ITS THE OFFS BABY THE 2023 NBA PLAYOFFS

grayson had an open 15footer but he dribbled out the clock instead

meanwhile… [whispering very softly] steph curry

buds gonna really throw some stuff he owns at a wall real hard tonight huh

I thought nothing could be worse than the Raps series they blew 3 years ago but these last two games have just felt like daggers

how the fuck does this team consistently blow double digit leads in the 4th during the playoffs. its unreal

oh well goodnight

sorry froggy

WHAT the fuck happened there can someone explain it to me??? Does anybody know???

there is some sort of brain lock with this bucks team. even a few possessions prior, the heat were up 4 with like 30 seconds left and middleton just cuts off the possession to chuck up a 3 pointer with like 17 seconds left on the shot clock. there rebound fell right in giannis’ lap and he got the bucket but it was still just like the wires just instantly short circuiting

btw Bucks were -1200 to win the series, 4th biggest series upset in history and it's right at the end of your championship window. some heads gotta roll over this

condolences frogs and eephus sucks man whatre u gonna do

not calling timeout immediately after the rebound was defensible because giannis had it with a head of steam, but as soon as he…picked up his dribble, did a 180 jump, and passed backwards ??? …that was probably a good time to burn one

yuuup

yeah I think people often refer to a team as shook when they do weird things down the stretch but Milwaukee really did look absolutely terrified those last 3 minutes and all of OT. just utterly careless with the ball, Giannis bricking free throws left and right, Bud apparently forgetting he was even in the arena, and even then it took two insane low % shots for Miami to force OT. i'm just in utter shock right now.

bud out, nurse in, calling it now

ah yeah could be

alternative medicine/mainstream healthcare

mad respect to jrue holiday always but jimmy was showing him up like crazy during that comeback and in OT and i’m not sure jrue even took a shot? i certainly don’t remember him making one

i’m thinking back now to the bucks-nets series two years ago where the bucks did similar shit at the end of game 6 but jrue was able to bail them out

Just sucks so much, on paper this is an easy series but instead I got to watch every single thing I was worried about actually happen in real time. Giannis injury? Check. Heat having their best 3 point games of the season? Check. Blowing huge leads in the 4th? Yep, they did it twice (Bucks were over 95% win probability late in both). Giannis bricking free throws down the stretch? Holy shit yeah. In some ways I’m actually relieved I don’t have to watch this team anymore.

is this the first playin team to make the second round

In the 4th Quarter and Overtime, the Heat made 11 shots in the paint. The Bucks made just three.

Miami also took more threes in that stretch.

— Couper Moorhead (@CoupNBA) April 27, 2023

i think i saw that at one point the bucks were 3-21 in the fourth?

7 and 8 seeds have won before but not since the play in no

the real excitement will be when a 9 or 10 seed makes the 2nd round

Bucks are the 10th team to lose a playoff game after heading into the 4th with a 15-point lead.

They're the first team to lose after a 15-point lead after 3 in a win-or-go game.

— Keerthika Uthayakumar (@keerthikau) April 27, 2023

spo saying they were going to run end of reg play for someone else, guessing it mustve been bam, but jimmy demanded it be for him

wow
also lol
also congrats j0rd

go dubs

i’m thinking back now to the bucks-nets series two years ago where the bucks did similar shit at the end of game 6 but jrue was able to bail them out

― J0rdan S., Thursday, April 27, 2023 12:49 AM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I would like to give our poor pal frogs some time to grieve but there will be a lot of people this summer who take a closer look at the giannis-era bucks playoff resume and come away with some revised conclusions

draymond first time scoring more than 20 since christmas 2019 lol. everyone played well for the dubs. looney another wild stat line 4/22/7

i gotta go watch this heat bucks game now

well k3v you can’t take back a title. and they did everything you would want a champ to do in that suns series incl giannis putting up 50-14 in the close out game. people still talk about how close the nets were to winning that series, it’s not exactly a forgotten part of history

but i do think this isn’t going to age well for bud bcuz nobody associates him w/ any tactical genius during their title run. we’ll just remember that they had a superhuman on their team & the coach kinda froze up for some reason in the playoffs

kevin love put up 15-12 tonight on 5-11 from three. very bizarre the cavs just cut him i feel like we never got a full explanation there. they literally had 4 good players

giannis put up 38-20 and it felt like a C+ kinda game from him

Giannis Antetokounmpo: "They were playing to beat us and we were playing to win a championship....We were a little bit ahead of ourselves, to be honest."

— Eric Nehm (@eric_nehm) April 27, 2023

Giannis Antetokounmpo was asked if he wanted to guard Jimmy Butler more in the Bucks series loss to the Heat:

"Yes. Out of respect, you gotta let the coach make that adjustment. We have our best defender on him. There are conversations with Jrue. Whenever he gets tired, I can…

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) April 27, 2023

man jimmy got me hyped talking trash relentlessly to the best perimeter defender in the league. incredible performance. insane that this is the same team that lost to the hawks in the first play in game a couple weeks ago.

We have just witnessed the fourth biggest series upset in NBA history since odds have been tracked to 1988.

1994: Nuggets def. Sonics (-2000)
2007: Warriors def. Mavs (-1800)
2012: 76ers def. Bulls (-1400)

and now...

2023: Heat def. Bucks (-1200)

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) April 27, 2023

i'll never forget that nuggets sonics series or that dubs mavs series

i have zero memories of sixers bulls 2012 lol

https://hoopshabit.com/files/2014/04/02_Nuggets_SuperSonics.jpg

burned into my brain for 30 years

that was awesome for sure. we believe dubs prob the most hyped ive ever been for a sporting event.

the bulls series is the OG derrick rose injury iirc

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— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) April 27, 2023

happy for miami

Holy crap I picked a hell of a night to pass out on my kid’s floor while putting her to bed

Lol I passed out with my kids too.

Really wish the hawks would’ve matched up with the bucks

I'm sure the Bucks do, too

something that stood out to me this whole series was despite the heat running out a bunch of poor defenders and the bucks having multiple players who can iso they didnt really capitalise on it

if duncan robinson or love are on the floor you should attack them every time but it just didnt happen

its tough cause outside of giannis the bucks dont have guys who are necessarily worthy of breaking the offensive flow to set up an iso, middleton has at times in the past been that guy but he clearly wasnt at peak powers this series

btw worth mentioning the Bucks got the #1 seed despite Middleton missing like 50 games and Giannis missing 19, they finally got to full strength by the playoffs and faced a Heat team that was ravaged by injury and still somehow lost. the Heat had 3 players foul out by overtime! idk I know shit happens in the NBA but this is the most inexcusable series loss I've ever seen, if heads don't roll over this the Bucks are just not a serious organization