09 playoffs thread

kobe vs lebron plzzzzzzzzzzz

Kobe vs. whatever beat-up team limps out of the ECF

kobe vs lebron in the finals

cavs champz

WHO DA CHAMPS ???

voet^

celts-cavs yesterday was a terrifying vision of what might happen in the ecf, including lebron drawing a foul in the 1st quarter with a whistle blown before there was even any contact

dude is just going to barrel his way to the line 10-15 times a game ala wade in 06

mind you i still think he's unstoppable this year even if the refs never bail him out

1st round pixxxxxx

CLE v DET - King James
LA v UT - Jazz (LOL)
BOS v CHI - Celtix
DEN v NO - Nawlins
ORL v PHI - Fuck Philly
SA v DAL - Spurs
POR v HOU - Blazers
ATL v MIA - ATLiens

CLE v DET - cavs duh
LA v UT - lakes
BOS v CHI - celts but chicago might be scary - rondo vs rose will be O_O
DEN v NO - nuggz
ORL v PHI - superman
SA v DAL - spurs
POR v HOU - portland, yall getting waxed by the lake show tho
ATL v MIA - wade is gonna beast these fuckers

CLE v DET - the cleve
LA v UT - lakeshow
BOS v CHI - celtic
DEN v NO - hornitz
ORL v PHI - disney
SA v DAL - cuban
POR v HOU - go team!
ATL v MIA - heat in seven.

CLE v DET - GAYvaliers
LAL v UTA - GAYkers
BOS v CHI - seventy-SUXors
DEN v NOH - horNUTs
ORL v PHI - FAGic
SAS v DAL - maverICKs
POR v HOU - THE BEST FUCKING TEAM THAT IS BETTER THAN THE FUCKIN ROCKETS
ATL v MIA - hawks i guess i dunno

HENRY ABBOTT: You know what's stuck in my mind? Out of Nuggets, Spurs, Mavericks, and Hornets, someone is going to make the Western Conference Finals. Could be any of them.

^^ that's really weird, all things considered.

I'm hoping for Rockets vs. Spurs

and Pistons vs. Celtics.

Just to fuck with David Stern. and have 80 point games.

CLE v DET - Cleveland
LA v UT - Lakerz
BOS v CHI - Celtiks
DEN v NO - Denver
ORL v PHI - Orlandoooo
SA v DAL - Dallas
POR v HOU - Houston
ATL v MIA - Atlanta

what I'm hoping for probably isn't possible. I haven't looked at the brackets yet after tonight. I am pissed at the Rockets, because if you can't even beat the Mavericks, what is the point.

I don't want Kobe vs. Lebron because that is all I've heard all season, and I'm sick of it.

CLE v DET - Cleveland, 5
LA v UT - Lakers, 4
BOS v CHI - Celtics, 5
DEN v NO - Denver, 5
ORL v PHI - Orlando, 5
SA v DAL - Dallas, 6
POR v HOU - Houston, 7
ATL v MIA - Atlanta, 7

cleve 4
lakes 5
c's 5
nuggs 6
magic 5
sa 7
port 7
mia 7

CLE v DET - GAYvaliers
LAL v UTA - GAYkers
BOS v CHI - seventy-SUXors
DEN v NOH - horNUTs
ORL v PHI - FAGic
SAS v DAL - maverICKs
POR v HOU - THE BEST FUCKING TEAM THAT IS BETTER THAN THE FUCKIN ROCKETS
ATL v MIA - hawks i guess i dunno

― josephcharles, Thursday, April 16, 2009 2:04 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

blold call

THE BEST FUCKING TEAM THAT IS BETTER THAN THE FUCKIN ROCKETS

GAYzers?

CLE v DET - cavs in 5
LA v UT - lakers in 4
BOS v CHI - celtics in 5
DEN v NO - nola in 6
ORL v PHI - magic in 6
SA v DAL - spurs in 7
POR v HOU - blazers in 7
ATL v MIA - heat in 6

fyi dudes GARNETT IS OUT for the playoffs :(((((((((((

c's still beat chi imo even tho they hav been rolling - after that rip celtics tho

^^

curious to see what kind of heroic shit pp is going to pull out his ass

i was hoping maybe kg would pull the wheelchair stunt this time around

maybe they could coordinate something where pierce leaves the court on stretcher then returns from the locker room a few minutes later RIDING ON KGS SHOULDERS

:D

23, 24, Cs, billups, dwight, spurs, blaze, heat

last one probably wishful thinking.

wade is mega dangerous and beasley has been beastly lately - close series imo

CLE v DET - cavs in 4
LAL v UTA - lakers in 5
BOS v CHI - celtics in 5
DEN v NO - hornets in 7
ORL v PHI - magic in 5
SA v DAL - spurs in 6
POR v HOU - blazers in 6
ATL v MIA - heat in 7

http://i41.tinypic.com/4rb4v4.jpg

beasleys 5 games since starting - pretty much in line w/his per minute averages from the last month or so too

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/gamelog?playerId=3418

22/5 in 19mins - 23/13 in 23mins O_O

i don't think wade is losing to the hawks

btw beasley is enjoying a better stretch than roy heir apparent derick rose had all year - while i agree w/everyone that hes gonna be v good one thing people are missing is that rose is not a pure point - everyone is totally overrating his distributing abilities - his assist rate is at a combo guard level - billupsesque - he did get a fair amount of assists this year but thats just cause he always always has the ball

so people are kinda imagining a bigger more athletic chris paul but rose will never have nearly the point skill paul does while paul does have ridic shooting guard scoring capabilities - and its that multiple elite skills that marks nba offensive superstardom - cause opposing Ds basically cant prepare - they take away yr best thing and youve got another best thing waiting - not sure rose is gonna get there

beasley on the other hand shooting/driving/posting/rebounding hmmmm

CLE v DET - cavs in 4
LAL v UTA - lakers in 5
BOS v CHI - celtics in 7 (w/out Garnett they are fucked)
DEN v NO - hornets in 6
ORL v PHI - magic in 5
SA v DAL - mavs in 6
POR v HOU - blazers in 7
ATL v MIA - heat in 6

dudes picking the mavs over spurs = u mad

blold call

― ice cr?m, Thursday, April 16, 2009 6:12 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Celtics w/o Garnett are very beatable, but I'm rethinking that after seeing the 76ers lose to a could-not-care-less Celtics and needing OT to beat the Cavs' scrubs. If the Celtics were playing a team that gave even just the tiniest crap about winning they'd be in trouble - lucky for them the Sixers ain't it.

the celtics arent playing the sixers tho

LOL

S-M-R-T

I blame The Basketball Jones.

CLE v DET - cavs (.800 vs .475, says it all y'know)
LAL v UTA - lakers (a sloan-coached team will play tough, but...c'mon)
BOS v CHI - celtics (pierce still has some good chops left)
DEN v NO - denver (NO not playing its best ball as playoffs start, while denver's been hot)
ORL v PHI - magic (sixers succumb to the dwight howard effect)
SA v DAL - san antonio (spurs won't get far, but they'll get past the mavs)
POR v HOU - blazers (adelman-coached team will play tough, but blazer 3's will take 'em down)
ATL v MIA - heat (in a close series)

(a sloan-coached team will play tough, but...c'mon)

if okur is playing it won't look like last tuesday but i saw deron kinda lose faith the other day when he realized he needed to basically drive in on every play for them to be competitive (like last year, but back then it seemed like one of many options). they're tough but 48 minutes of scoring is hard to come by there.

im quite disappointed in the jazz this year - feel like even tho they did get healthy at the end of the year all those injuries killd their flow

barkley otm the other night saying that this team(utah) doesn't possess their coaches personality.

boozer wd srsly be pissing me off as a jazz fan tho, i've had to put up with LO for 5 years but that fool is ridiculous

i kinda feel like the league is passing sloan by - like why do his teams still foul so much when everyone else has figured out its pretty much the worst thing u can do

The Jazz should probably start from scratch, I think. Let Boozer go, trade Kirilenko, and start with a young core with a new owner, a great PG, and a dynamic new coach.

boozer doesnt play too much D but when hes healthy hes a beast in every other way - problem: never healthy - not so much his fault - and prince painting a purple stripe around his house is one of my fav news stories ever

if u paird cbooze w/a strong defensive center itd be a much better fit than his current scenario - also his name is the most hilarious imo - carlos boozer - its just perfect i dunno

Boozer + Howard would be dynamite.

simmons' column otm imo

better counterfactual than kg: would yao have beat LA? I kinda think yes

simmons nailed it

all there in one article, something to be said for that

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-simers-lakers15-2009jun15,0,4342696.column

here u guys can have this dude gratis. hates phil > kobe > the lakers in that order. has had to sit through 4 big ones, 'simering'. cracking up over here

So glad the "Chinese Magic Johnson" won an NBA chip.

Him and MENGKE BATEER are officially better than Yao now.

wow, that was a killer simmons column.

Did they bring him out to make the Maloofs feel better about themselves as overmatched legacy kids? Has he ever been discreetly stared at by a bunch of country club workers and had one of them say, "Fifty bucks says the Buss kid picks his nose."

link to simmons on kobe for ILH archival purposes:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090616&sportCat=nba

so because phil isn't fired up with rage/veins bulging out of his forehead he is "above it all"? pathetic. and what's with bitching about the parade? i hate parades in general, but shit like this:

How many people give it their all every day in their jobs, every year until retirement, 30, 40 and 50 years, with no chance of a parade -- as determined as Kobe, as focused as Kobe, as accomplished as Phil?

wtf does this have to do with the lakers specifically? i'd expect that from someone who doesn't watch sports, but not this guy

ok, sb away

I don’t really care if the laker players all hate each other,if they are all fake and they don’t celebrate like people think they were supposed to. maybe cedric ceballos, eddie jones and elden Campbell all loved each other but they sucked and I still watched all their games. So fuck simmons and any other hack trying to take anything away from the lakers the world champion LAKERS!!!

After the incredibly over-the-top celebration by the Celtics, almost anything would seem low-key by comparison.

I remember when the Lakers won their third of the Shaq era. They barely celebrated at all. By that standard, this was a fucking jubilee.

basketball is dumb

has this been posted yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5iXjWb3egQ

look here's the thing about why the nba is horrid

every year when the playoffs begin i am like FUCK YEAH THIS OWNS SO HARD I LOVE BBALL THIS IS SO GLORIOUS ;_; and by the end of the postseason the spurs or the lakers have won again and it's basically like the ending of chinatown when john houston gets to rape his lil incestbaby granddaughter and jack nicholson cant do shit about it, it's awful. the only finals of the last decade that didn't infuriate me (ok i was neutral re: heat-mavs) were last year's and whenever the pistons sonned LA

otm :(

It sucks that the Lakers won. In the past 10 years, aside from the Lakers and Spurs, only the Celtics, Heat and Pistons won the championship (one year apiece).

why nba sux

exhibit A:

http://www.everyjoe.com/nbaobsessed/files/2007/10/david_stern.jpg

I agree that the biggest problem with the NBA is that if you build a dominant team (or in the Lakers/Celtics cases manage to steal enough players to build a dominant team) that it takes a lot of the drama out of the thing. But that's not really Stern's fault. Other than the 70s that's basically the way the NBA has been since its inception.

Dynasties can be cool, so long as the dynasty is a team I like.

The second biggest problem with the NBA is that Lakers/Celtics have won so damn much. I totally sympathize with anyone hating both these teams.

carne asada, (xxxposts) i'm with you on the inanity of celebration-self-righteousness, but dunno about your simmons comment. i mean, if the guy was trying to take away from the lakers, he failed epically: in the course of his article he anoints kobe as an NBA god (what he accomplished in the past 20 months ranks up there with anything that ever happened in the nba), calls gasol the second-best center, fisher "a terrific leader and character guy", and jackson the greatest coach ever. his main beef is with certain prevalent media narratives about WHY kobe and the lakers won (unselfishness, learned to love one another, etc...).

now the simers piece on the other hand, is total hater hack job.

the only finals of the last decade that didn't infuriate me (ok i was neutral re: heat-mavs) were last year's and whenever the pistons sonned LA

Oh, you mean last year when the team with the most titles in NBA history won again? That was a refreshing change from the norm.

I bet you will enjoy it when the Yankees win again this year you SON OF A BITCH. ;-)

Looking at the list of the best players to play for the Celtics/Lakers and realizing how many of them were just flat out stolen from other teams (or from draft picks thieved from other teams) is amazing:

Lakers: Wilt, Kareem, Magic, Worthy, O'Neal, Bryant, Gasol

Celtics: Russell, Jones, Bird, Parrish, McHale, Garnett

never ban cankles

Yeah, I would have zero problem with a new Celtics dynasty tbh. The Spurs and Lakers are just two of the most odious teams I can even imagine, albeit in different ways. Lakers don't really need explaining, they are just loathsome in a visceral and personal way, everything about them makes me sneer w/disgust; with the Spurs it's more about the poisonously boring, awful brand of basketball they play. I have hella respect for Popovich and some of their players (including Duncan even though he is the most horrible-to-watch great player ever) in a way that I can't even muster for the Lakers. Actually, just thinking about this is almost making me nostalgic for the days of Spurs domination, a sentiment that fills me w/self loathing like the gay dad in American Beauty ;_;

Oh, you mean last year when the team with the most titles in NBA history won again? That was a refreshing change from the norm.

I bet you will enjoy it when the Yankees win again this year you SON OF A BITCH. ;-)

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:12 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'm a celtix fan u homo

tho actually i was just wondering about this - could i have rooted for that same team if they were wearing purple and gold? I think I really would've been able to somewhat, at least if phil jackson wasn't involved - i just love ray allen and kg that dang much and it would've been gratifying to see them win like that on any team, but it was just better by magnitudes that it ended with the celtics cornholing the lakers

Nothing could inspire me to root for the Celtics. My hatred of their laundry was ingrained from such a young age. Whereas I don't even want to like the Lakers, but I almost can't help myself from rooting for them. Fandom is a strange thing.

yeah i hate the lakers with a passion, kobe's gameface underbite was terrible, much-beloved derek fisher seems like a dbag imo, i could go on

really beyond a bulls championship i would have loved nothing more than to see yao and artest smiling and clutching the trophy this year but oh well

yeah, it's funny but i was watching the rockets lakers series with more interest than any of the hawks' series - was pullin for those dudes p hard

btw

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e281/guitarfella14/001-1.jpg

i demand an underbite pic!

lets do this, most interesting teams of the 2000s (since its officially in the books) NOT to win a championship:

05-08 phoenix suns (rip ssol)
05 and 06 mavericks, the natural suns nemesis and sorry lol dirk u lose to spurs again
07 golden state (a+ cinderella of the decade, would believe again)
09 rockets (lol mcgrady out of first round)

and...?

06 heat officially NOT interesting unless u love bennet salvatore, 04 pistons mildly fun for sheed buying wwf style championship belts and smacking the desperate lakers

http://homepage.mac.com/cheilman1/images/photos/alpacas/underbite.jpg

xp

http://i44.tinypic.com/6zwsxt.jpg

oh now that is just gross

kobe spacing out there imagining how shaq's ass taste

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

http://i43.tinypic.com/30lnbxx.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Cave_troll.jpg

hi cankles!

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd110/tripl3_a/Kobitch-2.gif

http://i39.tinypic.com/t6ax53.gif

highlights of ur '09 champs

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd110/tripl3_a/KOBEOWNED.gif

missed that play; very dope

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nation_desperately_seeks