( ( ( ( ( nba bubble ball 2020 ) ) ) ) )

All I did was say he was maga

i haven't paid attention to basketball since the rondo / pierce days of the celtics - i moved to the UK 2006-ish - but my sports-mad kids have latched onto basketball in a big way. endless youtubes of like 'the top 130 assists ever' etc.

so i'm paying attention now.

what i'm struck by is the speed of play. i always used to think college hoops were more exciting because they just went all out. pro ball involved a lot of point guards passing it around, looking for a post-up player. (to be reductive about it)

but now - it's fucking manic and it's amazing.

i don’t think the league is going to get any less visible

Jordan otm. culturally, the amount of action, everything about basketball is the best. it's immediately graspable, it's cool as shit to watch and it's fun to play. also the NBA has never been nearly as beholden to the tedious reverential bullshit that plagues other sports. (which probably has something to do with how black it is).

anyway, i'm fuckin psyched about watching these playoffs!!

also til: “weird celtics twitter”

game done changed

CELTICS 2010

this is weird celtics twitter iirc

tyvm

you know what’s “weird” is that out of bounds isn’t painted a different color

the line was thinner when they first went down there too but the players made them thicken it

remember that robin blurred song "thick lines" wow #tbt

webber just did the little kid saying lebron james voice while saying "lebron james" what a time to be alive

chris webber is good again

some extremely high usage pj dozier minutes in the 4th quarter

celtics beat writer tweet that dozier "might have been a nice piece to keep around" uhhhh he's scored 3 points and is -3

oof those missed free throws

AD!

jokic has to shoot 70% on clutch-time 3s this postseason

that jokic putback

he just invented that shot

lebron doesn’t have it right now. nuggs really need to steal this

not entirely sure abt the physics w/ big honey sometimes

jokic just bullied the hell out of ad wow

jokic just fucking bulldozed anthony davis for that go ahead bucket

anthony davis is not a weak man

awesome defense by murray

wow. sick AD game.

wowie zowie

there is no god

damn

fuck thats rough

a cruel and hateful world

Jamal man what were you doing

very sad ending

jesus christ man

I’m depressed and upset.

it looked like plumlee was calling for grant to switch out onto AD so he could cover a potential lebron cut to the rim. given grant’s positioning that was probably a mistake

You had the ball with 2 seconds left

kinda curious what plumlee is doing on this play

SPEECHLESS DAGGER pic.twitter.com/q0e4kH14Y5

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) September 21, 2020

Anthony Davis with the game-winning 3-point shot!!

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) September 21, 2020

magic gets it

it looked like plumlee was calling for grant to switch out onto AD so he could cover a potential lebron cut to the rim. given grant’s positioning that was probably a mistake

― k3vin k., Sunday, September 20, 2020 10:12 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah, i think just chasing AD to the wing would have been easier than executing that switch and had a chance of disrupting the key to the play, which was the extremely easy inbound pass that materialized.

i think thats considering the context one of the worst defensive plays ive ever seen

pointing at the guy to switch while you just slow down and stop playing isn't the best look

my friend is standing between lebron and the basket but i want to stand there

lol

i am starting to think that if the nuggets could replace plumlee's salary with an equivalent good player they would be the favorites. it's an insane amount of money for a backup center who also sucks.

He doesn’t suck he’s a good player who made a terrible decision

Most likely plumlee thought they were switching before anything happened

If you presume a switch what he did makes sense but that is not what occurs

In general this is a Bill Buckner situation and that’s life

someone on twitter saying maybe plum was supposed to switch on a bron screen but when there was no screen he tried to anyway

With all that said they got a 36% look for AD and he just made it