09 playoffs thread

If Denver loses this series it is safe to say that it will be because they are piss-poor at side out of bounds plays (and Lakers are good at defending them, but still. . .)

Fuck bitching about Kobe's facial hijinks. He was awesome this game.

billups's leadership wasn't there in the second half, what with him trying to find his shot and all

trying to compensate for carmelo's disappearance, i suppose

like, okay here is you inbound a ball: instead of having your players run off screens directly in line with the 6' 10" man standing in front of the inbounder, run your point guard away from your basket, across half court, not directly in line with the 6' 10" man standing in front of the inbounder, until it is safe to inbound the ball

george karl must want to punch walls after these games

nuggs fans must want to punch george karl after these games

Yeah I don't get how you take a time out and then run basically the EXACT same play they just completely shutdown!?!?! Jesus George wtf.

Fuck the good guy shit! <3 villains

stern has spoken.

kenyon martin is a fucking retard - maybs he shouldn't be playing in the last minute of games? tonight he: launched a ball off the backboard from 3 ft away on a shot attempt that he shouldn't have attempted, wasted a time out on an inbounds play, threw the ball away to the other team on the subsequent play, unnecessarily fouled kobe bryant thus effectively ending the game

let's pick someone else to play, just a thought - also another: draw up an inbounds play that doesn't fail

Yeah I don't get how you take a time out and then run basically the EXACT same play they just completely shutdown!?!?! Jesus George wtf.

― Alex in SF, Saturday, May 23, 2009 10:36 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

^^seriously - this is like the basic of the basic and it transcends basketball

when they were showing melo on the bench after he fouled out his disdain was so apparent that he might as well have written "i am surrounded by incompetence" on his headband

let's pick someone else to play, just a thought

barack obama?

CHANGE

I thought Melo's expression looked like he was as pissed off with himself as anything else. He totally disappeared in the second half (mostly because of stupid fouls on his part, but still.)

karl trying to put a brave face on at the podium, but sounding pretty spent

fuck obama imo

you gotta love ariza. yes, you.

kobe is ballin daaaaam

jr smith stfu plz

horrible defense on that play - i get that the shot clock is winding down and you don't want to foul kobe when he's shooting a three but how you let him take that shot with a direct, uncontested look at the basket is beyond me

if the lakers are winning at the end of game 4 what are the chances of the PA guy playing "rape me"

is it too late in the season to fire george karl? if the nuggets could hire avery johnson, or any other coach that is capable of drawing up an inbounding play, that would make me pretty happy.

lebron's gonna score at least 45 tonight, just has that look imo

lol @ lebron taunting the crowd with the baby powder

Ball don't lie, LBJ

yeah ball aint lied all night, eerie. dwight got robbed of a killer block

regardless of what happens in this game, the cavs need to get one more athletic swingman this offseason. they need to pry marion or j rich or john salmons away or something.

God this game was awful.

pietris shadowing lebron was impressive, though

whoa how long has lamar odom been growing chops?

Kobe: Doin' Mean Underbite

jvg is on fire tonight

dog care advice and renaming jr smith "smitty" and it's not even halftime yet

melo needs crutches today

jvg strait fellatin the purplengold

how u call that loose ball a foul

jvg is always camped out on kobels nutsac

and man dahntey u fule cmon

does anybody else get the sense that jvg would probably strenuously deny that man has ever landed on the moon or what have you if given a chance a mic and a soapbox?

absolutely white house press sec material

7 technicals is arbitrary but 9 isn't? stfu van gundy

SMITTY

walton got t'd for having a grateful dead tat

luv kobe v random defensive minded role player beef - he just gets so incredulous - i hope they take it to the octagon

karls got 4 assts drawing up inbounds rite now

kobe v denver time