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

giannis's routine is like a response to an improv prompt: "look like you're trying really hard to make a free throw"

lmao otm

mark jones saying harden “can cook even on one hamstring” …. me making a frozen pizza at 3:30 am after getting home from the club

welp here we go

haha

harden is cooking giannis tho

lol cad perfect xps

if either middleton or holiday could remember how to play basketball it would change the whole vibe of this series

the nets getting the lead down to 5 with KD off the floor was not a great look for the bucks

has giannis guarded kd for even one possession?

both of these teams give me mad depression

he's guarded him for a few possessions but it looks like everyone's getting a chance to shine

KD hit a 3 on giannis in the first quarter but it was one of those unguardable KD pull ups

KD would just hunt a switch in the pnr

pj tucker is playing defensive end in a basketball game

as long as tucker is on the floor i don’t think giannis *has* to guard KD, tucker has been giving him lots of problems

depression teams in order of how suicidal i am while watching them scrape through these playoffs:
nets (a c. mid-2010's weeknd video as basketball team)
clippers (weird dude energy, can't erase the bad history)
bucks (stink of failure, everybody knows the coach is getting canned, giannis identity crisis)
sixers (everybody sucks except the one tall injured guy who can't close)

otm

nets might wanna try running middleton off the three point line

holiday is shook

if either middleton or holiday could remember how to play basketball it would change the whole vibe of this series

Middleton is doing fine it's Holiday who has mysteriously become a non-factor

also:

Joe Harris is 4/22 from 3 and 7/34 overall during the last 3.5 games.

— Jackson Frank (@jackfrank_jjf) June 18, 2021

nets (a c. mid-2010's weeknd video as basketball team)

well the bucks are gonna have to pain their masterpiece tonight to blow this one

why do you underestimate them Jordan

middleton hasn’t not been able to guard KD

my god the number of jrue step back attempts in this game

hes moving at half speed and doing inexplicable things

it's like the universe is rebalancing for that series where he outplayed dame

dude KD

yeah I'm already starting to dread what's gonna happen in the 4th

maybe they should consider doubling him idk

the first three quarters of this game have felt like waiting for the headliner to come on at a concert

why is he seeing no doubles MAKE IT MAKE SENSE. after he hits two in a row you gotta double

lol at that replay of on obvious carry/double dribble

respect where it's due, harden played 46 minutes on one leg and has somehow managed to look *much better* two days later

if there’s one thing you can say about james harden it’s he plays hard

harden grinding for sure

that final shot at the buzzer a perfect metaphor for the degree to which middleton has been saving the bucks tonight

lol otm

Middleton's funny like that, when he gets hot you cannot beat them

i think if you had asked me what lead the bucks would need to have after 3 for me to feel comfortable about them not blowing it i would’ve said 17 so all things considered 11 is not the end of the world for the nets

btw Game 7 would be a real good time for the Bucks free throw shooting to revert to the mean

I mean 3 point shooting

middleton needs to touch the ball on every possession in the 4th

so basically Durant has to do exactly what he did in the 4th quarter of the last game

giannis on kd two possessions in a row, air ball and turnover

jrue is 1-10 from three

that was a real nice play to get Holiday a wide open 3, really wish he could knock them down

pj too, even if just a couple more of those go down this is a blowout

but instead kd is warming up