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Kevin Durant goes extremely in depth on the Clippers style of defense, the overhelp, why he won’t get caught up in a 1-on-1 battle with Patrick Beverley pic.twitter.com/nOdmTDY4yi

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) April 17, 2019

lol sometimes i love kd

that’s so good!

yeah it really is

nice

has thad young always been good at defense?

yeah

I just saw on tv that one of my old fraternity brothers is sitting courtside at the Celtics game. I knew he was doing well for himself but not courtside playoff tickets well.

that last play was too easy what a relief

al horford is a god

lol

incredible final minute by the pacers

Holy shit Pacers what a choke

Wow pacers disrespected the game with that late game execution.

That was a great game for Celtics fans, but kind of fugly if you just wanted to watch some good hoops. I still cant figure out what Wes Matthews thought was supposed to develop on that inbounds. No one was moving to where he threw the ball.

looked like there was a failed screen attempt for bojan and he didn't adjust

And then compounding with an and 1 dunk and another turnover not great

harden is going nuclear

I had to turn off the Rockets v Jazz. Couldn’t bear to watch a murder

guess harden is just having one of those games where he achieves apotheosis

he's a man on a mission. MVP voting is over, but the chip is still in play.

houston is playing great defense too

God how did Utah win 50 games? They have exactly one guy who can consistently get his own shot and he’s 22. I don’t know why the hell I thought this series would be close.

Jazz need some upgrades. Rubio specifically. And ingles is cool but probably more for an iggy type role at this stage of his career

well they need to improve on crowder way more than ingles, ingles can at least start

folks, the rockets are good, and james harden is good

incredible final minute by the pacers

― ciderpress, Wednesday, April 17, 2019 9:21 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Holy shit Pacers what a choke

― frogbs, Wednesday, April 17, 2019 9:22 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wow pacers disrespected the game with that late game execution.

― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Wednesday, April 17, 2019 9:29 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rough rough finish by the pacers after playing such a good game

Rox are good and seem to be peaking and healthy at the right time. And meeting the warriors in the 2nd round is better for them too less opportunities for cp to get hurt and harden to wear down.

wld interested in see the rox go all the way this year tbh rooting for the villain and so forth, cp3 diantoni and harden finally break through

Nah f that

lol

kinda feel like that would unleash hoops satan on the world and im comfortable with keeping them down there

it is fated

jazz are a good defensive team but dont really have the right personnel to play w the rockets, u need to be swarming and athletic

Def a bad matchup for them.

btw tatum made a number of sick plays tonight, kyrie did kyrie stuff against a very good defense

2 games in and neither team has scored 100

pacers are slowing it way down to try to prevent the celtics break

It’s the only shot they’ve got.

tatum was really good in the 4th, which was all i saw.

indys been pretty good all things considered except for the fact that the celtics seem to be able to shut them down at will, they just dont have a lot of offensive talent w/o dipo, even with him tbh

like it seemed like everything they were tossing up was going in tonight then they finish w 91pts on 45%

the second play here where tatum found hayward was so good he saw it the whole way

Tatum hits a three to give Boston the lead, assists to extend it, and dunks to seal it

Celtics up 2-0 vs. Pacers pic.twitter.com/2OpDx2UKVh

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) April 18, 2019

also a great push and pass by brown on that first play

that play was started with unbelievable defense by al, he just tracked bojan to the rim and took the ball away.

yeah youre just not gonna make a line drive drive with al on u like that, same thing w turner on the other side something the celtics learned a few times tonight

i mean he makes that play even when hes trailing most of the time, if u dont even have a half a step on him its hopeless

yeah turner's become a really good defensive player. even when indy was struggling late it was hard for the celtics to drive on him.

*checks in on that other game that happened tonight*

DEER GOD pic.twitter.com/RryJJtSygy

— Maggio 🏁 (@kylemaggio) April 18, 2019

pretty inspiring effort by Big Al there at the end to rally and make some plays considering he was apparently ill. he certainly played like it for most of the game and proved again how valuable he is to the C's because defensively they were trash without him at 100% and honestly offensively they mostly just rode Kyrie until the early 4th.