I love how the Knicks made Barkley look like a fool last night. He was rambling on and on about how the Pacers were a better team during the half time and how they are going to take the series. He must have called them underrated 15 times in 2 minutes. What was really happening is that the Pacers were making all of their 3’s while the Knicks were missing all of theirs.
I love how Schumpert is playing these past few games. He is the most focused, hardest playing guy on that team right now. This is the best he has looked since coming back from that ACL tear IMO.
All that needs to happen now is for Jason Kidd and JR Smith to stop sucking.
I missed the OKC/Grizzlies game because it was past my bed time. From the box score, looks like it was a close one.
[quote]chillain wrote:
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
[quote]js252 wrote:
what does he do for them? i guess his screens are good, which most say are illegal. I guess he does a pretty good job making mean faces to the opposing team and refs. (doesnt seem to be very effective though)
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Hes good at looking stoic…having a hard time thinking of much else… Too unathletic to hang with elite big men and too slow and big to guard teams when they run small. On top of that, shit offense. [/quote]
Thing about questionable picks/screens is that they can’t call all of em.
And the value of six (hard) fouls goes way up when its postseason tempo.
But as far as any meaningful minutes go, of course you’re right.
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He fit in OK in Boston, they should’ve kept him there. My question is did he learn to set those questionable picks from KG or vice versa?
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
I love how the Knicks made Barkley look like a fool last night. He was rambling on and on about how the Pacers were a better team during the half time and how they are going to take the series. He must have called them underrated 15 times in 2 minutes. What was really happening is that the Pacers were making all of their 3’s while the Knicks were missing all of theirs.
I love how Schumpert is playing these past few games. He is the most focused, hardest playing guy on that team right now. This is the best he has looked since coming back from that ACL tear IMO.
All that needs to happen now is for Jason Kidd and JR Smith to stop sucking.
I missed the OKC/Grizzlies game because it was past my bed time. From the box score, looks like it was a close one.
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Yeah, Kidd has been doing shit in this series. Smith has been underwhelming too. Part of me was thinking i’d like to see him on the Bulls now that he’s gonna be a free agent, but im worried he’ll turn out to be another Rip Hamilton.
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
I love how the Knicks made Barkley look like a fool last night. He was rambling on and on about how the Pacers were a better team during the half time and how they are going to take the series. He must have called them underrated 15 times in 2 minutes. What was really happening is that the Pacers were making all of their 3’s while the Knicks were missing all of theirs.
I love how Schumpert is playing these past few games. He is the most focused, hardest playing guy on that team right now. This is the best he has looked since coming back from that ACL tear IMO.
All that needs to happen now is for Jason Kidd and JR Smith to stop sucking.
I missed the OKC/Grizzlies game because it was past my bed time. From the box score, looks like it was a close one.
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X2 FUCK YOU BARKLEY
Tonight’s Bulls-Heat game will not be close.
Heat will win by at least 10
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Tonight’s Bulls-Heat game will not be close.
Heat will win by at least 10[/quote]
Way to go out on a limb there…
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Tonight’s Bulls-Heat game will not be close.
Heat will win by at least 10[/quote]
Way to go out on a limb there…[/quote]
Indeed.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Tonight’s Bulls-Heat game will not be close.
Heat will win by at least 10[/quote]
I hope not. If the Bulls somehow take the series, the Knicks will be heading to the Finals in June.
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
He fit in OK in Boston, they should’ve kept him there. My question is did he learn to set those questionable picks from KG or vice versa?
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Heh exactly.
Remember, GM-Presti traded a young Jeff Green for him after seeing how Perkins defended Bynum pretty darn well in 2010 Finals. At that point, all roads in the Western Conf still ran through LA. Its easy to forget that now that road runs through OKC and Perkins seems like such a bad fit for their overall athleticism.
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
I missed the OKC/Grizzlies game because it was past my bed time. From the box score, looks like it was a close one.[/quote]
I was VERY impressed with Conley Jr down the stretch last night. Playing like that, I can easily see MEM making it out of the West.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Tonight’s Bulls-Heat game will not be close.
Heat will win by at least 10[/quote]
Shorthanded and off a Game7, that was the popular sentiment going into Game 1 as well.
Vegas had MIA as 12-pt chalk then and it looks like it’s the same number going into Game 2…
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Tonight’s Bulls-Heat game will not be close.
Heat will win by at least 10[/quote]
I hope not. If the Bulls somehow take the series, the Knicks will be heading to the Finals in June.[/quote]
Im with you.
If the Bulls beat the heat and then got swept against the Knicks i wouldnt care.
I would just be so thrilled to know that the crippled Bulls team, a team that had to face more adversity than any other team in the NBA this season, not only knocked the heat off when closing in on their record breaking win-streak, but also prevented them from even seeing the conference finals.
Itd be such an incredible historic moment to be a Bulls fan lol. And the heat would cease to exist as we know it afterwards.
When i went to the gym it was midway through the second and a 4 point game.
I came back and…ugh…
The Miami Heat play basketball very well.
That was beyond bad. We’ll be lucky to get another game.
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
That was beyond bad. We’ll be lucky to get another game.[/quote]
The heat played great but the Bulls also played like shit. Im not willing to say they wont win one more yet. We’ll know for sure after game 3 if this will be over within 5. When you have your roleplayers playing 48 minutes against the most stacked team in the NBA, its a miracle we even got one really.
GSW off to a great start again…
If the Warriors blow this I’m going to drive straight to the coast and swim to fucking China.
Why the fuck are there zero games tomorrow??
So GSW wins handily last night and practically gave away the first game…yeah im still picking them for this series.
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
So GSW wins handily last night and practically gave away the first game…yeah im still picking them for this series. [/quote]
After watching them come out and dominate for most of the game again, I have a hard time disagreeing with you there. The only times SA has made it close is when the Warriors get into self-inflicted trouble, like taking poor shots and missing free throws or getting into stupid foul trouble. I thought for sure that the Warriors would come out flat and be down quite a bit early on, maybe get back into the game a little bit in the second half but still lose by 10 or so. And that’s pretty much what SA did instead.
The Spurs just don’t have an answer for Curry and Thompson’s perimeter play right now. What’s really turning the tide of the series though is Thompson’s defense on Parker. He’s an underrated defender with length and enough speed to stay with Parker on drives to the basket and contest shots, and he’s making Parker work so hard that it’s tough for Parker to ALSO head down the court and put in similar effort against he and Curry.
Snapping a 16-year losing streak in SA takes quite the albatross off their necks, too, even if most of their players were only around for the last couple years of that streak.
I’m sure the Oracle Arena is going to be even louder on Friday than it was at any point in the Denver series. I’m shocked to be saying it with a straight face, but the way things have looked I wouldn’t be surprised if the Warriors just ran the table and blew the Spurs right out of the building the next three games.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:
So GSW wins handily last night and practically gave away the first game…yeah im still picking them for this series. [/quote]
After watching them come out and dominate for most of the game again, I have a hard time disagreeing with you there. The only times SA has made it close is when the Warriors get into self-inflicted trouble, like taking poor shots and missing free throws or getting into stupid foul trouble. I thought for sure that the Warriors would come out flat and be down quite a bit early on, maybe get back into the game a little bit in the second half but still lose by 10 or so. And that’s pretty much what SA did instead.
The Spurs just don’t have an answer for Curry and Thompson’s perimeter play right now. What’s really turning the tide of the series though is Thompson’s defense on Parker. He’s an underrated defender with length and enough speed to stay with Parker on drives to the basket and contest shots, and he’s making Parker work so hard that it’s tough for Parker to ALSO head down the court and put in similar effort against he and Curry.
Snapping a 16-year losing streak in SA takes quite the albatross off their necks, too, even if most of their players were only around for the last couple years of that streak.
I’m sure the Oracle Arena is going to be even louder on Friday than it was at any point in the Denver series. I’m shocked to be saying it with a straight face, but the way things have looked I wouldn’t be surprised if the Warriors just ran the table and blew the Spurs right out of the building the next three games.[/quote]
I agree. I thought they blew it big-time in game one and it was gonna cost them the series, but they looked undeterred last night, and as you mentioned, if they dont make trouble for themselves, they should be able to take this series within 6.
They’re going to carry a ton of momentum back home, i’ll be surprised if the Spurs can keep up.