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

Chris Paul was an mvp candidate averaging 16 and 8 or whatever because people think Ayton is just a guy

A weird thing that happened last night was Trae young committing two really dirty fouls after the whistle and the sixers just ignoring it?

Trae isn't really getting under the sixers skin.

Basically every role player on the suns looks like a potential starter for a lower tier playoff team and three of their starters look like all-stars. If they stay healthy, it's hard not to pick them out of the west. I did!

Nets/Sixers feeling harder to pick with the injuries, curious to see who can finish their respective series first.

The Jazz or Clippers will have to play much better than they have played so far, if they want to beat the Suns in the WCF.

the jazz are 6-1 w/ two pretty convincing wins over the clippers and the only loss being the one game mitchell didn't play. not sure they could be playing much better

jazz suns would be a cool wcf i know its just the top 2 seeds but they're both non-superteams which feels like an anomaly these days

jazz match up well with the suns, especially if they get conley back

would be a great series, both teams have a lot of shooters

they’re kind of mirror images of each other, assuming conley plays. it would be really fun

yeah, i'm up for it for sure. Only saw about six jazz games during the regular season though so not as deeply acquainted with them as many of the also rans. of course they look like a much different team with Mitchell rampaging.

Clippers starting off a must win game by letting Joe Ingles shoot wide open jumpers

Basically every role player on the suns looks like a potential starter for a lower tier playoff team and three of their starters look like all-stars. If they stay healthy, it's hard not to pick them out of the west. I did!

― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Saturday, June 12, 2021 3:19 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

not seeing any picks sorry forks

bums me out that Jamal Murray will end up being a big "what if"of these playoffs

it’s very depressing

yeah its like that

tho dont think hed be helping them too much with their defense which had been shredded

Already four unassisted 3s for the Jazz in the first quarter tonight, so they're on pace to do this again.

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— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) June 13, 2021

you know who has been good this playoffs who usually kind of sucks reggie jackson

tho dont think hed be helping them too much with their defense which had been shredded

i think its possible that murray couldve –changed the complexion of the series— as they say, suns are just looking so good tho

also the guards that the nuggets have now are so bad on offense that paul and booker aren't being tested and can focus all their energy on their own offense

it would’ve been an excellent series

it’s difficult to say whether gordon and porter would’ve played better with murray healthy, you’d have to say yes but whether they would’ve been better enough is impossible to answer

murray is streaky too which also makes it hard to say

It’s not difficult to say which is why you’d have to say yes

regardless i think we can all say that we would have liked to see it

this is a ridiculous shot

Donovan Mitchell drills a TOUGH stepback 🔥

He's got 16 points at the half for the Jazz.pic.twitter.com/yedpFVAVbC

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) June 13, 2021

jazz are playing like shit but hitting a bunch of 3s

staying vaguely attached

donovan mitchell makes weird faces

We’re running out of healthy teams, sadly

mitchell pulled something. didn't look great.

if we somehow got a healthy west next year of jazz, suns, lakers, clippers, nuggets it would be incredible

blazers, mavs, pelicans, grizzlies… it’s too good to be true

Klays gonna be back too!

murray won’t be back till after christmas, but a healthy playoffs would be amazing

kyrie snapping giannis’ overeager older brother’s ankles was very satisfying

where did this mike james guy come from

He’s been in the nba before and had moments

oof, nasty sprain for kyrie

the bucks have such a chaotic energy

xp yeah that looked bad bad. if the nets are without him AND harden, hard for me to see how KD is enough to carry them through.

it feels like the bucks should be up by much more than 5 points but also hard to see the nets winning this game without kyrie

The Nets have ruled Kyrie Irving out for the rest of the game with a right ankle sprain.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) June 13, 2021

That felt like a little bit of a dirty play from Giannis? I don't think he's that sort of player but if it was say Zaza Pachulia we would all be giving him shit, right?

FUCK ZAZA

joe harris totally invisible today

after we were crowning the nets back to back to back champs in here last week this game is a good reminder of the twists and turns of the playoffs

another game with horrible reffing from start to finish

the fact you don't retain a successful challenge is ridiculous

it’s pretty dumb