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

it’s cute that lebron is playing the entire game but it doesn’t help the cavs when he just stands still for an entire offensive possession while JR fails at dribbling the ball like 2 feet forward

JVG with the righteous "ball don't lie"

damn dipo that step back

Oladipo is amazing

he looks like one of the best guards in the league

narrator: he didnt play the whole game

dipo looking CCC (clam cool and collected)

Bron brb gonna get that Kobe in the locker room.

pacers do not deserve to win squandering all this lebron-less time away

Nice 3 by Love
Up 8 without Bron

unacceptable by the pacers

Not over but feels like the air went out of the Pacers

bojan tired as hell get em out of there

welp

interesting sequence...

Cavs are gonna blow this, aren't they?

wow korver picked a nice time for his seventh career assist

lol

nice season/series by indy, falling behind while bron was out of the game was fatal tho

indy is interesting. if they can get one more high-level player in there they'll have a strong team for a couple years.

they shd look at paul george

mitchell is too good

Definitely an interesting first round
But overall still like the Nuggets to win it all

lebron was -2 in the game lol

shdve played the whole game

mitchell just made a pretty advanced cross court pass

harden is an artist man

lol lance at -19 in 12 minutes

'what's wrong with you?'

lance was pretty terrible. the collison-oladipo back court looked kinda legit

rockets pick and roll is just murdering the jazz

don't think switching so that gobert is guarding chris paul 22 feet from the rim is the best strategy for the jazz...

really just unfair to have the 2 best iso players in the league on the same team. crazy that people doubted they'd work together in the playoffs

rockets look good

yeah, here's to hoping rockets and dubs are both at full strength for the WCF. Should be a series for the ages.

jesus capela is eurostepping now

in the future, everyone will have their 15 minutes of eurostepping

comforting to know that the rockets don't look like an nba team with both harden and cp on the bench

cld be a tuff series for utah

https://i.imgur.com/01401EO.png

i would not expect them to "win"

seems unlikely

They’re gonna get swept w no Rubio

btw I know none of y'all care about this but Dipo's 3 as time expired wound up covering the point spread and cost Vegas millions of dollars, lol

wound up making me about 20 bucks though :)

lebron was -2 in the game lol

― k3vin k., Sunday, April 29, 2018 3:01 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i never say anything cuz i don't want to sound like a mid day sports talk radio dude from kansas but i never feel like i fully understand plus/minus's usefulness as a metric

it's not a great stat but if anything it showed the role players on the cavs actually played their role last night. tristan chose the best time to play his best game he's played in the last 2 years.

i want to pick toronto in this series but lebron has so much voodoo over that franchise it'll prob be a cleveland sweep lol

i never say anything cuz i don't want to sound like a mid day sports talk radio dude from kansas but i never feel like i fully understand plus/minus's usefulness as a metric

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, April 30, 2018 4:28 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think the most useful way to think about it is as a completely meaningless number

ftr I do not think that single-game plus-minus stats mean much, I posted that more as a joke. obviously if lebron did not play the cavs would have been blown out

I do think plus-minus numbers are very important over large samples and when properly adjusted

it means the Pacers blew it

key to winning that game was dominating the brief stretch when Lebron leaves the floor

prediction: there will not be a lot of scoring in this series

i just spent a legit 5-10 minutes opening and browsing through a book i ordered and i think 3 pts were scored?