Also, Scott Brooks is worse at coaching offense than Joel Anthony is at playing it.
I`ve been missing sleep a lot lately and went to bed early…
FUCK
Dirk has been an unstoppable offensive force in these playoffs. I honestly can’t remember a playoffs where someone has been so dominant offensively. Hes been putting up crazy amounts of points and not taking very many shots to do it.
Dirk is playing out of his mind right now. When it’s your time, it’s your time, I guess.
Now the bulls will win tonight and take it back to Chicago a 2-2 series.
[quote]LarryDavid wrote:
I`ve been missing sleep a lot lately and went to bed early…
FUCK[/quote]
I feel your pain. I watched the entire game, except for those last 5 minutes. The Mav’s had zero momentum when I decided to call it a night because I was dozing off. So frustrating.
Do yourselves a favor and watch a highlight show. The 3-4 consecutive shots Dirk made when the Mavs had no momentum were crazy. One was a surprise instantaneous catch-and-shoot 3, the others were impossible shots that were EXTREMELY well defended by Collison and still got drained.
OKC also melted down though… Dirk deserves a hell of a lot of credit but he did not force OKC to foul THREE TIMES 90 feet from the basket, giving DAL 6 free points with no time running off clock. Totally inexcusable.
Random stats note WhiteFlash will hate: OKC outrebounded DAL by 22 and LOST. TWENTY-TWO!!! I don’t remember the last time I’ve seen that. Also, 20 offensive rebounds (!!)
[quote]scj119 wrote:
Random stats note WhiteFlash will hate: OKC outrebounded DAL by 22 and LOST. TWENTY-TWO!!! I don’t remember the last time I’ve seen that. Also, 20 offensive rebounds (!!)[/quote]
That is crazy. You’re not supposed to get 20 Offensive boards and even be in a close game (muchless loose)
Sorry OKC… It was a good run. Better luck next year
[quote]scj119 wrote:
Do yourselves a favor and watch a highlight show. The 3-4 consecutive shots Dirk made when the Mavs had no momentum were crazy. One was a surprise instantaneous catch-and-shoot 3, the others were impossible shots that were EXTREMELY well defended by Collison and still got drained.
OKC also melted down though… Dirk deserves a hell of a lot of credit but he did not force OKC to foul THREE TIMES 90 feet from the basket, giving DAL 6 free points with no time running off clock. Totally inexcusable.[/quote]
I’m going have to see it. NBA channel will be replaying it tomorrow at 6PM. I’m going to catch it on the DVR.
I’ve stuck it out watching some of the blowout games in these playoffs to the very end and last night was the time I chose to end it early(OKC was up 13 with momentum ~6ish to go I think?)… FML
Miami will continue to frustrate Rose, and Mia wins tonight 92-83.
[quote]fnf wrote:
Miami will continue to frustrate Rose, and Mia wins tonight 92-83.[/quote]
LOL I love the exact score prediction.
But I agree MIA are going up 3-1.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]fnf wrote:
Miami will continue to frustrate Rose, and Mia wins tonight 92-83.[/quote]
LOL I love the exact score prediction.
But I agree MIA are going up 3-1.
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Yea, I predicted a score to annoy my friend. When Miami’s D is on, the Bulls aren’t scoring in the 90’s. Then you got Bron and Wade taking turns facilitating the offense unlike the Bulls who only have Rose. Who do you key on?
A lot of my friends and people at my work hate Miami because of Bron. So I loved being the only one cheering for them when they were beating Philly, Boston and Chicago the last 2 games
My Cleveland Cavalier friend brought this up:
In this series it goes Bron, Wade, then ROSE, Bosh. Yes, Rose was MVP this year, but Wade and Bron have done more their entire careers and are bigger versions of him.
Look at Cleveland last year: BRON, then Pierce, Garnett, Allen. Look what Boston did to Cleveland.
Miami’s bench isn’t as good as Chicago, but their one player Haslem is better than any single one of the Bulls bench players.
Of course all Chi has to do it win tonight and they’re back in the drivers seat. And I’ll delete this post! lol
[quote]scj119 wrote:
Random stats note WhiteFlash will hate: OKC outrebounded DAL by 22 and LOST. TWENTY-TWO!!! I don’t remember the last time I’ve seen that. Also, 20 offensive rebounds (!!)[/quote]
That is fucking crazy, and goes against one of the chief principles of basketball. Pat Riley said “No rebounds, no rings.” That tells me that Dallas has be to be shooting something crazy efficient. What is their team fg% for the series? I think OKC is out shooting 'em from the line too, right? This playoff run [outside of the 1st round against Portland] has to be one of the most efficient runs in NBA history. You are not supposed to get out rebounded, out shot from the line and outplayed for huge chunks of games and still win. Everything Dallas is doing this year defies basketball logic. Think it’s their year.
Just got a phone call from one of my really good buddies who I was in the military with. He moved back to Oklahoma after getting out and works as a trainer in a gym out there (not sure what the name is)
he said he was finishing up with one of his clients today when Blake Griffin walked in. Griffin got a membership there for the summer and will be training at my buddies gym. He’s the top trainer there so he’s going to talk to Griffin and try to work him out a few times. That so bad ass! Even if he doesnt get to train him/with him it’ll still be awesome. He said he’s gonna get a pic with him at the gym and send it to me.
He said Griffin is really tall (obviously) but looks a lot more thin IRL. he said he has a big frame but looked a little thin in a regular shirt and not a basketball jersey.
[quote]gregron wrote:
Dirk has been an unstoppable offensive force in these playoffs. I honestly can’t remember a playoffs where someone has been so dominant offensively. Hes been putting up crazy amounts of points and not taking very many shots to do it.
Dirk is playing out of his mind right now. When it’s your time, it’s your time, I guess.
Now the bulls will win tonight and take it back to Chicago a 2-2 series.[/quote]
I can think of a few, but what’s making Nowitzki’s performance so good is his efficiency [outside of one game]. They showed a stat last night on his ft’s made and attempted for the series, and he was something like 40-42. That’s insane. And outside of that 7-21 game, anytime Dallas has needed a bucket he’s been automatic. This series will probably go down as a top 10 individual series in NBA history for Nowitzki.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
I honestly can’t remember a playoffs where someone has been so dominant offensively. Hes been putting up crazy amounts of points and not taking very many shots to do it.[/quote]
I can think of a few, but what’s making Nowitzki’s performance so good is his efficiency[/quote]
Yeah thats kinda what I was getting at with the part of my quote above. He has been so efficient that its crazy. It seems like he never misses
^^^ What are his and the teams fg% for the series, and the whole playoffs? Outside of the Portland series they’ve been lights out.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
[quote]scj119 wrote:
Random stats note WhiteFlash will hate: OKC outrebounded DAL by 22 and LOST. TWENTY-TWO!!! I don’t remember the last time I’ve seen that. Also, 20 offensive rebounds (!!)[/quote]
That is fucking crazy, and goes against one of the chief principles of basketball. Pat Riley said “No rebounds, no rings.” That tells me that Dallas has be to be shooting something crazy efficient. What is their team fg% for the series? I think OKC is out shooting 'em from the line too, right? This playoff run [outside of the 1st round against Portland] has to be one of the most efficient runs in NBA history. You are not supposed to get out rebounded, out shot from the line and outplayed for huge chunks of games and still win. Everything Dallas is doing this year defies basketball logic. Think it’s their year.[/quote]
OKC actually outshot them for the game too (46.7% vs. 43.2%). DAL won with turnovers (13 vs. 25), FT shooting (34-of-39 WOW, vs. 19-for-25 including Westbrook missing 2 straight clutch FTs that kept DAL in the game late)… and to a lesser extent they won with 3pt shooting too (8/25 vs. 2/13).
For the postseason, DAL is shooting 39.6% from 3, 46.7% from the floor and an incredible 81.6% from the line. They are +11pts per 48mins with Dirk on the floor and -4pts per 48mins with him on the bench.
Dirk is shooting 52% overall, 52% from 3 (only taking 2 per game), and 92% from the line (taking nearly 10 per game).
Stats via the box score on ESPN for last night’s game, and www.nba.com/statscube for the playoff-long stats
[quote]gregron wrote:
Dirk has been an unstoppable offensive force in these playoffs. I honestly can’t remember a playoffs where someone has been so dominant offensively. Hes been putting up crazy amounts of points and not taking very many shots to do it.
Dirk is playing out of his mind right now. When it’s your time, it’s your time, I guess.
Now the bulls will win tonight and take it back to Chicago a 2-2 series.[/quote]
I don’t see that happening.
But I still like your mustache.
I am so fucking pissed I missed the game, slept and woke up not knowing what time it was, agreed to a dinner out of town…fuck me. Caught part of the OT though. Wasn’t OKC up in the 4th?
I think DAL would beat MIA. Regardless of MIA defense, I think DAL has better ball movement AND has real shooters. MIA has no shooters.
Thoughts?
And I don’t buy the black and white “but defense wins championships.” Not that simple.