THE 2017 NBA 'OFFS™

the story of isaiahs career preboston is so funny and weird both sacto and phoenix looked at his production and went "this cannot be possible" then traded him for nothing

ive watched a lot of movies and i know what a crooked cop looks like

https://nesncom.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/quin-snyder.jpg

he crossed the thin blue line, now hes desperate, and in too deep

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9EfIHYj3jKQ/maxresdefault.jpg

oh youre telling me how things go now? you dont tell me I TELL YOU! IM THE MOTHERFUCKING LAW AROUND HERE!!

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sign me as another vote for concussed harden

he got hit in the head toward the end of game 5 and was off for the rest of that game too iirc

im in the harden was concussed camp

― ciderpress, Friday, May 12, 2017 12:53 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this still seems like the occam's razor explanation although he was at a strip club after the game which is not high on my list of places i'd want to be if i was concussed.

haberstroh:

Pull up data on NBA.com and you'll see that Harden dragged along at a snail's pace in Game 6 with an average speed of 3.36 miles per hour. That was the slowest of any player that played at least 10 minutes in the game.

It gets worse, the next slowest guy, Eric Gordon, registered 3.97 miles per hour, according to the player tracking data, which means that Harden was moving 50 feet per minute slower than the next slowest guy. Consider the tickling fact that Jonathon Simmons could have stood in place for six straight minutes on the floor and he still would have covered more ground than Harden in equal minutes.

wow

the fact that he threw the ball to a phantom teammate instead of trying to draw a phantom foul on a three pt shot says something.

― nomar, Friday, May 12, 2017 9:56 AM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A+ post

sam amick is on lowe's podcast pretty strongly suggesting that harden had an illness for a portion of the series.

yeah i don't think he was concussed as much as he was just tired. sickness would explain it. i also think it's possible that he just got inside his own head. sometimes guys just lose their games in the playoffs.

sign me up for harden's wife left him

Zach Lowe shitted on the 5-1 horford isiaih pick n roll we enjoyed in that column too. He's been getting increasingly grumpy thru the OFFS. he really should stop reading twitt r

ive watched a lot of movies and i know what a crooked cop looks like

― lag∞n, Friday, May 12, 2017 1:13 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Heh no joke last game he was looking particularly stressed and sweaty and I thought I would cast that guy as young Harvey Keitel character in a bad lieutenant tv reboot

lowe is a weirdo

jesus horford

i don't think lowe is weird or grumpy or that he said anything untrue about the 5-1 pnr? they only ran it a couple times and got decent, not amazing looks.

Magical elf time

ice cold

14 seconds tie game and theres 3 possessions? Wow

J WALL

wall for 3, dum

celtics had that play blown up toooo uhg

yeah if he's gonna make that shot i'm ok tbh. they did the right stuff leading up.

back to back terrible possessions from IT kinda killed them

he was having a hard time finding a rhythm late in the game tho he made a couple big shots

Wallllllllllllllllllllllllll.

So glad he made that shot after that trash bank by al.

the bank was good

Yeah it was actually. Awesome game.

celtics really shdve won, missed so many open shots

i can see why celtics fans are indignant obv over the wall 3, but IT made pretty much an equally ill advised hero ball 3 to put boston up 5 like 1 min earlier so what're ya gonna do

wall is bad at shooting tho

yeah, IT's shot was contested tho where john had a much cleaner look. also given how well avery bradley has played wall off the dribble this series i'm not sure that contextually it was a "bad shot"

sort of feel like if you're boston you have to just live with that shot

yeah i mean they wld like him to take that shot and he did so

agree w/living with that shot

yeah people like to act like there's no variance in sports and the athletes are willing everything to happen, but that shot is like 70%+ for the celtics to win which you'll take every time in a close matchup

variance basically decides every close game

@KyleDraperTV: NBA admits clock ran an extra second to 1.7 when Olynyk was fouled. Says clock should have been stopped earlier but play not reviewable.

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what if variance is what made it close... wow

wuuuut xp gdamn it

all close games are decided by shitty reffing actually

But shitty reffing is like the rain and it falls upon the just and the unjust alike.

yeah i wondered about that clockl thing at the time

same def looked like it ran too much

jelly k being penalized for his dirty play prob

its ok this series doesnt matter anyway thanks to a certain lebron james

looking at the upcoming schedule and I'm not sure that I like that the wcf will be two games in before the ecf even starts