hello friends it's the 2018 NBA Playoffs, a place where dreams GO 2 DIE

Yes Wade!!

wow heat looked like they were ready to go home there for a min

btw feel like the refs might be letting 'em play a little too much

historically comedic performance by wade tonight

it is okay fun to root for wade in the playoffs

only**

Steal was very sassy

lmfao wade, this is out of control

6-34 on 3's, sheesh

hell of chuckin

hard to get a handle on the series... i guess the sixers could feel good about the fact that they won by 30 when they shot incredibly well and lost a very close game when they shot incredibly poorly? embiid coming back throws a wrench in that tho. i think this comes back to philly 2-2 and we'll see what things look like at that point.

heat still have to figure out how to score without wade putting up 27 points tho

embiids return is a huge wildcard, rusty guy who demands tons of touches cld easily disrupt phillys rhythm for an unaffordable game or two when theyve been rolling without him, or he cld also just give philly too much talent for the heat to deal with

Good Defender danny green is kinda helpless against KD

yeah hes just raising up and doinking in little mid rangers like nbd

embiid's return will also screw up the heat because whiteside has to match a lot of his minutes

Also maybe bump Pops up to the front office? He seems a little fried to me

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, April 16, 2018 8:10 PM (two hours ago)

I mean...the roster he coached to 47 wins...

If Pop seems a bit fried, it's because he's had to work harder this year than he has for a very long time. He's about to take the helm of the U.S. national team, too.

i'll cut pop some slack given the weirdness w/ kawhi. he seems surly but it basically tanked their season.

Good Defender kyle anderson has looked good on KD in the halfcourt, tho he cant hit an open 3 to save his life rn

ya the dubs not even guarding him in the corner is pretty brutal

“bitch ass” pic.twitter.com/6vpOnlEtsj

— Dwob Wade (@World_Wide_Wob) April 17, 2018

he's not a good 3 pt shooter overall, tho he has been ok from the corner. just not taking advantage of his gifts. xp

i still come back to the fact that LMA left portland because there wasn't enough high end talent around him and now the spurs roster without kawhi is probably worse than what LMA left in portland. portland started lillard, mccollum, batum and robin lopez in the playoffs that year.

yeah add him to this years blazers and theyd be tough to deal with

You got it !!! It’s a travel! Harden does a double step back to get behind the line for a 3 pt shot. Gathers on Rft (0), launches back w/Lft (1), lands on next step w/Rft (2) and now brings Lft (3) https://t.co/ft3S7eWYPN

— Ronnie Nunn (@NunnBetterRefs) April 16, 2018

travel twitter is good actually

i wouldn't mind if the nba did it's annual "let's figure out somethng to make the refs emphasize next season" on stepback travels

i still come back to the fact that LMA left portland because there wasn't enough high end talent around him and now the spurs roster without kawhi is probably worse than what LMA left in portland. portland started lillard, mccollum, batum and robin lopez in the playoffs that year.

― J0rdan S., Monday, April 16, 2018 10:18 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sure, but spurs w kawhi are much better than that portland team

you know what makes calling some travels hard is the concept of gathering is kind of abstract like when does the dribble end like if harden had controlled the ball with one hand a little longer there wld it still be a travel

Pop must be so mystified by Kawhi, he spends the offseason getting LMA feeling good again and meanwhile his best player is quietly thinking who knows what about his career.

basically

spurs are up bc they have slowed this game dowwwwwwwn

ya dubs starting to look p ruff in the halfcourt

draymond seeming very confused by the concept of people guarding him

sure, but spurs w kawhi are much better than that portland team

― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, April 16, 2018 11:30 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah def. the only point i'm making is that when LMA was on a team prob better than this spurs team people considered winning 1 series a nice outcome, and his last year there they lost 4-1 to memphis. not sure we should really expect much more out of this version of the spurs even putting this match up aside.

oh yeah, no doubt. kawhi is the straw that stirs the drink here. im honestly going to be happy if the spurs stay competitive and maybe win a game or two this series so they can draft the next michael jordan with the no 18 pick and then pop and kawhi go on a wine tour this summer and learn that getting to work together everyday is the real championship.

really like yr attitude

spurs fans are #blessed this way

uh so basically the dubs remembered they could run and shoot threes so natch they won the quarter by 11 points, fart

there are some bay area hwites raising the roof next to the spurs bench and i just want to dismantle capitalism so much

i see a lot of ppl reppin the spurs out here in new mexico, i think well of them even though i have apparently been cursed with being a minnesotan

since when has the NBA used the phrase “hostile act”

draymond is a hostile actor

fact

Parse this: Popovich says he “can’t imagine being more proud of a player” than he is of Aldridge, who he praised for “fighting through adversity and being there for his teammates night after night after night.”

— Mike Finger (@mikefinger) April 17, 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Da9EjVsU0AAnzyK.jpg:large

*in the voice of a huge baby* fucking sick and tired of being babied

i love being babied, it's good to me

feed me mushy food, absolutely

The examples of Ben Simmons not wanting to finish with his left hand are endless... pic.twitter.com/EQEVyemUqe

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) April 17, 2018