09 playoffs thread

in other news: jj redick!

i'm cool with that. xp

turk!!

lee blew it

i think he got fouled, but still, how do you not get the ball to rashard???

or to hedo ?

wow @ the replay of that block, jeez turko.

kobe blocked by TURKOGLOL

nice block, hedo.

ariza's arms are like 20 ft long

GET IT TO JJ!!!!!!!

wurst finals ever btw

^ how quickly we forget the spurs vs the nets

maybe after this series is over i will poll 00's finals.

mark jackson used up his "not on my watch!" quota

damn that would have been a highlight for the ages

oh lee

magic need to win tonight

lakeshow pulling away here

http://members.graphicsfactory.com/clip-art/image_files/tn_image/2/1313572-tn_TombStone001_92007.jpg magic

nah, redick giving it away xp

man the lakers are playing great D right now.

dwight howard needs to be way more aggressive

he needs more than 10 shots a game, that's for sure.

is he even asking for the ball?

dammit

incredibly annoying game.

would help if he had any sort of clue abt moving in the post--dude got stripped multiple times down there.

7 turnovers!

bynum only played 16 minutes, so that means pau's on howard for most of the game. now according to official measurements gasol is 260 and howard is 265 but i find that hard to believe. seems like howard could push pau around/just out-muscle the guy. i guess if he had a more diverse post game? i don't really know what the solution with howard is.

xp

yeah absolutely. it would also help if he made his post move sooner. how many times does he stand there waiting for the lakers d to set before he makes his first step? xxp

howard doesn't have much of a post game at all yet.

this is the big unspoken thing about howard--dude is never going to develop the post game ppl are envisioning for him.

how do you know?

Kobe: "We have to literally be inside their jerseys when they shoot the basketball."

xp i was reading simmons i think and he was otm about this--post moves are something you kind of either get intuitively or you don't.

"there's something joyless about this series, is it just me?"

howard obviously has a lot to work on but give credit to the lakers - theyre not letting him get shots off at all, fouling him hard and often and making him go 1-2 from the line every time.

lakers def doing their job.

oh and btw the joylessness comes from the fact that the one and only interesting story in this series is whether or not kobe Gets His

and whether phil passes red

the "adam morrison is going to get a ring" storyline is pretty interesting to me.

(a more parochial concern, obv) xp

haha yes adam morrison

wheres his halftime exposé dammit

Rashard Lewis and Hedo are dope, imo.

got a taste of what to expect in orlando. hedo played some good defense imo. kobe has no fear though. after masterminding the end of the denver series he went back to brute force in game 1 and a long period of tentative 'playmaking' in this game, snapping out of it just in time and going for his. i think he's gonna destroy game 3. big lo

so many bad calls on both sides

kobe got a couple all-star calls late but it wasn't too one-sided...have to expect the home team to get the calls

the nba is under fire i don't think we can expect anything other than this slow ticky tack bs

yoink!

http://a.espncdn.com/media/apphoto/eb3d0991-37a7-4439-9e6e-8e7ceb9f2ec4.jpg

^best play of the game, imo