2021 NBA Playoffs

[ztejas 43464]

Denver fighting but it seems like the type of fight that's going to leave them drained by the 4th quarter.

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

Aaron Gordon sucks

[ztejas 43464]

Jefferson on color is such a breath of fresh air. My God. 

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

Love Jokic. Fighting even though his team will probably come up short.

[shadow_operative 15932]

4 minutes ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

Aaron Gordon sucks

nah, but his shot selection sucks. if he were able to be Denver's no.4 or 5 option when he's on the court (as he is/will be when everyone is healthy) then he can shine like he did in the regular season. it's tough to ask a #4 type guy to be the #2, and especially a guy with his type of shot selection.

[shadow_operative 15932]

Jokic is doing everything he can to keep his team in it, but they are letting him down. 

[shadow_operative 15932]

MPJ and Gordon are a combined 4-20 from the field, with 1 AST and 6 TO.

Edited June 12, 2021 by shadow_operative

[shadow_operative 15932]

Jokic is unbelievable. the shots he's hitting are crazy tough and he's making it look easy. unfortunately for him, CP3 is swishing mid range shots on essentially every single Suns possession, so his efforts are being wasted.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Jefferson on color is such a breath of fresh air. My God. 

Who’s the play by play guy? I’m kinda digging this duo.

[ztejas 43464]

4 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

Jokic is unbelievable. the shots he's hitting are crazy tough and he's making it look easy. unfortunately for him, CP3 is swishing mid range shots on essentially every single Suns possession, so his efforts are being wasted.

Booker has been stupid good in the 3rd too. 

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Man Phoenix and presumably Utah is going to be awesome.

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

Suns will win in 4 or 5 games this round.

I have Jazz in 5 or 6 over the Suns though. 

[ztejas 43464]

Crowder said series. 

[ztejas 43464]

17 minutes ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

Suns will win in 4 or 5 games this round.

I have Jazz in 5 or 6 over the Suns though. 

Jazz have some work left, amigo.

[Blotto 23525]

27 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

CP3 is swishing mid range shots on essentially every single Suns possession

that aint no lie

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

4 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Jazz have some work left, amigo.

Maybe. Thought if the Clippers at least didn't at least get a split in Utah it's over.

Jazz aren't the Mavs.

[ztejas 43464]

1 minute ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

Maybe. Thought if the Clippers at least didn't at least get a split in Utah it's over.

Jazz aren't the Mavs.

LA has the best player in the series by far - like it's not remotely close - they weren't as well rested coming in as Utah and yet they kept games 1 and 2 tighter than they did against the Mavs. On the road. 

I'd give the Clippers a better chance than Milwaukee and MIL already won game 3. 

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

Put a decent amount for me on Nets in the East and Jazz in the West.

[ztejas 43464]

16 minutes ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

Put a decent amount for me on Nets in the East and Jazz in the West.

They are certainly both the betting favorites I would think. 

As for my point about LA and MIL's chances - Vegas basically agrees with me. MIL has already won a game and they have just barely better odds. 

Although Vegas has been fucking up game lines all playoffs so who knows.

 

Edited June 12, 2021 by ztejas

[shadow_operative 15932]

 

[ztejas 43464]

6 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

 

And that was the St. Louis Hawks. So six of the remaining cities have never won an NBA Championship. 

[CurlyDumps 4475]

So, who’s taking Clippers -5 besides Billy Crystal and Clipper Daryl?

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

Seems insane but maybe I'm missing something. Think Utah gets a game in LA.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Mitchell seemed to have tweaked something his ankle the last game in the final seconds. Not sure if that was written about but he wasn’t exactly moving smoothly. Might jump on the clipp show tonight

[LTtxfan 49199]

Seems like Jazz are just stinking this game up during 1st half...

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Jazz making it a little interesting

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

Best playoff game PG has ever had.

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

Donovan Mitchell limping off the court. 

Eh looks fine now. 

Edited June 13, 2021 by Loch Ness Monster

[ztejas 43464]

5 hours ago, CurlyDumps said:

So, who’s taking Clippers -5 besides Billy Crystal and Clipper Daryl?

I stayed away from it. -5 seemed about right. 

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

Donovan Mitchell limping off the court. 
Eh looks fine now. 

They had that ankle wrapped like a mofo on the bench in the final minutes


Watching him tonight I couldn’t tell anything was wrong so maybe it’s precautionary

[Message Board User 12395]

Pretty ominous quote here.

 

[Kermit 3156]

Goddamnit. 

[Rip76 4930]

On 6/11/2021 at 11:04 PM, Loch Ness Monster said:

Suns will win in 4 or 5 games this round.

I have Jazz in 5 or 6 over the Suns though. 

“Suns in 4.”

This is freaking awesome.

 

[SilasCoade 2622]

what exactly is awesome about that? Looks like a grown man beating up a couple kids.

[Rip76 4930]

35 minutes ago, Llogg said:

what exactly is awesome about that? Looks like a grown man beating up a couple kids.

The Suns in 4 part.

[Underdog 28690]

Harmony?

[HookEm 2467]

The nugget cheap shot thrower F’ed around. And then he found out. I enjoyed it. He got off easy.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

The nugget cheap shot thrower F’ed around. And then he found out. I enjoyed it. He got off easy.

Especially when they ran when one of them said “cops”

[ztejas 43464]

No idea what to think today. I think KD or Kyrie might go off but MIL is really just a couple adjustments away from tying this thing up. The thing is - I have little faith in them making those adjustments. 

It looks like no one else can get a read, either. ESPN BPI predictions actually aren't bad and they have MIL favored.

But the spread is BKN -2.0 and the consensus is at 81% which is as high as I've ever seen it. 

 

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

Think the Nets win but I'm rooting for Giannis.

[ztejas 43464]

2 minutes ago, Loch Ness Monster said:

Think the Nets win but I'm rooting for Giannis.

It's funny, because usually it's my heart that's biased towards KD. But right now I think my heart is nervous for him and my head is telling me what I've seen all year which is that no one is beating him Harden or not. 

I'd like BKN better today if they had Jeff Green.

[ztejas 43464]

Oh shit. Green's playing apparently. Vegas gonna love that 😂

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

Joe Harris had his worst game I've seen from him and usually the team with the best player (KD) is a good bet.

[PittsburghTiger 6188]

3 hours ago, Llogg said:

what exactly is awesome about that? Looks like a grown man beating up a couple kids.

Question

1 hour ago, HookEm said:

The nugget cheap shot thrower F’ed around. And then he found out. I enjoyed it. He got off easy.

Answer

[Machinator 32099]

 

[ztejas 43464]

Durant is so fucking good. He's killing MIL on the defensive glass and PJ just fouled the shit out of him to try and deny the ball and he hit a 19 footer in his face anyway. He's as close of a truly complete player as we've ever seen in the NBA. 

[ztejas 43464]

They are letting Tucker fucking maul KD. Don't do this, refs.

[ztejas 43464]

Guess no one is getting superstar calls today. Feel like I'm watching Bulls Pistons in '89. 

[SilasCoade 2622]

36 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:

Question

Answer

I guess seeing terrible people behave in terrible ways is awesome.

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

Bucks are in big trouble.