

What's happening here? I think Lebron has to get in touch with Coach Spo and ask him one more time to join the Miami Heat for him to get a ring. Who expected that win by Miami in game 2? No one.. That's how good coach Spo was, if Lebron stayed with Miami, there's a big chance that he'll get more rings but he thought he doesn't trust the coach anymore after giving him 2 championships.

I can say now that currently, it's coach Spo is the best coach in the NBA.

Coach Spo is the best man, I never expected such a thing to happen but I think since they have been rivals for years now against the Celtics in the Eastern Conference, Coach Spo already knew how to counter some of their movements and we witnessed how he executed a perfect plan to beat them. next game in the Miami Heat court will be filled with excited cheering fans for the Heat and they have the court advantage, with this hype, they could get another win in their next game and the Celtics will be in serious trouble because of all the teams in the East, Heat in the last one they want to be their opponent in a do or die situations.

Because of that win, the Miami heat fans are now more confident that despite not having Jimmy in the line up, the current roster will be able to beat the powerhouse Boston Celtics. I wonder what would be the changes of the Celtics if they still lose to the Heat, and I just hope they'll not trade players, instead they'll change a coach that are more experience in the post season than the regular season. They don't need to be at the top, they just need to be in the playoffs and advance in the Finals again, and only a coach like Spo could do that.

Though the series is still far from it's end, but giving Heat a chance to lead the series might risk the chance of Boston to move forward, with the way Heat played more on trsuting one another and rotate the ball quicker, Boston unable to answer back especially those raining three point shots, which Miami is known to have that deadly playing style, it's just amazing that they made this win without Jimmy they really shared the ball well and they are not ducking to anyone.

They wanted to win that's why they show determination on both their offense and defense, they put the game on their control and Boston don't have any answer, seems that they out of gas especially in the last quarter, they don't have any solution with the rally that Heat runs against them.

[Twentyonepaylots]

I won't say that they've choke, yeah, they build a early lead and it was eaten slowly by the Nuggets. But they were able to stay in the game, albeit, AD was in foul trouble. But Lebron did try to rally the team, but it's wasn't meant for them as Murray had the last say. If they lost like in the 4th quarter and then the Nuggets won big then yeah you can call it choke.

But it was tied and they could have go to OT and maybe the outcome could be different. Now, it's need to survived and win game 3 to stay in this series, otherwise as I have said, it could be 4-1 for the Nuggets.

Analyzing that game, I'm seeing a lot of blame to Lebron and Darvin Ham. This only shows the love of the fans to Lakers and they want to see them move on to the semis.

A lose is a lose and Nuggets was just too good and composed with it. They've been into these kinds of situations and also with the Lakers but we can see on how AD is a valuable guy to the team.

He's made a lot of points but when he's got into foul trouble, we've seen them that they've become like limited.

4-1 is also what I am seeing a lot of people saying.

Nah, man, it is not on LeBron; it is a total team that should be accountable for what happened in the last game. LeBron actually did make two 3-pointers when Denver was closing, so I don't see any reason why I would blame him for the missed shot in the last second. You know shit happens; like what I've said, he did sink two 3-pointers, so he is hot, and he is wide open, so why not take it? I think if you are hot, you will still take it because you just made a couple a while ago. What the Lakers need to do is regroup and get their sh*t together. They can win this series; they just need to be consistent on both ends of the floor. They showed us what they are capable of; it was just the mentality that sometimes shuts up when needed, like when Darvin Ham stopped coaching.

[OgNasty]

A couple big games tonight on TNT. Both the Los Angeles Lakers and the Philadelphia 76ers are fighting to stay in the series and get their first win to avoid going down 0-3, which will likely mark the end for either team. I like the Sixers’ odds better than the Lakers, but I’m sure LeBron doesn’t want to get swept by the Nuggets again.

[xLays]

All of you are just talking about Miami's impressive 3 points percentage, but none of you mentioned how great Tyler Herro was as a point guard in that game against the Celtics. My man Tyler Herro made 14 assists. And that was his career-high in assists! I couldn't believe he could make 14 assists because he only averages 3 assists per game this season. Players really step up their game when it comes to playoffs. I wouldn't be surprised if the Celtics get upset again, just like last season.

[Harkorede]

I can say now that currently, it's coach Spo is the best coach in the NBA.

So because Miami Heat won a game at Celtics Spoelstra suddenly is the best coach in the NBA ?? Big Joke, it's a series I hope you remember and it's a best of 7 series, and If you think the Heat are capable of getting this upset, I'll take you on a sidebet of 1 mBTC that the series doesn't go as far as a game 7 and the Heat doesn't win it.

A couple big games tonight on TNT. Both the Los Angeles Lakers and the Philadelphia 76ers are fighting to stay in the series and get their first win to avoid going down 0-3, which will likely mark the end for either team. I like the Sixers’ odds better than the Lakers, but I’m sure LeBron doesn’t want to get swept by the Nuggets again.

The 76ers really get carried away easily in close games at the final minutes of the game, they really need to start pay more attention until the there is no time left on the clock, it's a 48 minutes game and playoffs for crying out loud, they should stop getting sloppy after playing hard ball for 47 minutes and throwing it all away in the last minute. They were able to avoid a major disaster in the play-in game vs Heat, it was the exact same play Lowry throwing a careless inbound pass to Maxey with a huge miscommunication between Maxey and Embiid, they were able to get away with that simply because the time had elapsed before the ball went out, that should have been warning enough for them, not them getting caught up by the exact scenario that cost them an important win on the road.

I'll probably back the Lakers here, but 9 consecutive defeats to Denver makes them look so owned by this Nuggets roster, we'll see what Ham, James, and AD can come up with as a counter punch, because another sweep or 4-1 loss could mark the end of Ham and the Lakers journey together.

[jakelyson]

Yeah, they played really well in the first half of the game, and then the 2nd half too, they owned the Denver Nuggets at every possible way from defense to offense but they missed so many shots and were not able to protect their lead while Jokic and the Nuggets crew took advantage of that. There was even a time when Lebron shouldered it all from blocking shots to making threes just so they could still have the lead. 89-81 was the last strong lead but again, it was not preserved.
I give credit to the Nuggets too, they were never frustrated about what was happening and they kept on fighting even on that 20-point lead.

Today, Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving, and the whole Mavs roster are rejoicing for stealing one win in the home of the Clippers. That's big! Kyrie knew it and he said it in the post-game interview. He knew how difficult it would be to recover from a 2-0 lead and he knew the statistics. I love that new Kyrie without dramas.

The Los Angeles Lakers lost their grip in the 2nd half of the game it was really unexpected but it surely happens in different games aswell, and it can not be helped as the Los Angeles Lakers stopped their momentum when they needed the win the most as the Denver Nuggets now have 2 leads for this game if they can not bounce back next game this will be the same as the last play-offs where the Los Angeles Lakers drop and never make it into the Semi-Finals.

I think the Celtics probably take this series over the Heat easily and tonight should be another step towards that. Nothing too surprising expected there. The New Orleans game should be a little more interesting, as that team should be rested finally after the play-in tournament. No Zion and an angry BI makes it a tough road ahead for them though.

Well, the Miami Heat advance this time, and the Boston Celtics are doing great at the start of the game but until the Miami Heat have leveled the playing field for sure they have already known how they can manage to get into the defense of the Boston Celtics, as both teams have limited players to begin with, although Jimmy Butler in not playing this game it was the efforts of Bam Adebayo, Caleb Martin and Tyler Herro that have made it possible winning this game with a 10 points advantage

Yes, the number of three-point attempts and makes by the Heat in this game is impressive. On the one hand, I'm surprised that the Heat without Butler were able to tie the series against the Celtics. On the other hand, even before the playoffs, there was speculation that the Heat could be a nasty surprise for their playoff opponents, and the result of this game confirms it.

It was an incredible performance for the Miami Heat they got 53.5% shooting beyond the arc while the Boston Celtics only got 37.5% Shooting Percentage it was really the 3-point shooting that the Miami Heat managed to win against the Boston Celtics.