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

i feel like that’s a giannis problem and not a bud problem. like giannis doesn’t think of himself just as a rim runner and post player even tho that’s prob the best way for him to play

giannis can be good driving but at least like run a play get the defense moving just dribbling up to a set D is not the best

athletic article today says philly didnt have the trade with phx in place when they drafted mikal bridges they took with the intention on keeping him

While the fallout from the trade was bizarre to watch as it played out, the deal itself was odd too. The 76ers had no intent to trade Bridges when they drafted him, according to multiple league sources.

The circumstances around the trade had been peculiar. It’s rare for a trade to happen on draft night after the original pick had already been made. “It doesn’t,” one league source said. “Usually it’s pre-arranged; 95 percent of the time it’s pre-arranged.”

that trade turned out really bad but it seemed fine at the time, they swapped similarly rated players and got an extra first round pick out of it and then the guy they got broke his foot and nearly died of an allergic reaction before he ever played for them. so idk. i mean, the allergic reaction did happen from food he ate at the team facility so maybe you put that one on the sixers but it was a pretty wild series of events that happened after that trade

Last 2 minute report from last night has 2 mistakes...

1. Giannis Antetokounmpo should have been called for a 10-second violation on his 1st FT w/ :05.3 left.

2. Giannis Antetokounmpo should have been called for a 10-second violation on his 2nd FT w/ :05.3 left.

— John Schuhmann (@johnschuhmann) June 24, 2021

lol

good game of chicken: will they stop putting that in the 2-minute report (conspiracy-minded take), will the refs eventually have to call it, or will Giannis... speed up?

or most likely option d is none of the above. nothing will change, and cognitive dissonance will continue to thrive in the universe and the nba

Players outside the 3 point line aren’t supposed to cross it until the free throw shooter releases the ball but they do it literally 90% of the time. So I think the bucks should point that out rn

Sup

tuning in to watch some officiating, it's what we're here for

i came here to post it just as jvg was saying it but the suns are playing the clippers game (slow down, half-court) and booker and paul are 4 for 19 from the floor and the suns are winning, not great for the clips

dont think booker likes the mask

wheels came off, weird seeing this team play with frustration

Bound to happen. They've been playing near perfect ball for what, 8 games in a row.

true

lmao playoff p connects w/ destiny

oh look who remembered how to make a free throw

cp and book combining for 10/40 shooting isn’t it

that's just not gonna happen too many times

the suns going up 2-0 without chris paul and then losing four straight with him back would be pretty hilarious

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, June 23, 2021 3:56 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

jordan please take your terrible no good very bad vibes elsewhere

look i’m just trying to find the silver lining if the suns lose the series, which would be further pain for chris paul

chris paul is an angel!

hes a lil bastard but hes OUR lil bastard

Suns ain't losing this series

i’m definitely down for the chris paul redemption narrative but i also can’t deny that it would be funny for his team to lose in the conference finals after winning two games without him. it’s kind of a win win situation honestly

Chris Paul is bad for basketball and ideally would never win a title

what a coupla scrooges!!!!

im just going to concentrate MORE good vibes to the phoenix suns basketball organization now

Seems like Suns fever is taking hold. I'm 100 miles from Phoenix but the 1st 2 places I went to to try to watch the game were packed. 3rd place wasn't a bar per se but still had a small but rowdy crowd riveted to the game. This is the 1st time Suns have been good since I moved to AZ so I didn't know if the fanbase had it in 'em.

They pay Gallo a lot but it’s paying off lately

the hawks bench isn't bad or anything but it's pretty clear that trae is going to need to singlehandedly drag them to victory. giannis is doing whatever he wants

i think i would be staggering trae and collins to some degree if i was nate to at least try and keep up w/ the bucks offense when trae is resting

Giannis looks like Wilt

bucks are +28 on 2 pt shots alone

Thanasis 4th quarter showcase let’s go

Throughout these playoffs the guy I’ve ended up questioning the most is Capela. He’s looks like a tenth of the player he was in the regular season

well this freed up a couple hours of my evening

hawks made a great run but i dont think theyre ready to beat the bucks

gallo was somehow -25 in 16 minutes. and he even scored 12 points

if my math is right the bucks shot 35-55 from two

without hunter the hawks don’t have any wing or perimeter defenders, really. the previous two match ups didn’t test them in those spots honestly tho seth curry had a good series. i don’t see any answers for them in this series on that end, capela can’t be a one man defense

The bucks are such a strange team because Giannis is just such a freight train that games can just get totally out of control. But a bogged down game they can look like a .500 team.

Brook Lopez with 16-1-0-3-1. Probably some sort of 7 footer oddity there

Don’t understand why he’s never been a good rebounder

Yeah it’s hard to square with his shotblocking

He’s been pretty amazing ever since he messed up that play in game 7 tho

He’s kind of a microcosm of their issues, like he’s a dude who can dominate on both ends and does a lot of little things right (at least things that do not involve the shot clock) and yet a lot of times they just park him at the 3 point line like he’s Bosh on the Heat. The Bucks are generally the more talented team in every playoff series they’ve been in but Budenholzer insists on this high variance sort of strategy where they shoot tons of 3s despite not being particularly good at them. So they’ll blow out their opponents sometimes but they also lose a lot of close games they shouldn’t. It’s kind of the opposite of what you want to do as the overdog

The clippers might be the most detestable team since the bad boys

clippers radiate insecure fuckboi energy its embarrassing

playoffs baby

A Clippers fan and Suns fan just got into a fight during the timeout.

— Jovan Buha (@jovanbuha) June 27, 2021