Official 2025 NBA Playoffs Thread

[Sugus]

what a ing moron you are

"The Spurs would never hurt their opponent to win, mi-mi-mi "

"Pop would never do this "



go buy yourself a pack of these

"If you don't like players injuring other players on purpose, you're too much of a pussy to be a Spurs fan".

Glad you're not the one making the rules

By the way, you never answered, do tell me if you shut your mouth about Zaza when it happened, or how glad you are to be a hypocrite. Eager to hear your spin on it.

[RC_Drunkford]

"If you don't like players injuring other players on purpose, you're too much of a pussy to be a Spurs fan".

Glad you're not the one making the rules

By the way, you never answered, do tell me if you shut your mouth about Zaza when it happened, or how glad you are to be a hypocrite. Eager to hear your spin on it.

You mean like Pop when every TV network said he's a hypocrite when he said that stuff about Zaza because he had Bruce do it back in the day? Call Pop and complain to him since you love to sniff his farts. Things you still can't comprehend with your peanut size brain


https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/6bbw32/anyone_find_it_hypocritical_that_pop_got_irate/

https://foxsportsradio.iheart.com/fe...g-a-hypocrite/

https://sportsnaut.com/nba/old-gregg...chulia-attack/

https://www.complex.com/sports/a/ang...unny-to-ya-boy

https://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=1564163

Then-NBA disciplinarian Stu Jackson called Bowen over the incident and threatened to fine him. Popovich brought up other players doing the same thing in a vintage rant of its own time and purpose. Let's break down the quotes:

"Did (the league) call them?" Popovich said. "Did they call all those guys (Dirk) Nowitzki landed on when he sprained his ankles the past three, four years? The answer is no."

This is just outright bad logic from a very smart man. Not everyone who speeds gets caught. That doesn't make it OK.

"So why did they call Bruce? Because it's happened to him twice? Bruce guards an All-Star every night. If he was doing what they're accusing him of doing, wouldn't it have happened a higher percentage of times?"

Maybe it had? The NBA wasn't stressing shooters' landing zones as much in the 2000s as it has in the 2010s, so these fouls weren't on people's minds.

"The people who cry about it are just frustrated about having to go against Bruce."

Couldn't the same be said about Pachulia?

"The league is just trying to cover its ass," Popovich said. "I told Bruce, 'You be Bruce Bowen. You're the best (expletive) defender in this league. You will NOT change the way you play defense.'

"Stu Jackson is not going to change my team just because he thinks he's doing the right thing."

[Sugus]

You mean like Pop when every TV network said he's a hypocrite when he said that stuff about Zaza because he had Bruce do it back in the day? Call Pop and complain to him since you love to sniff his farts. Things you still can't comprehend with your peanut size brain


https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/6bbw32/anyone_find_it_hypocritical_that_pop_got_irate/

https://foxsportsradio.iheart.com/fe...g-a-hypocrite/

https://sportsnaut.com/nba/old-gregg...chulia-attack/

https://www.complex.com/sports/a/ang...unny-to-ya-boy

https://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=1564163


[/INDENT]

No, I meant your take on it. You're hiding behind Pop's ass now? Who's the fart sniffer tbh?

I've been clear with my point and, as much as you want to call me a sniffer or whatever, I have zero issues disagreeing with Pop's take on this. purposely injuring opposing players, be it a Spurs player or opponent doing the harm.

I was pissed at Zaza's maneuver and I can only say I would've been equally displeased at Bowen's had I shared them at the time. It's so funnily apologetic of you to think that you have to agree with every decision and behavior of a team in order to be a fan of it.... Where's the contrarianism? Where's the going against the FO? Only when it suits your shtick, eh?

I find it really amusing that you've called me all sorts of names on my supposed apologism of everything Spurs FO-related, yet here we are faced with a supposed "pillar of Spurs fandom" and I'm firmly opposite of sniffing Pop's farts on the topic. Irony is really lost...

[RC_Drunkford]

No, I meant your take on it. You're hiding behind Pop's ass now? Who's the fart sniffer tbh?

I've been clear with my point and, as much as you want to call me a sniffer or whatever, I have zero issues disagreeing with Pop's take on this. purposely injuring opposing players, be it a Spurs player or opponent doing the harm.

I was pissed at Zaza's maneuver and I can only say I would've been equally displeased at Bowen's had I shared them at the time. It's so funnily apologetic of you to think that you have to agree with every decision and behavior of a team in order to be a fan of it.... Where's the contrarianism? Where's the going against the FO? Only when it suits your shtick, eh?

I find it really amusing that you've called me all sorts of names on my supposed apologism of everything Spurs FO-related, yet here we are faced with a supposed "pillar of Spurs fandom" and I'm firmly opposite of sniffing Pop's farts on the topic. Irony is really lost...

Oh now all of a sudden you DISAGREE with Pop? You're a hater now, wow. How can you hate on the third most winning franchise in the NBA? What kind of doom and gloom fan are you?

If you haven't checked it yet, I'm using your same logic against you. You run around here calling people haters when they criticize moves of the FO yet you suck PATFO off and now you disagree all of a sudden? What a hater you are shame on you. Matter of fact, call the Spurs franchise because Bruce Bowen's jersey is still in the rafters

How can they do such a thing?


They put a players jersey in the rafters who blatantly karate kicked an opponent in the face. How dare they?



This is the thing you're not understanding: This is prime Spurs basketball. This is prime Popovich. And all of us love Bruce. This is why people here have been criticizing Pop for going soft. You only know the "let me show you penguin videos" version of Pop. This is the real Popovich, when we won 3 rings in 5 years.

We're all fans here, but a lot of us know what the franchise was like when the Spurs were really winning and a lot of that at ude went away with Pop going soft after nephew left. It's not blatant hate if you criticize it, nor does it feed our own agenda. Some of us just see that the same fire ain't there and miss some of that nostalgia the Spurs had when the big 3 were at their peak. You might not be aware of it and that's the point people were trying to get across to you. Young Pop was a whole different coach back then, in a good way.

I don't like the Mitch hiring, but I hope he's hungry, really wants to prove himself and brings some of that fire back. That doesn't mean we have to sign players who try to injure other players, but a guy like Sochan who can get under the opponents skin is always needed on a winning team, like it or not.

[skin27]

Its funny people bashing sga of being a freethrow merchant, actually most mvp caliber players are freethrow merchants. Heck even thunder Durant was a freethrow merchant from 2010 to 2014.

[CGD]

Go Knicks!

[Dex]

Its funny people bashing sga of being a freethrow merchant, actually most mvp caliber players are freethrow merchants. Heck even thunder Durant was a freethrow merchant from 2010 to 2014.

It is the best way to pad your scoring in the "new NBA".

And let's not pretend like Timmy didn't hunt fouls with his sweep-through move (which has now been adjusted to an on-the-floor foul), or that Manu didn't run into defenders and flop from time to time.

I don't support egregious flopping, but drawing fouls is the new art of the war.

[skin27]

It is the best way to pad your scoring in the "new NBA".

And let's not pretend like Timmy didn't hunt fouls with his sweep-through move (which has now been adjusted to an on-the-floor foul), or that Manu didn't run into defenders and flop from time to time.

I don't support egregious flopping, but drawing fouls is the new art of the war.

yeah, like i said before, timmy was also a freethrow merchant in his mvp days.

[ace3g]

Ref just missed a blatant backcourt violation.

[skin27]

Pacers vs knicks must go 7 games ( silver and the NBA)

[mystargtr34]

On one hand I feel like the Knicks match up better against the Thunder

Robinson on Hart
KAT on Chet
OG on J Dub
Bridges on SGA
Brunson on Dort

But then I feel the Thunder will be able to swarm and shutdown Brunson and the Knicks don’t really have any other creators as I don’t trust Towns to do that.

The Pacers have more advantage creators on paper and rely more on ball movement. Just not sure how they’re going to stop SGA, J Dub and Chet. Nesmith is good defensively. He probably guards SGA, who guards J Dub? Nembhard?

[scott]

Close out home game energy gonna take over here in the second half. Pacers going away.

[skin27]

Knicks fumbling

[ace3g]

Thomas Bryant 3-3 from 3.

[ace3g]

2:31 - 3rd

	1	2	3	4	T
NY	24	30	17		71
IND	25	33	29		87

[ace3g]

30.1 - 3rd

	1	2	3	4	T
NY	24	30	21		75
IND	25	33	32		90

[ace3g]

End of 3rd

	1	2	3	4	T
NY	24	30	23		77
IND	25	33	34		92

[ace3g]

Damn that Walker ankle injury...

[ace3g]

9:54 - 4th

	1	2	3	4	T
NY	24	30	23	6	83
IND	25	33	34	1	93

[mystargtr34]

Damn that Walker ankle injury...

What happened I missed it was it a sprain or break?

[ace3g]

7:57 - 4th

	1	2	3	4	T
NY	24	30	23	9	86
IND	25	33	34	6	98

[Robz4000]

This is some 2002 WCF-level officiating tbh. Knicks are just too incompetent to take advantage so far.

[ace3g]

What happened I missed it was it a sprain or break?

[ace3g]

6:38 - 4th

	1	2	3	4	T
NY	24	30	23	13	90
IND	25	33	34	12	104

[ace3g]

4:20 - 4th

	1	2	3	4	T
NY	24	30	23	17	94
IND	25	33	34	21	113