ITS THE OFFS BABY THE 2023 NBA PLAYOFFS

jokic has some of the silliest and-1s

if you’ve watched a lot of nuggets this year the inability for anyone other than murray to enter the ball to jokic has been an ongoing storyline…so that tough 25 foot entry from KCP of all people was fuckin sweet

that was some Magic Johnson shit

watching some rich motherfucker clean up her own mess courtside is one of life’s small pleasures

4 on KD oh no

denver’s defense is on a string right now. let’s go

CP3 watching that 3 cut the lead to 17 and thinking "damn could be me out there"

grant hill “I’ve been watching KD 15 years, I’ve never seen him trip over his own ankles before”

KD rather famously was recently out with an injury after having done just this

god i was actually kinda happy about getting in bed early but then booker & KD had to hit two impossible contested fadeaway end of clock jumpers

jock landale turnaround hook shot attempt to start the corner

I think you can go to bed

thank you bruce & jamal

ayton is not good….

phoenix defense has been absolutely pitiful

that 5-4 pick and roll alley-oop jokic and gordon just ran

monty needs to get these guys out and regroup for game 6

well…as fantastic as he’s been, the talk the past few days about booker being the best player in this series…well let’s just say it reminds me of another conversation we’ve had recently

it took booker shooting like 80% on high volume for those convos to even happen.

highlight of the game

Two Ishes on the court. Very rare.

— Adam Mares (@Adam_Mares) May 10, 2023

All the 76ers have to do to get an open shot is run a Harden/Embiid pick and roll on the left side. Celtics are ICING it so that allows Harden to go left and Embiid to roll into open space. Celtics haven't changed the coverage much at all this series. pic.twitter.com/kdVsGrHl0L

— Half Court Hoops (@HalfCourtHoops) May 10, 2023

i guess part of it is that robert williams should be playing like 8 mpg in this series, lanky bouncy centers just have zero hope against embiid & you can’t be playing drop coverage so hard that you give him practice jumpers like this in the third quarter of a 2-2 series. but the effort overall is just completely abysmal — round 2 last year embiid was having to fight off bam with a 2x4 just to catch an entry pass at the foul line

icing is where the guard defender forces the ball handler away from the screen while the big defender drops

I must have been high on that Sixers victory, because I had a dream last night that I was Tyrese Maxey and I was playing in a Finals Game 7. The weird part was the game was taking place in the Electronics Department of the K-Mart I worked in from 1992-1994. The baskets were at the two registers at the front of the Department and there were customers milling about that I was having to avoid and provide service to at the same time. We won the game and the feeling of camaraderie and joy and accomplishment in the dream hanging out with my teammates postgame was so palpable and incredible - I had won a championship! Just an amazing dream, I highly recommend it.

the same player is leading all players in points, rebounds, and assists in the second round. any guesses?

xp nicely done

if you didn't say assists I'd think that was a trick question

it’s really funny to me that whether your game is being reffed by scott foster is headline news on the morning of every playoff game. i will actually have a more relaxed day today

No Scott Foster tonight. Referees for tonight’s Heat-Knicks: John Goble (#10),
Eric Lewis (#42),
Karl Lane (#77).

— Ira Winderman (@IraHeatBeat) May 10, 2023

wonder if julius randle will show up today!

I must have been high on that Sixers victory, because I had a dream last night that I was Tyrese Maxey and I was playing in a Finals Game 7. The weird part was the game was taking place in the Electronics Department of the K-Mart I worked in from 1992-1994. The baskets were at the two registers at the front of the Department and there were customers milling about that I was having to avoid and provide service to at the same time. We won the game and the feeling of camaraderie and joy and accomplishment in the dream hanging out with my teammates postgame was so palpable and incredible - I had won a championship! Just an amazing dream, I highly recommend it.

― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Wednesday, May 10, 2023 4:10 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

would watch

lmao beautiful

wonder how confident 76ers fans are really feeling right now, given Doc Rivers' history in situations like this. I feel like Harden has one more 2-for-23 type performance in him

my favorite part is that you were providing service to the customers - picturing like some sweet moves where you point someone towards the Discmen as you spin toward the basket

xp

oh sixers fans absolutely will be shitting their pants for the next 48 hours but that's just the playoffs baby gotta ride the waves

i was thinking this morning about my mental state the day of lebron's 45-15 game 6 in 2012 w/ the entire heatles enterprise on the brink of destruction... i was not well that afternoon

I just want to see the Sixers represent themselves and play well. No losses because Embiid gets injured or they just come out weird like Game 2.

My head tells me Boston has another good game in them. My heart is just jacked and I’m trying to tamp down the excitement and enjoy the ride.

tatum put up 46-9-4 down 3-2 in a road game 6 vs milwaukee last year after they lost game 5 at home but this boston team does not feel the same, to me, even tho they're even more talented. still a series can turn on a dime when a team has a player capable of putting up a game like that. butler did it to the celtics in the exact same situation one round later.

Curious to find out who will be Boston's coach next year

Through games on May 9, which players have done the most (or least) with their minutes during the 2023 NBA postseason, per TPA? pic.twitter.com/gzENQGUJoy

— NBA Math (@NBA_Math) May 10, 2023

jokic and booker doin stuff

the game last night hurt. i felt like i wasn't watching the celtics. amazing that payton pritchard was brought on as an x-factor, did not touch the ball, and left the court 5 minutes later

lol ayton and dillon hanging out at the bottom

Knicks still going right at the Heat's best defenders. Randle has posted up both Bam and Butler. On that last possession, Brunson had Vincent on him and Barrett, guarded by Butler, came over to set the screen, which brought Butler into the action.

— Fred Katz (@FredKatz) May 10, 2023

need to get the knicks a copy of the art of war

taking the path of most resistance

thibs the worst challenge of all time????

gotta save yr guy josh from getting three fouls in the 1st quarter

yeah if they took him off the floor they would maybe have to put in someone who can shoot

raggedy ass game

watching this game thinking about is rj barrett consensus 3rd pick in the 2019 nba draft better than the 4th pick widely considered to be a reach deandre hunter, idk theyre both kinda bad