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

they had an in house band and mike dunleavys parents were sitting a few rows behind me

dubnation hated them some dunleavy

pretty underwhelming player tbf

2. Jay Williams
3. Dunleavy
4. Drew Gooden
5. Tskitishvili
6. DeJuan Wagner

the 2002 lottery wasn't the best

eesh

Just seeing the name Jay Williams gives me Bulls fan PTSD

lowry is on one

Jesus fucking Christ guys

holy shit Ibaka is balling out

the refs are “letting them reprieve”

lol. “letting them play”

Kind of embarrassing for the Bucks to be playing this poorly while Kawhi is a non factor

Holy shit Mirotic is having an awful game

when the bucks can’t score off a PNR their halfcourt offense dies

it’s just crazy to me that bud has... no plays ??? ... to get giannis the ball near the basket? am i missing something?

spoelstra for instance always had plays where lebron would duck into the post and get the ball on the block. i don’t see much off ball movement from the bucks.

they did just run a good play out of a timeout

yea they seem completely lost on offense right now and are leaving someone open on 3 on nearly every possession, not exactly a recipe for winning hoops

i’m getting nervous on the raptors behalf about this game getting tight in this arena with kawhi dragging a leg around

seems like forever since Middleton's played like this

yeah one does feel like toronto needs to survive at this point and 17 minutes is a lot of surviving to do.

Really bizarre how giannis was like a house on fire for the first two minutes of the game and has basically had his foot off the gas ever since. I know he just made that 3 but he was being guarded by Norman freaking Powell, should have drove on him.

god sit down Drake

bucks gotta pack this one in

wow, great work by the raps bench

yah this is getting out of hand

Got ourselves a series

Nice to see lowry play well

is it normal for drake to rub nurse's shoulders during a game?

good reminder that a lot of playoff series have twist/turns we don’t initially see coming

except for me in this case :)

Playoff adjustments are real

is it normal for drake to rub nurse's shoulders during a game?

i love playoff adjustments

My new goal as a Celtics writer is to see a celebrity do this to Brad Stevens in the middle of a conference final ha pic.twitter.com/YNCm3hKFXj

— Adam Himmelsbach (@AdamHimmelsbach) May 22, 2019

55 for giannis & middleton... 40 from everyone else combined

this is pretty worrying, if you told me Middleton would have 30 and Kawhi would be hobbled I'd have thought Bucks by 20

honestly outside of the stretch from the 4th q of game 1 to the first half of game 2 the Raptors have been thoroughly in control

how quickly the ~vibes~ can change

The Bucks locker room is eerily silent. Players are all keeping to themselves, some hustled out to the bus quickly.

— Malika Andrews (@malika_andrews) May 22, 2019

bucks need giannis to dominate to win, which is fine really can dominate enough, but when he dominates and they dont win thats bad

uhh eric bledsoe this series:

8/4/4 on 25/9/66 % shooting splits haha

the coward is back baby

woof theyre gonna lose a first rounder next year for him, too

Still rockin those "I don't want to be here" vibes, eh?

i saw him play a lot here in phx and he was one of the most frustrating players ive ever watched. he'd be a fine 6 man that's his true calling.

Giannis with 66% at the line in the ‘offs not super helpful. He’s getting tons of FTA. Raps were throwing bodies at him and not worrying too much about fouls.

yeah ft shooting is his giannis heal

/shooting

ive come to the provisional conclusion that he doesnt need to shoot, that in fact like shaq maybe its better if he cant

he was like 75% during the regular season which I think is pretty good for a dude who doesn't need to shoot

Bledsoe's been really bad during the playoffs but he did have a lot of excellent regular season games...sucks that we signed him right when he was at his peak but at least we didn't do it 3 years after like we usually do

he was pretty good in the boston series.

thats actually crazy that hes a career 75% ft shooter w how bad his form is, talent wins man