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

you won’t know what’s going on until they mri him, but if he’s moving around okay that’s obviously positive. if it’s just a bruise that’s amazing

feel like every time I've seen something like that it's been at least a full season but who knows

Bucks are having the kind of night where Clint Capela gets compared to Larry Bird

He is literally the GOAT star

https://www.space.com/21989-capella-star.html

they should declare this year’s playoffs a no contest and award a double trophy to next year’s winner

no, health is a skill

not sure i’ve ever bought that one

im being glib, i just think the show must go on

i don't think i ascribe these giannis and trae injuries to the season--they're high-minute, high-usage players and the playoffs have become incredibly intense.

honestly amazed that they aren't constantly landing on each others' enormous feet and fucking up their ankles

At this point I hope the Hawks win the championship this year and everybody bitches about how it doesn’t really count and then the Hawks win the the next 8 titles. That would be ideal

asterisks are a fake idea, you play it out according to the rules and what happens happens

trae is 33rd in total minutes played this season and is at 33.7pg, giannis 46th in total and at 33pg

finding a sustainable lower-risk play style is definitely a skill of some kind

Injuries happen just extra sucks it’s been so many guys that are the best or second best player on the team.

the one silver lining to this was if the Bucks lost the series Bud would probably get fired, but now I think his job is probably safe

man crazy going from "Trae's out, we'll probably clinch a Finals trip" to "they're playing terrible but it's just one game and they still have home court" to "we might be fucked until 2023" within the span of an hour is some kinda whiplash

it sucks so much

honestly amazed that they aren't constantly landing on each others' enormous feet and fucking up their ankles

― mookieproof, Tuesday, June 29, 2021 7:59 PM (two hours ago)

i think this on just about every contested jump shot, every rebound, etc. i didn't use to think this all the time, and i don't know if it's because i'm getting old and have turned my own ankle so many times i'm nervous/scared for them (not joking) or if the game has changed a bit, or both. i definitely feel like jump shooters are coming down closer to their opponents' feet - and more often - than they used to.

anyway ... sucks about Giannis.

i'm nervous/scared for them (not joking)

i know *exactly* what you mean. can't even really think about it, let alone see it

alright time to watch the giannis injury i guess

looked bad

asterisks are a fake idea, you play it out according to the rules and what happens happens

sometimes the bad looking injuries are the ones that end up ok and the innocuous ones where a ligament imperceptibly tears like kawhi’s are the actual bad ones

yeah the one thing keeping me hopeful is the feeling that I've seen these sort of gnarly knee injuries in football before and they're usually not as bad as they seem. also Giannis is kind of a freak of nature who is rarely hurt so maybe his body is just resilient. still I'm bracing for the worst right now

its not too different to what embiid did a few weeks back if i recall. not gonna watch either again to verify.

freak of nature

I mean it's right there in his name, time to cash in on the freakiness

It looked like a classic hyperextension, sometimes that can get your ACL but usually not

!!!!!!

There is no structural damage to Giannis Antetokounmpo's left knee after his awkward landing last night in Atlanta; ligaments are sound, sources tell @wojespn and I. Timetable to return is unclear.

— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) June 30, 2021

nice

Yeah hyperextension. No idea why people saw that and thought ACL

I think because his knee bent the wrong way

Yeah that’s what a hyperextension is

lol

wow thats awesome

anyone know if this is like a 2019 Durant situation where he mightve dodged a bullet but has increased vulnerability for a bad tear if he now goes and plays on the knee?

was thinking about that too. even if they make the Finals (which seems incredibly doubtful now) I would be very very nervous if he tried to come back

i respect your need to hedge any optimism frogbs but if giannis actually does come back i don't think it's incredibly doubtful! hard to gauge at this point what is really going on in that man's leg though

there's a party going on in that leg

well they’re saying the ligaments are ok which is different from what they said about kawhi where they acknowledged there was at least a partial tear

he's not coming back

he should come back

alas the doctors of twitter agree with cad

if the MRIs were clean idk why he couldn’t come back at some point for the finals

alas the doctors of twitter agree with cad

nah i'm referring to the takes now, responding to the mri results. but i am neither a doctor nor knowledgeable in the credulity of the doctors of twitter so idk

i do see that there seems to be a cottage industry of physical therapists orthopedists etc who give twitter hot takes on sports injuries

a hyperextension is not an injury.

there seems to be a consensus that at minimum there would be damage to the knee capsule and a bone bruise. not sure how long that would typically take to come back from but i would be very conservative with it.

Yeah he’s done for the series for sure but given the way NBA stars force themselves back these days I can see him trying like, Game 4 of the finals if the Bucks win one. Would be a bad idea though

That said I dunno if they can get there, it’s not like with Trae where you lose some sharpshooting and quickness but also have 5 real defenders, which obviously gave the Bucks fits last night. He’s their best player on both ends. On the other hand the Bucks have shot poorly in nearly every single game this postseason, they’re due for some serious regression and they have to have at least one game where Khris and Jrue actually get hot at the same time

i remain optimistic he can come back sooner than we think. he's a big, strong, young dude with no structural / ligament damage in the knee. if he can deal with (or cover up) the soreness...