2021 NBA playoffs thread

I didn’t ask why, I asked who

whose jock do lazy TV taking heads snif more often for an easy 30 seconds of mindless chat during important games in which neither are playing?

 

I also don't mind the Suns kicking the Lakers' ass.

I've been watching the Suns as long as the Lakers -- 40 years -- because of their division rivalry.

I have a soft spot for the Phoenix Suns going back to Cotton Fitzsimmons coaching Walter Davis and Tom Chambers and those pretty decent teams.

I'd rather the Lakers lose and get their asses handed to them by a division rival than to teams in other divisions.

 

Stotts out in Portland - he got as much as he could out of this collection of players. They weren't going to win a title in any event - they seem to swap in the same type of supporting players every year, but never land an impact player via trade or FA. Nurkic might have been their best acquisition since Rasheed Wallace. I think fans are just hoping for something significant (keeping Lillard of course) instead of the nibbling around the edges that the team has settled into in recent years.

 

The Suns were the team I adopted when I lived in Arizona, coinciding nicely with the Nash-Stoudemire-D'Antoni era. Glad to see them back in the playoffs.

 

They should have won a title or two.

 

The most positive thing about the Mavs fixing to lose to the Clippers is they will finally realize KP was nothing more than a magic bag of beans. At least fucking Rodrigue Beaubois dropped 40 in a game once.

 

You can do it. But it'll be tiny.

Par for the course in this SEO-meets-print world, however.

 

I kinda suspect they get it. I just don't know that there's much they can do much about it. I have no idea what his trade value might be but I doubt it's very high.

(My son insists they should trade him to Portland because the Blazers can't say no to a perpetually injured big man.)

 

The Bucks should fire Mike Budenholzer before game two. This is inexcusable.

 

Hawks up 20 on the Sixers, before halftime.

 

Hawks have have (and made) so many open shots it's like they've been on the power play since the opening tip.