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

except for me in this case :)

Playoff adjustments are real

is it normal for drake to rub nurse's shoulders during a game?

i love playoff adjustments

My new goal as a Celtics writer is to see a celebrity do this to Brad Stevens in the middle of a conference final ha pic.twitter.com/YNCm3hKFXj

— Adam Himmelsbach (@AdamHimmelsbach) May 22, 2019

55 for giannis & middleton... 40 from everyone else combined

this is pretty worrying, if you told me Middleton would have 30 and Kawhi would be hobbled I'd have thought Bucks by 20

honestly outside of the stretch from the 4th q of game 1 to the first half of game 2 the Raptors have been thoroughly in control

how quickly the ~vibes~ can change

The Bucks locker room is eerily silent. Players are all keeping to themselves, some hustled out to the bus quickly.

— Malika Andrews (@malika_andrews) May 22, 2019

bucks need giannis to dominate to win, which is fine really can dominate enough, but when he dominates and they dont win thats bad

uhh eric bledsoe this series:

8/4/4 on 25/9/66 % shooting splits haha

the coward is back baby

woof theyre gonna lose a first rounder next year for him, too

Still rockin those "I don't want to be here" vibes, eh?

i saw him play a lot here in phx and he was one of the most frustrating players ive ever watched. he'd be a fine 6 man that's his true calling.

Giannis with 66% at the line in the ‘offs not super helpful. He’s getting tons of FTA. Raps were throwing bodies at him and not worrying too much about fouls.

yeah ft shooting is his giannis heal

/shooting

ive come to the provisional conclusion that he doesnt need to shoot, that in fact like shaq maybe its better if he cant

he was like 75% during the regular season which I think is pretty good for a dude who doesn't need to shoot

Bledsoe's been really bad during the playoffs but he did have a lot of excellent regular season games...sucks that we signed him right when he was at his peak but at least we didn't do it 3 years after like we usually do

he was pretty good in the boston series.

thats actually crazy that hes a career 75% ft shooter w how bad his form is, talent wins man

his 3pt% on the other hand.......

anyway he shdnt be taking 3s or any sort of non deep paint shot

eh Bled during the Boston series was alternately good and awful

oh i meant the detroit series lol

which m/l was just 4 regular season games in a row against the same team without their best player

detroit was not great

yeah the only team this year that was like 'this team is also in the playoffs for some reason'

i think you can throw orlando in there

they were at least Surging at the end of the season

The Bucks’s explosive offense has been missing the last two games. That’s why this series is tied at 2-2.

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) May 22, 2019

MOOD

Magic is the new nabisco

i was kinda hoping he had thoughts about game of thrones but no
i am not shocked to find he is the sort of dork who would be in the front row pit of a janet jackson show and feel the need to take out his cell phone

pic.twitter.com/ITDABqfldT

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) May 18, 2019

The Bucks’s explosive offense has been missing the last two games. That’s why this series is tied at 2-2.

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) May 22, 2019

― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Wednesday, May 22, 2019 11:32 AM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you have to quit your job in order to make posts like these, you pretty much gotta do it

lol

I feel the Bucks are still gonna take this.

sorry i just can't get over magic quitting his job to make playoff commentary tweets that sound like they're autogenerated by a bot

this one after kawhi's shot was my favorite

Kawhi Leonard played like a superstar scoring 41 points in a game 7 victory over the Sixers.

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) May 13, 2019

magics still got it baby

With the Bucks and Raptors tied at 2 games apiece, it's looking like a real toss up of a series! No wonder the NBA playoffs are must-see TV!

otm

i think lebetard has a segment on his show where they read real magic tweets mixed with made up ones and they have to guess which are real lol

simmons did that on a podcast a couple weeks ago

maybe that was it

i listen to too many pods...

I hope Brogdon and Bledsoe play better tonight. I also hope the old saying about the bench playing better at home is true.
Toronto looked like the better team in game 4.

they've looked like the better team for most of this series. Milwaukee needs to stop running the same offensive play over and over again. I do trust that Bud will come up with *something* but yeah end of the day they need more than one guy to step up. They win when they get those quick runs where they score quickly on transition and wear the other team out. They've done almost none of that this series.

Mark Medina @MarkG_Medina

Warriors say they “anticipate” DeMarcus Cousins will play at some point in the NBA Finals. Warriors they are “hopeful” Kevin Durant plays at some point in the NBA Finals. But nothing is certain. Warriors will re-evaluate both players on Wednesday

i still have absolutely no idea how boogie is coming back this quickly