The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

[two hours later]

Doc Rivers just now: "We are going to keep starting him [DeAndre Jordan] whether you like it or not because our guys believe in him."

— Barry Jackson (@flasportsbuzz) May 3, 2022

what a freaking sicko

mavs hitting some 3s

can nba players stop kicking nuts for one week

🚨 NUTSHOT ALERT 🚨

Jae Crowder caught Luka Doncic right in the groin 😬pic.twitter.com/OpYzEEZ8Ci

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) May 3, 2022

Mavs putting up a fight but the Suns are shooting 66%

The Suns are relentless.

That javale pick on luka and slam was sick

mavs really have nobody to put on Ayton

mavs will waste luka's career like they mostly wasted dirk's

good :twisted:

TIL that Jordan Poole and JJJ were high school teammates

all these guys went to fake baller feeder schools iirc

The Heat scored 50 points in DeAndre Jordan's 17 minutes and 56 points during the 31 minutes he sat.

His lack of dynamism on both ends considerably hamstrings the Sixers during his stints.

— Jackson Frank (@jackfrank_jjf) May 3, 2022

i feel like, in a sense, losing a center, even one of embiid’s caliber, is the easiest loss to deal with in the modern NBA, because the strategy to deal with that should be so obvious. you just go small, spread the floor, play with pace, and shoot. pepper in some minutes with a real 5 but just turn the game into a shooting contest. doc refuses to see it tho it just runs counter to his understanding of basketball.

the sixers do have a specific problem in that they were a bad rebounding team even with embiid and the heat killed them on the boards last night when they turned the intensity up, but the niang and harris at center rotation with some paul reed every once in a while is just there staring him in the face

harden seems to be cooked as a primary scorer. was third on the team in shots attempted last night and only got to the line 4 times in a game they need to him to score 35+.

DJ -22 in 17 minutes. niang +6 in 22 minutes despite shooting 0/7 fg

we expect elite players to keep producing into their mid 30s these days but harden shows that if youre not psychotic about taking care of your body and evolving your game you can still decline hard when you hit 30 maybe he shd go on the juice idk

i do think part of the issue was that the heat were happy to crowd him and make him pass and the sixers shot 6-34 from three. but he also doesn’t have a varied game, it’s not like he’s gonna be like “ok this team isn’t letting me drive, lemme move off the ball or get into the post or get to my midrange game instead.” compare him to the way that i.e. devin booker plays, or even luka, who gets compared to him a lot but has more angles to his game. harden is kind of like a computer where you can dictate his play based on your defense. he still may beat you but it’s not like he’s going to problem solve beyond what you could predict going into the game

sad thing is he did have a more dynamic game in his early houston years but then at some point he decided he just wanted to dribble between his legs mostly

if his game had expanded instead of contracted and hed bothered to stay in shape hed prob be doing fine rn

perhaps if he didnt play under management that dictated only 3s and layups

yeah he was completely enabled. even down to being able to boot out other superstars at will.

take the team jet on strip club tours and so forth

just gonna look up whos currently running the sixers brb

i still cant believe he walked away from this completely unharmed.

One of the most freak accidents I’ve seen on the court 😨😨 pic.twitter.com/zMrIwEGEYT

— Mark Jackson’s Burner (@casualtakeking) May 3, 2022

yeah he just popped up that was scary

Marcus Smart out tonight

i thought at the least it was a bogut situation xp

he powerbombed himself :(

sometimes i think it should be bucks/grizz just so we can see which evil animal logo has the most juice: the evil deer or the evil bear

your reasoning is unsound, tracer.

lol

ive decided i love everything about bobby portis

who needs to be fired for allowing both teams to wear green? wtffffff

im offended honestly

can’t hate portis

giannis taking real bad shots so far

celtics getting some good midrange looks early on

paint still a very tough place for them

pretty sure the bucks uniforms are black, but def not enough contrast between the two, one team should be wearing white

oh yeah youre right lol watching on a crap tv in the garage they just showed it up close. crisis averted

ah garage tv, classic

ah jaylen COOKED grayson

ohhhhhhhhh sh

no matter what happens in this game that’s the clip my kids are going to watch over and over

and giannis!

jaylen is dropping fools

he pushed grayson but if there's any situation where we're not caring about facts...

he was way of balance just tipped him over

shooting 61% from the field and 85% from three is one of the better strategies for winning a basketball game

hearing good things about that strategy

btw i think marcus is kinda getting into leprechaun cosplay and no one really wants to talk about it