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

fuckin tiago!

John Schuhmann ‏@johnschuhmann 3m
MEM could have gone without a timeout & with Leonard & Splitter on the bench.

dear coaches timeouts help the defense

welp

twin towers mk 3

dayyyamm

I predict Woj writes a column saying he was vindicated

pwnage

that last splitter basket was too much

the spurs are gonna lose fewer games in the west than the heat are in the east

http://i.imgur.com/PSaP2QI.jpg

swag

Is one of those ladies Brent Barry's wife?

hah

looking forward to spurs pacers

throwback aba unis, le's do it

For as often as the Spurs have been in the mix the 5+ years, crazy that they haven't won a title since 2007.

Santa Claus Birdman appears to be the sad turning point:

http://thatnbalotterypick.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/BLFJVrlCIAIEhcJ.jpg-large.jpeg

he is the worst

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/015Z05I2sB4do/1600x.jpg

Magic Johnson, who literally kissed Isiah Thomas on the court before games, disses LeBron for giving Paul George .1 seconds of dap between quarters

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, May 25, 2013 8:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

magic is indie-cred-checking-record-store-clerk level bad with this shit now too, like what is your problem obv lebron wants to win

he of all people should know b/c he was the best at being sincerely cool with someone then trying to rip their heart out on the court

Heh, getting a kick out of the fact that Bron/PG -- two of the best perimeter defenders in the league -- have both shot lights-out against each other so far this series.

ESPN Stats & Info ‏@ESPNStatsInfo 4h
Paul George is 10-13 for 29 points when guarded by LeBron James.
James is 18-of-31 for 45 points (8 turnovers) when guarded by George

http://deadspin.com/this-is-a-gregg-popovich-gif-509938704

pop had a little kermit the frog shimmy going there, i like it

this slayed me last night
http://deadspin.com/gregg-popovich-is-a-man-of-two-words-509922107
especially because doris is totally unfazed, almost like they scripted it- "turnovers." "pop, thank you."

mad pop in the between-quarter interviews is always great like that

:-----------o @ pop gif

loooool everyone is so drunk at the fieldhouse right now.

we need to poll all these birdmans

OTM, feel like there should also be an end-of-year ILH 1st Team vote (1st Team being People Who Most Embody the Spirit of Javale).

im getting there (drunkness)

#TrésBosh

goddamn this is a little too WC-paced.

basketball is back

One cool adjustment Hibbert made after the first game (and never made during the IND/MIA series last year) was pump-faking / gathering when he's at the basket to throw off Heat's defensive rhythm. When he was going straight up w/ it, Bron/etc. were timing it right. Just a weird adjustment to make, but it totally worked well last game (and this one so far).

last series he always looked in a hurry

fun 1st quarter. loved the tyler action

PG just not strong enough yet to really defend low post. Was easier w/ dudes like Melo who would rather shoot a fallaway j than really bang it down low.

There was that hesitation thing again.

i'm on my phone so I can't find it but we totally have to do that ILH awards thread we started earlier this year!!

anyway heat-pacers games are so damn fascinating, i love these series

so weird that the heat have totally abandoned shooting threes/getting to the line in this game

Makes perfect sense though. Pacers perimeter d was neutralizing their 3 point shooting and the Pacers bigs are far too proficient down low for calls to be a factor in the Heats favour.

Lance in transition is one of my favorite things.

bosh 4 fouls. birdman comin in for 7 minutes, game on the line

this is haslem's mike miller 7 threes game

no birdman, battier! heat defense tonight elite too

yeah vintage donny tonight

Wade should be fined for that one

birdman doesnt miss since his last tattoo

Really surprised after all of these years Wade/Battier can still get these calls. It's one thing for defenders to bite on a Wade pump fake, but not this stuff.

i think im at the point where, anybody who refers to the birdman as 'chris anderson', i cant take seriously

that was an insane overcorrection in the play of miami's role players but a reminder that the pacers really need chalmers/allen/battier/haslem to give the heat basically nothing

xp i hope for NBA 2K14 they just use a sample of Shaq going BIRDMAN BIRDMAN every time his name is called out