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The top three-four East teams are fucking solid and are better on the court than the Lakers. The rest? Well, you can be under .500 can make 6th, 7th and 8th. Whrereas the West, 50 wins barley gets you in, mainly because over the last two seasons, you got one really great team and a slew of great teams separated by .5 to 1.5 games back from each other. The Warriors racking up 48 wins and missing the playoffs last season as well as Utah's inclusion this year are proof.

Rainbow Bright wrote:The top three-four East teams are fucking solid and are better on the court than the Lakers.

Your Kobe hate is impacting your judgement....

johnk5150 wrote:

bane wrote:

Rainbow Bright wrote:w00t. Took away home court and out scrapped the Lakers.

Go Aaron Brooks.

That was awesome. I still think the Lakers take it, probably in 6, but the Rockets shocked the fuck out of them last night. Speed bump indeed.

Battier's bloody head was fucking cool.

Fuck yeah it was. Battier Balboa. He D'd Kobe up pretty damn good in spite of it. He kept him out of the paint all night. LA's offense isn't going to be that bad very often. If anybody on the perimeter had been able to knock down shots last night the outcome may have been different, but I give the Rockets mad props for making LA play their style of game and not caving under the pressure in the 4th like they did all year long.

GrayAntiMatter wrote:

Rainbow Bright wrote:The top three-four East teams are fucking solid and are better on the court than the Lakers.

Your Kobe hate is impacting your judgement....

RBO is my homegirl but I agree.

That bein' said, the Lakers' better up the D or else. I figured Phil Jackson'd have 'em doing D drills over the off season since that's where they lacked. Apparently not.

He meditates too much.

The Lakers most likely will win in 6, but a fix? C'mon. LA came out flat and Houston played good defense and knocked down their shots when LA couldn't. Period. Laker fans have one hell of a team to root for this year, coming up with "Stern fixed it" for a game one loss is fucking retarded. Take your medicine. You got beat.

It was rigged. I talked to Kobe about it yesterday, he said "Ya gotta give 'em one or they won't play with ya."

WHAT HAPPENED CELTICS? BITCH MADE PUSSIES!

Its because the Lakers are soft. They can't play physical ball and Bynum has done nothing but put up garbage numbers throughout the playoffs thus far. That, and the Rockets forced Kobe to go into Mamba mode, with 2006 like results.

If The Lakers are going to win it, game 2 is where they need to step it up. Because it's only going to get worse for them, as the Nuggets can play like Houston with a better PG. (Billups) Not to mention facing whatever comes out of the East (Lebron, The Magic, or even Boston.)

aceshigh wrote:

LAWL.

It's just comedy, that's all it is. Fictional comedy.

Skate4RnR wrote:

It's just comedy, that's all it is. Fictional comedy.

Yep. Tim Daughtery never ever happened.

Rainbow Bright wrote:If The Lakers are going to win it, game 2 is where they need to step it up. Because it's only going to get worse for them, as the Nuggets can play like Houston with a better PG. (Billups) Not to mention facing whatever comes out of the East (Lebron, The Magic, or even Boston.)

The Lakers will beat Houston

The Lakers should be Denver

Its Lebron out of the east. And if it is someone else, the Lakers should celebrate because they can should beat the Magic or the geriatrics pretty easily.

Denver is the wild card. Denver can beat the Lakers and the Lebrons.

Unfortunately, I don't think they can beat them back to back.....

aceshigh wrote:

They all suck.

GrayAntiMatter wrote:

Rainbow Bright wrote:If The Lakers are going to win it, game 2 is where they need to step it up. Because it's only going to get worse for them, as the Nuggets can play like Houston with a better PG. (Billups) Not to mention facing whatever comes out of the East (Lebron, The Magic, or even Boston.)

The Lakers will beat Houston

The Lakers should be Denver

Its Lebron out of the east. And if it is someone else, the Lakers should celebrate because they can should beat the Magic or the geriatrics pretty easily.

Denver is the wild card. Denver can beat the Lakers and the Lebrons.

Unfortunately, I don't think they can beat them back to back.....

The Lake Show should beat the Rockets in 6, as they got the players to. However, if the Rockets, to be specific, Shane Battier's D on the Mamba, keep it up, there is a shot at the Rockets stealing this in 7...before losing to the Nuggs.

Rainbow Bright wrote:
The Lake Show should beat the Rockets in 6, as they got the players to. However, if the Rockets, to be specific, Shane Battier's D on the Mamba, keep it up, there is a shot at the Rockets stealing this in 7...before losing to the Nuggs.

I agree with that. It'll take a bit more than just D-ing up Kobe though. The Rockets can win if they can keep Kobe out of the paint, keep the game at half court pace and if they can keep hitting perimeter shots while Yao either knocks down his or passes to the outside. They've got to win on the offensive boards too. That's way too much to have to go right to have any kind of realistic shot at pulling it off IMO. The Lakers will win, and I think they'll go on to either lose to Denver or get so beat up that they won't have anything in the tank for the finals. I think this is Lebron's year.

bane wrote:I think this is Lebron's year.

It is.

To quote Charles Barkley on Kobe when he's in Black Mamba mode. "There's only one man who can stop the Black Mamba and that's that man we get on our knees and pray to every night."

Skate4RnR wrote:To quote Charles Barkley on Kobe when he's in Black Mamba mode. "There's only one man who can stop the Black Mamba and that's that man we get on our knees and pray to every night."

DAT MY NIGGA YO!

111 - 95, LAKERS TIE SERIES WITHOUT TOO MUCH TROUBLE.



SEE THAT? THAT'S THE IMAGE OF A PRODIGIOUS BASKETBALL PLAYER TAKING OVER AND DRIVING HIS TEAM TO THE FINALS.

ON A SMALL NOTE IN CASE ANY OF YOU MORONS MISSED THE GAME, THE ROCKETS WANTED TO PUNK FISHER AND HE RETALIATED LIKE A REAL MAN.

now READ DA NEXT ARTICLE N' OPEN YOUR EYES ASSHOLES!!!


One Foul Per 39 Playoff Minutes Played: LeBron James

May 6, 2009 2:45 PM

Carl Spackler from PerkIsABeast, a Celtics-themed blog, e-mailed:

Did you know LeBron James has not committed a foul yet in the Hawks/Cavs series? This is dumbfounding to me, and truly an expression of the disparity in officiating in the NBA.

He has played 196 Minutes and committed five fouls. Come on.

We've all seen LeBron's game. While he is a virtuoso on offense, he hacks more than an asthmatic in the veterinarian's office on defense.

I don't mind hard fouls and like to see great ball like in Boston vs. Chicago or Portland vs. Houston. But when the referee disparity grows that great, it hurts the overall game and commitment of opponents.

What are your thoughts on this atrocity? Even D. Wade didn't get this much help versus Dallas back in the day.

After some thinking about the word "atrocity" -- to me, almost comically strong applied to an entertainment issue -- I checked those numbers. Sure enough it's true.

Is this number some terrible indictment of NBA referees and superstar calls?

The only meaningful way I know to answer that is to assemble video of the uncalled fouls. Any volunteers?

I know it would be a lot of work, but it's a big time waster to talk about superstar calls for decades without good evidence. This is the information age. We don't have to make the same assumptions sports fans have always been making. We get to see evidence. Roll the tape!

* If it's a convincing video reel, I bet it would go a huge long way to affecting meaningful change.
* If it's a weak video reel, then Carl owes David Stern an apology.

Pshhh. The Lakers are better than that. Ejections? WTF are they fucking Utah now? The Lakers are gonna win this thing, and they could have done it tonight without that bullshit. They came back strong in game two just like I thought they would, but that elbowing, shit talking, instigating, ejecting, shit was lame. Kudos to them for playing ball and shame on Artest and Scola for biting on Kobe's Stockton imitation.

aceshigh wrote:

grishnak boss wrote:SEE THAT? THAT'S THE IMAGE OF A PRODIGIOUS BASKETBALL PLAYER TAKING OVER AND DRIVING HIS TEAM TO THE FINALS.

Yeah. He elbows a man that effortlessly overpowers him. And have his buddy the good ol' ref to condole his weepin' vagina.

Pussy.

He's a great ballplayer though. But not the best.

Lebron has achieved so many things early in his career, achievements that Kobe can only dream of.

And LeBron will accomplish more and more feats than Kobe.

Out Of The Cellar wrote:

aceshigh wrote:

grishnak boss wrote:SEE THAT? THAT'S THE IMAGE OF A PRODIGIOUS BASKETBALL PLAYER TAKING OVER AND DRIVING HIS TEAM TO THE FINALS.

Yeah. He elbows a man that effortlessly overpowers him. And have his buddy the good ol' ref to condole his weepin' vagina.

Pussy.

He's a great ballplayer though. But not the best.

Lebron has achieved so many things early in his career, achievements that Kobe can only dream of.

And LeBron will accomplish more and more feats than Kobe.

LeBron couldn't rape his way out of a paper bag.