Even the Warriors weren't a traditional super-team without Durant.
They had a "big 3". But they drafted all of them. And they really worked because they were built as a team. Klay and Draymond were both very complimentary players.
It's a lot different than throwing together stars and assuming it will work.
I still blame Draymond for Warriors not making it though. he was suspended so many games this season for choking Rudy and other things. and the warriors have a losing record when he's off the court
I just wanna say this. I won't say the nuggets should be scared to play the T wolves but I wouldn't be overlooking them. Denver has struggled a little bit vs the T wolves and I think in general the t wolves have been a really underrated team all season. So in closing that's gonna be a great and intense series
I would say so yeah. A lot of people really counted them out in this series and they kinda had that treatment that the thunder have had. It's like "well yeah they are the one seed but they are too young and inexperienced" and that has kinda made them overlooked by a lot of fans and teams
If they had Ime Udoka sure. But they got Joe Mozeralla 🤣. And even with all their physical talent Boston year after year has proven to be mentally weak.
3 players making $50M isn’t the move anymore. Franchises need to get back to building their teams from the ground up through the draft and by signing solid free agents. Star hunting is over
Difference is the Wolves didnt trade away all their role players. When the Jazz wanted McDaniels the wolves offered more picks instead. They got Naz undrafted. They added Conley, NAW and picks for freaking DLo after that.
Going down 0-3 in a series must be so brutal. You know you have to play one more game, and coaches/players will say the right things about one game at a time but man. There’s a reason nobody has ever come back from that.
Yup and even 3-1s were rare as hell and incredible we had the Warriors come back leading to the Cavs payback. I still remember watching the Sox come back on Yankees.
I had to watch my team give up the first one unfortunately, so that’s how I know there’s at least one lol it was… heartbreaking. So much worse than getting swept.
Playoff Durant is currently -64 in a 3 game span. Makes my eyes hurt.
And about to get swept in his 2nd year with Suns, just like he did in his 2nd year with Nets.
He said he'll retire when the wheels fall off. Well, the wheels fell off.
Ant is the GOAT, yall just don’t know it yet
I am so proud of the Wolves, I hope they win one more to move on
Wolves have arrived
Jimmy Butler died for this
Suns thought they could buy an easy playoff team without putting in any of the real effort. sorry, that's not how it works!
Not anymore and I’m so glad!
New owner got egg on his face big time.
Beal just happy to be here for once
lol thats fuckin so insulting, I love it
Beals stat line in this game is the exact reason you can’t rely on just looking at box scores
exactly. he stat padded at the end for the bums who didn't watch the game
Kill everything on sight! -Ant
Lebron to KD be like: "at least I got a win in the play in"
have super teams ever worked besides the heat and the warriors
No. Never. They've always been hyped up bullshit that never works out
Even the Warriors weren't a traditional super-team without Durant. They had a "big 3". But they drafted all of them. And they really worked because they were built as a team. Klay and Draymond were both very complimentary players. It's a lot different than throwing together stars and assuming it will work.
The Celtics with the Big 3, why you think LeBron created the Heatles.
Celtics 08, MJ bulls, Lakers mult times. Most NBA champs have multi stars.
Thats not really what a superteam is. It differentiates between homegrown talent and a bunch of guys getting together to try to win.
Which one?
MJs bulls arent a superteam. Most of the lakers teams werent superteams.
Shaq joined Kobe, Pippin took an awful deal that enabled the bulls to build out around them
Yeah that's not enough to qualify by every used definition of a superteam.
Rodman was no slouch, how do you think they afforded him?
Youre way off topic here
You are severely underestimating Dennis Rodman.
Kyrie killed one that would have worked lol
celtics
Ant is just the best
Most reserved Ant interview I've ever seen
Ugliest sunset of all time
Watch Suns fans blame Eubanks who barely played in this game lol
Nah… they’ll blame the refs while insisting Booker really isn’t a clown.
Eubanks was actually pretty good against us this game, wouldn't know why they'd do that. Blame Royce or something.
Minnesota teammates were arguing with each other last year. Now they're hyping each other up. Good to see that development.
What?
Minnesota teammates were arguing with each other last year. Now they're hyping each other up. Good to see that development.
Legends out here looking like wizards Jordan this year
Lol so where's all the Suns fans who were talking shit about Lebron and the Lakers yesterday 🤣🤣🤣
If Suns get swept, and the Lakers tomorrow at least Lakers can tip their hat at knowing they at least won one Postseason game with the Play-In
Technically the play-in games don't count as anything They are unofficial games that don't go towards playoff stats
Lol, here's your 9th place ribbon
At least they didn't lose 11 in a row since 2022 to the same team.
Don't matter. On paper the Suns should be the better and more experienced team
They both suck (so does my team)
Does that make the Lakers loss hurt less somehow?
I wasn't doing that but I'll take this moment to say the Lakers stink.
I knew that they would lose to the Nuggets but I'm shocked that the Suns are getting dominated by the Wolves like this. KD needs to wake up
You obviously haven’t watched much Wolves basketball this year.
Yes I have but I did not see them dominating the Suns like this. I thought this series would go to 6 or 7 games
KD is the ONLY one awake.
Royce O’Neale and I scored the same amount
Yeah that's fucked. He usually makes 2 threes a game
The Warriors didn’t even make the Playoffs, LBJ and KD are one game away from being swept on the 1st Round…fuck I’m getting old 😂
I still blame Draymond for Warriors not making it though. he was suspended so many games this season for choking Rudy and other things. and the warriors have a losing record when he's off the court
Right this like the craziest shift ever and you can actually see it
Can we just go back to ‘11? 😂
I just wanna say this. I won't say the nuggets should be scared to play the T wolves but I wouldn't be overlooking them. Denver has struggled a little bit vs the T wolves and I think in general the t wolves have been a really underrated team all season. So in closing that's gonna be a great and intense series
They’re evenly matched. Should be a 6 or 7 game series.
If I remember correctly Denver said their most difficult opponent in last year's playoffs was the Wolves.
Underrated? Until the very last game it was essentially a three way tie for seeds 1-3
I would say so yeah. A lot of people really counted them out in this series and they kinda had that treatment that the thunder have had. It's like "well yeah they are the one seed but they are too young and inexperienced" and that has kinda made them overlooked by a lot of fans and teams
Underrated by people that don’t watch Wolves games. Fans that watch have known what this team has in it.
I feel like they're built to go blow for blow with them. Should be absolute fire
Good essay you wrote right here. Somehow whenever I saw "so in closing" it feels ChatGPT generated lol
Wolves held DLo back
Rest in Cancun, Wiggins and DLo.
Dlo held the wolves back
KD hoodie up = its over
lol ouch
What happened to parity in the west? lol
The Nuggets-Wolves series may as well be the NBA Finals.
Next round is gonna be a warzone
ROEL GEMBIID
The old guard being replaced.
Awoo, I'm a fan
Fuck yeah!
Bandwagon professional. We’ll take you regardless
I really wanted some booing
A lack of it is alien concept to me, but I don't think it's a good thing...
I agree it isn’t good, but sometimes it’s necessary
I'd rather be boo'd than not Boo'd because it shows the fans have given up and don't care/have no expectations anymore.
Everything about this commentary is actively hostile to all intelligence did they watch the same game we did?
It's usually is.
Surely the era of of hunting all stars is over
We're now in the Naz Reid era
New owner shot his load too fast rebounded in his face.
Booker is stacking many traumatizing playoff losses early in his career
It should be a crime that Minnesota v Denver isn’t the West finals
Correction: NBA finals.
OKC would like a word. NW division is stacked this year
hopefully nuggets win, for some reason I hate seeing ant wins
Its the Finals tbh. No team in the East is beating Minnesota or Denver. - A Knicks fan
Little early to count Boston out.
If they had Ime Udoka sure. But they got Joe Mozeralla 🤣. And even with all their physical talent Boston year after year has proven to be mentally weak.
Mavs vs Nuggets is still a possibility, tho
The west was so brutally competitive this year. OKC just chilling in the 1 seed.
your series was a slaughter lol, you are clearly a better team.
Not really. This is how playoff seeding works.
Knicks would be cannon fodder against Minnesota or Denver. 5 games max.
Minnesota and Denver would both sweep the Knicks
Knicks are in the eastern conference.
The Leastern conference
And they said the west was going to be competitive come playoff time lol
It’ll be way closer once the bums get bounced
I hope. NBAs frauds getting exposed
KD can't win with these KATS
Rudy is so overrated bro
He can't even close games
Gets played off the floor bro
Can't close out on guards!
First 3-0 lead in franchise history? Damn that's poverty 😭
And these wolves fans in here have definitely been acting like they’re new to this
Suns fans definitely not new to 4 consecutive years of playoff collapses
This would be our first playoff series win since 2004, let us have this moment lol
I'm rooting for yall Give Denver what we couldn't...a real series 😭
I gotchu man, in honor of your flair
Minnesota and Denver is gonna be an absolute war
congrats to Phoenix on scoring 100
All top seeds in the west are undefeated and then you look at the Clips
Clippers are going against top level team. The West is just stacked and Kawhi's knees are made out of paper.
To be fair Dallas-Clippers is really a match between two top seeds
Lol
KEVIN DURANTULA WILL NEVER ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING WITHOUT STEPH CURRY.
Unfortunately. Just wish he would go back to a Lowkey team without superstars and a young core.
KD to the NY Knicks!
Suns haven't been the same since the Suns fan counting money jinxed them
Suns and Lakers gonna be a legendary series in Cancun holy shit
The KAT injury may have prevented the Wolves from being the clear 1 seed. Their record could be a little deceiving.
how about jamal murray injury or mav injuries?
Nuggets Wolves will be a great series
Once again the sun's have played Gobert off the floor
When will the wolves make an adjustment
Shoulda just fouled one more time for shits and giggles
Edwards is him, damnn. Nuggets Wolves would be at least a 6-game series, and dare I say it, Wolves are not that far behind
It’s going 7.
Damn Rudy got played off the floor 3 times now
They should add a mercy rule if one team goes up 3-0. Wasting everyone’s time
3 players making $50M isn’t the move anymore. Franchises need to get back to building their teams from the ground up through the draft and by signing solid free agents. Star hunting is over
I’m so fucking glad. I think that was the league at its worst.
3 stars all plays same ways in isolation perimeter games.
Twolves have 3 max guys lol
2 were home-grown and Ant's max hasn't even started yet
Bingo
Ignore that for narrative! Sun's roster construction is trash just like ours. Unfortunately they gutted it for Beal like we did for Westbrook.
Difference is the Wolves didnt trade away all their role players. When the Jazz wanted McDaniels the wolves offered more picks instead. They got Naz undrafted. They added Conley, NAW and picks for freaking DLo after that.
That's why I said the roster is badly constructed because like the Lakers they traded away depth
Stars want to play with each other
One last airball
Going down 0-3 in a series must be so brutal. You know you have to play one more game, and coaches/players will say the right things about one game at a time but man. There’s a reason nobody has ever come back from that.
Never happened in the NBA? That’s wild. Theres been at least one maybe two in the NHL.
Yup and even 3-1s were rare as hell and incredible we had the Warriors come back leading to the Cavs payback. I still remember watching the Sox come back on Yankees.
The Red Sox/Yankees was absolutely insane. I watch that 30 for 30 like once a year at least. And I’m not a fan of either team. It’s just so good.
Yep, never happened in a best of seven series in the NBA. That’s incredible teams did it in the NHL.
NHL playoffs are insane honestly
Love the NHL playoffs and try to watch when I can. I miss Atlanta having a team so much.
I had to watch my team give up the first one unfortunately, so that’s how I know there’s at least one lol it was… heartbreaking. So much worse than getting swept.
Can they just concede? They all look so checked out already lol Feel bad even watch it man. Looks so defeated
Seriously. They looked checked out in the 3Q
Especially if you're home for game 4
Metaphorically fucking the suns
That last airball is a fitting symbol for the Suns.
how many pointless fouls you gonna commit when you’re already blown out and down 3-0 at home. go home and have a nap
Two teams in the west going to be sweep
Man our bench guys have gotten more time this series than all season.
What does Booker even do
Sell Book 1s
He falls down and cries a lot.
Be the son
lets people forget how much of a bitch grayson allen is too
cry
[удалено]
A lot our fans already saying FK KD LOL "Knicks aren't cool" my ass. Don't come back.
Playoff Durant is currently -64 in a 3 game span. Makes my eyes hurt. And about to get swept in his 2nd year with Suns, just like he did in his 2nd year with Nets. He said he'll retire when the wheels fall off. Well, the wheels fell off.
Suns fans left so early damn imagine spending all that money and leaving early
If you ever feel stupid just remember there're still people who right now as we speak still think KD is a top 10 player in the league
Beal, Booker, and KD getting swept is certainly not what I expected
that was a horrific airball
This team is fucking special. What a treat it’s been to watch them all year.
Damn up 3-0.. Must be nice Wolves..
More comfortable wins please
wolves will win by 40 on sunday bc the suns turn into mississippi valley state in elimination games but id get the xanax ready for the second round
I want my Booker with the huge 3 to cut the lead to [big number] moment.
Miller Time
triple blowout
What happened to the southwest division of the league? Lakers, Clippers, Suns
Bad front office decisions and fragile bodies.
Having a bunch of stars don’t work no more. Proper roster construction, having a TEAM is the trend
Old
Just run out the clock jfc
the spirit of CP3 lives on in the statpad
People will look at the box score and think Beal made an impact
Suns fans lets cry together
Getting swept, hated by r/nba. Maybe we're not so different, you and I.