ITS THE OFFS BABY THE 2023 NBA PLAYOFFS

yeah he looked awful out there on d which has not been the case in the past

[bud nodding while reading this]

Jimmy Butler’s shooting %’s against different Bucks defenders:

Jrue Holiday- 57%
Giannis Antetokounmpo- 86%
Khris Middleton- 50%
Brook Lopez- 63%
Wes Matthews- 50%
Bobby Portis- 86%
Jae Crowder- 67%
Grayson Allen- 57%
Ingles/Connaughton- 50%

Dude was giving EVERYONE buckets

— Brady Hawk (@BradyHawk305) April 27, 2023

the donte thing was just financial right? and then ironically they went deep into the tax anyway for this team which is older and has less upside w/its role players

Middleton hasn’t been 100% since the title, maybe getting an off season to heal up and do some conditioning would help

idk why they did it but im sure if they were ducking the tax or whatever they couldve figured something else out xp

lol that tweet jimmy was doing it

They’ve made a lot of baffling decisions. Offering an extension to Bledsoe when it was clear the guy sucked in the playoffs was pretty bad, especially since it prevented them from being able to sign Brogdon. Also weird they didn’t even make an offer to PJ Tucker who was clearly instrumental in their title run.

the donte thing was just financial right? and then ironically they went deep into the tax anyway for this team which is older and has less upside w/its role players

― call all destroyer, Thursday, April 27, 2023 2:27 PM (four minutes ago)

not googling this but if i remember correctly they had concerns about his health & didn't want to give him his next big deal. but i think they traded him when they still had him on a cheap option year. also that trade was initially connected to the aborted illegal trade for bogdanovic, so originally it was like, we're letting donte go but we're getting a better replacement at his position. but when that trade got nixed they still dumped donte anyway. in the bucks defense the kings also walked away from donte & he had to settle for a 1 year deal to rebuild his value. but the whole donte/bojan debacle is the root of the bucks fans' dislike of horst

prevented them from being able to sign Brogdon. Also weird they didn’t even make an offer to PJ Tucker who was clearly instrumental in their title run.

― frogbs, Thursday, April 27, 2023 2:33 PM (fifty-seven seconds ago)

they bet against brogdon's health but did trade him for a first. ppl still do have those concerns about brogdon but they were wrong about that in the end.

agreed on tucker especially bcuz he went to the heat the next year & had a career year. but then the heat turned around and shorted him too so it's not like the bucks were out of their minds

i think they get traffic jams in the first round and have no choice but to have some overlapping games but i can’t imagine the league loved having the no 1 overall seed be eliminated on nba tv at 12:30 am ET

― J0rdan S., Thursday, April 27, 2023 1:31 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

they probably dont expect game 5 of the 1 vs 8 series to be a big deal when they do the scheduling, and they'd be right 99% of the time

i forgot that the bucks made an illegal trade. seems like making an illegal trade might be a sign of a bad gm (well, two bad gms)

picking bledsoe over brogdon is very bad judgement

i think that was a diff GM (the orlando guys?) in fairness

So if you're keeping score, in summer of 2019, Durant joined Nets, Kawhi joined Clippers, Jimmy joined Heat... Since then, Miami has won 6 playoff series; Kawhi (unfortunately, hurt a lot) and Paul George have won 3; Durant won 1 before forcing way out.

— Barry Jackson (@flasportsbuzz) April 27, 2023

oh damn yeah totally forgot about the bogdan thing

picking bledsoe over brogdon is very bad judgement

― lag∞n, Thursday, April 27, 2023 1:51 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this one felt pretty obvious at the time, too

brogdon is such a solid guy and bledsoe as we all know is a coward

i’ll stop posting crazy stat tweets soon but

The Miami Heat performed better this series when Giannis was on the floor than when he was on the bench.

Bam made more jump shots in the fourth quarter and OT than the entire Bucks' team.

That and more from @tomhaberstroh, with his top 13 (!) stats from Heat/Bucks. pic.twitter.com/o9MHook6i6

— Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz (@LeBatardShow) April 27, 2023

something else about the bucks that i keep forgetting is the principal owner sold his stake to.... the family that owns the cleveland browns! what could possibly go wrong

spo coached the perfect series (for the heat...)

lotsa scoring going on in this game.

celtics having rim protection issues ig

Box score says the Celtics have some assists - watching the 2nd quarter not sure I saw much passing just a lot of one on one drives.

theyve been playing this way the entire series and tbf theyve been scoring cause atl is so weak on d but its not the best way to play

and they had great ball movement all year

for the most part

and now john collins is bombing 3s cmon

if celtics lose this i will post bald trae young

celtics have to win so we dont turn into knicks fans

the celtics should be beating this team by a lot but they are not what's going on

celtics have to win so we dont turn into knicks fans

― lag∞n, Thursday, April 27, 2023 8:32 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I already turned into a Knicks fan, once the Bucks are out I root for chaos

the celtics should be beating this team by a lot but they are not what's going on

― Clay, Thursday, April 27, 2023 9:33 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk theyre not that good, i mean theyre good enough but they cant just effortlessly dominate

they should try it out

im not opposed

Hunter has been great these past two

they’re doin it

celtics making us sweat for 44 minutes and then waltzing to a points buffer seems about right

why can you just repeatedly throw the ball at the sideline defender as an inbounder?

lol hawks throwing it off the celtics 3 times in a row then clean out of bounds

i thought that was supposed to be a tech if its deemed intentional

yeah seems like it should be considering it subverts the rule of having a limited amount of time to get the ball in bounds

you should not be allowed to do it twice in a row without some sort of consequence lol

welp cant say i loved this series but the celtics got the job done

cant say theyre particularly looking like a team thats ready to beat the sixers but tomorrow is a new day

are the sixers actually good this time, unlike all the previous times?

i havent really watched them this year

theyre about the same

embiid still seems like a guy you can throw off his game

def but also he can kill you you cant mess around

Still have Embiid and Harden and their particular strengths/flaws, but they might be a little deeper/tougher than the last couple years.