Western Conference Playoffs, Round 1

[chief bromden]

Doc Rivers a mastermind with the white board

 

[Tetsujin]

Trez is not having a great series

 

[Joshoua]

Trez is not having a great series

How does one argue that call haha

 

[Tetsujin]

Really not sure what Doc's rotations are tonight.

 

[Tetsujin]

Clippers not making open shots and that's all she wrote

 

[SLAB]

Unathletic Luka simply blowing past the best defender in the league. Fantastic.

 

[Joshoua]

Really not sure what Doc's rotations are tonight.

Dudes just bad man where’s Zubac, why is Lou closing them game teams will just go at him

 

[Tetsujin]

Considering how much faster the game is played now, it always feels like these counting stats don't mean as much anymore. (Also makes Wilt dropping 100 in a game even more impressive)

 

[Joshoua]

Watching kawhi turn into a flipper broke my heart

 

[Tetsujin]

Dudes just bad man where’s Zubac, why is Lou closing them game teams will just go at him

I mean, I know Beverly was out but he gave 25 minutes to a burnt out Reggie Jackson including a bunch in crunch time.

 

[chief bromden]

Playoff P 4-17 from the field, 2-10 from 3. They don't have a chance of he doesn't show up each night

 

[Joshoua]

I mean, I know Beverly was out but he gave 25 minutes to a burnt out Reggie Jackson including a bunch in crunch time.

And he can’t get his team to play defense with kawhi/Playoff P dude resorted to a zone.


And his hate towards Zubac is mind blowing

 

[Tetsujin]

Also feels like if the Clippers had defended the Mavs bench as well as they fought the Luka lineups in the second half, they'd have won the game. Instead they made Burke look like a right-handed freaking rookie year Reke out there.

 

[SLAB]

This dude is going to be the face of the NBA in like one more season. Again, incredible.

 

[Tetsujin]

This dude is going to be the face of the NBA in like one more season. Again, incredible.

While I agree with the sentiment, how much of the credit for the win tonight are we supposed to give Luka credit for? He sat out most of the 4th quarter in foul trouble while the Clippers puked themselves trying to defend a guy who wasn't even on an NBA roster before the season shutdown.

 

[chief bromden]

This dude is going to be the face of the NBA in like one more season. Again, incredible.

It really is, it feels like he's been in the league five years already. His future might be incomprehensible considering he is only 21 and this good

 

[rainmaker]

LAC might have a problem on their hands.

Luka mediocre tonight by his standards, Porzingis bad, still won and arguably could be up 2-0 if not for NBA corrupt officials.

 

[Tetsujin]

Really feels like without Beverly, the Clippers are just an unbelievably soft team. Like Kawhi is a scrapper and fighter and then the rest of the team just sorta wilts when the other team gets any sort of momentum (we saw this happen with them when the Kings played them in March)

 

[Joshoua]

Twitter is hilarious after Playoff P games


And Boban is a national treasure this guy is amazingly funny

 

[Tetsujin]

Twitter is hilarious after Playoff P games


And Boban is a national treasure this guy is amazingly funny

The face of the NBA in a few years. Wait, wrong Mav?

 

[Joshoua]

The face of the NBA in a few years. Wait, wrong Mav?

I wouldn’t be mad

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1296300762687926272

Same

 

[Joshoua]

Paul George's last 8 playoff games shooting
2 for 16
8 for 24
11 of 20
3 of 16
8 of 21
14 of 20
10 of 22
4 of 17
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60 of 156 39%


Yes Playoff P is a joke

 

[mac]

Also feels like if the Clippers had defended the Mavs bench as well as they fought the Luka lineups in the second half, they'd have won the game. Instead they made Burke look like a right-handed freaking rookie year Reke out there.

Wasn't Reke right handed

 

[Tetsujin]

Wasn't Reke right handed

All the left-handed finishes made me unsure.

 

[Tetsujin]

Good on the Thunder for making the playoffs but wasn’t this the year they were supposed to tank?

 

[Joshoua]

Good on the Thunder for making the playoffs but wasn’t this the year they were supposed to tank?

They saw the draft prospects lol

 

[Tetsujin]

They saw the draft prospects lol

Presti worked super hard to accumulate picks only to get a couple of picks in the 20s in the least exciting draft in years.

 

[Joshoua]

It’s amazing how much non effort whiteside puts in simply amazing, the dude doesn’t care

 

[Joshoua]

Also Melos tough guy act is comical