Nembhard is the best 3PT shooter who is a 29% 3PT shooter

You guys should know!

My wife who knows very little about basketball knows the name Nembhard from last year, I kept going, “fucking Nembhard again!?”

That 29% from 3 was just a ruse.

It’s something about these Canadian guards man

Vegas didn’t know, +650 to score 20+, thank you Nembhard.

Guy turns into a flamethrower in the playoffs.

Nembhard is more of a playoff riser than James Harden and Joel Embiid lmao

Playoff Nemby is something to witness.

always has been

Nembhard is insane.

this is NOT going to be a cakewalk for the Cavs

Mentioned this in the game thread, never seen a guy improve his 3ball so much in playoffs that defenses should not sag off of him.

Nembhard is up there with Dwhite/Gordon as a truly elite role player that every contender would love to have

Nembhard got a brother coming in next year too I think lol 

The Cavs went at Haliburton on back to back to back possessions in the final few minutes and the results were being forced into awkward (missed) layup, airball, and blocked shot. Haliburton’s defense tightens when it matters

Don’t worry we also all randomly decide to just shit the bed. And playoff Nembhard is different than regular season Nembhard….

Ty Jerome continuing to try and do the half court 3 foul bait was hilarious Should be a fun series!

Garland is usually key to getting those two going in the pick and roll. Big miss today.

Mobley was amazing tonight, I admittedly don’t watch a ton of Cavs basketball and I was super impressed.

I am wondering if it was Pacers gameplan to let Mitchell get his and deny the rest of the team. Felt like Donavan faced very little resistance to the rim in the 2nd and 3rd quarters.

Garland is the main one who gets them open looks

Happened last year against us too. For some reason Mobley and Allen turn to ducks at the end of games like this

“The Pacers have really stepped up their- BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMP!!!!!!!

(shot clock buzzer)

The audio was so bad it’s honestly why I was so checked out of this game. I should be more sullen, but I’m more irritated that I was forced to watch the game on mute.

The Pacers played so well that they deserve more salt from me.

Seriously. I could have done a better job and I’ve never handled a live broadcast in my life. The compressor they had on either the master channel or side chained to the court mics was SO dramatic, even the shoe squeaks were ducking the sound of the announcers

You could have convinced me this broadcast was what played over the radio with how muffled it was.

Mavs and Celtics are the only fanbases who actually gave the Pacers their respect prior lol

People still think that transition dominant teams will be nullified in the playoffs. Idk but the Pacers have shown for 5 series straight at this point they can’t be stopped. The defense has no control over it.

Probably because they don’t watch the Pacers lol bunch of casuals that need their opinions heard

We’ve been fighting the 2021 Hawks allegations all year, what else is new?

Yeah, they’re no pushover.

People dont watch other teams.

This series is over if Garland doesnt play for Cleveland

People underestimate how bad Miami was this year. We were REALLY fucking bad lol

We tried telling you guys

I will die on this hill that most of this sub have not watched a full game of any team until the playoffs

Cavs in 4 (starting now)

Thunder will probably get pushed to 6 at least too 

There should be no sweeps this round 

I kept telling people the Pacers were the hardest team the Celtics played all playoffs and it won’t surprise me at all if they upset the cavs

Very close series. Boston was just clutch. Indy could have fucked around and won 3 of those games.

We look like this a lot. It’s just that normally when people watch, we look like we do against the fucking trailblazers or the hornets.

When it doesn’t was before January. We are one of the best teams in the NBA since then.

His defense was great tonight! He shouldn’t be put in the Luka/Trae tiers of defense

Keep him underrated. He was absolute fire on both ends in key moments

He was methodically and effortlessly dismantling the Cavs defense. He made the right pass damn near every single time. One of the best pure PGs of the last 20 years.

never understood why this generation of fans have to hate so hard… just appreciate the great athletes we get the privilege of watching. everyone’s always so worried about rankings or “player x is better than player y” just be a thatboynice enjoyer and chill tf out

It’s as if people forgot that this very Indiana team made it all the way to the ECF just last year!

The Pacers play Ethical Basketball.

Adding just a healthy Mathurin from last years team will do wonders for them.

Agreed lol. It felt like we were so awful all game long and it was still a game with 5 mins left. Indiana played great and has some things they can clean up to play even better.

Hopefully Garland comes back healthy soon.

After all that, home court advantage 💨

Someone could really do an analysis of how much lag time there is between media perception and perfomance

Hali has had such insane swings of stretches of incredible play and some bad stretches it feels like he’ll never be properly rated

He traveled at least 4 times today

Right? Pacers clearly did their homework and knew to stay home on these shots, he’s gotta get into his float game more

We got one thing but we’re so fucking good at it lol

The Cavs have relied on running away from teams with their scoring all year, but that isn’t going to work against the Pacers, they can keep up. Which means to win this, the Cavs will have to execute under pressure late-game in the playoffs, which this core has historically struggled to do.

There’s also the fact that Indiana is fully 5-out and Cleveland are not.

Will be an interesting series.

lol it’d be Luka if the poll was today. Hilarious how the sentiment has shifted since the first round.

That Pacers series last year was brutal even though it was a sweep.

we are familiar with nembhard’s game

What a great season this has been so far

100% upvoted for any Caitlin Cooper reference. Basketball she wrote is a mandatory follow.

He hits the most stupid 3’s to exist. Must be infuriating to watch as an opposing fan but being a supporter makes it a joy to watch.

Pacers are 5-1 in the playoffs since Tyrese was voted most overrated player in the league.

I found out last year

That’s fair, but anyone acting like this Cavs team is fake after one game is crazy too. I know you aren’t but I see plenty of others. This is probably a 6 game series if I had to guess right now. Hopefully it’s a good series, I wish we played better defense even if we lost cause that was pathetic.

One of the most competitive sweeps I saw ever. (Celtics pacers last year). You guys know

We’d need SECURITY STAT

That’s what he does.

man we could win the title and still wouldn’t get respect lol

thats how it is being in Indiana

lol that’s an insane comparison to make after one game, Cavs had a much better net rating than that hawks team anyways. The Pacers are legit, but they should be winning games where they shoot 53% from 3 compared to the Cav’s 24% lmao

I mean they are missing one of their 3 best players who’s an all star

That challenge call was absolutely great coaching imo. It was a longshot that it would get overturned. But what it did do was temper the crowd with a timeout after an offensive foul, which often gets people hyped. They had a commercial to sit and stew instead of getting hyped on the next possession.

No one knows for certain

It’s so odd that the Celtics are one of the only fanbases to give pacers respect 😭 not complaining but damn lol