NBA Playoffs Thread

Eh, at least I saw good run and back-to-back Finals appearances (and one title, should have been two). But Joe D is making everyone shake their heads with those signings. That's another story.

And I'm not a Lakers hater. More so, I hate the glitzy fair-weather fans. Kobe is one of my all-time favs, though.

 

No way the Mavs continue to shoot like this, but even so, looks like the Lakers are done.

 

Mavs made 11 3-pointers that half. Lakers have 11 this series. Where is Sasha?

One thing about the Lakers with Kobe, when they get eliminated, it's ugly. Start with 1999 when he was finally a star. Ugly loss to the Spurs. 2003 debacle against Spurs. 04 rout in Detroit. 06 Game 7 in Phoenix. Game 5 in 2007 at Phoenix. 39-point loss to Celtics in Game 7. And, whatever today's final is.

Peja...what the hell? Still, glad he's making these but missed the corner 3 in Game 7 of the 2002 WCF.

 

Celtics routed LA in Game 6 in 2008, not seven.

 

Yep.

It is one interesting difference between Kobe and Magic's teams. When Magic's Lakers were eliminated, it was always tight, whether it was Sampson's shot, losing to the Suns at home in 1990 or even Game 5 in 1991, when they were short-handed but were in it until the final minutes. It is a little misleading, of course, since if the Lakers would have lost some of the close elimination games they won with Kobe - 2000 against Blazers, against Kings, last year against Celtics - it wouldn't be such an ugly record.

 

Still time for the Lakers to flip the switch...

 

They've thrown the other switch. The kill switch. It's 71-46.

Sweepy McSweep.

 

The missed layup by Artest in the third quarter was so bad it looked like a painfully inept attempt at fixing a game. And no, I'm really, really not trying to resurrect what, if I remember correctly, were NBA fixing conspiracy theories. Just an observation. It was simply that bad.

 

And now Bynum is gone after an even dumber play. This has been such an embarrassing performance all the way around.

 

This isn't the first time Bynum has pulled this. He should be suspended for a long time.

 

Punk. Ass. Bitches.

I'm not much of a Tirico fan, but at least he assigned the proper outrage to the Bynum play.