The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

mavs bench players were 10/14 from 3 in that half

i can’t believe i posted that we could “safely” say the grizzlies had their hands full in this series immediately before the wolves allowed a 21-0 run to leading to one of the worst losses imaginable

lol

this stung me a little bit and i have no connection to or stake in minnesota sports

“Well done, we taught you well.”
—The Vikings

— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) April 22, 2022

The Grizzlies were down 25+ points TWICE and still found a way to cover (-2.5) 😳 pic.twitter.com/aVslI1UYkQ

— ClutchPoints Betting (@CPBetting) April 22, 2022

pat bev really hacked up some bricks from three during that comeback

big early leads like this are really hard to sustain tho, cant let off the gas

pat bev really hacked up some bricks from three during that comeback

shouldve stuck to just running around

rudy not doing much for his DPOY argument

jazz going out BAD

GPII baby

60% from 3, you gotta tip your cap

impressive display of zero defense being played by either team here in utah

when the mavs have bertans on the floor they should just leave him on the offensive side of the court the entire time. not sure their defense would be any worse and he’d at least be open off a miss

KAT asked about getting 4 shots tonight

"Next question."

Probably tells you his true answer

— jace frederick (@JaceFrederick) April 22, 2022

For the same reason that opposing teams want to deny him getting shots?

if KAT can’t get his teammates to “allow” him to shoot more than 4 times in a playoff game it kinda confirms everything ppl say about him

it seems like gobert has quite literally been played off the floor in this game

they put him back in wouldve been funny if they benched him and won tho

i think they might have to go back to that paschall line up

they did lol

max player chillin on the bench in crunch time of a playoff game

man brunson is frying these guys

benching gobert helps with their spacing but does not solve the none of their guys play defense problem

now gobert is back ok

KAT is an embarrassment

yeah

benching gobert helps with their spacing but does not solve the none of their guys play defense problem

Brunson’s explosiveness is kind of amazing

KAT said this in the 2nd quarter while being up 22, the Timberwolves have blown two 20 point leads since
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— . (@_pstu_) April 22, 2022

the jazz would be really good in the playoffs if the corner 3 areas of the court were replaced with lava

lmao

who knew spencer dinwiddie was the most important player acquired at the deadline

what a major win/horrific loss sheesh

dallas can just keep resting luka i guess

Dray ankle tweak

do have to wonder if this series even makes it back to utah. i feel like they’ll prob win game 4 but the jazz might just actually give up at this point

ainge courtside looking shook couldve just played golf danny

he was prob putting gobert and mitchell into the trade machine halfway thru the second quarter & feeling alive for the first time in years

lol

lol harlan being debased by saying GIRLS. GONE. WILD. in the bumpers

for some reason whenever he says it he sounds like a guy at a bar in daytona beach on spring break who is 15 years older than everyone else there and asking college girls if they like to party

RIP nuggs

its realy sad they were a bummer

I complain about Barton but it is kind of unfortunate that he has embarrassed himself so much down the stretch of this season. If the team was healthy he would just be playing 20mpg and it wouldn’t be so glaring or pivotal

it's too bad they don't have a second good player

hollinger:

Through 20 playoff games, the league is averaging 24.0 foul calls per 100 possessions and 25.8 free-throw attempts per 100. To put that number in perspective, the foulingest team in the league in the regular season, Detroit, only committed 22.2 fouls per 100 possessions. And the most free-throw happy team, New York, only earned 25.0 free-throw attempts per 100. Basically, every playoff game now feels like a regular-season game from the James Harden-era Rockets.

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So it’s true that fouling goes up in the playoffs every year, reliably, with basically no exceptions.

But not like this. The extent of the increase is usually much smaller. Over the past 20 postseasons, the difference has ranged from a 16.3 percent jump in 2010 to a mere 2.5 percent in 2016; last season’s postseason saw FTr increase by just 3.6 percent, and we haven’t had a double-digit increase since 2013.

Seen that way, the 21.0 percent jump in FTr is unprecedented; the average increase is only 8.7 percent. Even relative to a normal playoffs, we’re seeing about four extra free throws over the course of a game. The last time we had a playoff free-throw bump of a magnitude this large was in 2010, and it still wasn’t quite as large as the one we’ve seen in 2020. Here are how the last two decades look, for your entertainment

bad

on the other hand

In researching free-throw rates, I was fairly shocked to discover the FTr in these playoffs is still actually lower than every regular season from 2003 to 2011. The changes have been slow and insidious, with the needle often moving just a percentage point or two each year, but the pace-and-space era has shoved the league in such a free-flowing direction that even with a gigantic jump in FTr, like we’ve seen so far in these playoffs, it still pales next to the games we saw just a decade ago.

The end of the dubs nuggs game was unbearable for a while there. Just trading FTs every possession.