NBA Playoffs 2012 Running thread

I think it was more in reference to how badly they played in a big game rather than the physical part of it, though being pushed around certainly could've helped them with the way they played.

 

Same ploy Bird used after Game 3 of the 84 Finals with the "we played like a bunch of sissies" quote. Next night was the McHale/Rambis clothesline and a complete shift in the Series momentum. Not sure he'll get the same storybook reaction this time around.
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Those old playoff fights were unbelievable. I looked forward to them every year. Still love the game in '86 where Sidney Moncrief threw Ainge into the stands, and then at the end of the Bucks' win McHale stepped over the bench to get into it with a fan in the front row.

And of course there was Bird throwing a fastball at Laimbeer's head. Fucking awesome.

The JoJo English-Derek Harper melee.

It was all fine until the NBA realized it had a Thug Life image problem.

 

I read this and had to do a double take. When I read "JoJo English-Derek Harper", I thought it said, "JoJo English-Derek Fisher" and I thought to myself, "Dang. Derek Fisher's been in the NBA a long time, but I didn't realize he's played long enough to have played against JoJo English."

 

In the 1972 playoffs, Wilt Chamberlain held Wayne Embry over his head to break up a fight. Gives one a minor idea as to how strong Wilt was.
Also, never forget the '60s playoff game where Sam Jones picked up a chair to defend himself against an unhappy Wilt.
When I was a preteen and teenager attending the Wilmington Blue Bombers games in the old Eastern League, fans thought they were gypped if there wasn't at least one fight. Tom Hoover and Walter Dukes fought more often than Zale and Graziano.

 

In Terry Pluto's ABA history, "Loose Balls," recent Basketball Hall of Fame nominee Mel Daniels' rookie season was described as "76 games, 76 fights." There was another story about Cliff Hagan punching a guy in the center jump circle at the start of the game -- didn't even go up for the ball, just clocked the guy. (And, the ref never saw it.) A big reason the ABA raided the NBA's refs was because the fighting was so out of control.

 

Because this has been repeated several times, I might point for the sake of accuracy that it actually was only one poster here, not "people", who made such a claim, and he was called out by others for the knee jerk absurdity of it:

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/80260/

That's the only example I recall of anyone making such a claim.

 

Think the Giants deserve to be in the playoffs this year?

And Miami still has not won anything, and that post was before the crapped out against the mighty Mavericks. If you read down, I also mentioned that OKC was the next great team, not the Heat.

 

They lost the NBA final in the first year they were together. Wow, what a colossal failure. Whether it works or not in Miami it is a ridiculous overreaction to say after 2 months that they need to be broken up. Really going out on a limb with OKC there Devil.

 

yes but there were others saying the 3 couldn't play together and they wouldn't win anything. they haven't won anything yet, but they haven't sucked either. and spoelstra is still coaching.

 

There was a tweet that Dexter Pittman was not being made available to the media.

Normally, this would not qualify as news.

 

And a Jeremy Lin reference before Lin was really Lin.