jayu70 wrote:Things I've learned so far in the playoffs:
1. Another playoffs in which Blake Griffin is injured and unable to help his team.
2. Playoff Lowry in early form - ZERO points
3. Orlando and Brooklyn with the surprise upsets
4. Philly might be in trouble if Embiid is limited. Ben Simmons has an ugly game. He's talented as heck but if he can't fix his game to include a jumpshot, he'll never be as good as he can be.
5. I wish Oladipo wasn't injured for the Celts/Pacers matchup.
6. OKC/PTL - that's gonna be a series: Dame vs Westbrook - they don't like each other much
7. Pop just keeps winning. Denver might be in trouble, their collective playoff inexperience might be an issue.
8. The top teams: Bucks, Warriors, Rockets - showed why they are.
1. The fact that they paraded an obviously injured Griffin out in those last few reg. season games just to eek in ... only to have him unavailable in the playoffs was ... strange.
2. Derozan is like, "Oh y'all thought it was me, huh?"
3. Mmhmm
4. Simmons is a supremely talented but tremendously flawed player. The biggest flaw appears to be that he doesn't think he has any flaws at all. And 6er fans were balking at the thought of trading him for AD? Shiiiii
5. Agree. BOS is ripe for the pickin' but IND (w/o Oladipo) just can't score.
6. Agreed. Plus the Kanter dynamic is interesting. Remember Coach Donovan said, a couple years ago in the playoffs, that Kanter was unplayable for OKC. Now he drops a 20/18 game? Como se dice, revenge?
7. Watching DEN kick the ball around when they were only down 1, then 3 with under a minute left was comical. They ain't ready. Popo is licking his chops.
8. Agreed. MIL-on-DET was like watching the Lion King eat Bambi.

... the horror.
