09 playoffs thread

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

Jameer looks so peaceful.

anthony johnson seems to be clutching his nuts and pretending he's retarded, as usual

I'm really hoping tonight's game is a good one. I missed Sunday's due to a party for my wife's birthday (not complaining, just saying), and I missed the third quarter of Game One due to unforeseen idiocy on the part of who I was watching it with.

I'll take an LA win either way, though.

looks like you'll get one

i turned this on for a second and heard "BATTIE BRINGS A SPARK OFF THE BENCH" and considered turning it off

<3<3<3 dwight and loving "finding nemo" <3<3<3

haha yes^

stan van has grown on me. find myself enjoying his hoarse exhortations.

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

― collardio gelatinous, Sunday, June 7, 2009 10:45 PM

that he did. *s*

best half of the series so far

and my desire for the magic to win has acquired the flavor of a childlike yearning

how do I myp2p

orlando mental breakdowns in the final minutes here

lewis from midtown

ugh at these refs

bullshit call on dwight

^_______^

ha @ confetti w/ game still goin'

confetti!

great game but holy shit the magic have to shoot over 60 percent to beat LA

alright i think all those worst series ever claims can be put to rest, both teams were shooting over 60 pct well into the third quarter, much better ball movement by orlando and (yes) they started to hit their shots. just glad this isnt going to be a sweep

it's hard to imagine orlando a)playing better than that or b)playing that well for three more games

it's hard to imagine orlando a)playing better than that or b)playing that well for three more games

Or the Lakers shooting that poorly from the line. Ugh. Kobe: Hit your f-ing shots, dude.

big shots man, kobe/rest of team switched mojo at the half, he was bobbling the ball and even missed a pretty easy layup for him. i like how you can just about tell whether or not rashard's shot is going in before he even brings it above his waist. and the only thing i like about an orl win is it means stan van gundy is 'on' during the press conference afterwards, dude got jokes