2018 NBA playoffs running thread

First round in the west is going to be interesting, probably one of the more interesting first rounds since you have about five teams that all virtually tied - won't mean anything in the end.
I do think the playoffs are fun because they make and break players. Doesn't matter what your shoe deal is, how much you get paid - you lose in the first round and you pretty much wear it. Either you didn't play well enough or you didn't make your teammates better.
On the other hand, these playoffs could take the Brow, Simmons and O Frikio to another level.

 

So last offseason, there was some FIRE on here about the deal JJ Reddick got. It seems less based on substance (Philly had money it needed to burn and did so with no long-term question), but more on the principal that Reddick wasn't good enough for the paycheck.

From that lens, he's probably still not. But at season's end, he was the second-leading per-game scorer for the upstart No. 3 seed in the East. He shot 42 percent on 6.6 3s a game, was a respectable 50-plus percent from 2, didn't mess up the No. 4 defense in the league. Missing 12 games isn't the best. So was that worth it to folks?

 

Yep, I recall @Songbird was totally up in arms over Redick's contract.

But a season later I think it's proven to be damn good use of that money. Especially given how useless Fultz turned out to be, the Sixers needed Redick even more than they realized at the time. And he delivered.

 

Yes, JJ Redick and $25 million a year were incongruent in the same sentence.

But yes, JJ Redick had a nice year for the Sixers.

 

Found what I said at the time. I'll stand by this.

 

Rozier just made a Milwaukee defender look silly to hit a 3-pointer with .5 seconds to put Boston up. Wow.

 

Holy Crap!

 

Go figure. Rozier left too much time on the clock!

Hell of a finish to regulation.

 

This has been an excellent game. Bledsoe has not had a very good game at all (he was the guy Rozier pantsed).

 

Gonna be tough for the Cavs to whip Toronto again at this rate.

 

Oladipo went nuts. Cavs had five different players who combined for more than 40 minutes of game time and didn't add a point.
Better flip that switch.

 

James had a triple-double, the kind a superstar can rack up when he's the only player on his team doing anything at all in a hopeless loss I'd love to know how many of his passes became missed shots by other Cavs alongside his 12 assists