It is the 2018-19 NBA Playoffs discussion thread for hoops friends ONLY

rachel nichols hosting this nba full court press on espn2 is great

lmao espn stealing a concept created by a video producer who they forced out b/c he was spending too much time making podcasts and other original content.

ha i didnt know about that, whats the story?

this dude named jade produced the truehoop podcast which is the ancestor of the current brian windhorst podcast...back in like 2016 he developed a thing where he got a bunch of espn and non-espn people watching nba games in a room in the l.a. studio and broadcast it on the espn3 streaming platform. windhorst and rachel and most of the main espn nba people did it. eventually he left after they dicked him around about what he was working on and now he is producing pods independently and for the athletic with many of the same people.

i'm just laughing because he had to beg borrow and steal to do this on streaming three years ago and now the exact same thing is on espn2.

i like jade and co’s pods although some seem behind the athletic’s paywall. i kinda dig the nichols version too

i think i like this format for games where the stakes arent super high. wd love to see this in the reg season.

gonna be sad when the Blazers inevitably blow this one as well

blazers def seem poised to give this away. were it not for their 3 point shooting bigs..

Blazers can’t lose this what on earth

they can and they will

This is hilarious. That Meyers smash on dray May go down as his career highlight

loll Curry

He got crushed before that but lol at the attempted double double step back

i think any game in which meyers leonard gets 30 points should be halted at that moment and both teams awarded a loss

welp

man Lillard with so many chances that game :/

giving up leads of like 15, 17, and 17 late in three consecutive games is pretty damning but otoh it's the warriors

Steph Curry's point totals in this sweep of the Blazers: 36, 37, 36, 37. Made 26 of the team's 46 total 3s. More than half. Played the entire second half/OT tonight. Was a +19 in a 2-point win.

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) May 21, 2019

yea kinda hard to call a sweep at the hands of a megateam heartbreaking but this sorta was

by the way what the fuck was that on the broadcast about how the Warriors don't want players with "talent", they want players with "heart" like uhh Golden State is the last team you can say that about

Empty platitudes. But for real they got contributions from some deep bench players.

very few cliches jvg & mjax won't embrace in the big moment u know xp

telling yall, espn2 was where it was at tonight

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hm did not know he was such a deeply rude man

oh yeah rj bigtime rude

haha

Shaun Livingston looks like a jazzman

what is the bucks' (presumably) game plan?? i mean you don't show up to lose!

Tell Bledsoe the game was moved to Ontario

Steph Curry is indefatigable. This is just nuts pic.twitter.com/bTBDKE2MwG

— Drew Shiller (@DrewShiller) May 21, 2019

he's the most entertaining hooper ive ever seen, and may ever see.

id put him up there w jordan

yup. obv homerism gonna put him over the top for me tho.

iverson was more emotionally resonant and likewise more frustrating

stephs gotta be the most skilled person to ever touch a basketball

pretty crazy that dray/steph are the first teammates to have triple doubles in the same playoff game

I keep telling my wife steph's the most magical player in the game today

he is unfathomable to me in a way where I respect the deep mysteries of the world

some of his best ever games have been in portland

yeah hes 10-0 vs pdx in the playoffs

brutal lol

last night it felt like every time the blazers had a run or a great play to get the crowd into it steph would hit a 3, one that prob wasn't even open in the traditional sense. and it reminded me that he might have the greatest "checkmate" shot of all time... like MJ was unstoppable obviously but i feel like nothing is quite as demoralizing as when steph is feeling it and just routinely hitting long and/or extremely difficult three pointers. it gets the most points and there's literally nothing you can do. lol.

before he was a champ he and yung dame had some truly brilliant battles, I got to go to one here in like 2013 or so v blessed

Tbh it's been kinda nice having KD out and seeing the Warriors play

they're def more fun to watch w/o KD. I wonder if the players have more fun w/o him.

draymond definitely plays better when kd doesn't play.

Losing twenty pounds also didn't hurt.

draymond definitely plays better when kd doesn't play.

― i think ur a controp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, May 21, 2019 4:32 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah there's a fundamental thing where with no KD draymond gets/has to have the ball in his hands a ton. it certainly seems to elevate his play & yeah also just makes them more fun.