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

when your best perimeter player is a 33-yo australian guy maybe that's part of the problem

perimeter defender i mean

Ingles has lost a step for sure. Still solid tho.

That game was honestly a blast to watch. Ty Lue coached the hell out of that series. He pulled all the right triggers and they players responded.

Rudy, on the dfense: "The problem is if I don't come and help, we give up layups. … The gameplan was for us to let Terance Mann shoot rather than letting Reggie Jackson or PG get layups. We tried to adjust with full rotations. They played perfectly on almost every possession."

— Eric Walden (@tribjazz) June 19, 2021

I’m sure that was the game plan, but switch the game plan once randos start dropping 30 points uncontested

i also dispute the root of notion that the clippers played perfect on nearly every possession — i mean they did, but they weren’t doing anything complicated! they were driving into the lane, passing the ball, and then making one pass into the corner where rudy gobert’s man was standing wide open and hitting as little contested a three as you could imagine in the playoffs

yeah you just cant let terance mann drop 39 on you in an elimination game

its not like hes a non shooter he can hit a corner three its not a problem

every time bud puts in thanasis i think "he realizes giannis already re-signed right?"

Harden is flopping so hard, this is gonna be a long night

game 7 baby

Fucking asshole calls out Giannis for having no game then proceeds to act like he got hit by a truck every time someone’s leg brushes against him

already a bunch of atrocious reffing so that’s nice

Brooklyn have been gifted 7 fts already

fascinated by the internal ref assessments that indicate john goble should be working a game 7.

the tech on bruce brown was a completely egregious call in a game 7

it did look like he pushed him over but then he didnt actually maybe a little

he was just trying to prevent him from getting a shot off by keeping his hand on the ball and then giannis fell over

anyway good quarter of ball

Enjoyable 1st quarter but this crew needs to get its shit together.

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) June 20, 2021

brown has been great in this game

blake griffin was blown at least three baskets in this series trying to dunk on people and failing

middleton or holiday making a shot would be good

Holiday and Middleton are a combined 4 of 21. pic.twitter.com/Ep00MklxdM

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) June 20, 2021

combined 4/21 jesus christ

holiday just hit the side of the backboard

This is playing out exactly as I expected

the bucks got into their fourth quarter offense two quarters ahead of time

the crowd counting the seconds during giannis ft attempts is a good bit

yeah gotta respect it

bucks needed that little push at the end

wouldve been better if they had another tenth of a second

the crowd counting the seconds during giannis ft attempts is a good bit

the crowd is counting a little bit fast i think

[Giannis Free Throws]

Refs: "One Mississippi Two Mississippi Three Mississippi..."

Brooklyn Crowd: "ONETWOTHREEFOURSEVENTEN"

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) June 20, 2021

feel like the crowd counting makes it less likely the refs will call it even if warranted

the crowd is getting to 13-14… start the stopwatch on your phone and count to 13 and then check what number you see

if they want to enforce it they shd put it on the shot clock

feel like the crowd counting makes it less likely the refs will call it even if warranted

anyway whether he's making the count or not isn't the entire point they're clearly in his head and he's missing FTs

i think it was javie who said if you're calling that as a ref you want to be really really sure the guy violated so functionally it's probably 12 or 13 seconds anyway

middleton and holiday are both 2 for 11

lmaoo

they’re even counting at halftime pic.twitter.com/rIPeUc3MJu

— James Herbert (@outsidethenba) June 20, 2021

another blatant missed call on the ball going off giannis foot and the bucks get a 3 out of it

great game from giannis so far

otm

kd looks tired

everyone looks pretty gassed

blake has been really good in this game also

nets are getting great role player games tonight. giannis is essentially singlehandedly carrying the bucks