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

it's hard to imagine any other elite nba player carrying that cavs team to an nba finals.

whoa

xp

he's really had a crazy run this playoffs. i dont see how the celtics beat him 2 out of 3.

― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 1:00 PM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they already beat him 2 out of 2

he was 'feeling it out'

home court might matter a lot

for the sake of my wallet I hope it does

lol

the celtics have won every home game in the playoffs and lost every road game but one

the math in this series was pretty much always that lebron needed to win just 1 game in boston... games 1 & 2 were extremely concerning for the cavs but the math is still the math

speaking of math

Gordon and Paul need Harden to take pressure off them. Houston staggered Harden’s and Paul’s minutes all season to give both time to run the offense, but that hasn’t worked as well in the playoffs. The Rockets have a net rating of minus-11.0 in the 169 minutes that Harden has sat in the postseason, and a jaw-dropping net rating of minus-30.4 in the 43 minutes he’s sat against the Warriors.

some interesting discussion on the new simmons/lowe podcast about the rockets prob having a wink/wink extension agreement w/ cp going back to last summer but how perilous that looks now given that his max would be paying him like $35 million when he's 37

He would be worth it. CP is incredible.

he would be worth it on a 2 year deal. they will probably settle for a 3 year.

he needs to play a lot more incredible for the rest of the series

I love cp3 but I don't know how he's going to look in 3 years

He would be worth it. CP is incredible.

― tsrobodo, Tuesday, May 22, 2018 5:04 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark

pretty much no basketball player would be worth $35 million when they're 37, least of all chris paul

I mean going back there are handful of players you could easily argue were worth the equivalent max at 37.

Stockton and Nash would be among those players, I can see Paul's game ageing as gracefully as theirs did.

In any case can't imagine how Chris Paul is the least of all in this discussion.

I think cp3 will age well...the fact that he's already played at an elite level at this age is a good sign. but 37 is 5 years away...I would not want to invest in a max contract that far out. and I think morey is smart enough not to too

the plot thickens

Andre Iguodala will not play in Game 4 tonight due to knee injury

cp's had injury trouble that stockton and nash (at least until later in his career) never really went through. stockton's among the most iron of iron men in nba history, it's nuts. but that stuff gets worse as you age and i'm having a tough time seeing cp playing 60+ games four or five years from now

I'm not a big one for basketball but I don't understand Golden State. It all seems joyless, ruthless, efficient. German.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) May 21, 2018

thx morbs!

it's unfortunate that the tweet isn't even written about the right team

lol otm

i’m fucking dying

looks like the rockets are running back the "miss everything in the paint" strategy

Rockets are looking shook

the internet has destroyed our brains completely -- @real_aristotle

sigh

I wonder how the Clint capela max contract will play out

these playoffs have sucked

Did... the Rockets just quit?

*checks watch* well, theyre a little late, but this is around the time they do that

Can’t get my head around Harden not taking a wide open 3, that was so weird

capela has been atrocious on offense

is capela even awake?

"Siri, show me a player who is shook."

SIRI: pic.twitter.com/lQNDWn1cbe

— Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano) May 23, 2018

i just don’t get how the rockets have zero ideas for how to score beyond “going one on one vs a predetermined defender.” it’s game 4!

mike d'antoni

james harden

^^^^^^^

c) both of these

god the rockets are making so many dumb mistakes

harden looks like he's malfunctioning out there

draymond has been so good helping onto those cappela rolls

the warriors aren't even firing on all cylinders and the rockets are playing ok defense.

was that a container of yogurt covered pretzels on the scorer's table

People think Curry is bad on defense smfh

yeah real tough to fall down and get the call on your home court