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

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?

Yah he missed the free throws lol

that Middleton 3 with 9.5 seconds left in the game was such a godawful decision, not only were there three guys on him but even if you make it you're giving the Raps the chance for a game winning shot with a ton of time left. Siakam bailed 'em out but still

the cool thing about the Bucks is that they can survive two of their key players having bad games but not when one of them is Giannis I guess

Bledsoe just killed the Bucks last night. I know Toronto played small a lot last night but I still feel like between the three other main smalls/wings (Middleton, Hill, Brogdon), the three bigs (Lopez, Ilyasova, Mirotic) and then Giannis, you have enough of a rotation. Maybe I'd feel more charitable towards him if he hadn't taken 16 goddamn shots.

No Iggy tonight. Starting mckinnie and j bell. Pdx has got to have some self respect and win this one tonight

jacob evans is getting minutes this game

and myers leonard is hitting shots again

Kerr just emptying the clip haha

The Meyers Leonard game v2

meyers is going to make like $40 million bucks off of this game

hope it's someone else's money

The Knicks have to sign somebody

clippers or brooklyn will sign him and he'll be an all-star

What a weird ass half of hoop

rachel nichols hosting this nba full court press on espn2 is great

lmao espn stealing a concept created by a video producer who they forced out b/c he was spending too much time making podcasts and other original content.

ha i didnt know about that, whats the story?

this dude named jade produced the truehoop podcast which is the ancestor of the current brian windhorst podcast...back in like 2016 he developed a thing where he got a bunch of espn and non-espn people watching nba games in a room in the l.a. studio and broadcast it on the espn3 streaming platform. windhorst and rachel and most of the main espn nba people did it. eventually he left after they dicked him around about what he was working on and now he is producing pods independently and for the athletic with many of the same people.

i'm just laughing because he had to beg borrow and steal to do this on streaming three years ago and now the exact same thing is on espn2.

i like jade and co’s pods although some seem behind the athletic’s paywall. i kinda dig the nichols version too

i think i like this format for games where the stakes arent super high. wd love to see this in the reg season.

gonna be sad when the Blazers inevitably blow this one as well

blazers def seem poised to give this away. were it not for their 3 point shooting bigs..

Blazers can’t lose this what on earth

they can and they will

This is hilarious. That Meyers smash on dray May go down as his career highlight

loll Curry

He got crushed before that but lol at the attempted double double step back

i think any game in which meyers leonard gets 30 points should be halted at that moment and both teams awarded a loss

welp

man Lillard with so many chances that game :/

giving up leads of like 15, 17, and 17 late in three consecutive games is pretty damning but otoh it's the warriors

Steph Curry's point totals in this sweep of the Blazers: 36, 37, 36, 37. Made 26 of the team's 46 total 3s. More than half. Played the entire second half/OT tonight. Was a +19 in a 2-point win.

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) May 21, 2019

yea kinda hard to call a sweep at the hands of a megateam heartbreaking but this sorta was

by the way what the fuck was that on the broadcast about how the Warriors don't want players with "talent", they want players with "heart" like uhh Golden State is the last team you can say that about

Empty platitudes. But for real they got contributions from some deep bench players.

very few cliches jvg & mjax won't embrace in the big moment u know xp

telling yall, espn2 was where it was at tonight

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7ECE-tV4AAAQU2.jpg

hm did not know he was such a deeply rude man

oh yeah rj bigtime rude