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

Still haven’t figured out why the Hawks felt like it was toss up between the two but I’m glad they’ve recovered

luka skepticism prob mostly hinged on anti euro bias and his lack of athleticism, or sometimes ancient balkan blood feuds

My theory is they wanted to do a fancy tier drafting system and well tiers suck when you have too many of them so maybe stick those two guys together

one thing that i think is pretty clear is anyone who dominates in a top european league as a teen should be taken extremely seriously as an nba prospect

i thought it was kinda silly at the time that people were rolling out the usual euro-player criticisms. he was putting up better euro-league numbers as a 17-year-old than successful nba players like nikola mirotic were putting up at 22

yeah obvs a huge mistake, the history of nba euro buzz and bust is kinda funny after dirk there was a big run on euros who mostly didnt pan out then a long fallow period and now weve got luka jokic and giannis dominating

Rubio had insane hype, hard to compare but maybe Luka levels? That mightve been a cautionary tale the Hawks bought into

yeah guys like him def scared teams off, jokic went in the second round ffs, giannis 15th, hard to imagine any of them slipping as far as they did if they had played in the ncaa

schlenk came from the dubs and he wanted to build the dubs east

this fear of euro draft busts is odd considering for every euro bust there have probably been 10 locally sourced busts

yeah its dumb

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— giri (@girinathan) May 26, 2021

if he's chis paul level his whole career i will be content

― Heez, Wednesday, May 26, 2021 3:54 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

did you say this just to make me angry

lmao

i enjoyed that one.

starting elfrid payton is effectively spotting the other team a ten point lead

its weird

rose and quickley also played amazing last game, sparked the whole offense

knicks hoisting a lil too hard here

knicks seem like theyre playing good but then the hawks are always still ahead

and randle has turned into a pumpkin

The mavs are a great organization because they made 2 great draft picks in 23 years

(sorry to be continuing this conversation but i was on a plane for the last 3 hours)

(i’m rooting for the hawks)

i'm on a plane (mmmmm)
i still complain (mmmm)

Jordan, I just read your posts upthread in stephen a smith’s voice, and i got some good chuckles out of it.

look at the mavs... drafting two hall of fame players that are going to give them 30 years of success... and they think they’re a good franchise. if only they had top 30 offensive player colin sexton then they might be onto something

(sorry to be continuing this conversation but i was on a plane for the last 3 hours)

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, May 26, 2021 8:43 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wow didnt it have wifi

trae is destroying the knicks werent they supposed to have good d whats goin on

guys keep talking about how the knicks’ bench is out scoring their starters without mentioning that they don’t start their best players

kenny finally brought that up lol

Rip wizards. Rwb turned his ankle

ah well

some asshole in philly dumped popcorn on him as he was walking to the tunnel. the fans are back baby!

lol philly

That’s lame but philly lol

Russ got heated after a fan threw popcorn at him pic.twitter.com/XyMRUxUVwc

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) May 27, 2021

russ shouldve been allowed to punch that guy once

randle is good again

The garden is rockin love to see it

knicks fans having to be excited about this team is so pathetic

omg let them live

scrappy underdog first round out is the exact type of knicks team i approve of

screaming your head off bcuz reggie bullock and julius randle might win you your first playoff game in 32 years........ could not be me

i think its sweet

Haha Jordan got no love in his heart for the knicks

i support the knicks and their fans as long as they're never actually a threat to win the east

it is sweet, and also i enjoy new yorkers taking something that's kind of shitty and convincing themselves that it's good

i have no idea how knicks fans remain so innocent and optimistic but i support it

it's weird because i don't get the sense that any other new york teams get the knicks treatment