NBA: Playoff Time

Yeah tonight, we got a vintage Manu performance, and S Jax coming in and making life hard for KD.

I really thought that we might see Dejuan Blair, since he has done well against OKC all year. But Tiago Splitter (in my best Stephen A. Smith/Daffy Duck voice) was huge with his effort to start the fourth quarter, airballed freethrows aside.

OKC had every chance tonight. The Spurs were thrown off by their length and quickness and athleticism. It was a gritty win by a team that hadn't really had to fight too hard for the last six weeks.

I said before that I thought OKC could win 4 games against my Spurs, but they really needed this one tonight.

Adjustments are what wins playoff series, and Pop does that as well as anyone ever. Spurs in 6...

PS, Tonight reminded me of how I STILL HATE DEREK FISHER...

That is one I can't get how anyone could hate, even when he was with the Lakers I had respect for him plus maybe you don't know want his family has been through with his daughter.
 
They were certainly the beneficiaries of the most obvious fix ever. In that Kings series the people who thought it was on the level were the conspiracy theorists.

That Sacramento series was blatantly obvious that it was fixed, and the Kings still about won.
 
Magic fan.

What's that got to do with anything? I've live in Chicago for 11 years. I'm supposed to be a jerkoff Miami bandwagoner or I can't comment on an obvious slanted officiating job?

Sorry but any rational person saw a 4-5 point swing gifted to Miami by the officials in that first half. If you don't see that, your basketball opinions are pretty worthless.

I like how you are the only one that's ever rational. Must be convenient. Please help the rest of us peons see the light.
 
Somebody needs to shove those whistles up the refs *****.

Battier is a MASTER of baiting players into technicals. I'm not saying Rondo isn't a puke and hothead, he is, but look how far out of bounds they were with Battier still pushing him out. Frankly watching the replay the officials should have just told both players to chill out. Rondo's reaction was no different than Battier's ridiculous out of bounds dead ball box out.

I've seen Battier draw a technical 3 times just in the playoffs, and he's a bench player...and I doubt I've even watched half their games.

It's a useful skill to have and I'm sure one of the reasons he's out there.
 
I like how you are the only one that's ever rational. Must be convenient. Please help the rest of us peons see the light.

I'm not the only one who is rational. Who said that?

I said if you couldn't see the slant in that first half you're irrational. Sorry if you count yourself in that group.

I even mentioned I thought Miami has been officiated very well until the first half of tonight's game.
 
Battier is a MASTER of baiting players into technicals. I'm not saying Rondo isn't a puke and hothead, he is, but look how far out of bounds they were with Battier still pushing him out. Frankly watching the replay the officials should have just told both players to chill out. Rondo's reaction was no different than Battier's ridiculous out of bounds dead ball box out.

I've seen Battier draw a technical 3 times just in the playoffs, and he's a bench player...and I doubt I've even watched half their games.

It's a useful skill to have and I'm sure one of the reasons he's out there.

I didn't really have a problem with that call, rather the volume of the calls for both teams although Boston has more of a complaint. It got a little better in the second half of the 3rd quarter but that first part there was a foul called on every frickin trip both ways.
 
I think this Bill Simmons tweet says everything:

"Lebron was tremendous tonight. Miami missed 15-16 wide open threes and still won by double digits. Not a good sign for the Celts."
 
5 games, tops, and that's only if Miami gets complacent for game 3 or something.

This seems very accurate to me.

Chicago and Indiana were always going to be the toughest outs for them in the East. When the injuries happened to Chi the Indiana series effectively became a conference finals. People who watch a lot of NBA knew that Pacers series would be a good one even if the average fan laughed them off.

OKC/SA is harder to guess. SA has to cool off at some point, and like Miami, OKC has two legitimate elite scorers. Spurs probably still win but I could see that being an exciting 6 game or 7 game series.

Boston had a small window, they capitalized to the fullest, but they've been holding on for a while now after it closed.
 
I think this Bill Simmons tweet says everything:

"Lebron was tremendous tonight. Miami missed 15-16 wide open threes and still won by double digits. Not a good sign for the Celts."

Boston's "Big 3" are not the players they were and the Boston bench isn't good enough to create a mismatch with Miami's weak bench like a few teams around the league can.

Indiana was able to expose Miami's role players with their depth, I think Boston is going to make them look like All Stars, they did tonight at times.
 
I didn't mean to distract from the Fisher hate. I hate that guy, especially the flopping and that goofy-looking jumper.


In all reality, Manu is the game's biggest flopper.

But last night showed why he is one of the top 3 closers in the game as well.
 
That is one I can't get how anyone could hate, even when he was with the Lakers I had respect for him plus maybe you don't know want his family has been through with his daughter.


First, it has nothing to do with his daughter. I am Spurs fan. When it was even rumored that he might sign with the Spurs after kobe dumped him again I started getting a sick feeling.

I really lost respect for him the way he did the Jazz. He was under contract for another year, and he cried to their management about how his daughter needed care that could only be provided in New York City. He wanted to look for an East Coast team to play for...

The NBA gave the lakers Gasoft and low and behold, they found a doctor in LA to treat their daughter.

What made it even worse, was that the pr ******** that the nba did for the lakers. The league in their own corrupt way actually pr d against one of their own teams. Jazz fans were rightfully ****** that he mislead their management, and their management actually took the sob at his word. So they start inferring about liliy white morman country...It was terrible and disgraceful.

That is why we all need to thank the Cleveland owner for making the bryants look so bad this offseason they couldn't make the Kwame Brown for CP3 AND Dwight Howard trade this year.
 
Spurs are damn good. Can't help think that there are some no-calls that the Thunder should be going to the line for though. Exciting series so far. Also, KD needs to shoot wayyyyy more
 

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