ITS THE OFFS BABY THE 2023 NBA PLAYOFFS

btw its crazy that now when you google sports betting stuff its traditional news outlets nbc espn when you used to get actual gambling sites at the top of the results, sign o the times

I watched the second half of Cs/Heat G4 and the big difference felt like Boston actually bothered to defend the perimeter. No doubt Spo has an adjustment for this. The rest still felt kind of concerning.. Butler absolutely feasted on RWIII, beating him to the basket again and again. Brown still Mr Potato Hands with the ball, not hitting shots, getting doubled and flustered.. An uncomfortable number of Smart threes.. Horf had a great game on both ends but it's starting to feel like he has one great game in him per series. Not really convinced but if they can play D like they did down the stretch - and that means Horf too - who knows

i haven't looked at twitter film breakdowns but i think it's hard to know if that game was meaningful or if the celtics just played harder & better. gabe vincent not playing tonight is gonna put a lot of strain on the heat's rotation... they're now down three guards & you can only push lowry so hard. he's had a sleeve on his leg recently too so i think he's dealing w/ some minor injury. jimmy & bam are gonna have the ball in their hands a ton... i have to imagine jimmy is gonna push hard for a 40 point game tonight, they're down to a very very minimal amount of ball handlers

my feeling is Boston rolls at home and Game 6 is gonna be the wild one

maybe but the thing about Boston is that they're a deeply frustrating Jekyll and Hyde team for whom home court seems to mean nothing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But yeah Vincent out is big

Brogdon's apparently got a torn tendon in his shooting hand that he's been playing through, didn't realize that

that does explain why every shot he's taken the last three games has clanged off the rim like he's shooting boulders instead of basketballs

i'd also like to announce that i won't be watching the game tonight bcuz i previously scheduled a birthday party on this night, but i will be telling anyone who asks that abstaining from playoff basketball once every 4-5 games is actually necessary for one's sanity

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yeah when people complain about how time feels like it moves faster as they get older I always recommend getting really invested in an NBA playoff run. that Bucks title run felt like it lasted 7 months

yeah those days between games DRAG

playoffs is too much ball until it's down to only one series going and then it's suddenly not enough

there should be 1.5 series going at all times, somehow

they need to have The Losers' Cup for all the non-playoff teams

if the celtics had gotten swept they could have fit in a quick 3rd place series

three wide open corner 3s for the celtics in a row, and they knock them all down

dream start for the celts. crowd is into it

whats a hayward highsmith?

Yeah this is how I expected this to go

celtics getting nice looks out vs the heat zone but missing them

good stuff

its funny how many basketball people are obsessed with closing out quarters, we need someone to introduce the dominating the middle of quarters mindset

That’s just the Kobe System

getting that kobe (system)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7e1J1v9OYg

https://sneakernews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/kobe-system-level-5-domination.jpg

should poll things to dominate

pritchard in the game wonder if brogdon is done for the offs with that injury he just cant shoot, sucks

good game for the boston celtics nice job

think losing vincent hurt the heat a lot, they didnt have enough ballhandling out there, duncan robinson was running plays, and tbf he had a great game (nine assists!) but still thats just not ideal

Celtics finally playing like the better team they are. Game 6 should be a good one

Spo is definitely one of those coaches who's good at making it work despite injuries but there's always a breaking point and I think Vincent is it

with herro and vincent out theyve got two guys left who can dribble

idk how bad vincents injury is maybe he can play in game 6

seems like they need him out there

was shooting around at the playground by my apt & there were some kids out there going “this is how lebron shoots” and then intentionally shooting increasingly awful shots, hitting backboard 1.5 feet above the rim and such. he needs to retire before he loses everyone born after like 9/11

damn that’s extremely sad :(

rough stuff from the peanut gallery

can't decide if that's worse or better than shouting "kooo-be!" in a sing-song voice before jacking up an off-balance one-footed three

wow that is rude as hell

they should shoot jokic behind-the-head threes instead

Lebron is really easy to root against, idk why exactly but I think it’s all the GOAT talk that’s been following him since he was literally a teenager combined with his general corniness. But I also root for him at the same time. Kind of a Peyton Manning situation I guess.

there are yung ppl who literally never watched kobe or saw the tail-end of his career as children who swear up and down hes better than lebron, its awful

those young people are poorly informed. I blame their parents.

its true, they do have shitty parents

gabe vincent back tonight, heat need his ball handling

they were so slow getting into their offense last game had a lot of dubious plays, coach nick pointed out that butler was always looking to create a switch every time tatum was on him which makes sense tatum matched up well with him but its maybe a lil overly deliberate to always force the switch

lol stan van has some sort of beef going with herro apparently and hes not backing down

called him sensitive

Stan seems like he woulda been horrible to play for

serious stuff here both teams geeked up

herro is one of the funniest characters in the NBA to me

sartorially he has turned the malibu’s most wanted factor up to 11 these playoffs

thats what started it with stan van lol