part two of the nba 2020-21 anything but regular season

No foul

man it would be so fuckin impressive of the Celtics to come back here

Just massive shots back and forth love it

damn nice victory

having watched derozan assassinate the celtics so many times over the years it was bittersweet seeing him brick a bunch of shots down the stretch

unbelievable

The beautiful game

tatum tied the alltime celtics single game scoring record with that bird game where atlantas bench was cheering for him

insane performance by tatum

zero turnovers

32 points down ppl on twitter are saying its the 3rd biggest comeback in nba history, someone else said in the last 40 years tho so idk

either way big comeback baby

some cute deuce content in the postgame.

also tristan thompson leading the postgame congrats. every couple days i sit back, sip my coffee, and wonder if kevin o'connor is ever going to publicly take responsibility for his reporting at the trade deadline that everyone on the team hated thompson and that he was absolutely getting shipped out. as everyone know i'm not the biggest fan of tristan but he serves a purpose on the team and it seems clear based on all interactions i can see that he is liked just fine.

yeah tho someone said on twitter said that it was actually some other lesser known nba writer on the podcast who laid the whole thing out and all oconnor said was "yeah i heard the same thing", but i didnt look into it

and credit where its due tristan was good tonight mixed in some good defense with his usual offensive rebounds

yeah i think chris vernon initiated the topic but o'connor emphatically doubled down. really bad job from someone who is supposed to have sources and be a real journalist.

tristan was definitely good tonight, played a ton of minutes when they needed him to hold down the fort against poeltl.

hes seems to be coming around in general more defense less trying to do stuff with the ball, celtics are still passing to him way too much tho

yeah i think chris vernon initiated the topic but o'connor emphatically doubled down. really bad job from someone who is supposed to have sources and be a real journalist.

― call all destroyer, Friday, April 30, 2021 10:54 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

maybe tristan started the rumor cause he didnt want to get traded

ooh good call, he does have a reality tv background

Don’t like Vernon so don’t end up listening to much KOC but Tristan seems like a good teammate

yeah hes got handshakes with everyone always seems supportive and whatnot

xp oh yeah, vernon is terrible. i actually went and sought out that episode after it got aggregated all over the place.

Seems like he could get a better pod partner or even just do his own thing and bring in guests

If the suns win this game they move to 1st place I believe.

who wouldve thought

My bud said they’d be a top 3 seed and I laughed and we put tacos on it

my excitement for the big west 1-2 matchup was tempered rather quickly when i found out that all the jazz guards are hurt

Same

heh a friend excitedly texted me about how the blazers are "back" bc they beat the nets and i was like "oh is that so who played" and he replied ":( stop it"

the nba in 2021 baby!

it almost feels... chaotic and pointless hmm

My bud said they’d be a top 3 seed and I laughed and we put tacos on it

― i was too much listening to your accent (Spottie), Friday, April 30, 2021 11:10 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ha nice

our big doughy boy

https://defector.com/nikola-jokic-has-been-sculpted/

Fun piece

The Nuggets let the Blazers have Nurkic after they had a good look at Jokic, so I'm grateful to Jokic for that. But the Nuggets were right about who was the better player.

"My bud said they’d be a top 3 seed and I laughed and we put tacos on it"

Ha most of the guys I hoop with are Suns fans but there's one Lakers guy and he's constantly shitting on the Suns. I witnessed a bet happen early in the season and I think it was the Suns wouldn't be top 5 in the West.

I thought best case scenario top 6.

One thing that’s great about all this is there’s a real possibility of lac vs lal first round.

possibility of lac vs lal first round

that would be sweet. I hope it happens

yes, guaranteed 1rnd elimination of an LA team is good

If the Lakers get to the first round

lebron back tonight, yes? i can't imagine anything short of breaking his leg is going to stop him from getting them out of the play-in.

he played the other night

Have a hard time getting a handle on whether teams are going to tank to avoid the lakers. Kind of feel like it’s too early to even know so you should just try to win?

looking a lot like the lakers will get the five spot so its more about staying out of 4th, which requires winning

tho tbf the lakers did lose their first game with bron and brow back... to the kings lol

Bron had a quote that he’s never gonna be the same and I’m like .... uh is this is first ankle roll?? Those high sprains do take some time tho no doubt.

lol dramatic

The ball man is back

LaMelo Ball, friends. pic.twitter.com/OqNtaxwus6

— Nuh-KY-us Duncan (@NekiasNBA) May 1, 2021

already posted to the 'lamelo fan club' thread

twice!