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

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Loki

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Crazy finish. Wade with a huge game but a silent 4th quarter. Mourning and Jones came up big. Now at least Shaq will have ample time to rest up for the next series (which he had better play in :p).
 
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DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
Shaq has no excuse now... he's had 3 days off already he looks to get at least 4 more... possibly more if the Pacers and the Detroit decide they want to go back and forth... a Detroit win tomorrow would be... lovely.
 
strikeselect

strikeselect

You like me, you really really like me!
Mourning with the huge blocked shot, OH SNAP that was f'n sweet

awesome awesome stuff

man it's crazy down here in s. florida


GG wizards

on to the pacers/pistons
 
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VPhys

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Shaq's total time off will be 1 1/2 weeks. Miami in the meantime gets to drink umbrella drinks while the Pacers and Detroit beat up on each other.

The Heat are a force to be reconced with. 2 wins without the big man. Impressive.
 
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DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
Damn Wade finished with 42 points.... Less turnovers than the last two games but still too many(6) IMO.

Yahoo NBA recap

O'Neal missed his second straight game with a deep thigh bruise that has hobbled him for several weeks. The sweep will give him a minimum of eight days to recover, with the conference finals against Detroit or Indiana not scheduled to start until May 23, at the earliest.
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May 23?!?!? Damn Shaq should be at full f'n strength if that's true....
 
The Chosen One

The Chosen One

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Cerrius said:
Mourning with the huge blocked shot, OH SNAP that was f'n sweet

awesome awesome stuff

man it's crazy down here in s. florida
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Can you folks at least fill up the arena for the Conference Finals and not walk out with 6 minutes to play in the 3rd quarter?

Anyway, good game. The Heat got freezing cold for a few minutes, but they still managed to pull it out in the end. And yes, the game just further validates why Steve Nash deserved to be the MVP instead of Shaq. Nash is shooting sky hooks over Nowitski while Shaq is sitting on the sideline with his peg leg. Furthermore, the Heat are dong just fine without him.

However, the Heat are paying Shaq the big bucks to take them over the hump through the conference finals and finals. If he's not at least 85-90% by then, his playoffs is going to be a complete bust. Right now, the Heat are carrying Shaq to the Finals, not the other way around.
 
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DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
The Chosen One said:
Anyway, good game. The Heat got freezing cold for a few minutes, but they still managed to pull it out in the end. And yes, the game just further validates why Steve Nash deserved to be the MVP instead of Shaq. Nash is shooting sky hooks over Nowitski while Shaq is sitting on the sideline with his peg leg. Furthermore, the Heat are dong just fine without him.
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The Heat are doing fine without him... but let's not get carried away, I'm of the mind that Shaq playing simply gives you more options... and perhaps makes the game not as close.....anyway against the Wizards who don't have a big man to match up against him yeah... against Detroit that's a different story completely.
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
Cloudy said:
If the Pistons lose, Miami has the easiet route to the Finals ever. The EC is a joke :lol
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Oh God, let's not even think about that. Basically the Heat would get to play three teams that wouldn't even make the playoffs in the Western Conference.
 
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DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
Cloudy said:
If the Pistons lose, Miami has the easiet route to the Finals ever. The EC is a joke :lol
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Rasheed has guaranteed a win tomorrow dood...that's all you need to know....

The EC is a joke? I tend to agree but...

<cue jokes about the WC and Kobe sitting home>
 
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BatiGOOOOOOL

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Heh, just as I said, Miami should've gotten a bye this round. It was just a waste of everyone's time. The East is pathetic other than Miami, Detroit and Indiana.
 
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levious

That throwing stick stunt of yours has boomeranged on us.
Certainly the West is the stronger conference overall, but how many Championships does the east have to win to stop all the "the EC is a joke" comments.?
 
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BatiGOOOOOOL

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I'd never discredit a EC team that has won the championship. Detroit, for example, won it fair and square playing some excellent basketball and getting past the WC champion. But it's disgusting seeing how little opposition most of the eastern conference "playoffs" teams put up.
 
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AirBrian

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levious said:
Certainly the West is the stronger conference overall, but how many Championships does the east have to win to stop all the "the EC is a joke" comments.?
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You have 2 teams in the EC that can win a championship, followed by 6 teams that would get swept by any team the WC offers. You have 4+ teams in the WC that can win a championship, with the remaining 4- probably able to beat any EC team outside of Detroit and Miami. Again, with the exception of the Pistons and Heat, the EC is a complete joke -- there's just no comparision. Period. And this coming from a die-hard Bulls fan who loves the EC.
 
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bionic77

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DarienA said:
Yahoo NBA recap



May 23?!?!? Damn Shaq should be at full f'n strength if that's true....
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The Heat are definitely lying about Shaq's injury. No thigh bruise is going to last this long and the dude has had a ton of time to heal since he originally got injured. I have no idea what it could be, but it is obvious that it is more serious than they want us to believe.

My guess is it is either his foot or his stomach.
 
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levious

That throwing stick stunt of yours has boomeranged on us.
deep bruises can easily have a calcium build up which takes a lot of time and treatment. Happens a lot in football too.
 
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DCX

DCX
levious said:
deep bruises can easily have a calcium build up which takes a lot of time and treatment. Happens a lot in football too.
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Speak more about this becuase i have a weird bulge on my wrist that feels like a bone yet i know i didn't break it...someone told me it might be a calcium deposist...indicating that i may have had a tiny fracture at some point...

DCX
 
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BatiGOOOOOOL

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Confession, they say, is good for the soul.

Burdened and bludgeoned for the last week, I decided to come clean.

I did it.

Do not, however, expect remorse or contrition.

Given the circumstances, I'd do it again.

I was the one who filled out his NBA MVP ballot and scribbled in the name of the Hornets' P.J. Brown in the fifth position.

That vote was worth one point.

My entire ballot went this way: 1. Steve Nash. 2. Shaquille O'Neal. 3. Tim Duncan. 4. LeBron James. 5. Brown.

Winner Nash, therefore, and runner-up O'Neal got the 10 and seven points they deserved. Nash won by 34 points.

That one point for P.J. Brown in no way altered the outcome.

Voting for the league's most valuable player award is anonymous, therefore the teeth-gnashing and hand-wringing over this issue hasn't been as pointed as it could have been had the league lifted its veil of secrecy.

Yet it has been noted in publications from the East Coast to the West, on ESPN Radio and on TNT's mid-week playoff telecast that this vote was an egregious error.

No less an authority than Charles Barkley had his way with me.

"The problem I have with the MVP voting is, if you didn't vote for Shaq or Nash, you were wrong," Barkley said on Tuesday night. "Some guys left Shaquille O'Neal off the ballot. I don't think they should let reporters or fans vote. They should just let GMs vote, because that is just biased and unfair.

"I saw the voting. I really like P.J. Brown. He's a good player, but you can't vote for him. That takes the integrity out of the game. I love P.J Brown, and he is a good player. But, if you vote for him for MVP, that's not right."

Of course, I did vote for Nash and O'Neal, 1-2. Charles didn't know that.

Columnist Kevin Blackistone of The Dallas Morning News wrote: "The folks who should take the heat or the credit for handing out awards such as the NBA's MVP are the folks most in the know, the players, the coaches and the general managers. I bet you they wouldn't have voted P.J. Brown for MVP, which one writer did. Whoever did that should have his or her basketball writer's card revoked for a season."

The San Francisco Chronicle's Bruce Jenkins weighed in with this: "Make no mistake, there are some voters who should have the privilege revoked, such as the one who listed P.J. Brown among his top five, or anyone who didn't have Nash and Shaq in the top two."

And, in The Washington Post, Mike Wise offered: "Brown, the New Orleans Hornets' scrub power forward, somehow got an MVP vote from some lost, demented writer."

I'm told Brown's appearance on the list of those who received votes was a hot topic on Dan Patrick's daily ESPN Radio talk show Tuesday.

Having better things to do than listen to talk radio, I have no first-hand knowledge of this.

NBA commissioner David Stern -- with whom I spoke this week -- had no problem with my one-point vote for Brown. The night before, he'd told The Miami Herald, "We would like to encourage a little bit of independence of the voters."

For those who witnessed just what P.J. Brown meant to the Hornets this season, no explanation is needed why he should be considered in a vote that honors players who mean so much to their teams.

Ignorance, though, knows no bounds. No one was complaining that Denver's Marcus Camby received a fourth-place vote worth three points.

That's because the Nuggets went to the playoffs and the Hornets are going to the lottery.

In a season when Brown was the only Hornet to play in all 82 games, starting 59 out of position as center, he became just the 26th player in modern league history to total 8,000 points, 7,000 rebounds, 1,000 assists and 1,000 blocks in his career. Brown finished the season with a career-high 178 assists and a team-leading 28 point-rebound double-doubles, and did it all for a downtrodden team without uttering a cross word. It seemed that a fifth-place MVP vote wasn't a stretch.

It was meant to be a symbolic gesture so that people would notice Brown's quiet contributions.

Considering the uproar, let's call it mission accomplished.

http://www.nola.com/hornets/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-1/11161385418880.xml
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Good for him. At least he wasn't afraid to stand by his choice.
 
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Incognito

Troll
batitoooool- i've assembled quite the spurs care package for you. hopefully the sonics end their run so i can quit collecting newspapers... :lol :lol
 
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bionic77

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levious said:
deep bruises can easily have a calcium build up which takes a lot of time and treatment. Happens a lot in football too.
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Wouldn't that be a more severe contusion though? I thought it was just a mild bruise?

I dunno, to me something is just very fishy about the Shaq injury. He can't even jump right now which is why I suspected it was really his foot or stomach (both are injuries that have given him problems in the past) that is really the problem.
 
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Ninja Scooter

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bionic77 said:
Wouldn't that be a more severe contusion though? I thought it was just a mild bruise?

I dunno, to me something is just very fishy about the Shaq injury. He can't even jump right now which is why I suspected it was really his foot or stomach (both are injuries that have given him problems in the past) that is really the problem.
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there was a rumor going around that he might have hairline fractured his femur when JO hit him with his knee and the Heat are trying to keep that quiet, but i don't think the guy would be able to walk if he cracked that bone. My theory is that he is suffering from severe food poisoning cause he ate a 3 week old krispy kreme that he found under his couch. Either that or he has AIDS.
 
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bionic77

Member
Ninja Scooter said:
there was a rumor going around that he might have hairline fractured his femur when JO hit him with his knee and the Heat are trying to keep that quiet, but i don't think the guy would be able to walk if he cracked that bone. My theory is that he is suffering from severe food poisoning cause he ate a 3 week old krispy kreme that he found under his couch. Either that or he has AIDS.
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Jordan hit another Laker up with the AIDS virus?

When will the madness stop?
 
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themadcowtipper

Smells faintly of rancid stilton.
Ninja Scooter said:
Either that or he has AIDS.
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DMczaf

Member
bionic77 said:
Jordan hit another Laker up with the AIDS virus?

When will the madness stop?
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The hotel maid was part of Kobe's AIDS setup but the punk wanted to get a blowjob instead

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"PUT IT IN THE GOD DAMN HOLE!!!!"
 
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Cloudy

Banned
Arroyo may not be great defensively but he's the only pure point Detroit has and when the offense gets stagnant, he's really useful. He needs to be in the rotation consistently...
 
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Pimpwerx

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Why do people say the Heat have an easy road to the Finals? Because we embarassed everyone we played? Hey, that's just b/c the Heat are that damn good. The Nets weren't a bad squad. Were they worse than the Grizzlies or Nugs? The Wizards were a bit more of a pushover, it seemed, but they were simply overmatched at every position. Last year, it was said that the EC was weak again, but it seems to me the Pistons stopped the best in the West just fine. The EC may have fewer top-tier teams, but their top teams are perfectly capable of winning a 7-game series against the best the West has to offer. If you want to compare regular season Pistons to the Suns, that's fine. But this playoffs Pistons team can beat anyone. The same for the Pacers, as long as Foster can keep having monster games on the boards. And of course, the Heat are the beast of the east, so it goes without saying that they can beat anyone in the West. Doubters will be proven wrong yet again. The Finals trophy will stay in the EC. It's just gonna take a trip down South, that's all. :) PEACE.
 
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ShadowRed

Banned
Damn that game was a waste of a couple hours. i think i spoke too soon about the Pacers taking on the Heat. If Detroit play the way they played today and game 1 then the Heat game may turn out to be a competition.
 
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Bat

Member
Pimpwerx said:
Why do people say the Heat have an easy road to the Finals? Because we embarassed everyone we played? Hey, that's just b/c the Heat are that damn good. The Nets weren't a bad squad. Were they worse than the Grizzlies or Nugs?
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Are you actually serious? Besides winning 49 games, the Nuggets were the best team in the NBA (record wise) the second half of the year. The difference between the lower seeds in the two conferences is enormous.
 
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Pimpwerx

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Pellham said:
The Nets were terrible. They only barely made the playoffs to begin with.
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Lots of teams "barely" make the playoffs. It's the last seed, duh. Again, how're the low seeds in the East any worse than the low seeds in the West? Look at the Sonics. Supposedly a great Western team coming into the playoffs, but right now, I'd pick the Pacers, Pistons and Heat over the Sonics. I'd pick those three over the Mavs too. Yet the East gets pegged as being weak all the time. Most of the teams that didn't make it were garbage, but as far as the playoffs are concerned, I don't think it's fair to call the East weak when there are actually three teams capable of making a strong Finals run, as opposed to the obvious two from the West. The Spurs and the Suns are the teams that will emerge from the West, and neither is a lock to beat any of the three East teams still in contention. The doubters will be proven wrong...AGAIN. PEACE.
 
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FrenchMovieTheme

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pimp i see what you're saying, but pacers over the mavs? that is stretching it a bit dude. i mostly agree with everyone else in saying that the nuggets AND grizz are clearly better than the nets and sixers, i dont think there is much debate to be had on that front. but i do think the east gets somewhat of a bad rap. the west is clearly better but there are some very good defensive teams in the east, and anytime you have good defense i think you can be competitive in the nba. i know eminem and other bulls fans said they had no chance in the playoffs, but if the bulls stayed healthy i really liked them a lot in the east. when curry went out i think that really hurt their shot to advance in the playoffs. i will say one thing: a healthy bulls team wouldn't have been swept by the heat, especially w/o shaq
 
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Eminem

goddamit, Griese!
very true. with deng and curry, we are a MUCH MUCH better team. Othella Harrington playing center? what the fuck.

a bulls team with Curry and Deng could probably win 2 against the Heat. Against a Miami team without Shaq, i'd say it's a very, very close series.
 
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BatiGOOOOOOL

Member
Damn, the team is playing like crap. So many stupid decisions. I can't believe we're not getting blown out. Hopefully Pop will make the necessary adjustments and re-focus the guys.
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
I'm glad the Spurs are getting beat up and beaten a bit b/c the Suns most likely will need all the help they can get to run with the Spurs. I still don't think Spurs will lose homecourt, but it may take them 6 or 7 to beat the Sonics which is certainly more than I expected (I picked Spurs over Sonics in 5 in our GA pick 'em) and great news for the Suns either way that the Sonics are putting up a real fight.
 
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