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2012 NBA Playoffs |OT2| OKC VS LA: Black on Black Crime
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High-five.
you really think lakers is gonna stay they way it is for now? I still think the west is open....Lakers absolutely need to upgrade their bench.
Net_Wrecker
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What team was Shaq talking about? The Kobe/Gasol + Triangle Phil Lakers?
ryutaro's mama
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It's like you could literally change out Los Angeles for
1. Yankees
2. Manchester United
and it would still work!
The truth is, there is a large amount of "bandwagon" fans with all those teams but to blanket statement all the fans as bandwagoners is lulz.
Rookie trolling mistake.
I'll fully admit that's not even a basketball opinion. Oklahoma should not have any professional sports teams period. And then you take a great franchise and take them to frigging the worst state in the midwest? Literally where no one wanted to live? Yeah people will get a little salty.
I digress. Point has been made a thousand times.
Iron E Man
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Oh Westbrook you try to out do yourself every time.
RedAssedApe
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At least the attention is off Steve Blake and his family now. Pau Gasol doesn't have kids yet so its ok for these Twitter people to murder him. 
victreeb3l
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such dumbass fans
The NBA isn't the MLB or NFL. You can't just go out their and create a whole new roster in one offseason. Under Kobe Bryant, the Lakers most likely will not win another championship.
At least the attention is off Steve Blake and his family now. Pau Gasol doesn't have kids yet so its ok for these Twitter people to murder him.
He is probably used to it over the years.
remember snoop's dumbass comments?
ThisWreckage
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I may be wrong, but I think San Antonio would kill OKC in a series.
San Antonio is deeper, coached better, and everyone can shoot. I could see players like Diaw causing enormous match up issues for them.
San Antonio is deeper, coached better, and everyone can shoot. I could see players like Diaw causing enormous match up issues for them.
ryutaro's mama
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Are you a former Seattle fan?
Cause your point about no one wanting them there...yeah, I will freely admit that OKC has the best HCA in the playoffs, hands down.
There isn't even a close second.
Maybe the Grizz when they aren't shitting the bed?
Jordan wasn't liked that much either.
Shit, to this day Pippen still makes it obvious how much he hates him.
damn youre funny
i dont stalk your posts, i read the thread and reply to things
success can maintain cohesiveness when a team is dysfunctional, but a functional team will remain successful for longer, especially when success becomes elusive. are you literally saying that the lakers being better teammates wouldnt make a lot of this shit a nonissue
they literally constantly undermine one another during games. this does not breed prolonged success
your argument is confused and stupid, and youre again trying to deflect because your team got its ass beat in the present and youre holding on to the past. literally comparing a team whose main two assets were thirty years old to veritable babies and saying YEAH WELL WHY AINT THEY CHIP YET LIKE WE DID THREE YEARS AGO
and dropping the jordan rules as if it wasnt written in 1991, and pretending jeffery wasnt completely different as a person and a teammate after that
reeeeeaaach
ryutaro's mama
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You aren't wrong.
Pop is going to destroy Scotty Brooks.
It's not gonna be pretty.
Pop would have destroyed his old padwan, Mike Brown as well.
Net_Wrecker
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Oh man, I really hope Pau didn't pull a Steve Kerr and tell Kobe he's ready, THEN NOT TAKE THE SHOT.
Kobe will never trust him again.
Kobe will never trust him again.
Hahaha this can't be real. OKC loves that team. Why don't we just have it be the Lakers and the Celtics in the finals every year? The rest of the NBA is pretty much fly over country.
ElRenoRaven
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Shows how much you know. Oklahoma is a damn good place to live and most who live here are proud too and enjoy living here. Also way to judge a state you probably couldn't find on a map. I base that of course off you thinking Oklahoma is in the midwest.
Remember Mannywood? LOL. "Oh sweet, the Los Anegeles Kings are going to the Stanley Cup. Hey, lets all go to the mother fucking Kings game tonight." LOL. Los Angeles is an exclusive city for good teams only.
In New York the Knicks, Rangers, Jets, Giants sell out every game. Yankees are the most profitable baseball franchise year after year.
/rant
/whynotswag
Honestly i question the glasses the most in that picture
FrenchMovieTheme
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/whynotswag
lol durants actually didn't look half bad
The Chosen One
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Sure Kome and No-Balls Gasol share some blame. But I just can't help thinking Mike Brown is the true source of these late game Laker meltdowns. They're just so similar to the Cavs meltdowns 2-3 years ago.
Mike Brown just does a piss-poor job of player rotation (left Kobe in there too long tonight) and he doesn't know how to center his team and get them on plan when leads slip away.
I mean if you look at the Celtics, for the past 4 years they've had a penchant for blowing big leads in the 4th quarter. But Doc knows how to get his team back on plan and they usually can close out games regardless off how close they come to choking it away.
At some point when a team keeps blowing double digit leads, you gotta question either the coach's competency or his control over the team. I doubt MB has either. With the Laker's talent pool, a good coach won't allow that team to blow large late game leads in two playoff games in a series...
Mike Brown just does a piss-poor job of player rotation (left Kobe in there too long tonight) and he doesn't know how to center his team and get them on plan when leads slip away.
I mean if you look at the Celtics, for the past 4 years they've had a penchant for blowing big leads in the 4th quarter. But Doc knows how to get his team back on plan and they usually can close out games regardless off how close they come to choking it away.
At some point when a team keeps blowing double digit leads, you gotta question either the coach's competency or his control over the team. I doubt MB has either. With the Laker's talent pool, a good coach won't allow that team to blow large late game leads in two playoff games in a series...
Bam Bam Baklava
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Good god, at least Westbrook is pretty much going for the goofball look. Durant looks like he's actually serious wearing a blazer with a flower in it over a white t-shirt(?) and to top it all off a rosary. A Rosary....
Like I said before Ryan Gosling is definitely not walking through that door.
they pulled this exact garbage under phil for years though
its all about kobe's fake mental toughness, and his lack of leadership
it lets pussies like pau lose their damn minds
thinks shooting the ball and glaring at everyone is going to scare them into not fucking up, as if thats meant to bring your team back from the brink
ryutaro's mama
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Yeah, you stalk my posts.
It's cool Duki, you can be my Stan.
LOL @ Jeffrey being a "different person and team mate". Go watch his HOF speech to see how "different" he was. As Kwame Brown how "different" he was.
Back to your other "point".
Something something LeBron and Wade love each other too!
But where are their chips?!?! I mean, it's a forgone conclusion, right?
Talk to me when the Thunder win their first chip, much less 2.
And beyond that, players get too big for their britches in sports quite often and leave teams. Shaq/ Kobe anyone? We'll see how this all plays out.
They way there struggling against la and partly dallas i can see spurs not losing a game until the finals.
ryutaro's mama
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You have no fucking clue what you are talking about.
I lived in LA. Do you know that, prior to the McCourt fiasco, the Doyers had great attendance for years?
And they haven't won a chip in almost 25 years!?!?!
How do you even start to describe that as "bandwagon"?
The Frankman
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SOMEONE GET LEBRON MORE HELP, PLEASE!
The Chosen One
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Kenny and Shaq preach....
Of course OKC loves that team. What else is there to do there? Drive to cushing and take tours of the pipelines? Bring a team to Nebraska or wherever and they'll have just as good attendance.
The issue is their right to be there compared to a city that loves basketball and a market that would do gangbusters.
twinturbo2
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I can't sleep. It's two in the morning Florida time.
It's a good thing I'm working tomorrow. Game 4 is literally do or die and I don't think I can watch it without having a heart attack.
It's a good thing I'm working tomorrow. Game 4 is literally do or die and I don't think I can watch it without having a heart attack.
ThisWreckage
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Miami has a terrible bench. The worst one in the playoffs by far. Lebron would kill to have Blake, McRoberts, and Murphy on his team.
The Chosen One
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They played like garbage and lost close games, but the Lakers didn't blow leads in this fashion under Phil in the playoffs.
ThisWreckage
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Because they have one of the worst benches in basketball. It's partly the front office's fault. Giving Haslem and Miller huge contracts was so fucking stupid.
lazybones18
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https://twitter.com/#!/therealsdubl/status/204086134471524352
No, not Pau's hair!
That's his life source!
No, not Pau's hair!
That's his life source!
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Out of sight, out of mind. It can't bring the team down. I it does, then Spo will rank up there with Jeff Ireland on the villains of South Florida sports list.
FrenchMovieTheme
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kobe throwing others under the bus as usual
Mr. Enigma
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lol @ Kobe talking shit about Gasol in the press conference
ryutaro's mama
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The whole reason we responded is because you said no one wanted them there. That is wrong.
And if anything, OKC exposes basketball to middle America, a place that basketball traditionally didn't do well for years.
Yes, it sucks Seattle lost their team (I hear it all the time here from the locals now) but to say that having a franchise in OKC is bad is just...wow.
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