ITS THE OFFS BABY THE 2023 NBA PLAYOFFS

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

james and steph will tend to cancel one another out, so the series will be decided by players down the rosters. imo that should favor the dubs, if wiggins and klay can deliver good games. poole's been unreliable af.

Steph told them to “Light the Beam” 😳🔥 pic.twitter.com/DgZBtcliDF

— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) April 30, 2023

im sorry thats rude

hadn't really put this together but after dumping russ and pat bev, the lakers are actually a young-ish team? lebron is the only player on the entire roster in his 30s!

yeah but ad is spiritually 45

lol true

bucks
celtics
sixers
knicks

nuggets
lakers
kings
suns

bucks
sixers

kings
suns

― symsymsym, Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:34 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

6 of 8, plz pay no attention to any picks after the first round

impossible to know what will happen that far in the future anyway

Ok but for real… Looney in this series was something else.

nba big men often bloom late. looney's arrived as a role player holla fame guy.

hollinger on parity

You want evidence of competitive balance? Well, we didn’t have a 60-win team this year for the second time in three years (pro-rating for shortened seasons) … something that only happened one time in the previous 40. It was “1 vs. 8,” yes, but only 14 wins separated Milwaukee from Miami, and just eight kept the Lakers from Memphis.

Even winning 55 games is an increasingly rare feat: Only two teams did it each of the last two years, and just three made it in 2018-19. In 2012-13 and 2014-2015, we had six.

How about this: only six teams this season had a point differential of greater than plus-3.0 per game, itself a pretty modest sign of dominance and/or legitimate contender status. Already three of them have been eliminated from the playoffs. If you’re looking for that indicator to hold, Denver, Philadelphia and Boston are your only teams left of the eight that made the conference semis.

not moving like someone whos going to play basketball today

Joel Embiid did some light shooting before this morning’s shootaround. pic.twitter.com/5x365f948m

— Keith Pompey (@PompeyOnSixers) May 1, 2023

Isn’t that just his normal movement

shooting before shootaround

pre-boarding

i guess you never say never but it’s been a week of them being pretty open about him not playing tonight

honestly wonder if they look better in this match up w/o him out there……

I think Maxey is a huge factor. If they get the Maxey of the first round, Sixers have a shot. If they get the Maxey who has underperformed against the Celtics in the past, it might be a quick series (especially if Embiid misses a couple games).