nba playoffs aka the 'offs (which includes the 'ins) 2021

yes

It's now a 17-2 Tatum/Kemba vs Wizards run.

— Adam Himmelsbach (@AdamHimmelsbach) May 19, 2021

the 'ins' don't quite feel like the 'offs', yet, but they have their own peculiar energy

the JV ‘ins tonight tbh

marv has been calling nesmith smart all night even when smarts out there too

tatum is going nuts over here

feel like the celtics are permanently putting tatum in a weird version of who he play for where everyone plays for his own team. making him go out there with kornet, nesmith, and langford and being like ok buddy it's all you.

its good practice lol

it's never going to happen but i would love for boston media/fan idiots to lay off tatum for a minute after this game

they shd be kissing his ass every day

it's insane that they do not realize what they have

it's funny, tatum has become basically the 99th% outcome of his duke scouting report. he's not the best athlete. he is definitely a slow-paced iso scorer. he's never going to run an offense. but he's amazing at what he does well.

3 50 point games this year now

he was put on this earth to score baskets

unvaxed lebron partying with drake the night before the play in game lol

https://www.instagram.com/p/CPClJefFYcn/?utm_medium=copy_link

actually have to assume lebron is vaxxed at this point if drake is publicly posting photos of him maskless with a bunch of ppl, feels like a blatant breaking of the protocols otherwise i would imagine

would be the funniest thing ever if he were ruled ineligible

no one will ever convince me that drake has been good for the nba
or music

Skip Bayless set this up somehow

wild

This is kind of amazing. 3PT%, 2019-20 & 2020-21....

Randle: 27.7% -> 41.1%
Barrett: 32.0% -> 40.1%
Rose: 30.6% -> 38.8%
Bullock: 33.3% -> 41.0%

Those are the 2nd, 10th, 11th & 13th biggest jumps among 202 players w/ 100+ 3PA in each of the last 2 seasons.

— John Schuhmann (@johnschuhmann) May 19, 2021

man the knicks are gonna suck next year

chet holmgren babyyy

lol

Have other teams been shooting better against the Knicks? Maybe we've got a deflategate situation on our hands

Everyone else is gonna shoot worse too

matt if I gave you even odds of the knicks being a top-4 seed next year do you take it?

everyones shooting is going to go down but the knicks went up more

they also had opponents shooting worse than expected against them for a portion of the year.

My concern with the Knicks is that Thibs is diminishing returns

Randle and Barrett both played about 5 mpg more under Thibs, naturally.

On the other hand, Thibs played DRose 4 mpg less (than he did in 2014).

thibs runs teams ragged, it's always been a thing with him

he is basketball jim harbaugh

not a great start for thee spurs here

I guess I hadn't seen Pop in a while, but holy shit at his hair.

this is about right for the spurs this year

are you rooting for tanking or sacrificial lamb?

away teams not enjoying the ins thus far.

It's a little like working hard at your job and your reward is another week of unpaid work.

put it this way, i think the spurs have no shot at winning against either lakers of warriors, so winning this game wouldve been a nice glimmer of hope for the future. but they kinda need to help their draft position, and losing means they'll get 11 or 12 (coin toss vs. CHA) and MAYBE just maybe some lottery luck.

xxxp

not a great start for thee spurs here

― lag∞n, Wednesday, May 19, 2021 7:59 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

better now

intersting

no reason at all for me posting this, just keeping up on the discourse...

Grayson Allen had one of the worst stretches I've seen during the Spurs run. Basically everything that went wrong for the Grizz seemed to involve him on both ends.

— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) May 20, 2021

lmao

did notice he looked lost out there

-17 in 5 minutes

ha he was in for exactly the spurs run

man -17 in 5 is hard to do

guess this proves he'll never be a valuable NBA contributor

that's right