The 2022 NBA Play-In Tournament + Playoffs Thread

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

Dubs will lose in five games if they go down 0-2.

 

[how_sweet_it_is]

I just don't assume the Celtics can get away with a 40-14 (or whatever it was) quarter again.

But a Warriors weakness could be this: how much do they know (if anything) about playing desperate if down 3-1 or 3-0? In that earlier Warriors-Cavaliers final, the Warriors were never in a desperate position. Didn't the Cavaliers play them dead even until game 7? And in the later Warriors-Cavaliers final, didn't the Warriors win easily rather than fight their way through? The Warriors have little or no experience knowing how to lose.

Whereas the Celtics...they can run on the exhilaration of knowing they weren't necessarily favored to get here. Nobody knows what they are capable of, and they probably don't feel the pressure of everyone expecting great things from them.

 

[1tinsoldier]

Green found comfort in the loss because it took 3 Celtics having career games. He should be worried that him and his Warriors let 3 Celtics have career games!

 

[Ronin]

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[Russ Smith]

Dubs will lose in five games if they go down 0-2.

Yeah teams that lose the first game still win the series quite often but the first 2 games it's very rare to win the series

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

Yeah teams that lose the first game still win the series quite often but the first 2 games it's very rare to win the series

Yep…winning 3 of 6 much easier than 4 of 6.

 

[Russ Smith]

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Yeah they were so concerned about Tatum and Brown driving they left the corners wide open and they paid.

 

[Dback Jon]

Yeah teams that lose the first game still win the series quite often but the first 2 games it's very rare to win the series

Unless you are playing the Suns

 

[95pro]

Friday and Saturday off for the final, scheduling sucked this year

 

[how_sweet_it_is]

I wouldn't care who won, but that I just want to see East Coast basketball beat West Coast basketball.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

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[Cheesebeef]

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Monty has to be the softest apple to fall from the Popovich tree.

 

[Russ Smith]

Iggy out tonight with a knee. Porter is probable but they want him on a minutes limit and Iggy being out makes that harder. Appears GP2 will play tonight he was suited up but only was going to play in specific situation late clock defensive that never happened. So if he can go he'll probably get some of Iggy's minutes.

Iggy has to retire after this, great guy great career can be a hell of a coach if he wants to be but his body can't hold up to playing anymore.

 

[Russ Smith]

NBA twitter is listing Porter as questionable but the local Twitter guy who seems dialed in says he's going to play

 

[Mainstreet]

Here is the latest on Gary Payton II.

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[Ronin]

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[Russ Smith]

Draymond will start but is "under the weather". I did notice him coughing during warmups and he walked off the court just prior the anthem but that could be just having to go pee.

Steph supposedly told Kerr he's ready to play more minutes and screw the sub patterns if it helps teh team.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

Boston appears to simply just be the better team.

 

[Russ Smith]

draymond complete hook on Smart on that jumper by Steph

 

[Russ Smith]

Draymond just suckered Tatum into a foul and could have been a T. The problem with that is sometimes Draymond gets so into that stuff he forgets to play.

Their rim protection is a real problem you just don't get open layups off the dribble against them

 

[Russ Smith]

Steph has to be regretting all those workouts he did with Jaylen Brown when Brown was at Cal. What a wicked crossover on that one where Klay stopped teh dunk

 

[Mainstreet]

Draymond Green ran over Grant Williams. I don't know how that is not an offensive foul.

 

[Russ Smith]

how is that a foul on Brown?

 

[Mainstreet]

Home cooking on that foul call on Jaylen Brown.

 

[Russ Smith]

Home cooking on that foul call on Jaylen Brown.

He anticipated a foul that never happened.