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2025 Playoffs Chat & Chill Thread

LMAO even I wrote off Rudy this series. What a ****ing game after the duds he layed. To do it in a very visible game too.
 
I had insomnia last night and so I ended up watching the second half of the MIN/LAL game. I definitely wanted the Lakers to lose. Rudy was amazing, and I'm not sure if he'll get credit for it, was completely responsible for shutting down the Lakers down the stretch. I think the most impressive of his stats is the 0 turnovers.

The best thing that could happen for the league would be for Luka to decide to leave the Lakers in free agency next summer. ( ok maybe not the league, but for the 29/30 fan bases that hate the Lakers).
 

Someone like Gobert, who had never scored 25 points in a playoff game, thoroughly outclassing a team with Doncic and James wasn’t what anyone expected—and the Timberwolves knew it. “The Lakers are supposed to win,” Edwards had said earlier in the series. “That’s how it’s supposed to go.”

A week or so ago, just about everyone in the basketball world thought they would. Now, it is the Timberwolves advancing while the most talked-about team in the sport prepares for another offseason of reflection and re-engineering.
The Lakers start in an enviable position—they still have Doncic and James. But they now know something else. Those two names alone guarantee absolutely nothing.
 
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If measured by the playoffs alone, neither team won the doncic trade.

Mavs went from western conference champions to a playin exit.

The Lakers went from first round exit to embarrassing first round exit.
 
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