2024 NBA playoffs thread

[Della9250]

Globe headline just as bad as these playoffs:

Sweet 18

 

[Cosmo]

I'm struggling to think of one iconic moment from these playoffs. Ten of Boston's 16 playoff wins were by double digits. I guess Anthony Edwards' emergence was probably the best storyline? But yeah, super boring.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

This was easily the worst NBA playoffs I can ever remember watching. Tons of blowout games - the variance due to 3 point shooting is immense; injured stars; Fat Luka whining every single game, and Kyrie giving zero forks about throwing up slop; Doris Burke and JJ with zero chemistry; SAS shown walking into MSG like he was a player; The champs a team with zero personality or charisma, unless you like buzzcut white boys tossing up 3s, or a star player who still texts a dead Kobe; The Finals with zero flow because of the off days.

Good riddance to this crap.

This was so stupid, like anyone cared what modern day George Jefferson was wearing.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[BTExpress]

Globe headline just as bad as these playoffs:

Sweet 18

Not even an online tease in Fort Worth (McClatchy, of course).

 

[dixiehack]

A bad omen indeed. Two long months later and the playoffs grind to a halt.
Worst playoffs in modern sports history.
And as a Dubs fan, I'm not looking forward to the start of training camp in what will seem like three weeks from now.

At least you have an exceptionally subpar draft clash to look forward to next week!

 

[poindexter]

I'm struggling to think of one iconic moment from these playoffs. Ten of Boston's 16 playoff wins were by double digits. I guess Anthony Edwards' emergence was probably the best storyline? But yeah, super boring.

Either Fat Luka barking at his bench, "You better forking challenge that!" after committing his 6th foul in game 3; or two Mashhole Celtics fans fighting each other at the game 4 viewing party in Boston.

 

[poindexter]

At least now ESPN can go back to talking about their favorite NBA thing: Offcourt Lakers crap.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

This was easily the worst NBA playoffs I can ever remember watching. Tons of blowout games - the variance due to 3 point shooting is immense; injured stars; Fat Luka whining every single game, and Kyrie giving zero forks about throwing up slop; Doris Burke and JJ with zero chemistry; SAS shown walking into MSG like he was a player; The champs a team with zero personality or charisma, unless you like buzzcut white boys tossing up 3s, or a star player who still texts a dead Kobe; The Finals with zero flow because of the off days.

Good riddance to this crap.

The Finals had a lot of bad basketball. The games were mostly stretches of one team being great and the other being garbage or both teams being garbage. Very, very few runs of both playing at a high level.

And if you think Celtics fans don't enjoy buzzcut white boys tossing up threes, I have a trailer of surplus Danny Woodhead jerseys to sell you.

 

[X-Hack]

Danny Woodhead never hit a three. At least not in a basketball game. I don't know much about his extracurricular activities, but if the soft sixes didn't recognize him as a pro athlete out of uniform, that's what he was left with.

But a Boston-area merch stand specializing in Woodhead, Pritchard, Trot Nixon and Brock Holt jerseys, among others, would do quite well. They love them some gritty, heady, scrappy coaches on the field/floor who have HAAAAAAHT, are stand-up guys and play the game the RIGHT way. Not like LeBron. If you know what I mean.

More recently they've become very invested in the integrity and future of the WNBA. For reasons.

 

[swingline]

Even though the Pacers series was a sweep, it had far more entertaining games than the Final provided, which were none. Hell, Miami minus Jimmy Butler put up more of a fight than the Mavericks. Of course you are right that that wasn't the Celtics' fault in any way, but unless you're a Celtics fan, this was a season that ended with a complete anticlimax. Hell, when the Moses Malone Sixers swept the Showtime Lakers in '83, at least the games were close ones.

Fo' fo' fo'

 

[MisterCreosote]

I'm struggling to think of one iconic moment from these playoffs. Ten of Boston's 16 playoff wins were by double digits. I guess Anthony Edwards' emergence was probably the best storyline? But yeah, super boring.

The T-Wolves coming back from down 20 in the third quarter to beat the defending champs and the best player in the game in Denver in a Game 7 was pretty incredible.

I really thought they were the "team of destiny" before they ship down their legs against Dallas.