[Highlight] The Boston Celtics take Game 1 over the Philadelphia 76ers with a 123-91 victory. It’s the largest playoff-opening win in their franchise’s history.
Let the play-in’ winning team take the other teams best player, cowards
Paolo with a huge three to cut the lead to 24
That’s unrealistic - he doesn’t shoot 3s.
Sure he does, he just saves his makes for the least beneficial times
Oh he shoots them. He just doesn’t make them
They really should make the first round best of 5
Should be best of 5 unless the series is tied up 2-2 which then it gets extended to the full 7.
You know what, I can get behind this idea!
It’d be a bitch to schedule, but fuck it lol
I’ll let you cook in my kitchen, chef!👨🍳
Effectively first to 3 games with a 2 game lead or first to 4 games, I kinda like it.
This sub hates basketball.
The 1-8 and 2-7 matchups have gone in favor of the higher seeds the majority of the time in the history of the playoffs but the 3-6 and 4-5 matchups have more deviation.
Plus, we’ve had plenty of historic 1st round series between 1-8 and 2-7 matchups that didn’t end in an upset but were amazing to watch. 2009 Bulls vs Celtics series quickly comes to mind.
These first 2 games today have been blowouts but who knows if the series becomes interesting at some point.
No, they should outright reduce the number of teams in the playoffs. Go to 6 and have first round byes. The NBA playoff format doesn’t reflect the current state of the league where only a few teams are actually championship-viable.
There’s been enough 1-8 and 2-7 upsets to justify it imo.
There have been many, many more terrible first round series. I’m sure you’d get some 1-12 upsets if you expanded it further, but watching the Sixers and Magic so far has me convinced this is awful and half the league doesn’t belong in the playoffs. The Suns are also getting demolished but OKC is a generational team.
All right calm down, every sport has low seeds that have little chance to win. Just moving it along quicker is the way to do it.
NHL, MLB, and NFL beg to differ
I mean, there’s no sports league in America with a playoff format that has as little variance as the NBA playoffs. It’s on a whole different stratosphere than anything else. Every low seed in any other sport has a substantially higher chance of winning the title than any of these terrible NBA teams lol The NFL only has 1 game and baseball / hockey just have infinitely more variance than basketball as sports.
I mean the Heat just went to the finals as a play in team my guy
I mean that doesn’t change my point lol. Obviously, weird things can still happen in basketball. There is some luck….just significantly less luck than in other sports. As a casual NBA fan, it just seems incredibly dumb for the sport with the least variance to also have a bo7 playoff system and then also to have a ridiculous amount of obvious blowout matchups every year.
you sound like someone who hates basketball lol
But then you’re cutting the actual entertaining first round series matchups between the 3-6 and 4-5 seed short.
What does that really accomplish?
Makes the series shorter.
I’ll chime in as I agree with the OP (or even best of 3 but I really that’s a bit crazy).
Fans and players alike complain about lengthy season and playoffs - this would cut down on games (obviously) but also cut down on the more physical playoff games.
More importantly, making the series smaller also typically gives the underdog teams actually more of a chance of winning. If this was a best of 3 series, Philly winning even 1 game suddenly makes everyone watch and say “Oh shit Philly could upset” when there is just no chance in hell they are winning a 7 game series.
Gets us fans of basketball to the interesting series’s a lot quicker, especially with the way they spread out the games in the first round.
Home team that wins the first two games in the first round win 94 percent of those series, I don’t feel we gained anything other then tedium and injury risk when the league extended it to best of 7.
Opens the door for fluky results tbh. It’s basketball after all. First to 3 isn’t always going to the better the better team.
I guess that’s a good thing or a bad thing depending who you ask.
How about best of 7 but mercy rule is in place if it’s 3-0. Just the first round though.
to big of a gap in rest days between a team that goes 7 and one that wins in three games in the next round.
Yes like MLB!
Celtics in 3 🧹
So uh… Embiid will play next game right?
It doesn’t really matter tbh. If he plays the rest of the series maybe Philly loses in 5⁄6 games instead of 4⁄5 games.
If Embiid doesn’t play this series gonna be over quick
eastern conference is so trash we got a g league team in the playoffs
No you got like 3 of them. Sixers, Magic, and Hawks don’t belong in the playoffs. I’m not sure the Raptors do either.
East always works out like thid for some reason. Like theres always a huge gap between 4th and 5th I feel.
First round matchups in the east are usually boring
Just feels like there are just more east teams perpetually tanking.
Wizards, for example.
Yikes, guess the Celtics might still be good
KAT gonna plan his heart out, because if we lose to Boston he’s getting dealt for Gianni’s
the world finally seeing Maxey for what he is
Cant defend, Cant Pass, Shot Chucker who foul baits
6-1 SG playing PG lol, worst tunnel vision in the NBA, tried telling our fans.
we got 3rd pick when he got 1st option last year..hes legit a shot chucker of highest degree but doesnt have the passing or size like Luka who shot chucks but does other shit. Sadly LaMelo Ball is 10x the actual point guard of Maxey and all metrics shot it..not that i care about metrics but he can pass and run a offense
Maxey is All Gas No breaks. run full speed for a bad lay up /foul or shoot a 3, thats it
The fact the casuals think hes some star is hilarious, Stats mean nothing
Tell us how you really feel lol
Nah you’re cray - he’s gonna be all-NBA this year cuz he carried this sorry ass sixers team to the 7 seed. He’s explosive af and can score from all 3 levels.
Sure he’s undersized but that’s why you surround him with defensive talents - it’s not his fault PG got suspended and Embiid did Embiid things.
Fake news. Maxey wouldn’t start on good teams. He’s literally just a Stat guy who can score. He lost every game last year without VJ for a reason
Not even true lmao, Sixers beat the Nets on November 28th 115-103 without VJ and with Maxey. Also a March 4th win against the Jazz 106-102.
If you’re gonna be delusional with your hate at least have the decency to not blatantly lie.
fake news again.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NBATalk/comments/1rlp688/tyrese_maxey_is_36_of_122_from_3_point_the_last/
Maxey 36 for 122 for whole month after all star break
He shot chucks worse than Luka but he cant pass like Luka
He wouldnt start on most teams, hed just be a tanking scorer on the Wizards and hes smaller than those PGS
if u sent MAxey to any winning team..hed be a 6th man cause too small and cant play PG
I know you’re just ragebaiting because you’ve got nothing better to do, but you said Maxey lost every game without VJ last year. He didn’t. So try harder with your ragebait next time buddy 👍
As a vocal Sixers hater, I have to say you are totally wrong here Maxey is legit
Nope you’re just a hater so you think Maxey is a winning player. He’s not. He’s the ultimate Casuals player. Look at stats. He couldn’t win a game last year without VJ. He can’t be a top 2 option on a winning team cause he has 0 IQ
Maxey is very very good and will be I think people fall into the trap of the team is bad which actually makes the stars look/play worse. If the sixers had a better team i think it would really make him shine. That being said i semi-agree with you in that I think he’s a really amazing #2 player but not an all league player like people were suggesting. I think he’ll be best off the ball and as a release valve who can put the ball on the floor. Also no one can guard boston so I don’t agree his defense sucks.
lol you don’t watch our team then.
Maxey can’t defend and he can’t pass and he shot chucks. LaMelo Ball is a better PG by 10x in terms of being a PG
Ah yes, the leader of the charlotte hornets.
An example of a winning basketball team
Maxey is the least of their problems, lol.
Nope. That’s what Casuals think. We were worst team ever with Maxey last year without VJ. He’s a scorer on bad teams. That’s what his role is in many ways.
No other true playoff team would let him play the way he does.
Idk he’s the same height and stats as Donovan Mitchell who isnt catching the same shit.