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Official 2005 NBA Playoffs thread! Now with 100% less Kobe!

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Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
Cloudy said:
Can't pin this on T-Mac if Dallas wins. Yao's struggling out there...
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FrenchMovieTheme

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lol damn doug collins HAD been good all night until the line he just said

"the rockets have lost 2 games at home in the series they... do not want to go down for a 3rd time"

you sure about that buddy?
 
M

Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
FrenchMovieTheme said:
lol damn doug collins HAD been good all night until the line he just said

"the rockets have lost 2 games at home in the series they... do not want to go down for a 3rd time"

you sure about that buddy?
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:lol
 
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Cloudy

Banned
Dirk is highly overrated. Single covered all series and he can't do anything but weakass fadeaways over the smaller guys checking him :lol
 
M

Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
FUCK YAO!!!!!


T-MAC/DEKE!!!!!!
 
L

Loki

Count of Concision
Man, Mutombo's come up big for the Rockets this game. Yao must feel like crap sitting on the bench. :lol TMac with what appears to be the dagger, though there's still time left.
 
M

Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
Bring on game 7!
 
The Chosen One

The Chosen One

Member
That was great watching Mutumbo showing flashes of his Nugget days. If Yao could only play with the same intensity and aggressiveness...

If the Rockets can keep getting good point production from the bench then I'd leave Yao on the bench.
 
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Takuan

Member
Cloudy said:
Dirk is highly overrated. Single covered all series and he can't do anything but weakass fadeaways over the smaller guys checking him :lol
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I don't know which Dirk Nowitski you've been watching, but he's NEVER had much of a post game. If he's got his back to the basket, 99% of the time it's going to be a turnaround fade-away, that's just his game. He's essentially a 7' guard who can shoot; when you're 7' and can shoot, only a rare few will be able to guard you. I'm not going to argue against the fact that his performance has been pretty weak this series, but he's still a great player.
 
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BatiGOOOOOOL

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And Ray-Ray's whining has already began... :lol

Quote : "Oddly enough, Bruce used to be a good friend of mine - used to be," Allen said. "We used to hang out in the summertime until he started playing a brand new brand of basketball."

Seattle PI
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Damn Bruce, why did you rape his dog? :-(
 
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Guzim

Member
Cloudy said:
http://silverjacket.typepad.com/blog/2005/05/michael_jordan_.html

Follow that link for a clip of MJ and Barkley dancing in a club :lol
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:lol :lol :lol

In other news from EOnline http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Awful/cauth/Archive2005/050407f.html:
Tom Brady and Michael Jordan, goofing off through the ayem hours at Light in the Bellagio Hotel. Vegas, baby. Tom-hon joined ex-baller Charles Barkley in a VIP booth, while M.J. sat in another cushy booth directly on the dance floor. Charlie and Mikey boogied about, exchanging hellos and jokes. With his signature hoop earring, Mr. Jordan was decked out head-to-toe in a red 'n' black Air Jordan getup.
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I have a new avatar for Bionic!
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M

Malleymal

You now belong to FMT.
Seriously.... that article about the nash and MVP is :lol

Shaq will get a ring and all will be hell in lakerland...
 
S

scorcho

testicles on a cold fall morning
Bat said:
Nash won MVP. ESPN and SI are confirming it.
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i wonder if greg anthony will attempt to choke Marc Stein on ESPN when he rubs it into his bald little face. anthony's escalating beligerance during their previous 'argument' over the potential vote was both sad and cringe inducing.

i wanna see the man crack.
 
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Cloudy

Banned
While I think Nash deserves it more than Shaq, it's kind of weird that a guy who isn't even a top 30 player in the league can be MVP...

Oh and Jason Kidd must be FUMING, He did what Nash did and more for the Nets with a significantly weaker supporting cast yet got screwed over by the media :lol
 
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FrenchMovieTheme

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wtf nash isn't a top 30 player in the league? nash is arguably the best point guard in the nba. just think, if the lakers had a player of nash's calibur they might have actually had a .500 record or MAYBE, just maybe, finished ahead of the clippers in the standings. but we'll never know
 
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bishoptl

Banstick Emeritus
Cloudy said:
While I think Nash deserves it more than Shaq
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NO SURPRISES HERE

Cloudy said:
it's kind of weird that a guy who isn't even a top 30 player in the league
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Your head is so far up your ass it's not even funny. There is no better point guard in the L. Period. And you say he's not top 30?
 
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Cloudy

Banned
I can list 30 players better than Nash. Hell, Brevin Knight on the Suns would have given the same results. Much less any other star PG.

With the brilliant way the team is constructed, the PG and big man can never be doubled cos of the outside threats. Nash (and Stoudemaire) is waaay overrated this year.

I'm happier with this result than Shaq making it on name only. At least Nash has personal and team stats to back it up. The real MVP of the league this season was Allen Iverson though...
 
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BatiGOOOOOOL

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Let the gamesmanship begin By Percy Allen
Seattle Times staff reporter



Still 72 hours away from the start of their Western Conference playoff semifinals, the Sonics were already looking to gain an advantage on the San Antonio Spurs.

As they dispersed from yesterday's workout, on one end of the practice court, Ray Allen discussed the mauling defensive tactics of Bruce Bowen, while, a few feet away, Jerome James and Danny Fortson griped that Tim Duncan receives preferential treatment from officials.

The gamesmanship to gain a psychological edge began at full bore for the series. Game 1 is set for 5 p.m. Sunday in San Antonio (televised on TNT), but the rest of the schedule for the series has not been announced.

"What he's doing is not really basketball," Allen said in reference to Bowen, the Spurs' staunch defensive specialist. "Anybody in the league will tell you he's one guy you can't stand because of the way he plays defense. It's not like he's staying in front of you or he's keeping you away from scoring.

"You know how Reggie [Evans] and Danny can get under people's skin because they play so physical? He's similar, but he does those things to try to get you to want to fight him."

The two nearly traded blows last season during a Feb. 5 game at KeyArena in which Allen scored 22 points during the Spurs' 96-90 win. The Sonics guard has bemoaned that Bowen plays "sissy ball" and reiterated his complaints after their final meeting in the regular season, an 89-76 Sonics defeat in which Allen received a swollen and sore left wrist courtesy of Bowen.

"That's going to be big. People let Bruce Bowen go and do his thing. But me, Reggie and Big J [James], we got to protect Ray and we got to protect Rashard [Lewis] from Bruce Bowen," Fortson said. "When he comes off, we got to hit him hard on a solid screen and let him know that we're watching him, too. He's got to battle us, too."

The words "battle" and "aggressive" were tossed around a lot yesterday.

In their 4-1, first-round series win against Sacramento, the Sonics were the aggressors defensively, while Kings coach Rick Adelman complained to the league about Seattle's rough tactics.

The Sonics maintain it's vital they continue their bullish behavior beneath the basket, while making sure Allen isn't constantly molested by Bowen and Manu Ginobili.

"As long as referees can keep a [fair] game, they make sure that when there's a foul, there's a foul called," Allen said. "Because I don't want to be complaining to the referees all day long about the things he's doing every time I go shoot the ball.

"But that's part of the series. That's part of what we have to do to grow to beat the team. This team has won two championships over the last [seven] years, and in order for us to be successful, those small things we have to put to the side and learn from."

Allen, who leads all scorers in the playoffs with a 32.4 average, is the focal point of the Sonics. And the Spurs' leader is Duncan, who despite a tender right ankle averaged 22 points and 11.2 rebounds in a 4-1 series victory over the Denver Nuggets.

"Duncan is a superstar, one of the best at it," James said. "Taking nothing away from his craft, he's one of the greatest 4-men to ever play the game, and I feel like he gets a lot of calls. Some of the calls he gets, you're going to get them anyway. You don't have to cry for it. You don't have to ask for it.

"All game long he's constantly in the [ear] of the referees. ... He's always complaining about what I'm doing, what Danny is doing and what Reggie is doing. And sooner or later, you keep preaching the same thing to somebody, they are going to start looking for it even if it ain't there."

In the three regular-season games he played against Seattle, Duncan averaged 25.7 points and 10 rebounds, while being called for eight fouls total.

Conversely, James fouled out of the first game and had five fouls in another contest, while Fortson was also disqualified once and had five fouls in another game.

Still, it was Fortson's stellar play and what James termed "pinball defense" that allowed the Sonics to win two games against the Spurs, including a 102-96 victory at SBC Center.

"You can call it [pinball defense] — that's what we're doing. But I don't think that's going to happen in this second-round series," Fortson said. "I would love for it to be that way, to be a physical game, but I have a feeling it won't be like that. They might not let us play our style of game, but we can't go in thinking that they are not.

"What, [Duncan is] a 10-time MVP or something like that? It's hard to touch those type of guys. And people like him. The referees like him. He's a great guy. Nobody wants to see him get hurt or get roughed up or even look bad."

Percy Allen: 206-464-2278 or pallen@seattletimes.com
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HOLY SHIT! I was just reading this article and I can't believe all the crap the Sonics are already spewing. They sound as if they were already down 3-0 in the series. They're basicall asking for Bowen to foul out every game and for them to be able to foul Duncan all game long without getting called. :lol

Oh well, another series full of "thugs" and illiterates. When will they realize this has no effect on the Spurs players or their game.

As for Nash, blah! There were more deserving players, especially Shaq.
 
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etiolate

Banned
I can list 30 players better than Nash. Hell, Brevin Knight on the Suns would have given the same results.
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Brevin Knight? Nash is a player who can go off for 30 in a game, but doesn't do so if he doesn't have to. Brevin couldn't score 30 in his wildest dreams.

and Bati you must have missed all the trash talking the Sonics did in the Kings series. Their mouths never stop.
 
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Cloudy

Banned
There is no better point guard in the L. Period
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You're fucking kidding, right? One season with that supporting cast makes hiim the best PG in the league? If they asked you last year, would you even think of him? :lol

AI
Kidd
Parker
Bibby
Marbury
Arenas
Billups

And those are only PGs that are better than him...
 
M

Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
``Maybe I need to go crazy. Maybe I should go crazy. Maybe that will help,'' Johnson said in a rambling postgame tirade. ``This series is about basketball, not all the other stuff. We lost the game. We don't make excuses. The game was called fairly pretty much ... there's no excuses, no complaints, no nothing.'' :lol


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DMczaf

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:lol I think Konex is going to blow

"Shaq is overrated, but Steve Nash is not a Top 30 player...but Shaq doesn't deserve the MVP over Nash...but but...but!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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