Board 8 > NBA playoffs - where Devin Booker happens

(+) Yeah! (+)

The Miami Butler jumps into big men offense is working wonders too

Heat bailed out on that foul. That was a bad possession by them.

Edit: Oh man, and it was a 3 LOL.

i cant imagine a more predictable outcome with that offensive scheme.

wow

holy shit

welp the heat are not winning game 7

can boston handle all the pressure? can a boston team make history again?

So we have our first reverse sweep in the NBA and an NHL one is halfway there, funsies.

All this does is guarantee Denver beats whomever wins Game 7 because they're going to be drained from this series

And it guarantees the most painful outcome either way for the loser

Sometimes trying not to lose makes you lose

JB with the shade

Crescent-Moon posted...

So we have our first reverse sweep in the NBA and an NHL one is halfway there, funsies.

Boston isn't the first team down 0-3 to force a Game 7, so let's not heap praise on them yet

https://twitter.com/LeBatardShow/status/1662658714619322370

The ultimate showdown

greatest fear:

1. these are still the celtics so we can blow any game at any time

2. we're playing heavier minutes than they are. tatum looked absolutely gassed after his explosion in the 2nd quarter.

3. butler's game 6 was similar to tatum's game 6 in round 2 where he was 1/13 and then scored four 3s in 5 minutes. tatum followed that up with 51 in game 7, so i think we need to expect game 7 to be the BUTLER game

but right now

good god. don't know if i'll ever truly process this. feels like this is what always happens TO us, it's never the celtics actually pulling it off

Too geeked up to sleep

funniest outcome by far is the phoenix suns outcome where boston is down 30 at the half and all the fans start leaving

Caleb Martin cant win with these clowns.

https://twitter.com/tomhaberstroh/status/1662875337925992453

https://twitter.com/KeithSmithNBA/status/1663171560658681858

Oh boy

From what I'm seeing, the Celtics have a bad record with Brothers and the Heat have a bad record with Foster. This should be interesting.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

You're right - the Celtics are terrible with Brothers. He's both Zarba-esque (i.e., inconsistent and likely to result in a shitty FT-fest) AND the Celtics perform worse with him. (Zarba was responsible for the utter lack of FTs in the first quarter last night followed by giving FTs on 80% of possessions in the second.)

Despite his reputation, I actually have generally thought Foster's Celtics games have been fair. But with Brothers we need more than just fair, we need bias in favor of the Celtics!

Leonhart4 posted...

From what I'm seeing, the Celtics have a bad record with Brothers and the Heat have a bad record with Foster. This should be interesting.

who wants it more

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1663285148060614657?s=46&t=LcnVhvuWdhkEo6IPfiCB1A

Hmm.....

thinking 45 for Butler tonight

30 free throws because Mazula cant figure out how to avoid the switch onto Horford

52 for Butler to break Tatum's Game 7 record

first to 52 wins

_PandaMaster_ posted...

https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1663285148060614657?s=46&t=LcnVhvuWdhkEo6IPfiCB1A

Hmm.....

I feel like the coaching carousel these days has gotten out of control. Perhaps it was always this way, but I feel increasingly like there aren't coaches closely associated with the culture of a team. There really are just a few teams out there that feel that way. 3 of the last 4 title winning coaches have been fired, and only Steve Kerr hasn't been, who is one of the few that feels like he's part of a team's culture and it'd be hard to imagine him not there. The next coach that is still on a team he coached to the finals is all the way back in 2014 with Popovich, and then Spoelstra. Even if the Heat blow this series I can't picture them firing him over it either, though I could be wrong on that perhaps.

It really feels like the era of the great coaches has gone though. I think once the three guys I mentioned are gone, it might be an endless cycle of hiring and firing with no one closely associated with any one franchise.

https://www.si.com/nba/2023/05/29/lonzo-ball-chicago-bulls-might-never-play-again-due-to-injury

damn..

These teams seem tired

v_charon posted...

I feel like the coaching carousel these days has gotten out of control. Perhaps it was always this way, but I feel increasingly like there aren't coaches closely associated with the culture of a team. There really are just a few teams out there that feel that way. 3 of the last 4 title winning coaches have been fired, and only Steve Kerr hasn't been, who is one of the few that feels like he's part of a team's culture and it'd be hard to imagine him not there. The next coach that is still on a team he coached to the finals is all the way back in 2014 with Popovich, and then Spoelstra. Even if the Heat blow this series I can't picture them firing him over it either, though I could be wrong on that perhaps.

It really feels like the era of the great coaches has gone though. I think once the three guys I mentioned are gone, it might be an endless cycle of hiring and firing with no one closely associated with any one franchise.

I think this year was a coincidental confluence of factors. The fact is that the league is driven by players. Coaches can only do so much, and this dynamic means that sometimes coaches are carried by the players and when that veil gets exposed, stuff hits the fan.

Look at the guys fired: Bud should've been gone 2 years ago but he got bought some time by giannis and co winning the title. When his team underperformed yet again, the same criticisms got brought up as last time they failed and he was fired for that reason. Nurse is probably a good coach but also only has 1 title and was explicitly carried by Kawhi to that title; he also had been giving signs iirc that he wasn't totally invested there anymore, he even thought about retiring I thought? Doc has always been a players' coach instead of an x's/o's coach, and was riding his successful celtics time for years. I think the only questionable one is monty, and I think that was mostly a case of new ownership wanting to bring in his own guy, but I don't think he alone is the herald of a new age of coaching carousels or something.

Coaches have always been fired for the reasons that the above guys were, this season there just happened to be a bunch of high profile ones all at once.

That was my thought in the first quarter when both teams were just shooting airballs one after another.

Ah well

we had the wrong heat player to go for 52

playoff caleb

Heat gonna shock the world beating the nuggets

bam needs to buy caleb martin like a house or something because he looks awful out there on offense and would be the primary reason for the heat losing if caleb wasn't going off

SirChris posted...

Heat gonna shock the world beating the nuggets

in 1 of the 5 games

lol celtics. Cant overcome the down 0-3 curse. brown is having a particularly bad game.

Concerning the coaches being fired. What's interesting about that is that the fanbases by large seem to be in support of their respective coach's firing, which shows, to some extent, that the coach failed to connect on a positive level with that fanbase. I think you're right that the way coaches are viewed is changing from how they were in the past.

UltimaterializerX posted...

I mean it has to be better to get swept than to force game 7 and get blown out at home, right?

If you're a cowardly fan perhaps

what a despicable end to the season

i wonder how much money someone could have won had they bet at the start of the playoffs that any team besides the bucks, celtics, or 76ers would make the finals.

https://twitter.com/WorldWideWob/status/1663376839765815296

in case you forgot

UltimaterializerX posted...

I mean it has to be better to get swept than to force game 7 and get blown out at home, right?

The right answer is to force the gentlemen's sweep. Win game 4 and then lose game 5 like you're supposed to.

nuggets in 4 locked.

mayyyyyyyyyybe in 5 if jimmy goes nuclear one time

I honestly think Miami's best chance is Game 1. When the Nuggets get too cold you gotta Heat em up.

LeonhartFour posted...

https://twitter.com/WorldWideWob/status/1663376839765815296

in case you forgot

Can't wait for Chicago to use this as justification to continue with that awful team.

The Heat are running on fumes right now. The Nuggets basically got a full week off, and they earned it. If they don't hang a champions banner from the rafters after this, something will have to go terribly wrong.

They'll be too rusty sitting for a week and drop one of thier first two home

Heat in 6

Heat in 5