ITS THE OFFS BABY THE 2023 NBA PLAYOFFS

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

are the suns better without CP on the floor?

it's a ridiculous way to run an offense but at least KD is getting enough touches

"We want nice tweet in morning." pic.twitter.com/uFwfmHKXnH

— Dee Phunk (@DeePhunk) May 8, 2023

i cannot agree on "Go Suns" sorry. not until the nuggets win the nba playoffs

are the suns better without CP on the floor?

we are learning tho

Joe Mazzulla on no timeout: “It’s something we talked about all year. I trust my guys to make the right play.”

Still said with 14 seconds left you definitely want to get “as many chances as you can.” Said he would learn from that.

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) May 8, 2023

love to learn from that

the nba playoffs are a journey

just thinking about that game yesterday and i dont understand how horford is still this good on defense. he was in embiids head... he'll be 37 in a few weeks, 5 blocks 2 steals yesterday

yeah its crazy

he also had by far his best 3pt shooting season this year

yeah hes always shot them well in the offs though he's like 41% career

i cannot agree on "Go Suns" sorry.

How about "Suns must go!"

hard to overstate what a nightmare philly fans avoided yesterday in what should have been a back breaking home loss in which all of the blame would have had to fall on embiid

yeah that was a huge win, it was looking like another late game embiid tired collapse. harden really saved the day.

just over here comparing jokic and embiid’s playoff performances so far…doing the judge judy laptop meme

Philly didn't even look like they were running offensive plays in the 4th quarter, so many possessions had both Embiid and Harden right next to each other beyond the arc with 5 seconds left on the shot clock, resulting in a double covered Harden having to make something happen

next time the celtics should consider playing good in the first three quarters

Per 100 possessions, the Knicks are generating ~60 closeout situations against Miami, which would have been No. 1 during the regular season.

New York is also producing 0.88 points-per-closeout - 0.72 against man-to-man - which would have been No. 30 during the regular season.

— Couper Moorhead (@CoupNBA) May 8, 2023