The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

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.

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

he might experience a setback

lol jordan otm

nets down 2, seconds left in the game, pick and roll to simmons for an easy layup…

There is fear that Philadelphia 76ers All-NBA star Joel Embiid has a torn ligament in his right thumb, but Embiid has vowed to continue playing through the injury, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Embiid will rely on his pain tolerance and 76ers‘ medical staff.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 22, 2022

man wtf

JFC fuck this bullshit.

I mean they weren't winning a title but let us have a little fun.

bam tore a ligament in his thumb this year and had surgery, missed about 6 weeks (22 games). but obviously they had a lot of time to spare

Ben Simmons on finally getting to play with the Nets:

"My IQ is so high, to play with guys like Kai, Seth, Kev...I know how they want to play" pic.twitter.com/ddkMvXPaBf

— Nets Videos (@SNYNets) April 22, 2022

he's logged a lot of hours on NBA2K preparing for this moment

If you can't shoot 3s and never improve your game, can you really have a high basketball IQ? Idk.

should be can't shoot FTs

If you can't shoot 3s and never improve your game, can you really have a high basketball IQ? Idk.

― we only steal from the greatest books (PBKR), Friday, April 22, 2022 6:12 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is just gifted kid burnout in hoops form

Meaning that he's so gifted physically that he's never had to work on his game?

it means someone told him he was smart and he believed it

JJ redick pretty good on TV

he exposed chris paul for having a stylist lol

big game for the bucks here theyve been playing like butt and now middleton is injured

They should be fine this series so long as Jrue plays like he did in the regular season

just winning the series isnt enough at some point they need to play good

They played pretty well during a bunch of their marquee matchups vs. other good East teams but yeah they haven’t put together like, 2 weeks of good basketball

i would love to see the rip through be eliminated from the NBA…

the john collins beer can three point celebration was amazing

heat on a 20-0 run, maybe they best stretch i’ve seen them play all year. playing insane defense.

PJ Tucker is lockdown on the perimeter 🔒

MIA 68 | ATL 68
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— NBA (@NBA) April 23, 2022

Giannis only has 10 and the Bucks are winning by 19, looks like they figured something out