The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

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

my impression of Kidd in Milwaukee is he was coaching the team he wanted and not the team he actually had, so he kept drawing up defensive schemes that his players couldn't really execute which led to them giving up 3s in record numbers. he also worked his guys to the bone and there are a lot of stories of him being a giant asshole so I'm glad he's gone. it is possible that he's learned a thing or two since and may even develop into a decent coach some day. maybe even some day soon. I really have to see how this Suns series plays out.

coaching is so hard to try and quantify. so much of it is just culture stuff.

he was in a good position culturally in dallas since the star on the team respects him & he was coming into a situation where the previous coach was an asshole type who had worn out his welcome. but it also seems like kidd changed his approach after being fired and seeing other coaches when he was an assistant. i think they said on TV that he said he would’ve coached differently if he had been an assistant first instead of just jumping right into a head job.

yeah never understood why why teams hire players with no coaching experience to be their head coaches

i do think it’s easier to quantify coaching when it comes to defense. don’t think there’s too many teams who have good defenses where you’re just like, yeah i’ve got no idea what the coach is bringing to the table here

wasnt van gundy supposed to be a good defensive coach? that pels team was dreadful

yeah never understood why why teams hire players with no coaching experience to be their head coaches

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kerr pulled it off but i guess as a gm you prob learn a ton

yeah i mean you might hit but it just makes no sense imho as an approach

in retrospect nash probably would have been way better off working as an assistant first

he was kinda around the dubs but it was probably way too casual to be able to learn the real ins and outs. he may be a good coach but hes not really the coach of the nets so we may not get to find out.

idk how you'd even evaluate Nash as a coach. obviously he didn't do a great job but I dunno who could've made that situation work

we are about to witness a massacre

Philadelphia's DeAndre Jordan gets the Game 1 start at center in place of the injured Joel Embiid tonight at Miami.

Embiid is the seventh current All-Star to miss at least one games in these playoffs ... three shy of the single-season NBA record: https://t.co/t2E8SwNy5L

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) May 2, 2022

what an absolute bummer that embiid isnt playying. but doc is prob too dumb to go 5 out and let harden/maxy cook