Looking at the Lakers schedule, they should lose at least 6 more the rest of the way. If the Rockets can find a way to win one of the two remaining games against them(both are in LA and the first is on a B2B), then they very likely finish ahead of them in the standings.
Phoenix is near the bottom in Team Defense and the teams (Washington, Utah and New Orleans) below them are Tanking. Their remaining schedule suggests that they will remain bad on Defense.
Man . . . Luka is the king of B*tching and Moaning I cannot imagine 7 games against him and LeBron They would write a books to the Refs Rocket River
I maybe Crazy but . .. . both the Lakers and the Suns should be so much better than they are Is it just coaching? They don't seem like they lack talent Rocket River Esp Pheonix
Watching SGA play really makes me miss the prime James Harden days with the Houston Rockets. Man, Harden gave us a legit chance to win every single game, no matter who the opponent was. Dude was unstoppable. It still hurts knowing the NBA never gave him the same whistle in the playoffs that he would ALWAYS get in the regular season. Who knows how many championships we could’ve had if they did…
Harden’s greatness was so underrated when u think about it, Harden, aging CP3, and a bunch of role players really had no business competing with a team that had Steph/KD/Klay/Draymond all in their primes if u switched KD with Harden for example, I think KD, CP3, and role players would get absolutely obliterated by Steph/Harden/Klay/Draymond and would never go 7 a lot of people on here would give up the farm for Devin Booker…replace Booker with 35 y/o Harden this season and u can’t tell me the Suns are not a playoff team
OKC doesn’t even have Jalen Williams and they’re still doing teams like this…and Presti still has a million picks Chet has missed the majority of the season, yet they have the greatest point differential in NBA history right now they have a 12.5 game lead on the 2 seed out West…I can’t remember the last time there was a gap that big in the West, not even the 73-9 Warriors led by that much If OKC can’t get a championship out of this era with the situation they’ve got set up, would this be worse than fumbling KD/Harden/Russ?
Come on, Harden had 3 good games and then 2 games where he couldn't hit anything. The farther he got, the more taxed he got.
It will be interesting if SGA gets that same Whistle Harden is THE ONLY STAR that got LESS CALLS in the post season than the regular season Rocket River
I don't know if he'll get all of those calls in the playoffs, but SGA being a midrange master means his game won't suffer as much, and doesn't have to rely on a whistle. He ain't going to have poor shooting games because of his super-efficient scoring. The Thunder are so good.
My son is vacationing in Manhattan this week, was at the game and saw this. It held up the game for quite some time.
I am sure they have some post Butler trade net ratings of GSW also being close to that. The newest rating has OKC at 12.5 and Cavs at 10.9. OKC and Cavs ruled the regular season this year.......let the Playoffs Begin.
post trade deadline https://www.nba.com/stats/teams/advanced?DateFrom=02/07/2025&dir=A&sort=NET_RATING https://www.nba.com/stats/teams/traditional?DateFrom=02/07/2025&dir=A&sort=PLUS_MINUS
