NBA: *** NBA Playoffs Thread V2.0 ***
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I have no idea what's going to happen. My guess is that the Heat are going to come out strong and try to bury the Pacers early. If Indy weathers that storm then it'll be another nailbiter. This series has major potential to become a seven game classic.
I agree. I can't really get a feel for what's going to happen in this series. As long as Battier continues to struggle with his shot, the Pacers win that battle of size vs floor spacing.
Indiana seems to go as Hibbert goes and Miami seems to go as Bosh/Battier/Haslem goes.
Stephenson and Paul George will be major factors too. Indy has to get more offensively from George, and when Stephenson is good he gives the Pacers just the right balance of tough and crazy.
Miami is just always so damn good coming off a loss. It seems like every time the fans and media try to bury them after a postseason loss they come come back with a blow the doors off sort of performance.
I'm not sure how any player in the playoffs can get a flopping fine without giving a few dozen fines to Shane Battier. He flops more often than those three players combined and he's a bench player, per minute throughout the season he probably flopped 20x more than any of those players. It's kind of like a lifetime achievement award for Battier that he's so good at fake falling backwards that they can't even fine him while they'll fine an MVP hall of famer for doing it once a game.
2013 NBA Playoffs - Indiana Pacers accuse Shane Battier of going for their knees - ESPN
My favorite quote from this article:
"In a perfect world, we'd all love to be stoic, immovable forces where the force of very large men throwing themselves into you doesn't affect you," Battier said. "Yeah, that'd be great. But unfortunately, there's a thing called physics involved that seems to win out more often than not."
Laughable. If I had access to gifs and videos through my work computer I'd run this quote against the neverending montage of Shane Battier's greatest "hits".
My favorite quote from this article:
"In a perfect world, we'd all love to be stoic, immovable forces where the force of very large men throwing themselves into you doesn't affect you," Battier said. "Yeah, that'd be great. But unfortunately, there's a thing called physics involved that seems to win out more often than not."
Laughable. If I had access to gifs and videos through my work computer I'd run this quote against the neverending montage of Shane Battier's greatest "hits".
What was the point of calling the flagrant 1 for West whacking Wade in the head at this point? Does it have any impact at all?
CycloneErik
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Flopping isn't the only Battier issue. That man has more mouth and cheap shot issues than a supercomputer can count.
If someone is getting chippy, Battier is there. If someone gets called for a cheap foul and they are surprised or ticked off, Battier is there.
This series is really doing a nice job of spotlighting Battier as an extremely dirty player.
Physics somehow affects Shane Battier differently than every other human on Earth, maybe he wears a flux capacitor under his jersey or something.
CycloneErik
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For just a second, it started to look like he died. That's really an impressive recovery.
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