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Official April NBA Thread - Playoffs coming sooooooon!

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kevm3

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The Spurs are absolutely getting spanked out here, and people were saying that his was a team that could get to the playoffs in the West. This team looks terrible out there, and I do mean TERRIBLE.
 
The reason the Spurs are playing like shit right now...

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That Manu, such a girly man. :lol

Bring on the playoffs. It's like they don't even fucking care anymore.
 

sc0la

Unconfirmed Member
is it me or are they playing to the same goals they played in the first half? =/

EDIT: 5 on 2 Slow Break :lol *walk walk dunk*
 
Can't say I didn't expected this.

The Spurs have been shooting like crap and the Mavs made it very clear they didn't want to be sweeped by the Spurs in the regular season, TD or no TD.

Plus Manu's legs are not there. All the work in the past summers has catched up to him.
 
if Duncan isn't completely healthy, and they have to play the Nuggs, its could be trouble for them.

and Marquis Daniels looks like a straight out crackhead.
 

Loki

Count of Concision
Jeez...this just highlights how valuable Duncan is-- he really anchors their team on both ends of the floor.
 

kevm3

Member
The Spurs needed to get their asses kicked. They've been having a little too much fun out there and we need a thrashing to get that fire back. Next time.
 
It's not only the importance of Duncan, but take a look at Manu when he is on the floor. He looks dead tired many times.

Thankfully TD is already doing light practice and he was even dunking. The projected return date is April 12th.

Tony is really talented, but he is not ready to lead a team.
 

Loki

Count of Concision
Wow, those were two SPECTACULAR moves by Kobe on that play-- too bad he came up empty on both attempts.

EDIT: WOW.
 
Loki said:
Wow, those were two SPECTACULAR moves by Kobe on that play-- too bad he came up empty on both attempts.

damnit loki. That was your first Kobe related post in quite some time. Too bad, you were doing well with your sobriety...or should i say Kobriety.
 
Tierre fucking Brown? TIERRE BROWN? Im going to kill myself. Why the fuck does he even get to play? Where is Sasha?

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"Put me in fuckers!"
 

EekTheKat

Member
it's such a trip seeing Vlade and Dikembe going at it :lol

I had a good laugh at Dikembe wagging his finger, and everytime Vlade hits the floor I can't help but to smile a little
 

Cloudy

Banned
Kobe and Caron = duo of the future. I think Lamar can help them out if the Lakers get some real bigs. Thing is, he might be traded for those bigs :(
 

bionic77

Member
Cloudy said:
Kobe and Caron = duo of the future. I think Lamar can help them out if the Lakers get some real bigs. Thing is, he might be traded for those bigs :(

Fuck Caron, Lamar is the guy to keep. Caron is just a more athletic Devon George.

Kobe is starting to piss me off with his bad decision making as well. :(

Konex I swear sometimes I think no one knows less about basketball then you at times.
 

Loki

Count of Concision
:lol

Mike James just put Vujacic (sp?) in the blender. :lol Dude was seeing stars at the end of that sequence. :D
 

Cloudy

Banned
Caron is just a more athletic Devon George.

He's shown more guts than Lamar all year and he can actually play without the ball. I don't want either of them traded but if I had to choose one, I'd keep Lamar who's still on his rookie deal and let Odom's $10+ mil per fetch a real PF and some role player or two...
 

Pimpwerx

Member
Cloudy said:
He's shown more guts than Lamar all year and he can actually play without the ball. I don't want either of them traded but if I had to choose one, I'd keep Lamar who's still on his rookie deal and let Odom's $10+ mil per fetch a real PF and some role player or two...
...yeah....and since you still have Kobe, the team will still lose. I think Laker fans might be a couple more seasons of mediocrity away from figuring out this puzzle. :lol PEACE.
 

bionic77

Member
Pimpwerx said:
...yeah....and since you still have Kobe, the team will still lose. I think Laker fans might be a couple more seasons of mediocrity away from figuring out this puzzle. :lol PEACE.

If we still suck next year I saw trade Kobe and let Konex be some other team's problem.
 

bionic77

Member
Cloudy said:
Yeah cos Kobe's the reason they lose games. You guys are high :lol

He is a part of the reason. I don't want to hear any of your damage control either. Yes the team sucks and it has no coaching, but a GREAT player would have at least kept them winning a few games by himself and not lost like 9 in a row. If he can't turn it around next year, then sorry he is not a great player. Doesn't have to win a ring, but they should at least be competitive.

Remember how you said the same about "T-Whack"?
 
Caron's great play is awesome...cause it raises is stock so we can unload him on another team to get a PG or bigman. I love Butler's game as much as the next guy (and to be honest, if push came to shove, i'd probably choose him over lamar) but because he's young, cheap and good, he's probably going to be the key part of us getting an upgrade at a REAL position of need this summer. In other words, good luck in Utah (or wherever you end up) Caron.
 

Cloudy

Banned
bionic77 said:
He is a part of the reason. I don't want to hear any of your damage control either. Yes the team sucks and it has no coaching, but a GREAT player would have at least kept them winning a few games by himself and not lost like 9 in a row. If he can't turn it around next year, then sorry he is not a great player. Doesn't have to win a ring, but they should at least be competitive.

Remember how you said the same about "T-Whack"?


- Lakers won't lose 19 straight
- Lakers play in the West
- When your leading rebounder is out on such a small team, you don't have much of a chance most nights

Tmac did get a raw deal last year but that Orlando team had much more roster balance than the garbage Mitch put on the court this year...and they played in the East!
 

bionic77

Member
Cloudy said:
- Lakers won't lose 19 straight
- Lakers play in the West
- When your leading rebounder is out on such a small team, you don't have much of a chance most nights

Tmac did get a raw deal last year but that Orlando team had much more roster balance than the garbage Mitch put on the court this year...and they played in the East!

I said no fucking damage control! Jesus, he isn't the first player to play on a garbage team. If he is truly great he will find a way to win games.

And I swear you were one of the loudest critics of T-Mac last year. DM or someone else can correct me if I am wrong or back me up here.
 

bionic77

Member
etiolate said:
Laker fans, Laker fans, Laker fans....

*shakes head*

Fourth best team in California.

Everyone has to rebuild eventually.

The difference between the Lakers and most other teams is at least we can remember our threepeat while we wait for another championship (the Lakers always bounce back) while all Kings fans can do is bitch about a game 6 from 3 years ago.
 

Cloudy

Banned
Everyone busted Tmac's balls last year and they are doing the same to Kobe. He'll have something around him next year and bounce back as well...
 

Cloudy

Banned
So the Clipps can grab one of the PGs in the lotto before the Lakes? Hell no!!! :lol

Cheap-ass Sterling will let Jaric walk and want to snag a rookie PG on the cheap >_<
 
etiolate said:
Laker fans, Laker fans, Laker fans....

*shakes head*

Fourth best team in California.

a Queen fan? Trying to talk shit about the Lakers?

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Congratulations on your "Most powerful fans on earth" banners. Im sure the team worked hard to earn them. I wish we could put some of those up at Staples, but those damn WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP banners just keep getting in the way :(



You could very well say the Kings are rebuilding in mid-season, they've just done a better job of it.

rebuild from what? When your high point is the 2nd round of the playoffs, i wouldn't call that "rebuilding", otherwise every team in the league "rebuilds".
 

Loki

Count of Concision
Ninja Scooter said:
Congratulations on your "Most powerful fans on earth" banners. Im sure the team worked hard to earn them. I wish we could put some of those up at Staples, but those damn WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP banners just keep getting in the way :(

:lol

LOL!
 

Cloudy

Banned
Great news!!!

STILLWATER, Okla. -- Oklahoma State basketball signee Gerald Green will apply for early entry into the NBA draft, but his father says the 6-foot 8-inch shooting guard will retain the option of playing at OSU by not hiring an agent.

"He wants to win a national championship at OSU, but if he's a lotto pick, that's hard to turn down," Gerald Green Sr. told an Oklahoma City newspaper. "That's why you go to college, to get a degree to earn a good living. It's a catch-22 situation. We'll probably stick him (on the draft list) just to see how it goes."

Not hiring an agent will allow Green to retain his eligibility. Players who want to go to the NBA before completing their senior year in college must file by May 14. The draft is June 28.

Green, from Houston's Gulf Shores Academy, is rated the No. 1 high school senior in the country by Rivals.com. He signed with OSU in November, but there has been speculation Green would jump to the NBA.

Green has said repeatedly he intends to attend OSU, and his father says he wants to be a Cowboy. But the father adds that if Green is a lottery pick in the NBA, he'll consider skipping college.

A lottery pick is one of the first 14 players selected with the top pick guaranteed a three-year contract worth $10.8 million. The 14th player chosen is guaranteed a three-year contract worth $3.8 million.

His NBA stock shot up in the recent McDonald's High School All-American game in which he won the slam-dunk contest and scored a game-high 24 points.

"It will be a really tough decision," said Gerald Green Sr. "I'll pretty much leave it up to him. He wants to go to OSU. He's not concerned at all (with NBA draft speculation). I want him to be happy. If he's not a lotto pick, he'll definitely go to OSU. But if he's a lotto pick, he's not stupid."

Hehe, this guy will be good. More importantly, he bumps a nice lotto college PG down a spot :)
 

DMczaf

Member
bionic77 said:
I said no fucking damage control! Jesus, he isn't the first player to play on a garbage team. If he is truly great he will find a way to win games.

And I swear you were one of the loudest critics of T-Mac last year. DM or someone else can correct me if I am wrong or back me up here.

:D

And Konex keeps pulling up the "Kobe didnt lose 19 straight!" defense, but Kobe HAS lost 13 of his last 14 games, and looking at his remaining schedule it looks like that will be 19 of his last 20 :lol
 

Loki

Count of Concision
DMczaf said:
:D

And Konex keeps pulling up the "Kobe didnt lose 19 straight!" defense, but Kobe HAS lost 13 of his last 14 games, and looking at his remaining schedule it looks like that will be 19 of his last 20 :lol

Yeah, that'd be pretty wretched. I don't see how 19 of 20, or 17 of 18 or whatever it will end up as is much better than 19 in a row, really. Konex is clearly grasping at straws, and is AM CRYING. :D
 

Loki

Count of Concision
Cloudy said:
Kobe didn't play in 2 of those games. Get the losses right! :lol :(

Yeah man, he was sidelined with that crippling shin injury... ;)


I dunno about you, but whenever my shin's gotten bumped, it was usually better within 20 minutes, not 3 days. :p Now deep thigh bruises, those are killers.
 

Shinobi

Member
bionic77 said:
Konex I swear sometimes I think no one knows less about basketball then you at times.

You mean this wasn't evident to you before?







etiolate said:
Laker fans, Laker fans, Laker fans....

*shakes head*

Fourth best team in California.

:lol Nice way of putting it...








Cloudy said:
They actually have a GM with a brain.

Their GM doesn't wear a jersey. :lol







Ninja Scooter said:
a Queen fan? Trying to talk shit about the Lakers?

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Congratulations on your "Most powerful fans on earth" banners. Im sure the team worked hard to earn them. I wish we could put some of those up at Staples, but those damn WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP banners just keep getting in the way :(

:lol :lol :lol









DMczaf said:

:lol :lol :lol Phil was actually at the Lakers game? That's funny as fuck. And who the hell is that in the middle, Kato Kaelin?
 

Fifty

Member
The Big Bussman should just kill himself now. He's in the same box with Kato! I bet he doesn't even realize he's sitting next to him. :lol
 
It's not fooball season yet but there seem to be quite a few Tom Brady haters in here. For those folks this is for you. We've seen the kind of chicks he bones, here is the type of music he listens to:

iPod Celeb Playlist:

Dream On:Aerosmith
Lose Yourself:Eminem
Possum Kingdom:The Toadies
If I Can't: 50 Cent
Fell on Black Days: Soundgarden
Bittersweet Symphony: The Verve
Award Tour: A Tribe Called Quest
Mysterious Ways: U2
I Can: Nas
Shiver: Coldplay
My Name Is: Eminem
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For: U2
Jesus Walks: Kanye West
Beast of Burden: The Rolling Stones
Wonderwall: Oasis
Black: Perl Jam
Sunday Bloody Sunday: U2
Encore: Jay-Z

Nas in there, and he was bumping A Tribe Called Quest in the 5th grade. Can he really be that bad?
 

firex

Member
He probably just has that on his playlist to vainly try and connect with his black teammates.

(yeah I know, I like never post in this topic and when I do it's related to football, but any chance to hate on tom brady is worth taking)
 

bishoptl

Banstick Emeritus
ddkawaii said:
Fell on Black Days: Soundgarden
Multiple Super Bowl championships, regularly lays the pipe to his hot girlfriend AND has great taste in rock. Is there anything Brady cannot do? :D

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"Who's the man?"

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"You, dawg!"
 
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