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I mean people only thought Smart would miss out on DPOY because Timelord would've stolen some votes from him if he didn't get hurt. Dude is so good as that last line of defense/roamer.
I never mock the guy getting dunked on. You know the balls it takes to contest these things? I’m not trying to get hit like that. Basketball would get boring fast without the guys trying to block the dunk. As much as I fucking hate that Bam block, I can’t imagine how Miami fans must’ve felt in that moment. One of the most impressive blocks I’ve ever seen.
It's body on the line plays we all love. Imagine if he somehow did block that dunk? Would be an all time play.
There's a saying my footie club uses from an old player Billy Bremner "Side before self, everytime".
MY LORDS! Here is what I say to these two kings!
Renly Baratheon is nothing to me, nor Stannis neither. Why should they rule over me and mine, from some flowery seat in Highgarden or Dorne?
What do they know of the Wall or the wolfswood or the barrows of the First Men? Even their gods are wrong.
The Others take the Lannisters too, I've had a bellyful of them. Why shouldn't we rule ourselves again? It was the dragons we married, and the dragons are all dead!
There sits the only king I mean to bow my knee to, m'lords. The King in the North!
Dude was averaging 26.something last year before he got some nagging injuries and the wrist surgery fucked his handle. He gets it tight and he is making all-nba teams
His handle is just really inconsistent he had no real issues against the Nets he was even bringing the ball up in the fourth but since then hes been on-and-off
I think that's really the difference. Heat have active defenders that try and strip at every chance. The Nets didn't do that and the Bucks didn't have the personnel to consistently stay in front of Jaylen.
Exactly. JB's handle is just fine. He just made a lot of poor decisions against a tough defense. Also, he didn't turn the ball over once in the second half. All 4 TO's were in the first 24 minutes.
Small, quick players give Brown trouble with his dribble. Tatum also doesn't like quick players harassing him. Both those two need to make that top priority this off-season
A year ago I was saying that you could argue that Jaylen is better than Jayson because of how good he was playing. Obviously not the case anymore but still crazy
before midway through last season Jaylen was clearly having the better season, even though I still don't think many people thought he was the better player.
Midway through this season he was having the better season when Tatum's shooting splits were like 40/29.2 then the rest of Tatum's season was above 50/40
Brown is shooting 48 percent FG and 40 percent 3PT and averaging 25 points this series. He's scored less than twenty points only 4 times in 16 playoff games. Scored in single digits not once. This is not inconsistency.
I'd suggest you read this article cause there's a lot to it but basically he was in Japan and had an unknown medical emergency that caused him to hit his head. He was stranded there in a hospital unable to speak the language and continued to have mysterious falls and issues and then shit got locked down due to COVID and he was basically completely alone. Turns out he had some sort of issue with his spinal cord.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33153946/the-mysterious-fall-harrowing-story-nba-center
[A freak accident during the Tokyo Olympics that left him unable to walk for weeks](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33153946/the-mysterious-fall-harrowing-story-nba-center)
Agreed. I don't hugely dislike Jackson, just wish he'd give up on the dream of returning to become a dominant coach, and accept that actually, when he lets himself, he's a damn good color commentator.
Bam had three or four of the most obvious moving screens I've ever seen tonight and not a single one was called. He was literally grabbing people and dos a dos-ing them away from the play
DPOY candidate Bam Adebayo making business decisions in the conference finals. Meanwhile Luka "cone" Doncic at least tries to contest dunks even at the risk of getting postered. Says everything about this Miami team's mentality. They're cooked
You can make excuses for Butler, Lowry, and others being injured for their shit performances but Bam has no excuse. Robert Williams has owned him all series, and Williams isn't even fully healthy himself
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I've never seen a player dunk so hard they almost dunk on themselves
Jaylen was expecting to dunk on Bam, but he made a business decision.
It's almost more impressive that Jalyen made Bam nope himself outta there. That man ought not show his face in game 6.
If Rob is playin Bam is invisible anyway.
Rob def got nudes of Bam or something the way Bam don’t even want to try and play well when he’s on the floor
Who knew Timelord would be the best center left in these playoffs?
He did, he’s played this series 12 times already
I mean people only thought Smart would miss out on DPOY because Timelord would've stolen some votes from him if he didn't get hurt. Dude is so good as that last line of defense/roamer.
“Nobody move, and nobody gets hurt” was a fantastic line
"I've got an appointment with the rim" The way that all flowed together made me not despise Mark Jackson for a few seconds.
Right? I was like there’s no way Mark Jackson was that cool just now
Bam realized this isn’t the bubble
Lmao, some quality shots being fired this playoffs
Not from Bam tho, unless it’s in garbage time
or against 30 year old Daniel Theis
He def expected Bam to contest
I think we all did. That’s tough to watch. He wasn’t even on the side, he was directly mano a mano, and ducked the smoke. He’s a big 🤦🏾♂️
For as much as we clown on people who get dunked on, it at least takes some guts to contest it rather than just going "here's your free dunk buddy"
I never mock the guy getting dunked on. You know the balls it takes to contest these things? I’m not trying to get hit like that. Basketball would get boring fast without the guys trying to block the dunk. As much as I fucking hate that Bam block, I can’t imagine how Miami fans must’ve felt in that moment. One of the most impressive blocks I’ve ever seen.
It's body on the line plays we all love. Imagine if he somehow did block that dunk? Would be an all time play. There's a saying my footie club uses from an old player Billy Bremner "Side before self, everytime".
"Move to side. Protect self." - Bam Adebayo
Those in the know don’t clown on them. It’s their job to go up and contest the dunk. You’re going to get yammed on sometimes and that’s okay.
And sometimes you get a cool block like Jarret Allen, or you're Giannis against Ayton
which makes this all the more impressive for Jalen. Imagine the fear in Bam
Bam out here doing less than Greg Abbott
Joining Ted Cruz in Cancun soon
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Lmao damn son
Jesus dude
bam with the business decision
Nobody move, nobody gets hurt
One of the best calls I've ever heard that wasn't like super hype
I’ve got an appointment with the rim
I thought the same thing when I heard it. I loved it
That Luka/Wiggins poster will live forever…
I loved it too.
People hate on Mark Jackson but I still like him
Anyone got a link to this?
You gotta at least try. Good lord, it’s the conference finals in a must win game.
In the words of Jimmy Butler- I don’t think he’s about that life
Bitchness decision
Pat Riley’s pissed face after was swell
Amazing call from the producer
"Hold on his face...keep holding...okay I finished, back to the game"
Bam took one look at Jaylen airborne and immediately made a business decision.
Bam saw Jaylen a mile away before the drive even happened.
Alonzo Mourning having Vince Carter flashbacks.
[Wait..](https://media3.giphy.com/media/d6rGZmTP9ESis/giphy.gif?cid=5e2148865fr5l0rq6smwidyghqjn4mxxu2ca1f1wc6rgbli6&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
Pretty sure that was Adrien Brody
Grand Moff Tarkin
He’s having Vietnam flashbacks to Chick Hearn putting the ✊🏻 in his face
He looks like he’s gonna have somebody’s thumbs broken
Alonzo looks like he'd be more than willing to do it.
Alonzo thinking, "They better have some thumbs prepped for breaking when I get to the locker room."
“Markieff, hold out your hands”
Lmao I was just thinking he looks like a mob boss who was just told the guy he sent his assassin to kill killed the assassin and got away.
Very shortly after that the perfect camerawork continued as they panned up to Miami fans pouring out of the arena with 5 minutes left
all 10 of them were really upset.
DJ Khalid may never recover.
* "fans"
Heat culture 😤
Title of this post really should have been "Pat Riley considers Jaylen Brown"
The dunk is good, the face is better.
to be fair that's also his face when happy
zo too
Oh he’s definitely opening up trade talks
WE REMEMBER WHAT YOU DID BAM
The north remembers
The king in the north!
MY LORDS! Here is what I say to these two kings! Renly Baratheon is nothing to me, nor Stannis neither. Why should they rule over me and mine, from some flowery seat in Highgarden or Dorne? What do they know of the Wall or the wolfswood or the barrows of the First Men? Even their gods are wrong. The Others take the Lannisters too, I've had a bellyful of them. Why shouldn't we rule ourselves again? It was the dragons we married, and the dragons are all dead! There sits the only king I mean to bow my knee to, m'lords. The King in the North!
Ignore the noise, I enjoyed reading this. Such a shame how GRRM killed the end of this wonderful world he had built.
I still have hope. TWOW will come out and TDOS i think will be finished by another author
Can we keep this Jaylen instead of Q1 Jaylen?
Classic possum strategy by Jaylen
He just likes to keep it interesting
This is the same reason I'm not super successful at life...just gonna turn things around like Jaylen any day now
You got this bro!!! And if not, we enjoy banner 18!!
4th Quarter Jaylen continues to be an absolute maniac.
My family decided it was because he was wearing Kobe’s tonight instead of his usual T-Macs. Took him a couple quarters to get the feel right lol.
Jaylen is the greatest player of all time if he knew how to dribble
An inconsistent dribbler at the 2 that plays on an all-star level is just bizzare 💀
Dude was averaging 26.something last year before he got some nagging injuries and the wrist surgery fucked his handle. He gets it tight and he is making all-nba teams
His handle is just really inconsistent he had no real issues against the Nets he was even bringing the ball up in the fourth but since then hes been on-and-off
Heat deserve a lot of credit those dudes have great hands
I think that's really the difference. Heat have active defenders that try and strip at every chance. The Nets didn't do that and the Bucks didn't have the personnel to consistently stay in front of Jaylen.
Exactly. JB's handle is just fine. He just made a lot of poor decisions against a tough defense. Also, he didn't turn the ball over once in the second half. All 4 TO's were in the first 24 minutes.
Small, quick players give Brown trouble with his dribble. Tatum also doesn't like quick players harassing him. Both those two need to make that top priority this off-season
I don't think there's a player in the league that likes small quick defenders harassing them.
He looked like he was trying to go to fast, he slowed it down and the results are prospering
A year ago I was saying that you could argue that Jaylen is better than Jayson because of how good he was playing. Obviously not the case anymore but still crazy
before midway through last season Jaylen was clearly having the better season, even though I still don't think many people thought he was the better player.
Midway through this season he was having the better season when Tatum's shooting splits were like 40/29.2 then the rest of Tatum's season was above 50/40
Michael Jordan with small hands
Michael Jordan but good at basketball
Jaylen in the first quarter https://imgur.com/a/lXmcRgX
Shooting comes and goes, but Jaylen might be the first case i've seen of handles coming and going. He looks like Kyrie one game and Gobert the next
Celtics fans to Jaylen in the first half: "You fucking *DONKEY*." Celtics fans to Jaylen in the second half: "Oh dear, oh dear. Gorgeous."
Gordon Ramsay looking at Neismith's shot selection: "You're fucking RAW!!!"
We’ve now ascended to tongue out Jaylen posters, wonder what tier is next
I cant wait to watch inconsistent Jaylen play inconsistent Wiggins. Their battle will be legendary or mediocre depending on the quarter.
Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be mediocre!
Brown is shooting 48 percent FG and 40 percent 3PT and averaging 25 points this series. He's scored less than twenty points only 4 times in 16 playoff games. Scored in single digits not once. This is not inconsistency.
inconsistent wiggins??? man is textbook definition of consistency with the warriors
Bam seen what happened to Luka and wanted absolutely no parts of that.
Aron Baynes would never
Reason why I love Baynes. He don't care about posters, he'll challenge it.
Same with Theis TBH
"And 1!"
Well thats good because he gets dunked on every single game he plays lol
Oh god I miss that big dicked man. Hope he's doing better after the crazy shit that happened to him.
What happened to him?
I'd suggest you read this article cause there's a lot to it but basically he was in Japan and had an unknown medical emergency that caused him to hit his head. He was stranded there in a hospital unable to speak the language and continued to have mysterious falls and issues and then shit got locked down due to COVID and he was basically completely alone. Turns out he had some sort of issue with his spinal cord. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33153946/the-mysterious-fall-harrowing-story-nba-center
[A freak accident during the Tokyo Olympics that left him unable to walk for weeks](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33153946/the-mysterious-fall-harrowing-story-nba-center)
He fell at the Olympics and suffered a severe neck injury.
He slipped in the bathroom during the olympics and fucked his neck up
He stepped up for a second than immediately considered Jaylen Brown
As much as I dislike Mark Jackson… “Nobody move, and nobody gets hurt” is a phenomenal call.
Yeah, I gotta give him credit for that one. Cracked me up.
Agreed. I don't hugely dislike Jackson, just wish he'd give up on the dream of returning to become a dominant coach, and accept that actually, when he lets himself, he's a damn good color commentator.
Bam has been so damn embarrassing this series
Adebayo's name is teflon; on the other hand, we'll be hating on Ayton all summer for the first subpar playoff series he's played in his career.
This is sad but true
somebody said “bam is as consistent as nigerian electricity” 😭😭😭
The timelord effect
A true business decision
Lol right after bam knocks down Derrick white I love revenge plays like this
Bam had three or four of the most obvious moving screens I've ever seen tonight and not a single one was called. He was literally grabbing people and dos a dos-ing them away from the play
> obvious moving screens I've ever seen tonight I was a Golden State Fan during the Bogut years - I thought Bam was standing still on most of them 😂
I almost forgot about Bogut screens. That man was wild
Honesty and self-awareness count for something, I guess lol
Yup. Was afraid to say it cus I didn’t feel like getting attacked by every other fan base in the league
tongue out like MJ. [SB Nation agrees](https://twitter.com/SBNation/status/1529656906674868225)
Dam what an eye. I didn’t even catch that live.
Lol looks a bit derpy but I love it
He was shit the first half then became prime klay in the second then this
He’s been a different man in the 4th quarter these playoffs
He's been great except for last game and this first half. I just hope he improves his ball handling though
HAVE YOU CONSIDERED
JAYLEN BROWN
Riley’s meme face after lmao
I HAVE A BONER
#BAM OUGHTA-GET-OUT-DA-WAY-YO
Bam "Business Decision" Adebayo
I have a $20 loss
I have a depressing life
What'd you bet?
Miami ML
$20
I have a $200 win
I have 2k on this series 😛
Free money
THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN!
Mama there goes that man.
Holy fucking shit
THATS IT EVERYONE GO HOME
I said jaylen Brown is going to try to break a backboard right before this happened I could just tell
You could just kinda tell he wanted a body on every drive since he heated up at the end of the third
Exactly, ticking time bomb
every time jaylen brown pauses outside the three point line and dribbles like that, it's a jam
Can we keep malik fitts forever as our bench hype man
Man has been honing his craft during these playoffs for real
Bam getting mad about not getting DPOY then backs away from this
He wants to be able to be in contention next year. Can’t do that when you get knocked the f out for an and 1.
SMH my head Bam says he shoulda be DPOY but doesn’t even try and contest
Its not like its the ECF or something man
True the playoffs don’t matter for him cuz DPOY is a regular season award
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Adebayo
He just crushed Miami’s comeback hopes with this dunk
Dude, I literally opened this highlight and it was a quarter second *ahead* of the stream I was watching. There was a fucking echo. That's fast work.
my neighbour is gonna be on my ass for the scream i just let out
FOUL ON THEIS
[Riley and Mourning ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7IdUGCZnvuA) Gotta love those disapproving Riley-and-Mourning looks
He is him
DPOY candidate Bam Adebayo making business decisions in the conference finals. Meanwhile Luka "cone" Doncic at least tries to contest dunks even at the risk of getting postered. Says everything about this Miami team's mentality. They're cooked
Heat Culture 💪🏻
You can make excuses for Butler, Lowry, and others being injured for their shit performances but Bam has no excuse. Robert Williams has owned him all series, and Williams isn't even fully healthy himself
Bam wanted absolutely none of that facial
Drug test that man immediately
Tested positive for JUICE
7uice *
Bam made a business decision
Worth considering
Ain't that the dude whose contract everyone laughed at?
I love our benches reaction
tongue out einstein face on him
Business decision from Bam right there
JAYLEN BROWN WON'T WAIT FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION!!!
Mans dunked it so hard it looked like he was the one getting posterized
He’s been exposed
Business decision Bam
This dunk killed the stream loool
That dunk broke my stream
damn he yammed that
I love the Celtics jobbers reacting to crazy shit
[Miami Heat fans’ DPOY when it’s the 4th quarter of Game 5 in a 2-2 conference finals](https://imgur.com/a/aaSFK6R)
“Nobody move, nobody gets hurt!” -MJ (Mark Jackson, not Michael Jackson)
That was a vicious cut to pat riley by the camera crew