The Indy Talks To Himself (NBA) Thread.

DPOY just got absolutely cooked.

 

Nuggets in trouble.

 

Not looking good for them. Ant can't be guarded and the worst part for the rest of the NBA is that he knows it.

 

Murray injury hurts too.

 

Another reason I don’t like the NBA is how people refer to the players with short versions of their names like they’re buddies

 

Tell 'em JoJo

 

Ya Ya ya ya....basketball

 

Soooooo really bad match up, or is Denver a bit overrated?

 

When Jokic drives players bounce off him like they would the fat dude in Nintendo Ice Hockey.

 

https://x.com/30gotnext/status/1789416910708211780?s=46&t=-g4-4SHxx6dZ80rS7hnjTA

 

Jokic would be down 3-0 if not for the league refusing to suspend Murray and then essentially handing the Nuggets game 3 via the refs.

Shai is down 1-2 to the Mavs despite a friendly whistle sending him to the line 10 times a game.

Tatum is winning games despite playing pretty poorly for the majority of the playoffs.

Indy player opinions looking not so bad at the moment. Although I guess you could point at Rudy. But I’d just point at the Wolves beating the Nuggets in Denver without him.

 

https://x.com/gopherhole/status/1789824832550375575?s=46&t=-g4-4SHxx6dZ80rS7hnjTA

 

Denver showing a lot of toughness coming back to level this series. Still may lose, but resilient.

 

Listen to this [uck fay]ing clown. Is ANT gonna take credit for this loss as well?

 

Lmao at trying to take a victory lap regarding two players who just finished 1-2 in MVP and a third who took a team to the Finals (which he may well do again) while you were saying James Harden was better

 

The MVP is a regular season award that loses more and more historical significance with each passing year.

Why are you falling back on a multiple-years old James Harden opinion? We have comments from this season we can discuss. Such as:

and, in support of why Shai belongs in 8-10 rather than at 4:

and then, the icing on the cake:

Feels like an injured Luka going up 3-1 tonight against Shai would support my stance on where Shai belongs in the rankings.

Tatum taking his team to the finals this season is the bare minimum of what should be expected of him, based on how injured/weak the East is. We aren't giving him props for a Finals run, especially not with the pedestrian performances he's been having.

Jokic played well last night, but the league ABSOLUTELY saved his ass by not suspending Jamal Murray. I'm not necessarily mad that they let him play because I like competitive games, but he 100% should have been suspended.

 

The above was from 2 months ago. Not completely sure how I'd update it. Jimmy probably falls out. Maybe Steph too?

Without a whole lot of thought:

1. Jokic
2. Giannis
3. Luka
4. Embiid
5. AD
6. Tatum
7. LeBron
8. KD
9. ANT
10. Shai

Brunson making a case to be in as well, but the competition just hasn't been good enough, imo. ANT beats the Nuggets and I probably bump him ahead of KD and LeBron.