2021 NBA playoffs thread

And playing some pretty great D, too.

Durant is up there with Magic and Bird. He’s in the tier just below LeBron and Jordan.

 

Seriously, this is the most poorly-coached team I have ever seen, anywhere. Just wildly incompetent.

 

Each possession more appalling than the last

 

KD’s game is up there with LeBron game 6 against the Celtics.

 

What a strange game. Hats off to KD, who put in an all-time playoff performance there. That was amazing.

Steve Nash had a key player hobbled with a hamstring injury and played him 46 minutes while shooting 1-for-10.... and Nash still looks like a goddamn genius next to Budenholzer.

I hope whoever gets named coach of the Bucks next week makes it priority one to get a proper big man coach to work with Giannis.

 

Maybe once in those 46 minutes did Milwaukee make Harden pay for playing on one leg.

First Half
Nets: Please, just take this game
Bucks: Thanks, but we couldn't possibly

Second Half
Bucks: Please, just take this game
Nets: Thanks

 

KD with a great game; only thing he did wrong was missing the FT to get 50, very strong D too.

Bucks? Holiday with a floater air all, Giannis hits one nice jump hook going middle and then.... not again; bad coaching? Not trusting your shot? That should be his go to shot. Middleton, made a nice feed that Giannis fumbled in lane but Middleton always looks like he’s going 1-1 and taking a tough jumper.

 

Bud really needed to force the Jrue/Freak pick and roll so that Harden had to switch.

 

Why are some so surprise by Budenholzer coaching? He’s always been terrible, IMO.

 

Barkley did a great breakdown of Harden telling his teammates that he didn’t need help on a Freak post.

The Freak is a great player. Middleton and Jrue are very good players, but none of them can consistently be the guy at the end of a game.

Kareem, Bird, Magic, Zeke Thomas, Jordan, Hakeem, Barkley, Kobe, Iverson, Shaq, Curry, Durant, Wade, LeBron, Leonard and all the Spurs teams had multiple players who could step up when asked. I’m forgetting players, too, but you get the picture. The Bucks don’t have anyone to go on this list. Embiid is trying to get on the list. Booker is getting there. Paul is. Mitchell is trying. Young is trying.

 

Meh, I don't know - The Bucks overall roster seems fine to me. But Giannis' PER goes from 29.2 career in the regular season, to 24.0 in the playoffs. This is the second playoffs in a row where his FT percentage has been near 50 percent, and he shot 32 percent from 3 last year and 17.1 percent this year. ORTG this year is 105. If he can't consistently hit from outside, then he needs to develop a post game - so that the Bucks can play 4-out - or some other way to prevent defenses from just clogging up the lane on him.

 

Paul… YGBFKM