ITS THE OFFS BABY THE 2023 NBA PLAYOFFS

the warriors in big games are so fun to watch

the fts are beyond explanation

well there you go Klay

big hill 2 climb 4 the kings here

FTs killing me

sabonis is getting his ass kicked down there my god

this is a jimmy butler on jrue holiday level performance from looney on sabonis in the discipline of offensive rebounding

also looney is sagging well into the paint when sabonis has the ball and he has no offense to go to

it feels like the combo of the warriors offensive rebounding and that 4 point play from klay at the end of the quarter broke the crowd’s spirit & then shortly thereafter the kings’ spirit too

20 for Loon again.

Omfg.

after all this somehow people still need to be reminded to put respect on steph’s name

lmao as soon as he launched it I was like "of course that's fucking going in"

vintage steph game. as good as it gets

Wardelllll

welp looks like the beam will shine no more rip beam

45 for steph thats vintage baby

confession time: i turn off every basketball game when one team reaches 100 points and assume that they have won

thats one way to do it

the beam is good i'm glad we got to know it this year

no shame goin down to the champs in 7

too bad they had to draw them tbh

sucks to see such a great shooting team go 1-15 from deep 2nd half of a game 7

saddened

He's shooting 60% from the free throw line maybe Kings should try Hack A Steph.

i wanna see steph get 50 here

same

Per @StatsWilliams, three players have ever had at least 10 offensive and 10 defensive rebounds in a Game 7:

Patrick Ewing, Charles Barkley and Kevon Looney.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) April 30, 2023

there it is

kerr left him in to get 50… stars: they’re just like us

most points ever in a game 7

congrats dubs!

this game was obv about steph and he was probably gonna do it no matter what. but i'm perplexed why mike brown gave davion mitchell's minutes to terence davis

Cos it worked in game 6

They needed to trap him earlier is the problem

so this week we saw two 50 point performances that were an overall top 5 highest scoring game in playoff history and the most points ever scored in game 7 history respectively

been that kind of season

is this the first warriors lakers series in this era?

brown’s problem w/ the guard rotation was that the kings also weren’t very good on offense and mitchell isn’t playable if that’s an issue for you. davis also wasn’t playable in that game, but one of them needed to play bcuz huerter also didn’t show up

this seems not great

Related: The combined .590 regular-season winning percentage of the eight teams in the conference semifinals is the lowest since the playoffs expanded to 16 teams in 1984. The previous low was .617 in 2007.

— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) April 30, 2023

or maybe it is great

wilbon and sas talking like theyre introducing some huge new idea that steph is one of the greatest who ever did it lol everyone knows that

think its fine to happen once in a while. if stars are missing enough of the regular season that a bunch of teams are underseeded though then thats bad for various reasons

I've watched dame having great games for his entire career, but steph is just pure distilled magic.

if Steph makes another title run where he puts up backbreaking 40+ point performances every series where do you rank him all time? like 3?

ya maybe doubt its gonna happen dubs seemed very much in on fumes mode all year and this series but he might deserve to be there anyway

also weird stuff like having a team that blew it up at the trade deadline due to bad vibes rather than bad record. its the causes of weird seeding that are bad for the league, not the effects

i'd say steph's the best 'pure' guard ever. jordan was more of a guard/small forward combo. harder to compare goats across positions.

who knows I mean a lot of great regular season teams have been eliminated already, seems like a year where some team who wasn't given a chance rises from the grave

either the Warriors or the Lakers will be in the WCF

lakers got better at the deadline too

could be true

I think the obvious truth here is that LeBron and Steph Curry have been playing against each other through many lifetimes and are destined to meet over and over until the end of time

— Zito (@_Zeets) April 30, 2023