The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

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.

...

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.

Long before the standard last minute foul game

Yeah the last 4-5 minutes was ugly

robert williams is trying to come back from a torn meniscus after 4 weeks. seems like that might not be a great idea?

it was prob a minor tear. usually with those you can come back pretty fast. quick scope n scrape and you're good to go. some dudes used to come back in 2-3 weeks with those.

yeah its not uncommon if everything goes well but its also not uncommon for everything to not, would be nice for the celtics to win game three and hold him out until the second round

yeah why not just hold him out of the first round it doesn't seem like they're going to need him

first two games were close, guess well see how ready the nets are to pack it in tho

might be nice to get him a little burn before the next round i guess

last season they limited him.. wouldn’t be surprised if he only plays like 12-15 mins of he does come in

guess they feel like hes ready

Barring a setback, Boston Celtics center Robert Williams III intends to return in limited minutes for Game 3 vs. Brooklyn on Saturday, sources tell ESPN. If those minutes go smoothly, the expectation is that he’ll resume a significant minutes load for Game 4 on Monday.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 22, 2022

Williams played pain-free 5-on-5 in consecutive practices and will make his return from meniscus surgery on March 30.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 22, 2022

barring setback everyones suiting up

Barring a setback, Brooklyn's Ben Simmons plans to play in Game 4 on Monday vs. the Boston Celtics, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 22, 2022

ben simmons coming back for game 4 of the playoffs with his team down 3-0 after missing the entire season would have the biggest procrastinator energy ever, i almost would have no choice but to respect it

me in college: habitually writing entire 15 page papers the night before they’re due

ben simmons: missing 86 games and coming back for the 87th and final game

if the nets win game 3 will he push it back y/n