ITS THE OFFS BABY THE 2023 NBA PLAYOFFS

unreal stuff weve certainly never seen some hit three shots before

he had good game but it wasnt any sort of special performance or whatever

4-8 with a turnover in the 4th

Celtics still have to get past the Heat. Should be a good series.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, May 14, 2023 3:12 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol that is a good placebo anyway thank u aimless

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, May 14, 2023 3:13 PM (five days ago)

I stand by my post, even though the Celtics aren't really staying in this series, yet.

celtics twitter is turning on mazzulla, i will pray for him

Celtics could definitely come back but idk the Heat don't look like a fluke anymore

losing the first two games at home is generally not the recipe for winning a series

hate to say it but I don't know if Mazulla is built for this

I turned this off when the Celtics were up 11 and it was kinda boring and I turned it back on and rewound it when I saw the final score and as soon as Williams was jawing at butler I was like “oh now I know what happened”

Heat outscored them 20-9 from that point on.

uh yeah if you were just checking the TV every 15 minutes then this game had at least 4 "wait a second what happened here" moments

Trailing by double-digits in the 4th quarter in these playoffs...

Heat: 3-2
Everybody else: 1-53

— John Schuhmann (@johnschuhmann) May 20, 2023

bam w/ 22-17-9 tonight

21-12-7 average the last two games on 53% shooting with 14 assists to 4 TO and a +32 total. the heat die when he sits

if Jimmy wins the ring this year it's gotta count as like 4 rings. no disrespect to the rest of the Heat but it's not just him being the best player it's him singlehandedly bringing them back when they're down 8 with 4:00 to play

Box score says Brown was -24 tonight. He was +3 in G1. Horford and Smart were negative in both games. Miami doing some voodoo shit - maybe the Cs unfog their brains in G3 and get back to winning. Bam and Jimmy are amazing but a team giving 10+ minutes to KLove, Zeller and Lowry in 2023 shouldn’t be be up 2-0.

horford hasn’t been himself in this series. 4-13 from the field, 1-8 from three so far and he got to a point pretty early in this game where he just stopped shooting

rob williams was the much better player tonight but they went w/ horford at center for the final 5-6 mins if memory serves

smart felt pretty invisible too. can’t remember him making a play on either end of the floor

horford is old and is losing his legs as they get deeper into the playoffs. happened last year too.

yikes. no FGs for tatum in the 4th quarter of this series yet

Wonder if Tatum is getting the yips or something he keeps losing control of the ball in crunch time and he won’t shoot

watched a Mazzulla press conference for the first time, he's an odd fellow

joe “don knotts” mazzulla

He's also got an assault allegation in his past, no?

tatum definitely had some brain lock happening in game 1 at the end, he had those three TO in a row while being guarded by strus. but i think that was him just having no rhythm and then trying to save the day. everything kinda came out all jumbled.

he did have 3 assists in the fourth last night so i think the idea that he just did nothing is a bit overblown. he missed some three pointers. he also put up 34-13-8 in a game where no other celtic had more than 16 points. i get the impulse to say what the TNT guys said which is “that’s not enough” given he didn’t make a shot in the 4th, but look at the heat. butler had the hero shots but robinson had like 8 points in the 4th, martin & vincent hit huge shots, bam was a beast etc. boston essentially had grant williams as the sole positive contributor around tatum.

i think w/ tatum, and idk if this is coaching or him, he needs to figure out his “spots” in those moments and how to get to them consistently. they will give him the ball in high screens and we also know he likes taking step back threes in those moments. that stuff does work for him but i.e. the heat do lots of off ball stuff with butler to get him the ball in different areas, or when he is iso-ing at the end he’s typically been getting two feet in the paint and shooting from there or passing to an open three. he has been getting to the baseline a lot in those moments as well to a bit more mixed results. i’d like to see tatum get to the point where he can really slow the game down, get to some points on the floor that feel like his office & then go to work from there. less randomness. prob just comes with time.

Late in the 4th Jimmy went to the exact same spot just to right of the basket in the paint over and over again it felt like.

the fix will be in tonight if it ever is

scott foster lead reffing tonight

wild

That’s the most points by any player over a two-quarter span in the last 25 postseasons, per @ESPNStatsInfo. https://t.co/SfXyzlwFIv

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) May 21, 2023

lebron’s shot is so off in this series it’s crazy. he’s shooting threes from the top of the key off the side of the rim

i will never get over that the lakers, the crown jewel of the nba's many glamorous franchises, has played in crypto.com arena for like 2 whole years

incredible half from jamal, but hes got to find a wide open porter for that last shot

hard to blame him for hero balling late in the second quarter after he started out 11 for 13. still, he finished the half 13 for 20, so somebody else has to touch the ball from time to time

scott foster bro lol

I guess the plan will be to just have jokic play the whole 4th. just have to tread water till then

this should be a fun 4th quarter. bron is gonna have to play at max energy & maybe can shoot now

foster doesn't let a busted lip from lebron stop him from doing what he's best at (making sure the lakers extend the series)

it remains no less mind boggling that bruce brown had to take $6m year in unrestricted free agency last summer

that foul call on murray when both he and then a split second later jeff green each got all ball was so brutal

great game for MPJ truthers. six assists, impacting the game in different ways. you love to see it

all jokic needs to do is fully wake up and it’s a wrap

don't taunt the gods k3v

nuggets making plays. lakers not making plays.

davis is completely absent from the offense except for alley oops. they’re using him like he’s clint capela

guess they're just gonna put them out of their misery now

it remains no less mind boggling that bruce brown had to take $6m year in unrestricted free agency last summer

― J0rdan S., Saturday, May 20, 2023 10:41 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he's so good! he's always doing helpful things!

scott foster blowing the whistle on an off ball foul to put denver into the bonus and give joker two FTs

I don't really hate anyone on this lakers team but it's still enjoyable to watch the lakers home crowd suffer

nuggets just put the hammer down in the last couple minutes, no fucking around

I dislike the Boston crowd for reasons that are a bit unfair, mostly due to guys like Dave Portnoy and Bill Simmons, even though honestly I don't dislike Simmons all that much, I just wish him misery. But yeah the Lakers crowd really is a lot more unlikeable. plus you kinda like seeing the home team lose at crypto dot com arena

t's a good metaphor (it symbolizes that crypto is for losers)

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