As a carpenter, I fully concur. Walnut is one of the more sought after and expensive hard woods out there.

I think so. The Pacers is young, plays with pace, has high energy, and a deep rotation. All those will help when playing against OKC, who has a suffocating defense, is also young and has a deep rotation. I do think OKC has a better chance if that's the matchup, but I wouldn't count the Pacers out.

True. Haliburton and the rest of the team was playing like crap at the beginning of the season. I think only Siakam was playing well, everyone else sucked.

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You going to do a summary post to let all of us know how we did after the champion is crowned?

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I remember talking shit about your Pacers pick back then. Silly me. Really didn't see the Pacers getting this far back when the contest started, and yet, here we are.

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Aw man, feels great to finally win something here. Very big thank you to @Undisciplined for hosting this contest. Also thanks @grayruby for founding, and both of you for running, this awesome territory.

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Being old teammates for so long, Siakam probably knows how OG plays offense and defense, and was really cooking him tonight.

KAT can't be sitting on the bench for that long for Knicks to have a chance. As Knicks have a very short 7 men rotation and they need KAT's scoring to match the Pacers' scoring.

Knicks players also seem tired/fatigued from running that short rotation. Everyone is overused and banged up. That said, I think they have it in them to win at least 2 games in this series. Not sure if they can win 4 though.

OKC going to win the chip anyways.

How many you got correct for the All NBA guess? I got 4/5, missed on Mitchell.

Siakam was on fire!

BTW, the All NBA first and second teams got announced. You guys saw it?

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I agree.

I have no idea. But I saw this just now, and it's hilarious!

Maybe they were trying to avoid announcing it during the series on purpose? Because the series is still going on, maybe the league don't want to fuel either SGA or Joker from winning/losing the MVP. Maybe they wanted the series to be over before announcing it, so the announcement/award of trophy has no impact on how the series would play out?

Yes, I'm still in Canada.

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Thanks. No, it's Spring over here. We went on this hike during the Autumn of 2020, so the photos were from a few years back.

Nice poem.

Yea, I didn't watch game 7 because I was on vacation, but judging by the highlights, the video you posted, and what you guys are talking about, it reminds me of when Rodman defended Shaq and pretty much shut him down.

Pretty much the Westbrook experience. He gives you 200%, full of energy, but would take bad shots and miss or have turnovers during critical moments. It's like a mystery box at this point; you don't know which version of Russ you will get and your team could win or lose because of his play depending on which Russ you got from the mystery box.