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

Toronto is dead last in bench points pic.twitter.com/HL2FSDW3yg

— IN THE LAB (@DevInTheLab) May 18, 2019

well thats what happens when you trade away your whole bench in the kawhi and marc gasol deals

kawhi trade delivered good value. gasol trade much less so.

Gasol helped them get passed embiid and vooch. But Jonas V may have been just as good idk

JV was a defensive liability

gasol is showing how fine the line is between playable and unplayable when you’re this deep in the playoffs.

hope you're all enjoying The Meyers Leonard Experience

that dunk and one off the pass from dame was sweet

The Meyers game

does not appear the Blazers will win this one

Make your shots & advance. Miss them consistently and you get eliminated.

*rifles through pages and pages of calculations* that--that can't be right

Love too listen to championship coaches JVG and Jackson grouse about Portland’s lack of competitive fire

Not sure I've ever seen Draymond any better than that.

Draymond been a top 5 player in these playoffs

right next to Ersan Ilyasova

yeah hats off to dray he’s been shredding

Oof

damian lillard has five made two-pointers through three games this series. a real stat that sounds fake

— 🏀 playoffs shrill 🏀 (@theshrillest) May 19, 2019

they’ve dismantled dame

if kanter were scoring down low with efficiency, dame would have a better shooting percentage, but the dubs are too good at filling inside passing lanes, collapsing, and keeping the ball out of the middle. the wings have not been cutting or moving w/o the ball nearly enough, either.

raps actually getting production out of gasol and powell tonight, bodes well. but theyre only up 6 and their biggest hurdle has been the 4th, so...

even when this bucks team struggles, they have so many guys hoisting that they never get too far behind

Don't want to jinx the Bucks, but I think this is the one game Raptors might win. Bucks will be better in game 4.

Not to say the Raptors cant play better, but losing that first game cut deep.

siakam is playing well, but kawhi looks hurt and its making him deferential on offense.

They’re uh kinda getting away with some stuff on Giannis

fun fourth

Man this is great

kawhi made bad decision after bad decision so far in ot

like dude you're not kobe idk why you're dribbling the clock away and then jacking a contested 20 foot fadeaway

lol, i left a restaurant when siakam was getting ready to shoot free throws at the end of the 4th and assumed it was over and then it went to 2ot?

Yah he missed the free throws lol

that Middleton 3 with 9.5 seconds left in the game was such a godawful decision, not only were there three guys on him but even if you make it you're giving the Raps the chance for a game winning shot with a ton of time left. Siakam bailed 'em out but still

the cool thing about the Bucks is that they can survive two of their key players having bad games but not when one of them is Giannis I guess

Bledsoe just killed the Bucks last night. I know Toronto played small a lot last night but I still feel like between the three other main smalls/wings (Middleton, Hill, Brogdon), the three bigs (Lopez, Ilyasova, Mirotic) and then Giannis, you have enough of a rotation. Maybe I'd feel more charitable towards him if he hadn't taken 16 goddamn shots.

No Iggy tonight. Starting mckinnie and j bell. Pdx has got to have some self respect and win this one tonight

jacob evans is getting minutes this game

and myers leonard is hitting shots again

Kerr just emptying the clip haha

The Meyers Leonard game v2

meyers is going to make like $40 million bucks off of this game

hope it's someone else's money

The Knicks have to sign somebody

clippers or brooklyn will sign him and he'll be an all-star

What a weird ass half of hoop

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