The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

ah well nevertheless

he did manage to get a cameo as a traffic cone on tatums buzzer beater

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Yeah tough to waste a great Kyrie game like that

Oh well

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a man of the people

Everyone mobbed Tatum and Smart was celebrating all alone.

renaissance painting etc

ngl as an impartial viewer here i am a bit sad that kyrie fourth quarter is going to be lost to history

― J0rdan S., Sunday, April 17, 2022 5:19 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ah well nevertheless

― lag∞n, Sunday, April 17, 2022 5:20 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he did manage to get a cameo as a traffic cone on tatums buzzer beater

― lag∞n, Sunday, April 17, 2022 5:21 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the absolute correct level of petty

im well practiced

i wonder if the series can maintain the level of physicality it had in that game. bcuz if so whoever comes out of it is gonna be beaten up before even getting to round 2. the bucks had to enjoy watching that one

a physical series should be strongly in the celtics favor but who knows what the future will bring

btw the nets not stopping the ball on the previous celtics possession was probably a mistake, particularly vs jaylen who will always keep going towards the basket until you stop him, scored with 17 on the clock

celtics not trapping kyrie until the last possession also prob a mistake

yeah that possession was the one that prob lost them the game. basically just handed the celtics 2 points without requiring any effort. even if they shave 3 more seconds off the clock it greatly alters how that final possession goes down xp

yep

it feels like that late double team is starting to become popular as a defensive tactic in end of game possessions

i’ve seen kyrie score on like 3 guys many times this season but he had dragic wide open in the corner when horford double teamed him but he didn’t even think about passing to anyone until it was way too late

btw the nets not stopping the ball on the previous celtics possession was probably a mistake

― lag∞n, Sunday, April 17, 2022 6:35 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

coming out of a timeout too, dragic was just standing there worried about the corner pass but he was way too low to defend it anyway

bucks looking pretty ok with their 3 seed lol

Brook just changes so much for the bucks

Yeah they can do so much more with him out there

he looks way better than i thought he would and makes them much scarier

these bucks uniforms are hideous

i would love to see them do a sixers or hawks style makeover that saw them go back to a logo and motif that was simple and retro inspired. their uniforms from the 70s are great

giannis still out there taking 3s, nice of him

lopez and vooch going at each other on the block old school baby

bud waiting til the run got to 13-0 to call a timeout, disrespectful

Yikes

this game doesnt have a lot of baskets, still pretty good tho

vooch cmon buddy

bulls couldve taken that one, shame

Bucks really are playing some awesome defense out there

But yeah that reminded me a lot of Game 1 vs. the Heat last year, and we all know what happened after that

idk bucks might be bad

It’s really kinda hard to tell right now

bull were out there hustling tip o the cap to them when the celtics played them a couple weeks ago they seemed extremely ready to go on vacation

aw monty williams and willie green are besties did not know that

yeah it's a nice subplot of this series. they both seem like great guys.

no sunday afternoon games w/a one-year-old so i missed the good stuff today :(

one year old is the perfect age to become interested in the nba playoffs imo

she will be fascinated by the playoffs and definitely not crawl directly off the couch

I mean it’s a bunch of guys running around and throwing a ball to each other, you try to design a better show for a one-year old

celtics sold out on kd and defended kyrie straight up, the kd part worked

"They did a good job of forcing me away, helping in the paint, I just gotta be more fundamental on my moves,... I played fast, turned the ball [over] ...gotta slow down and play my game. But they did a good job of making me see bodies."

-KD credits Celtics defense pic.twitter.com/O1oHllr6S3

— DaveEarly (@DavidEarly) April 18, 2022

salute to javale mcgee who became a solid rotation player in his early 30s

in fairness i too got a lot more professional in my early 30s

fair

congrats to chris paul on making it thru the first game of the playoffs without suffering a grievous injury!

xp singlehandedly turning javale and biyombo into solid rotation players on the best team in the NBA quietly has to be somewhere on the chris paul career highlights list

xp singlehandedly turning javale and biyombo into solid rotation players on the best team in the NBA quietly has to be somewhere on the chris paul career highlights list

CP masterclass in the 4th

Valencunias seemingly missed about 12 tip-ins tonight