hello friends it's the 2018 NBA Playoffs, a place where dreams GO 2 DIE

embiid shd be able to improve on his weakness a lot, but his mind is maybe infected with memes?

simmons weaknesses are gonna be a lot tougher to fix

as i suspected embiid left the court like it was a crime scene, god what a petulant baby

Embiid got right the hell out of there. pic.twitter.com/AOomAI1z92

— Michael Hurley (@michaelFhurley) May 10, 2018

simmons is two years older than tatum btw

if i were rooting for the sixers i'd be a little freaked out at the amount of things embiid and especially simmons just totally suck at

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, May 9, 2018 11:10 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yuup

― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, May 9, 2018 11:11 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also the fit of saric-simmons-embiid isnt great

― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, May 9, 2018 11:11 PM (five minutes ago)

you guys are smoking crack, they're babies. they'll be fine

they also have the disadvantage of being young players going against the best coach in the league in a playoff series

kev there's like a half dozen normal basketball things that ben simmons literally can't do

simmons' entire ordeal is completely unprecedented

and i'm not saying they can't improve, i'd just be a little on edge if i had a rooting interest in these guys

you guys are smoking crack, they're babies. they'll be fine

― k3vin k., Wednesday, May 9, 2018 11:18 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its sad when someone has the situation explained to them, then demonstrated, and they still cant see it, whatre you gonna do you know

Ben "6'10" Rubio" Simmons

yeah his game is weird, but it shouldn't be a surprise he got exposed in his first playoffs. lebron couldn't post up jj barea in a playoff series once when he was like 27. even the great ones tend to not be great in the offs early in their careers

6'10" non shooting point guard was always a farce

what the sixers really need is for this guy to do something

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcE--jJVAAAbLoL.jpg

(or get lebron lol)

i mean this philly team def could win a chip down the road but they have a ton of work to do and ppl been talking about them like theyre anointed

lol fultz looks like a deactivated android

lmao

i mean this philly team def could win a chip down the road but they have a ton of work to do and ppl been talking about them like theyre anointed

― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, May 9, 2018 11:27 PM (eight seconds ago)

well they definitely took a leap after the all star break this year, it was a good story

yeah they got hot for sure but thats all it was

with cleveland looking like they did in R1, the raptors being the raptors, and the celtics general competence but lack of #1 scorer...it wasn't out of the question for philly to continue riding that wave and somehow find themselves in the finals. but for sure they have some stuff to work on (signing bron)

yeah i mean if they cant beat boston without kyrie and hayward they better

drew bledsoe sneaking on a rozier jersey for the 4th quarter then announcing post game that his winery is going to make a terry rosè was p funny

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DczXwWdX0AAYtdp.jpg

drew was first on the celtics podium postgame for no discernable reason; i love the nba

def improvement over the usual boston hell celebrities

https://i.imgur.com/VKVOwgJ.jpg

oh god those mfers

it cant get any worse than the wahlberg brothers

ok what if we added jenny mcarthy to the mix

heh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dcze56bXcAAlMPc.jpg

hahah

Buck is have best player. Buck is win. NO. Sixer is have best player. Sixer is win. NO. Calf is have best player. Calf is win. NO.

— Janos (@isjanosnba) May 10, 2018

janos otm

reasonable analysis

https://i.imgur.com/8rIgcRT.jpg

unbelievable

love a young man who knows his limitations

3 minutes left in the game its tied coming out of a timeout brown switches saric onto horford and horford immediately scores 4 pts and gets one steal all off saric

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dczefe0X0AA5oxB.jpg

surprised they got 3 picks tbf

Ahaha ha oh man cmon

Let’s stop underestimating brad guys

Like imagine what this guy could do if he could coach roster for more than a season and change without half of it getting traded away or getting run over by a tractor

That said uh cavs in 6 because

lebron james

i thought ben played fine last night. and saric is kinda the perfect fit around the two of them actually.

my question after that series is honestly about embiid. he's incredible obv but i wonder if you can really win a championship by funneling your offense thru him in the post. he will get better too of course and it's nice that he can shoot a bit from 3, but even aside from just taking some ill advised shots that everyone else on the team just has to live with, he turns the ball over a fuck ton and just generally can be the source of some really inefficient offense.

the last team to win a title whose #1 option on offense was a post player is... the spurs with duncan? then you have to go back to shaq and the lakers?

the spurs with duncan back when they were like beating the nets i mean. the team that beat the heat was a 3 pt shooting team.

well they definitely took a leap after the all star break this year, it was a good story

― k3vin k., Wednesday, May 9, 2018 8:28 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah they got hot for sure but thats all it was

― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, May 9, 2018 8:29 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It was an overreaction when they got "annointed" after win streak. It's an overreaction now when they're getting slammed for having a bad playoff series. Hoops analysis/reactions is so this every single time. Even from game to game! "I just can't see them beating this team after this game tonight" *after next game* "This team will never lose again ever". Rinse and repeat.

man if Kyrie was playing these would be the most intriguing conf finals in a loooong time

for sure

kyrie is easily one of my favorite players in the nba

i thought ben played fine last night. and saric is kinda the perfect fit around the two of them actually.

― J0rdan S., Thursday, May 10, 2018 9:27 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naw he cant really defend the 3, but tbf he cant really defend the 4 either tho so it may not be so much a fit issue as its just a slow feet issue, he prob does have more of a chance of defending the 4 even if known scoring dynamo horford did destroy him down the stretch

It was an overreaction when they got "annointed" after win streak. It's an overreaction now when they're getting slammed for having a bad playoff series. Hoops analysis/reactions is so this every single time. Even from game to game! "I just can't see them beating this team after this game tonight" *after next game* "This team will never lose again ever". Rinse and repeat.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, May 10, 2018 10:41 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in my defense my read on the sixers has remained steady and i was right

if kyrie was playing the cavs wld be dead in the water

will be interesting anyway seems obvs the celtics are gonna defend bron heads up and let him get his w/o fouling and hope to make him work enough that he tires as the game goes on, a lot obvs depends on if the cavs can play any defense at all, the celtics w/o any bigtime scorers really just dismantled the sixers scheme which played really well in the regular season, the cavs defense in the regular season on the other hand was genuinely awful and doesnt really have a ton of talent on that side of the ball especially when you consider that bron doesnt have the energy to carry them on both sides of the ball anymore

naw he cant really defend the 3, but tbf he cant really defend the 4 either tho so it may not be so much a fit issue as its just a slow feet issue, he prob does have more of a chance of defending the 4 even if known scoring dynamo horford did destroy him down the stretch

― sprout god (lag∞n), Thursday, May 10, 2018 12:40 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark

i was thinking more on offense, where he was their best player last night. i don't think he's bad enough on defense to require being traded or something.

he def has matchup problems on defense but presents the same ones on offense so idk