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

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

how could you forget about the league leading utah jazz smh

maxey out there smiling getting buckets not a care in the world

pic.twitter.com/2zLlpz5OBB

— Dwayne (@Dwayne_Media) June 19, 2021

trae young is good folks

except for the hair

hes in a tough spot with the hair not gonna pretend hes executed but still

s curry balling

whoa john collins

good dunk on "the big guy"

he dunked on embiid and clotheslined him at the same time lmao sick

anyone on twitter wondering if that was an offensive foul is a cop

This looks a lot like 4Q of G5. Embiid and Curry show and everyone else sitting around.

hawks just missed 4 straight fts

okongwu looks pretty good out there

maxey out there smiling getting buckets not a care in the world

― lag∞n, Friday, June 18, 2021 5:22 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

you really do have to love dwight ruining things for no discernible reason