NBA Playoff Thread

Two straight games they haven't been able to adjust. At least adds a little intrigue to Game 5. And really, that's the series right there. The Suns aren't winning Game 7 at Staples. The only way it happens is with a win Thursday followed by a Game 6 win.

 

Nice of the boys at Turner to turn the NBA into a political basketball by letting the President use it as a place to argue against Arizona's immigration policy. I'll wait to see if they allow for equal time.

 

C's will close it out tonight.

 

How can the Lakers not know how to attack a zone?

Put Gasol or Odom at the high post at the free throw line and he either (1) takes an easy free throw, (2) finds the wings or (3) dumps it down high/low action like Never Nervous Pervis in '80(?).

 

A real point guard helps when trying to attack a zone. If your PG can drive and kick you can do fairly well against zone.

Fisher doesn't do that much.

 

I'm somewhat surprised nobody's commented on Big Baby's trying to run with a concussion scene. I thought that was a compelling TV moment. Dude was definitely out on his feet and still trying to run downcourt.

 

It was especially dramatic when you see the footage of Rivers frantically gesturing for Big Baby to get downcourt. Seems the coach was the last in the arena to realize his player was in trouble despite the Trevor Berbick impersonation.
The way the refs have been tossing around the technical fouls has been absurd. On the other hand, coaches and players need to STFU complaining about every freaking call even when they look up at the replay and see that they clearly were in the wrong.

 

I wish someday that society would revert back to finding complaining about calls unacceptable behavior. Umps are human, they make mistakes, just like the athletes, let it go. Most importantly, refs/umps do not have enough time to decide to make a call in favor of one team vs. another.

The calls in last night's game were awful though. No way Perkins should miss a game.

I'm hoping for a major Magic comeback simply because it would be great theatre to see a 7th game. Same for the West finals, want to see Nash and a fast shooting team win it all.

 

One of Perkins' techs was rescinded by the league, so he's back at 6 for the playoffs and, therefore, not suspended for Game 6.

How much tension do you suppose is going to be in the building tomorrow night if the Celtics don't get off to a good start? Don't tell me fans there aren't at least considering the possibility that they're staring down the barrel of their hockey and basketball teams blowing 3-0 series leads within weeks of each other.

 

The notion that the refs are "tossing around technical fouls" is utterly belied by the fact that Rasheed Wallace, who could legitimately be nailed with 50 technical fouls in every goddamn motherfucking game (to use terms he would understand) in which he participates, didn't get any.

The motherfucker screamed like a bitch for 60 seconds straight after (very deservedly) fouling out. The refs did nothing. What are they fuckin' afraid of, that Sheed is going to completely blow his cork and go for a ref's throat on national TV?

That might be a very good thing to happen, for the NBA overall, not to mention the Boston Celtics.

 

The fact that one known whiner/verbal abuser didn't get a technical foul doesn't undermine anything I said. The refs were operating with a quick trigger last night as evidenced by the fact that the league found it so embarrassing that it rescinded Perkins' second T and would have wiped out the first as well if it would not have made the refs look so much worse.
Your rant can't change that.
Sheed behaves like a 2-year-old, but that doesn't mean he can't have a legitimate gripe every now and then. Maybe he didn't get a T because the refs already knew what a horrific piece of work they had already pieced together.

 

Sheed doesn't get 10 technicals a game because the refs and the NBA as an entity have become desensitized to his incessant buzzer-to-buzzer scatological-obscenity screeching, and they're afraid if they ever did dish out the techs he deserves, he'd go berserk in a show to make Ron Artest-at-the-Palace look like Romper Room. With the NBA's image problems, a player being dragged off the floor in cuffs isn't the highlight film they want running on YouTube for the next 30 years.