Yay, It's the 2010 NBA Playoffs thread! - Page 19

MrBug708 · 06-08-2010, 02:36 PM

I think the only people who care about the whole Chris Rock thing is the media.

heybrad · 06-08-2010, 02:54 PM

I prefer this one myself.

MrBug708 · 06-08-2010, 08:12 PM

Lakers should be down by 15 right now

DaddyTorgo · 06-08-2010, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by MrBug708

Lakers should be down by 15 right now

Poor shooting by Pierce and Allen so far is the only reason they're not. Unfortunately.

MrBug708 · 06-08-2010, 08:27 PM

Not much defense being played in the middle tonight, especially by Gasol

DaddyTorgo · 06-08-2010, 08:32 PM

God. Could Pierce and Allen be shooting any worse tonight so far. No way the C's should be losing even by 4pts right now.

MrBug708 · 06-08-2010, 08:34 PM

That was a ridiculous foul call. I believe it was a foul and should have been a foul, but call it whether its going in or not. Not after it was missed

DaddyTorgo · 06-08-2010, 08:36 PM

Ugh. Hit your fucking shots Celtics. FFS.

MrBug708 · 06-08-2010, 08:36 PM

DaddyTorgo · 06-08-2010, 08:36 PM

21-5 run? wtf

kingfc22 · 06-08-2010, 08:41 PM

Glad to see Odom finally show up.

Neon_Chaos · 06-08-2010, 09:11 PM

Nice of KG to show up in these Finals. I thought he never would.

DaddyTorgo · 06-08-2010, 09:13 PM

Ugh. WTF Celtics. Jeezus.

Galaril · 06-08-2010, 09:14 PM

Well that was an unsatisfying half for the Celtics. They better wake in the 2nd half.

Galaril · 06-08-2010, 09:51 PM

I hope afterthis season we trade Perkins useless offense ass elsewhere and get another big man.

Groundhog · 06-08-2010, 09:51 PM

Ray Allen's shooting performance tonight is clearly an example of stat balancing.

DaddyTorgo · 06-08-2010, 09:59 PM

Tony Allen too. He's fucking worthless.

DaddyTorgo · 06-08-2010, 10:00 PM

I'm fully convinced the Celtics will lose this game BTW.

SirFozzie · 06-08-2010, 10:13 PM

16 second half points for the Lakers in 14:15 played so far. I'll take it every day. and that rondo lay up.. woooeeeee!

Galaril · 06-08-2010, 10:27 PM

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I'm fully convinced the Celtics will lose this game BTW.

Thanks to a call from upstairs from Mr.Stern at the beginning of the 4th quarter. Geez the NBA should at least try to make it not look so fucking blatantly obvious. The Celtics are battling Sterm=n and the Lakers since I am sure he wants the Kobe story to prevail in 7.

bhlloy · 06-08-2010, 10:27 PM

I still have no idea how an NBA game is supposed to be officiated. You'd have thought in the 4th of an absolutely key finals game they would be calling it consistently, but it's just terrible. No call on guys getting hacked right underneath the basket and then ticky tack off ball fouls and phantom shooting foul calls. It just doesn't make sense to me as a casual fan.

SirFozzie · 06-08-2010, 10:31 PM

Give the Lakers credit.. that's some tough shots they're hitting, although Fisher was way out of control on that shot a couple minutes back.. should have been offensive.

DaddyTorgo · 06-08-2010, 10:41 PM

ballgame

SirFozzie · 06-08-2010, 10:42 PM

again, credit to the Lakers. The Celtics didn't blow this one. The Lakers went out and took it.

DaddyTorgo · 06-08-2010, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by SirFozzie

again, credit to the Lakers. The Celtics didn't blow this one. The Lakers went out and took it.

Celtics poor shooting by Pierce and Allen cost them the game though Foz. And they had open looks...the defense wasn't that phenomenal.

BishopMVP · 06-08-2010, 10:46 PM

Haha... awesome. 3rd review in the last minute. Can't call the foul, so it's clearly off Odom.

BishopMVP · 06-08-2010, 10:48 PM

That was a (dumb) foul on Garnett, but the amount of flopping in the NBA is getting ridiculous... and that includes Celtics like Ray Allen and Davis.

Neon_Chaos · 06-08-2010, 10:53 PM

Allen went 0 of 13. Way to lay an egg.

cmp · 06-08-2010, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by bhlloy

I still have no idea how an NBA game is supposed to be officiated. You'd have thought in the 4th of an absolutely key finals game they would be calling it consistently, but it's just terrible. No call on guys getting hacked right underneath the basket and then ticky tack off ball fouls and phantom shooting foul calls. It just doesn't make sense to me as a casual fan.

It's been all over the place. Absolutely no consistency.

Chief Rum · 06-08-2010, 11:34 PM

Here you go, Queen Paul. I am sure the LA fans will keep it warm for your return to LA after all.

larrymcg421 · 06-09-2010, 12:10 AM

Queen Paul? I think LA fans know him better as "MVP".

Chief Rum · 06-09-2010, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by larrymcg421

Queen Paul? I think LA fans know him better as "MVP".

No, LA fans know him better as someone who has yet to show up in this series.

larrymcg421 · 06-09-2010, 12:21 AM

Well I can certainly understand why they'd want to forget his MVP performance in the 2008 finals.

Chief Rum · 06-09-2010, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by larrymcg421

Well I can certainly understand why they'd want to forget his MVP performance in the 2008 finals.

I'm not sure why you think this is something they would even think about or care about. They have a more recent championship and a more recent NBA Finals MVP. No one's quaking in their boots over Pierce.

Laughing at him running his mouth? Yeah, they're probably doing that.

larrymcg421 · 06-09-2010, 12:40 AM

Meanwhile, the entire league is laughing at the Clippers.

Neon_Chaos · 06-09-2010, 12:41 AM

Paul Pierce should've just shut his mouth and taken that game 2 win for what it was. I never understand why you would give your opponents emotional incentive to beat you.

larrymcg421 · 06-09-2010, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Neon_Chaos

Paul Pierce should've just shut his mouth and taken that game 2 win for what it was. I never understand why you would give your opponents emotional incentive to beat you.

"Bulletin board" talk is one of the most ridiculous things people continue to bring up in sports. And it's always considered after the fact. If the Celts did win all three at home, people would praise Pierce for his words and talk about his leadership. See: Namath, Joe.

I find it hard to believe the Lakers were just going to tank this game until they read Pierce's comments.

Chief Rum · 06-09-2010, 12:52 AM

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Originally Posted by larrymcg421

Meanwhile, the entire league is laughing at the Clippers.

Oh wow, you got me, big man! I am so cowed and in awe of your awesomeness.

MrBug708 · 06-09-2010, 12:54 AM

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Originally Posted by larrymcg421

Meanwhile, the entire league is laughing at the Clippers.

Speaking of the Clippers, David Geffen made an offer to buy 51% of the Clippers. Sterling told him they arent for sale

MrBug708 · 06-09-2010, 12:54 AM

Oh and good win for the Lakers.

Chief Rum · 06-09-2010, 12:59 AM

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Originally Posted by MrBug708

Speaking of the Clippers, David Geffen made an offer to buy 51% of the Clippers. Sterling told him they arent for sale

Yeah, saw that report. Frickin' Sterling. Geffen, who is friends with LeBron, even basically said he could get LeBron to LA (don't know if it's true, just saying the report indicated he thought he could), but only if Geffen's calling the shots.

Sterling is a cancer of a human being, when you get right down to it. Whatever bad karma the Clips got going on, it's all because of him.

Neon_Chaos · 06-09-2010, 03:54 AM

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Originally Posted by larrymcg421

I find it hard to believe the Lakers were just going to tank this game until they read Pierce's comments.

That's just it. You already know they were going to show up, why pour gasoline on the fire?

edit: Then again, the Lakers could win the next two, and Pierce would be a Prophet!

Passacaglia · 06-09-2010, 07:39 AM

If Geffen buys the Clippers, I will download them illegally.

Radii · 06-09-2010, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Neon_Chaos

That's just it. You already know they were going to show up, why pour gasoline on the fire?

Count me (someone who doesn't root for either of these teams FWIW) firmly in the camp that believes that if you aren't already playing to the top of your effort and ability levels in the NBA finals without stupid comments by players on the other team then something is very wrong with you as an athlete.

Or, to put it another way, isn't poking at the Pierce comments a knock against your own team? Suggesting that the Lakers took their game/effort/whatever to "another level" because of the Pierce comments seems to me to suggest that they weren't trying their hardest in the first place.

/shurg.

Neon_Chaos · 06-09-2010, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Radii

Count me (someone who doesn't root for either of these teams FWIW) firmly in the camp that believes that if you aren't already playing to the top of your effort and ability levels in the NBA finals without stupid comments by players on the other team then something is very wrong with you as an athlete.

Or, to put it another way, isn't poking at the Pierce comments a knock against your own team? Suggesting that the Lakers took their game/effort/whatever to "another level" because of the Pierce comments seems to me to suggest that they weren't trying their hardest in the first place.

/shurg.

You obviously don't know the Lakers.

Chief Rum · 06-09-2010, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Radii

Count me (someone who doesn't root for either of these teams FWIW) firmly in the camp that believes that if you aren't already playing to the top of your effort and ability levels in the NBA finals without stupid comments by players on the other team then something is very wrong with you as an athlete.

Or, to put it another way, isn't poking at the Pierce comments a knock against your own team? Suggesting that the Lakers took their game/effort/whatever to "another level" because of the Pierce comments seems to me to suggest that they weren't trying their hardest in the first place.

/shurg.

Well, for me at least, it's not about the Lakers but about Pierce.

I am rooting for the Lakers, because Kobe is my favorite player. But I think most people who visit the basketball discussions here know I am a Clippers fan, and that that Clippers devotion is far stronger than for the Lakers, a distant second among NBA teams in my rooting interests (for example, I come close to rooting for high end UCLA players' teams, like Westbrook with OK City and KLove with the Wolves, as much as the Lakers).

But with Pierce, I started disliking him when he chose Kansas over local team UCLA in the 90s (irrational fan dislike, sure, but whatever...). When he went to a usually bad Celtics team, I stopped paying close attention, but their return to prominence has reminded me that he always seemed like a punk to me, and if anything has gotten even more "punkish". Plus, he's such a drama queen. I can't stand it when he gets that look on his face, like "How is that not a foul?" that he does every time (yes, I know he's not the only one, Kobe does it, too; we're talking irrational dislike here

). And the over playing of every grievance or injury. Quentin Richardson was exactly right about him.

So when you toss on him saying something like that in Game Two. It's such an arrogant, presumptious and stupid comment. I don't like any of those qualities. When you say something like that, you deserve to have karma come along and kick you in the behind.

Groundhog · 06-10-2010, 09:40 PM

Groundhog · 06-10-2010, 09:42 PM

dola

If the Celtics don't pick it up, Paul Pierce might get his wish to not return to LA... though perhaps not for the reason he had hoped!

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MrBug708 Head Coach Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Whittier	Lakers should be down by 15 right now

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MrBug708 Head Coach Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Whittier	Not much defense being played in the middle tonight, especially by Gasol

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Galaril Pro Starter Join Date: Jan 2004	Well that was an unsatisfying half for the Celtics. They better wake in the 2nd half.

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Galaril Pro Starter Join Date: Jan 2004	I hope afterthis season we trade Perkins useless offense ass elsewhere and get another big man.

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bhlloy Coordinator Join Date: Nov 2003	I still have no idea how an NBA game is supposed to be officiated. You'd have thought in the 4th of an absolutely key finals game they would be calling it consistently, but it's just terrible. No call on guys getting hacked right underneath the basket and then ticky tack off ball fouls and phantom shooting foul calls. It just doesn't make sense to me as a casual fan.

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