It is the 2018-19 NBA Playoffs discussion thread for hoops friends ONLY

the bucks don’t look like they have much of a plan for how to score

wld be funny if after all the handwringing over the celtics if they just flipped the switch on D

The Celtics with a 66.6 defensive rating in the first quarter.

They had a 95.8 D rating in the first round for the best D rating in the last three first rounds in the NBA playoffs.

— Michael Gallagher (@MikeSGallagher) April 28, 2019

uhg terry is so bad

horf has missed like 5 shots he usual makes

i appreciated hubies tireless tracking of pushoffs lol

giannis on the bench bucks down 15

9 lol

giannis is bad i guess

Wtf is going on Milwaukee

0

overcome by sudden desire for cold pressed spinach juice

Eh down 2 I’ll take it

lol giannis taking back2back 3s whatre u doin bro

Bucks seem incredibly frustrated, just like last year

horf is lord

wonder how many times all season giannis got blocked twice on the same possession

with the celtics doubling giannis bucks need to be attacking, putting the celtics in rotation, playing guys who can attack

celtics as predicted are destroying lopez

total stink bomb by the bucks

Yeah I was not expecting this

not super predictable tbf, still one more quarter tho, bucks killed that last big celtics lead in like 4mins

al is real good at neutralizing giannis

gotta be the best post defender in the game

game 1s can be weird... the bucks are just playing bad. missing open shots, doing stupid stuff, looking generally disjointed etc

put kyrie in

game 1s can be weird... the bucks are just playing bad. missing open shots, doing stupid stuff, looking generally disjointed etc

― J0rdan S., Sunday, April 28, 2019 2:54 PM (twenty-three seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the curse of the coward eric bledsoe

👀 pic.twitter.com/eL5BX3LN93

— Boston Celtics (@celtics) April 28, 2019

Al Horford's been great and all but on that drive, there were five Celtics defenders in the paint. Giannis has to find a way to kick it out and make them pay.

— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) April 28, 2019

Especially since that’s exactly what you would expect them to do

Bucks missing like every open shot is probably a factor too

celtics purposely not contesting on a bunch of guys who arent great shooters but can def hit shots guess they figure its better than going into rotation and the ball finding giannis again

The Bucks were definitely caught by surprise at the Celtics playoff defense.

been thinking abt it and this game is p cool

coach bud should stick to the regular season

celtics purposely not contesting on a bunch of guys who arent great shooters but can def hit shots guess they figure its better than going into rotation and the ball finding giannis again

Is this harden playoffs thing going to happen again

Hope so.

Warriors should be up by 15 but they got way too turnover happy again

The Bucks were definitely caught by surprise at the Celtics playoff defense.

― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 28 April 2019 20:07 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I mean it was similar to the regular season defence so Bud should have been prepared. Need Brogdon back to mix things up offensively a bit.

warriors yet to convince me they give a damn about any of this

Every point is hard earned in this game

No idea how you’re supposed to ref these guys half the time it’s flops half it’s legit

roll dice imo

Somebody really needs to come up with the @ of whoever took this photo. pic.twitter.com/EE5ucli9cc

— Tom Westerholm (@Tom_NBA) April 28, 2019

whomever.

whomstsoever

Paul Pierce says the series is over, sorry everyone

Which one?

Paul should know it’s not over until there’s an unnecessary wheelchair.

That lineup of Steph, Shaun, Klay, mckinnie and Looney was...

Gonna be a ton of ref handwringing about this series