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

im not saying he was as bad as bledsoe just that he had bledsoe vibes, there was a sense of fear one might even say cowardice about him

the only trustworthy player on either team in a game seven is kd right everyone else is completely subject to shitting the bed

apparently this was the first time in 3 years in which Giannis did not take a 3 in a playoff game

there’s no argument, based on the state of each team’s roster, as to why the nets should win game 7. it simply comes down to can the bucks execute under pressure, and to some extent if KD has enough left in the tank to carry the nets. but even that might not matter if the bucks lock up mentally. they’re the better team and if they play a good game they will win. alas…

if the bucks put giannis on kd for half the game the nets can't win, wonder how they'll talk themselves into not doing that

I think it's safe to say we are all rooting for the Bucks (and, barring that, messy drama).

Nah, I wanna see the Nets kill 'em all. Unlikely to happen though

I am ambivalent about the series even tho I profess to hate the nets

the bucks don’t really deserve to win and i wouldn’t mind continuing to watch kd play basketball.

but yeah blah blah small market existential crisis for the nba the bucks winning is “a good thing”

nets losing game seven is #1 on my list of playoff priorities i really dont want them to have a chance to get healthy, #2 is suns winning da chip

i was skeptical before the offs but feel pretty confident now that healthy nets wouldve cruised to a title

mostly cause their defense has been plenty good enough, tho obvs their big liability starting backcourt hasnt played

the bucks don’t really deserve to win and i wouldn’t mind continuing to watch kd play basketball.

― call all destroyer, Friday, June 18, 2021 9:42 AM (thirty-one minutes ago)

yeah it comes down to not respecting the bucks for me

this has been a rough playoffs

I’ve enjoyed it even in my frustrations. Still cheering for the bucks vs suns.

I post this only in order to object to it

https://www.inquirer.com/sixers/philadelphia-76ers-nba-playoffs-collapse-joel-embiid-20210618.html

I hate with poison this whose-erection-do-I-admire-more approach to sportswriting

but yeah blah blah small market existential crisis for the nba the bucks winning is “a good thing”

― call all destroyer, Friday, June 18, 2021 8:43 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

obviously I'm totally biased here but I do think having several consecutive titles won by teams whose 2-3 best players weren't on the team two years ago is probably bad for the league. like the Nets to me still don't feel like a real squad but rather some "create-a-team" feature in NBA2k

It’s insulting to say, and it might hurt to hear it, but it’s true. Grown men win NBA titles. Not Twitter warriors. Not Kardashian divas.

Grown.

Men.

xp oh sure, it's extremely bad

there's only 3 teams in the league now that are like that fortunately, but a finals between two of them is still on the table

I love the Bucks and respect them

even if its only 3 teams, that's 3 teams whose ticket to the conf finals can only really be derailed by injury, which is pretty much what's happening now

When he's on, Giannis is the most joyous player in the game, I feel

which of course is also bad for the league. I mean I wanted the Lakers to lose but more than that I wanted a *healthy* Lakers to lose

i think i’m rooting for a suns or jazz title at this point. i want to see the bucks lose in game 7 i think it would be dramatic and add more intrigue to the league

dramatic in that it will spurn several hundred "what the fuck was Milwaukee trying to do in the 4th" posts on ILH

Bucks knocking off injury-plagued Nets and then folding to Sixers would be maximally disappointing outcome I think (and I like the Sixers)

thew sixers aren't playing next round

hawks suns would be the finals everyone was predicting

Bucks have dominated Philly in the regular season the last few years, I think it's a good matchup for them

bucks have dominated this sixers team in reg season i think

yeah that

bucks-sixers would be the most anxiety riddled playoff series i can remember

never have two teams tried so hard to win the eastern conference and not been able to

neither team would score more than 16 points in a fourth quarter and there’d be 85 combined missed fourth quarter free throws

lol

#Sixers coach Doc Rivers on mood of the team going into Game 6: 'Win the game, be aggressive, play. ... I think our guys are ready, but you never know.'

— Tom Moore (@TomMoorePhilly) June 18, 2021

sometimes these coaches are too honest lmao

doc rivers on game 6: "who gives a shit"

"you know you just go out there and try to do basketball stuff i guess, hope for the best"

how does this happen it shouldnt be this complicated

Ben Simmons worked on FTs for like 10 minutes, form looked different every rep smh pic.twitter.com/nCCAk6JPMp

— 🇮🇹 🤞🏽 🇫🇷 (@nickcn_) June 18, 2021

there's no better time to have the yips than the playoffs baby

just as a reminder to everyone who's been feeling a bit disappointed in these playoffs so far: the Lakers were eliminated in the first round. good times.

that was pretty cool

these playoffs have been good imo

rough start for the sixers (elimination game)

i enjoyed the laker elimination, i'll give you that.
suns/hawks would genuinely be a lot of fun but i was riding for suns/pistons and i'm still riding for suns/pistons eskettit

embiid four turnovers in the 1st quarter

maybe finally saving energy for the 4th

i keep forgetting who the clippers are even in a series with, that's how you leave your stamp on the post-season right there