ITS THE OFFS BABY THE 2023 NBA PLAYOFFS

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

game*

Joe Mazzulla on the final possession: “We just had to play with a little more pace there.”

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) May 7, 2023

quietly insane gabe, i know that guy

idk i don't think it requires a timeout to remind your all-star players to maybe run their offense before 0:04

that's more on tatum because he thought he could create his own shot, and was wrong

idk i don't think it requires a timeout to remind your all-star players to maybe run their offense before 0:04

you're talking hypothetically here but we quite very literally saw that, in actuality, a time out was required to get jayson tatum to start the offense prior to 4 seconds, as jayson tatum had the ball and didn't start the offense prior to 4 seconds

i think we all understand the logic behind not calling a time out in a missed shot scramble type situation where there is an ability to gain an advantage in the chaos and randomness that you wouldn't be able to get if the play was fully reset. but i'd be curious to hear mazzulla's philosophy as to what advantage he thinks his team gains by not calling a time out off a made basket when the defense is already set. is he worried about successfully inbounding the ball? does he just think his called plays aren't very good? does he think the celtics can't execute his plays and so everyone's just better off w/ the randomness? i don't understand on a base level what he thinks they're getting out of playing that way

it's also worth stating again that it's not even so much that he didn't call one timeout, but that he had two timeouts in a situation where his team was down 1 w/ more than enough time to get two possessions

from when harden hit the 3 w/ 16 seconds left to go up 1, the game should've played out in only one of four ways for boston

a. boston calls a time out, scores, plays defense, sixers don't score, boston wins
b. boston calls a time out, scores, plays defense, sixers don't score, sixers foul, boston wins
b. boston calls a time out, doesn't score, the sixers make two free throws, boston calls its second time out to get off a game tying 3
c. boston calls a time out, doesn't score, the sixers miss a free throw, boston calls its second time out and gets an attempt to either win or tie

instead they ended up w/ option e, which was get zero opportunities to win the game bcuz your team ran the clock out before shooting. i'm sorry but it was a complete coaching apocalypse, truly could not have been handled any worse

and to make matters even worse, philly “stole home court” in game 1 which means they can’t win this series simply by winning their remaining home games. or wait hold on a sec…..

jordan u are truly deranged my friend

100% otm about the timeout tho, inexcusable

Nuggets HC Michael Malone on the technical foul on Joker and interaction with Suns owner Matt Ishbia.
He referred to him as “some fan” and when asked if it matters that he’s the team’s owner, Malone says “I really don’t give a shit!” @KOAColorado #MileHighBasketball pic.twitter.com/Rz3deEw9uo

— Brandon Krisztal (@BKDenverSports) May 8, 2023

based malone

instead they ended up w/ option e, which was get zero opportunities to win the game bcuz your team ran the clock out before shooting. i'm sorry but it was a complete coaching apocalypse, truly could not have been handled any worse

― J0rdan S., Sunday, May 7, 2023 11:51 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

it happens :)

idk i don't think it requires a timeout to remind your all-star players to maybe run their offense before 0:04

that's more on tatum because he thought he could create his own shot, and was wrong

― mookieproof, Monday, May 8, 2023 12:09 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

you're talking hypothetically here but we quite very literally saw that, in actuality, a time out was required to get jayson tatum to start the offense prior to 4 seconds, as jayson tatum had the ball and didn't start the offense prior to 4 seconds

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 8, 2023 12:35 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

regardless calling the timeout and advancing the ball is the right thing to do because its faster, when youre behind you want to go fast, thats the basic principal

I have to say I always understood that jeff green was a polarizing player, but having him on your team really crystallizes the experience. his whole career he’s been a role player who’s been thought of as a high-end starter, and now hes a sub-replacement level player who’s thought of as a role player. he has an insane poster dunk about once a week but is otherwise so, so harmful out there. this also gets to one of my pet issues about defense — see also discussions about jokic’s value — which is that rebounding is just so systematically overlooked as a part of defense both by casuals and even big-time talking heads. you just simply can’t be 6 foot 9 and rebound like you’re a foot shorter. the nuggets just get absolutely killed on the glass whenever jokic is sitting

jordan u are truly deranged my friend

both jokic and malone referring to ishbia as “a fan” in the post game was really funny

he has an insane poster dunk about once a week but is otherwise so, so harmful out there.

― k3vin k., Monday, May 8, 2023 10:38 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

the grace notes of the jeff green experience lol

joe smith avatar (agent hibachi) wrote this on thread ARE we having FUN yet? - 2012-2013 NBA regular season thread (part 3) on board I Love Hoops on Mar 28, 2013

JEFF GREEN

moullet wrote this on thread reg season chat 09-10 featuring blake griffins broken kneecap on board I Love Hoops on Jan 18, 2010

JEFF GREEN wow!!!!

ice cr?m wrote this on thread they reminisce over yao -- 2010/2011 regular season second half thread on board I Love Hoops on Feb 24, 2011

JEFF GREEN SUX

ice cr?m wrote this on thread 2011 NBA playoffs thread: no dunking over motor vehicles here on board I Love Hoops on May 13, 2011

jeff green sux

Spottie wrote this on thread basketblolz on board I Love Hoops on Aug 2, 2016

ASSERTIVE JEFF GREEN

lag∞n wrote this on thread 2012 NBA Offseason Speculatin' and Spectatin' on board I Love Hoops on Jul 19, 2012

jeff green money

--bob marley (lag∞n) wrote this on thread 2012 NBA Offseason Speculatin' and Spectatin' on board I Love Hoops on Oct 21, 2012

poor Jeff green

call all destroyer wrote this on thread yeah, i'm talkin dwight / yeah, i'm talkin steve: 2012-2013 NBA regular season thread (part 1) on board I Love Hoops on Nov 8, 2012

jeff green sucks

am0n wrote this on thread 2012-3 NBA Predictions on board I Love Hoops on Oct 30, 2012

jeff green mvp

lag∞n wrote this on thread ARE we having FUN yet? - 2012-2013 NBA regular season thread (part 3) on board I Love Hoops on Mar 19, 2013

Jeff green 41

agreed

Great win for the Suns last night in an amazing series so far!
That should be and is the only story. Suspending or fining anyone over last nights incident would not be right. I have alot of respect for Jokic and don’t want to see anything like that. Excited for game 5! Go Suns!

— Mat Ishbia (@Mishbia15) May 8, 2023

"Go Suns" is a sentiment we can all agree on