The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Playoffs Thread

literally every team does that

depends if he was at the chairs or standing right up on the line like they're allowing teams to do this year for some reason

they have been doing exactly that for many seasons

guess i just never noticed it impacting plays before

did not watch this game but is it wrong to describe it as pathetic

it was very erratically officiated but the celtics should try running an offense that doesn't result in marcus smart being their leading field goal attempter, before they go blaming the refs

i’m completely floored the heat won that game

butler looked dead for two straight games and then played about as good as you could possibly play basketball

butler got that kobe

Jimmy incredible game now Celtics gotta win a coin flip in Miami tough stuff.

Dray knew exactly what he was doing last night saying the Celtics would win. Gave them bulletin board material to force a game 7.

Jimmy Butler and Michael Jordan are the only two players in NBA playoff history with multiple 40 point, 4 steal games in a series. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/IKVzV5wZmy

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) May 28, 2022

to make it official ...

Most points in a playoff win, facing elimination, on road:

50: Wilt Chamberlain, PHL at BOS, 1960
47: Jimmy Butler, MIA at BOS, 2022
46: Jayson Tatum, BOS at MIL, 2022
45: LeBron James, MIA at BOS, 2012
45: Kawhi Leonard, LAC at DAL, 2021

— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) May 28, 2022

fuck bill russell

finally a good game

feels like the heat doubled tatum all game and he only found the right outlet maybe 40% of the time

jimmy was great obviously but also it’s just that shots fell for them this time, even when contested

i wouldn’t be surprised if herro’s back tomorrow. gonna be interesting.

smart had a terrible game imo

marcus seemed pretty injured, jimmy smoked him repeatedly, granted jimmy was having an amazing game overall but still

Jimmy’s knee made a miraculous recovery from G5 to G6.

miami is thee place to go for rapid recovery #heatculture

you do have to wonder how much he’ll have left in the tank. he played 46 mins… on that and 1 on horford with like 1:30 left he jumped from fully outside the lane and got all the way to the basket thru contact. idk if he can summon that level of athleticism again but maybe they put some potions in his knee or something

Gotta wonder if Jimmy’s heroics in G6 will be like his G5 heroics vs the Lakers in 2020 finals. Next game in the Lakers series, Jimmy was out of gas, scoring only 12 pts on 10 shots over 44 minutes. Hopefully he has more in the tank for G7 this year.

i went back and watched the highlights of the lebron 45 point game in boston… i forgot that he had 41 points thru 3 quarters and took his foot off the gas basically the entire fourth bcuz the heat were up by 20. the level of difficulty on the jumpers he made in that game was crazy. there were way more mickael pietrus iso defender on lebron minutes than i remembered…

Jimmy Butler's 47-9-8 has the 12th highest game score in NBA playoff history.

Butler now has 5 of the top 55 game scores in NBA playoff history, 3 from these playoffs alone.

The other two were from the 2020 NBA Finals.

Per @bball_ref https://t.co/WxfFCy2dWh pic.twitter.com/F4oDNoPldD

— Bryan Fonseca 🇵🇷 (@BryanFonsecaNY) May 28, 2022

fn crazy

Guesses for tonight?

celtics or maybe the heat will win

almost definitely one of those two teams

tonight in Miami many great players will “put it all on the line” in game 7 with a trip to the nba finals at stake

people are saying its win or go home and i tend to agree

the orlando magic will take it in a surprise come from behind victory

it'll be ugly hoops, lots of rim-clangers, missed lay-ups, whining about every foul. whoever rebounds best wins.

i think one team will get hot from 3 and that will be that

Cheesy '80s Songs About Heart and Soul and Overcoming and Winning and Givin' it All That You Got (RIYL Action Movies and Training Montages and Cocaine)

Cheesy 80s movie music for eye of the tiger etc.

the orlando magic will take it in a surprise come from behind victory

― ciderpress, Sunday, 29 May 2022 16:16 (forty-five minutes ago) link

It would be cool if teams could do run-in on other team's games like the WWE

steven a has a coffee and seems genuinely mad at jalen rose

best of luck to the c’s fans in my life tonight, here’s to a good game of NBA basketball

lets fuckin goooo

cheers jordan! let’s go!

the three best words in sports game seven basketball

Cheering for a good game

oh my god scott foster is reffing this game???

Didn’t notice til that insanely ott charge call

bad call that he had no angle on too lol

Big yikes at that quarter

tatum 8-6-3 for the quarter

lowry has been unspeakably bad lol

Someone besides Jimmy is gonna have to show up

idk he might foul the whole celtics out

tatum, brown, butler and bam have all showed up. the role player gap was massive tho. and after all that the heat left the entire deficit and then some at the free throw line. ultimately have no idea what to make of that half. i guess if butler goes for 45+ again the heat might win

Seems like a magic trick that the Heat are only down 6 at the half.

Yah impressive end to the quarter there they are just scrapping