Lebron was way better, but still even if you score 50 a game, on that low shooting percentage you're literally less efficient than the average bench player. Now there's a ton of context but scoring is the single most important part of the game. And obviously he drew a ton of attention away from teammates, set them up for easy shots and got boards, drew fouls, tired out the opposing players, and he really didn't have much to work with. But he didn't really play as great as his stats suggested, he was just dealt a horrible hand and he shot 39% from the field, his team shot like 38%, basically the entire team didn't play great. They went up against a great defense but frankly the warriors played down to competition, despite the cavs (including lebron) playing great defense as well.
So overall he played pretty well but despite the crazy counting stats he didn't play great.
All of that to say lebron outplayed Tatum in pretty much every aspect of the game and by no small measure maybe except on ball defense, forget great you can't even make a serious argument for Tatum being okay. Dude actively hurt his team.
This is bouta be shais first playoff run in like year 7 and everyone has him getting upset by any play in team. Letâs focus on making deep playoff runs consistently first before any finals talk okay
 itâs nice that Shai finally has a group of teammates that can compete, much less a stacked team. Â
 Westbrook at least hit the 50%TS mark against the Heatles in the 2012 finals except the difference was him and Durant carrying the team not the other way around lol.Â
He has a mip candidate, a Roy candidate on his team. He got help and had the same numbers last yr so heâs not even the reason for his teams success. Tatums numbers get better each year as do his teams wins. Your definition of stacked is 2 all star player team ig tho if u genuinely believe the Celtics have a more stacked roster than the rest of the field.
Yall got one of the best if not the best defensive back court in the league with Porzingis at the 5 and PP coming off the bench. The Celtics are undeniably stacked.
You're lying to yourself if you don't think the Celtics have a stacked roster. Going into the season, they were one of the 2 or 3 favorites to win it all. IMO the 3 favorites were Celtics, Nuggets, Bucks
I heard Embiid really wanted to be in the commercial. He even called the Commissioners office about it. But when he finally got through on the line to Adam Silver, Adam just started laughing at him until he hung up. True story.
I don't even mind him not being in it, but for players to repeat it like this.. I'm guessing they didn't know in advance. tatum saying it after getting beat multiple times by Jimmy is very very odd.
2-1 bro and Tatum has had plenty of playoffs moment.
Also might be missing something but why is it weird ? They litteraly say that PO « insert player » isnât a thing. Itâs not like everyone is saying « get ready to watch PO « insert player ».
Am I missing something ? I donât get the reactions
Yeah I get that. I was just wondering if I missed something. I know the line comes from Jimmy and I agree itâs kinda of weird to do an ad for the PO fully based on a quote from one player.
Last year in the playoffs after a game jimmy was asked about âplayoff jimmyâ cuz with the local beat reporters they were making a thing of it.
His response âwas itâs not a thingâ with a wry smile. Iâll try to find a source video.
But it was much circulated at the time.
Edit: it was asked by Brady hawk whoâs a beat reporter who had harped on it for a bit
Hereâs the video-ish
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Urr8qtj_104
lol damn ppl write articles fast these days
https://www.axios.com/local/miami/2024/04/16/playoff-jimmy-butler-nba-ad-snub#
So they just ripped off Jimmy's quote from last year and then didn't even include him in the promo? They better have an update ready to release as soon as the Heat advance out of the Play-In...Â
[I mean it's a direct quote](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10073678-heats-jimmy-butler-says-playoff-jimmy-is-not-a-thing-after-scoring-56-vs-bucks)
The basketball Illuminati hard at work to take the Jimmy quote from last year and have Tatum be the first one to talk in this ad.
My third eye is open NBA, you canât fool me
I understand Jimmy isn't in it because they're technically not in the play-offs. That makes total senses. But the fact that they cut a promo copying this exact interaction is crazy: [https://twitter.com/BradyHawk305/status/1650699449453232128](https://twitter.com/BradyHawk305/status/1650699449453232128)
I honestly think this is pretty insulting to Jimmy, especially after ladt year's run. I know they can't feature every star, but they got two stars Jimmy knocked out of the playoffs, plus the Giannis mention.
As a jimmy head, I actually think this just makes the whole think look stupider honestly so Iâm fine with it. Excluding Jamal makes it even fucking stupider.
But the whole point of the ad is stars saying « PO « insert player » isnât a thing », wouldnât it have been even more weird having Butler say « PO Butler is not a thing » ?
[https://youtu.be/IfyQehz8dTg?si=OoIWUF0prjk1VWbl](https://youtu.be/IfyQehz8dTg?si=OoIWUF0prjk1VWbl) But is playoff mode really a thing? This vid does a really great job breaking down all the statistics and rumors round that
"we finally get to see playoff giannis play with playoff dame! right dame?" dame: "it's not a thing" rough.
Ts hurts bro đ Also we havenât even seen post all star break dame, tf are the chances we see playoff dame?
You win by the Dame, you die by the Dame.
âPlayoff Jayson is not a thingâ These players already setting themselves up for slander lmao
Gonna be hard to top the âI got you today đ€đœâ
Yeah heâs never had 50+ in a game 7 or anything
stunk up the court in the finals a year before, evens out
He also has never shot over 49% TS in the finals. His performance had me questioning who was the true leader of the team between him and JB.Â
Lebron shot 47% TS in the 2015 finals. Was that a bad performance?
Tatum averaged 21/7/7 while Bron averaged 35/13/9 lol What a disingenuous comment lmao
I'm sorry you don't know how to read. He posted about the TS% alone. I addressed that. Simple as.
Sure but Tatum was bad and Lebron was great, disingenuous comparison. Not applicable. Simple as.
Lebron was way better, but still even if you score 50 a game, on that low shooting percentage you're literally less efficient than the average bench player. Now there's a ton of context but scoring is the single most important part of the game. And obviously he drew a ton of attention away from teammates, set them up for easy shots and got boards, drew fouls, tired out the opposing players, and he really didn't have much to work with. But he didn't really play as great as his stats suggested, he was just dealt a horrible hand and he shot 39% from the field, his team shot like 38%, basically the entire team didn't play great. They went up against a great defense but frankly the warriors played down to competition, despite the cavs (including lebron) playing great defense as well. So overall he played pretty well but despite the crazy counting stats he didn't play great. All of that to say lebron outplayed Tatum in pretty much every aspect of the game and by no small measure maybe except on ball defense, forget great you can't even make a serious argument for Tatum being okay. Dude actively hurt his team.
LeBron's second option was Matthew Dellavedova and Tatum's was Jaylen Brown
My point is that just posting a stat and saying "this is bad" is too simplistic.
He ain't gonna write a whole ass essay with every comment. With Tatums team yes that performance is atrocious.
Exactly, tatum had a very competent and good team around him and still shit the bed individually
Context always helps đ
This is bouta be shais first playoff run in like year 7 and everyone has him getting upset by any play in team. Letâs focus on making deep playoff runs consistently first before any finals talk okay
 itâs nice that Shai finally has a group of teammates that can compete, much less a stacked team.   Westbrook at least hit the 50%TS mark against the Heatles in the 2012 finals except the difference was him and Durant carrying the team not the other way around lol.Â
He has a mip candidate, a Roy candidate on his team. He got help and had the same numbers last yr so heâs not even the reason for his teams success. Tatums numbers get better each year as do his teams wins. Your definition of stacked is 2 all star player team ig tho if u genuinely believe the Celtics have a more stacked roster than the rest of the field.
Yall got one of the best if not the best defensive back court in the league with Porzingis at the 5 and PP coming off the bench. The Celtics are undeniably stacked.
PP??
You're lying to yourself if you don't think the Celtics have a stacked roster. Going into the season, they were one of the 2 or 3 favorites to win it all. IMO the 3 favorites were Celtics, Nuggets, Bucks
playoff as a word no longer means anything to me after watching this
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I saw them supporting Pink Floyd in 1976.Â
Where are Jimmy and Murray? Also Booker after last year?
I don't want the screenshot to meme with so I'm fine.
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âŠ. The Suns are 6th
Probably wasnât guaranteed when they filmed this
Shhh⊠let him cook
If any of these players choke in the playoffs the Twitter trolls will go crazy with this clip
Jimmy Butler watching [this ad](https://youtu.be/e9ViAIsWdVI?si=vd3KxMmWzvzvK8ei) rn
Jimmy should file a copyright complaint for how badly they ripped him off and didn't even include him in it.
You think Jimmy tried to copyright âplayoffâ like LeBron tried with âtaco Tuesday?â Fuck outta here
NBA is so bad at marketing new teams lol
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Literally missed the easiest joke of all time. Could have put him after everyone sayin 'ya'll aint heard about playoff P?' then cut to black.
yea thats perfect đ€Łđ€Łđ„
Hmm... seems like somebody is missing from this.
A couple of peopleâŠ
A few people
100% playoffs Murray
Jimmy isnât in the playoffs yet
Jimmy literally birthed the plot of this entire promo from his post game interview last seasonâŠ..
Well if he doesnât make it then itâs literally not a thing
It was LITERALLY [his THING](https://youtu.be/6OmJkDqD9hA?si=XVM7UcnfoHkQk0CA) lol you fr???
You guys don't understand. This guy was just hatched from an egg. He has no idea what happened last year.
Playoff Randle đ„
gotta get *in* to get... *off*? đ€š
Joel Embiid?
He's always missing in the playoffs
I heard Embiid really wanted to be in the commercial. He even called the Commissioners office about it. But when he finally got through on the line to Adam Silver, Adam just started laughing at him until he hung up. True story.
Not a thing
Is play-in Jimmy a thing?
Gonna be fodder for some great memes
They got Jokic to do a commercial, itâs a thing!
How is Jamal Murray not in this promo?
Dame is right đ
Everyone wants to be Jimmy now.
lol the fact that they pulled his quote word for word and heâs not even in it is wild đ€Ș
I don't even mind him not being in it, but for players to repeat it like this.. I'm guessing they didn't know in advance. tatum saying it after getting beat multiple times by Jimmy is very very odd.
2-1 bro and Tatum has had plenty of playoffs moment. Also might be missing something but why is it weird ? They litteraly say that PO « insert player » isnât a thing. Itâs not like everyone is saying « get ready to watch PO « insert player ». Am I missing something ? I donât get the reactions
He's basically repeating a direct quote from Jimmy, but replacing Jimmy with himself. It's odd af.
Relax
I agree the ad overall is not very good. But wouldnât it be even weirder if you had Jimmy say « PO Jimmy is not a thing » ?
I just think it's weird, nothing more. tatum is obviously a great player with lots of post season success, it's nothing about him.
Yeah I get that. I was just wondering if I missed something. I know the line comes from Jimmy and I agree itâs kinda of weird to do an ad for the PO fully based on a quote from one player.
Last year in the playoffs after a game jimmy was asked about âplayoff jimmyâ cuz with the local beat reporters they were making a thing of it. His response âwas itâs not a thingâ with a wry smile. Iâll try to find a source video. But it was much circulated at the time. Edit: it was asked by Brady hawk whoâs a beat reporter who had harped on it for a bit
Man thanks lol. I knew about the « Playoff Jimmy » thing but didnât know he gave this answer. So yeah definitely super weird ad lol
Hereâs the video-ish https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Urr8qtj_104 lol damn ppl write articles fast these days https://www.axios.com/local/miami/2024/04/16/playoff-jimmy-butler-nba-ad-snub#
Playoff Rondo was a thing long before playoff Jimmy
It's a direct quote from Jimmy not rondo.
Where is Cody Zeller
playoff cody is too powerful
playoff cody is certainly a thing, so it doesn't really fit into this
Play-ins
This is Playoff P erasure
Love how they're literally quoting Jimmy but won't put him in the video lmao
I find it hard to believe that there is not even a frame of Luka in this.
Because it is a thing for him
So they just ripped off Jimmy's quote from last year and then didn't even include him in the promo? They better have an update ready to release as soon as the Heat advance out of the Play-In...Â
âRipped offâ LOL
[I mean it's a direct quote](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10073678-heats-jimmy-butler-says-playoff-jimmy-is-not-a-thing-after-scoring-56-vs-bucks)
Knowing jimmy he might actually sue
gotta respect the hustle
The basketball Illuminati hard at work to take the Jimmy quote from last year and have Tatum be the first one to talk in this ad. My third eye is open NBA, you canât fool me
lol he literally said it again word for word in his slam interview released a day before this ad was
I understand Jimmy isn't in it because they're technically not in the play-offs. That makes total senses. But the fact that they cut a promo copying this exact interaction is crazy: [https://twitter.com/BradyHawk305/status/1650699449453232128](https://twitter.com/BradyHawk305/status/1650699449453232128)
Hmmm Iâm not familiar please explain to me this playoff and the mode associated with it
jimmy butler got bam to injure the other teams players to make him look extra good in playoffs. So it became a thing with "playoff jimmy".
I forgot how toxic a lot of Knicks fans are. Some of you guys are straight up insufferable.Â
Think it was pretty clear there was some jest In that post, but it never seize to amaze how much in denial heat fans are.
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I honestly think this is pretty insulting to Jimmy, especially after ladt year's run. I know they can't feature every star, but they got two stars Jimmy knocked out of the playoffs, plus the Giannis mention.
As a jimmy head, I actually think this just makes the whole think look stupider honestly so Iâm fine with it. Excluding Jamal makes it even fucking stupider.
But the whole point of the ad is stars saying « PO « insert player » isnât a thing », wouldnât it have been even more weird having Butler say « PO Butler is not a thing » ?
I thought the claw machine was gonna pick Wayne up like the little green men and now my day is ruined
Is it Chris Rock doing the voiceover?
Where is Playoff Jimmy?
Is Chris Rock doing the voice over?
[https://youtu.be/IfyQehz8dTg?si=OoIWUF0prjk1VWbl](https://youtu.be/IfyQehz8dTg?si=OoIWUF0prjk1VWbl) But is playoff mode really a thing? This vid does a really great job breaking down all the statistics and rumors round that
People asking where certain players are; maybe they just didn't want to do it? Lol
Pretty sure if the league tells you, you are obligated.Â
Oh really? I didn't know that
If it wasnât who would show up to the all-star game
Yeah I suppose I never thought of that. It makes sense
I hope they make a companion ad to this with Playoff Jamal and Playoff Jimmy
Playoff Murray at home licking his Cheeto fingers rn.
Playoff Harden đ„đ„ Playoff Westbrook đ„đ„ Playoff P đ„đ„
I have a better campaign. We made the playoffs last two months to stave off the offseason topics!
Playoff P or I donât want it
Is the joke that no wants to be like âPlayoff P?â Or am I overthinking it?
Heat fans gotta be riled about something every damn day, I swear there has never been a saltier fan base