ITS THE OFFS BABY THE 2023 NBA PLAYOFFS

mazzulla is either like getting fired next year or is going to be the next spoelstra, jury's out

jokic is playing with his food in the first quarter

44 points in a quarter, that's a lot

did not know that

The NBA has a rule about the ball going behind the backboard:
Any ball that rebounds or passes directly behind the backboard, in any direction, or enters the cylinder from below is considered out-of-bounds.
Now, we have to argue the definition of “directly” pic.twitter.com/lcOJ6hjI1i

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) May 12, 2023

Ah, well, nevertheless.

that rule is worded so weird, it seems like the ball touching a player or a physical object should be the determinant for out of bounds

didnt look like that one went behind it maybe a tiny bit at the end idk, passing over the stanchion does seems kind of weird tho

obvs its not just being generally in back of the line of the basket is out cause then whole baseline area would be out

it does seem weird but that's probably just cause there's no reason to do it usually.

well this is going well

i never thought the suns had a chance in this series

maybe if chris paul hadn't hurt his leg or groin or elbow or hip or whatever it was this spring

feel like denver might have something with this jokic guy

second straight year the suns aren’t gonna show up to an elimination game

Jokic has made more 2-pointers than the entire Phoenix team.

— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) May 12, 2023

new zelda comes out tomorrow xp

kevin durant field goals for phoenix: 2
kevin durant field goals for denver: 1

not what youd like to see if youre phoenix

is 81 points good for the first half

its considered good

I wonder if nikola jokic will ever show up for the playoffs, or if teams will just play him off the floor by relentlessly putting him in pick and rolls?

its one of those questions that you can never know the answer to

do you guys think the best player in the playoffs is devin booker…or jimmy butler?

sorry taking a breather now just emptying the drafts for a minute

lol

Suns going out sad man woof

I mean the suns only had 4 playable players and are down 2 of them but this KD postseason and last postseason is not promising. And you have to think they’d def be ina better position right now w their old roster. They have their work cut out in the off-season

Phoenix Suns-et

new activist owner too, gotta think some big changes a comin

theres not much they can do theyre kinda fucked

they should trade kd

maybe hell demand one

they're gonna have to sell low on ayton but they may be able to talk some young whippersnapper team into him, maybe recoup some depth? new coach probably. but yeah theyre pretty fucked.

wonder if kd has one more trade demand in him, what a weird career

love to move around sinking franchises while being one of the all time greats

Disgusting KD game here

Step 1 fire Monty you can’t get embarrassed like this twice with two different rosters

They might be better off just keeping their top 4 and seeing if a coach can help draw more out of Ayton

They wasted an insane cam Payne game lol

truly enjoy when k3vin starts running amok

some great stuff from tatum at the end again but the sixers didn’t look prepared in that game to me. it’s almost like boston lulled them to sleep by playing such horrible pick and roll defense in game 5 that philly didn’t seem to think they’d have to do anything differently in this game. but that harden-embiid PNR was getting gummed up the whole second half, especially at the end. the sixers didn’t seem to have any other ideas for how to get good shots. not great stuff from doc

also thought the sixers rotation felt noticeably a player short. for all the stuff ppl say tucker brings to the table his minutes often get cut in game 6/7s because ultimately you need a guy who can make a shot. but then melton was even worse. combined with tobias harris they had too much bad shooting out there. i felt like this was their issue last year & we’ll see how they shoot in game 7 but i’m not sure it’s been remedied. i didn’t even think harden played all that bad (except for the very end) but he was throwing a lot of passes to guys who couldn’t do shit with the ball. tho one thing i will say about harden is that he’s really a PG now at this age and that REALLY felt like an offense being run with no PG on the floor

Felt a little like they were one pass short on offense, but they still had plenty of open looks. I didn't feel like they got run off the 3pt line or anything, they just missed shots.

They were the best 3pt shooting team in the league this season and they had a bad game. It's going to be something on Sunday. I'm driving back from my parents in the early afternoon so I hope the game is later in the day.

Wild stat: Per @nbastats, the Suns shot 9-of-49 (18%) on corner 3s during the Denver series.

— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) May 12, 2023

i still cant believe people believed in that team

once KD got injured it was all about building for next season.

here's a fun stat I bet the over at 226 points and went to bed at half when it was 81-51 only to wake up and find it somehow landed at exactly 225

ouch

i still cant believe people believed in that team

― Spottie, Friday, May 12, 2023 4:34 PM (two minutes ago)

it's really crazy ppl just thought the suns could throw out all rules of playoff basketball including one of the main ones "you have to have more than 2 good players on your roster"

i still cant believe people believed in that team

― Spottie, Friday, May 12, 2023 3:34 PM (fifty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

did anyone here think they were going far, once the afterglow of the trade wore off? seems like something Vegas and ESPN pundits would overreact to but not the true hoops dorks here. I do recall a lot of "hmmm maybe if KD stays healthy" but that depends on CP3 also being healthy and Ayton being a different person with the same body

ilh was fine about it but the media shows way too much reverence for kd.

there was smart basketball ppl in the media who thought this made them the west favorites by default, it wasn't just the first take types. i think to some degree it's front office brain trickling down thru media members who have lots of like assistant GM sources or w/e. the idea that you have to ruthlessly find stars at any cost and just see where the chips fall feels a tad more justifiable to me if you're actually involved in team building, whereas as an analyst it would be fair (and correct) to say "but actually that team only has 2 good players on it"