The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

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

I mean this is Globetrotters shit

pic.twitter.com/LDi686DvLR

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) April 19, 2022

halftime entertainment is some type of juggling dup who are wearing tshirts of the club they perform at which is named "fugazi", took me a second

I’m not having a good time

cmon this season was a write off for the nuggs

aw look at this lil guy

If you haven't seen Giannis' scouting report on himself before he was in the NBA, it's worth a watch pic.twitter.com/QqDG1CyxJu

— Matthew McGovern (@MatthewMcGovern) July 21, 2021

god damn the transformation he's made from that to what he looks like now is some anime shit

"im getting the fuck out of here and do not care"

Donovan Mitchell on similarities to Jazz’s defensive issues vs. Clippers last season: “I don’t think any of us are looking at it like, ‘Ah, like it’s last year all over again,’ because we’re healthy. We can do this. We can control that, and I think we will. I know we will.” https://t.co/4ybyRN2esz

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) April 19, 2022

it might be a bit unfair to them. but also like……. they let the same exact thing happen to them lmao

the nuggets are getting thoroughly outplayed but the officiating is outrageous

curry’s +23 in 15 minutes

Jokic lookin like he wants a T

uhh

Will Barton and DeMar Cousins had to be held back from each other by Nuggets teammates during the last timeout.pic.twitter.com/tK3junIJra

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) April 19, 2022

it is straight up unfair that Poole is playing like this