2010 NBA Playoffs

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THUNDER!!! Looked good the last two games, especially last night. After a horrendous start to game 3, glad the guys got it together. Yesterday we were firing on all cylinders and looked really good. It looked like LAL wanted to establish dominance early on the inside (which I don’t fault them for) but OKC did a good job of containing them. The key part of yesterday’s success was contributions from everyone, instead of just relying on one or two guys to carry the load. Good team basketball.

Game 5 is going to be good. A series doesn’t start until someone wins on the road. It’ll be tough, but OKC is peaking at the right time. The team just looked really tight and nervous in game 1. If we can come out in game 5 the way we did in game 4, it’ll be interesting.

I know there are Thunder haters out there, but you gotta show the team some respect.

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It’s funny watching all the Thunder hope on this thread. I said it before, I’ll say it again. It ain’t gonna happen; OKC will not win this series. I saw the Lake Show do this last year and I saw the Celts do it the year before. Struggling like hell in the first few rounds against lower seeds until they get tired of getting pushed around and then finally come out swinging. Like it’s been said before, it ain’t a series until someone wins on the road. And even if no one does this series, it still the Lakers by default since they got the home floor throughout the Western Conference playoffs.

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[quote]randman wrote:
It’s funny watching all the Thunder hope on this thread. I said it before, I’ll say it again. It ain’t gonna happen; OKC will not win this series. I saw the Lake Show do this last year and I saw the Celts do it the year before. Struggling like hell in the first few rounds against lower seeds until they get tired of getting pushed around and then finally come out swinging. Like it’s been said before, it ain’t a series until someone wins on the road. And even if no one does this series, it still the Lakers by default since they got the home floor throughout the Western Conference playoffs.[/quote]

You have to show the Thunder some respect. Yeah they may not win the series, but they’ve already won two games, which is more than the Magic won in the Finals last year. I agree a series doesn’t start until someone wins on the road, but you can’t deny what the Thunder have done so far.

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For sure OKC and Chicago will be forces in coming years especially after this offseason. It should be very very interesting to see where the big free agents go.

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Cavs came off the loss with some fire tonight, good to see. Gotta give a lot of props to Noah though, that kid has brought it after launching his verbal bombs.

Spurs old man legs are doing just fine with all the rest between games in the playoffs, Mavs in deep trouble now, game 6 will be back in SA if they make it there.

D-Wade, don’t need to say anything else. He just said no, fuck that, not getting swept.

Denver is in the process of completely falling apart, gotta wonder if it would’ve been different with Coach Karl on the bench. Utah is undermanned and stomping on them in multiple games now.

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Oh stfu randman the Lakers suck this year. Who gives a shit if they beat OKC or not, they’re expected to, but they aren’t winning a west final or a nba final. I’ve said it before and ill say it again OKC has a real shot at beating the lakers!

“wow did he just say that?”

damn straight i did.

“and your evidence? i mean its the lakers dude. L.a.k.e.rs…”

funny you should ask. Im a simple person, i dont need to analyze the cumulative stats of each team, in the regular season, in this series and the figures relating to: +/-, 4th quarter scoring, response elasticity to leads etc. I just need to look at the games. what i see from watching the basketball is an l.a team that is struggling to find a rhythm. this isn’t just with regard to these couple of games with the thunder but also the latter half of the nba reg. season, especially near the end.

the mistake is to treat the lakers and mavs as anything more than they are showing you. coaches have adjusted to the gasol/bryant/whoever combo.

im rooting for a hawks/celtics/cavs vs spurs final

fuck the magic and lakers.

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[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
Oh stfu randman the Lakers suck this year. Who gives a shit if they beat OKC or not, they’re expected to, but they aren’t winning a west final or a nba final. I’ve said it before and ill say it again OKC has a real shot at beating the lakers!

“wow did he just say that?”

damn straight i did.

“and your evidence? i mean its the lakers dude. L.a.k.e.rs…”

funny you should ask. Im a simple person, i dont need to analyze the cumulative stats of each team, in the regular season, in this series and the figures relating to: +/-, 4th quarter scoring, response elasticity to leads etc. I just need to look at the games. what i see from watching the basketball is an l.a team that is struggling to find a rhythm. this isn’t just with regard to these couple of games with the thunder but also the latter half of the nba reg. season, especially near the end.

the mistake is to treat the lakers and mavs as anything more than they are showing you. coaches have adjusted to the gasol/bryant/whoever combo.

im rooting for a hawks/celtics/cavs vs spurs final

fuck the magic and lakers.[/quote]
You must not watch much ball then. Spurs lmao

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[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
Oh stfu randman the Lakers suck this year. Who gives a shit if they beat OKC or not, they’re expected to, but they aren’t winning a west final or a nba final. I’ve said it before and ill say it again OKC has a real shot at beating the lakers!

“wow did he just say that?”

damn straight i did.

“and your evidence? i mean its the lakers dude. L.a.k.e.rs…”

funny you should ask. Im a simple person, i dont need to analyze the cumulative stats of each team, in the regular season, in this series and the figures relating to: +/-, 4th quarter scoring, response elasticity to leads etc. I just need to look at the games. what i see from watching the basketball is an l.a team that is struggling to find a rhythm. this isn’t just with regard to these couple of games with the thunder but also the latter half of the nba reg. season, especially near the end.

the mistake is to treat the lakers and mavs as anything more than they are showing you. coaches have adjusted to the gasol/bryant/whoever combo.

im rooting for a hawks/celtics/cavs vs spurs final

fuck the magic and lakers.[/quote]

I agree with just about everything you said, but no need to attack randman. He was just trying to push buttons.

I am a Spurs fan (lived in San Antonio for awhile and really find it easy to like Duncan, Parker, Ginobili, etc.), but I work with a ton of die-hard Lakers fans. They irritate the shit out of me. I told them all that I have a feeling that this series against the Thunder could be like the Mavs-Warriors series in 2007. I agree that the Thunder have a chance. Both of the Lakers’ victories were relatively close games. The Thunder totally fucked the Lakers up on Saturday.

The next game will be interesting. If the Thunder can keep it close, then I think they’ll pull out the game 6 at Oklahoma City. That brings it to a game 7 and anything can happen there.

More importantly, how 'bout them Spurs? If they do nothing else this year, I hope they beat the Mavs. I can’t stand the guys on that team, let alone Mark Cuban. Could it have been anymore obvious that the Mavs sent Najera in as a headhunter to take out Ginobili? Dude hasn’t played a minute in the series, then within seconds of stepping on the court, pulls Ginobili to the ground in an overwhelmingly obvious flagrant foul. That is Maverick basketball in a nutshell.

I think it’s LeBron’s year, though. If the Spurs don’t take it, I hope he does.

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[quote]drewh wrote:

You must not watch much ball then. Spurs lmao
[/quote]

Hey, why the hate? What’s wrong with the Spurs?

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[quote]drewh wrote:

[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
Oh stfu randman the Lakers suck this year. Who gives a shit if they beat OKC or not, they’re expected to, but they aren’t winning a west final or a nba final. I’ve said it before and ill say it again OKC has a real shot at beating the lakers!

“wow did he just say that?”

damn straight i did.

“and your evidence? i mean its the lakers dude. L.a.k.e.rs…”

funny you should ask. Im a simple person, i dont need to analyze the cumulative stats of each team, in the regular season, in this series and the figures relating to: +/-, 4th quarter scoring, response elasticity to leads etc. I just need to look at the games. what i see from watching the basketball is an l.a team that is struggling to find a rhythm. this isn’t just with regard to these couple of games with the thunder but also the latter half of the nba reg. season, especially near the end.

the mistake is to treat the lakers and mavs as anything more than they are showing you. coaches have adjusted to the gasol/bryant/whoever combo.

im rooting for a hawks/celtics/cavs vs spurs final

fuck the magic and lakers.[/quote]
You must not watch much ball then. Spurs lmao
[/quote]

Agreed. I can’t wait to see u eat ur words. I’ll leave it at that. I’m not saying the Lakers are going to win it all this year but they definitely don’t suck as bad as everyone is squaking about right now. Hell, they ended up with the best record in the western conference and they suck? Ha ha. They “sucked” last year too when they when 7 games with an undermanned Houston team and ended up winning the championship. Short memories…

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FWIW, OKC is 4-0 against the spread in this series, and each game has tilted more in OKC’s favor than the last. +8 to +3 to -6 to -21: that’s a pretty ugly trend for LA. If LA is waiting to push that proverbial button, they’d better do it quickly.

I still think LA is going to win the series, but if all I knew about either team was what I’ve seen from their 4 games thus far, I’d tell you that the better team is wearing the lighter shade of blue…

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[quote]drewh wrote:

You must not watch much ball then. Spurs lmao
[/quote]

ROOTING for the Spurs, doesn’t mean I think they’re going to win anything or any game in any series.

Im one of those people that will watch the finals no matter whatever team gets there and whatever the series total is.

I Watch and Luv ball drewh!

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FUCK U NUGGETS!!! YOU ARE MAKING ME LOOK BAD!

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LMAO at the Laker haters saying they wont win the series. I wouldn’t disagree if anyone said that it’s going to be a tough playoffs for them, I’d even agree that there is a chance they wont make it. But for anyone to confidently say that the team with the best record in a very competative western conference series definitely isn’t going to win needs a reality check.

The Lakers have:
Player for player one of the best teams if not THE best team in the NBA.
The best record in the more competative division.
One of the best players in the game
The most decorated coach in the NBA
Experience
Size

The only reason you hear stories of the Lakers being worried or not looking good is because they are the Champs. You wont hear anyone say, “there’s NO way OKC wins it all this year”. Reason being is nobody cares to read an article or thread like that, but you say that there’s no way the Champs can win and all of a sudden everyone is listening. Don’t be a fool, Lakers most definitely still are the team to beat. Inconsistent or not, when they turn “it on”, they are one tough team to beat. End of story.

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[quote]AndrewG909 wrote:
LMAO at the [2007 Mavericks] haters saying they wont win the series. I wouldn’t disagree if anyone said that it’s going to be a tough playoffs for them, I’d even agree that there is a chance they wont make it. But for anyone to confidently say that the team with the best record in a very competative western conference series definitely isn’t going to win needs a reality check.

The [2007 Mavericks] ha[d]:
Player for player one of the best teams if not THE best team in the NBA.
The best record in the more competative division.
One of the best players in the game
. . .
Experience
Size

[/quote]

I’m not saying the Lakers will lose, but everything you said could just as easily have been said about the Mavs team that got upset by the Warriors in 2007.

A big, big thing Laker fans seem to overlook is that Kobe is not Kobe this year. Dude is hurting. It’s really obvious. Kobe is mortal now and that makes the Lakers a LOT less dangerous of a team. I’m telling you, this definitely has a Mavs-Warriors 2007 feel to it.

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It really doesn’t though, if you remember the Warriors owned the Mavis in the regular season that year. When LA wins these posts will seem very funny.

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[quote]eic wrote:

[quote]AndrewG909 wrote:
LMAO at the [2007 Mavericks] haters saying they wont win the series. I wouldn’t disagree if anyone said that it’s going to be a tough playoffs for them, I’d even agree that there is a chance they wont make it. But for anyone to confidently say that the team with the best record in a very competative western conference series definitely isn’t going to win needs a reality check.

The [2007 Mavericks] ha[d]:
Player for player one of the best teams if not THE best team in the NBA.
The best record in the more competative division.
One of the best players in the game
. . .
Experience
Size

[/quote]

I’m not saying the Lakers will lose, but everything you said could just as easily have been said about the Mavs team that got upset by the Warriors in 2007.

A big, big thing Laker fans seem to overlook is that Kobe is not Kobe this year. Dude is hurting. It’s really obvious. Kobe is mortal now and that makes the Lakers a LOT less dangerous of a team. I’m telling you, this definitely has a Mavs-Warriors 2007 feel to it.

[/quote]
Oh I’m not overlooking that at all, the lakers are definitely more vulnerable then I was expecting them to be this year. Kobe is hurting, Paul Gasol doesn’t play like he used to, Bynum is always getting hurt, and Artest isn’t fitting as well as I was hoping. Any Laker fan that thinks this series is in the bag is kidding themselves, we are definitely vulnerable to an upset. I just don’t think its gunna happen. =)

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[quote]eic wrote:

[quote]AndrewG909 wrote:
LMAO at the [2007 Mavericks] haters saying they wont win the series. I wouldn’t disagree if anyone said that it’s going to be a tough playoffs for them, I’d even agree that there is a chance they wont make it. But for anyone to confidently say that the team with the best record in a very competative western conference series definitely isn’t going to win needs a reality check.

The [2007 Mavericks] ha[d]:
Player for player one of the best teams if not THE best team in the NBA.
The best record in the more competative division.
One of the best players in the game
. . .
Experience
Size

[/quote]

I’m not saying the Lakers will lose, but everything you said could just as easily have been said about the Mavs team that got upset by the Warriors in 2007.

A big, big thing Laker fans seem to overlook is that Kobe is not Kobe this year. Dude is hurting. It’s really obvious. Kobe is mortal now and that makes the Lakers a LOT less dangerous of a team. I’m telling you, this definitely has a Mavs-Warriors 2007 feel to it.

[/quote]

Laughable. Not even close to a Mav-Warriors scenario. Lakers ain’t the Mavs… The Mavs have been choking for decades. LMAO!!! Kobe still had a tremendous number of peaks this year and his injuries aren’t going to send him to the ER. He’ll be fine and work though it. This team is a LOT more dangerous than a lot of people are giving them credit for. I see them eking out this series and then they’ll get back to the finals. This is where I’m unsure if they’ll have enough juice/firepower to beat Cleveland or Orlando. A lot of their playing woes are correctable mistakes. They’ve got way too much talent to just go down in what would be the biggest upset in NBA playoff history.

People were doing the same level of questioning with the Celtics-Hawks first round series 2 years ago that went 7 games. The Celts ended up winning the championship that year. Doh…

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^ Not too worried about Orlando, Cleveland on the other hand…

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^^ Dude, you still should be worried about Orlando. Remember Jameer Nelson slayed us last year when he was healthy and then wasn’t when we faced them in the finals. He’s tearing it up again and you know how umm…cough…well we do against guarding quick, explosive talented guards.