The Ringer’s Bill Simmons joins Brian Barrett on ‘Off the Pike’ to react to OKC and SGA’s defeat of the Celtics.
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I a thunder fan so I'll never forget that zombie sonics shit, but Bill's love for his team is enjoyable to hear.
I know you guys are Boston Homer's, but come on.
Why does bro keep looking left and right, its driving me nuts
Cason Wallace didn’t look great? I thought he was excellent.
You typically say you are impressed with his play against other teams. He was typical Cason. Hit one of two 3’s. 3 assists. Didn’t back down in anybody on defense and along with JDub was attacking on defense causing disruptions during the decisive early 4th quarter run.
If that didn’t impress you then I can understand that. Nothing monumental…. But it was the exact same Cason from every other game so maybe you need to reevaluate your opinion of him overall.
Porzingis is 7'2 and Wembanyama is 7'3 and a half barefoot.
Giddey and Holmgren overwhelmed everyone on Boston except for Porzingis.
typical boston game – tatum cant get it done and brown gets blamed for it
tatum needs to learn from sga on how to put a team on your back
Damn the Boston media mafia back at it again 😂😂
Brown contract is a wonderful topic that nobody talks about. 70 million for a player that might be the third best.
I can’t be the only one who’s sick of Bill’s “second row joe” shit.
Thunder are dangerous
Jrue has been pretty rough on the block and at the rim. I think most of it has to do with what they ask of him on the defensive end… not only is his assignment constantly changing he's always fighting through and over screens. In addition he's also running his ass off on switches and kick outs for 3. I think his legs are paying the price on the offensive end you can see it in his lift off and how often he front rims bunnies.
SGA seems to have the same sort of trickle down effect that the Joker has, I.e. the entire team even the second unit, seems smarter, passes better, etc. Shai doesn’t look spectacular (he is!) doing what he does, so teammates think “hey, I could do that too” (they can’t) and it stretches their game and court IQ. I think the Thunder are a piece or two away from making the finals. The rumored Markkanen trade sounds shrewd, so long as they don’t give up any of their top 8, just picks.
This came down to three plays, all Jaylen. Top 6 Tatum chucking a horrific 3 with 4 minutes left was not one of them. The best part was Bill describing Jrue's play as Smart-ish and it being a compliment. Dude can't finish two sentences without contradicting himself.
Joe Mazzula will lose the C's the championship at some point in this year's playoffs .. Book it ….. There will come a game where you need an ugly win with nuts and bolts of playoff basketball which is offensive rebounding, deflections, xtra possessions with hustle, FTs etc…. They have the players but the coach will jeopardize them I'm prognosticating….
PLAY BRISSETT AND STEVENS. FIRE MAZZULLA. GUYS A CLOWN.
This game was only close cause the refs in the 4th. Sga took the foot off the gas when he got 5 fouls.
This is a video where Bill Simmons gets to talk himself into the Celtics being a favorite.
As it stands, they may be the favorite. The Thunderate there match, and all they’re missing is a big for Porzongis.
What happens if they flip their picks for Lauri Markenen, and Jordan Clarkson?
Holy Moly!! If that happens, the league goes through the Thunder forever!
Bill is the best man idc if hes a homer
Tatum is a total poser, Mamba Mentality my arse….GEESH, Kobe would just look at him, like, YOU ARE DEAD TO ME. DEFEND. PUNISH. That is Mamba Mentality
Sga scored 36 points!
whenever simmons talks about another player who's 26, he claims they're who they're gonna be for their career, but with tatum it's 'he's still not who he's gonna be'
just funny, they've been watching him lose series with more talent around him than his opponent for like 6 years now and he's still convincing himself that tatum's that guy
Such a bad take. Only players who played well this night were Tatum and White. Porzi messed up late game clock management. JB bad game. Jrue was absent at every point, and was the reason we loss. Jrue refused to shoot
I cannot wait for May when Boston flops and Philadelphia flops and Milwaukee and Miami are in the conference finals. It's going to be hilarious watching you squirm 😂
I’m so glad the Tatum as some mvp convo is finally over. He’s a # 2 and he’s not even all that great at that. He’s just another guy.
That dudes accent makes me feel so irrationally angry.
It's gotta suck to be Bill Simmons. Just when he thinks Boston has a real chance to win a title, up steps Oklahoma City and blows right by them. And Boston doesn't even have the Danny Ainge zillion tradable draft picks to try to improve. OKC will be able to trade first round picks for temporary very high level help every year from now until forever on top of being better and much younger than the Celtics already
Bill acting surprised and like it's a fluke that a starting nba guard (Giddey) makes open shots.
Giddey isnt awful at 3p %… he has improved year over year at around 35% this season
I like how Bill wants to talk about the Big Picture and the other guy is like “No, but the celtics rebounds”
Can you please untangle your headphones 😂