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oladipo out since the 2nd with a poked eye and still hanging around

the heat and pacers have played like 20 playoff games decided by 6 points or less in the last 10 years

dragic is lights out

his shotmaking has been on point all year... curious what happens w/ him. heat prob won't bring him back and there's no contender cap space out there but so many teams could use his combo of creation and shooting

him and herro playing really well off each other

the amount of flopping in the first 5 minutes of this okc/rockets game is obscene

is there a cp3 harden spidermans pointing meme mock up

How does harden do what he does when he is so soft and out of shape? He's the Phil Kessel of the NBA.

The flop harden just did where he pretended to have a concussion may have some connection to the NBA’s low ratings

Harden with a concussion and a torn ACL already in this game

Harden is gross, I can’t enjoy it any more. Falling down on every 3 point attempt

now doing the CP flop when CP came up behind him with no contact

the three OKC guards playing like booty

donovan will need to switch things up on defense

good breakdown of stott's scheme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41_bcPx9aGk

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Shai looks terrible

Really bad

Lakers doing a lot of yelling as they missed contested floaters

OKC played like garbage and the rockets didn’t miss a three, feels like one of those misleading game 1s

danny green's shot is way the fuck off. 23% in the restart.

Lakers look terrible, getting completely pushed around by nurk. They’re gonna have to yell their way back in this

stotts is playing nurkic and whiteside together and getting away with it because no one on the lakers can shoot

nurkic game is pleasing to the eye

the lakers are gonna need to be dragged to the finals by two guys plain and simple unless they get a good danny green series. i don’t see how they could beat the clippers at this point, those rosters seem really mismatched

also curious to see how much anthony davis enjoys the physicality of this series

re: nurk, for fans of skilled players he's almost the perfect center

lebron must be confident because he is taking the concept of picking one's spots to another level

i can really only think of nurk as what a young, athletic, raw sabonis must've been like but i'm sure that's just weird fan projection

Lakers defensive will keep them in every game it’s that good! And they will get some good looks but consistent shooting has always been the problem

gabriel giving the blazers pretty quality minutes tonight

he's decent! i like him.

lol multiple lakers just fell down simultaneously on defense. i don't think i've ever seen that.

This is my favorite play so far pic.twitter.com/wA5Zti2yYy

— Cranjis McBasketball (@Tim_NBA) August 19, 2020

rube goldberg

gary trent jr meanwhile has been awful in this game on both ends

so, if the Blazes can exactly duplicate their first half results against the Lakers... two-point victory!

everyone suddenly had a lot of faith in gary trent jr.

i could see him having a game where he hits some shots but in terms of guarding lebron he’s been completely overmatched

most players guarding lebron are overmatched and the more important the game, the harder he is to guard

Trent was mostly good in the bubble but did have a couple games where he got cooked. Is high variance quality defense a thing?

i don't think it's variance...generally you can look at the matchup and go from there. like anyone who thought trent was big enough to guard lebron was kidding themselves.

All I can think is that Stotts doesn't want to wear out his offensive stars playing defense on lebron, and he's willing to let lebron have his regular stats line, just not some kind of 40+ point outing.

Yah he’s their best shot

this is going to be a weird series in that so many bad players are going to get minutes

Does CJ have a disability that physically prevents him from passing?

just choked after that dame shot

there is no reason for anyone other than dame to be shooting for the blazers at this point

Does CJ have a disability that physically prevents him from passing?

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, August 18, 2020 11:46 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

i've never liked cj much b/c he doesn't do a lot of basketball things other than shooting

The way it swishes on those Dame bombs gives me a hoopsgasm