nba playoffs 2009 Options

[brooklyneast05]

did anyone just watch the sixers come back from being down 18 to tied 98-98 and iguodala made it 100-98 with 3 seconds left.



anyway this will be our thread for the playoffs, which i'm sure will get about 3 replies, maybe 4 if teesa comes around.



so who are you going for?

[Tung]

no point in this thread.

give the lakers the trophy already.

[sixfive]

did anyone watch the rockets STOMP the trailblazers? or pierce miss that freethrow?

[Tung]

you mean saw how pierce choked? yup.

[imperfectionistx]

no point in this thread.

give the lakers the trophy already.

[LittleMissSunshi...]

can't believe heat lost ):! meh, lol we need to bring back our title :P!

[Tung]

LOL. you miami ain't seeing a title in another 20 years.

that 2006 championship was a one time thing.

[brooklyneast05]

i
hate
the
west


i want chicago, philly, or detroit to win. aka the least likely. as long as the east wins, i'll be good. i really do hope chicago knocks boston out though, that'd make me pretty happy.

[sixfive]

mang i love the west

anyone watching tony parker rape the mavs? like, they lubed up and everything just waiting for him to stick it in the goal.


but by the way jc, if the lakers somehow get beat, the cavs will still lose to the west

[brooklyneast05]

i don't doubt it, i just don't want it to happen.

[sixfive]

its okay /pat. i was watching an interview w/ lbj last night and he said something along the line of he didnt consider himself the mvp of the cavs and that it's more a team effort than his individual talent

[brooklyneast05]

its okay /pat. i was watching an interview w/ lbj last night and he said something along the line of he didnt consider himself the mvp of the cavs and that it's more a team effort than his individual talent

i have a real hard time liking him.



i'm watching the mavs and spurs. i hate the spurs so much. i can never see myself ever liking this franchise no matter who they have. i hate bruce bowen. why? i just do. if tony parker was on a different team, i'd like him. but i wouldn't want to break my irrational hate of the spurs to give him and props, so f*ck him. i'm going for the mavs. kidd is one of my favorites of all time, i just wish he'd get back to the east.


actually, thinking about it, i like who dallas has right now. too bad they are in texas.

[sixfive]

i really like tony parker and tim duncan. i don't like dallas at all, most people in texas much prefer the rockets or spurs over the mavs. also, popovich looks like linderman from heroes.

tony parker, 35 points, wtf, thats more than derrek rose in the ot game

know what team i loathe? the jazz.

[*BOSS*]

Cavs in 7 Vs Lakers
Lebron James 4 MVP + Finals MVP

[sixfive]

lakers > cavs
rockets > cavs
others > cavs too, but those are the main two imho

[*BOSS*]

How high Lamar Odom is, is going to determine who wins

[sixfive]

lawl odom

in an interview, he was asked what he viewed his position on the field as. he responded, "rockstar"

[brooklyneast05]

i really like tony parker and tim duncan. i don't like dallas at all, most people in texas much prefer the rockets or spurs over the mavs. also, popovich looks like linderman from heroes.

tony parker, 35 points, wtf, thats more than derrek rose in the ot game

know what team i loathe? the jazz.

probably why i prefer the mavs over dallas or rockets anyday


i hate the jazz too, for real. i hate the lakers, but i even am going for the lakers in that series just becuase i hate the jazz that much. i can't even think of a player on that team i like.

[sixfive]

dude, know whats worse than the jazz? jazz refs

[Tung]

or the jazz fans. odom made harpring his bitch on sunday.

AND kevin u are f*cken high for saying Cavs over Lakers in 7.

only way that'll happen if lebron gets 25 Freethrows a game like d-whistle did against Dallas in 2006. oh wait that series was f*cken rigged.

[LittleMissSunshi...]

LOL. you miami ain't seeing a title in another 20 years.

that 2006 championship was a one time thing.

LOL and it was unforgettable :P! but they are not going to win anytime soon.

the celtics vs. bulls game was nioce.

[brooklyneast05]

detroit looks pathetic

[sixfive]

portland refs can suck a dick, battier had a completely clean hand in face of brandon roy no contact, he flops, super f*cking obvious flop, and gets the foul call. aaron brooks gets tripped, no call. aldrige hits ball out of bounds, scola called for it. such bs.

[brooklyneast05]

the lakers played shitty last night imo, it shouldn't have gotten that close. they're just lucky utah started f*cking up and turning it over at the end or else i think they coulda easily lost it. i couldn't believe they went from being up 20 to only 5 points or so. devon williams was on fire, 35 points.

[Tung]

the jazz played pretty well actually. much better than game 1..


yet they still lost...hmm..

[brooklyneast05]

utah's up ten, we'll see how this goes

[brooklyneast05]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA JAZZ WON

[Tung]

why are you laughing? it's not like the lakers were gonna sweep. i predicted lakers 4-1. i knew jazz would either win game 3 or 4.


kobe played like crap, and bynum only played 7 minutes, yet jazz only won by 2. i'm not at all concerned. if lakers lose game 4, then i'll be concern.

[salcha4u]

AHhhhhhhaha KOBE STEAK

[*BOSS*]

lmao@4/23

[fire]

Epic last 10 minutes.

Okay, maybe not, I don't watch ball all that often.

[Teesa]

my hands were literally almost over my eyes when kobe took that last three point attempt! i don't have too much of a problem with the lakers, but i really want utah to make this series a little competitive.

my predictions for each series have been totally off...i didn't think philadelphia or chicago would be able to stick with orlando or boston so closely (but with KG gone, it makes chicago's job a little easier) i also thought new orleans and denver would go to a game 7, but i'm not complaining =)

i have a real hard time liking him.
i'm watching the mavs and spurs. i hate the spurs so much. i can never see myself ever liking this franchise no matter who they have. i hate bruce bowen. why? i just do.

i dislike the spurs so much. i have a huge problem with bruce bowen and tony parker. bowen because he flops so damn much and can play dirty. parker mainly because of an incident two (?) years ago when he and steve nash collided and nash was bleeding all over the place, but went over to help parker who was pathetically laying on the floor when nothing happened to him.

Cavs in 7 Vs Lakers
Lebron James 4 MVP + Finals MVP

that's my prediction as well! GO CLEVELAND <3 i love every single person on that team.

[brooklyneast05]

wow philly

[Teesa]

oh the nugs

[Tung]

the only way cavs will beat the lakers is if the refs and stern wanna give their golden poster child his first ring , like they did with d-wade (ahem 25 fts a game against mavs)

other than that i don't see how the cavs can match up with the lakers talent.

[brooklyneast05]

if the jazz can match up with the lakers talent, then the cavs can.

i don't think the lakers have played good all series so far. the first two games, had they not had good first quarters then there is a good chance they would have lost. especially game two, lakers played shitty towards the end are just lucky the jazz started turning it over imo. they didn't even win game three.

[*BOSS*]

other than that i don't see how the cavs can match up with the lakers talent.

thats cause your a biased lakers fan, and have yet to address that the lakers defense have yet to keep a lead

[brooklyneast05]

spurs are really f*cking up. dallas has them 3-1 now, but i'm not complaining

[Teesa]

eesh, utah did not have a good 3rd quarter. but i'm still hoping they can win one in LA.

haha, <3 tung, but i think the cavs will be able to win~the lakers are an awesome team, but i am seriously hoping those two teams meet in the finals because that would be an amazing series (kinda like last year's finals!)

[Tung]

the lakers are a tricky team to decipher. they play to the level of their competition imo. they stepped it up when they have to especially this season when bynum went down and beat the cavs and celtics back to back on the road.

the reason why the jazz can match up with the lakers talent, is cuz their the most talented team in the west outside of the lakers. tbh, i think the jazz talent > cavs talent. that's sayin how good lebron is. cmon now. take lebron out of that team and who do they have? the jazz have deron, boozer, ak47, okur. all four of those players were allstars. then they have role players like milsap and brewer. whenever the cavs and lakers play kobe and lebron usually cancels each other out, leavin the game decided by the supporting players.

gasol > ilguaskas
odom > varejao
kobe > d. west
trevor < lebron
fisher > or = to david west

bench

and i still think the lakers bench is greater than the cavs. especially when you have a 7 footer bynum and a rising shannon brown.

good win today for the lakers. they should've won by 20, but they knew the game was over already with 6 minutes left to go, so they got lazy towards the end. lamar and shannon brown has been very good all series long. i look for a win on monday. i'm hopin houston and portland will go the distance to 7 games, so the lakers can get a bit of rest. trevor ariza is injured, so we need time to heal.

[DoubleJ]

^ *delonte west

WHY ARE MY SPURS DOING THIS! It's bad enough that the Nets weren't in it, but now the Spurs are on the verge of losing. I kind of want them to lose already so I can focus on baseball.

[SuckDickNSaveLiv...]

The Lakers have the best team in basketball hands down. They know this, so they go out and play based on talent alone. That's how they've been winning most of their games, but this will catch up to them if they don't get it together.

[kryogenix]

lol celtics

not gonna repeat with KG

[sixfive]

The Lakers have the best team in basketball hands down. They know this, so they go out and play based on talent alone. That's how they've been winning most of their games, but this will catch up to them if they don't get it together.

The Rockets did have the best team in the league, at least on paper, until tmac still sucked, and various others started to suck too and miss shit.

[sixfive]

[*BOSS*]

blazer talent > jazz talent, series could've easily been 2-2, utahs been a mess this year, from being my projected 2nd seen to 8th, and won like 1 game over .500 western teams on the road

i can't really gauge how good the lakers are cause they haven't really crossed a challenge yet, beat the rockets in 5 next series, and then nuggets in 6 is my guess, but the cavs are way better than any other western team

[sixfive]

rockets can > cavs, while not as talented, smarter imo, especially with battier

[Tung]

lol at utah lakers series could've been 2-2. you do realize the series could've also been 4-0, if it wasn't for deron's game winner?

also i agree. rockets could beat the cavs in a 7 game series. they beat the cavs so convincingly this season. artest and battier shut lebron out.


damn that boston and bulls game was f*cken EPIC

[sixfive]

ay tung did you see battier get all those fouls on lebron?

[SuckDickNSaveLiv...]

The Rockets did have the best team in the league, at least on paper, until tmac still sucked, and various others started to suck too and miss shit.

I think the Rockets are a better team without TMac. I also think if both the Lakes and Rockets meet, its going to be a 7 game series possibly.


On a side note, how you get beat 121 - 63 at home?

[brooklyneast05]

that was a good game last night, i wish the jazz had won just because. how stupid were the lakers to let it go from a 22 point lead to a 4? point lead? i duno, they won so that's all that matters. they're going to get screwed if they plan on continuing to give up 20 point leads like they have almost every game this series. maybe they'll be over that though.

[brooklyneast05]

wow @ spurs

[Tung]

na na na na hey hey good bye
na na na na hey hey good bye

spurs hahahahah

and yes at portland gonna win. let this series go 7 games, so whoever plays the lakers will be tired hahahaah

[kryogenix]

weird game between the bulls and celtics. dubious refereeing.

[sixfive]

I think the Rockets are a better team without TMac. I also think if both the Lakes and Rockets meet, its going to be a 7 game series possibly.
On a side note, how you get beat 121 - 63 at home?

They're playing better without TMac because they're not expecting him to carry the team. I'd welcome TMac back, if he's you know, not broken. On the flipside, we could release him and use that salary cap to pick up someone else during the big contract year. Come here Dwayne Wade.

na na na na hey hey good bye
na na na na hey hey good bye

spurs hahahahah

and yes at portland gonna win. let this series go 7 games, so whoever plays the lakers will be tired hahahaah

This game was exactly like game two in the end. Maybe it's my Rocket bias but there were a ton of shit calls in this game, too. Oh well, Rockets will come back next game pumped or something like that and take it. No 7th game.

[brooklyneast05]

i felt pretty bad for miller last night. to get fouled hard enough in the face that you need stitches and then have to go up and shoot free throws, shitty situation. although really considering the lead the bulls had before, they should have kept themselves out of the situation completely. either way, i thought they shoulda called a flagrant.


i'd love if boston got knocked out first round though.

[kryogenix]

i felt pretty bad for miller last night. to get fouled hard enough in the face that you need stitches and then have to go up and shoot free throws, shitty situation. although really considering the lead the bulls had before, they should have kept themselves out of the situation completely. either way, i thought they shoulda called a flagrant.
i'd love if boston got knocked out first round though.

I think flagrant would have been appropriate, but I think the refs were making up for the calls on Ray Allen.

As I go to school in New England, and as a Knick fan who would love to see Stephon Marbury fail, here's to hoping the bulls knock em out.

[DoubleJ]

I look at the Spurs Playoff loss in two ways:

1. They got beat by the better team plain and simple. Let's not forget that the Mavs are two years removed from a finals appearance.

2. They got exposed for doing absolutely nothing in the previous offseason to shore up their roster. Hopefully they will be smarter this time around and go younger.

[brooklyneast05]

i didn't realize they suspended dwight howard next game

[Teesa]

i like houston, but i would like portland to play the lakers because somehow the lakers have trouble beating them.

the last two foul calls on ray allen were really ridiculous. but yeah, the bulls should have closed them out earlier when they were up by 11 or something. and i felt bad for miller too-he must have been so out of it.

and J-the spurs did not have ginobili either

GO NUGGETS

[kryogenix]

i didn't realize they suspended dwight howard next game

ahahahahaha for real? that sucks

[Tung]

lakers vs portland = 6-7 games lakers win
lakers vs houston = 5-6 games lakers win

so all in all, the lakers will win no matter who they play. it's more of a matter of who will challenge them more.

the west playoffs don't interest me enough, because i don't see a team beating the lakers in a 7 game series. i see a team like Denver giving them trouble though, but not beating them 4 times.

The east playoffs have been f*cken epic outside of pistons-cavs. Every series so far is gonna go 6 games or more.

[brooklyneast05]

ahahahahaha for real? that sucks

yeah for the elbow he gave dalembert. damn.



i don't really know who i want to win that series though.

[Tung]

for the east side, i'm rooting for philly, chicago, and atlanta.

however, if orlando loses, i don't see anyone beating the cavs. the magic is the only team i see who can beat the cavs. then again, if the magic do end up going to the finals, they might beat the lakers. the magic swept the lakers this year. they match up really good with us lakers.

[brooklyneast05]

i keep finding myself going for philly during the games becuase they're the underdog. i like orlando though, i like who they have. i've been a fan of alston since...well forever. i wish they'd let him loose more and do what he does best.

us lakers.

they should give you 6th man of the year

[kryogenix]

I'm not really rooting for anyone. It's more that I'm rooting against the Celtics and the Cavaliers.

I'm against Boston cause everyone at my school is a Celtics fan. I'm against the Cavs because I don't want LeBron getting too comfortable there and end up not coming to the Knicks in 2010

[*BOSS*]

we all know the cavs are on a whole other league than the rest in the east, magic are jameer nelson-less and live and die by the 3, unless superman throws up 30/30 games every time, good game, celtics are shit, i dont give a f*ck what anyone says, they wont go to the finals, starbury is a piece of shit, open 3, gave up to rondo for an airball, lmao, my bulls, as much as I love em, will get to the eastern conference finals max, heat/hawks game is basically useless seeing how the cavs are going to crush them, spurs lost cause of no manu, mavs aren't even that good, they are just good against the spurs, 2006 conference finals anyone? LAL beats houston in 5, then beats nuggets in 6 or 7.

[Tung]

Playoffs is all about matchups imo. Like how Dallas was so good in 2006, but that one team like the Warriors matched up so well they beat Dallas.

Even though Cavs are better than everyone else in the East and on a whole another league right now, I think the Magic match up pretty well against them. As for the Bulls-Celtics series, I think Celtics are going to win it because the Bulls lost last night. Had they won and gone up 3-2, I would say they had the series. However, I don't see the Bulls beating the Celtics 2 straight.

If the Heat and Cavs do end up playing 2nd round, expect ALOT of whistles for D-Whistle and Lebron. How fun is it going to watch that series. 100 FTs a game. Btw, did you guys saw the stat on Lebron how he's averaging like 1.4 fouls a game, the lowest ever in Nba History. Are you telling me Lebron is the best defender who don't foul or what? Also

4 games Cle-Det
Lebron FTA - 59
Detroit Pistons FTA- 58

LOL

Whoever the Celtics play next round, (Magic or Sixers) I think will beat Boston. Starbury hella sucks LOL, just like his $8 shoes. And wow at Paul Pierce. Dude is like automatic on that mid-range shot. It wasn't like Salmons was not defending him well. He had his hand all over that shit.

And I agree with the Mavs and Spurs thing. People are making the Mavs so good of a team for beating the Spurs. Too bad everyone will see the truth about how the Mavs f*cken suck. All they did was beat a Ginobili-less Spurs team. They'll get swept or lose to Denver 4-1 book it.

[brooklyneast05]

i want new orleans to win it

[sixfive]

Mavs do suck.

Too bad the Rockets won't get past the Lakers, otherwise we could beat the Cavs. Hopefully I'm proven wrong, but I'm not hoping for much :[ On another note, I think I'm going to see game two of the Houston - LAL series from around half court about ten rows up. Firm tickets ftw

[Tung]

lmao @ denver for celebrating like they won the championship

[Teesa]

hey hey hey! we are proud for getting out of the first round..for like the first time ever it seems, hahaa. i think we should be able to take care of the mavs ;)

[Teesa]

triple OT? i think so! (i am getting no work done with my finals and papers tomorrow..oh well)

and guess dwight missing the game didn't do too much damage ;)

[brooklyneast05]

CYA LATER PIERCE

[sixfive]

rockets round two

lol there was a video of ron artest saying the hardest person to play against was brandon roy, ahrder than kobe and lebron

[*BOSS*]

artest plays mind games

[sixfive]

artest pulls pants down

[sixfive]

lol greg oden 3 points rudy fernandez 2 points

[kryogenix]

Dang. I was in the hospital last night. They had to revive me after having about 20 heart attacks after watching red vs green.




I don't like how everyone is suddenly on Rose's dick though. Sure the block was great, but the guy screwed up so many times with turnovers and missed freethrows. He's talented, but it shows he's still got a little bit of ways to go.

[sixfive]

he is carrying the bulls though, and without him they wouldn't be anywhere near the playoffs

[Tung]

how is that not worthy of a suspension? rondo basically pulled hinrich's for 10 feet and literally just threw him to the scorer's table. and no they didn't get tangled up.


and watch rondo throw an elbow at hinrich. i know it missed but still. he threw an elbow, and it would've hit hinrich in the head had the refs not pushed them away.

if rondo isn't suspended for game 7, the nba have no credibility and isn't even consisent. at the same time i don't want rondo suspended, because i want an EPIC GAME 7. and that's what the Nba wants too, and that's why he probably won't get suspended.

[Teesa]

i thought it was going to be called a flagrant 2 for sure! i had no idea why rondo would do that. so unnecessary. and with the slapping brad miller incident, i have decided rondo is one feisty player, lol. you can tell hinrich wanted to do something but clearly had to hold himself back, lol.

[kryogenix]

Rondo has been getting away with murder. Smacking Brad Miller, dragging Hinrich and goaltending in the last few seconds.

[*BOSS*]

NBA loves to orchestrate, they do it for game 7, and they are gonna do it for Cavs Vs Lakers Finals match

[brooklyneast05]

game 7 here we go

[Tung]

http://atdhe.net/6759/watch-chicago-vs-boston

[brooklyneast05]

i'll stick to watching it on tv

[Tung]

sorry i aint rich like u and have a TV >__>

[brooklyneast05]

[Tung]

stfu LOL.

lol @ rose blocking scalabrine's dunk attempt HAHAH

[*BOSS*]

drose bout to block kobe in the finals too

[brooklyneast05]

f*ck boston

[Teesa]

OH BOO

[Tung]

bulls should've won in 6, had rondo been called for that flagrant foul to brad miller, or bulls in 7 had rondo been suspended for game 7.

f*ck this.

[Teesa]

HELL YEAH, GO NUGGETS!!!

[Tung]

*smh*

[Teesa]

what's smh?

i'm excited to see how orlando and boston will turn out..boston must be pretty tired :/ and of course, lakers and rockets should be fun as well (hopefully)

[Tung]

haha when u say hopefully did you mean you hope the series won't be a 4-1 quick series for the lakers? haha

smh = shaking my head

[fameONE]

what's smh?

i'm excited to see how orlando and boston will turn out..boston must be pretty tired :/ and of course, lakers and rockets should be fun as well (hopefully)

*shake my head

I'm on the Cleveland bandwagon since my Sixers are no longer in it.

[brooklyneast05]

hoping magic will beat boston. i really think they will.