2013 NBA Playoffs thread

Bold prediction: Team that scores the most points will win.

 

Kevin Durant vs. LeBron James, the two best players in the league.

 

So for all you people who think this is rigged you have Mark and Herpies supporting you. Two of the biggest morons on this board.

 

How do you explain the LA vs. Portland Donaghy game? Or the NBA Draft lottery when the Knicks were awarded Ewing?

 

Oh come on, the second one is easily explained. Really.

 

Go on. Explain the crease then.

 

Oh my god, an evelope has never gotten a crease when being tossed around with other envelopes. Paper doesn't crease easily. This must be the work of a mad genius! Oh, woe be unto the world that had this mad genius unleashed upon it. Truly these are the end times!

They won a lottery that they had equal odds with all other teams to win. Them winning was exactly as probable as any other individual team winning! Maybe if they had 1% odds I'd see something here. But otherwise. C'mon, man!

(PS, I thought the cool conspiracy theory on this was was that they'd frozen the envelope so it was cold to the touch. Much easier to feel a cold envelope than feel for a crease, after all!).

 

Oh, so the league only schemes to make it seven game series when San Antonio's in the finals? I guess that's why in 07 San Antonio swept Cleveland in four, and why in 99 San Antonio rolled over the Knicks in only five, or San Antonio's 03 Finals went six.

Any other dimwitted theories you want to trot out?

 

You're trying too hard in your responses to him.

 

Over of all teams, New York. Why the hell would the league not have wanted the Knicks to have won that?

 

They can't make seven-game series in all of them. That would look way too obvious.

 

Like the discussion of LeBron's headband, this conversation about "fixes" is getting stupider. Miami won game six in part because Pop outcoached himself, making the Vogelian mistake of taking out his big man at the end to get more defensive flexibility in guarding the 3-point shooters. (And, let's not forget, taking Parker out for the same reason, leaving the out-of-gas Ginobli to push the ball on that last play in overtime.) Sure, if Leonard hits one free throw, the series is over, but note that Miami's two final 3-pointers in regulation came on offensive rebounds where Bosh had no challenge at all to get up and get the ball.