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

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

nuggets will win the nba playoffs

that is . . . not what i was expecting after the first quarter

I want to cry

Curry v Curry

kev your boys played an incredible series and obv have a huge future in front of them

Yeah, it's nuts how well they've done considering their youth.

that game was a great advertisement for Playoff Experience... nuggs were just a little frenetic and disorganized the final 6 mins of the game. portland wasn’t getting easy shots either but they were playing more calmly and deliberately. just seems like the kind of game the nuggets will win 2 years from now.

combined 6-for-45 from three!

Yikes, and now the Blazers won't get more than a day off between games til after game 3. At least they won't be battling altitude.

I’m really dejected but the playoffs clarified a lot of things for the nuggets:

-Barton can’t be in the 8 man rotation anymore
-Jokic is a playoff go-to guy, superstar, all that
-Gary Harris is back to being an elite defender

In a week I’ll be happy

Tough loss. Nuggets have a lot to be happy about. Big honey is that dude.

was that the first non chalk result

matt otm

would have made weird sense if the entire playoffs had gone chalk after how much parity there was in the regular season

CJ performance was legendary and he was so calm. Evan Turner earned that contract in one game

being so bad that your team ends up in an elimination game and then playing well in that game does not justify a big contract

I was not being serious

sorry

would like to see kawhi go off in this game now

i fully expect philly to have laid down completely by halfway through the third but this series has been so weird i have no concrete expectations

on pace for a 65-48 final score

56-48, even.

Evan Turner earned that contract in one game

― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Sunday, May 12, 2019 7:03 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark F

the mike miller 2012 finals game 5 memorial award

Lol exactly

CJ is now officially my favorite NBA player.

i haven't been a huge cj fan b/c he doesn't do much other than score but when you score like that in a game 7 you're more or less bulletproof.

he takes almost exclusively difficult shots and i think that makes him susceptible to empty nights where his shots aren't falling and he isn't giving much else. but in tight playoff games tough shotmaking is very valuable.

he did get that insane block but it was extremely out of character

Man phillys half court offense is brutal rn. I’d like to see them at least give jimmy a chance to run the show, it’s worked at times in this series and maybe that would get him untracked.

yeah that block was a winning play.

i’m rewatching the 4th since i was out earlier. the blazers were just able to stay solid in a game where nobody’s shot was falling. their rebounding and defensive discipline were excellent.

evan turner was awesome too. for a guy who wasn’t supposed to be playing he made a ton of plays.

he takes almost exclusively difficult shots and i think that makes him susceptible to empty nights where his shots aren't falling and he isn't giving much else. but in tight playoff games tough shotmaking is very valuable.

― J0rdan S., Sunday, May 12, 2019 8:17 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is true and i need to build it into my thinking about him.

-Barton can’t be in the 8 man rotation anymore

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, May 12, 2019 6:55 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think you could optimistically say he's a guy who never really came back right this year and a healthy offseason will do him good. otoh i think he's on the wrong team. he isn't a 3 and they don't really need his skills or have room for him at the 2.

barton would be good for like... the kings or someone

kawhi and ibaka are the only raptors not playing like they already shit their pants

kawhi and marc w insane PNR defense

kahwi doing stuff big time

damn the raptors are straight up punking the sixers

my god that bounce

lol are u kidding me

scripted

poor demar derozan

you could hear a pin drop between the first hit on the rim and when it fell

the raptors offense at the end of the game was horrific

oh man joel poor guy :(

you could hear a pin drop between the first hit on the rim and when it fell

NBA Playoffs

2nd round delivered the goods

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6adv7-W4AINMut.jpg

completely insane shot. unbelievable.

espn showing it with all the different foreign broadcasters calls. sports are cool!