Building The Dream 2024 NBA Playoffs
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Kenny runs through his dream playoff matchups, discusses the Milwaukee Bucks coaching change, The Miami Heat trading for Terry Rozier, and lists his MVPs for the next 6 seasons.
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2:30-7:05 Celtics vs. Magic
7:06-10:47 Bucks Coaching change
10:48-14:15 Bucks vs. Pacers
14:16 -16:28 - Embiid's 70
16:29-20:32 - NBA Fandom and Twitter
20:35-23:15 - Heat get Terry Rozier
23:16-28:06 Knicks vs. Cavaliers
28:25-30:07 ROY race
31:08-32:56 Nuggets vs. Kings
32:58-34:42 Thunder vs. Pelicans
35:05-39:09 Clippers vs. Mavericks
39:10-41:19 Suns vs. Wolves
42:51-46:51 Producer Greg’s Eye Test Takes
As a guy who's been here since the trivia days, the Kenny Beecham Podcast might be my favorite thing you've done. Consistently awesome content
Facts 💯💯💯
I mean this with all due respect. I don’t even watch the 2k content or kenny2 channel at all anymore. Just for real and the podcasts. Boys grown up! Might be my favorite basketball talking head now
fr, that boy marko had them trivias on lock tho
Agreed
Ahhhhh the sporcle quizzes man… remember watching and playing along the quizzes in my school library on off periods and stuff
He said “clippers vs mavs you knew it was coming” I fully expected him to choose Mavs vs suns actually 😂
Suns vs pels would be awesome, those teams also hate eachother and get chippy often
Luka might break the record for playoffs ppg if he faces the clippers again now that he’s not only 20 years old😭💀
Pacers over bucks first round would feed families.
it could ruin a potential sixers vs doc rivers series tho
@@mcohen0609imagine sixers winning that. Nobody hiring doc again ever
@@gabrielriosfernandez2157they’ve said this the last 5 times he been hired😂
@@mcohen0609literally nobody cares about that if you ask me. I don’t think Philly fans are dumb enough to blame Doc when they literally watched Ben Simmons have a mental breakdown and then Embiid/Harden get hurt or forget how to play basketball when they need it most.
If we miss out on Buck 76ers but get bucks pacers and Celtics pacers I’d be happy
@@eliyarrows2456 if this is what you think you have not spoken to any philly fans. they HATE doc with a passion
As a wolves fan, i think the small decline in mcdaniels defense has been the fouls, once he gets a few i think he becomes less aggressive trying to stay in the game
however i do believe he gets a bad whistle compared to some and when he can play free he’s up there in terms of defenders in this league
Nba refs choosing special treatment is one of the most obvious and weird things about the nba.
Like Tatum and Jokic both get bad whistles despite being the two most successful guys given their age and both have a significantly less forgiving whistle than Embiid who’s been labeled as a choker.
And then on the other hand guys like Butler and Lowry get every call they want deposits never being seen as top 3 players at their position.
And then on defense guys like pat bev and draymond get very forgiving whistles because they’re known as “pests” on defense while actual lockdown guys like Mcdaniels get whistled like they’re playing pat bev defense.
Like I’ll go to my grave saying Draymond Green is the single most catered to player by refs in nba history. AND IT MAKES NO SENSE WHY DOES HE DESERVE THAT.
@@eliyarrows2456well it helps to think that nba refs are humans with their own agendas too, which is why I like the idea of totally automated calling based on definite rules, which removes all these variables but it seems people like human refs for some reason.
Against the okc thunder yesterday. He was playing like the Jaden last year
The Producer Greg face reveal with no warning caught me so off guard 😂
The perfect playoffs would consist of the Timberwolves getting a ring. Totally unbiased Wolves fan here.
Agreed. Another completely fair and unbiased Wolves fan here
As an unbiased wolves fan I totally agree
Lmaooo
Manifesting a bucks first round loss to the pacers 🙏🙏
Yesssir! Not a Bucks hater but this Pacers team is so fun
Manifesting you tripping and falling today 😈🙏
Bucks in 6 with a ring on the way
Great job Kenny,love the content!!❤❤
As a Thunder fan, I’ll take the one chip you put on em!!!!
as a pacers fan id be severly disappointed if we fell down to the 7 seed and i confidently think that if haliburton is healthy for the reat of the season then we are a top 4 team in the east
Woah great to finally see producer Greg!
In my opinion, the reason the Magic play well against the Celtics is size. Most teams aren't as big at every position as the Celtics. But the Magic are huge across the board.
As a Celtics fan I can tell you that throughout the years there’s just certain guys who always seem to get up to play against us and kill us.
Luka has 4 game winners in his career and 2 of them are against us. He also averages like a 38 point triple double vs us.
It’s not always stars either. Saddiq Bey always seems to shoot 50%+ from 3 vs us, Ish Smith has torched us off the bench for like 6 different teams.
But now it looks like Paulo is one of those guys too, which terrifies me because he reminds me a ton of what Tatum was like at his age only he already has more muscle than year 1 or 2 Tatum did.
You are spot on with McDaniels. Not as consistently solid as last year defensively due to injuries and some bad matchups against bigger forwards like Zion and Randle (still really solid season just not all defensive), but Nikeal Alexander-Walker and Gobert are all world defenders
He ass
I believe that the perfect NBA playoffs always finishes with an experienced star/stars winning their first ring. That’s why I’d be happy to see Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Miami, or the Clippers win this year. (Not including OKC because they’ll probably pick up 5 of the next 10 😂)
celtics??
jayson tatums first jaylen browns porzingis
@@spinalwolf0981 Wtf how did I forget the Celtics 😂 Must’ve been my personal bias as a Bucks fan lol
Nah we rather see Philly and Joel Embflop win
@@Tomtainiusprobably personal bias lmao. As a Celtics fan I was like “why did he say the bucks, they just got one” 😂 forgot about dames history lol
It has to be the Sixers beating the Doc Rivers coached Bucks in the second round after Doc blows another lead. Then the Sixers beat the Celtics in the ECF overcoming their like 6+ years of losing to the Celtics in the playoffs. Then beating Jokic and the Nuggets in the Finals with Embiid getting Finals MVP. Would be absolute cinema.
sounds like ur just a sixers fan lmao. the first one would be cinema for sure but the second and third just sound like u being a fan 😂
@@mcohen0609LOL obviously but it would be such a great underdog story to beat the team that always beats you and the guy you’re always compared to.
@@23lacross another great ending would be the Bucks coached by Doc Rivers knocking out the 76ers in the 2nd round, cementing the narrative into fact that Embiid is a playoff choker. I also rly want the suns and clippers to match up, the amount of star power and rivalries (KD and Russ) would lock everyone in, and a Luka vs Suns rematch would also be great (Kd and Kyrie former teammates, Luka and Booker father son duo).
I really don’t see the drama there. Who tf blames just doc for Phillys failures? It wasn’t like embiid showed up. It wasn’t like Harden showed up. And if you wanna go even further back, it wasn’t like Ben showed up.
And im not gonna blame doc for any of those. All those guys choked before and after docs tenure.
@@eliyarrows2456 while embiid and harden do have their playoff woes, doc is really bad at making adjustments. if what the sixers were doing was not working doc was not changing anything. he also was not using harden how harden should be used at this point in his career so their is that
McDaniels take is spot on. I watch as many wolves games as I can, which is about 60-70%. What I will say about him is that he has a LOT of bad mistakes, especially at times where it matters. His defensive abilities are potentially best in the league, but the iq NEEDS work to get there. His anger is also a big concern for me. He didn’t show his emotions the past years, but ever since “the punch” last season that took him out, we’ve seen a lot of times where his anger puts us in bad situations. Just about a week ago (I think the Celtics game), he had a foul that was completely unnecessary at the end of the game, and also fouled him out. Another time in a close game (maybe that same game, my memory is very bad), he got a tech near the end of a game in crunch time, after he fouled out. I love McDaniels, but man, it sucks knowing how good he can be, but it seems as though he’s taken one MASSIVE step back instead of forward as most of us we’re expecting
EDIT: I forgot to mention his problems this year especially with playing elite defense without fouling. Many times he is playing great defense, but ends up fouling his man. This is an example of the iq I mad mentioning
Dude is always on his phone
As a MN fan i feel like he might have not played enough games to make the All defensive team,
As to his defense this year, he still is the best defender on the team (Ant is coming in close 2) but jaden usually had the best player every night he still has a low % when he contests shots
Watching this after my knicks torched the nuggets 🎉
kenny really believes in the suns, idk why lmao but i appreciate the support
I think it’s because y’all still have a great roster, you just haven’t been healthy yet. Nobody wants to see the suns in the first round of Beal, Book, and KD are all healthy.
It reminds me of the year Harden demanded a trade from the Nets. Kyrie was barely playing, Harden and KD both missed a little bit of time too so they were like the 5th seed in the east. But still nobody wanted to face that team if all 3 guys were playing and even after harden left teams were still trying to avoid them in the first round.
@@eliyarrows2456 oh yea if it all gels before then it could be good. i just remember kenny breaking down how bad theyve been in the 4thQ and still puttin a chip on em is real faith
Pels are the second best bench in basketball* Pacers bench is ridiculous this year
i just don't see indy sitting around 7 in the end. their schedule is ridiculously easy after the break and i can guarantee they'll go on a run once hali and siakam both start playing together (they've been banged up the last two weeks). if they end up at 7 it's because 1-8 is stacked, i think the 4-8 seeds end up with very close-ish records kinda like the 15-16 season.
I agree but as a pacers fan I really want to see this series
@@DavidParker-eu6zf same
I wouldn’t be surprised if they stay at 7. The Celtics, bucks, and 76ers are all locks for the top 3ish to me. Then there’s the Knicks and Cavs who have both been better than the pacers imo. Then it’s the pacers and the heat batting for the 6th seed and I wouldn’t be surprised if the heat edge them out for that too when they start to heat up near the end (sorry no pun intended)
KB I love you and the pod but you need to give producer Greg a bigger role he would be a great cohost #MOREGREG
#AskKB
Kind of a broad question, but if you had 100% control of the nba how would you fix all star weekend?
For me, I’d eliminate it altogether and replace it with the In Season Tournament. (Still having all star rosters but skipping the game).
What I would do is have a 1-30 single elimination tournament held in Vegas start to finish. Fly every team in and devote around a week to it. Seed the bracket 1-30, top 2 records in the nba get a first round bye. That’s only 4-5 games played for the champion team and you can have a night off between every game.
The week after the final game there’s no regular season games for players to have a bye week, then back to the playoff push.
Now why move the tourney to the 2/3 mark of the season? Well for one it’s after the trade deadline and teams are established unlike the first months of the season.
But more importantly, UP THE STAKES.
With it being this late in the season, you can have playoff implications as the award for the tourney without the fear of teams just coasting the whole year.
Winner gets an automatic spot in the postseason.
If the winner is 11-15 at the end of the year in either conference, they get the 10 seed in the play in tourney.
If the winner lands in the play in the get the 7 or 8 seed automatically.
If the winner is in the top 6, they get +2 or +3 wins to their record on the year (so it looks like they played 85 games compared to everyone else’s 82) and it boosts their final winning percentage.
Right now that has the Knicks jump from 5th to 3rd and go from on the road vs Cleveland to home vs the pacers.
The nuggets would jump from 4th to 1st and go from playing the kings to the pelicans.
The cool part about the tourney happening this way, is that none of the games count as regular season games. So you could even do 2 20 minute halves like college or even just play like 30 or 20 minute games and have multiple in a single day.
*It would be an insanely hype event that in its first season would already out do any past all star weekend, give players more rest, and since playoffs are on the line you’ll get to see every team at their very best.
Kennyyy
As a Timberwolves fan, this season has been very good to great for us, and I do believe we could make a deep playoff push but our offense is horrible sometimes and the defense just doesn’t feel like a number 1 every night. And as far as JMacD, his defense is amazing but just a lil too immature and I mean specifically the unnecessary fouls.
You guys could definitely make a conference finals run and I wouldn’t be surprised at all.
However due to the inexperience and the offensive struggles, I’d be shocked if you win that series.
You remind me of the Celtics in Tatums rookie year and even a bit of last year. You have an elite defense that teams don’t want to see, but the offense is so inconsistent and boils down to Ant and KAT playing hero ball so much that it’s hard to imagine you guys beating a team like Denver who knows how to win games down the stretch.
#AskKB
Because of Wemby being a generational talent and also a physical specimen, do you think there’s a possibility that he causes rule changes down the line like other unique builds did before him? (For example: chuck, Shaq, kd all changed the rules because they were too effective with a certain move).
And if so, what do you think that could be? The reason I bring this up is because I’ve noticed on plays where he does the “0th, 1st, 2nd step” like other players do when picking up their dribbles it looks like he’s just allowed to travel if he wants and fans in attendance seem to expect a call.
I could see a world where he becomes a 30+ppg guy and is using the moves that Harden established as legal, only they just look so weird with his build that the nba feels the need to be more strict on travels. So that wemby can’t pick up his dribble before half court, take 3 steps and dunk it.
Every Thunder fan wants GSW
Until Curry goes nuclear for the second time in a row in the first round and carries an inferior team over the young team having a breakout season as a top 3 seed.
terry canf definitely get u a bucket he’s top 5 on the hornets all time scoring list he’s forever a buzz city legend
would also like to see sixers v knicks
That Carrots hoodie hard 😮💨
I just wanna see Nuggs vs Clippers at some point
boston vs magic would be intresting as Bancero and Franz could be the new Tatum and Brown both being talented wing duos that can do everithing
They will never even be close to Tatum and brown sorry man
@@gavintucker264abysmal take. franz and paolo are in their third and second seasons respectively. celtics didn’t become true top dogs until tatum’s 5th season and brown’s 6th. but tatum and brown choke every year and it wasn’t even that long ago that there was talk of splitting them up.
@@nmarshall5378 they literally made the finals and had an ECF streak when they were young in a crazy toxic locker room. Tatum is a top six player in the league. Palo and Franz will never even sniff that. The talks of splitting them up is just talk. Everyone knows that, and if you bought it for a second you fell for clickbait
@@gavintucker264as a Celtics fan I actually like the comparison. Paolo definitely has top 5 potential he’s only in year 2. Franz also has all star potential so it kinda makes sense.
@nmarshall5378 While I don't agree with gavin, Tatum and Brown took Bron to a game 7 when they were 19 and 20. Tatum made the ECF again as a 22 year old. They have the most playoff wins by a team over a 5 period year to never win a chip. I'm confident they'll get over the hump.
All was good until last 2 Suns vs Mavs / Battle for LA Lakers vs Clippers
I thought Boston put those “magic is there kryptonite” talks to bed when they blew magic out back to back games.
Yeah same. Even last year if we played them in the first round we woulda won that series just as easily as we did the hawks series (which went 6 but was never in danger of the hawks winning it)
to me it seems like jaden mcdaniels hasn’t been fully healthy yet this season until very recently. he had a few minor injuries earlier in the year and hadn’t looked like he was playing at the same speed as last year. seems like hes back now. wolves back. naz reid
Thunder up!
Next 5 MVPs (No bias)
1) Scottie B
2)Scottie Three
3)Scottie and 1 Barnes
4) shai
5) Scottie Barnes
Scottie has got to take another leap or 2 to even be in the conversation let alone win it.
@@jammer9941 yeah that’s why I said next year
Kenny the mvp predictions were atrocious 😂😂
Do you guys think Donavan Mitchell is a superstar because can change the game in seconds hes a mentor, leader and hes marketable
He’s like the most boarderline one for me. I think Jokic, embiid, Giannis, Tatum, Curry, Lebron, Luka, Shai, and KD are locks for me. Then it comes down to your definition of the word.
To me it’s the best of the best. A superstar is a guy who has proven he can be the best player on a championship team. You don’t have to win it, you just have to be dominant enough or make a run close enough.
I’d put it like this: if you think Book or Butler is a superstar, then you should probably put Mitchell in there too. (Butlers a tough one just cause he averaged like 15ppg in the regular season then turns into prime MJ every other post season, I do think regular season success plays a role too which is why soon to be 2x mvp embiid is here despite never making it out of the second round. I still think you can win with embiid because I’m not stupid)
My dream is for my MN T wolves to win, our city needs one
That’s how I feel about my OKC Thunder. Which is why this budding rivalry is gonna get bloody in the playoffs
Holy shit I just did this yesterday
Jaden is 100% not as consistent this year....part of it was slow start with Injury, part feels like he's trying to get his shot, which focus shifts a bit on, and honestly Part is we haven't had the same high pressure high value games where he matches up against an elite player (mixture of blowouts and rest). Doesn't pass the eye test this year, and with Rudy's return to form........well, His peak value is still up there, but he won't get flowers for it
He dumb and cant score
@AlexanderWindsor69 high quality analysis from alexanderwindsor69
#MOREGREG
askKB since you the og who else have been the kings of the 4th quarter
Thunder vs Wolves would be amazing
West conference finals
Yoo kb this is kinda wild but am I crazy to say the okc thunder should start offering one of there good young guys such as jdub and 5 first round pics for an obvious upgrade such as Paulo or even crazier Chet for Wemby. This is a really wild idea but I think they have enough pics to make a team think about it. Wild question but #askkb I know this would never happen but fun idea maybe
Im sure the thunder should trade for chet
Williams is probably better for them than Paolo. He’s been very good this year and is a much better fit for their team. 0 chance the spurs trade wemby
To say Paulo is an obvious upgrade over JDub is wild.
This is an awful idea. Trading Chet for wemby doesn’t change anything and you’d have to give up draft picks to do it, it would never be 1 for 1.
And then Paulo isn’t even close to being on the trade market. Dudes gonna be an all star in his second season and already has his team in the playoffs, something even shai and ant can’t say.
I think their best move is to be patient. If you’re gonna make a trade, get a championship quality role player in a similar move to what the Celtics did to get d white. Try giving the bulls Giddey and 3 firsts for Caruso 🤷♂️ I think that makes them a significantly better team and still gives them plenty of flexibility to pull off the home run trade you want.
@@ls.hrnndzPaulo literally win Roty over him last year and is about to be a starter this year. He is an upgrade over J Dub, but he’s not on the trade market and the magic would never do it.
To be fair, for what it's worth Skip Bayless was saying Kevin Durant was better than Gianiss
Crazy Luka drops 50+ on the clips but doesn’t win the series ( but everyone acts he won both series )
Idk why you think that’s crazy lol. Mitchell gave the nuggets 50 in the bubble and still lost. Tatum gave the nets 50 and still lost lol
kenny glazing embiid all of a sudden is so funny
RiP Sports illustrated 🙏💀🙃
Kenny. I need your humble opinion. Is Jamal Murray the first ever GOOD Team Merchant ? I swear he alone ascends to next level bucket getter in high pressure vs good teams. But vs the wizards he's only good for 15 points on 28 shots 😂
10 chips on the Phoenix Suns baby
As a Utah Jazz fan, you don’t have to apologize for not putting a chip on us to win the West 😂😂 this has been a much better year than expected, but the goal is to make the play-in. Only the most fanatic and ludicrous fans think a WCF is even a plausibility 😂
Bucks vs clippers would be best. Get giannis a rematch vs Kawhi.
Get doc rivers his chance to either prove he wasn’t responsible for the blown leads or prove he was 🤷♀️
Nuggets be Pelicans
Clippers vs kings
Thunder vs twolves
Mavs vs Suns
denver vs dallas
clippers vs suns
wolves vs pelicans
kings vs okc
I like all these matchups but kings vs okc would break my heart. Those are the two teams I’m rooting for most out west
Thunder
The current moment is significantly affected by the past and future
I dont see my OKC resting on their first seed
Issac needs to be on this team for his defense, his healthy really dictates the success of this team. His minutes need to be increased come around playoff time tho.
The team has great defence and bad offence as is, you don’t need Isaac who’s just redundant in those areas
@@ztlabraptor211I think he’s part of the reason they have a great defense, but also part of the reason they have an awful offense.
Like he’s averaging a steal and a block in only 13mpg off the bench which is an insane defensive impact. I really wouldn’t call that redundant, I’d say that’s a contributing player to a great defense.
@@eliyarrows2456 I mean a steal and a block only represent 2 plays from the game, and more importantly he’s only played in like 17 games. They’re great defensively regardless of his presence but they need offence and he kills them in that area
If I had 10 chips for the west I’d go 3 on the nuggets and 1 on the other 7 😂 that way I’m guaranteed.
Actually scratch that, I’m putting my pelicans one on the Thunder.
as a pistons fan, living in the moment only puts you on suicide watch
#1
3-lakers celtics
2-bucks
1-nuggets suns
He was doing it based off the western conference not in total. And even then putting the same amount on the lakers as you do the Celtics should warrant going to an insane asylum
Ik it’s less realistic based on current standings but mavs suns would hit
The bucks defense is so bad they might as well had signed Mike D’Antoni or Mark Jackson
Pelicans would run through the thunder
honestly... and i hate myself for saying this (because i'm admitting the clippers are legit)... if no additional injuries occur and all teams are as they are now, it's 6 chips on the nuggets and 4 on the clippers... no one else is a legitimate threat to these 2 in the west and the ONLY way i see another team emerging is if these 2 play each other and one gets knocked out via the other before the conference finals
I really don’t get how anyone could pick the Bucks over the Pacers in a potential playoff matchup. Pacers were a horrendous matchup for the Bucks before the Siakam trade and Bucks got a terrible playoff coach now.
Because they’re still the better team. I’m not gonna put too much weight into regular season games. Like year the pacers went 4-0 vs them, but they also played them 4 times in the first 30 games of the season. During a season where the bucks didn’t get off to a good start.
The bucks in April will be a significantly better team than the bucks in November. And the pacers in April will be as good or a little better than they were in November. I’d take bucks in 5 or 6
The Mavs need to play the Suns.
I appreciate what embiid is doing too, but the problems comes when people claim he’s the best player in the world or even top three.
Idk man I think Stanley Johnson winning this next MVP🔥🔥
Pacers bounce the bucks in the first round
Imagine the bucks are the 1 seed again too 😂
Well everyone has their bias
Im hella shocked that Kenny didn’t have any “chips” on the Celtics
I'd assume it was an out of context clip about the Western conference
@@jasoncisney6366that makes sense
That was specifically about the western conference. He’s saying the west is so close that he can’t pick a team, he can only show confidence. He thinks nuggets are the favs, clippers are the closest competitor, then the thunder look like they actually have enough offense and defense to make a run only they haven’t been in the playoffs, and the suns are always a problem if they’re healthy.
In the west I’m guessing his breakdown would be like 6 on the Celtics, 3 on the bucks, then 1 on the heat or 76ers.
Giannis as a top 2 player in the league is a crazy take lol
Not really. Consensus going into this season was that he was second to Jokic.
One thing I appreciate about KB is that unlike the rest of the basketball world, he doesn’t have the memory of a gold fish. So he’s not gonna let half of a regular season change an opinion that was forged because of the past 5 seasons and post seasons.
Also even if he’s not top 2 for you I don’t think that’s the worst thing. Embiids making a case for being the better player right now. But saying it’s a crazy take is just lunacy considering he’d still be 3rd best 😂 it’s not like Luka or Shai have taken that from him yet when he’s got a ring and 2 mvps and a dpoy and they got no hardware whatsoever.
@@eliyarrows2456 if you're talking about accolades sure but I wasn't I have him at like 5-7 skill wise I never felt like he was the best player in the league
Shit I was 2 when the doc won in 08
My hot take: nobody in the next decade will beat d rose mvp record
I mean duh someone would have to be 21 averaging 30+ while having the best record in the league and that’s quite hard for a 3rd year player
Not a hot take at all. Like his statline compared to the last 10 mvps is comically bad.
It’s also rare for a player that good and that impactful to be on the number 1 seed in only their second or third season.
Kenny stay sleeping on the Wolves
Are the Cavs really the hottest team? They have the same last 10 as the Knicks and OKC and suns and clippers and look who they played…
That win over the bucks tho…
lakers.
I think Tyrese Haliburton could be an mvp within 5 years
I don't know if Doc Rivers is the guy for the job, but I can not blame all of his team's failures on him. Many of the players on each of his teams are just blatant chokers. CP3, Embid, Blake Griffin, etc all of those guys are amazing regular-season players, as soon as you get to the playoffs they tend to disappear. Even as they all went to different teams, Griffin barely sniffed the playoffs, CP3 choked playoffs in Houston and Phoenix, and Embid has us trusting the process for YEARS with no success. I'm not saying these guys are not amazing players and generational talents, I do not know if it can all be blamed on Doc Rivers.
the disrespect to the timberwolves continues....
You lost me at no Lakers Kenny
As currently constructed they are a far worse team than last years playoff team. V8 doesn’t feel like he’s having the same impact, Reaves isn’t playing that great, Dlo is up and down, and you are the worst shooting team in the league.
Kenny has said it dozens of times. The lakers are bottom 5 in 3pm and top 5 in how many they allow. They are the single worst team in terms of shooting disparity during an era where shooting is king.
Until they stop playing like it’s the early 2000s, they simply aren’t a threat.
Jimmy against the Sixers after the "Tobias Harris over me" bar makes me pick Heat no question. He's got all time competitiveness and Embiid is weak in the playoffs
Embiid always hurt in the playoffs. If he finally has a healthy run Sixers are winning the championship
@@taj3618 there is literally nothing to support that claim. nobody has had more and done less among the superstars
@@slightexagThere’s nothing to support a healthy Embiid being bad in the playoffs.
@@slightexag what do you mean? He’s literally been injured going into the playoffs or gotten hurt in the first round every year except the bubble
@@slightexag and what more had he had? Besides 1 year of Jimmy, a horrible fitting costar in Simmons, and a past prime Harden? Not to mention Brett Brown and Doc Rivers as coaches 🤮
i still don't get people peeing their pants over embiid's 70... he took 50 shots... there are 10 if not 20 guys in the league that will score 70 if you let them take 50 shots...
do people not wonder how supreme "talents" like embiid, harden, etc. are not able to win championships?... do they really not see dudes who are destined to fail because their mentality is that of a loser?
Kenny’s a smart man. Lakers ain’t winning SHIT lol
If you’re gonna play like it’s the early 2000s in an era where the best teams often are the best shooting teams, then yeah you can ignore them. Their ceiling is getting swept in the WCF again and that’s with so much going their way
None of the criticisms you listed about embiid are valid or based in reality. He is always hurt in the playoffs, and he has yet to have a championship level team. Also Shaq took 8 years to reach the finals, so you're just wrong there too.
The embiid slander has gotta stop. The beating denver fans is about to take will help.
celtics own that phony stop it
@@mikenickerson9640 lol not now the sixers have competent coaching. If nurse was the coach, the sixers in in five or six despite the embiid injury.
@@user-yv4sk3vz2x I hope you know this has gone on for years and years
@@mikenickerson9640 and all of those years the sixers did not have competent coaching.
I hope you know if embiid is healthy the Celtics loose, even with the garbage coaching the sixers have had.
He’s absolutely had a championship level team. He is typically hurt sure but durability is important
As a long time basketball fan I just don’t enjoy watching Embiid play. Not saying he’s not a phenomenal talent, because you can’t deny that, I just don’t enjoy watching him play. His attitude and antics are just another reason I don’t like him. I see him start shit all the time and then throw his hands up and giggle like I didn’t do anything. He’s a 🤡
I can kinda agree. I’ll admit, now that he’s not paired with the smaller version of himself in harden it’s much more digestible since it’s only half as often.
But it’s absolutely BS some of the antics he gets away with. The fact he hasn’t gotten a flopping tech yet is proof that the rule is meaningless, and he has a draymond like whistle where he gets what he wants the majority of the time despite not having earned it like superstar treatment in the past.
It used to be once you’re an mvp or a champion you get that extra trust from the ref when you ask for calls. Embiids had that treatment for the last 3 years. I even remember when he shoved Mitchell, Mitchell shoved him back and go ejected. The embiid pointed and laughed at him and didn’t get a tech for any of it. He was participating just as much as the dude who got thrown out and even had more antics and didn’t even get a tech.
Now, with all that off my chest, this year he has been spectacular and deserves mvp. He still gets 6 extra ppg from calls that jokic doesn’t get but still he’s awesome.
Nah we need clippers vs lakers not mavs
If all healthy, Pacers would clap the Bucks in the playoffs, they don't want to play us 1st rd 😂
I think tatum will not win an mvp title, unless the celtics win over 70 games, because the team is too good, and celtics without tatum is like the knicks/cavs. Nuggets without Jokic, 76ers without Embiid, OKC without Shai, Mavs without Luka are all probably 15. The impact of these players on their team is much higher than Tatum, due to the celtics brilliaint team building. Tatum will not have the number nor the impact of the big stars he is competing with, so he will not be able to be the MVP, unless the really have a record breaking season which is not probable due to the increased variance of the 3pt era. Players like Wemby, ANT or even Barnes or donoven mitchell, are much liklier options
hi pookie wookie bear Kenny
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CLIPPERS ARE BETTER THAN THE NUGGETS
Dream playoff is steph Winning another ring
Lol Kenny the casual at it again--sixers have more talent this year than ever before, and putting lost chips on the nuggets, a team that only won due to unprecedented super star injury, is about as bad a bet as it gets.
What unprecedented superstar injury exactly ?? Denver has one of the most legitimate championship runs in recent memory
@@ztlabraptor211 🫵😂clearly you didn't watch, if was the opposite.
LeBron, Tatum, embiid, giannis, jimmy, kawhi, pg13.
@@user-yv4sk3vz2x as opposed to Kyrie harden Trae lebron davis and kawhi for the bucks ? Or Embiid klay and kd for the warriors ? Dame Russ bam and co for the lakers ? Please
@@ztlabraptor211 well?
@@user-yv4sk3vz2x you killed your credibility with your other laughable thread so I’m not gonna keep entertaining this nonsense. So just one last clarifier,
Lebron was not injured. Tatum was not injured. And we can do this for literally every championship run. 2021 Bucks ? KD and Harden were injured, Trae was injured, Kawhi, AD, MPJ and Jamal Murray were all injured. 2020 Lakers ? Dame, Russ, PG, Bam and Dragic in the finals, 2019 Raps ? KD, Klay, Embiid, etc.
I’m someone who CANNOT watch sixer games. Ain’t entertaining watching how he plays. Flings his arms and tries to get fouls way to often. Worst than harden in 2018.
missing out on history
You’re missing maybe the greatest regular season ever