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

forget it jake its silicon valleytown

and so forth

oracle hasn't been what it was

Maybe inside the arena. Outside, it's not too different than it was. I doubt that vibe will carry over to Mission Bay.

yeah more just in game noise and hype during games. they still party outside

eesh i havent been to a game there since 09

sure i mentioned i went to a game there years ago to see yao ming, the warriors werent any good but the vibe was still lively

love a good lively vibe to go along with my tall people watching

its really the way to go

they had an in house band and mike dunleavys parents were sitting a few rows behind me

dubnation hated them some dunleavy

pretty underwhelming player tbf

2. Jay Williams
3. Dunleavy
4. Drew Gooden
5. Tskitishvili
6. DeJuan Wagner

the 2002 lottery wasn't the best

eesh

Just seeing the name Jay Williams gives me Bulls fan PTSD

lowry is on one

Jesus fucking Christ guys

holy shit Ibaka is balling out

the refs are “letting them reprieve”

lol. “letting them play”

Kind of embarrassing for the Bucks to be playing this poorly while Kawhi is a non factor

Holy shit Mirotic is having an awful game

when the bucks can’t score off a PNR their halfcourt offense dies

it’s just crazy to me that bud has... no plays ??? ... to get giannis the ball near the basket? am i missing something?

spoelstra for instance always had plays where lebron would duck into the post and get the ball on the block. i don’t see much off ball movement from the bucks.

they did just run a good play out of a timeout

yea they seem completely lost on offense right now and are leaving someone open on 3 on nearly every possession, not exactly a recipe for winning hoops

i’m getting nervous on the raptors behalf about this game getting tight in this arena with kawhi dragging a leg around

seems like forever since Middleton's played like this

yeah one does feel like toronto needs to survive at this point and 17 minutes is a lot of surviving to do.

Really bizarre how giannis was like a house on fire for the first two minutes of the game and has basically had his foot off the gas ever since. I know he just made that 3 but he was being guarded by Norman freaking Powell, should have drove on him.

god sit down Drake

bucks gotta pack this one in

wow, great work by the raps bench

yah this is getting out of hand

Got ourselves a series

Nice to see lowry play well

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

good reminder that a lot of playoff series have twist/turns we don’t initially see coming

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?