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

bucks missing many shots too tho

Wow another godawful 4th quarter foul call against the Bucks in a tight game

In playoff history, teams to make at least 10 more 3s than their opponents are 59-6 (91% win rate) https://t.co/kjbipbd55v

— Zach Kram (@zachkram) May 22, 2021

giannis apparently has the third lowest playoff FT% in NBA history at 63%, that almost seems impossible to be right

TERRIBLE entry pass by ariza, wtf

lol middleton I mean

bucks need to not throw risky passes near bam

i have never seen that call they just made on giannis ever in my life watching basketball

wow me either

JFC ten second violation

are you serious

I have literally never seen that before

at the end of a one point playoff game outrageous

thats some bullshit

well the refs just let giannis take 9 steps in the paint so i guess it evened out

butler just has to take that 8 footer

reffing has been atrocious

weird strategy of not fouling and also not doubling giannis in the backcourt there...

awful reffing is the perennial playoff complaint

butler just has to take that 8 footer

The Bucks going 1 for 2 from the line over and over in a close 4th quarter game is giving me some serious flashbacks

sheesh

DAMN

playoff jimmy learned the lesson from that earlier possession

wow great play by jimmy looked like giannis thought he was gonna pull up

the bucks should still be able to pull this out tho, i think the heat scored 2 baskets in the last 5 mins

all else being equal I sort of feel like that was not the ideal last possession play, with butler's back to the basket with 6 seconds left followed by him running away from the baseket to the half court

Feel like the Bucks would be competing for their 3rd title rn if Giannis could make crunch time free throws

ridiculously tight game

https://i.imgur.com/H6KAFc2.png

Utter disaster of a sequence for Milwaukee there

neither of these teams are gonna have any gas in the tank for the second round

big play by jrue

Holy shit Middleton finally made one of those

great game

No team has ever won a playoff game making 14 fewer 3s than their opponent. The largest differential in a win was -12 by the 2015 Grizzlies over Portland and last year's Thunder over Houston, per @stathead: https://t.co/9qXFHUm6BL

— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) May 22, 2021

playoff basketball baby

classic eastern conference basketball

nba is a lot like the tv network tnt, they know drama

update

https://i.imgur.com/faWXbwn.png

the sixers are so well set up this year with the bucks having to go thru the heat and then the nets and bucks having to go thru each other. they really need to make the finals this year

Yep. If it doesn't happen this year, it's not happening for this process (there will be others, I'm sure).

That was Miami's 7th game in franchise history with 20+ made threes. Three of those games have come against Milwaukee in the past calendar year.

— Couper Moorhead (@CoupNBA) May 22, 2021

The Bucks shot 5/31 (16.1%) from 3, their worst mark in any game, regular season or Playoffs, since January 14 2018, when they shot 4/28 (14.3%) against the Miami Heat.

They still won the game.

— Dean Maniatt (@AllTheBucks) May 22, 2021

luka is absolutely shredding the clippers defense

expose the clippers

I understand NBA coaches don't want to believe or acknowledge it's a thing... but "Playoff Rondo" is real and he should start the rest of the playoffs if the Clippers don't want another early exit. One of Kawhi or PG13 needs to step up and take on the Luka assignment going forward too; can't be leaving little guards like Pat Bev on an island against him. That's barely defensible when it's like LeBron leaving JR Smith hanging against KD on the Warriors so he can drop 50; when you have the luxury of 2 of the supposed best wing defenders in the league one of them should be on Luka at all times.

i think kawhis lost lateral mobility is really hurting their help defense. he cant cover ground after doubles like he used to. the clips might yeah be better served putting pg on luka single coverage and trying to lock down on the mavs back cuts a bit more

Congrats to Khris Middleton on a truly legit playoff game winner

celtics deciding to play very fast... interesting

makes perfect sense if you're the weaker and younger team

yeah i like it i mean you gotta try something