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

chris paul vs austin rivers and campazzo is a classic “playoff mismatch”

― J0rdan S., Thursday, June 10, 2021 12:03 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

obvs the nuggs would be much better off with murray playing but hes not gonna help a ton with the defense issues

also worth noting i guess that mjp looked pretty inured last night guess he had "lower back tightness (unrelated to previous injury)"

wasnt just the bad shooting either the suns were lighting him up on the other end

Tweak or not, anything involving Porter's back is going to raise some concerns. https://t.co/JHwZ4xsuHb

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) June 8, 2021

yeah

do or die for the bud era bucks tonight, gotta love the offs

big game baby

lmao

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— Matt Petersen (@TheMattPetersen) June 10, 2021🕸]🐦

This from a David lynch movie right
― Heez, Thursday, June 10, 2021 6:52 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lynch presents...the goonies

yeah, goonies was where my brain went

It’s the two ladies behind him that pushed it to lynch territory for me

paul just playing out of his mind and providing the mortar that organization needs. i thought he was third in MVP consideration ahead of steph and behind jokic and embiid but i may have underrated him

crazy thing is hes prob not even fully healthy right now

Booker is such a great complement to him with his ability to both run the offense and play off-ball so well.

Booker running the offense I mean because when CP3 doesn't have a costar who can do that he always ends up trying to do too much.

yeah have been impressed with bookers playmaking

still weird that he doesnt shoot better from three

tho he has been hitting them in the offs

hes kinda bad at pullup threes

yup he has such a confident shooting stroke, seems like he should make more.

xxp to his playmaking - before the lil bastard cavalry arrived this year Booker avged over 6 assists per the last 2 yrs

really love their role players. It is such a well-constructed roster. Whenever Payne is in I always expect him to be the weak link and that they're gonna have to just gut through those minutes, but he's like actually good!

otoh it is tough to watch Facu forced to try (and mostly fail, so far anyway) to do so much more than would be his ideal role

feel like every time ive watched booker play hes made at least one insane midrange shot and made it look easy but then hes consistently leaving fairly routine 3s short

booker's midrange ability off the dribble makes him a pretty incredible playoff player. gotta be able to get to a spot and hit a tough pull up J in the offs still

yeah hes def a guy who can create a shot when he needs to

the thing that's great about the suns is they have 3 wing defenders so booker is never taxed on defense. the nets of all teams left would be the ones who could really expose him defensively the way other teams can't... if they face the jazz they'd prob just stick him on royce o neal? they match up nice w/ the clippers esp given that the clippers don't want to put a center on the floor

this pass got me so hyped last night

This pass is unreal. Nikola Jokic fakes the fadeaway jumper and seamlessly hits the cutter. Incredible. pic.twitter.com/h24v0CehxA

— Jackson Frank (@jackfrank_jjf) June 10, 2021

yeah that was a great play

yeah that one was so pretty. i'm probably projecting but seeing that happen with barton specifically seems like a testament to how long their core has been together. murray, barton, millsap have logged so many minutes with jokic, they know what he's capable of. his is a good brain to meld with

booker's midrange ability off the dribble makes him a pretty incredible playoff player. gotta be able to get to a spot and hit a tough pull up J in the offs still

― J0rdan S., Thursday, June 10, 2021 9:44 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah hes def a guy who can create a shot when he needs to

― lag∞n, Thursday, June 10, 2021 9:45 AM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is why going into the playoffs i liked them. nothing they did all regular season was flukey. just a sound defensive team + two incredible half court shot creators + solid role players and vets. even saric was huge last night. they arent reliant on the three ball like the jazz and clips. the only thing that MAY be a little flukey is cam payne, but hes been doing it really since the bubble so this might just be who he is now. he really is fun to watch, one of the quickest first steps in the league and also that insane looking 90 degree body turn jump shot.

"MEAT OFF THE BONE NO PROBLEM THERE"
love kevin harlan

need the bucks to win by at least 20 tonight to restore my faith in humanity

giannis has already jacked up two horrible 3s idgi

Bucks are nearly up 20 already

too early tho

need a 40 point win now.

11 points in a quarter with Kyrie and KD feels like we just saw a UFO

— Marcus Thompson (@ThompsonScribe) June 11, 2021

bruce brown just scored on lopez 4 straight posessions as the roll man

that was insane lol

if a 6’ 4” converted guard can effectively play on both ends against your 7 foot center you might have a problem

bruce is playing out of his mind

This sucks man

he made another floater as the roll man, almost stole the ball from giannis off the inbound three separate times coming up the floor and then blocked brook lopez at the rim causing a jump ball

why is lopez still out there ahahah. bud is a clown

why has giannis shot 4 threes is the real question. he should shoot exactly zero of those per game

its sad but its also kind of funny

it infuriating

as is this 5 point quarter from the bucks

how are you supposed to guard a KD-joe harris pick and roll

run an all-wing lineup and switch everything?

cut middleton for missing this shot

This pass... pic.twitter.com/1lnNqGz60v

— John Schuhmann (@johnschuhmann) June 11, 2021

portis is badly outplaying lopez

jrue holiday’s impact on this series has been _______?

Giannis stop