The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

As someone on this thread (Jord?) mentioned the problem with having a good starter out isn’t so much starting a bench guy as it is having to replace that bench guy. I mean:

The Bucks guard not named Jrue Holiday today:

6 PTS
2-17 FG
0-12 3P

Combined. pic.twitter.com/cXuIFuIlcH

— StatMuse (@statmuse) May 15, 2022

i honestly dont think theyre that bad everyone was being asked to step up a level with middleton out and the bucks just couldnt generate good shots for them

i mean it happened to jrue too he missed a million shots over the series

Sucks cuz Greyson & Hill might’ve actually played well against Miami

having said that yeah they should be looking to upgrade the backcourt

gianns 1st ever 200p/100r/50a series

i hear james harden might be available xp

a change of scenery might do him good

xp playoff series counting stats are dumb because if you're too good you get fewer

its still good tho

oh right we are blessed with another game 7 today

its our special day

i know i wanted the celtics suns finals but this one dude i know has been such an obnoxious bandwagon suns fan that i am rooting against them now

dubs celtics would be pretty nuts too

cant argue

Ime Udoka said he told Grant Williams the Bucks were disrespecting him more than they did earlier in the series: “I told him to let it fly.”

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) May 15, 2022

also because i think the suns would be a good candidate for one of those jon bois documentaries but if they actually win a title they get disqualified

I for one would enjoy that documentary

they've missed with interesting teams in almost every decade of their existence

its true there have been many cool suns teams

https://i80sportsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/best-dunk-ever-tom-chambers-mark-jackson.jpg

is this in 100 basketball photos thread i forget

lol

LMAOOOOOOO HE FELL TO HIS KNEES pic.twitter.com/pdSW6DJP4q

— Taurus 🥷🏾 (@taurusp11__) May 15, 2022

grayson allen trending on twitter… lemme check this out…

prob for something good

graeyson alien

mavs fan excited to learn who else is on the team besides luka

Congrats to Bill Simmons, the Barstool guy, Dana White, Mark Wahlberg, etc.

― frogbs, Sunday, May 15, 2022 5:49 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

there was a white rapper guy wearing all red sitting court side, I was watching him all game he was super into the game, also any time he left his seat literally every one else sitting courtside wanted a picture with him…when he was finally on the jumbotron I asked my brother who he was but he was too drunk to be helpful

also the celtics halftime show was just their dancers, they did a nice job but I was expecting more for a game 7, just my opinion

its this guy i didnt know who he was either but i figured it out by searching twitter

I woulda posted the clovers earlier but I was bent courtside enjoying the win 🤣🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀✅

— BLANCO (@MILLYZ) May 15, 2022

probably preferable logistically to schedule any bigger acts for the 2 guaranteed games

finally I can report the guy sitting next to me was such a typical dad, he hated 3 pointers, would groan and scream “no!!” every time the celtics took a 3, kept saying “take it to the hole!”, also would call plays like “elbow! elbow!” whenever giannis touched it

lmao why were you at the game kevin (couldve given a more deserving party the ticket)

wow suns look like shit so far

i didn't want to go anyway

zarba and brothers are old school. lots of no calls so far

fewer calls probably benefits the mavs

lmao why were you at the game kevin (couldve given a more deserving party the ticket)

― lag∞n, Sunday, May 15, 2022 8:16 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wow man I’m just a fan of the basketball ring game over here, also my brother got me a ticket

well that was nice of him i guess

grayson averaged 5-3-2 on 29/18/40 shooting in 26 mpg while being a complete turnstile on defense. some bad shooting luck i’m sure but it’s really hard to imagine how anyone could be worse in a playoff series playing that many minutes.

not exactly a rock solid series from him

zodiac killer? more like zodiac attempted battery

― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Friday, May 13, 2022 8:09 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

the middleton thing obv hangs over any bucks analysis but they just need to get better on the wing. they have a PG, two wings and a center, pretty amazing backbone of a roster, but you can’t be relying that much on wes matthews, obv grayson showed his little pink butt in this series & even if he’s shooting well his defense makes him a bit player at best in a series of this caliber. connaughton is prob fine & has good chemistry with all those guys but they need to find 2-3 real rotation players.

feel like it’s not talked about enough that they let PJ tucker walk bcuz they didn’t wanna go into the tax. small market and all but when you have a team like this you really should be going into the tax every year to upgrade the margins of your roster so that you don’t get knocked out of the playoffs shooting 4-33 from three with guys that other teams didn’t want on their roster. it will be a very interesting offseason for that front office, curious to see what they’re able to pull off

Cp needs to uncook himself quickly

he has also not had a rock solid series

suns missing so many easy shots and dinwiddie hitting a series of step back threes lol

Ayton softened on display

Softness

getting backed down by a guy 5 inches shorter than him

multiple times

Booker and cp 0/9 uhhh

this is shameful im disappointed in them