The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

oh maybe

what a hideous half of basketball

yah was about to say the same thing

41-34 lol

harden looked pretty good is about all you can really say

this contract was always sus to me

Duncan Robinson is making $90 million and getting DNP’s in the playoffs and I feel like people aren’t talking about that enough.

— AlexHoops (@AIexHoops) May 6, 2022

heat playing like they did ambien as a pregame team bonding exercise, not sure embiid took more than 2 shots in the paint

one of my favorite NBA butterfly effect moments in recent history is what the east would look like if the heat had taken maxey instead of precious in the 2020 draft. there was a lot of buzz about maxey and the heat bcuz they had gotten two kentucky guys in bam and herro in back to back drafts but they passed on him. i think maxey would prob be on the raptors due to the lowry trade but lord knows what state the sixers would be in without him

Precious is a heck of a player too

didnt rip have a chronically broken nose that was turning into mush

by the end of the year he looked leaps and bounds better as an offensive player than where he was when he left miami. raptors really developed his shooting xp

pj getting cranky that slow mo of him extravagantly bumping into multiple sixers was very funny

I mean why not if they're going to call technicals on both of them.

Lowry not taking the shots on so many of these PnR reps is hurting them

— Brady Hawk (@BradyHawk305) May 7, 2022

hes refused to shoot all year not sure what the deal is

maxey balling out here

Love that dude. He's so much fun and and NBA 1st Team Smile.

lowry has always had weird yip type behaviour. like when he would shit the bed against the pacers back in the day

Jordan's post about Philly bench is otm. They have 10 points. Niang can stay but everyone else can go.

lowry looked like someone who hadn’t played basketball in two weeks

I recommend Morey not trade Maxey if he likes Philly. Gets lonely if you can't go out for coffee.

that game was so bad on both ends that i really don’t know what to say but i’m not sure what extra gear philly is tapping into to win this series, they have 5 guys max and embiid clearly is not close to being right on the offensive end

they just needed to get this one and it didnt really matter how

now just gotta hope embiid gets back to somewhat normal soon

lowry is playing with two non shooters, so if hes not going to shoot as well it will break the heats offense

Lowrys always been thick but he just looks overweight now. Surprised he’s passed any of the weird heat fitness tests

mavs-suns also looking like a classic “team down 2-0 pulls one out at home” game. luka playing a more… sustainable style of basketball in the first quarter

Mavs have to be up like 20 before I'll believe they're likely to win

It’s really hard to beat the home team that’s down 0-2

7 TOs for Chris Paul already ouch

haha did luka just tell us the refs have been paid off

Mavs may win this one

wait a second I share a birthday with Chris Paul? awesome

s/o to the guy at my work wearing full sixers gear including a Simmons 25 jersey

happy birthday fbs!

wait a second I share a birthday with Chris Paul? awesome

suns-mavs felt like one of those games most accurately summed up by saying “one team played well, the other team did not.” but there was at least more brunson involvement, luka didn’t crash halfway thru the third quarter. not sure what the mavs did differently on defense aside from luka trying and the suns missing a lot of shots

also it helps them a lot when kleiber is actually making shots. then they’re actually able to play 5 out and have a big (of some sort) on the floor. bertans barely played tonight, dwight powell only played 10 minutes. kleiber stayed on the floor and they played small around him

Oh I thought they def played different on defense. They guarded cp full court like Alvarado did. Also went to zone more to keep the suns from iso hunting as much

I noticed an annoying thing about Bertans: he doesn’t realize when he’s wide open and rushes his shot no matter what

no i mean like i was literally not sure xp it’s crazy the suns couldn’t get to the luka targeting really at all after putting up the most efficient game ever vs one defender

Oh I misread. Yah they seemed to just be a lot more aggressive too, not switching as easily. Jumping lanes and such. Just a lot sharper all around. But from the jump bullock was picking up cp full court which was kinda cool. Worked for the pels to tire him out and get him out of rhythm.

They need 20+ from Brunson every game tho

luka didn’t crash halfway thru the third quarter. not sure what the mavs did differently on defense aside from luka trying and the suns missing a lot of shots

― J0rdan S., Saturday, May 7, 2022 1:37 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it’s crazy the suns couldn’t get to the luka targeting really at all after putting up the most efficient game ever vs one defender

― J0rdan S., Saturday, May 7, 2022 2:46 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

its cause luka didnt crash cause they played better team ball which is to say they play some team ball, luka isnt fundamentally a terrible defender he just generally has too much on his plate

could also stand to be a lil better conditioned too

obvs luka is not just some innocent victim but still

we might be having a moment for team basketball who knows giannis finally got going in the 3rd quarter of game two the other night but then was totally gassed in the 4th, maybe the physical demands of the current game are just too much for stars to really run things, and thats giannis who is prob the most physically capable player in the league, obvs the bucks are down middleton but that kinda just highlights the issue, celtics have two stars but they run a more team oriented offense as do the suns theres not much give a guy the ball and let him go to work stuff like the bucks do with giannis in the high post, or i guess this could just be two undermanned teams going against two really good defenses idk interesting dynamic tho

pretty clear the luka centric offense will never win a chip mavs need to figure stuff out which is hard since on any individual play being luka centric makes a lot of sense, luka offense is for instance more successful than trae or harden centrism

the one serious harden run him and cp3 were taking turns driving

interesting argument for eurocentrism

lol

In the second half, Milwaukee switched Antetokounmpo onto White and gave him the job of pressuring White up the floor. Now, there are absolutely no stats to back this up, but Giannis guarding 94 feet for multiple possessions in a row, while trying to create all of the Bucks offense, had him looking absolutely gassed by early in the fourth quarter.

interesting decision