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

they look shook & bucks role players are all playing w crazy confidence

brogdon’s shot is looking good

So this is what happens when the Bucks hit 3s

Can’t stop the Ersanity

crazy that nurse cant get his team to rim even with ilyasova at c

i just came here to post that exact thing

32 bench points already

mirotic/ersan big man combo and the raptors are getting str8 punked

yeah ilyasova is dropping on every pnr and the raps are just... rolling in slow

Yessss the air ball alley oop is my favorite play

Uhhhh guys

Kawhis got like 3x the points of their next highest

Niko and ersan are good at hoops. I like how illy has become a hired gun for playoff teams the last couple years. Bucks depth is awesome and Giannis brings the best out of all of them.

I think the raps will win the next two tho the randoms should play better at home

Why did the Raps bother to beat the Sixers if they were going to shit the bed like this? Sixers would be giving the Bucks a much harder time.

naw sixers arent that good, raps barely beat them, ergo....

tho the sixers do have better personnel to defend giannis in embiid and simmons so idk

anyway imo the bucks are a clearly better team than either of them

yeah i think it's pretty clear we can skip to the finals now

bucks and dubs are gonna have like a solid week or so off

Toronto is dead last in bench points pic.twitter.com/HL2FSDW3yg

— IN THE LAB (@DevInTheLab) May 18, 2019

well thats what happens when you trade away your whole bench in the kawhi and marc gasol deals

kawhi trade delivered good value. gasol trade much less so.

Gasol helped them get passed embiid and vooch. But Jonas V may have been just as good idk

JV was a defensive liability

gasol is showing how fine the line is between playable and unplayable when you’re this deep in the playoffs.

hope you're all enjoying The Meyers Leonard Experience

that dunk and one off the pass from dame was sweet

The Meyers game

does not appear the Blazers will win this one

Make your shots & advance. Miss them consistently and you get eliminated.

*rifles through pages and pages of calculations* that--that can't be right

Love too listen to championship coaches JVG and Jackson grouse about Portland’s lack of competitive fire

Not sure I've ever seen Draymond any better than that.

Draymond been a top 5 player in these playoffs

right next to Ersan Ilyasova

yeah hats off to dray he’s been shredding

Oof

damian lillard has five made two-pointers through three games this series. a real stat that sounds fake

— 🏀 playoffs shrill 🏀 (@theshrillest) May 19, 2019

they’ve dismantled dame

if kanter were scoring down low with efficiency, dame would have a better shooting percentage, but the dubs are too good at filling inside passing lanes, collapsing, and keeping the ball out of the middle. the wings have not been cutting or moving w/o the ball nearly enough, either.

raps actually getting production out of gasol and powell tonight, bodes well. but theyre only up 6 and their biggest hurdle has been the 4th, so...

even when this bucks team struggles, they have so many guys hoisting that they never get too far behind

Don't want to jinx the Bucks, but I think this is the one game Raptors might win. Bucks will be better in game 4.

Not to say the Raptors cant play better, but losing that first game cut deep.

siakam is playing well, but kawhi looks hurt and its making him deferential on offense.

They’re uh kinda getting away with some stuff on Giannis

fun fourth

Man this is great

kawhi made bad decision after bad decision so far in ot

like dude you're not kobe idk why you're dribbling the clock away and then jacking a contested 20 foot fadeaway

lol, i left a restaurant when siakam was getting ready to shoot free throws at the end of the 4th and assumed it was over and then it went to 2ot?