ITS THE OFFS BABY THE 2023 NBA PLAYOFFS

these are names no one has heard in generations

First King with a 25-point playoff game off the bench since Shareef Abdur-Rahim. pic.twitter.com/nGnWgKX5RD

— StatMuse (@statmuse) April 16, 2023

Dray hurt?

yeah where is he

oh there he is

holy shit steph

yeah wow what a shot

Warriors got in bonus like 8 min ago and never attacked the basket again

steph is too much man

Ugh doctorb dibsrespect.

draymond literally sitting on sabonis

Steph time

Damn Wiggins ice cold 2nd half

Kings risk it and foul immediately?

this game is great

wowww

steph rushed it

hm when I picked the warriors to make the wcf I may have forgotten they went 1-40 on the road

Wonder if he coulda set his feet

really bad last play

Im gonna sneak in there and light the beam after hours

think he was surprised to be open was maybe thinking about snaking around to get that long floater off but he couldve just shot a j

a three point floater, my lord

game was pretty dull for most of three quarters then went sicko

#PLAYOFFMODE IS BACK IN SAC!

KINGS WIN A THRILLING GAME 1 🔥 pic.twitter.com/t6aXPAAyzv

— NBA (@NBA) April 16, 2023

kings fans and knicks fans both happy, let chaos reign

hell yeah

Malik monk was out of his mind

the kings are majority comprised of guys i had given up on ever being winning players lol

Forgot they were teammates

De'Aaron Fox tonight:
38 PTS - 5 AST - 3 STL - 50% 3P

Malik Monk tonight:
32 PTS - 61% FG - 50% 3P - 100% FT

Both in their playoff debuts. 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/xMuw3JoOx5

— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) April 16, 2023

loon and Dray did a helluva job on sabonis

didnt monk have some insane 45 point game that year xp

he did it

DE’AARON FOX LIGHTS THE BEAM pic.twitter.com/DWTodMKV8Q

— Bones🦴 (@Boness305) April 16, 2023

light | verb | to ignite

the | definite article | used as a function word to indicate that a following noun is definite

beam | noun | a ray or shaft of light

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) April 16, 2023

lol

Steph shot a one-legged floater from the 3 point line with the game on the line and Draymond started celebrating lmao these dudes are sickos pic.twitter.com/SdVV6DMcE8

— sreekar (@sreekyshooter) April 16, 2023

Great now I have to cancel the dictionary.

that was a fun win for the kings & they should totally feel confident that they can beat the warriors

i also feel like the warriors should feel like they have very little to worry about

before the series i didnt have a lot of faith in the kings they dont defend theyve had perfect health all their players have weird flaws they not been to the offs before but now im wondering how much faith i shouldve been putting in the warriors, once the kings started pushing towards the end of the 3rd the warriors did not look good and they got tired in crunch time they were relying on the steph and klay just hoist offense which tbf almost worked but they just didnt have anything left to run their actual offense, now what happens when the kings look at that and say fine were going to play as fast as we can all game to try to wear the old guys down

also should be said that the non steph offense looks pretty shaky

both these rosters are super perimeter heavy wonder what sort of weird configurations theyll throw out as the series goes on i want to see a ten guard battle

terrible move by the kings extremely inauspicious

Rapper E-40 gets kicked out of Kings-Warriors game 👀 pic.twitter.com/XTUQPV147Q

— FootBasket™.com (@FootBasket) April 16, 2023

lol

De'Aaron admits that guarding Steph is no joke 😂 pic.twitter.com/g555VvxeHj

— Kings on NBCS (@NBCSKings) April 16, 2023

Shoutout to @matthewdelly.

Watch the full episode with @TheRealJRSmith, @jj_redick, and @talter: https://t.co/GTa1GOmKTq pic.twitter.com/wNj7mZq0lW

— TheOldMan&TheThree (@OldManAndThree) April 13, 2023

had no idea Delly was on the Kings

Mike Brown will definitely try to have the Kings running top speed all series

yeah its a no brainer yet they somehow werent doing it for the first half + last night, maybe just feeling things out idk

the dubs did play the fastest pace in the league where sacto was in the middle of the pack so from that pov its not exactly clear that going fast is an advantage for the kings but i think the dubs speed is maybe a lil more about getting into offense fast getting secondary transition stuff etc than it is about flat out running, also it doesnt have to be necessarily running from the kings but just attacking decisively forcing the issue playing physical drawing fouls and so forth would be good for them things of that nature

neither team is very physical but the kings being younger and more athletic should give them the edge there

also wonder whats going on with draymond he sat for a long time in the 4th then looked gimpy when he came back in

kings got 48 points on 14-21 shooting, 6-10 from 3 and 14-14 from the line from malik monk & trey lyles. suffice to say that prob isn’t happening again

i thought the warriors played okay and the kings played pretty great and the warriors were still a missed three from a guy who hasn’t played in months away from sending it into OT. steph didn’t seem very involved at the end, it didn’t feel like the warriors treated that as some hugely important playoff game. maybe it will come back to bite them idk. but if that’s what the kings threw at the warriors in game 1 & they still almost won i think the warriors prob feel like they can get this one in 6

if fox just cooks them the whole series perhaps that could be their downfall. but sabonis & huerter had poor games & that feels more structural to me and that prob won’t be offset in any other game by 50+ bench points. i think the warriors will live with a steph vs fox duel if that’s what it comes down to in some of these games

prob the things that happened in that game wont happen in exactly the same way the next game yeah

the dubs should be able to beat the kings but can they? do they still have the extra gear or are they fuckin cooked? can draymond still go out there and wreck the the opposing offense for five minutes straight? idk which is why i will turn in to see

dubs could still beat the kings even if they are cooked but thats it theres no way they get past the second round in a cooked state