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weirdly the rockets have been involved in three of them

once the clock hit 5 seconds and he wasnt budging you knew where he wanted to go

Hard to truly fault George there, but in hindsight maybe he could've realized that if he pressed up on Dame with 2-3 secs left it'd make for a tougher shot

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— Lindsey Adler (@lindseyadler) April 24, 2019

GOAT url

xpost, with it tied all it takes is contact and one free throw to win it, you have to let him take that shot every time

sucks for PG that he made it but still

maybe he could've realized that if he pressed up on Dame with 2-3 secs left

In George's mind, he wanted Dame to shoot from there, too. He was letting Dame take a 'bad shot' by not crowding him and allowing Dame to dart around and shoot closer to the three-point line.

GOAT url

― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Wednesday, April 24, 2019 12:18 PM (fifty-nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

pg got a decent contest made dame rush the shot a lil

That piece is really good except for the end:

"At the end of the day, Lillard succeeded at getting his own triple-double: He kept his composure, led his team the right way and came through in the clutch.

That’s the most important triple-double there is."

lmao

In George's mind, he wanted Dame to shoot from there, too. He was letting Dame take a 'bad shot' by not crowding him and allowing Dame to dart around and shoot closer to the three-point line.

yep you're right

ughhj

that's a triple-single. and horrible writing besides lmbo.

it's in moments like this we should all give an errant thought to poor craig ehlo

dame's palpable dislike of the thunder on the basis that they're annoying really makes me identify with him

lol otm

have always liked dame wish he had a better team

v little discussion of the nuggets utter BEATDOWN of the spurs last night

a lot of HOF fame players would have loved being on a better team. curiously, dame doesn't think that way at all.

I dunno guys, imagine you're just gamecasting it, there's 12 seconds left in a tie game and you see "40 foot jumper", you have to assume something went horribly wrong

― frogbs, Wednesday, April 24, 2019 7:09 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was watching like, “so this play design is sooo fu-??.... OHHHHHH!”

― Hunt3r, Wednesday, April 24, 2019 7:35 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought Dame perfectly explained his reasons for the shot (question starts at 1:40):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvssVUBEZx0

I like his interviews: https://www.nba.com/blazers/forwardcenter/lillard-women-working-nba-they-deserve-be-acknowledged-and-congratulated-and-shown

could see him being a good coach in the future

Lol https://t.co/mtEmML4kKh

— Damian Lillard (@Dame_Lillard) April 24, 2019

PG said this while sitting next to RW lol

his IG post too. really digging the knife into russ lol
https://i.imgur.com/MNpgO1C.jpg

jeeeeeezus, Russ is gonna have to go on a vision quest or something

lmao nba has perfected drama

lol that triple double line in the haynes piece gtfoh w that

There's just something very satisfying about Westbrook's version of hoops greatness being shown up by Lillard's version of hoops greatness. It is easy to go overboard today huffing Westbrook's comeuppance.

for me dame leans a little close to a "do it the right way" type of dude on occasion but it really worked here cos russ is the exact opposite and the steady calm of how he dismantled their team was the perfect contrast. still buzzing over it really, got randos in the office talking about the nba today. apparently there was three other games last night? who knew.

the real triple double are the legs we broke along the way

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Can someone alert me when a gifmaster finally splices the kid falling over from

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over

http://media.giphy.com/media/1fgkYmv1mWPj4tTqD3/giphy.gif

Post to Karl’s gif thread!

first quarter of this rockets-jazz has many beautifully bricked shots

Harden is shooting 36% for these offs and Mitchell is 35%. Not including hardens 5/17 and Mitchell’s 2/11 so far this game...

Just unwatchable

yeah nobody's stroking it out there but this is a pretty great tactical series now that utah has decided to participate.

Would be nice if ingles could make a shot too

man mitchell out there just chucking hopelessly

I mean I guess he could pass to Rubio or Thabo....

He’s the only shot they’ve got

Mitchell is just an old school chucker by nature, not totally sure what you do with a guy like that nowadays but you gotta accept it

these past few mins have not contained the utah jazz's finest moments

v ugly ball out there

the jazz had their chances but the jazz are also not really that talented.

mitchell and crowder bailed right at the buzzer; ingles and a couple other guys stuck around for a handshake.

rip uhto jazz

wld be cool if the clips won 2nite

good for chaos reasons

yeah also like they had a good year they deserve it

They got their big comeback game that was enough let’s get on to the next round ASAP imo