2021 NBA playoffs thread

Nets with a whopping tonight.

 

Score 126 and lose by 15.

Ho lee fuk.

 

The Lakers looked hideous without Davis yesterday. LeBron dragged a team of corpses to the Finals in 2007 but he was 14 years younger. Not taking anything for granted, but the Suns become a heavy favorite if AD is out. And how has Kyle Kuzma gotten this bad? He sucked out loud yesterday.

 

As always, the NY Knicks are frauds.
No more overhyped team in American sports.
Anyone with a microphone who talks sports were telling me about this great resurgence. They are dogshit.

 

They looked hideous WITH him.

He has lost a few miles on his fastball. The wear and tear has caught up to him.

He doesn't suck. He's on the wrong team and/or they are misusing him. He's a scorer first and foremost but the Laker scheme or flow, or whatever it is, just sucks.

Kuzma is going to be heavily valued this off-season and will go to a team that lets him shoot the fucking ball. The Lakers will regret it.

 

There’s fake machismo; and real machismo. We saw it yesterday in Lakers v Suns.

Crowder horse collared LeBron on a drive and LeBron got upset and did some staring but Crowder just looked right back as if he could care less what LeBron thought.

That made me think, as Jalen Rose would say “that’s real man attitude right there.” LeBron looked like the little boy complaining to his mom.

 

I've never been a huge LeBron fan.
But the man is 36.
Any peer you compare him to was washed up and dried out at that age.

 

This is absurd.

LeBron has been making Jae Crowder look foolish on defense this series.

Crowder started doing the mean-mug thing in game three, running his mouth at LeBron and trying to get physical on defense. From that point on LeBron went one-on-one on Crowder in the post on every single possession, getting an uncontested dunk or layup every time he touched the ball on until the Suns switched Crowder off of him. Crowder is posturing and doing the badass act because he absolutely cannot defend LeBron. It's not "real man attitude."

 

I’m not talking about the basketball skill; that’s beyond discussion.

 

No, Kuzma's problem is that he isn't very good. He's a "scorer" who can't really shoot and doesn't do anything else all that well. There's a reason why New Orleans didn't insist on getting him in the Davis deal.

The Lakers always seem to have one guy who gets wildly overrated by fans. He's this generation's Andrew Bynum.

 

I hope it doesn’t affect his career.

 

Let me know when New Orleans is a thing in basketball.