2025 NBA official NBA Play-In thread

[King Eros]

So we're playing houston. and if we actually manage to beat them, it's Bron/Luka. Nice

Healthy Dubs as dangerous as anyone.

We ain't scurred.

 

[King Eros]

Rockets might sweep Warriors ngl. Butler and Curry had to both drop 30+ in order to win by 5 against the low IQ Grizzlies. Their other players gonna have to step up heavy.

Basketball math don't work like that tho.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Rockets might sweep Warriors ngl. Butler and Curry had to both drop 30+ in order to win by 5 against the low IQ Grizzlies. Their other players gonna have to step up heavy.

Houston doesn't have the offense to be sweeping anybody.

 

[SuaveyBoi115]

Rockets/Warriors is going to be 7 hard fought games

 

[SuaveyBoi115]

So we're playing houston. and if we actually manage to beat them, it's Bron/Luka. Nice

No faith in Minnesota

 

[Rigby.]

Exit Play-In Jimmy, Enter Playoffs Jimmy

Idk if we’ll ever see a player like this again. A possible, maybe even likely, exclusion from the HOF that becomes roughly 3x better in the playoffs. Although I guess nikkas like VC and Yao Ming make it to where most solid players could probably make it in.

 

[HoldThisL]

Houston doesn't have the offense to be sweeping anybody.

All they need to do is have top tier defense which they do have. Just last week your golden boy dropped a whole wopping 3 pts.

If Warriors role players inconsistent and Curry get locked up again it's over gang

 

[Don Homer]

i get where you are coming from but this logic applies to basically every playoff team the Warriors could have faced in the West.

i'd rather not be on the Lakers side of the bracket tbh

 

[ROFL_GUY]

Houston doesn't have the offense to be sweeping anybody.

Jimmy has to avg 30+

Brooks will be rodman against green

Who guarding sengun?

Hou has multiple great defenders for steph/butler


GS would match up better against okc

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Jimmy has to avg 30+

Brooks will be rodman against green

Who guarding sengun?

Hou has multiple great defenders for steph/butler


GS would match up better against okc

 

[Bay Area]

i'd rather not be on the Lakers side of the bracket tbh

We have to get past the Rockets first but I would be a lot more afraid of the Lakers if they still had Anthony Davis. I gamble a lot which makes me watch a lot of Lakers games… Luka can score but every team in the league can score against them in the paint, that’s where Jimmy becomes a series shifter…. Luka, Reaves and even Bron are liabilities on defense in 2025.

 

[Rigby.]

We have to get past the Rockets first but I would be a lot more afraid of the Lakers if they still had Anthony Davis. I gamble a lot which makes me watch a lot of Lakers games… Luka can score but every team in the league can score against them in the paint, that’s where Jimmy becomes a series shifter…. Luka, Reaves and even Bron are liabilities on defense in 2025.

I think Simmons was saying the same thing on his pod after the last Lakers-Warriors game. If that Mark Williams trade had worked out, I feel like they could matchup with just about anyone stylistically

 

[Bay Area]

I think Simmons was saying the same thing on his pod after the last Lakers-Warriors game. If that Mark Williams trade had worked out, I feel like they could matchup with just about anyone stylistically

Considering Dalton Knect is a rookie that will receive minimal playoff minutes, that trade would have been a game changer.

 

[Rigby.]

Considering Dalton Knect is a rookie that will receive minimal playoff minutes, that trade would have been a game changer.

A rookie that’s also been pretty much DNP status since he fell off around the time of that trade. Fringe rotation guy for a 7 footer with real size that rim rolls. Could’ve been Luka’s Gafford.

Probably honestly makes it fairer for the overall field that played out like it did.

 

[GunRanger]

Bane was wide open but aldama panicked. Cant trust that guy to make that pass