by [Hyperize] on Sun Apr 17, 2022 2:02 am
I'll take that sentiment and one-up it... the Cavs' play-in loss might've ruined the postseason for me, which I usually love. It's all fun and games until a 9/10 gets the upset and makes the playoffs... then it feels gross. Trae Young has his season salvaged by a stupid gimmick and has the audacity to wave goodbye to the Cleveland crowd... it's just gross. He shouldn't even be there in the first place. Play-in is dumb, or playoffs need to be reconfigured. Cavs have a magical season (ruined by injuries but it was still good), finish 44-38 and miss the playoffs while the 36-46 Pelicans make it... what the hell. That's a problem.
Cavs have a really unique team with Markkanen, Mobley and Allen all starting (when not injured)... I just wanted to see how they would pan out in a full series, but no. The opening day roster uninjured could've been a legitimate title contender and beaten any team -- it was just a really bizarre collection of players that worked.
The Clippers actually have it worse as the Pelicans are considerably worse; Paul George gets Covid and is out for one game and it ends the entire season when they earned the 8 seed.
It's just like, you have these massively imbalanced sample sizes of an 82-game season, 2 play-in games, and 7-game series'.
I haven't really seen many salty Clippers fans online, but this really hurt as a Cavs fan. I haven't been this gutted over a loss in over 10 years, cause it just doesn't feel right. We were robbed for the NBA's little darling.