The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

will be interesting to see it KD forces the issue tonight, i feel like sometimes guys can lose themselves in the flow of the game. but you’d have to imagine the nets are aware of this if everyone else is. but like i posted a few days ago there’s just no real match up hunting for him to do in this series. i think it would be good if the nets ran some plays for him like getting him some sideline post touches or running some short curl actions inside the arc to get him moving with the ball towards the basket. if their plan is to have him isoing on tatum and brown 24 ft from the basket trying to break them down off the dribble idk if that’s going to be very successful

Rivers, when asked directly if Embiid has a ligament tear: “It’s not a good injury. I’ll leave it at that.” https://t.co/VUuvDSyh3K

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) April 23, 2022

fuck

The mismatch between Embiid's size and his style of play has always made injuries a high risk. This one came at a very bad time. Um, I guess Harden will have to carry the team on his broad shoulders now.

i’m just seeing that bobby portis, who punched nikola mirotic off the bulls, put up 18-16 last night & grayson allen, who basically threw alex caruso off a building, scored 22 and hit 5 threes in the first playoff game in chicago since 2016. rough one for bulls fans

Allen is a solid backup, sorry you missed the game

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i think it would be good if the nets ran some plays

lol

it def would be but hard to imagine theyre going to start now

Well there was an attempted murder on Bobby Portis in Game 2

you know what they say: good players run plays, great players are the plays

and good players who think they're great players just fuck up the plays a lot

reasonable, mobleys only other guy who had a case imo

Nothing like finding you're the best rookie in your class 🌟

Congratulations, Scottie Barnes, the 2021-2022 Kia Rookie of the Year 🙌pic.twitter.com/zD0AXqz2Il

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) April 23, 2022

very cute video too guess vince is let back in the raptors family canadians are so nice

wow i thought mobley had kinda run away w it

Allen is a solid backup, sorry you missed the game

Yeah you have to look at the complete body of work over the past two seasons, where he has been a rock solid backup and decent starter.

embiid 0-5 so far

not great injuries are bad

praising an nba player for being a "solid backup" is like praising your lover for being a "good conversationalist".

Thad Young out there

I feel like that was a pretty good half given Embiid's play and the Raptors played pretty well.

Cool how in every nba playoff game a significant player gets injured

Embiid trying to do too much out there with these passes to make up for the fact that he can't put the ball on the floor.

More injuries!

wow i thought mobley had kinda run away w it

close vote!

PLAYER, TEAM 1ST 2ND 3RD TOT
Scottie Barnes, TOR 48 43 9 378
Evan Mobley, CLE 43 46 10 363
C. Cunningham, DET 9 10 78 153

Crazy

mobley got banged up in the second half and the cavs sank in the standings, meanwhile the raptors went in the other direction. there wasn’t really a wrong pick

spero dedes & grant hill is one of my fav crews

theyre both Cool Calm Collected

rudy all over the offensive glass here

(lebron james kid voice) luka doncic

luka doncic

woww

really weird the mavs didn’t advance the ball

I think they didn’t have a TO? Not sure why the clock stopped, that was confusing

nah they called one

that was basically the exact shot dinwiddie made to beat the nets in brooklyn a few weeks ago. teams are gonna have to start preparing for the late double team in those situations, seems like the go to defensive strategy now

xp If that’s right then yeah, that’s inexplicable

either way, feels like the Jazz dodged a bullet there, between that and Powell missing those FTs

A bunch of people saying Dallas had no timeouts left. They called a TO after the Gobert dunk. They could have advanced it then.

The broadcast was saying they had no timeouts as they brought it up, because they had none left then.

But they 100% could have advanced after the TO. https://t.co/ylf8Vv9ceJ

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) April 23, 2022

very odd!

nba trends

Three of the 4 game winners this playoffs didn’t come out of a timeout. pic.twitter.com/AhwSAUeKSo

— StatMuse (@statmuse) April 23, 2022

been a lot of good games so far

true

Powell disrupted his free throw routine between attempts way too much

he just looked nervous. can’t blame him i guess. tough bcuz they really only needed one.

it’s hysterical watching luka play with a leg injury, like he is driving to the basket at a walking pace almost. i feel like they could put him in a motorized scooter and he would still get into the paint and hit a spinning fadeaway

rudy revenge game

Powell disrupted his free throw routine between attempts way too much

― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, April 23, 2022 7:30 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

noticed that too he was standing sideways on the line looking like a lost child, came about as close as you can to hitting the first one tho, rough stuff

yeah and the second one looked bad coming out of his hand