Namibia Vibes II - Lakers at Wolves GDT

[Coolbreeze44]

Shame on me for jumping the gun, but correct me if I'm wrong. If we win our series and face the Warriors, we would have home court right? There isn't any reseeding after each round? I'm sure Kek knows this.

yep.

The only 2 times that has ever happened in NBA history was 1987 and 2023.

However, in both instances, the 7 seed won those series.

Thanx

[Q-is-here]

What a game, glad they could pull it out. Someone said it earlier in the thread, all those close games in the regular season and failures seem to be helping the Wolves now. Some luck involved too. Randle was a man possessed in that 1st half. Jaden stepped up in the 2nd, and some big buckets from Naz and Donte helped close it out.

I was watching it delayed. At some point during the second quarter I just found myself smiling as the game was going on. Anthony Edwards is so special with a basketball I can’t help but smile. We’re witnessing the most talented player this franchise has ever seen and may probably ever see.

People on here get too caught up on if he’s progressed enough or if he’ll ever truly be able reach his full potential and lead this team to a championship. Comparing him to other guys on other teams and I’m just here happy that somehow we were lucky enough to be in a position to draft the guy and him turning out way better than anybody on this board thought he would be. I find myself trying to stay in the present and grounded as much as possible because it’s so easy to think about 5/10 years down the line and who he could become as a basketball player but I find it takes the joy out of what I’m currently witnessing.

He’s far from perfect on the court and certainly off the court. I really hope he can lead this franchise to a title even though I know that’s hard as hell to do. Some of the game’s greatest players never achieved it. While I’ll be disappointed if he can’t win a Chip with this team I will still look back fondly on the amazing basketball talent we’re seeing and we get to see in a WOLVES jersey. Players with this amount of talent don’t come around often and certainly don’t land in Minnesota. I’m sure eventually he’ll end up a Laker (since they’re able to get generational players like it’s a video game) or the Knicks or another big market team. So I’m just gonna enjoy the time we have this talent on our team. The guy is grade A entertainment.

Nice ode to Ant and sage advice on just enjoying the present moment.

[Q-is-here]

1 turnover between Ant and Randle, huge!

105 points between Lebron, Luka, Rui, and Austin. 17/38 from three for 44.7% between them. We took their hardest uppercuts, and won it!

Yes, except for that Game 1 hiccup by Randle, the clutch time and TO situation couldn't be any different from the train wrecks we saw at times in the regular season. We have the 3rd best turnover rate among playoff teams after four games.

[davemang]

What a game. Obviously everyone has talked about all the great wolves stuff, but I can't help but be amazed by Lebron in this series. Carried the lakers on Friday night with heavy minutes, turns around and plays almost the whole game sunday afternoon while basically being their entire defense. At 40 years old. Sure he gets some whistles and maybe is allowed some things by the refs that others don't get, but he's still an incredible player and athlete even after 22 years in the league. My favorite moment tonight might have been when Conley stuffed him on that fast break though!

Also, very grateful for that overhead cam and challenge, but I do think they should change the rule so that if the challenging team challenges on the other teams timeout, the non-challenging team get the timeout back and the challenging team loses the timeout if it's a failed challenge. In that scenario, JJ was calling the timeout to advance the ball as much as the stoppage itself and since it was their last timeout, they couldn't do that after the call was overturned. Or maybe now that it's come up, teams will just opt to inbound the ball and sprint to half court to call the timeout so they don't open up the potential to challenge.

[Monster]

See, you're jaded. Most people would say that was an obvious foul on Lebron. But you're so used to the Lakers getting over you can't see it. That's okay, the league took one from the Pistons today.

LOL, I don't think I'm the one that's jaded.

Not only was it a clear foul, the ball didn't even hit Ant on the way out

I didn't think it hit Edward's either but I think the last overhead reply I saw it may have actually hit his thigh. I didnt go back and look since it was morning and I had to go work soon. Didn't matter they called the foul which was a foul but it was close enough I was not sure. I don't exactly have wild confidence in the officiating regardless of the teams playing each other. That's the most maddening as a player or fan inconsistency.

[Monster]

What a game. Obviously everyone has talked about all the great wolves stuff, but I can't help but be amazed by Lebron in this series. Carried the lakers on Friday night with heavy minutes, turns around and plays almost the whole game sunday afternoon while basically being their entire defense. At 40 years old. Sure he gets some whistles and maybe is allowed some things by the refs that others don't get, but he's still an incredible player and athlete even after 22 years in the league. My favorite moment tonight might have been when Conley stuffed him on that fast break though!

Also, very grateful for that overhead cam and challenge, but I do think they should change the rule so that if the challenging team challenges on the other teams timeout, the non-challenging team get the timeout back and the challenging team loses the timeout if it's a failed challenge. In that scenario, JJ was calling the timeout to advance the ball as much as the stoppage itself and since it was their last timeout, they couldn't do that after the call was overturned. Or maybe now that it's come up, teams will just opt to inbound the ball and sprint to half court to call the timeout so they don't open up the potential to challenge.

Lebron's constant whining does get old but yes the guy is an amazing player.

Any is a fun player to watch. Dude is funny and was going at LeBron which was fun even though he did pick up a foul. Luka can he fun as hell to watch too but he whines all the time too. Ant complains too much but not near as much as Luka. How many other players look like they are having fun more than Any and Luka?

I don't know what else to add to this thread. I always thought the Wolves could come back but I wasn't as nervous for this game because going down 2-1 would have been tough. I want to see them finish it off in 6 but it's gonna be tough. Maybe a couple guys that haven't helped in the scoring column show up and finish this thing.