The **** he does is just so sorry. He's a piece of ****.

I've been super-pumped to see how well the Bulls are doing, especially considering that I've loved Joakim Noah since his sophomore year in college.

I'm a huge Gators fan, but I'm not going to lie and say that I was pleased with him his freshman year; as a matter of fact, everytime Donovan put him in that year, I was like, "Jesus Christ, not that Noah kid. What the fuck, Donovan?!"

He was really bad as a freshman.

My picks are

Utah over San Antonio
OKC over Dallas
LAL over Denver
Memphis over LAC

I feel like the east is fairly obvious, take boston over atlanta

San Antonio over Utah.
OKC over Dallas
LAL over Denver
LAC over Memphis. :basketbal:basketbal

Spurs in 5
Thunder in 4
Lakers in 6
Grizzlies in 5

Bulls in 4
Heat in 6
Pacers in 6
Celtics in 6

y'all are sleeping on my Jazz squad. Milsap is gonna come up strong, i can feel it!

mavs shoulda won game 1. Durant got so lucky on that game winner, what a bounce. The mavs sure weren't getting those bounces when they needed them last night. They really should have won game 1, they had that 7 point lead. They could have won last night but they couldnt come through with some big shots at the end. Dirk can't do everything all the time.

All I can say is, **** mark cuban for disposing of the championship team.

come on utah step it up :(

Why cant lebron play more like rudy gay offensively? He gets to his spot close to the rim and elevates for an easy jumper. LBJ usually only takes long ass jumpers.

The mavs really sickened me last night. They just quit, had no fire, no fight left in em.

time to bring in Deron Williams and knock one out of the park in the draft. That was the worst i've seen Dallas play in two years.

They just quit. It was obvious. Doesn't look like Dwight Howard is going to be coming so we better get Williams. Better get a good big man in the draft, too, or free agency. Its no coincidence that the one year the mavs have a good center, they win it all. That's what we've always lacked.

Yeah Dallas misses Chandler thats really obvious. Carter has been atrocious, they need to can him. This is a good draft for Big Men, time to trade up and make it happen.

I totally hated it when we got carter but he's done pretty good at times, like last night.

Or they could just trade for Howard.

On second thought, nevermind. They don't have any assets other than Dirk.

Once again... Sickened by the mavs.

I would stop counting on them. Mavericks are a mess. To go 0-4 is just terrible, they should have won at least one game. Oklahoma seems to be the better team in this equation.

Clips are such a immature team. When reggie evans is your prime motivator there is something wrong. The whole team gets technicals and the media still spins chris paul's technical as being a positive boost for his team. Get out of here.

Between the blatant flopping of evans and griffin and the point shaving the refs give them at home the clippers are quickly becoming my least favorite team in the series.

But man, san antonio looks great. I never knew they had a bench full of promising youth

Well they should have won at least two of those games. They had em won. I don't think okc was all that better, they could just finish a game and the mavs couldn't.

So far I'm 2/4

Fred is 4/4 :clap:


6/8 :clap:

I'm gonna predict

San Antonio over LA Clippers
OKC over LA Lakers
Miami over Indiana
Boston over Philly (game 7)

SA > LAC in 5
OKC > LAL in 6 (hope I'm wrong)
Mia > Ind in 6 (hope I'm wrong)
Bos > Phi in 7 (hope I'm wrong)

Memphis shouldn't have lost G1, what a bunch of noobs.

are the heat done? :D

Heat aren't done, but I can see it going 7 games. Props to Indy but it's really more of the Heat killing themselves than Indy playing lights out, especially in game 2. I've never seen an offense look so terrible as Miami's did in Game 2, and tonight's 2nd half wasn't much better. Complete no-show by Wade, he seemed to have an attitude problem or disinterest tonight. It's really just about Miami's bad coaching and bad decisions by their stars. They have the greatest fast break finisher of all-time, and a team built for the fast break and they don't wanna run anymore. They've never had a half court offense, and they just seem unwilling to run and get easy points. I'd love a Miami vs Lakers/Thunder finals but I am seriously questioning if Miami gets out of the East for the first time after tonight's flop of a performance. Bad coaching too, a lot of it falls on Spolstra. It was so obvious that Chalmers had the mismatch as George and Granger were on LBJ and Wade. Chalmers was killing them getting into the lane off of pick and rolls, and as usual the ball eventually started going to LeBron and Wade on the wing for bad isolation jump shots.

Love watching the Spurs play. Just old vets who know how to win behind a legendary coach. Amazing how they've transformed over time. They can still go to Timmy in the post when they need to slow it down and it's just so tough to defend them when Parker is running a pick and roll and has shooters stationed in both corners. Factor in Parker and Ginobili's driving and flopping abilities and it's just impossible. I also hate the Clippers, so I'm pulling for the Spurs. Though I'll say that OKC looks like the best team right now by a large, large margin. They've built pretty much a perfect team.

Let's hope. Ind being up 2-1 is definitely no fluke though, they are the better team right now (I could see it being the same with Bosh in too).

No way. I don't think Bosh is a great rebounder, but they wouldn't be getting butt****ed on the boards as badly if he was playing. And though I thin Bosh is over rated and soft, he is still a legit 15 PPG guy and with games lie tonight when Wade was awful, he would have been a huge addition. Pacers played pretty well tonight, like I thought they would, being at home and all. But game 2 Indy was terrible, Miami just found a way to be more terrible.

2 baskets for dwayne wade is not okay i don't care how many floaters mario chalmers gets let him have em.

San Antonio hasn't even had to try hard yet in the playoffs, them vs OKC is going to be epic.

Indeed it will be epic. We are in a real special era of NBA right now, this is stuff we will tell our kids someday.

Damn, nobody even posted about the Lakers game the other night? A pure classic. I'm about to write a novel so feel free to respond to any part of this.

Russ Westbrook is a ****ing beast. I hope these playoffs really showcase how amazing he is, as I don't feel lie he gets the respect he deserves. I'd put him on the level of Rose. The dude is incredible athletic, fast, and strong, and when he is hitting that jumper off the pick and roll he's damn near unstoppable. I was just in awe watching him the other night shred the Lakers defense.

That OKC-Lakers game 4 was a classic. As usual, the Lakers relied completely on Kobe down the stretch and he hit some mind-boggling shots but they should have found a way to keep feeding the bigs. I know they were fronting a lot in the 2nd half, but whoever is guarded by Perkins can shoot a jump hook over him at any time. I will also say it was really well-reffed and they didn't bail Kobe out with phantom fouls like they do sometimes when he gets in the paint. Even when the Lakers went up, I knew OKC would at least make it a game. I was really surprised OKC didn't use Sefolosha more towards the end, I think he's one of the best defenders in the league and Harden couldn't guard Kobe. The Durant dagger at the end was so cold blooded and sick, it was beautiful.

Also, HUGE game for King James tonight. The Heat needed that type of performance and got it. Just a gigantic night, and Wade actually showed up. Now it's a 3 game series with 2 in Miami. I really have a hard time seeing the Heat lose the series now. I felt like whoever won game 4 was gonna take the series. I hate to look ahead, but Heat NEED Bosh back for next round. He isn't the greatest finisher, but he's a hell of a lot better than Anthony and Haslem, but they really need his little 15 foot jumper off the pick and roll.

Spurs wrapped things up tonight. Pretty easy to tell they were teh much better team. Clippers really aren't even that good in my opinion. When they aren't getting alley-oops they don't have much of an offense and the Spurs just always make the right passes, rotations, shots, etc. Should be a blast watching Parker and Westbrook go at it. Different styles and two of the best in the game. I love watching both teams but I think OKC is gonna take it. They have great defenders and length and I don't think anyone on SA can contain Durant. Spurs don't rebound well either, and I just see OKC being too much to handle in transition for them.

holy ****, i love playoff hoops!!

The Lakers are cooked, no finishing ability this year. I like San Antonio to derail OKC in the next round.

Miami just might come back and take that series, i'd love for Indiana to close em out though. Would be great for Indiana basketball in general. I'd also love to see the 76ers slap Beantown around. I'm calling Indiana and the Celtics in the next round with Indiana going all the way out against San Antonio.

San Antonio gives T-DUNC another championship.

I agree that Westbrook is underrated, if he had less talent around him he would certainly have better numbers.

On G4, I thought Kobe looked as good as he had in years, then proceeded to go cold down the stretch. I don't think they have what it takes to win 3/3.

LBJ finally played his best when it was needed. He was absolutely brilliant. (40/18r/9a).

I think I like the Spurs to win the title now. OKC is too inconsistent offensively and SA is an offensive juggernaut. Miami doesn't have enough talent, I expect Boston to knock them out if Bosh can't go. But if LBJ is playing like yesterday, they could surprise me.

I just don't understand why the lakers couldn't get more rebounds. How come andrew bynum is guarding the perimeter? Why did Mike Brown wait so long to put bryant back in the 4th quarter? don't need an extra long break when everything is on the line.

Otherwise I've been enjoying watching the rondo lead celtics. Making KG look young and feeding bass easy baskets.Good example of a old team still making it work.

Bynum got in foul trouble and his 3rd foul was a big one and a bad call. He was only on the perimeter because of switches off of picks. And Westbrook just nailed that jumper in Bynum's eye all night. Great game from Kobe, but Lakers just didn't have the firepower down the stretch. I didn't understand why Kobe sat in the 4th either.

I am hoping it's each OKC VS Miami OR Spurs VS Celtics. Two sweet matchups, but right now I'm just ready for OKC VS Spurs. Should be amazing.

Because Bynum and Gasol are now useless.

The better team won, but **** if it isn't disappointing. We need some lineup changes and some fresh faces. Damnit, how'd we miss out on so many opportunities this off-season. Wonder how different it'd be if we had Dwight Howard in the low post.

I'm rage quitting life if Kobe doesn't get his 6th ring to tie MJ's.

Also, when Kobe sat at the end he had 42. The Lakers had 44.

Well that was a bad game. So much for Kobe having rings like Jordan.

Kobe will never be Jordan, nobody will.

Dwight wouldn't have made a difference, it probably would have made them worse if anything. Lakers needed to get some shooters, maybe this off-season they will. They should just cut Barnes and Metta and sign a pure shooter. All good teams have knock-down shooters. Spurs have a million of them, Heat have guys like James Jones, Miller, and Chalmers, Celts have Allen, etc. Lakers don't have anyone like that.

I wouldn't really pin it on Kobe. His team is definitely inferior to da Bulls, and he does only have 1 less ring than Michael.

But yeah I don't think he'll ever be as uber clutch as Jordan was.

I have to disagree. Kobe was the only reason the Lakers were half as close as they were all series. Like you said his team isnt as good, with the exception of himself.

Not to mention Derek Fisher probably told OKC all his dirty secrets.

Unlikely. For all we know, professional basketball could be played for another 2000 years, it's statistically unlikely that the most dominant player of the first 100 years of bball would remain the best after 2000 years.

Edit: I guess I misread that. I thought you said better than. Ignore my post

Wait do you agree or disagree with me? It sounds like you agree, but I'm not sure.