The Most Exciting Defensive Plays Of The 2022 NBA Playoffs

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[@intendedexpression6609]

The Pelicans and Suns series was such an entertaining series to watch.

[@OP_-pk9hm]

I didn’t expect it to be that good, nobody but Pelicans fans did

[@nitrocjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj]

Jrue Holiday is so underrated.

[@fredyrosales295]

agree, I knew bucks where going to go far as as soon as they got him. He was the piece that was missing.

[@leroyrodgers6089]

I love when players take pride in defense.

[@AlexSmith-yr7vq]

I'll never forget Dennis Rodman's Defensive player of the year award acceptance speech, 1990. Literally crying for most of it out of passion for playing defence :')

[@xbastianx8581]

Robert Williams is just insane !!!

[@arfsnmdgn9271]

Tasak kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2LNaqKtd9qqmrM

[@tifr477]

Only Celtics fans know how ridiculous of a defensive player he is, he’s a new Ben Wallace.

[@pablosolimeo2006]

future dopy

[@adrianpena800]

@@tifr477 exactly, all those clutch blocks and forced passes

[@tobiassnow6435]

Okey okey

[@MarshalStockton]

1) Draymond is STILL a stifling defender it’s crazy, 2) the pelicans perimeter defenders weren’t a fluke like I thought last season, 3) good luck getting to the rim in Philly and Miami and Memphis. Awesome video

[@thomasreithmeier5405]

Pelicans played really strong in the first round against the 64 win Suns. They started off 1-12. But the Sixers got damaged on the offensive rebounds

[@myweirdsecondchannelwithap9070]

4) The NBA intentionally put as many celtics highlights as possible while leaving out the warriors defense for the most part, to go along with the narrative that the Celtics have a better defense.

[@judoka.]

@@myweirdsecondchannelwithap9070 they do, statistically.

[@myweirdsecondchannelwithap9070]

@@judoka. except they don’t. Before draymond got injured the warriors had a defensive rating of 100.5, which was without klay who would’ve made it go under 100. And even after GP2, draymond and klay all missing a combined ~100 games, the warriors were still tied with the celtics for best defensive rating in the league at 106.9. Any conclusion you come to, the warriors have a much much better defense than the celtics. You saw it in the finals too.

[@judoka.]

@@myweirdsecondchannelwithap9070 in the playoffs, the warriors had a defensive rating of 109.6. the celtics had a defensive rating of 106.3. last time i checked, 106.3 is better than 109.6.

[@tuxedogoos4283]

I hate how the nba likes to censor all news about the Miami heat because they aren’t a flashy team. Literally best three point shooting team and best three point defending team this season and they didn’t talk about it.

[@Enlightened_SpursFan]

your best shooter lost his minutes to an undrafted role player

[@justsayin669]

This 2021-22 Celtics team was some of the very best defensive personnel that the NBA has ever seen. The Warriors were also an amazing defensive team led by one of the very greatest defenders in NBA history including arguably the greatest defender of his generation in Draymond and coached by one of the greatest defensive coaches in NBA history in Steve Kerr. It was great to see the two best defensive teams in the entire NBA face off in the Finals and prove to the fools who say that defense is non-existent/doesn't matter in today's NBA wrong.

[@paulie1055]

I think the 2019 raptors had better defensive personnel than the Celtics, they had kawhi Lowry green Siakam Gasol OG ibaka

[@adamullmann626]

if Green were to be the best NBA defender of his generation, then the weak one would have to be a generation ...

[@justsayin669]

@@adamullmann626 I think you meant to say "then the generation would have to be a weak one", but I wouldn't call a generation that has defenders such as Kawhi, Giannis, Gobert, AD, etc in addition to Draymond a "weak defensive generation"... Good defense just looks different in recent years than it has in past eras due to the fact that today's leaguewide style of team offense is harder to defend than the leaguewide style of team offense in any past era in NBA history because of the combination of pace picking back up to where it was in the 80s as well as the extra 3pt shots that are being attempted which makes for more spacing to have to defend as well an extra point that comes along with a made 3pt shot. Draymond is a better defender than say... Dennis Rodman. THAT'S how great Draymond is defensively.

[@justsayin669]

@@paulie1055 Well to be fair I did say "some of" the very best defensive personnel that the NBA has ever seen. The 2019 Raptors after they added Marc Gasol midway through the season did have arguably slightly better defensive personnel than the 2022 Celtics, but the 2022 Celtics' defensive personnel is also arguably slightly better than the 2019 Raptors defensive personnel because they are just that close. Between Robert Williams, Smart, Horford, Tatum, Brown and Grant Williams they had a player to fit every defensive role extremely well. Their weakest links defensively out of those 6 players were Brown and Grant Williams and they were both still solid defenders who fit their defensive roles well. Then of course there are other defensive personnel that you can bring into the conversation such as the Moses/Bobby Jones/Dr. J/Cheeks Sixers, the McHale/Bird/Parish/DJ/Walton Celtics, the Rodman/Laimbeer/IT/Dumars/Salley Pistons, the Pippen/Jordan/Rodman/Harper Bulls, the Ben Wallace/Rasheed Wallace/Prince/Billups Pistons, the Duncan/Bowen/Ginobili/Horry Spurs, the KG/Rondo/Perkins/Pierce Celtics, the Kawhi/Duncan/Danny Green/Ginobili Spurs, the Dray/Iggy/KD/Klay/Steph Warriors, and of course the 2019 Raptors and 2022 Celtics that we are talking about. And those are just some of the NBA championship/conference championship winning teams. There are all-time elite defensive personnel that never won a title or reached the Finals such as the Nance/Harper/Hot Rod/Daugherty Cavs and the Paul George/Hibbert/West/Hill/Stephenson Pacers along with some others as well as more teams that did win the NBA or conference title that I didn't mention. I'm sure I missed some big ones in terms of great defensive personnel that didn't end up winning a title or conference title, but you get my point. Then of course there are pre-1980 teams which I don't really get into because I don't like to act like I'm well informed about an era that doesn't have a ton of information available to today's public. I would put the 2022 Celtics defensive personnel up against pretty much any one of those teams' defensive personnel.

[@bruh.2516]

@@justsayin669 don’t even pay him attention, everyone knows Giannis is running the league in the 90s just like Lebron and Curry would

[@jerichoarraiza1084]

The fact that Stephen Curry averaged 31 PPG against the Celtics was just insane.

[@Kkohli]

More than half of the videos are related to Celtics.

[@ezrasholl5499]

0:30 did anyone else notice tacko fall in the seats

[@minaaaaaaa1]

that jrue holiday plan mane, it was so crazy to watch

[@beckhammcdonald3936]

Wow I wish I had the IQ of Jrue Holiday

[@kalismith2180]

Need to do the best assists of the playoffs

[@DavidTheHeatFan]

What about all of Miami’s defense against Atlanta. Why everyone be hating on miami heat? 🔥🔥🔥

[@arfsnmdgn9271]

Skini kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2LNaqKtd9qqmrM

[@lou37sun76]

Cause Jimmy is the only one who carried...

[@manny6669]

The locked Atlanta tf up

[@nardpascua9455]

Heat Fans feeling victimized again just like the Raps fans

[@DavidTheHeatFan]

@@nardpascua9455 but u gotta admit. We had a good run. We don’t get any credit for it. Like give us our props

[@nbapbaupdate8338]

Robert Williams future DPOY 🔥🔥🔥

[@SwiftViper]

That flop by Smart of that steal gotta be a fine bro

[@jademarksaldaviatimsay7557]

Jose Alvarado has great great defense

[@morti8845]

Timelord is too good

[@richboyjullianhicks6604]

MORE OF THESE VIDEOS ‼️‼️ BRING BACK DEFENSE 📌

[@rarethen9]

lmao smart's flopping is insane

[@pranavmanie1479]

Jrue Holiday, absolute madman. He's been that dude since last season. Also, what the fuck is Herb Jones? He's not real. I can't believe he's just a rookie, he's smart as hell on the perimeter.

[@jayson0181]

Celtics 2021-2022 change the Fans perspective in NBA.. DEFENSE IS SO BEAUTIFUL TO WATCH..last 10 yrs raining 3's THEN next 10 yrs raining blocks

[@samwisehuluberlu2210]

Little kiddo leaving out bed since first time in 10 years. Warriors are hell of elite defensive team since âgés. They smoked Celtics on thid point. So what kind of liars did you trying to spread here by underlines false statements?

[@extreame7304]

Sometimes nba doesn't make sense. They can literally call push foul 50 feet from the basket, but you can get closelined on the drive and no one will care

[@shadow9049]

In the playoffs they letting the players be more physical

[@nyxdausen4552]

7:40 Damn 💀Just what did Smart do to this man to get him flinged like that 🤣

[@leroyrodgers6089]

The Nola/Suns series looked kinda lit by these highlights.

[@Admin-ue2wi]

5:39 Draymond straight beasting. Went full Gandalf mode. "YOU SHALL NOT PASS"! 😁

[@fube89]

bruh fouling the shit out of him lol.. but he knows they cant call everything he is smart.

[@drewelric118]

Oladipo yelling I'm him at 5:14 made me chuckle... no youre not LOL

[@saiganeshr8567]

Man.. Nothing quite like steals and blocks.. Herb jones.. Alvarado.. Horford at his age..

[@pol44r]

Herb is a menace

[@swagnificent7446]

The thumbnail was funny asf😂

[@mxchael9931]

where jose alverado successful getting a troll steal from playing grand theft alverado and grant willimas blocking curry 3 pointer

[@JG124_]

What about Draymond's block on Reggie Bullock when he closed out to the corner and somehow blocked the 3.

[@aky0nblap414]

The lack of Andrew Wiggins is disturbing

[@fredrichheart3132]

Jrue holiday is in my opinion the best perimeter defender of the last 2 years. How Marcus smart actually won dpoy is crazy to me

[@whitewhite5077]

it's cuz he was the best defender on the #1 defensive team, kinda dumb but that's also why Draymond Green was the favorite to win it by far until he got injured cuz the warriors were the number 1 defensive team until his injury

[@fredrichheart3132]

@@whitewhite5077 yeah the awards need to be judged differently cause Ja winning most improved player is crazy too

[@David-iv6je]

Smart is quite good. It's the nonstop flops that bug me.

[@silasliot4644]

lol I just don't watch the same games as you, Jrue is an elite defender... Marcus Smart is just better, no if ands or buts. This is also just my opinion.

[@David-iv6je]

@@silasliot4644 Yeah Smart is probably a little better at man defense. Much better at flopping and whining at the refs. Got so sick of his sorry ass by the end of the playoffs. Everybody does it, but some dudes do it more. Draymond is clearly superior in quality, number of positions he can guard and his genius level team D and quarterbacking the D. But his long injury precluded him from consideration. It's a shame. I really dislike the guy and his yapping mouth, but he is one of the best defenders I have ever seen and deserved the recognition.

[@greatnessscaled7652]

I'm thinking about doing a scaling video between good defensive players. Who should it be? I posted a video yesterday scaling Kevin Durant vs Steph Curry.

[@alexanderhamilton8949]

Hakeem Olajuwon and David Robinson

[@arfsnmdgn9271]

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[@nkalabikankhoma493]

The Pelicans just Added Dyson Daniels to an already elite perimeter defense...lol with Zion back in the interior these guys will be nasty.

[@josue1550]

Congrats to the warriors

[@jacobvang9684]

Where is the clip of the warriors playing hella lockdown D that ends with a block by curry???!!!

[@abelavich7914]

I automatically know I’m talking to someone that doesn’t know basketball when they say players today don’t play defense. Some of the best defenders of all time play in this era. Every rule has been made to make it harder to play defense and these guys still do their thing on defense. Side note Jose Alvarado representing Brooklyn really well with the lock up 💪🏼💪🏼

[@Ben_Holcomb]

What about the block that bam blocked Tatum and Jimmy blocked Tatum? Cmon nba show the heat some love

[@jonshaw9195]

They invest too much money into overhyped Tatum to risk making him look bad.. even though he does it himself just fine

[@abelavich7914]

There was literally mad heat plays Lmaoo what are you crying about

[@dharrisoftroy]

Heat fans stay crying. What about when Tatum blocked Jimmy or when rob had bam on lock? See we can do it too

[@griplimit]

Doin my man dirty at the beginning of the video…

[@aaronjamesbaligod1670]

So satisfying when Curry's shots went blocked.

[@BullyMaguire387]

Palibhasa ilang taon ka na pinapaiyak ni Curry eh "so satisfying" ka pa nalalaman, nakibandwagon nalang sa Nuggets, Memphis, Mavs tapos Celtics mga nabigo tapos iyak 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@teddydunton1829]

@@BullyMaguire387 bro you're a meatrider

[@Panther016]

Warriors had so many defensive plays and I saw maybe 2 Draymond highlights.. Not even Curry's clutch block on Morant

[@ron-jignacio1875]

Williams lll

[@ron-jignacio1875]

Pa nag tousr rockst out

[@Ahlumjkkk]

0:49 Smart still keep flopping, what a clown

[@dharrisoftroy]

🤣 y’all stay hating

[@Roronoa.D.Zoro95]

0 clip of Miami locking up Trae?

[@judoka.]

oh yeah, so tough locking up one guy with no help.

[@Roronoa.D.Zoro95]

@@judoka.This is basically the same team who went to the ECF in 2021

[@judoka.]

@@Roronoa.D.Zoro95 without clint capela & john collins was coming back from injury. also reddish wasn’t there either, so no it’s not the same team.

[@agnesmuani]

Lots of celtics highlights tuff

[@rakamulya3522]

🔥

[@bhanusabharwal6679]

Leaving a comment here for when a NFC North team makes SuperBowl this year

[@cokertimilehin2504]

how do teams like New Orleans have more highlights than the champions?

[@NaTsU-li9mr]

Marcus Smart defensive player of the year seriously! The only thing he does is flopping

[@griplimit]

Wrong

[@slayver6861]

Al Harford is impressive af for his age

[@davidparnell1637]

Awesome

[@cxisxeng3593]

And the Oscar award goes to.... . . . . . . . . . . . . Marcus Isn't Smart

[@dutchmilk]

that steal on smart was a foul.

[@jeffreyzaidy5801]

so the Heat broke the playoff's record for most steals, and also being one of the best defensive teams in the NBA last season only to have majority of the highlights against them? Wow NBA must really hate the Heat haha

[@Elijah_Castillo]

Holiday owns smart

[@PhillyFan-qc8uz]

Fire

[@_noturboo]

I would never get tired of watching Smart flop lmao

[@dragonverde188]

They really didnt put Kleber game winning block on Jaylen Brown lmao but they go putting the JB dunk everywhere

[@agyeimaxwell.]

Passion ❤️🏀🏀💪🇬🇭🙏💯🔓

[@ralphlauren0423]

5:57 Draymond grabs browns whole thigh.. dude got away with so many dirty fouls I'm glad Boston's fan base didn't hold back with the chants.

[@ferns.vivian]

He would have fouled out in all games if the refs had called it right... Especially game 2 was a gift to the Warriors

[@colestaples6087]

Hi nba

[@lourok6824]

I didn't know herb Jones was that long and lanky

[@TheChimks]

Wow!

[@legendarywiimaster]

“The NBA doesn’t play defense”

[@Essemsul]

13.27 👏👌

[@arfet775]

First comment, rip techno

[@thouzer47.58]

I love how Al Horford does the thing where he's looking for the ball even though it went two feet to his left lol it's not like when Whiteside did it and swatted that shit into the stands... What a goof lol

[@dharrisoftroy]

😂 salty Miami heat fan 😂

[@chikmnunget]

They should have traded Brown in my opinion, he’s the more turnover pron between him and Tatum and they could have gotten a lot of pieces for him, and he also gets to go be #1 somewhere else potentially

[@ILOV3BUTT3R]

I think this season was the one that proved that defense still is a big difference maker in the NBA.

[@CalamityCrafts]

10:06 was literally an offensive play tho? Impressive but why is it in a comp of defensive plays?

[@MinerElfer]

That’s what I am saying

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[@kurtcometa4818]

11:12 dude thinks he still Bo Cruz 💀💀💀

[@melgibson5006]

5:56 he is hacking JB

[@tedted560]

I’m surprise McGee ain’t play more 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@Daslickflip]

Marcus Smart needs to stop flopping man. He ruined his team so many times trying to flip a call

[@dharrisoftroy]

Yea ruined his team all the way to the finals 🤦🏾‍♂️ y’all just say anything in here

[@MinerElfer]

Always talking about how much he flops

[@suchasreallife]

Smart looks like a soccer player like bruhh

[@thomasdixon3334]

3:02 look at that javale Mcgee travel 🤡

[@justsayin669]

*@Thomas Dixon* That wasn't a travel, he only took 2 steps after ending his dribble. His 2 steps do not start counting until he ends his dribble by touching the ball with both hands at which point his left foot was already touching the floor so that doesn't count as a step. Then he stepped right (step 1), stepped left (step 2) and then launched off of that same left foot without taking another step. Legal 2 step move.

[@rafabolelli5033]

Hey editor, try to at least hide your bias a little.

[@adamullmann626]

in today's league, any of the great centers of the previous era, Oleajuwon, O'neal, Robinson and Ewing would make any defense a pulp. who would defend such centers, for example in Warriors, not that clown Green. A real center against Warriors would regularly score 35-50 points in a game.

[@ericcormier1949]

As a Celtics fan it pains me why they didn't pound the paint after Games 1-3 for that very reason. Robert Williams and Al Horford interchangeably bodied Draymond on every play yet they still just settled for sending Tatum and Brown straight into the teeth of the defense every play to turn the ball over. In the first few games they lived in the paint and it opened up the perimeter eruption of Games 1 and 3 when GS pulled their defense closer and tried to go bigger. This Warriors team was not better than the Celtics, not even close. But they believed that they were and played like it. C's just gave up on a gameplan after Game 3.

[@abelavich7914]

Lol them 2 points ain’t beating the 3 points the warriors are hitting. Do you understand why a player like Rudy gobert sucks at defense in the playoffs? Because he can’t guard on the perimeter. While teams today have smaller bigs, they have bigs that can shoot, so they run a lot of pick and pop action. Shaq, Hakeem and Ewing would consistently be on an island at the three point line with some of the best ball handlers of all time, they’d be in foul trouble and hurting their team on defense more than helping them on offense against some of the better teams in todays NBA.

[@RobinXlone]

they'd just put a wall up. u forget its team defense and not man to man 24/7 like the 90s was

[@samwisehuluberlu2210]

@@ericcormier1949 stfu little kiddo. Warriors stomped Celtics plain and simple. More clever, more resilient, stronger on both ends of the floor. Deal with it and go to cry again.

[@poljackph]

Defense & Hustle = Lose

[@All_star]

From 14:20-14:25 what did he say

[@duvveeyy]

if you dont get hype off defense your not a real defender

[@Jasonholman17]

There was only one Andrew Wiggins clip 🤦‍♂️

[@cameronsaintjohn9460]

There should've been so many clips of him guarding luka and tatum

[@Jasonholman17]

@@cameronsaintjohn9460 fr

[@whitewhite5077]

yeah cuz they were more focused on blocks and steals than good defense lmao

[@Jasonholman17]

@@whitewhite5077 ong

[@Divinetots]

hell no GPII is not in this video.

[@littlebones18]

HORFORDS DUNK ON GIANNIS?

[@MinerElfer]

These are defensive highlights dawg

[@littlebones18]

@@MinerElfer Haha whoops! Excellent point

[@botmonmon6089]

Marcus Smart would be on another level if he stopped flipping and focused on winning plays instead of stealing plays. He was tripple teamed at halfcourt and tatum was wide open streaking down the other side. It would of been close but he could of put up a 3 to try and tie it.

[@MinerElfer]

I think you failed to see that he lost the ball and he saw tatum

[@botmonmon6089]

@@MinerElfer Dont really understand your comment. Tatum was wide open, he should of launched it to him as soon as he got the ball. And he flailed his arms like he was trying to draw a foul

[@MinerElfer]

As Smart got the ball and was dribbling up court,he looked to Tatum and fumbled the ball. While trying to regain his dribble holiday picked his pocket. Smart would have passed it but unfortunately lost it. Smart is a great player and you can argue that he should have passed it right away but Smart doesn’t have that kind of point guard skills yet

[@botmonmon6089]

@@MinerElfer 100% on point. The thing I dont like though, is flailing your arms afterwards and not just owning up. Same thing on the previous play when he got blocked, he looked around and tried to bring attention to something else. To me it just shows a sense of insecurity, and you cant have a leader whose insecure.

[@pedrossantos5747]

show!

[@tarheel3092]

Smart always flopping smh

[@Karma-hy6ki]

Daily reminder that Wiggins put Tatum in PRISON in this years finals

[@jayson0181]

A lot from C's

[@rabbit28119]

The east is starting to rise..

[@gfunk449]

Draymond Green ripping out Jaylen Brown's heart at 5:40

[@ralphlauren0423]

"he could never" I mean technically nobody on the warriors held brown under 20pts 🤷

[@ferns.vivian]

@@ralphlauren0423 Brown was cooking Draymond

[@samwisehuluberlu2210]

@@ferns.vivian Warriors were cooking Brown and entire Celtics roster. Nice trip to Cancún.

[@jan279]

Don't show this to the oldheads. 🤭

[@esb_ajay3538]

And Jose Alvarado hacking

[@cerezamaia3614]

Smart flops smarter

[@alienatorterminator1543]

This is the closest thing to a 90's basketball

[@Lunar_xbl]

I’m looking at the defensive foul on draymond green when he was guarding Jalen brown . You can’t wrap someone’s arm I’m glad they slow motion captured the dirtiest team in the league in their true colors

[@markjones2518]

Defense wins championships