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

I just cannot understand what Bud was thinking that second half, you allow yourself to get torched by one of the great scorers in NBA history without even thinking about putting your best defensive guy on him and refuse to go after the guy playing on one leg

i really just cannot understand how the bucks didnt make the standard defensive adjustment to someone having a monster game like double teaming and putting your best defender on them who matches up with them perfectly

lol xp

it just makes me so sick the number of extremely painful playoff collapses Wisconsin sports teams have had the last decade, particularly the Bucks who just cannot do shit when the game is on the line

agreed guys, it's hard to understand

it feels like the organizational handling of giannis has just resulted in a bad basketball situation--he gets to be the lead ballhandler, on defense he gets to freelance and be the help guy. those are fun things to do but there are other things that would impact winning a hell of a lot more.

and it doesn't come from selfishness or bad intentions or whatever, it comes from developing a guy from scratch and trying to lift him up to be his best. but now it's time to do something different.

I mean it seems like giannis must be opposed to guarding KD or something? like I’m sure the idea of having giannis guard KD crossed bud’s mind

It never ends. pic.twitter.com/3TFoo6Eo1o

— Nathan Marzion (@nathanmarzion) June 16, 2021

I just can't do this anymore

like I’m sure the idea of having giannis guard KD crossed bud’s mind

are you sure you're sure?

giannis doesn’t have the equity to say he’s not gonna guard the other team’s best guy in the playoffs, or shouldn’t anyway

I’m just going to throw this out there to see what the responses will be.. If your Steve Nash and the Nets, would you sit James Harden AND Kevin Durant in Game 6 because of the heavy minutes tonight, and push all your chips to the center of table for Game 7??

— Reggie Miller (@ReggieMillerTNT) June 16, 2021

xp if giannis actually pulled something like that, and i'm not discounting it entirely to be clear, it would go against everything that's ever been reported about him being a competitor and a good soldier and a guy who wants to win in milwaukee.

he still takes 3-pointers so it's not like he's afraid of embarrassing himself on the court.

i don’t disagree with reggie!

it's logical but hardly worth talking about because these guys will never sit

yeah. but i do think nash should think about putting KD back on a normal minutes rotation in game 6 and if you lose with him playing 35 mins then you lose and bring it back home

I think the nets should use a five man rotation in game 6

yeah. but i do think nash should think about putting KD back on a normal minutes rotation in game 6 and if you lose with him playing 35 mins then you lose and bring it back home

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, June 15, 2021 11:32 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah totally agree you're no longer in all hands on deck mode

Conceding a playoff game when you're 1 win away from the conference finals is insanity. The whole reason you rest and load manage stars is to just get to this point in the first place; no one is 100% at this point on any remaining team and there is absolutely no guarantee you will ever get back to such a golden opportunity in the future. Bron/Steph/Dame/Jokic all out in the West, Embiid is playing on a torn meniscus and the Hawks are even more injury ravaged (and inexperienced) than the Sixers. Good chance you'll never get an easier shot to a title if your the Nets, throwing that chance away by voluntarily putting yourself into an elimination game scenario and giving the Bucks a 2nd/3rd chance of winning the series when you don't have to is madness. Rest after the series and when the playoffs are over; it's not like 1 game of rest is going to bring Harden's hammy back to 100% and he won't just reinjure it in game 7 if you rest him for 6 anyway.

lol

How awesome would it be if he followed that up by saying "and that player is me, Jeff Green." https://t.co/IaUqC9tEV7

— Jeje Gomez (@JejeGomezNBA) June 16, 2021

hahahah some team is talking themselves into a 3/36M for jeff green as we speak

“and that team is us, the nets”

Guys I just finished. The bucks are just dumbfounding on every level. That 2nd half offense was so painful, somehow more painful than game 3. Feel like I saw like maybe two screens in the 2nd half. Why not screen to death until huh get harden marched up!??? And somehow the defensive game plan was worse than the offensive one.

Kd goat performance, love to see it and still can’t believe hes doing this off an Achilles rupture.

Assertive Jeff green returns. Joe Harris still can’t make a shot. Harden completely useless and still was better than their other options.

Like I found myself cheering on KD and against the bucks cos of how frustrating they were to watch. Unfathomable levels of bad hoop decisions.

Jeff green game @ryenarussillo pic.twitter.com/i0qusQzFG5

— Hunter Dinesen (@dinesen_skol) June 16, 2021

that feels like the most painful NBA loss since...some of those DeMar/Lowry raptors classics?

I'm barely following, but I was surprised to see the Bucks ahead by so much, so I looked in during the third quarter and got caught up in the ongoing comeback immediately. In all my time as a sporadic basketball fan, I don't know that I've ever seen a player take over a game like Durant did last night. There was a run of threes where it felt like he could have launched it from anywhere, it was going in.

the budcks

Uh

Phoenix Suns All-NBA guard Chris Paul has entered COVID-19 health and safety protocols and is sidelined for an indefinite period of time, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.https://t.co/t7GrZjgKvV

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 16, 2021

cursed playoffs

WTF

Cursed Paul

so uh...is CP3 an anti-vaxxer

im sure there are ways to find yourself in the protocol if youre vaxxed

shut it down

Kawhi Leonard is expected to miss Game 5 against the Jazz tonight with a knee injury suffered in game 4, sources tell @ramonashelburne & me. His status for rest of series is in doubt as well.

— Brian Windhorst (@WindhorstESPN) June 16, 2021

Breaking: Chris Paul's status is up in the air for the start of the Western Conference Finals after entering the NBA's health & safety protocols.

An isolation period could be shorter for a vaccinated individual depending on the medical circumstance.

Sources tell @ShamsCharania. pic.twitter.com/qfIlTssGfc

— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) June 16, 2021

Yea this confirms even if you're vaccinated you can still wind up in protocol. Makes LeBron's complete avoidance of it after partying with Drake all the more stupid if the rumors about him are true tho. And damn Kawhi :( Most injury ridden NBA postseason I can remember.

god being a chris paul fan is a fucking ride

need the clips/jazz to go 7 now I guess

wtf

xxp yeah makes the Bucks blowing it even more infuriating, it really feels like the stars are aligning for them

re: cp3 the only frame of reference i have is the situation with the yankees and gleyber torres. torres was vaccinated but tested positive (amidst a locker room-wide outbreak in which 8/9 of the people infected were vaxxed) and was forced to the covid list. he only wound up missing 8 days (6 games), because mlb protocols permit an asymptomatic player to return to action after two negative tests.

hopefully cp3 is vaccinated, and if the nba has a similar policy to mlb, he could be back in a week or so. if he isn't...well he's out at least two weeks.

permit an asymptomatic player to return to action after two negative tests

should add: this two negative test rule only applies to *vaccinated* players

Jalen Rose says Chris Paul has been vaccinated.

Hopefully that means he won't miss too much time after entering the NBA health and safety protocol 🙏🏼pic.twitter.com/5gCVqN4Cne

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) June 16, 2021

*reading state farm script*
"Miss WCF game 1 due to covid protocol?"
*ring poofs*

harsh but allowed.
now i wanna see the suns with the first without CP just to announce they're real.

the ultimate playoff p test

Clippers fear All-NBA star Kawhi Leonard has suffered an ACL injury, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. He is out indefinitely.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 16, 2021

jesus christ dude

it’s always a bad sign when there’s a knee injury that happens on or after a guy has just planted his leg

ffs

wtf is going on