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

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

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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

one thing thats fun about the playoffs is how refs stop giving fouls where the guy just falls down after he shoots

signs are pointing toward luka being the best player in that series

certainly was today

we havent really seen a dominant kawhi since hes been on the clips, hes a bit of a cipher

kawhi and PG put up 26 and 23, no one else on the clippers scored more than 11. batum and rondo the second leading scorers, marcus morris 4 points, serge ibaka 8 points and luke kennard DNP-CD. lawrence frank is the reigning executive of the year

celtics hot start appears to be winding down

I mean the clippers roster >>> the mavs roster and the fact that luka has given them the business two years in a row just kind of speaks to the fact that he’s the best player on the floor in their games, no disrespect to kawhi

i like the clippers supporting cast, kennard aside who is one of the worst defenders in the league, but also they could totally shit the bed

its a cliche but true that role players who step up or not can really make the difference in a series

within recent memory morris, rondo, and ibaka were contributing to winning in the playoffs. there are things i would like to be different about this team, but neither leonard nor george had efficient scoring nights. if those guys aren't really really good the rest of the team doesn't matter.

kawhi 26 pts on 22 fg attempts; pg 8/18 and 2/8 from 3. that's like two lines that would make warriors fans keep talking themselves into andrew wiggins.

lol

too bad jaylens not here, would be nice

within recent memory morris, rondo, and ibaka were contributing to winning in the playoffs. there are things i would like to be different about this team, but neither leonard nor george had efficient scoring nights. if those guys aren't really really good the rest of the team doesn't matter.

it would! but their two supposed superstars need to play like superstars! at least one of them could!

the lakers won last year with two guys playing like superstars, not like two guys playing like they're "in the conversation" for all-nba 3rd team

yeah pg is obvs a huge playoff question mark but if youre not even getting near peak kawhi well you might just lose to the mavs

rob williams has 6 blocks and is all over the place again

beautiful

Robert Williams just blocked a James Harden stepback. Sheesh.

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) May 23, 2021

just completely destroyed claxton twice in a row

hes so good

all i want for next year is a full season of rob playing well

yeah its just a matter of his body being able to take big minutes at this point

not sure about all this jabari parker

i didn't see much of the first half but that looks like found money that isn't carrying over

he made a couple nice plays this half but its just not worth the nets targeting him

Robert Williams puts the CLAMPS on James Harden pic.twitter.com/UmgTrllij7

— Taylor Snow (@taylorcsnow) May 23, 2021

the lakers won last year with two guys playing like superstars, not like two guys playing like they're "in the conversation" for all-nba 3rd team

it was funny seeing harden pull up in the middle of that drive realizing it wasn't going to happen

evan fournier would be the __th best player on the clippers?

this era of the clippers has been 2 seasons and 1 postseason so yes that stands to reason

This Nets team is so unfair lol; KD the GOAT at assembling stacked superteams for sure.