NBA Playoffs

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

Just like the Lakers had to play a perfect game on Monday night.

The refs have always been horrendous in the NBA. Lets not forget that one of them was busted for fixing games.

True. Sad though. The product has evolved so that it doesnt need to ride one or two stars anymore.

Any series with any of these four teams would make for a great final.

Originally Posted by dalakhani

True. Sad though. The product has evolved so that it doesnt need to ride one or two stars anymore.

Any series with any of these four teams would make for a great final.

It's all about the dolla dolla bill yall. An Orlando-Denver series would be a ratings disaster.

I still think David Stern would rather walk on the court and shoot Dwight Howard in game 5 than have him play in the finals.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

...it was just stupid and then throwing technicals on it was even stupider. I have faith that they'll get it together and win easy in Game 6 and then make it a Game 7 for the ages.

Nuggets will win game 6 (course I thought sure the Celts would win at home, and they didn't.) They need to stop being undisciplined. When thugs act like children, it's just throwing fat in the fire. You saw how Odom seemed to relax when he saw them losing their minds. This has always been a problem for this coach. He lets his players get too much into "them" (instead on concentrating on what they can control.) He needs to be telling everyone to be smarter(not complaining about refs...when you lose by this much..it is more than the refs.)

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Isnt that what lebron does when his jumper isnt falling?

yes, as he is without question the worst shooter in NBA history, and the league has mandated he win championships every single year. cleveland has so many titles because of this mandate it is unfathomable. the cavs are going for their 6th title in a row this year. I can see why everyone has such outrage for that team. In a couple years they'll be real close to the Lakers and Celtics for total championships. With the league mandate, I think they may have as many as Boston after this year.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

be nice

I'm done with that. This thread is the biggest pile of crap ever. I'll really take it from crap to beyond crap now.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

I still think David Stern would rather walk on the court and shoot Dwight Howard in game 5 than have him play in the finals.

Obviously that is true. So true in fact that the league took away his game 4 technical foul. More proof of the league conspiracy to hand Cleveland their 5th straight title this year. That league ruling aids Cleveland extensively I think. I have that right I think.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Wait til tomorrow night if you think this is bad. I wonder how many crab dribbles we will see.

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With Turkoglu playing, you'll see a near infinite amount of crab dribbles. If we're lucky, they'll call one of them, I'm not holding my breath though.

Howard will commit his standard 15 to 20 fouls and everyone will cry like a baby when he actually gets called for his 6th!!

It's all in the eye of the beholder baby on where the conspiracy lies. I know where it lies. Not where everyone thinks it lies. 45 years running??

I find what I read here to be comedy in the highest form. It is beyond comical for me to sit here and read that the league is mandating a Cleveland championship.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Dwight Howard doesnt get so lucky

I know. I'm still waiting for Dwight to attempt his first free throw this series. It's incredible that a guy that size hasnt' attempted a single free throw in a 7 game series. Simply amazing.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

You're trying to compare a guy driving throwing his forearm at a defender who is just shifting to get into position to a guy in the post using his forearm to maintain his position? I don't even know what to say but to loosely paraphrase Shaq and ask "Scuds, tell me how Kobe's dick tastes"?

They call that forearm when a guy is going to the basket(without being blocked,) and a defender is guarding him(not blocking him.) It's called when someone is trying to get more room against a defender who's legally guarding him. Tonite, this was a block, and a forearm. Why has Gasol turned his body sideways? It's because he's illegally blocked by someone who is not in that spot soon enough to own that spot. He's not there soon enough. So, he must give ground, or it's a blocking foul. He's blocking him. So, Gasol has to turn sideways, or they will hit heads. If no block, then no forearm. The forearm is put out to protect the ball from someone illegally blocking him. He didn't use the forearm to gain room from someone guarding him legally. He did it because he's been turned sideways by an illegal block, and he's protecting the ball. In that situation, the block is what is normally called. People don't want it called in this situation ,because

1)It's the 6th foul on NENE.

and

2) Nene was close to having position( but he's clearly still moving.) Would of been an offensive foul if the defender wasn't blocking totally. He needs to give ground, but he's a retarded thug. So ,he thinks he has established position. He hasn't. He's moving. See, this is what people are ignoring about many of these Denver players(they simply aren't playing smart enough.) He ignores the rules, and complains on almost every call. He has had atleast 5 fouls each game. Not like he respects the rules on how to play defense.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

It was a horribly reffed game tonight and sadly it was predictable. Wait til tomorrow night if you think this is bad. I wonder how many crab dribbles we will see.

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I know just like Tuesday night as well. That clear foul by Howard on Varejao with 0.5 second left when he hooked Varejao's arm and pulled him down flopping, begging for the foul. Like when with 6 seconds left after Pietrus bricked the 3 pointer and West had a clear path to the ball and Howard slammed him to the floor denying him, and Orlando got the ball setting up Lewis' three?? Like the clear offensive goaltending call on Howard in the overtime that wasn't called?? You mean horribly reffed games like that??

Yeah, I agree. Bad reffing is in the eye of the viewer. People see what they want to see. You have an agenda watching these games as do I.

What games do you watch dala?? Is my first paragraph really what happened, or am I making stuff up?? You make the call. There are two sides to every story. My side is every bit as legitimate as your made up stuff. There is no league conspiracy, and it galls me to see my team down 3-1 and people still insisting on how one sided the refs call their games because of one player they were fortunate enough to get. It's complete insanity.

You have 7 foot people moving at the speed of light, the refs do the best they can for the most part. I would have huge problems calling an NBA game.

The agenda of many on this thread is to make LeBron James an overrated, league created non-entity not worthy of anything. A horrendous shooting, selfish, moronic un-intelligent basketball player who is handed gifts by the referees every game. The most overrated athlete ever to walk the planet. That is fine. Just realize what it is. Taken at face value it seems pretty silly to me, what is written here. He may be that. For me, he is the best athlete in my lifetime to play for a Cleveland professional team and he pretty much saved the franchise. They were a 17 win team when he got there. Morty would say it is Ilgauskas and Eric Snow and Drew Gooden and Varijao who saved the franchise, I would have to disagree. The team has their best season ever, and I read how it was only because of the referees. It's stupendously insane in my opinion to reason that with any logic or common sense. He gets a call now and then...wow. I mean wow. Never happened before I guess. He's the first one in league history?? OK. There is no league agenda to put Cleveland in the finals. None. If they got there it would be because they got there. Nothing more, nothing less.

Y'all enjoy yourselves. I'm having a great time watching the melt down again. It's lots of fun. And I know if by some incredible happening the Cavs come back and win the series, it won't be because Mo Williams started shooting like Mo Williams or LeBron doing something great, it will be because the refs simply handed it to them. The script is set. They lose, LeBron is a loser, moron who can't play in the clutch or they win and the refs handed it to him. Fun stuff. Can't beat it.

Whine whine whine.

[dalakhani]

\ a respected JOURNALIST for one of the oldest newspapers in the country. I think this trumps your "blog" cannon. You will have to find a column or article to trump this

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/wiz...wizardsinsider

He was handed the chance to force overtime on a very suspect call with 0.5 seconds remaining, when he tripped and charged head first into Mickael Pietrus, who tried everything in his power to back out of his way. After James made the free throws to tie the game, I got several text messages from friends who thought the fix was in. I was scratching my head, too. The call was terrible, but I understand superstars get borderline calls in the final seconds. My first thought, however, was: When was James going to shoot the ball, actually? He fell down with less than a second left and had yet to look at the rim. If Cleveland won the game after that call, you would have seen conspiracy theorists going berserk for a long time.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

\ a respected JOURNALIST for one of the oldest newspapers in the country. I think this trumps your "blog" cannon. You will have to find a column or article to trump this

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/wiz...wizardsinsider

He was handed the chance to force overtime on a very suspect call with 0.5 seconds remaining, when he tripped and charged head first into Mickael Pietrus, who tried everything in his power to back out of his way. After James made the free throws to tie the game, I got several text messages from friends who thought the fix was in. I was scratching my head, too. The call was terrible, but I understand superstars get borderline calls in the final seconds. My first thought, however, was: When was James going to shoot the ball, actually? He fell down with less than a second left and had yet to look at the rim. If Cleveland won the game after that call, you would have seen conspiracy theorists going berserk for a long time.

Ok a Wizards blog is sure to be the final unbiased place to settle the matter.

[SniperSB23]

So tonight I'm thinking Lebron goes off for 50, the rest of the Cavs get hot from 3, Orlando goes cold and the Cavs cruise to a 120-95 win. The media goes nuts for Cleveland tomorrow saying they've solved Orlando and they go back to Orlando Saturday and lay an egg.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

So tonight I'm thinking Lebron goes off for 50, the rest of the Cavs get hot from 3, Orlando goes cold and the Cavs cruise to a 120-95 win. The media goes nuts for Cleveland tomorrow saying they've solved Orlando and they go back to Orlando Saturday and lay an egg.

I don't know. Though I fully expect it to be 8-on-5 tonight (I wish I didn't), I was sure the Cavs would murder the Magic in Game 2 also. The only way tonight's game is a blowout is if Howard either gets called for bogus fouls or goes back to being passive. He was exposed for his flaws in the Celtics series but he's showing his strengths in this series. The Cavs' bigs can't guard him.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

\ a respected JOURNALIST for one of the oldest newspapers in the country. I think this trumps your "blog" cannon. You will have to find a column or article to trump this

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/wiz...wizardsinsider

He was handed the chance to force overtime on a very suspect call with 0.5 seconds remaining, when he tripped and charged head first into Mickael Pietrus, who tried everything in his power to back out of his way. After James made the free throws to tie the game, I got several text messages from friends who thought the fix was in. I was scratching my head, too. The call was terrible, but I understand superstars get borderline calls in the final seconds. My first thought, however, was: When was James going to shoot the ball, actually? He fell down with less than a second left and had yet to look at the rim. If Cleveland won the game after that call, you would have seen conspiracy theorists going berserk for a long time.

You are just a clown now.

[horseofcourse]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

I don't know. Though I fully expect it to be 8-on-5 tonight (I wish I didn't), I was sure the Cavs would murder the Magic in Game 2 also. The only way tonight's game is a blowout is if Howard either gets called for bogus fouls or goes back to being passive. He was exposed for his flaws in the Celtics series but he's showing his strengths in this series. The Cavs' bigs can't guard him.

They will have 13 refs present this game to make it 18 against 5.

You guys are clowns. all of you. Complete and total clowns. There aren't enough circus' on the planet to house all of you.

[horseofcourse]

Honest to God. For a die hard...37 year Cleveland fan to read this thread is beyond hysterical. It is like I have arrived on bizzaro opposite day planet. The sheer hysterionics going on in this thread are platinum. The pure and unadulterated disdain and hatred that the City of Cleveland actually got a good player is reallly sad to me. They aren't good enough to win the title this year, obviously, are down 3-1 and still people are non-stop that the singular reason Cleveland ever wins a game is refs. They are down 3-1 and people are still non stop that there is simply no way they can win a game without referee assistance. IT is sick to me. It is beyond sick. There really are no words in the English language to describe the mentatlity on this thread. There are simply no words to describe it. It really is pathetic. OF course we are now getting the obligatory "this series is the end of LeBron in Cleveland" national articles popping up of course. So fear not. Really, don't worry so much. Cleveland coming back 3-1...please people. Even the refs can't do that. You want a team down 3-1 to win a series...PLAY against Cleveland (2007 ALCS).

Good lord, just shoot me people.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

They will have 13 refs present this game to make it 18 against 5.

You guys are clowns. all of you. Complete and total clowns. There aren't enough circus' on the planet to house all of you.

So get the fu ck out of here and stop reading then. Why the hell would you want to read 600+ posts of clown chat? Your tired and boring old "poor Cleveland could never get any breaks ever, it's impossible" routine won't be missed, that's for sure.

Like I said, I think these playoffs have been called surprisingly evenly, but if you think LeBron isn't treated like a diva, you're just a homer. The guy was freaking called for one foul per game this season. Even Kobe gets whistled more.

For the record, I think the foul on Pietrus was the right call, and the only reason I think Game 5's whistles will be one-sided is because it's the NBA's modus operandi and has been for a while. We can't have short series and we can't have superstars looking human and losing on their home courts. Just like I expect the Nuggets to get the calls in Game 6, then the Lakers to get every whistle in Game 7. The NBA wants two things: long series and big markets/names in the finals.

I hope I'm wrong about tonight and the rest of the playoffs, and I thought Game 2 of this series was remarkably fair, I've just seen this story one too many times.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

.."Complete and total"..

Good names for a pair of lesser animals (rabbits,cats, hamsters etc.)