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

brook out there doin stuff salute

giannis passing real good tonight

this truly is the battle of the craven point guards huh

right, gasol also suspect

Pretty traditional lineups thus far not much small ball action

Bledsoe vs Lowry is a fascinating matchup for sure

the stocky scared guys

bledsoe out here

maybe the raptors should try and start every series on the road

when lowry and siakam play like it’s a normal game the raptors look really good

also feel like this is another game where the bucks don’t seem to have much of a plan for getting giannis the ball in places where he can easily score

yeah

wow time warp to when kyle lowry was really good

game is wild

Lowry hey now

really feels like the raps should be ahead in this one, i guess their bench guys were just a black hole

bucks getting bailed out by this insane brook lopez game

playoffs baby

Raps can’t waste this Lowry game

brook lopez's transformation into 3&D big man continues to be inspiring

yeesh and toronto dribbles into a marc gasol midrange 2

lopsanity

playoff brook lopez

why, did lowry use up all his MP?

i know the early returns on that trade were good but gasol has been a disaster on offense for a while

Kawhi passed up an open three there to pass to
Gasol ?

felt like the raps had this the whole game until like the last 6 minutes. kawhi ran outta gas.

lol @ mega-amped brook lopez

what in the hell was that pass and shot to gasol

just want to point out that I always believed in bropez

Way too much gasol this game

this is not an encouraging result for the raps

lowry goes 7-9 from three on the road and you lose yeesh

raptors barely beat philly w kawhi shooting 110%

Lowry was the only Raptor to make a field goal in the 4th. His teammates shot 0/15

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) May 16, 2019

Bucks now 4-1 in the playoffs after trailing by double-digits.

For context, the league, as a whole, had a winning % of .230 in the regular season after trailing by 10+. No team had a winning record. MIL was best at 17-19.

— John Schuhmann (@johnschuhmann) May 16, 2019

they shoot a lot of threes and have a lot of guys that can do it pretty well

that 0/15 stat is crazy. kawhi was either pooped or over it tonight.

lowry was...let down by his teammates in the 4th? strange game

i still think this will be a very competitive series

the odd thing is that the vibes inside the raptors arena during the playoffs is so bad that i'm sorta worried about what happens if they go back there 2-0

🦌!!!

Brook Lopez clapping violently dot gif pic.twitter.com/a22arVkUSc

— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) May 16, 2019

man my voice is shot today

Awesome game to be at

U witnessed the bropez game

have people already forgotten that brook spent years as the #1 scoring option on a nba team

it was a pretty frustrating game to be at too - they bricked a ton of 3s and every time they seemed like they were gonna go on a run Lowry would hit a 3 or they'd turn it over on consecutive possessions. which made it all the better when Lopez went on his run. those last-quarter comeback games where you felt you stole one are always the best ones to go to (I've been to many where it was the opposite)

btw after the game they were filming Inside the NBA outside, I think you could see me on TV since I'm fairly tall and I was wearing this ridiculous Bango plush hat (at least, I saw myself on the monitors). apparently we were too loud and one of the hosts tried to get us to calm down a bit which only made us louder. Chuck stuck around and signed a few things...Shaq had to go 'host' a party at a nightclub which I heard he got paid very handsomely for

some of those lopez moves under the basket were unreal

as predicted he totally stunk it up v boston but the raptors dont really have the bigman offense or perimeter D to take advantage of him