2021 NBA Playoffs Gamethread
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Yup. Pretty fun. West as wide open as the AFC East with LA Lakers looking mortal.
I doubt the Warriors trade Wiggins straight up for Porzingis, let alone throw in Wiseman. Porzingis rolls out of bed and misses more games than Wiggs has in his seven-year NBA career; plus they’re at opposite defensive versatility spectrum. And Wiggs shot better than the Zinger from 3 this season, to boot.
I actually think KP straight up for Wiggins would be a pretty nice deal for a Dallas. Wiggs seems like a good fit with Luka, slashing off ball and making up for some of his defensive shortcomings; and (more importantly) he comes off the books in two seasons, where KP is on the books for the three. And: during those two seasons, he’s likely to be available for 50-100 more games.
But it’s kind of moot, since the Warriors likely hang up the phone.
Pulling into driveway after Dunkies trip have the Wizards radio feed on.
Color guy: “Philly is going to approach tonight as a Game 7 because they’ve been there before.”
Play-by-Play guy: “I agree that the Sixers will come out like it’s a Game 7 as they have had playoff failures in the past.”
WTF am I listening to? Now I think Philly is an awful matchup for the Wizards and expect it to be a 2H rout but approaching it as a G7 bc they’ve been there before?
Color guy: “Philly is going to approach tonight as a Game 7 because they’ve been there before.”
Play-by-Play guy: “I agree that the Sixers will come out like it’s a Game 7 as they have had playoff failures in the past.”
WTF am I listening to? Now I think Philly is an awful matchup for the Wizards and expect it to be a 2H rout but approaching it as a G7 bc they’ve been there before?
No NBA team has blown a 3-0 series lead and only 3 have had to go to Game 7 to finally win one. None of those 3 teams was the Sixers. So, yeah, what the heck are they talking about?
They were also stressing the importance of scoring first to “get off to a good start.” I’m not sure if the Sixers could overcome the daunted 2-0 deficit.
Some guy runs on the floor in the middle of the Wizards/Sixers game. People can’t handle themselves post-COVID.
This Celtics fan is glad it moved our terrible fan off the news cycle.
Terrible people are acting terrible everywhere.
As my wife would say, "Settle your wagon down."
Westbrook with an extremely Westbrook line so far, 3 for 18 from the field, 18 boards, 13 assists.
They'll have a good amount of cap space this summer (more if Richardson opts out), they can make some moves.
Umm GS? And Quickly. Why are they giving up Wiseman who is an actual asset to swap Wiggins for Porzingis when they're similar players and Wiggins has a better contract.
If you want to trade Porzingis for an asset you're looking at something like Kemba and a heavily protected 1st maybe?
Looks like that security guard went for a double leg take down and went into mount position. Quality,
When was the last time you saw Hack-a-(fill in the blank) and the person being constantly fouled on purpose was a backcourt player? Simmons was 5-11 from the line.
That is absolutely bonkers. I didn't pay much attention to the NBA over the last decade or so; I know the names (like Westbrook) but just hadn't seen many of the current stars play much. His game last night was so incredibly odd. My buddy called him an incredible athlete with insane competitive drive, but maybe not the best basketball IQ. I can get that when you see how he just ignores what's going on and forces up terrible shots on the regular... but I feel like for someone to average a triple-double multiple times, for someone that small to gobble up so many boards... he must actually have a pretty high basketball IQ... regardless, he sure is a unique player.
I mean, they were 10-11 without him. That counts as some success but not much. It should be enough to get past the Wizards with a 3-1 edge, though. I don't know if Philly has enough to get past the Hawks/Knicks without him, let alone the Bucks/Nets, so resting him now would be a good plan.
They went 7-3 during his last major injury lay-off of the season. Wiz dominated inside after Embiid went out last night. But Doc can fix that. Home court, refs should be intimidated, tough game to lose but the 76ers will make it interesting.
The earlier games don't count? Only three of those seven wins were against playoff teams, one of which was against the Lakers who were missing both Lebron and AD. The other two wins were against the Knicks, so if they face the Knicks without Embiid they'd be in decent shape I guess.
Hawks vs Sixers (without Embiid but with home court) would be a pick'em. That's pretty flattering, not too many teams missing their best player (on both ends of the court) should be favored in the 2nd round of the playoffs. The push all year to get that #1 seed should pay off big.
*edit - calling Embiid the Sixers' best player is understating it. If he'd played 65 games this year he'd be the MVP favorite. It really shouldn't be a problem getting through the Wizards without him, but any further becomes difficult.
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I agree with you, mostly. We can parse wins and losses forever in a Covid season. The playoffs are the first point where everyone who can play is playing.
Without Embiid in Game 5, Tobias Harris has to have a good shooting night. He really stepped up in that 7-3 stretch.
And now we watch the Celts. Go Boston!
Ordered a Booker Valley jersey earlier today. Feeling good about the purchase
He really is. Besides being an amazing talent, he also plays hard and doesn’t whine a lot.
Denver came out really hot making a bunch of threes and then came back to earth.
I mean... yes the drop from a top 8 player in the league to a guy who got bought out because he's trash is indeed quite big
