2021 NBA playoffs thread

The O/U for use of "gutless" on WIP today: 236.5

 

That would be flawed execution, obviously. If the 76ers drafted the best player ever rumored to go No. 1, in those years, it could have been:
2013: Victor Oladipo
2014: Joel Embiid
2015: Karl-Anthony Towns
2016: Ben Simmons (seriously, this draft class stinks)
2017: Jayson Tatum

So, again, it all comes down to execution.

If you ran "The Process" through a simulation 1,000 times, I'd guess a majority of the time it would yield a mid-level contender much like the 76ers are now. But the chances of building a super team via tanking do exist.

 

Holy crap, that Ben Simmons non-dunk. Wow.

 

Simmons needs to work on his confidence/head as much as his free throws. Passing to a guy three feet away when he’s under the basket is a bad look. How can his teammates trust him going forward?

 

Is this a thing about strikers? I've watched soccer forever but have never heard of strikers going off-sides on purpose because they've lost confidence.

It doesn’t matter what we think if Ben Simmons’ teammates are done with him

The 76ers are learning lessons so many others have learned, which is you have to scout yourself better than anyone else. But that also becomes harder for anyone when so much is invested in players like Simmons. It’s not just money, and the Sixers went farther than most with their overhyped and frankly cumbersome “process.” They needed Simmons to work. They needed all of it to work. And they needed to give it all the runway they could to see if it would justify all the noisy horseshit they put their fans through.

But then it didn’t. And now everyone knows it didn’t. And now not flipping him before the league found out what they really had will probably be this version of the Sixers’ legacy.

It’s one thing to just have something missing from your game, like Simmons’ inability to hit a shot outside of belching range. It’s another to just let the moment pass you by, and yet another to actively hide from it. That’s what these 4th quarter stats and that passed up dunk speaks to. It’s the striker who makes sure his runs go offside because he lacks confidence and doesn’t want to miss again. It’s the hitter just hoping for a walk.

 

The most damning item in the Simmons' video when he was wide open; as he spins away from Gallinari (probably one of the worst front court defenders in 20201) the "help" defender coming over is ......Trae Young!! Man that's who's going to force you to pass?

 

Which is more feared by NBA teams?

Trae Young's rim protection

OR

Ben Simmon's shot-making

 

Vigorous jerkoff motion

 

Why does Skip Bayless’ wife have the tightest vagina in sports?

 

And just think of how many years in a row Elgin Baylor had an engraved nameplate at the lottery draw and the Clippers continued to suck. Same could be said for Al Attles and the Warriors. It's not where you pick, but what you do with it.

 

Holy shit….