What what is interesting to me, is that for the last week or so, the entire narrative has been about how the Celtics are underperforming and not playing as a unit and not getting the job done etc etc. Can someone just come out and say that the Bucks are clearly a better fucking team??

Yeah, I’d love to see the Bucks smash the notion that you can only win with a super team.  I wanna see Giannis and KD go head to head and give each other their best.  

I agree with that. I may even agree that the Sixers have the best starting 5 in the east. However, I think Burneko saying (repeatedly) that they’re the favorites (and at times, saying they’re the CLEAR favorites) is just, honstly, false. The Bucks bench is good and deep. George Hill is just a really fucking good…

Clearly your sarcasm detector is fuckin broken.  Go back to the sprocket factory, which sounds like a load of fun.

That’s all fine and well, but Giannis was like the 15th pick that year, so 14 teams “passed” on Giannis, who wasn’t really a huge prospect at the time.  Cleveland took Anthony Bennett first, who’s turned into nothing.

Hows burneko handling this?

So I click on this article and expect to read about some hot-headed redass (like Bumgarner-lite), and here it is some rook going on in a complimentary way about his 37 year old foe, and saying how he wants to be the best.  This is bad reporting Tom.  

Very possible.  I’m pretty sure at some point this guy has been teammates with Ricky Henderson.

According to his B-F page, he’s 24, which I’m calling bullshit on.  That dude has been toiling in the minor leagues since 1998, give or take.

“And then there’s this: Marcus Smart returned Monday night, which is a genuine lift for the Celtics.”

Minus Brogdon, but plus George Hill. Hill has integrated into the team really well, and has probably at this point become the second most important player. Maybe not 2nd best player, but definitely 2nd most important player. Hill is so veteran savvy and plays tough D, protects passing lanes, has great court…

The best part about this is Burneko  continuing to gush about the unstoppable, amazing starting 5 of the sixers.  I don’t think he’s even considered the possibility that the Bucks (or Raptors) could be the east representative in the finals, instead of the sixers at this point yet.

This post is aging well.

I mean he’s definitely partly correct.

I’m not even sure what you’re mad about bro....

I think changing your identity and reacting to one loss (even a spanking that they took in game 1) by just overhauling everything is just really unwise.  You won 60 games and were almost +10 during that time by being this version of yourselves, you don’t change that after one game.  That’s knee-jerk reactionary.  

I do understand he apologized. I take issue with someone saying it was an “accident”. You dont say that word by accident. You may say it and not mean it. But it’s not like he meant to say “manger” and he said n****r instead. That would be an accident.

I’ll give you the “Death to all Jew” things as a smack to the media, but I don’t know anyone that has ever dropped an N-bomb by “accident”.  I drop things like my wallet or keys by accident, but not the N-Bomb.

For a variety of reasons that multiple people have already stated above....

It’s not a bad decision.  If he misses, they go to overtime, and they’re still winning the series 3 games to 1.