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neonreaper posted...

Yeah the Celts were 24% from 3 when they pulled starters. They just didnt turn the ball over as much - if they can keep away from that then they are the better team, but again Miami is just so good at forcing the Celtics into bad offense.

Tatum and Brown are prone to bad offense all by themselves often enough too.

Marcus Smart has the worst defensive rating of any Celtic in this series

DPOY

That post just screams stay off of Twitter

Tatum bumps Embiid to second team for the same reason Tatum was left off last year and lost a ton of money.

Mavs hitting thier 3's tonight, especially Finney-Smith

well this got really interesting for a game that the mavs led by 29

Luka took a hit to the dick and it all started falling apart

kerr put starters back in and the run stalls out

bench would have completed the comeback tbqhhh

Starters were like "actually we were cool losing this one"

Draymond's FT landing on the rim was the most incredible thing to happen tonight

This is like a 2000s playoff game

Nice run by the Celtics. Butler looks so gassed

pls celtics pls

The Golden State Warriors advance to the NBA Finals for the 6th time in 8 years

Game 5 Klay

colliding posted...

warriors heat finals

half right I'm thinking. oh well.

Well, the Heat started the series more healthy than Boston, and now they're not. I'm thinking Celtics close this out tonight if Butler is still limited.

Right now I have curry just outside my top 10 with my list being

Jordan
Lebron
Kareem
Magic
Russell
Kobe
Duncan
Wilt
Bird
Shaq

If curry wins finals mvp. How many spots does he move up?

Honestly unsure if he would pass anybody on that list if he does win, like maybe Shaq or Kobe at most

like even with 4 rings the only two who have less are Bird and Wilt

I mean it's your list

I mean the line of the top 10 is just hard to break into because like its only 10 spots and more and more great players are emerging. Like if Luka wins a couple of championships and has the stats he has now... and actually starts to try on defense... could he be a top 10 player? What about Jokik, who has had a historic statistical season? Of course this is like a few years down the line.

kobe shouldn't be top 10 on anyone's list

i'd probably drop bird out as well

Herro out for the Heat tonight

Lakers hiring Bucks assistant Darvin Ham to be their new head coach

Nobody wanted that job huh

chances of hornets hiring my preferred candidate (kenny atkinson) just went up! Ham had also gotten pretty far along the process with the hornets as well

did they change the rule on charges or what

there have been so many offensive fouls called that aren't offensive fouls

the reffing this game has been so hard against the celtics, fuck

it hurts that the game that favored the celtics, we lost anyway (game 3)

Marcus Smart playing like ass too. Like he needs to assert himself offensively as a 3pt shooter and he sucks at it. So fucking awful.

How many times has the home team actually won a game in this series? 2?

And I know Boston was missing a buncha people for game 1.

absolute masterclass from jimmy butler. not sure he's got one more of those in him

Yeah, this team will only go as far as Butler takes them. The Celtics have completely neutralized Bam, and it's been kind of shocking to see.

Scott Foster this game 7

gonna be fun

Chris Paul should sit courtside in either a Miami or Boston jersey just for the heck of it

Leonhart4 posted...

Chris Paul should sit courtside in either a Miami or Boston jersey just for the heck of it

can't be worse than miami and dallas crowding the sidelines

Miami cuts it down to 6 at halftime considering how they started that's a win for them

LiquidOshawott posted...

Scott Foster this game 7

gonna be fun

ugh

neonreaper posted...

ugh

we actually don't usually get this hosed by Foster, he's absolutely annihilated is though

Draymond was right.

Excruciating

refs did all they could to try and get miami to win, but they were just too bad

Easy to say it in hindsight but Butler definitely shouldn't have settled for that go-ahead 3 and instead drove for the tie.

xp1337 posted...

Easy to say it in hindsight but Butler definitely shouldn't have settled for that go-ahead 3 and instead drove for the tie.

hindsight nothing. that's a bad shot even if you're steph curry

insanely unlucky for miami that strus' 3 got ruled out of bounds like 5 minutes later with very inconclusive evidence.

warriors in 5

Yeah the narrative for two weeks is that Curry should win Finals MVP and stuff - I might not even bother with games that Foster is in. I think hes the guy the NBA really wants front and center again.

what a courageous victory over the refs for the Celtics tonight

this is the finals the NBA wants but I'm honestly not too hyped for it

changmas posted...

insanely unlucky for miami that strus' 3 got ruled out of bounds like 5 minutes later with very inconclusive evidence.

warriors in 5

that was pretty conclusive-looking to me, surprised it's controversial

1LeonhartFour posted...

what a courageous victory over the refs for the Celtics tonight

this is the finals the NBA wants but I'm honestly not too hyped for it

is there a series that would've gotten you more hyped?

Out of the conference finalists, maybe not, although I'd probably want to see Luka the most of all the players who were left. I think the complete and utter lack of any late game drama in either series made me lose interest because I'm not sure the Finals will be any different.

Poor Luka

I feel like Butler should have been series MVP there.