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

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.

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

― call all destroyer, Sunday, June 20, 2021 11:05 PM (fifty-one seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah i think this is right if i knew his heart was in it i would be happy to say trade cj mccollum for him and put him at center but if hes just gonna be a huge weirdo its bad

That was really sick game 7 performance from a young guy by Huerter. They’ve got something special going there.

Doc had to bench Curry bc he was owning him so hard

yeah huerter was taking it to em

vestigial nj nets fan weighs in

all time post from the all-time poster pic.twitter.com/RaCoLks1yU

— kill 🇵🇸 tim 🇵🇸 faust (@crulge) June 21, 2021

fun fact i learned about huerter today: he was born in the year 1998, which is the year i was born as well

thats cool same as me

I really have no clue how this ecf will go. Hoping the Hawks’ big men have an easier time in the paint.

whos going to guard giannis

I like the matchup b/c losing to the Hawks in the ECF will still get Bud canned

lol

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHA4UhYuQY

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When you accidentally press the pass button instead of shoot

Doc Rivers has 29 losses with a chance to clinch a playoff series, the most losses by a head coach in NBA history. @ESPNStatsInfo pic.twitter.com/mN5mQBmQUQ

— ESPN (@espn) June 21, 2021

Sixers' Joel Embiid: "It sucks to come up short once again. There's a lot of stuff that happened. It just felt like this was going to be our year. ... If there's one thing I want to say, I gave everything I had. ... There's a lot to regret."

— Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver) June 21, 2021

why....would you say it felt that way?

maybe kemba will be traded for simmons yet

I could imagine OKC going hard after Ben if he actually becomes available.

— A.K (@Kungu_NBA) June 21, 2021

whos going to guard giannis