For example, Lebron saying Shabazz Napier was his favorite pick in the 2014 draft.

I once proclaimed The Simmons & Embid duo was going to be more dangerous than Stockton & Malone.

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    11 months ago

    Because those same “worse teams” were favored to beat Denver? Denver beat them and beat them all with relative ease despite people thinking they would lose the whole way. It’s essentially a bait and switch. Initially people said “oh the Suns will beat Denver” or “Oh the Lakers will beat Denver” and then when they lost those same people turned around and said “well they only beat a 7 seed” or “wah wah they only played easy teams”. It’s all nonsense. You can only play who’s in front of you, and who, exactly, were those other “good teams” that lost before facing Denver? Boston? Boston was going to get eaten alive by Jokic and Murray regardless. They couldnt stop Jimmy and Caleb Martin. GS? They had no size. Jokic averaged 33/14/6 against them without Murray, MPJ, KCP, Bruce Brown and Christian Braun the year before last.

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      11 months ago

      you look at dumbasses saying denver is going to lose to timberwolves and say it is the consensus

      boston or milwaukee would be an actual competitor, not maimi heat who got there by shooting the 3 at an unsustainable rate