The 2009/2010 NBA Season Thread

[Eazy E]

Shaq won with Cleveland. 

I just came on to laugh at faldor a little bit.

I assume he meant Miami.

[faldor]

Shaq won with Cleveland. 

I just came on to laugh at faldor a little bit.

I assume he meant Miami.

Yeah, I did.  My bad. Obviously Shaq is nowhere near the player he used to be.  I didn't mean to insinuate he did anything good with Cleveland.  I think they were actually a worse team with him on the floor.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Shaq won with Cleveland. 

I just came on to laugh at faldor a little bit.

I assume he meant Miami.

Give a little gust of wind and I'm jettin'.

Shaq won with Cleveland. 

I just came on to laugh at faldor a little bit.

I assume he meant Miami.

Yeah, I did.  My bad. Obviously Shaq is nowhere near the player he used to be.  I didn't mean to insinuate he did anything good with Cleveland.  I think they were actually a worse team with him on the floor.

I agree on all points there.

[faldor]

Shaq won with Cleveland. 

I just came on to laugh at faldor a little bit.

I assume he meant Miami.

Give a little gust of wind and I'm jettin'.

Shaq won with Cleveland. 

I just came on to laugh at faldor a little bit.

I assume he meant Miami.

Yeah, I did.  My bad. Obviously Shaq is nowhere near the player he used to be.  I didn't mean to insinuate he did anything good with Cleveland.  I think they were actually a worse team with him on the floor.

I agree on all points there.

And I believed that from the start.  Lots of people thought that was a great move, but I just didn't say how it made them any better.  Same with Orlando basically swapping Hedo Turkoglu for Vince Carter.  Vince has actually done a pretty good job with the Magic, but I just think they were such a better team and tougher matchup (at least for the C's) with Turkoglu.

Should the Magic bother to even show up for game 4?  It doesn't seem like they showed up for game 3, so why start now?  I know some 3-0 series deficits have been overcome recently.  2 Boston ties, with the Sox coming back against the Yanks and the Bruins choking it to the Flyers.  But I just can't see this series turning around.

[w.axl.rose]

amare stoudemire had a lucky game today.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Garry sez:

Boston puts up their 18th banner in the fall of 2010.

[Eazy E]

GO SUNS!

[faldor]

GO SUNS!

I had a dream last week that the Celtics would be playing the Suns in the finals.  I think that's how the dream went at least.  It was either that or I was having a debate in my dream as to which team I'd rather face, if the Celtics are able to finish off the Magic.

Will all this Phil Jackson drama be a distraction to the Lakers?  I still don't see how it's legal for an NBA team to talk to a coach who's already a) under contract and b) still coaching in the playoffs.  That just doesn't seem right to me.  Especially after Mark Cuban got fined for saying he'd be interested in obtaining Lebron through a sign and trade.  At least Lebron's season is over and is a free agent to be.  Seems contradictory to me.

[faldor]

Okay, I'm officially worried about the Celtics now.  They got blown out tonight and were completely outplayed for the second game in a row.  However, that's the least of their problems.  Kendrick Perkins got T'd up twice and was ejected from the game early in the second half.  The second technical was utterly ridiculous and should really be rescinded.  However, IF it's not, he'll be suspended for game 6 since it's his 7th tech of the playoffs.  If that's not enough, Glen Davis left the game with a concussion in the second half and look all sorts of disoriented.  Minutes later Marquis Daniels suffered the same fate.  Now Daniels isn't a huge deal since he hardly ever plays.  He was basically just playing because Perk was out and they were forced to go with a smaller lineup.  But IF they don't have Perkins AND Davis for game 6 they will be severely undermanned.  You'd have to give the Magic a huge upper hand in that scenario to send the series back to Orlando for a game 7.

So what looked like a cake walk after the first 3 games has turned into anything but.

[D]

The Sports Gods have come to Boston to collect on letting the Red Sox come back from 0-3

Boston Bruins.. now Celtics?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[D]

WHY IN THE FUCK

would a coach leave his best player on the bench till a little over 3 mins left in a MUST WIN CLOSE OUT GAME?

that has to be the dumbest coaching shit i've ever seen!

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Going to game 1 again this year, "lol."

[faldor]

Any predictions for the finals?  As a Celtic fan, I'd like to say I think they'll win, and they very well may.  My only worry is, they may need to win at least 2 games in LA because they haven't been very dominant at home this season.  They actually had a better road record than home in the regular season.  So far in the post-season they're 7-2 at home, 5-3 on the road but they've lost a home game in each of the last 2 series.  So IF that trend continues and the Lakers steal a game in Boston they'd have to win 2 in LA.  With the 2-3-2 setup Boston would pretty much HAVE to be up 3-2 when they head back to LA to have a chance.

I'd say if the C's win, they do it in 6 and if LA wins, it's in 7.  But ultimately, I'm going C's in 6.

[D]

Pau Gasol fears angry black men.. KG terrifies Pau

Celts in 6

[w.axl.rose]

lakers in 6

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Celdicks in 4.

Bryant goes down with an injury in the second quarter of game 1.

[fito_gnr]

it's pay back time!!
first it was the suns and now the celtics...
With one more ring in kobe's hand maybe 20 years from now this era will be remembered as the kobe bryant's era... u know 5 or 7 rings, 81 point performance etc, etc.

GO LAKERS!!!

[Ignatius]

Pau Gasol fears angry black men.. KG terrifies Pau

Celts in 6

...And you still live in 2008!

That happened two years ago. In the mean time, the lakers won a championship - with Gasol. He's the main reason why the lakers have actually been in contention all these three years (says Bryant, Odom and Jackson). His addition provided the lakers the edge they needed to take their game into another level.

BTW, Gasol totally outplayed another black man (Howard) in last year's final, but I guess Dwight wasn't angry enough?? 


Lakers will win probably in 6. Reason why is simply because this series is a no match up for them. Jackson's concern should be how to stop Rondo and Pierce. The Celtics  big men don't stand a chance against' the lakers big guys. KG is old and won't average more than 13 and 7. If the lakers are able to play hard defense on rondo and pierce so they don't combine for more than 40 points on each game, this series will be over in 5.

[D]

Dwight Howard isn't intimidating, he dances and smiles and is religious. But yeah, Orlando should've won last year and blew it with dumb coaching moves and Courtney Lee blowing a layup

KG talks trash and is physical and Rasheed is a thug and Perkins is rough. Pau is soft as Charmin toilet paper.

[faldor]

Pau Gasol fears angry black men.. KG terrifies Pau

Celts in 6

...And you still live in 2008!

That happened two years ago. In the mean time, the lakers won a championship - with Gasol. He's the main reason why the lakers have actually been in contention all these three years (says Bryant, Odom and Jackson). His addition provided the lakers the edge they needed to take their game into another level.

BTW, Gasol totally outplayed another black man (Howard) in last year's final, but I guess Dwight wasn't angry enough?? 


Lakers will win probably in 6. Reason why is simply because this series is a no match up for them. Jackson's concern should be how to stop Rondo and Pierce. The Celtics  big men don't stand a chance against' the lakers big guys. KG is old and won't average more than 13 and 7. If the lakers are able to play hard defense on rondo and pierce so they don't combine for more than 40 points on each game, this series will be over in 5.

Well you seem confident, and that's good.  A few things though.  Granted KG isn't quite as good as he was 2 years ago before he got injured, but he's playing A LOT better during the playoffs then he did all season long.  He's nearly back to his old self, so I wouldn't be so quick to think Pau and company will trample over him.  And admittedly the Lakers have a good frontcourt with a lot of size, but the C's are no slouches in that area with KG, Davis, Wallace, and Perkins.  I hear Bynum's draining of his knee didn't work out so well and he's not going to be anywhere near 100%, so that may be a bit of a blow to the formidable frontcourt.

Don't forget about Ray Allen either, you didn't mention him at all.  He's still capable of catching fire and scoring 30 points on a given night.  So it's far from just Pierce and Rondo, and I honestly don't see how they shut down both those guys anyway.  Who's guarding them, Artest and Kobe?  Then who guards Ray?  There's going to be a mismatch somewhere regardless.  Two years ago Kobe roamed free and paid little attention to Rondo.  I'm not so sure they can play that way and have the same success this time around.