NBA Playoff Thread

Damn, will the Suns EVER be able to get a break this time of year?

 

Well, there was Nash's nose.

 

took me a sec, but i lol'd.

 

No.

I can't recall this franchise catching a decent break after May 1:

1990: Knocked out by the Blazers even after winning at Portland to open.
1993: Advance to the finals in a weak West - with their best team - and get run out by the Bulls in 6.
1994 (maybe 1995): Win first two against Houston... lose the next four.
2007: The suspension...

Nope...

 

I'm sorry that wasn't a bad shot. It was wiiiddddddeeeee open....nobody within 10 miles of him. He was right, at some point you have to keep playing. You don't tell Ron Artest, a dude that's spent years scoring 20 a game, not to take that shot. If he makes it, the game is over. The only people who think that was a terrible shot are the ones who haven't been in that position.

 

Here ya go

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/news/2003/01/18/blazers_wallace_ap/

Oh and as for players, there was the "drilling-Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje in the head with a basketball during practice" incident.

 

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/artesro01.html

Artest has scored 20 points a game in two seasons, only one of which was an actual full season.

Artest showed a basketball IQ of zero on that play. Being in that position in whatever loser Glory Days rec league you toil in doesn't make you any more knowledgeable than anyone here.

 

Why shouldn't they show it? It's not up to TNT to decide how Gentry will be remembered.

It's asinine to think that you wouldn't show it. Let the viewers decide.

How is that not news?

 

Terrible shot, you have the lead, you can run time off the clock and you take that 3 with 22 seconds left on the shot clock? Wow, you are the only one I've heard defend that. Phil Jackson ad Kobe thought it was awful.

So, since the only people who think that was a bad shot haven't been in that position, tell us who you played for? You have obviously played pro ball and have made it to the Western Conference Finals, please let us know who you are. John Salley?

 

Well since it pertains to this conversation, I played division I ball...want to know more? inbox me and I'll give u the details. That goes for you, JC and Piotr.....if you want to know what paper I work for, what I do, who I cover, I can give you that as well. I have no shame in my game...nothing to hide at all.

As for the shot, I didn't think it was a bad one because as I said, he was wide open. Kobe would've taken that shot. Many players would've taken that shot. The dude is a ballplayer. It was a basketball play. That's who Ron Ron is and you have to live and die with the results. The Lakers knew this when they went after him. I think part of the reason that he's struggled so much in the playoffs is the fact that playing third to fourth fiddle in that offense has really tempered his instincts. So I have no problem with the look or the shot. He makes it, the game is over.

 

Ron, Ron is not Kobe. And no, Kobe, would not have taken that shot.

So you do not believe in clock management, good to know.