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

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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

as always beware of angering the vibe gods

Chris Paul, in press conference, repeatedly brings up his losing streak in Scott Foster-reffed games (video) https://t.co/nlcj3N518j

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) May 28, 2021

cp mad

really funny. scott foster prob does hate cp tho & i’m not sure i could blame him

the ballad of cp3

coach nick tweets a gif i made and posted to ilx a decade ago, the internet has run its course and can now be turned off

If the Suns could somehow get Coach Vogel to play Drummond and Gasol crunch time minutes, they'd most likely be winning this series. pic.twitter.com/35iBLchLsq

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) May 28, 2021

Still remember that day lol

we live in historic times

I wonder why Scott foster hates cp….

Chris Paul in fine form. pic.twitter.com/3RxKIhWu7M

— Tas Melas (@TasMelas) May 28, 2021

lol noticed that

hahahaha. god why is he like this

Uggghhh

Milwaukee Bucks guard Donte DiVincenzo has suffered a serious tendon injury in his left foot and will miss the remainder of the playoffs, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) May 28, 2021

xxxxpost Gasol looked like such shit last night, gassed and basically all I recall is him getting mad about fouls

oof, was wondering what happened to Donte

damn sucks

I think they'll be fine with Forbes and Tucker, in fact that'll probably be a slight offensive upgrade, but they definitely are gonna need him on defense vs. the Nets

brutal. i’m not sure forbes is gonna be able to see the floor vs the nets

yeah his loss is really gonna be felt there

noticed this when it happened feel like it went under the radar cause the ball just never went up at all, pretty slick shot

On the way down in slow motion, albeit real time it must have been difficult to discern as no suns protested

Commentators did have slo-motion review yet still didn’t point it out @bballbreakdown pic.twitter.com/6JBRwSr7Bh

— BBiomechanics (@BBiomechanics) May 28, 2021

I just feel like chris paul would be so much happier if he got a ring. I just want chris to be happy!

the ensuing Ring doorbell ad campaign might kill us all

lol

chris paul knocks, you open it he trips you then dramatically falls over prompting a law suit, get ring so you know who is at your door

my two best friends here: one is a lakers fan the other a suns fan... things got heated last night on the text thread and now they arent talking lmao.

haa classic

complicated situation. hard to take sides. of course there are two kinds of lakers fans out there. there's the annoying courtside lakers chain guy. then there's the rest, who are the same guy but they can't really afford to sit courtside or buy chains.

sup?

i'm sorry. that was one of my many alter egos posting.

love you carne you arent like the rest :)

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(i too love carne. my best friend is a lakers fan. i read about them so much that google news feeds me articles.)

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