09 playoffs thread

makes that same shot every single possession

Every time I see Garnett in a suit it looks like he has impossibly wide shoulders.

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i don't even care abt the rest of the playoffs, lets just beat the bulls guys

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:20 PM

^^ this. no kg means no ring repeat, ok fine, but defending champs losing in the first round isn't right

between the two elmination games right now id much rather be watching rockets/blazers

i'm always down to watch the spurs lose though.

kinda thinking that i hate the entire western conference tbh

Oh shit I didn't even know the blazers game was on nba TV! Nice

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Kinda want rockets to close this thing out cuz I can't wait for some second round action

Damn! Roy!

Phenomenal 4th quarter for Oden.

Travis Outlaw though. Sheesh.

I mean.

DOOD.

COME ON.

ok i'm not one to blame refs usually, but boston got a big bow put on that one by the officiating crew. plz beat these whiny trashtalking c's, bulls.

rondo saves the c's season by knocking brad millers teeth out - what else can this guy do - i cant remember a player raising his game quite this much from regular season to playoffs - he gone from a just below all star type guy to almost as good as lebron - magnificent!

I don't know if it's at all possible, but I was watching the Spurs and thinking "what if they had Boozer" and kept going hmmmmmmmmm

regular season 12-8-5-2 50% 64% 31%
playoffs 24-10-10-3 51% 72% 57%

and they are barely beating the bulls wtffff

rondo is being guarded individually by rose and collectively by the bulls and its coaching staff. let's not start sucking his dick with such fervor quite yet.

o come on what exactly in yr book is worthy of a little head

Really not looking forward to Celtics / Magic, honestly. Magic are a boring team.

little head, yes. deep throat w/a ball massage, not yet.

dwight howards gonna foul out their whole front line in one half xp

ok fair xp

good thing it'll be bulls vs magic then huh!

could be who knows this series will likely kill me either way

btw i am quite certain pp is injured

also have to say this series has been officiated horribly - not necessarily in favor of one team just strangely inconsistently and in a manner that detracts from the drama and beauty of the game

i thought so too. gimp vs gimp with him and salmons is what it looked like. how can you leave salmons out there on an island with him in crunch time after he hit basically the same shot twice before??? if bulls pull out the series they may be the worst coached team to ever win a series.

Better bring out that wheelchair

yeah not trapping pierce was a huge wtf - not like the celtics are stacked w/scorers these days - of course doc has been giving as good as he gets w/these fucked up line ups

not to mention not fouling when up by three in game 4 etc etc

rest of series the ref'ing was bad both ways, but tonight i really thought the bulls got the worst of it. d rose for one got hacked on about 4 shots near the hoop w/o a whistle. foul on big bad brad at the end shoulda been flagrant. good thing about that play is vinny mignt--MIGHT--realize that there are other options for last minute plays besides clearing out for bg for the contested 20ft fallaway.

who were the other shooters on the floor when pierce hit that? house? and....??

theyre not gonna call a flagrant on the last play of the game - which is why rondo was smart to reach in there and remove brad millers teeth - but how abt fouling ray allen out on two tickytack off the ball fouls in one minute

i think lots of coaches are going overboard with cutesy lineups, overcoaching
xp yeah i didn't even see what happened on the double foul, didn't have my magnifying glass on me

dont recall who was there - ray was fould out so house is really the only other shooter they have - big baby can his from 18

i don't have tix to thursday's game, so bulls have a chance. (i went to last thurs game and was not surprised. i seriously have the worst luck w/seeing games in person, you don't even know)

hm should we let the truth do the exact same thing he just did twice or should we let the immortal big baby beat us with an 18 footer hmmmmmmmm

but fuck does rondo have a nose for the ball. it's cute how his fake behind the back pass has become a nervous tic at this point *slurp slurp*

ought so too. gimp vs gimp with him and salmons is what it looked like. how can you leave salmons out there on an island with him in crunch time after he hit basically the same shot twice before??? if bulls pull out the series they may be the worst coached team to ever win a series.

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:27 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

^^seriously - it was hilarious hearing doug collins analyzing the bulls' defense tonight, like when he spent like 3 straight celtics' possessions talking about how ben gordon shouldn't be shadowing tony allen so closely because allen will not make a 3 - i bet collins went to the hotel after the game and raided the mini bar and cried for 2 hours - either that or he's planning to kill del negro

though i'm not really sure why people want that rondo foul to be flagrant the celtics definitely benefited from some no-calls last night. still in a 2-point OT game abt 1000000000 thing could have gone either way so what are you going to do?

remarkable win given that the c's big man "rotation" now consists of perk and baby playing 95% of the minutes cept when they are spelled by post-concussion brian scalabrine.

"though i'm not really sure why people want that rondo foul to be flagrant the celtics definitely benefited from some no-calls last night."

Cuz he fouled Brad Miller's face and hard enough that Miller ended up looking like John Merrick as he was taking his free throws.

"if bulls pull out the series they may be the worst coached team to ever win a series."

This is true, but it's not like Rivers has been setting the world on fire either.

I don't know if it's at all possible, but I was watching the Spurs and thinking "what if they had Boozer" and kept going hmmmmmmmmm

at this point, i'm willing to accept almost anyone to oust ginobili from his "big 3" position he has so he can be better used as a 6th man in earnest (ie 20-25 minutes a game regular season) instead of the last hopes for the spurs playoffs every year and oops oh no my body is broked because i spend every game landing sideways onto peoples feet and throwing my self around trying to get phantom foul call, but have fun in the playoffs guys!

spurs are in a tough spot - ginobili and to a lesser extent duncan are breaking down and the rest of their rotation has too many old guys and scrubs - boozer could help a lot w/duncan and ginobilis responsibilities but then youve still got to pick up a couple solid rotation players - spurs started bonner bowen and finley last night - ugly!

booner is str8 garbage imo. like him personally, but as a playa, he lacks fiyah, he was absolutely of no use in this series. his one responsibility on offense is to hit threes to space the floor and he clunked all of them the last 2 games, pitiful. finley still has some game, but he's old as fuck. bowen is a pillar of the community and an honorary sa dude 4 life, i will say nothing untoward about the man. but he should be play fewer minutes in basketball games. mason was pretty useless this series, too, but i think he was still feeling things. gooden, too.

george hill stepped the fuck up, love this guy. udoka, too, both lack some offensive refinement, but they're great on the ball defenders.

just kind of a weird transition right now. duncan is still hofer first ballot, but he's not gonna do it every night, and parker is their offensive leader, so they gotta figure out how to make that work. i still think their window to win titles isn't closed with maybe one big piece and a key bench player (lol that's most teams, i guess, doomed to the middle of the pack now).

Cuz he fouled Brad Miller's face and hard enough that Miller ended up looking like John Merrick as he was taking his free throws.

― Alex in SF, Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:30 AM

i didn't like that play and felt bad for miller. he looked super-bummed in the bulls huddle after he missed both fts

really seemed like a ref had it out for ray allen last night, some real regular season calls that have no business in the playoffs

did howard get suspended yet

though i'm not really sure why people want that rondo foul to be flagrant

because it was? and because the refs were already reviewing the play anyway? because miller was still dazed when shooting what would've been the game tying ft in ot of a tight-as-can-be series?

yeah i reviewed the def of flagrant and u guys are right