ITS THE OFFS BABY THE 2023 NBA PLAYOFFS

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)

SWEEP! L! A! SWEEP! L! A! SWEEP! L! A!

yeah even the fact that it started off real shitty, became wildly successful for reasons that nobody could quite understand, only to flame out spectacularly while the world was watching

my problem with this lakers team is mostly philosophical, like i don't think you should get that much credit for fixing your team when you previously ruined your team and everyone knew that you were ruining your team.

Bringing in Westbrook was probably done to make LeBron happy. Getting rid of Westbrook was probably done to make LeBron happy. GM Lebron has an uneven track record.

that's the old adage the two best days of a GM's life are acquiring Westbrook and getting rid of Westbrook

Westboat

is he doing osama-thumbs-up.jpg ??

Bron 👍 pic.twitter.com/vZvvZr2GGW

— Craigory Smith (@nihilist_bucks) May 21, 2023

that's the old adage the two best days of a GM's life are acquiring Westbrook and getting rid of Westbrook

lmao

it's crazy that denver's lost to the lakers every time they've made the conference finals, three times in three different decades. and they're 0-7 in playoff series against the lakers overall.

lol @ westboat

https://www.landofbasketball.com/head_to_head_gl/lakers_vs_nuggets_game_log_pl.htm

That was a really fun game Jokic brought it home

The brown and kcp signings were so perfect for the nuggets. They survived the non Jokic foul trouble minutes. That wouldn’t have happened w out those two

ecf will go to 7

― micah, Monday, 15 May 2023 8:45 AM (six days ago)

i might have been wrong about this

imo celtics should look at starting brogdon

just wanna get on the record and say I don't think this series is over yet, Celtics I think should be favored in every game and the way the Heat are winning doesn't seem sustainable. on the other hand the Miami crowd is gonna be insanely fired up and the Celtics just look like they don't have it in 'em

and by “it” i think you mean “that dawg”

i mean i’d love to think you’re right but in the other hand i think you’re right

i’m going to inoculate myself for the disappointment i anticipate when i pop open the boston globe celtics page tomorrow morning by first watching corey kluber try to get out of the third inning for the red sox today

idk Celtics on paper just seem so much better, then again so did the Bucks

not a comment on how the rest of the series may or may not go but those first two games are kinda the dictionary definition examples of why games are played on the court and not on paper

yep

keep thinking about danny ainge going around to his teammates with a stethoscope before game 6 of the…. 1984? finals against L.A., trying to see who had heart

I dunno, having to win 4 of 5 with 3 of them on the road is tough.

curious to see what happens with horford’s minutes tonight. i read that aside from game 3 vs philly where he went 5-7 from three he’s 22% across all other games. if he simply can’t just play a lot better his minutes might need to be relegated to strictly back up 5… would be hard to say he deserves minutes over grant based on game 2

the other thing i’m looking for tonight is whether jaylen can show up hot out of the gate. i think he can put up like an 8-12 point first quarter it could set the tone for boston. i feel like especially in the road games last year he was always coming out very sharp… he was the one i was always scared of. i’m not sure boston can win 4 out of 5 w/o him putting up at least two all star level performances

Joe Mazzulla says the Celtics are going to start with the small lineup again in Game 3, with Derrick White in place of Robert Williams.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) May 21, 2023

'adebayo is killing us, its probably bc we have too many tall guys out there'

williams drop coverage is getting shredded by the heats shooters

makes sense to me. stick horf on bam and switch everything else

rob was +7, horford was -15 last game. maybe horford has a great game and it’s a stroke of genius but williams has been the far superior player in this series. i’d just start grant, he’s actually giving them on offense what they appear to think they’re getting from horford

if horford continues to play horribly it won't matter but conceptually i think it's just time to try the small lineup

greetings from denver colorado let’s go nuggets

marcus smart injuring himself flopping his way into an illegal screen call… that’s a shame

Celtics in 4th quarter mode already

really good challenge from mazzulla. potential 3 point swing in a pivotal moment

jaylen showed up how i thought he would when he had vincent on him but he’s looked spooked all series when butler checks him

I think it’s a block

that was absolutely a correct overturn but that is an unfortunate use of the challenge

brogdon has been weirdly bad they need him to pick it up. this isn’t a great derrick white series bcuz butler likes to go at him at the other end

that challenge was the first smart thing the celtics did all game. it would've been williams' third foul. in the first quarter.

you should fire off the challenge in minute 1 if it's getting you more than 2 points

lowry and smart should have to wear shock collars that go off if they get within 1 foot of each other on the court