NBA thread

[butthead aka 216]

absolutely fantastic game by lebron tonight, one of his all time greatests. id throw it in his top 10 all time performance list. he had his handprint on the entire game and had that look on his face like he did Game 6 vs boston a couple yrs back. just a completely dominant performance and his teammates missed a ton of open shots created by him

he was sensational

[Wpnfire]

Originally Posted by butthead aka 216

absolutely fantastic game by lebron tonight, one of his all time greatests. id throw it in his top 10 all time performance list. he had his handprint on the entire game and had that look on his face like he did Game 6 vs boston a couple yrs back. just a completely dominant performance and his teammates missed a ton of open shots created by him

he was sensational

The moment he got those two back-to-back fouls was pretty much the moment the Nets lost the game lol.

Absolutely unstoppable after that moment.

He was really pissed off by those fouls though, hope he calms down by the next game.

EDIT: also, lol 97% chance the Spurs shut-out Trailblazers tonight according to the TNT viewer poll. Yikes, that's pretty abysmal. Of course, no team has ever come back to win the series, but a single game, wow.

[butthead aka 216]

i love passionate rivalries and you can tell him, pierce and garnett have bad blood still. pierce said he wanted to guard lebron, and bron went for 49!! he was in attack mode all game but you are right, those fouls changed things. i think it was after one of them or maybe ust a minute earlier when he was pissed and immediately aggressively backed down joe johnson and bullied him under the rim for a layup. he just makes it look so easy even with the entire opposing defense focusing completely on him


btw i think portland is gettin swept tonight. great team, great season but the spurs are ust such a well oiled machine

[butthead aka 216]

something interesting i found of note in the spurs-blazers series. at the beginning of the season, i believe in this thread i may have even linked to a great article about the blazers philosophy, but the jist is that the blazers want to never double in the post and always run shooters off the 3 point line, allowing for easy mid range jumpers since they are the least efficient shot in the nba


the problem being that the spurs love those shots and have lived with tony parker mid range jumpers off of pick and rolls and timmy duncan pick-n-pop elbow jumpers for 15 yrs. there prob isnt a worse matchup for portland than the spurs

[butthead aka 216]

omg!! what a crazy thunder game!! clips totally got hosed, no way around it. though they need to check the replay system and tinker with it cause this happens way too much where a guy gets fouled and its not called... just unbelievable though they gave the ball to the thunder!! clearly they knew they missed the foul and were making up for it but you cant do that!

pacers looks like **** as is their usual. no energy, no heart, lack of hustle, etc

[Moss]

Sucks that thunder got robbed on that call. But I'm guessing Chris Paul gets way more calls in his favor overall. NBA refs are the worst.

[Paul Smeenus]

Originally Posted by Moss

NBA refs are the worst.

I completely agree with this

[debaserr]

I concur.

When it's 3-2, I feel pretty sure that it will go 7.

The NBA wants more ads and teams want more ticket sales.

Originally Posted by me somewhere else

Series length for the 1st round of the NBA playoffs...

4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7

50/56 possible games played.

[Paul Smeenus]

Originally Posted by eric generic

When it's 3-2, I feel pretty sure that it will go 7.

The NBA wants more ads and teams want more ticket sales.

I absolutely unequivocally disagree that officials are missing calls because of any bias one way or another. They're missing calls because they're not very good at their job. /this conversation

[Wpnfire]

Originally Posted by eric generic

I concur.

When it's 3-2, I feel pretty sure that it will go 7.

The NBA wants more ads and teams want more ticket sales.

Originally Posted by Moss

Sucks that thunder got robbed on that call. But I'm guessing Chris Paul gets way more calls in his favor overall. NBA refs are the worst.

Originally Posted by butthead aka 216

omg!! what a crazy thunder game!! clips totally got hosed, no way around it. though they need to check the replay system and tinker with it cause this happens way too much where a guy gets fouled and its not called... just unbelievable though they gave the ball to the thunder!! clearly they knew they missed the foul and were making up for it but you cant do that!

pacers looks like **** as is their usual. no energy, no heart, lack of hustle, etc

The thunder were still down when the refs made that call in the thunder game.
Chris Paul, one of the most veteran and skilled basketball players in the world, made an absolutely inexcusable rookie mistake fouling Westbrook on that jump shot. No denying it was a foul there.
He absolutely did not have to be that close, and it was god damn Russell Westbrook taking a three, who is wildly inconsistent with that shot.

EDIT: sorry Paul, didn't see your other post.

Also, we got the heat in the ECF, now we just need the pacers lol. I wouldn't be surprised if Indiana uses the prospect of facing Miami AGAIN to spur them to a win.