18 fucking rebounds jesus christ

was jaylen brown trying to beat bam 83 adebayo’s record or something?

Yeah that was frustrating to say the least, but thankfully just got back to the strategy of “let the Jays take over a game”

Nobody in the NBA is playing any kind of defense tonight. 6 Teams have put up 130+ so far, and nobody’s finished with <100. Tomorrow’s box score threads are going to be fun.

Those percentages were insane. How do you hit nearly 50% from three and still lose?

They left Jaquez and Mitchel open, try that 10 times they miss most of them ⁹⁄₁₀

Derrick White erasure smh

Keeping your young superstars and seeing them grow and succeed must be so fulfilling.

legit the type of players you’d say “what if they played together” if they were on seprate teams

The last time it was even remotely effective was ²⁰²²⁄₂₃. Guess he was just trying to throw shit at the wall and see what stuck?

In a way I’m grateful for those miserable zones, has to have helped elevate Tatum’s playmaking to what it is now. 

I loved when they double teamed. Seemed almost effortless for either of them to avoid and get the ball moving to the open man.

In a weird way, Tatum’s injury has helped JB. He’s so much more aware of what’s going on around him. There were a couple of times tonight where, in the olden days, he would have put his head down and dribbled straight into trouble of a double/triple team. But now, he had his head up, realised what was happening, drew the double and moved the ball instead.

Bruh I just checked the Red Sox and wtf. I saw them win on opening day and haven’t heard anything since

Sox trading Mookie started up a dynasty shame they didn’t learn from themselves a century ago. At least Roman is great lol

As is tradition

Cora is baseball Doc Rivers. Nothing bad is ever his daily and he is milking the hell out of 1 title from a stacked team.

Somebody in the game thread was calling him Nikola Tatum lol

East?

Tatum and White are the best duo in the east?

Im tired boss

Jimmy has left nothing but disasters in his wake.

Pat has too much pride too.

Just Bam and a bunch of role players

Bam is also a role players…

Coward

Yeah but 51% from 3 and 46% from the field, how the hell did that happen. Almost did a ⁴⁰⁄₅₀ split

And shooting more FTs

Miami ended the 3rd on a ⁴⁄₄ from 3 run in like a minute and a half to cut it to 10

Miami set their franchise record for most threes in a quarter, and still got smoked.

It may be one of the most impressive injury recoveries in all of sports. Considering the timing and the context of how devastating this injury has been to basketball players historically?

Increases in sports medicine of course, but an all-time effort from JT, he attacked rehab like a mad man. 7+ hour days 6 days a week for months on end is grueling. People will say “oh he’s rich it’s his job”, but rehab is hard both physically and mentally and it’s a testament to JTs dedication and willpower that he was able to come back as quick as he did and look as good as he does.

It’s cause it was a lame 83.

To do what exactly? Bam is not a franchise player he’s a role player

Why would that scare them? He is a role player that will be making $50m+/year

To be fair, they were incredibly hot tonight, they set a shooting record in one quarter. The Celtics were just hotter.

Well neither team really played much defense but with the ball, yes.

“What the fuck is ‘defense’?” - both teams tonight lol

you mean those finals the c’s didn’t make because the heat beat them?