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

they were pretty obviously a bubble fluke, their offense is basically each guy rolling dice to see if he's hot that night

― call all destroyer, Thursday, May 27, 2021 9:28 PM (two hours ago)

not that it matters bcuz the games already happened but the heat were the best team in the east last year. the games that happened on a neutral court proved that... they kicked the bucks ass and were a better team than the celtics. there isn't a basketball argument to be made that those teams were better. the heat chose not to improve their team this year in order to preserve cap space for this summer (probably a bad idea) while the sixers, nets, and bucks all went out and got significantly better. it's been clear since like dec-jan that the heat didn't have the firepower to compete w/ those three teams -- were they better than a fatally flawed bucks team and a 4 man celtics team? yes. they had the best player in both of those series and they won both, that's usually how the playoffs go

cam payne's jumper is wild looking, lavar ball taking notes for future students. just made three 3s in like 2 mins tho

the way announcers talk about campazzo is funny like he’s not 30 years old

sorta forgot about zach collins and his hair

is he ever gonna play again

probably? but he's been injured all over his body seems like now and so young it's hard to believe he'll be effective

that stretch where melo was guarding jokic was fascinating

the blazers have a big problem in this series with nurkic fouling out

well I take back anything negative I’ve ever said about austin rivers

kanter is essentially unplayable in the playoffs much less on jokic and nurk has to cover so much because the wings are so awful defensively that it's inevitable nurk ends up in foul trouble

austin rivers making 5 threes and dame lillard making 4 is not a recipe for success for portland

i think i've determined which of these two is the better team

eh. nuggets shot 20-42 from three and blazers shot 12-42. still feels like a long evenly played series to me

austin rivers will be heat checking for the rest of this series so he'll give the blazers a game back and this will all even out

kanter is essentially unplayable in the playoffs much less on jokic and nurk has to cover so much because the wings are so awful defensively that it's inevitable nurk ends up in foul trouble

― Clay, Friday, May 28, 2021 1:01 AM (two minutes ago)

i think stotts played it right going small. doubling jokic and making the other nuggets beat you feels like a better strategy to me than going to kanter. it also opened up the lane for dame who started shredding the nuggets the second nurkic sat, he just had to start shooting super long threes bcuz of the time and score. but he was getting whatever he wanted going to the basket

lol yes xp

austin rivers will be heat checking for the rest of this series so he'll give the blazers a game back and this will all even out

and soon to be not open shots!

youre expecting portlands defence to improve over the next two days?

im just joking around about austin rivers, guys

oh jokes haha. i like jokes too guys. hahha

https://i.redd.it/zkadjw7ku0g41.jpg

you know who loves jokes..............

Just finished. Congrats to ilh favorite Austin rivers

CP blaming Scott foster. AD calling Booker dirty. Hope suns win game 4 by some miracle.

mickey mouse ring

— Chris Paul (@CP3) May 28, 2021

Ok he got hacked lol

i have a strong, bad feeling we are on a grueling emotional journey to a sterile lakers & nets finals

I’m not even sure I’d watch that tbqh

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31523231/utah-jazz-ban-three-fans-verbal-altercation-game-2-vs-grizzlies

fuckin Jazz fans there's a shock

wait did cp3 call the lakers bubble frauds?? that series really is getting testy

lol that series about to be over

too bad cp3 couldnt stay healthy, but i guess when it happens every year it is what it is

cp3 doesn’t have a ring of any sort, not a disney ring, an epcot ring, a six flags ring, nothing. and yet he jumped on twitter to call BS on lebron’s fourth title even tho he’s one of his closest friends. you have to love it

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not that it matters bcuz the games already happened but the heat were the best team in the east last year. the games that happened on a neutral court proved that... they kicked the bucks ass and were a better team than the celtics. there isn't a basketball argument to be made that those teams were better. the heat chose not to improve their team this year in order to preserve cap space for this summer (probably a bad idea) while the sixers, nets, and bucks all went out and got significantly better. it's been clear since like dec-jan that the heat didn't have the firepower to compete w/ those three teams -- were they better than a fatally flawed bucks team and a 4 man celtics team? yes. they had the best player in both of those series and they won both, that's usually how the playoffs go

― J0rdan S., Friday, May 28, 2021 12:13 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes i agree they were the best team in the east in the bubble but were not that in a sustainable or repeatable way, both for the reasons you mention and the fact that dragic playing like an all star, butler having his jump shot working, and herro being a good basketball player was an unusual and lucky confluence of events.

they were def on a... heater

there are guys like that that have playoff performances that they can never duplicate again all the time that's not exclusive to the bubble.

cp3 doesn’t have a ring of any sort, not a disney ring, an epcot ring, a six flags ring, nothing. and yet he jumped on twitter to call BS on lebron’s fourth title even tho he’s one of his closest friends. you have to love it

― J0rdan S., Friday, May 28, 2021 9:37 AM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

truly a little bastard

herro was the guy who really went wild in da bubble we havent seen nearly anything like that from him before or since tho obvs hes still very young and has time to get there still a crazy performance from a rookie who hasnt otherwise been very good, dragic and butler have both played basketball that good before

WAIT i hadnt looked at the tweets obvs a hack cmon lol

Chris Paul's twitter has been hacked following Lakers-Suns Game 3.

So far over 30 tweets have been sent out. pic.twitter.com/Zi24mPOpre

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) May 28, 2021

damn i wanted to believe

lol

it pisses me off that those who manage to hack a celeb's account never manage to do anything funny with it

yeah just sending one vaguely bitchy tweet about lebron wouldve been the way to go

The Clipper Curse has never held such power.

The Clipper Curse has never been so perilous.

Even amid their long history of failure, the Clippers have never been so close to a cliff off which they could plunge into a chasm of chaos.

The blown postseason leads of Lob City were despicable. The crumpling in last year’s playoff bubble was deplorable.

But this, this … this would be worse.

lol Plaschke is horrible but this made me laugh

clippers should relocate to seattle and call themselves the sonics thereby eradicating the cursed name clippers forever

clippers is a pretty sick name tho tbf

would anyone really care if they moved i mean theres already the most popular basketball team there it seems fine

(i know they have a new stadium deal etc)

The Clippers are just such an unpleasant team, unpleasant to watch and seemingly to be a part of

its sad they had such good vibes the year before kawhi and pg came on