[quote]lanchefan1 wrote:
Congrats to the Lakers, the return of Metta was huge in that victory. Got to give my hometown team some credit for hanging tough and taking the series to the brink. Just came up short during the last 5 minutes.[/quote]
No question DEN deserves a ton of credit.
And if there was any “justice” at all in pro bball, their brand of high-energy teamball would’ve been rewarded ahead of the entitled, slacker-style of LAL.
[quote]scj119 wrote:
[quote]chillain wrote:
The reason this year’s Z-Bo doesnt resemble last year’s Z-Bo is because Gay is healthy[/quote]
No, it’s because Z-Bo isn’t fully healthy himself yet.[/quote]
[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
I was talking to a friend of mine today who is a huge Laker fan and even he’s realising the Lakers just aren’t an elite team any more. They’re weak on D, they score in bunches and their coach sucks. And that’s probably a very limited perspective on what’s wrong with them. The only reason they won championships after the Gasol trade was because Gasol actually played like an All-Star and they got reasonable production from their bench. Now you have Devin Ebanks, who ever the fuck he is, getting ejected because he can’t keep his cool. Honestly, what the fuck gives him the right to be pissed - he should be happy he’s even getting minutes in the playoffs.
The Lakers are major underdogs this series and the only reason I’m not being harsher is because I have respect for some of the Laker fans here (mainly Gregon). I know what it’s like to support a once great team and see them slowly dissolve into mediocrity. [/quote]
Get, this sounds like a typical overreaction to a blowout (that some have already argued was easily foreseeable). I encourage you to look up “memorial day massacre” and the 1977 Finals matchup between PHI/POR for a broader perspective here.
Yes, OKC is the favorite but the gap between these two squads is much closer than you think.
Unless you believe that OKC will continue to shoot lights out while also almost never turning it over. But only in that case.
(also expect to see more of Ebanks out there for defensive purposes, as Stevie Blake is pretty badly overmatched at that end)
There were a couple of homecourt calls there at the end, like Westbrook hitting it out and it completely missing Bryant’s hands but it got called going OKC’s way and that posession led to Durant’s go-ahead J, or Durant’s blatant travel with about a second to go but giving him ft’s?!?!?. But, them’s the breaks. OKC also played the last few inbounds passes really well. LA really needed this game. Still got hope, but they gotta really bring it back home.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
There were a couple of homecourt calls there at the end, like Westbrook hitting it out and it completely missing Bryant’s hands but it got called going OKC’s way[/quote]
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
There were a couple of homecourt calls there at the end, like Westbrook hitting it out and it completely missing Bryant’s hands but it got called going OKC’s way and that posession led to Durant’s go-ahead J, or Durant’s blatant travel with about a second to go but giving him ft’s?!?!?. But, them’s the breaks. OKC also played the last few inbounds passes really well. LA really needed this game. Still got hope, but they gotta really bring it back home.[/quote]
You mean the one they reviewed and got right that was clearly off Kobe? And the called foul on Durant with 0.3 seconds left?
Watched pretty much the whole thing and while there were bad calls both ways I would say the Lakers got their fair share if not more of the favorable calls going their way.
thought Blake was going to nail that wide open 3 at the end though, Westbrook really fell asleep on that one.
Looks like y’all are right. Was watching live on the comp and the feed was blurry. That was off Kobe. But, Durant still traveled his ass off with about a second on the clock, and they called a phantom foul with .3. Not saying the Lakers would’ve hit their shot, and momentum was clearly in OKC’s favor, but that was a bad call.
KD traveled, but they should have just called the game over. I mean seriously, you could see it in the lakers faces that they just wanted to get off the court. Even Mike Brown gave a wave down to the OKc bench and they all started to walk off.
the refs give bullshit calls all the time, but somehow feel the need to follow the exact letter of the law when it comes to time left at the end of the game. WTF is going to happen with .3 left on the clock, grant hill and christian laettner think that’s ridiculous.
[quote]overstand wrote:
We really gonna act like Kobe doesn’t deserve the lion’s share of the blame for game 2?
Lakers were up 7, Kobe misses 4 or 5 shots in a row, OKC closes on a 9-0 run to win by 2.[/quote]
If you look at game 2 in isolation sure. But Kobe has practically carried the team all year. I would have a hard time pointing the blame at Kobe for shooting poorly at the end of ONE playoff game especially when the rest of the team has been inconsistent practically all year.
I’d like to see the Pacers come out of the east. Obviously fuck the heat, the ppl that go to their games, and smugStern; Cant stand boston, and i think philly is weak. Plus i love Larry legend.
Seriously tho, the flopping and bullshit that goes on with the heatles is atrocious. How lebald dint get a T for that elbow, and Granger did is fucked up. How wade wasnt suspended is fucked up. The way lebald flopped on that out of bounds in the first half, that’s just an insult to the game of basketball.