nba playoffs aka the 'offs (which includes the 'ins) 2021

always best to not over pay for middling guys, unless maybe theyre the final piece

we were talking about dillon brooks at $12m per year last night... that feels like the sweet spot for this kind of player. but when you get to free agency the market can bend in your favor

fvv also plays this thing known as defense

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havent seen a ton of schroeder this year but he's looked good in spots on defense (not last night)

schroder just does not have the high basketball iq, if he did and could shoot a little better hed prob be an allstar

lotta hubris in that dude. him driving to the hole at the very beginning of a important possession with Bron sitting there right next him, just bc he was successful doing it the play before, was so unsurprsing. as was the result

Derrick Rose straight up outplayed Dennis this year imo

my main takeaway watching schroder last night was that he probably should've taken that deal

schroder just does not have the high basketball iq, if he did and could shoot a little better hed prob be an allstar

mario chalmers never made more than $4 million in a year which feels low and is not really possible in the current environment but there's some midpoint between that and schroeder, FVV making $20m per year. (for the teams, anyway. good for those guys)

problem with guys who are worth 20m a year is you have to pay 20m a year for them, unlike guys who are worth 60m a year

true

Schroder is downgrade from Rondo believe it or not

his numbers took a dive this year for sure.

or last year was an outlier (more likely)

so if the play-ins provide exactly the same seeding as we would've had without them, will people use that as an argument for or against them in future years?

if that happens they should remove it and pretend it never happened

they did it to keep more teams in the playoff mix, the particular outcomes dont really matter

they should remove it and pretend it never happened tho

and adopt a round robin 1st round

4 groups of five, play each team in the group twice, best two teams from each group advance to the second round, tie breaker is regular season record

a “group stage” if you will

thats the stuff mate

hmm idk sounds too intellectual and aloof for me, an average american

gotta say, i dngaf about tonight's game

I will be annoyed if this is a blowout

brad beal feel like earlier in his career was a kind of robotic offensive player but now hes just a total natural

yeah he blew past a lot of what was expected of him. i remember him being scouted mostly as a 3-point shooter and off-ball guy but now he just does everything.

i am ok with this being a blowout

just an observation over the past couple nights, rui hachimura has absolutely no idea how to play basketball

looks like an aaron gordon type. will always have a fat contract bc he can defend big wings and kind of shoot but never actually learn to Play

That Dr J layup was sick tho

lol, no one really had anything to say about this playoff/in game
it's FANtastic

i don't know who won still

the wizards

that makes sense

its pretty cool how they pulled their season together and snuck into the offs imho

it is, and against my better judgment i'm excited to see russ go bananas trying to hang with the sixers. it is sad how the pacers fell apart though, at full strength they coulda been a fun team. brogdon/warren/levert/sabonis/turner has some 60-win Hawks energy

russ vs a good playoff D will prob just be as bad as usual under those circumstances sadly

Russ and Embiid have history so it should be fun.

yah thats the only thing that im excited about in this matchup

brooklyn-washington would have been better

yeah wouldve give russ and brad an opportunity to cook

if i were a coach i'd just tell everyone to cook

so crazy it just might work

it's like the old saying "you can never have too many cooks in the kitchen"

some teams having fans others not interesting dynamic

Mavericks announce that attendance for playoffs will be increased to “near American Airlines Center’s full capacity.”

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) May 21, 2021

15k fans at the garden, gonna be a madhouse

the warriors should stop passing to the other team imho

jjj has one of the weirdest forms for a good 3pt shooter

Dubs still act like they have a great roster and can trick away possessions with dumb passes.