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ok, that one was in the act of shooting

have to say i don't get this ATO

playing for 2OT is technically a strategy i guess

tilting that nuggs/clips starting before this one is over

tatum passing up a good look straight into a turnover, not what you want

tatum's been awful since the end of regulation

kyle fucking lowry

the defending champs are interested in repeating

contemplating how difficult it would be to murder mark jackson and get away with it

did smart not realize how much time they had?

posting up like that it seems like the plan was to draw a shooting foul

calling the league office to let them know i'm not going to watch a toronto-LA finals

How a team can not score in the final four-plus minutes and then go on to win in double-overtime, incredible.

I get the feeling Marcus Smart is one of those guys you either love or hate depending on whether he plays on your team. He should be out flip-flopping on a soccer field--loved that it was him who fouled Powell near the end.

Some terrible reffing. Toronto's last play in regulation should have been a shooting foul, and Smart travelled on his missed 3 at the end.

Lowry was incredible. The Boston coach looks like a genetic cross between Buttigieg and Beto.

everyone loves and cherishes marcus smart actually

just as they love and cherish kyle lowry

no marcus is considerably more loved and cherished than lowery

i just need to say something serious here the refs need to stop reviewing every play where a guy holds his mouth and looks sad theyre averaging like 4 flagrant fouls a game now what is this shit

yeah it's atrocious

Lowry does a lot of complaining and dramatizing too, for sure.

honestly the real reason the pandemic needs to end is because the refs' being afraid of the crowd is an important part of the game

they should pipe in ppl chanting refs you suck

ive been a marcus smart fan ever since he shoved that fan who was talking shit to him when he was at oklahoma state

Lowry's just a beautiful human being

Him hitting so many 3s is not making me like him more.

too many for your liking?

Sorry--Marcus Smart, I meant. (Making fun of myself.)

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GAME 7!!! FRIDAY AT 9:00PM ET ON TNT

— NBA (@NBA) September 10, 2020

the fix is in

what the hell

the bubble has made a radical replay abolitionist of me

that was an epic game and also fuck all refs
i think the lack of fans is really adversely impacting these playoffs far more than anyone anticipated

can you say more about what you mean by that? the games have been super competitive but i'm open to ideas about why lack of homecourt is still bad.

MPJ just has no idea how to play defense

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— mose (@bosemergmann) September 10, 2020

xp i think it's less about homecourt and more about the fact that any crowd faced with this ridiculous proliferation of egregious calls and nonstop flagrants and techs would necessarily start booing and screaming and chanting and changing the way the refs call the game. They're human! Scream at them long enough and they start to get distracted and more willing to allow the players to play rather than disrupt the flow. In the bubble, you're getting these end of close game clusterfuck situations with multiple questionable calls compounding and it feels like the refs more than the players are driving the game and setting the pace. It's not been preferable!

also, get nurse off the actual court please; that's GOT to be a tech sooner or later.

ok, yeah, completely with you on all of those points. the refs are overofficiating, badly. replay is a disaster. and i think nurse is the best coach in the nba but i have always felt that any coach who tries to affect live action (which he did) should be thrown out of the game.

i know everyone in the world loves monty mccutchen but his regime isn't working at all.

What’s going on here

Reporting with @ESPN_MacMahon: Houston Rockets forward Danuel House Jr.’s status for the remainder of the Western Conference semifinals is in jeopardy as the NBA probes a potential violation of bubble protocol. House has denied any wrongdoing to the league.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) September 10, 2020

Smdh ... https://t.co/uNwDxmJgQ2

— Damian Lillard (@Dame_Lillard) September 10, 2020

malone needs to get over his obsessions with defense and realize the team he has is suited to be an offensive juggernaut and just learn how to harness that. or we need a new coach

I mean it sucks that MPJ has the basketball IQ of a puppy but he was +6 last night. the number of times he made defense-minded substitutions when the nuggs were down double digits was infuriating. torrey craig should not be getting more than 10 minutes in game 5 imo

Danuel House under investigation for hooking up with one of the covid testing officials in his room?

its was just for some... testing

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ehjhs_cX0AQ28Ru?format=jpg&name=medium

must be getting pretty horny in the bubble

doin' it bubble-style

bubble butt

“I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of love and joy … which they certainly need,” Nurse said last week before cracking a smile. “Hopefully that’ll translate to the court.”

Raps made it to game 7 because Fred VanVleet is having sex is how I break it down to an extent

nba not allowing for hoes in the bubble was a huge oversight

Report: Alleged Danuel House incident believed to be far from isolated https://t.co/nOEIhsda74

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) September 10, 2020

Michael Porter is a messy bitch who loves drama and maybe he’s exactly what the nuggets need