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

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.

i mean do you think pg and kawhi played well enough to win today? i didn't see the game so i'm just looking at their lines and i'm not impressed!

btw i put my head down to check on the baby and type a couple posts and the celtics are down by double digits which i guess makes sense

rough second half for tatum

kind of unfortunate the celtics are doing a good job of limiting the nets but cant but the ball in the ring themselves

Robert Williams has blocked 1 out of every 6 Nets 2-point attempts in this game, He's played 21 of the 46 minutes.

— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) May 23, 2021

ah celtics doing their thing turning hopeless blowouts into quasi respectable final scores

kawhi and PG played decently they mostly missed a bunch of threes. it was still a close game from beginning to end. luka had a good tho not great game, porzingis is played like shit. fact of the matter was dorian finney smith, tim hardaway and jalen brinson were better than anyone else on the clippers, i don’t think it’s a huge ask for the clippers to have a third player who can score

clippers were the best 3pt shooting team ever this year had like seven guys finish over 40%, so basically if they want to win i suggest they keep doing that

celtics fought the good fight

i don’t buy it

clippers were the best 3pt shooting team ever this year had like seven guys finish over 40%, so basically if they want to win i suggest they keep doing that

cant fight city hall

the nuggets really need to defend the 3 point line

rob williams 9 blocks, 1 short of the playoff record

it's funny, depending on one's definition of "a player who can score" a lot of playoff teams are looking for a 3rd one

having a third guy is pretty sweet

celtics had no good answers for durant and harden, and the nets rebounded well and played credible defense. looks like tatum cannot carry them much further than a 4-1 series.

i dunno norm powell can score. i’m not talking about kyrie

the kawhi raptors were much better constructed than the clippers

much better, but also kawhi has slipped backwards since then

yeah the blazers have three guys that can score but they've got some other probs

and the kawhi raptors were one of the best-constructed teams ever, literally a perfect 8-man playoff rotation

facu with some dimes

love those slomo jokic drives

If they aren't coming to double when Jokic has Covington on him, they aren't coming to save anyone. Jokic has 22 points, six rebounds, and zero assists. pic.twitter.com/chVz5IBAKt

— Mo Dakhil (@MoDakhil_NBA) May 23, 2021

nice how he had the baseline spin the whole time but bullied his way into position before taking it

nuggs getting wrecked as soon as jokic sits

gordon is killing me

disastrous sequence for him

Gordon was so great with murray but since the injury it just hasn’t been good enough to justify what was spent