ITS THE OFFS BABY THE 2023 NBA PLAYOFFS

that 3 might be the dagger

ad's reaction to that was exquisite

unbelievable

c’mon now he clean blocked jokic straight up in the post in this very game…
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, May 16, 2023 10:29 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

brother, I have 31

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the nuggets played around too much that quarter but the lakers did go like 7/8 from middy

jokic is scoring points not hugely surprising but i don’t think anthony davis is scared to guard him in the post lol

oh my god man alright lol

stuff is just goin in no matter what huh

jamal is having a truly atrocious game

game not over. nuggets should not fuck around

Lakers kind of withstanding the Nuggets' best punch, don't think they're winning this game but it's good news for them in the series at least

jokers gotta bring it home here

how is this 8 points yikes

i wish jok wouldn’t flop like that he doesn’t need to do it

cmon that was a perfect flop

he had one earlier too

I’m sick watching this half

one problem for the lakers here is you definitely want to win when anthony davis plays good

awful decision by murray getting thirsty when he knocked schroeder down and got a correct no-call

lebron leaving two points at the FT line & joker’s end of quarter three pointer looming very large here

Oh no

wow what is going on here

jokic needs to score

why does jamal murray keep getting matched up with lebron

rui on Jokic and brow roaming to help is smart. Jokic has to figure that one out

jamal is gassed like he always is and isn’t rotating. and for some reason the nuggets are switching everything

jok’s been completely out of sorts this quarter

Jvg otm

some of the reffing in this game has been completely atrocious

murray begging gordon to switch back and gordon's like no you're good

oh wow that layup not rolling in was huge

it feels like ham threw a curve ball at jokic putting rui on him basically goading him into the post where AD is helping. it doesn’t feel sustainable to me but it does have jokic second guessing himself

murray is literally walking around out there

guh that lebron 3

murray is basically dead

hey Kevin if it helps this is exactly what half of Bucks playoff games feel like

it feels like ham threw a curve ball at jokic putting rui on him basically goading him into the post where AD is helping. it doesn’t feel sustainable to me but it does have jokic second guessing himself

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, May 16, 2023 11:14 PM (forty-three seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lakers are using a similar strategy to what Boston has done against Jokic:

Put a secondary big on him (Boston uses Grant a lot or Horford when it's him and Rob) and let the shot-blocker roam and help (Horford or Rob).

LA has Hachimura up into Jokic, while AD is roaming.

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) May 17, 2023

if ad is just going to hang out in the paint waiting for jokic the nuggs have to punish it by finding the open 3

it’s the right strategy for sure. but jok will solve it

wonder if Wembanyama will be choking away games down the stretch like this in 20 years

if ad is just going to hang out in the paint waiting for jokic the nuggs have to punish it by finding the open 3

― lag∞n, Tuesday, May 16, 2023 11:17 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

he found a bunch of them to kcp but those were bricks. this is solvable but they're lucky to escape this game.

lebron leaving two points at the FT line & joker’s end of quarter three pointer looming very large here

crazy game good stuff

silver lining of this game is that the lakers were forced to show their hand a little earlier than they probably would have liked. we’ll see if malone is up to the challenge

Lakers feel like the New England Patriots right now, you don't really wanna see 'em win but every game they play in is so insane you don't mind when they do

some of the spacing on those denver possessions was horrible at the end. gordon was just sitting in the dunker’s spot which let AD hang right at the rim. murray wasn’t moving at all.

yeah a ton of people were pointing this out but if they’re going to use AD as a rover you can’t have gordon hanging out under the basket

the lakers seem good enough to put some strain on denver’s line ups. malone will prob have to make some offense/defense decisions in this series and he didn’t seem prepared do that tinkering tonight, not really a surprise given they’ve played two unserious series so far. JVG was correctly calling out that he should have been subbing brown in for murray on defense… he made the decision to leave gordon in to compensate but that was also gumming up their offense. all of it is solvable assuming malone is up to the task but it’s stuff denver just hasn’t had to even think about so far

i gotta say ham seems like a pretty good coach. putting murray in the PNR and flaring out the screener was a nice move