The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

Pretty cool a guard got the award

i think jrue is the best guard defender in the league but their defense wasn’t good enough ratings wise

i’m happy that marcus can no longer complain about having won the award. we can all move on with our lives

they should give gobert a defensive player of the year unless everyone on the court is under 6’ 9” award

jrue is also extremely good, hes not quite the defensive playmaker that smart is but hes prob more solid

yeah that’s prob true

one thing i gotta say is crazy is how many times i’m hearing the phrase “girls gone wild” watching the NBA playoffs on TNT

Yah if there’s one thing I don’t care about it’s the history of girls gone wild

cant believe theyre canceling the girls gone wild guy whos next

it's just lots of talk about porn at like 7:30 pm

gus johnson doing this sixers game TNT really pulled him out of the vault huh

The thing w the best player wins line of thinking is the gap has to be pretty big for it to matter. In general pundits focus way to much on individual play vs team play. Gets old quick.

it's especially funny too if you think about the entire lebron cavs era which was basically them losing a bunch of finals and everyone going "well lebron is definitely still the best player in the league. BUT..."

raps coming to play here salute

this would be a nice game for harden to play just awful

He needs to feel the wrath of the Philly boo birds

embiid took 12 fts in the first quarter hate him

he played 11 mins in that quarter running up and down the court. let’s see how this goes

all the numbers are way under water for the raptors again. three pt shooting, fouls, rebounding etc. all basically insurmountable for them. my question is whether the sixers can play this well in toronto

a counterpoint to the best player talk today might be this sixers/raps series

feels like the raptors have bigger issues than just that

in this series anyway

i can't believe marcus won dpoy. what a world.

bob is pretty checked out at this point but even by that standard those are bad tweets--first, don't allude to your proprietary data if that's all you have to stand on (no one can see it and no one cares) and second, fans emphasize perimeter defense more than any other population so i don't think that's who the voters are responding to?

I hate the Celts and would take three Marcus Smarts please.

Dude is smart, tough, and fun (even when you hate him).

well it’s not a question of whether marcus smart is a great defender. but it also was a wide open year. the rudy fatigue was clear, draymond and bam injuries took them both out of the running (i suspect with bam). the lane was open for a narrative winner

I always laugh at these PR campaigns for awards from teams and agents, but Marcus Smart basically won DPOY with a PR campaign over the last month. Nobody was even discussing him before then.

— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) April 18, 2022

Maxey 23/9/8 1 TO, 50% from 3.

glad the celtics decided to run the PR campaign of "having the best defense in the league" the last month or two

Warriors shots look so crisp

the things jalen brunson is doing are not normal

that dude is gonna be very very paid this summer

salute to him

tbf the smart for dopy campaign has been going on for years, it just went mainstream recently

Successful campaigns are built on prolonged message discipline pic.twitter.com/7FbBpkDEJR

— Ryan Bernardoni (@dangercart) April 18, 2022

he’s fun to watch too. very creative game

not sure if leaving the strong side corner open every time is really the right approach for utah at this point in the game

lol they did it again right after i posted that

its crazy how bad the Nugs are the moment Jokic leaves the court

i don't really "like" the "mavs" but man does this series expose my absolute disgust with this jazz squad

same

brunson 41-8-5-2stl

man this steph-klay-poole-wiggins-dray line up is fun to watch

when dray is healthy steph is the best player in the world

the jazz losing a game by doing the definition of insanity thing and letting maxi kleiba and finney smith repeatedly make corner threes as gobert hangs out in the dunker spot guarding nobody was honestly the most predictable event of these playoffs

on its face letting kleiba shoot repeatedly isn’t a bad strategy but how many times are they gonna force themselves to relive the clippers nightmare? why would they even do it to themselves

holy shit Jordan Poole, it's like they have two Currys on their team

hey when youve got a multi time dpoy you cant be messing with the recipe

man this steph-klay-poole-wiggins-dray line up is fun to watch

― J0rdan S., Monday, April 18, 2022 11:05 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

theyre very skilled and mobile extremely small tho, pretty cool

yeah this is a really entertaining team. that Curry dime a minute ago was insane