NBA Playoffs Thread

I think Hawkeye just asked for a bag of Ringer's lactate in the Celtics' corner of the floor.

 

Good one, Jinxy.

 

Celtics fanboy and fangirl friends of mine are saying the Celtics got hosed by the refs. You'd think this was Kings-Lakers in '02 the way they're reacting.

Me, it wasn't great, but I've seen far, FAR worse.

 

Interested to see how sanctimonious these guys are in the post-game.

Not that it mattered, but the Bron Bron steal-and-dunk sure looked like a walk, as he turned to mug.

Celtics have no complaints about the refs. The refs didn't throw the ball away.

 

Hey, if it'd been a 42 minute game they'd have won. BTW, how'd you like to have Craig Sager come up and start babbling at you in a moment of great personal or professional triumph? Almost makes losing worthwhile to miss that.

 

You were saying?

Damn, I hate the Heat.

 

But the Lakers just aren't tough enough to beat the Celtics!

 

The discrepancy in foul shots down the stretch was ridiculous. It pissed me off and I'm not even that big of a Celtics fan. But a) you're right, it's not in the Top 500 of NBA playoff officiating travesties of all time and b) the Celtics gave up a 16-0 run to end the game. Third time in five games they hit a wall late in the fourth or OT and just fell apart. That's the story of the series.

 

Great Sager moment: he went ahead with the clever little breakfast-lunch question that he probably had teed up all week, even though LeBron essentially answered it with his opening comment two questions before that.

 

We understand you said Bynum's act was classless, but then you suggested that Barea did something that made him a target. That's simply not the case. This has nothing to do with current rules vs. modern rules. I think what he did would have been frowned upon even more in the 80s, because with the physical play that was allowed back then, there was also an ethic.

 

If this is indeed the end of Shaq - Where does he rank among all-time centers?

I honestly think anything other than No. 1 or No. 2 is borderline insanity.