Commentators were confused as hell too.

he’s pretty clutch too. i honestly rather him taking the shot than almost anyone besides kennard

Maxi’s a great screener, so I’m sure the calculation was that it’s better to get the shot they want than to have the most options for a shot. They got a good shot too and Maxi did his job screening SGA (I think?) to get AR open, just didn’t go down. But that said I’d rather go down with Rui on the floor for the last shot with the game he’s having than throwing Maxi in ice cold.

Playoff 3 point shooting record? Benched. GTFO

Maybe the only mistake JJ made tonight?

My guess is because Rui specializes on corner 3s and it’s harder to make an inbounds play for that vs a wing 3?

Reddick bet the under on Rui

Only explanation 

he JUST hit a 4 point play like 2 possessions ago too

?? And Redick got a great shot out of it, this is misplaced

i mean it wouldnt have made a difference the play was for Reaves

Ayton is such a bad fit for this Laker’s team. He is the complete opposite of the type of center that they need to maximize Luka/Reaves/LeBron.

Where do the Lakers go from here? Just run it back and hope for the best?

Stop, they’re already dead haha

Alexa, play Vindicated by Dashboard Confession

Give him DominAyton’s bling

Rui legacy post season

Dominayton is outta there

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I am proud of this team, they got no business being at second round with Luka hurt, and yea OKC is too much

the refs did good not blowing the whistle as much in the 4th.

it was an entertaining game despite the loss. GG OKC. there wasn’t as much bullshit in this game

The 4th quarter stretch with everyone on both teams just going band for band was fucking awesome

If we won I legitimately would’ve went to sleep happy as shit lol

Thunder role players all took turns stepping up during the series, meanwhile Lakers got almost nothing out of their bench besides Hayes today.

Reddick’s a hell of a coach and Bron tried his absolute best, only so much you can do.

Interesting how both Lakers and Suns performed their best on Game 4 but damn this Thunder team has an answer for everything. 

Gonna spend all summer thinking about how JJ should’ve played Rui to tie the game. I’ll forget the part where we were gonna lose the series anyway.

We did tell ya

He’s lower than that. He a dang calf

Nah, you Lakers fanboys were up and down on him like he was valuable for his contract. There’s a reason the jailblazers paid him to leave 

The matchup this season is 0-8 with a 22pt margin. They did it twice to prove it wasn’t a fluke 

Ayton must have some dirt on JJ. He’s still should have been benched for Hayes after game 1

yeah that game was amazing. i love shitting on the lakers but its respectable that they didnt just lay down on the floor down 3-0 and made it entertaining

My vote is game 6 Minnesota/Denver

Really? The Wolves/Spurs series has been cinema (except the blow out). Good game though.

Tell me you haven’t seen any wolves games without saying you ain’t seen any wolves games.

If they come out with some fake dominayton chain that shit will hit like crack. 

this is all i care about

Hard to beat when the best player in the series is on a $3M/year contract. Holy.

Their side of the bracket was just too good. Even with Houston winning vs Lakers and even with KD, I doubt they get 1 game from OKC. Other side is a bloodbath aside from POR

Has there every been such a lopsided matchup in NBA history (Reg + playoffs)

The definition of owning. This really reminds me of when they were unable to get over that Denver hurdle for quite a while.

No Luka for 6.5 of those, no LeBron for 2

But yeah the margin is rough

A lot of words for someone with no words

The ball was always going to Reaves or Bron. Sure Rui should have been on the court. But he wasn’t touching the ball that possession anyways

it was not that big of a mistake idk why Candace and DWade were harping on it so much. The play was for Reaves. having Rui in would have made 0 difference

I think JJ did it because he needed the center to screen for that specific play and for that niche purpose, Maxi > Rui.

Hayes is also a decent backup big, despite his stupidity at times. Aytons gotta go though

We would have put up a lot more fight if Luka was available. Perhaps even won 1-2 games vs OKC imo.

At times throughout the playoffs, our offense was stagnant af. Luka would have been impactful during those times. Could have swept Rockets too.

we mayyyybe push it to 6 if there are insane Luka games, but I think our roster has too many flaws

Exactry the same most likely. Luka can’t guard anybody on the thunder

Jaxson Hayes took his minutes in the clutch.

He’s cooked.

To be fair to Smart he has come up big for them in other spots this playoffs, especially the first round. Every now and then you just catch a case of the Marcus Dumb in return.

Those were some BS fouls. One of them the guy jumped over him and didn’t even touch him. Another was a solid ass screen they called moving.

Brother, literally would have made 0 difference. And we got a good look at a 3 point shot with one of our best clutch shooters in Austin. Just didn’t go in but Maxi set a really good screen for Austin there.

what difference would that have made

Ggs man. Guys played hard tonight. Our shallow depth really showed today. Daryl morey wont see the pearly gates for that McCain donation

They REALLY wanted to avoid the sweep but c’est la vie. Only so much you can do with a talent deficit that large.

Do we not count baseball or

Needed to screen exactly 1 person. He did it too.

Then AR missed the shot that was created off the screen.

Shoulda had AR on the bench and Rui taking the shot, shit.

Literally seen people say this is why he’s not the goat like he’s didn’t just have to he best postseason of a 41 year old ever. So stupid

I couldn’t believe he missed it. You just assume that goes in

And Nick Wright is writhing in agony

Except for you Ayton, China is waiting instead

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