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

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

I wouldn’t say Pop is fried, he still dragged this Kahwi-less Frankenstein of misfits and olds to the playoffs

I didn't mean to imply he was coaching poorly, just that he seems exhausted and frustrated.

so am i super biased or was that game last night poorly officiated?

Prob biased

Wades been getting phantom calls for decades tho

i only watched the second half, it didnt seem biased particularly either way but they were def letting them play physical, too physical imo, but constantly so, so overall id say not ideally officiated but not terrible, id give them C

the heat shot 8 more free throws than the sixers but 6 of those came on intentional fouls at the end of the game, so it was essentially even. i thought if anything the game was over-officiated, especially in the first half. it was a physical game & the heat were right on the sixers all night especially on hand offs and screens and stuff but they called 53 combined fouls which is over 1 per minute of game time... gross.

ha yeah maybe they werent ~letting em play~ so much as the teams just kept playing physical despite the refs, tho def particularly in the 4th some egregious shit went uncalled

they called so many fouls on screens and stuff so far from the basket in the first half... i think by the second half the "let em play" thing had manifested itself in assaults at the rim going uncalled

but with a game that physical in an environment like that i'm not sure what you're supposed to do

a familiar pattern

Riley knows a lot about mugging the other team in the playoffs.

.@DwyaneWade is in his bag. 😳 pic.twitter.com/jaIaitmDlV

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) April 17, 2018

subtle left thumb tuck

#GameOfThumbs
*Watch closely for the subtle left thumb tuck @bballbreakdown pic.twitter.com/Cl2peXZnWp

— BBiomechanics (@BBiomechanics) April 17, 2018

there's no fixing that

there was a good sequence in last nights game where simmons had an open driving lane and wade wrapped him up then he rushed his first ft with the most resigned body language and it bricked front rim right back at him

this is otm

A.I has EVERY reason to be the stereotypical bitter NBA old head and I don't think there's a former player who is a bigger NBA fanboy than he is. Shit is heartwarming

— Beyonce has an uncle named Larry Beyince. Bruh.... (@DragonflyJonez) April 17, 2018

Charles Barkley otoh...

pretty much everyone vet tbf.

raps just hung 44 on the wiz in q1

So this gonna be another game where every offensive rebound leads to a Boston 3

celtics have some shooters

WHAT CAN (JAYLEN) BROWN DO FOR YOUR U?? pic.twitter.com/hVVM9t5bCf

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) April 18, 2018

raps just hung 44 on the wiz in q1

― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, April 17, 2018 7:39 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

76 in the half

horford coast to coast !

If they leave Jabari on him the Celts are gonna score 150