#focus#mustwin#playoffs#drama? : 2013 NBA playoffs

digital spittle doesn't leave stains

http://www.inkedcelebrity.com/brandonjennings.jpg

Milwaukee needs to trade one of their bigs. Not enough minutes to go around.

what just happened on tnt

oh http://cjzero.com/gifs/ShaqUnderwearJog.gif

Milwaukee needs to trade one of their bigs. Not enough minutes to go around.

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, April 21, 2013 7:49 PM (1 hour ago

can we have ersan?

Wilson Chandler for Ersan?

thats what i was thinking

feel like ersan's shooting is more dependable. though willy has really grown on me

fournier, mozgov and willy for ersan and redick

i just made that up and i'm a little drunk

damn i'm gonna miss this game and it's the only one today i really wanted to see :'(

beverly vs jackson is a fun backup battle

this is a good game btw after a slow start

Have we never really talked about that Durant commercial, somehow? The crazy juxpstn of the super sexually-suggesting bit in the kitchen -> the chores stuff is so weird; have secretly hoped some bored adblogger would do a little piece about it. Has always struck me as an ad totally built from one bad narrative idea -- "We should connect sex with chores" -- and no one bothered to stop the execution at any point in the process. Durant should've stuck with Doo Doo Jump :/

Was so pumped for the playoffs, and now I just wanna fast-forward through this first round. Still, fantastic to see playoff-grade basketball finally. Since the defensive intensity rises so much, the passing game has to rise with it; so, you end up w/ fewer isos / aimless dribbling. Even if some of these series are gonna be 4-0, the games are still filled w/ great basketball.

BTW Paul George w/ a very un-TMac triple double, basically by the end of the 3rd q. / Lance looking very good in his first real playoff minutes. Probably the most offensively aggressive game PG has played all season-- dude just headed straight for the basket over and over and over.

Don't know the numbers but it seems like the biggest black hole in Harden's game is that straightaway mid-range/3pt game, where he just kinda dribbles/jukes around for 8 seconds and shoots the jumper. Frustrating to see him settle for it all the time, but maybe his % is good from there idk.

haha oh man forgot about foo doo jump

best ilh playoffs thread title of all time

Yeah that Durant commercial is super weird. My wife is creeped out by it.

she wants to bone kevin durant what's the big deal

I do think the ad would be better if it just ended before the chore part but then it probably wouldn't make it on air

its a funny ad, idg whats weird about it

just checked the score, rip rockets

oh wow doo doo jump

lin-harden has to be one of the 10 streakiest NBA backcourts ever

Wow awesome games today!

Lin Harden / Jennings Ellis

Xp

kind of unfairly tars harden with the lin brush doesn't it?

lol @ stupid celtics/ lakers predictions

hah has rihanna always been a heat fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fFrUP7vNf0

lol reggire

that forgives about a week of terrible game calling

compupost thnx for watching pacers-hawks so we dont have to, please keep it up

something about the durant ad has creeped me out all season, it feels like it was supposed to be more PG rated but the actress sexed it up or something, there's just something about the way she fixes her stare on him that gives it a weird desperate housewives vibe when durant seems more like he'd rather kick it with the kid building legos

also the punch line of gutter-cleaning is weirdly hard to figure out the first time you see it

it's kind of unbelievable how good of a fit birdman is for the heat

i watched the second half of spurs-lakers on mute because i didn't want to hear mambatweets read aloud

it totally feels like it was going for the R vibe!

i think matt is right that durant is harder to sexualize, hes just talla nd skinny and still looks like an overgrown kid basically

yeah the one quirky thing about the ad is that durant is not really sexy but that kind of makes me like it more

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/22/bucks-dalembert-says-he-might-switch-sides-to-play-for-heat-next-season/

lol sam rly??

The fact that she looks like she's about to doodoojump Durant's bones isn't really that creepy; it's just that, normally, the sexual hint usually lingers at the end of the commercial. In this creepfest, she immediately begins to drool, but then the hint is that she's drooling over ... Durant as chore-doer? Like, if they'd just cut out the chores part, it'd be a totally normal commercial. Don't blame Durant for any of the ad's creepfactor

I just had to look it up on YouTube to figure out the product being sold because every time I've seen it I've been too irritated to pay attention! Also isn't there a variation earlier in the season where he's cleaning the bathroom?

If you're curious about an explanation from someone who found the commercial "brief but hilarious," look no further than this very readable, not-at-all-worthless BleacherReport explanation:

Kevin Durant Cleans Gutters, Brings Laughs in New Sprint "Pajamas" Commercial
BY GABE ZALDIVAR (POP CULTURE LEAD WRITER) ON DECEMBER 26, 2012 11,561 reads, 1 comment

Kevin Durant is what happens to good men who get Sprint coverage. If that sounds bizarre, it all becomes clear after watching this brief but hilarious commercial.

A tip of the hat to SportsGrid for spotting this video of the Thunder star in a clever commercial that takes an odd twist right at the end.

It all starts with mom and son kicking it in the kitchen when dear old dad walk in, only, it's not dad.

The father walks in looking like Kevin Durant because he was somehow transformed into the NBA star just by using Sprint's service, allowing for hours and hours of NBA watching.

For a moment, we will go ahead and ignore conundrums like how one turns into Durant or why the mother and son are not more amazed that an NBA star is in their house.

Instead, we will go ahead and enjoy Durant in pajamas that are a few sizes too small and the look on mom's face when she sees her hubby is a new man, literally.

The obvious notion is mom would very much like to do some bad things with her new-found husband, but that all gets extinguished when we see what she had in mind.

Durant and all 6-foot-9 inches of him are cleaning gutters.

I will go ahead and assume mom has some other things for Durant to attend to, like washing dishes and raking leaves.

Come on, Internet. Get your heads out of the gutter.

it's kind of unbelievable how good of a fit birdman is for the heat
― joe smith avatar (agent hibachi), Monday, April 22, 2013 8:34 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Think it's more unbelievable that no one picked him up before the Heat. Birdman getting a ring would be one of the small silver linings of a Heat repeat.

Maybe no one wanted to take the risk with his past drug problems and the child porn allegations?

But I was saying the same thing about K Mart mid season.

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/2510633/wadebrow.gif

ha that reaction was pretty stone cold and 100% otm

Maybe no one wanted to take the risk with his past drug problems and the child porn allegations?
― Z S up HOOS down (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, April 22, 2013 10:48 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Eh, the drug ban is 7+ seasons ago, and he was 4+ seasons worth of back-on-track bball w/ the Nuggs. Seemed like the kiddiepr0n allegations got sussed out pretty quickly after they were reported, and his nosedive on-court seemed directly related to that. Just thought that the air was probably clear enough at the beginning of the season for someone to give him a shot, esp. as a high-energy player whom you wouldn't have to spend much $$ on. Like, worst case scenario, the team that would've signed him for league minimum could just cut him.

Just think he was such a natural fit on that Nuggs team; would've been nice if it'd continued to work out there. Either way, happy to see him producing somewhere.

xp hahahaha please tell me that's Wade's reaction to Jennings' prediction.