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Official 2023-24 NBA Season Thread - The greatest words in sports, Game 7! Pacers/Knicks and T-Wolves/Nuggets

JuiceCrewAllStar said:
three nights off in the conference semis is a little unusual, no?
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Yes, but the Nugs/Wolves series played two games before the Mavs/OKC series started; so, the NBA extended the time before game 3 to let the other WC series catch up. Maybe that will help Murray get back to form, but maybe it won't matter.
 
lots to juggle to maximize tv eyeballs and work with the teams like NYK and Mavs that play where hockey playoffs are also happening, but the rush to start a series when two teams sweep (Den-Min played before game 7 of Orl-Cle) always seemed weird to me
 
What other game could they have put on Saturday?
 
no game -- that's the point

but maximizing tv audience is what drives the decision, not any sense of competitive fairness or schedule balancing
 
Yeah, TNT was going to have a game Saturday in all likelihood, unless every single series had ended in exactly 6 games in the 1st round that was playing Thurs/Sat Game 6/7's, so they had to move up Denver/Minnesota. I was more shocked that ABC passed on their typical Sunday DH this time around, they almost always forced two games into the 1pm/3:30pm time slots in years past, whether that was Round 1 Game 7's or Round 2 Game 1's. They did Dallas a solid and bumped Game 1 to Tuesday night (not that it mattered much).
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
no game -- that's the point

but maximizing tv audience is what drives the decision, not any sense of competitive fairness or schedule balancing
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The T-Wolves swept the Suns on Sunday, April 28
The Nuggets beat the Lakers in 5 on Monday, April 29

How was scheduling Game 1 on Saturday, May 4 not competitive fairness or balanced scheduling?
 
Derrick White leads the entire NBA Playoffs in True Shooting %. The difference between him and 2nd (KAT) is the same as 2nd and 8th (KD)

74.9% TS
Absolutely crazy

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50% from 3 on 9.3 attempts per game is nuts

22.8/3.2/3.5 on 55/50/90 shooting so far. Not to mention he's a fantastic defender.

(Also leads playoffs in OBPM and Win Shares per 48 mintues)
 
deaconson said:
Incredible take.
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How is it off? Pop had the #1 pick in the draft this season, and not much else, and won 22 games. Clifford had the #2 pick in the draft this season, and not much else, and won 21 games. Seems pretty similar.

Give Clifford 20 years of Tim Duncan, while Pop is saddled to MKG, and Cliff is wearing the rings.
 
OK. You can say the same about Phil Jackson. Give anyone Jordan or Shaq and Kobe in the prime, and would they win the same number of titles. Right? Every coach is Clifford without players and Pop or Jackson with players.
 
Pop has a long history of turning under valued picks into good players over a long time. He kept pivoting during their run and kept filling in pieces as turnover happened.

You wanna say he's gotten old and gone down hill? OK. I'd counter with how much the last two season has been about trial and error. We'll see sooner rather than later if it helped the team
 
Better shooter. We'll see about the rest.

Has anyone ever made the jump from 10u rec league couch to nba coach? Gotta be a record for skipping steps right?
 
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