The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

brook has been a monster today

interesting

Gary Payton II is starting for the Warriors in Game 1 today in Memphis. It's a move to get him on Ja Morant early. Jordan Poole and Kevon Looney coming off the bench.

Steph Curry
Klay Thompson
Gary Payton II
Andrew Wiggins
Draymond Green

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) May 1, 2022

I’m likin this version of Holiday

Ooooh my god Giannis

In case you missed it

that works. pic.twitter.com/q5LCh4K5zK

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) May 1, 2022

Giannis, man

Only 9 for 25 but still an insane game

Per @Stathead, there have been just three games in the shot-clock era (regular season or playoffs) where a team has made fewer than 10 2-pointers: https://t.co/Nkh5FXFoAJ

Celtics currently at eight with 3:12 to play.

— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) May 1, 2022

The Bucks are susceptible to opponent 3-point shooting, but making teams one-dimensional is also how they win. Bucks were 10-1 when allowing 48+ opponent 3FGA this season including a season-high 52 vs. Bulls last game — and Celtics already 12/32 early in third.

— Frank Madden (@fmaddenNBA) May 1, 2022

Celtics have made 9 two point shots and there’s only a minute to go

Ime is going to have to scheme better against Bud.

xp It's not just the numbers, though the numbers are often amazing, it's those moments where you feel like he typed in a cheat code

the bucks defense might be better than the nets

the bucks looked very comfortable today and the celtics did not

nate silver must be panicking

that being said the series will find its level once the celtics play a good game. i doubt they’ll play a worse game than today. not sure we learned much today aside that the celtics will lose the series if they can only make 10 twos per game

think jaylen might be injured, that hammy from the last nets game

he was grabbing at it today

yeah

Yeah I doubt the Celtics will play a worse game but the Bucks didn’t exactly play their A game either, Giannis probably won’t shoot 38% or whatever again

According to ESPN tracking, Boston converted 2 of 23 contested 2-point shots. 🥶

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) May 1, 2022

Yeah so the problem for Boston is they can’t exactly attack the paint more

yeah. giannis’ shooting was in part determined by a generally very good boston d, just as celtics’ poor shooting was dictated by a very switched-on bucks d. tatum and brown almost felt like non-factors - scary

oh man that GPII dunk :o

Yeah that was sick. It appears the Warriors have a shitload of good players again

ya it’s not good

Probably best to call that a flagrant 2 since it was two separate flagrant 1s

lag∞n
Posted: 26 April 2022 at 20:32:16

celtics poor halfcourt offense vs the nets weak D is the one thing about that series that has me worried, they relied on transition buckets in that series, what happens when they face a good defense and those dry up, they put together a great reg season offense via ball movement but the nets gummed that all up with switching and zoney things, tho having rob back could help some by adding that roll attack, but still celtics could be in for some defensive slogs from here out

Thing is the Bucks defense is killer with Holiday, Giannis, and Brook on the floor at the same time, especially when Middleton isnt one of the other two

streaming on the nba app of worth it alone in order to see the dumb-ass shit all these arenas do during tv commercials

the memphis “grizzly” is currently hyping up the crowd with “welcome to the jungle” on the soundsystem and a yellow placard that he is waving menacingly

Yeah I love that shit

jaaaaa

memphis getting the ball off that jump when the last play was p clearly off brooks...huge

wow

dag

great game

Hard earned game there

memphis getting the ball off that jump when the last play was p clearly off brooks...huge

I think if one ref had made the call either way they would've reviewed it but since none of em saw it it was just jump ball?
But yeah, definitely great effort to steal that game, overcoming Dray's ejection and splash brother foul trouble.

Warriors random free throw issues almost cost them big time

haa got em

Jason Kidd on Suns centers: ‘This isn’t Gobert or Whiteside. These guys can put the ball in the basket’ https://t.co/23T62PEsBO

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) May 2, 2022

seems misguided, centers are supposed to keep the ball out of the basket

it kinda depends

i guess the mavs wont be going after gobert then huh

the post-series jazz slander by dallas has been very funny

hey is jason kidd actually a decent coach?

no

He got the team to buy in on defense so he’s got that going for him. I think this series w the suns will teach us a lot more tho.

yeah you gotta give him credit for the defensive improvement at the very least

yeah getting good defensive metrics from this lineup is impressive, I don't think I totally understand how it's happening

mavs do have some really good defensive players. finney smith & bullock are two of the better three and D players in the league, kleiba can guard wings and bigs. powell is another guy who can guard a lot of diff players. even luka isn’t terrible, he’s at least a big dude. they usually have the personnel to cover up for the dinwiddies and brunsons. bertans is the only guy they put out there who is just flat out awful on defense.

kidd has coached them up tho & they do have a “defensive coordinator” guy whose name i’m forgetting but they talked about him on TV during one of the jazz games