ITS THE OFFS BABY THE 2023 NBA PLAYOFFS

maybe dont leave shamet open idk

unacceptable help defense. sigh

oh my god Laundry Shamet

he's got them in the spin cycle

honestly doesn’t feel like it should be a huge ask for shamet to hit wide open corner threes more than just once in a blue moon

was feeling earlier today that boston and denver kinda had their series in hand but now not so sure

I feel very certain it's a boston-denver finals

they’ve got to ditch the doubles. it’s not working

the way sixers and phx win just seems unsustainable

Suns getting some good production from the bench. Landale thoroughly outplaying Ayton

honestly doesn’t feel like it should be a huge ask for shamet to hit wide open corner threes more than just once in a blue moon

the way sixers and phx win just seems unsustainable

hey if you learned anything from the Bucks/Heat it's that 'unsustainable' can absolutely last a series

Jokic just unreal

i cld see that argument for the suns but philly is just doing philly stuff

i'd probably pick Booker to remain hot over Harden though

i mean haden has had two good games booker is having an alltime series

Nuggs ball

for sure

ridiculously bad call, good try tony

the nuggets play like a very well coached team. do not do stupid mindless shit esp at the end of games

hey if you learned anything from the Bucks/Heat it's that 'unsustainable' can absolutely last a series

this is true

this has been a very goofy game

ah joker rough

that’s on jamal. just fucking standing there

rip the nuggs

jeez man

jokic putting up 51 but only having 10 assists and 4 boards feels like the best option of only bad choices for the opponent, i think

yep. jokic going off is not the game plan

murray just hasn’t had it

seems like the playbook for phoenix is pretty simple now. win game 6 at home and just hope your two superstars are great enough to drag you up the mountain in game 7

if i was denver i think i’d be looking to snuff this one out in 6…

forget the timeouts; mazzula's real failure was as a dj

PHILADELPHIA -- After James Harden had the two worst consecutive shooting games of his entire career in Games 2 and 3 of the Philadelphia 76ers' Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Boston Celtics, coach Doc Rivers decided to remind his star guard of who he is heading into Game 4.

"I sent him a gospel song," Rivers later said with a laugh. "The title of it is, 'You Know My Name?'

"I'm on my way to the game, and I get a text from Doc," Harden later explained with a laugh. "It's a gospel song, and I'm like, 'All right, whatever.' So, I just tell my homies, 'Let's play the song.' It's a 7-minute song, but I let the whole song play.

"I was like, 'All right, there's got to be some kind of good ju-ju in this song, or however he's feeling, I want to feel like that.'

"And I guess it worked."

It certainly did.

oh stop, this core came back from down 3-1 twice in a month the last time they played together, if you’re suggesting they’ll fold

xp

i’m not suggesting they will fold i just wouldn’t want to be in a game 7 vs two guys of that individual scoring ability

MPJ pulling up for a 3 in transition when Suns hadn't stopped Jokic all game was a really bad decision

Ayton pulled down Jokic on the jump ball#Nuggets pic.twitter.com/WdCjhvEHKB

— Tony Clements (@TonyCMKE) May 8, 2023

I didn’t hate the idea of that MPJ shot, he just took too long to get it off

i’ve been thinking recently that the jump ball in those kinda moments feels like an insane mechanism. there’s no quality control at all, you’ve got like a 60 year old guy trying to toss the ball high enough for two 7 footers. do the refs practice jump ball throwing before games while the players are shooting around? someone needs to invent a device that the refs can use to standardize the tossing up

Possession arrows just makes so much more sense

yeah jump ball is a joke

it should be like steal the bacon, ball on the floor at midcourt, teams sprint from baseline

jump ball v much feels like one of those "whatever, we'll figure out a better way later" things when the league was started, and then they never did

It's older than that. Way back there it was a jump ball after every made basket!

lol what

^ By 'way back there' I'm talking hoops stone ages.

thats wild

yeah pre shot clock early ball this sounds familiar

for denver it feels like the obvious adjustment by subtraction is less jeff green. the harder question is what do you do with those minutes. either jok has to go 45 mins or there’s going to be some vlatko cancar or zeke nnaji run

yeah not sure that’s gonna happen… i bet in a game 7 green would barely play tho

Jayson Tatum today: 24 PTS, 18 REB, 6 AST, 4 BLK

He's one of five players in NBA history to reach those marks in a playoff game. The others:

Tim Duncan
Patrick Ewing
Shaquille O'Neal
Hakeem Olajuwon pic.twitter.com/NhrTyMc1ix

— Taylor Snow (@taylorcsnow) May 7, 2023