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

blatant travel how can you be so bad at reffing

― J0rdan S., Sunday, June 20, 2021 10:33 PM (thirty seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

unbelievable!

process, trusted

well that was a travel?

legitimately feel bad for everyone in that crowd

the hawks may get out of the east by virtue of having no psychological damage affecting their team

[pour gas on floor, self]

trae has won two playoff series and luka has won zero

[tosses match]

legitimately feel bad for everyone in that crowd

― frogbs, Sunday, June 20, 2021 10:36 PM (fifteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

someone just threw something on the floor so no i do not

lmao and deandre ayton is in the 3rd round, too

xp

philly had 0 chance to not get swept by the bucks so i'm glad we can get a chance at a real conference finals now

embiid with the stat-padding putback and then doesn’t guard the inbounds lol

philly fans throwing stuff lol

classic philly phans

trae isn't even trolling the crowd, he knows they can't handle it

yeah Bucks match up better vs. Philly but having home court is kind of a big deal

if the simmons-embiid experiment can't even make it to the ECF in 4 tries maybe it's time to break it up

well it's the conference finals matchups we all predicted when the season began

kevin huerter getting interviewed as maryland makes it into the sweet 16

if the simmons-embiid experiment can't even make it to the ECF in 4 tries maybe it's time to break it up

You would have to think Morey was watching this series, right? That's what GMs do, I think.

Ben Simmons 4th quarter this series:
Game 1: 2-2 FG
Game 2: 0-0 FG
Game 3: 1-1 FG
Game 4: 0-0 FG
Game 5: 0-0 FG
Game 6: 0-0 FG
Game 7: 0-0 FG

— Tom Haberstroh (@tomhaberstroh) June 21, 2021

completely insane. how is that possible

so you're saying he shot 100%

He's a max player.

wonder if the sixers are going to regret not trading simmons when he had trade value

two years ago they couldve gotten an entire team for him

some of the conceptual uses of him (center, weird point guard) are untenable since he will no longer attempt field goals

i have no idea how he succeeds as a basketball player at this point

Insane that the two players the Sixers drafted #1 overall both seem to have severe psychological issues on the court.

Will be a brave GM whoever takes on his contract in the hope of it turning positive. I mean maybe a small market team focused on wins in the regular season will be interested? But I think teams will now Hack-a-Simmons all the time now.

Doc Rivers has now blown three 3-1 leads, one 3-2 lead, one 2-0 lead, and lost Game 7 at home four times (five if you count the bubble)

— Mike Prada. (PRAY-duh) (@MikePradaNBA) June 21, 2021

ILH is losing its prognostic touch during this cursed season. Of the 23 votes cast for who would prevail and be NB champ, ILH voted:

bucks: 3
hawks: 1
clippers: 0
suns: 0

If you ignore all other factors, there's a 50% chance ILH will be *gasp* skunked in our voting. This is unprecedented!!

yeah the thing with trading ben simmons is which team is sitting around this offseason going “how can we severely reduce the amount of shooting on our team?” what team wants to do that?

brutal stuff all around

i still think if you play him at center its ok

how many firsts would the sixers need to throw in to trade ben simmons for trae young? three? four? if the sixers called the hawks and offered simmons for kevin huerter would the hawks even say no before hanging up?

Seth Curry 🤣💀 pic.twitter.com/u3VboPkbBl

— Bam Adobobayo (@Bam_Adobobayo) June 21, 2021

Has he tried shooting with his right hand

i still think if you play him at center its ok

Sixers coach Doc Rivers was asked postgame if Ben Simmons can be the point guard on a championship team.

"I don't know the answer to that right now," Rivers said.

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) June 21, 2021

maybe the celtics traded kemba too soon lol

ILH is losing its prognostic touch during this cursed season. Of the 23 votes cast for who would prevail and be NB champ, ILH voted:

bucks: 3
hawks: 1
clippers: 0
suns: 0

If you ignore all other factors, there's a 50% chance ILH will be *gasp* _skunked_ in our voting. This is unprecedented!!

he is a severely harmful playoff player
― J0rdan S., Sunday, June 20, 2021 10:58 PM (forty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

i mean if hes going to refuse to do offense forever then yeah but i feel like you could build a role for him that makes sense

another aspect of this that nobody is talking about is that yes embiid looked healthy so maybe it really is no big deal but the sixers entire franchise is invested in a big man with injury history who just played 7 games on a torn meniscus to lose to the atlanta hawks in the second round

Nate has been pushing buttons it’s insane

lol

Doc Rivers: "Listen, this team last year got swept in the first round. And we had a chance to go to the Eastern Finals. I'm not going to make this into a negative year."

— Derek Bodner (@DerekBodnerNBA) June 21, 2021

losing is actually a win if you think about it

-- doc rivers

another aspect of this that nobody is talking about is that yes embiid looked healthy so maybe it really is no big deal but the sixers entire franchise is invested in a big man with injury history who just played 7 games on a torn meniscus to lose to the atlanta hawks in the second round

― J0rdan S., Sunday, June 20, 2021 11:01 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

their roster is still fucked and they're running out of time to fix it

i’m not saying simmons will never help a contender i mean the sixers almost made the finals 2 years ago but i don’t know what contender is trading for him this offseason given what we just saw. how could you feel like he wouldn’t be a giant liability in the playoffs next year

the questions about simmons are existential at this point, like this guy needs to figure out why he's playing basketball

If you really think about it every team but one loses the NBA playoffs.