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

he is a great rebounder but besides that yeah not great

ayton is killing the lakers bigs wow

no one tell them

Schröder-KCP-LeBron-AD-Gasol is the Lakers best lineup by net rating (min. 100 mins) and they completely abandoned it.

— pickuphoop (@pickuphoop) May 23, 2021

is lebron planning on like doing anything

ok i'm on board with phx beyond just the rooting vs the lakers factor

bron and ad still not looking like they have a lot of pep in their steps

Lakers have terrible vibes

what the hell

Utah Jazz All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell isn’t expected to play vs. Memphis in Game 1 tonight, sources tell ESPN. Mitchell has been working toward his return from a sprained right ankle.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 23, 2021

crowder having a rough game

bron just planning on posting up and hitting cutters

What a shitshow!

this games got shoulder trouble

dont believe lebrons acting for a second

space jam 3 out there

that shoulder is fine

bron taking the jump ball over ad

"the lakers just don't seem to have it right now"

u think?

did lebron get to the rim once today did he even attempt a drive

Dude still has zero bounce. Cp injury might be real tho, he couldn’t even get his arms right to form a normal shot for the rest of the game and couldn’t dribble. Gasol getting no playing time is hilarious. He’s not even that good anymore but he’s sound and sound is all you need around lebron and ad. Ayton was easily the best big on the floor

davis 5-16 from the floor, 3-5 line, 0-2 three, 13 points.
bron 5-13 floor, 3-6 line, 3-7 three, 18 points
lakers as a team 7-26 from three
vibes: very bad

that's just not gonna get it done folks

knicks roaring back

dolan should dock thibs’ salary for every minute quickley is on the bench

ngl the garden is giving me goosebumps

MOM: we have marcin gortat at home
MARCIN GORTAT AT HOME: pic.twitter.com/8Y5F6BigN0

— Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant) May 23, 2021

his cut is a sign that he’s a double agent for the knicks

randle is pressing, needs to take whatever chill pill the rookies are on

knicks undoubtedly have a lovable scrappy quality to them, a sentence i have surely written dozens if not hundreds of times over the years

rj barrett, my lord

the announcers are rightly praising the Knicks’ bench but it’s easy to have a good bench when you don’t start your best players

beautiful to see spike so joyous

cut to tracy morgan doing the cabbage patch

they’re not gonna overturn this, rj grabbed him enough to affect his shot

hahahaaha oh man poor knicks

wow trae

happy for trae

trey is such a heel, gotta love it in such a young guy

frank has always been more of a theoretical shutdown defender

can’t really expect to win when randle plays like that, still a bummer

lol

this my type of disrespect pic.twitter.com/uYs1uVxww8

— Tyler R. Tynes (@TylerRickyTynes) May 24, 2021

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31497818/nba-hopes-restart-talks-teams-players-union-midseason-tournament-sources-say

omg these people

love to have a small playoffs for no reason

love to take inspiration from english soccer, the most popular sport in the united states

the thing about the various club soccer tournaments is their leagues dont have playoffs just a regular season so it makes sense, but in american sports the whole point is the playoffs

they also have 45 lower divisions who can enter and you get weird/random matchups. or you're crossing between the english league and the spanish league and the italian league. this is going to be thunder/pistons on a tuesday night but it's for the stern cup or something.

they should do my idea instead: all star tournament

i was listening to something and they were suggesting that this type of random gamification is probably the future of the nba. like we're this close to a tournament where the bench guys start and the starters only play 15 minutes or something.

SIGH

Trae man shit

he did it

do i have to like trae young because he trolled the knicks? too soon to say.

When he hit that last shot I sort of rolled off the couch and laid on the floor. The tile was cool so I just stayed there for a second laughing.