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

especially for someone who relies so much on explosion and getting to the basket. like he doesn't really help them if he can't be totally confident in that knee so he can play his game.

suns looking locked in

it would be really dumb to let him play on an injured knee so i hope someone has some sense.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, June 30, 2021 9:20 PM (six minutes ago)

i guess i'm not sure i agree w/ this if the ligaments are fine and he just has a bone bruise it's prob about pain management more than anything. but if he's giving you harden level play out there i guess it's a question of whether it's worth it from a competitive standpoint.

like in the case of embiid they were multiple rounds from the title and he had a ligament tear. giannis situation feels different to me

Giannis isn't really the sort of player Harden is though. he was like never within 10 feet of the basket

ayton making some tough shots tonight

i mean there's a lot of factors and i shouldn't totally discount the idea that he could play, i just find it hard to believe that the whole area would be stable and pain-free enough that he could play his style of game without a major re-injury risk. banners fly forever but i don't think they're just going to waltz to the title if he plays and there's a shortsightedness to playing him that bothers me. if giannis were to suffer a really serious knee injury there would be significant concern that he is a different and much lesser player on the other side of it.

its not like they were cruising to a title either, the way they were playing reminded me of the 2019 ECF Raps series where they dominated for like 3-4 quarters then let the Raptors take control of everything else

Cam Payne has such an insane arc in his shots

it's a very weird shot and i am surprised when it goes in

yeah they look like they're gonna be 2 feet short and then splash

jesus that cousins bank 3

reggie jackson's shots are so smooth

I think he plays game 1 of the finals if they make it

Suns are running some really slick plays to get Saric an open 3

dario saric can't miss (if he's wiiide open)

i'm dying @ pat bev taking a 2 step flying jump swing on ayton's head like he's a WWE wrestler and the ref staring at it from 1 foot away just nonchalantly blowing his whistle and calling a common foul

i hate to say it....but i agree with that being a common foul

pat bev out here concussing players w/ no consequence this will rear its head later

believe me i hate defending anything pat bev does but he went for the ball and got the ball first

so did Jokic

well maybe not first

PatBev isn’t Serbian

well maybe not first

― butyrate humbucker bobbins (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, June 30, 2021 10:27 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

feels like a very friendly whistle for the clips tonight….

if you can draw an equivalence between jokic committing an obvious frustration foul and raking a guy across the face vs. pat bev trying to block a shot from behind on a guy who is a foot taller than him i'm not going to argue with you because we're watching different things.

i think pat bev was glad to have hit ayton across the head and knew what he was doing as he followed thru. i also didn’t understand why the jokic foul was an ejection so i guess it’s all pretty arbitrary

clippers are losing hold of the rope, they have no offense when playoff p becomes pandemic p and reggie jackson isn’t shooting like klay thompson

jokic shoulda been tossed, that crowd wanted blood and it was getting really goony

pat bev shoulda got a flagrant bc he tests the limits of whats ok and he needs to fuckin chill

xp

all as arbitrary as whose possesion it is if you knock the ball against the dribbler's hand on the way out of bounds

~the spirit of the game~

this cp3 flop is VINTAGE lil bastard,

Yep, up there with the untucked jersey shit

Well maybe not quite

thats PEAK lil bastard

PEAK, VINTAGE, CLASSIC coming soon from the lil bastard collection

lol

lmao I forgot about that untucked jersey story. I love that b/c if you told the story without naming the player everyone would just immediately know it was Chris Paul

he's such an incredible flopper too. just the presence of mind to know that the defender's foot was gonna come close to yours and immediately fall like a sack of bricks

Wow, just when you thought pat bev couldn’t lean any further into his villainous persona

Pat Bev just rage quit and threw his controller at the tv

— Very Nice Akis (@Aykis16) July 1, 2021

ok I gotta know what CP3 said to him

lol pat bev whta a baby

pat bev out here concussing players w/ no consequence this will rear its head later

cp3 going out being a total asshole to the clippers is hysterical

lol yeah good stuff

Suns go to the Finals for their first trip since 1976. Nicely done, Suns.

Barkley went in ‘93 with the Suns?

cant really take much joy in cp going to the finals tbh

if it was going to happen i’m glad it happened at the expense of the clippers