PREDEICTIONS/OBVSERVATIONS

celtics and raptors are the two best teams in the east.

suns are cooked ;_;

spurs, rockets, best, west.

yr mvp candidates for the next decade: lebron, wade, yao, howard, paul, durant.

overrated: detriot, chicago, dallas.

suns losing to lakers wtf

I hate this game.

it's fannnnnnnncrapstic

sonics won't even win 20

suns the heat are cooked ;_; :)

Portland will veer wildly from excellence to cluelessness, not just from game to game but from quarter to quarter, until about February. After that, they will play just slightly above .500 to the end of the season and miss the playoffs by a whisker.

KOBE WILL GET TRADED TO ATLANTA FOR THE ENTIRE HAWKS LINE-UP AND THEY WILL CHANGE THEIR NAME TO THE ATLANTA FUCK THE WORLDS

SHEED WINS SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD

DWIGHT HOWARD GOES TO PRISON FOR HAVING TOO MUCH GAME AND FOR STEALING DAVID ROBINSON'S LIFE

http://freedarko.blogspot.com/2007/11/fd-guest-lecture-love-basketball-and.html

deron williams will post 20+ pts/10 assts a game and everyone will still talk about chris paul instead

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RUDY GAY: MVP

GOD CHRIS PAUL IS BETTER THAN DERON - DERON IS GOOD BUT JUST GET OVER IT ALREADY SORRY

ITS JUST LIKE KOBE IS BETTER THAN PAUL PIERCE - FIND INNER PEACE

I SAW GAY PLAY AGAINST PORTLAND TONIGHT. HE PUT ON A PRETTY GOOD SHOW BUT HE SEEMS ONE-DIMENSIONAL? (SCORING)

(That is probably true. He just gets hated on by sportswriters who are trying to act like they have some magic power of divination about who will be a real player in the league. He might not be the next Scottie Pippen/Tracy McGrady/etc., but at some point they're going to have to admit that he's pretty good.)

oops, I mean...YEAH, BILL SIMMONS, OBVIOUSLY ADAM MORRISON "INTENSITY" AND PREDILECTION FOR TAKING HIGHLY CONTESTED JUMPERS MEANS HE WILL BE A MUCH BETTER PLAYER THAN RUDY GAY.

I don't remember Simmons saying that Adam Morrison would be good.

yeah i was a bit mystified by all the gay bashing when he came in the league.

Simmons thought Portland was stupid for not taking Morrison, he was like "BUILT IN NORTHWEST AUDIENCE!!! EVERYONE WILL LOVE HIM!!! IDIOTS!!! I SHOULD RUN A TEAM!!!" (Y'know, because Washington and Oregon are the exact same state.)

Andrew Bynum will be most improved and next year will demand kobe be traded so that he can be "the man"

ARN "SOULJA BOY" TELLEM WILL ATTRACT 20% MORE BUSINESS IF HE CRANKS THAT SIGNING BONUS.

for the record

Yes, it was ingrained on my soul.

"BUILT IN NORTHWEST AUDIENCE!!! EVERYONE WILL LOVE HIM!!! IDIOTS!!! I SHOULD RUN A TEAM!!!"

Well also every single college dude and radio host in Oregon was screaming the same thing at the top of their lungs because they loved the INTENSITY and the MUSTACHE (HE'S BASICALLY LIKE US GUYS! LOL IRONY!) and it was like a sin to suggest maybe Morrison's game was tailor made for NCAA and wouldn't pan out at all against, you know, defense.

I think Morrison would have been best suited to a Kyle Korver-ish career, where he signs on with a team as a lower draft pick and earns his keep as a bench shooter, and maybe eventually develops into a rotation regular. Sticking him straight into the lineup was insane.

ive enjoyed the unsurprising flame out of a. morrison. although i dont see any reason why he cant become a decent shooter in the league. people expecting him to do things he couldnt even do in college wtf.

Maybe I was immune to Morrison!To!Blazers! because I was out of the area. Also because I don't listen to college douchebags or radio hosts...and because if Bill Simmons says something about the NBA he's pretty much automatically RONG.

simmons is a good nba writer - cant get em all. eh predictions are fun. u guys should try it!

I PREDICT THE PISTONS GO 42-40 AND STILL SOMEHOW MANAGE TO MAKE IT TO THE CONFERENCE FINALS AND YET LOSE THERE AGAIN.

I predict that the Los Angeles Lakers will lose their first round playoff matchup against a team from Texas.

ANDREW BYNUM WILL DESTROY A BACKBOARD IN AN OLD SCHOOL SHAQ STYLE THIS SEASON.

haha clay so tru

i predict the pistons suffer their first major injury ever barely make the playoffs and lose in the 1st round

i predict the celtics will go undefeated

I PREDICT THAT JHØSHEA IS THE BIGGEST HOMER ON THIS BOARD AND THAT IS SAYING A LOT

thats more of an observation really

i predict that the lakers will "shock" a team from texas, arizona, or utah in the first round.

i predict that pat riley will refer to shaq as "the fat man" in a post-game press conference in the next two weeks.

i predict that in the next week bill walton will say the current celtics are better than both the 86 celtics and 87 lakers.

oh thats an good one - which walton love win win out? the 86 celtics or hyperbole?

we should def track this.

prediction: hitch suffers heart attack has spiritual experience kinda takes it all back but in a smarmy i have deeper understanding of the spiritual experience than you sort of way.

rong thread

I observe that philadelphia is completely hopeless and will be fucked for the next 5-7 years barring a miracle.

(except for that 25 point comeback win that happened 45 minutes after i posted the above yesterday)

went to the Magic Heat game tonight. not only have the Magic improved leaps and bounds, but the Heat are unraveling. even with Wade playing a fantastic game they got drubbed.

oh, and the typical Orlando Magic game attendee proves why Orlando doesn't deserve a professional sports franchise. Half of them can't even be arsed to sit in the right seats, or show up an hour late.

(I say this with plenty of experience having been going to their games since 89)

dwight howard is so scary good omg that guy

yea, I thought he was amazing two years ago when he had no offensive skills, but the dude has the whole package now

LOL Knicks!

Some team is going to shut them out for one quarter.

if they get blown out by the bucks tonight it has to be the end for Isiah,right?

When the Warriors are hitting on all cylinders there really aren't many teams that are more fun to watch.

observation: getting free tix to next tuesday's nets game is awesome!! (even if i hate those fucks)

i got cheap lower bowls to magic-hawks (20 bux each!)

the game ended up being really boring.

Prediction: Zach Randolph will reliably continue to produce 20 points and 10 rebounds per game and the Knicks will continue to lose most of those games. Welcome to the Wonderful World of Zach, New York.

eh zach could be v effective paired w/a good defensive center. him and curry together in ridic tragicomedy.

Steve Nash is hilarious sometimes:

On who will have the better career, Williams or Paul:

"I'd love to say that it's all the media's fault, but I understand it. Everyone tries to compare players because it's fun. It's the natural thing to do to try to think of something that's similar. Let's say we're talking on the phone and you say something about X and I'll interrupt you and say, 'Oh, you mean sort of like Y?' It's just what we do in life because we all want to relate to each other. That's kind of how I see it."

hotdamn, goin to the spurs/pistons game 2nite. ps why are det and bos the only teams of merit in the east?

Washington is in 4th place in the Eastern Conference, 12 games out of first. Cleveland is on 8th place in the East, 12 1/2 games out of first.

Utah is in 9th place in the West, 5 1/2 games out of first place.

Weird year so far.

guys josh smith is fucking balling this year

like still on the nu-kirilenko steez but also dropping 35 a game now

why are det and bos the only teams of merit in the east?

its pretty awz that the east has 2 legit contenders - theyve easily been the best in the league so far. although im sure the west powerhouses will step up by seasons end.

west is soooo deep this year. theres 10 good teams. prob a couple will be sidelined by injury eventually. but still just a brutal conference to play in. cant almost never take a night off.

orlanado has been at least somewhat meritorious so far - but theyve been living off the fools gold of a ridic season from turkoglu - whos already starting to fall apart.

ridic season from turkoglu

^^this fucking guy

i'm still skeptical of a team like the hornets or the lakers staying in the west top 3-4 for the whole season, but the playoffs should be totally thrilling

nu-kirilenko steez
http://www.sports.ru/images/object_9.1199981599.jpg

^^otm

so um the celtics? u got anything jho? is pierce the weak link on the team? caron dominated him on both ends tonight :/

btw by weak link i mean a. out of the big 3 but also b. the person who can be isolated and taken out of the game late in games

also will pierce's bad tendencies lose them a potential series to detroit? in their win @ det he dropped almost a triple double but can he accept the (probably beneficial) role of not being THE SCORER???

observation: Brandon Roy is really turning out to be a loverly player for Portland. Last night he got royally pounded for 20 points by Dwight Wade in the 3rd quarter. In the 4th quarter Roy got ticked off, took over the game, pulled the Blazers back from defeat and put that sucker back in the W column.

He's just the kind of player everyone wants to find in their Xmas stocking. At this rate Greg Oden will just be frosting on the cake. This is going to be be Roy's team for as many years as he stays healthy.

i throughly enjoyed that game last night

Er, Dwayne Wade. Or whatever.

tonight's blazers game not so hot, but again a good road showing against a top team, could be a lot worse

we struggle mightily vs teams with good big men, aldridge is no kind of defensive center really

Young Mr. Oden ought to help in that department. Apparently he is bulking up like a swollen toad (but in a good way) while his knee convalesces.

also will pierce's bad tendencies lose them a potential series to detroit? in their win @ det he dropped almost a triple double but can he accept the (probably beneficial) role of not being THE SCORER???

i think so, whenever they've had good teams in the past he's been more than willing to give it up as long as they were winning. it's when the teams were absolutely shitty that he'd go stats-first in his play.

so um the celtics? u got anything jho? is pierce the weak link on the team?

ray allen who has absolutely sucked this year is clearly the weak link. his ankles just arent right. the reason the c's have prospered is their supporting cast has been much much better than anyone expected. if ray ray can get it together this could be serious.

Every time I look, Leon Powe had another good game.

yah hes been ridic out the blue recently

I always thought he'd be good if they let him play, but I'm biased.

i'm house sitting for friends for the next three weeks, i may have to see if any c's games are available ppv. i think leon went for 16 and 9 last night? pierce had 28-12-5? playing the pacers again tonight.

and i agree w/jhoshea about ray being the weakest of the new big three, his 3 point stroke is missing. not sure what's going on with him.

Portland seems to have wobbled out of its playoff orbit and back into erratic play - not just from game to game, but from quarter to quarter. I don't think they will careen into the sun, but I don't think we'll see another five game winning streak this season.

Add Oden to this mix, let them marinate a while and I expect some Finals in their future.

Another good game for Leon Powe tonight!

maybe we can adopt him as ILH's favorite son

yay!

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:D

Yay!!

^_^

ok so the top 9 teams in the west are within 4.5 games of each other. if the playoffs started today denver would be out w/a 32-20 record. DENVER WOULD MISS THE PLAYOFFS W/A 32-20 RECORD DO U HEAR ME!!!!

THIS IS THE BESTEST CONFERENCE EVER THE PLAYOFFS ARE GOING TO BE BONKERS ANYONE COULD WIN IT!!!!

for comparisons sake the 9th place team in the east atlanta is 21-28 AND 19.5 games out. there are 5 teamS in the east w/winning records - in the west 10.

W T F

celtics are 16-0 against the west so far! that's nuts! even w/o the celtic's re-emergence i would have been more psyched for the playoffs than i have been in years. i've probably already watched more games this year than i did all of last year.

Zach is predicting you will have a happy valentine's day.

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/files/2006/11/1591-zach%20randolph.jpg

the east should be forced to cede two playoff spots to the west. their perennial shittiness KNOWS NO BOUNDZ

m bison otm

MOVE THE BLAZERS TO THE EAST I WANT THEM IN PLAYOFFS DO IT STERN DO IT

no ;_; i have season tickets!!!!!

Or fuggetabout conferences and seed the top 16 teams league-wide?

I Love Hoops soon to be renamed All Celtics Fanboy Bonertime Board

fucking dirk is so slow he tries to cut to the basket and he inevitably runs into someone and gets a foul call

nice job w/those home/away uniforms geniuses

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nash steady rockin the rod stewart 'do

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3293656

wait wtf how has bruce bowen not been suspended like 1mx times in the ;ast 500 games

for fuckin real

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLgHeeOZJFI

all the related videos!

god i hate him

god i cant fucking stand this guy - not even ron artest trys to injure people

and btw hes so fucking over rated - its easy to get up in peoples grill when you got tim duncan watching your back - dude got lit up when he was on team usa

fuck him and horry

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/files/2006/11/1591-zach%20randolph.jpg

horry's a bitch

Lakers v Rockets. Any predictions, anyone? I lean toward the Lakers for this one, but it should be a good one either way.

If Pau doesn't play, I say Rockets.

After watching Texas-Oklahoma today: I don't like the new kind of basketball uniforms that look like t-shirts without sleeves. I guess the players like them given how many guys wear shirts like that under normal uniforms, but it seems like having the edge of the jersey up in your armpit all the time would be annoying.

I'm predicting rockets tomorrow. no pau/bynum is basically last year's Lakers 2.0

I don't know. I want the rockets to win very badly but they've looked awkward on offense (much like at the beginning of the year) and mcgrady has played 48 minutes in the last two games because of that. He looked totally exhausted at the end of the game last night. If landry plays for the rockets and they regain their hot shooting they should win, but no landry I'd regretfully say lakers.

168!

But... but... them 168 was scored by the Nuggets. Against them Sonics fellas.

I don't like the new kind of basketball uniforms that look like t-shirts without sleeves.

yah these are the nike or whoever version of under amour hi-tech action and they look so fucking retarded all tight w/lol hueg shorts - i automatically route against any team wearing this chasing waterfalls type of shit.

http://men.style.com/images/news/0307/01/030507h.jpg

fixing what ain't broke? hopefully this never goes beyond ncaa

if the shorts weren't so "lol hueg skirt" it might not be so bad

http://i25.tinypic.com/11hsc41.jpg

lol

It really is sort of the Under-Armorization of basketball uniforms. College teams seem like they should be more tradition-bound than NBA teams but maybe are more subject to the marketing whims of Nike, Adidas, etc.

OK -- the next pundit to say something along the lines of "so-and-so doesn't want to play the Spurs, because when the playoffs come around they're a different team because they turn it on" can go sit on a Bruce Bowen kick to the nuts. If this team makes it past the 2nd round, I will eat Werner Herzog's shoe, because this conglomeration of old farts, hustle punks, dirty one-dimensional crumb bumbs, ref-whining chumpwits, and Manu Ginobli's Atlas act ain't going to do a damn thing this year.

OTM! the hell if i want to watch this boring ass team go deep into the playoffs.

I would issue the same sort of proclamation about Detroit (if only for that fucking moron PA announcer in the Palace), but:

1) Detroit is younger
2) Detroit is more talented
3) Rasheed Wallace is an excellent dancer

But seriously every time Tim Duncan does that pathetic arm-spread "I NEVER FOUL THE HELL SIR" thing God has George Bush suppress more of our civil liberties.

Carne Asada: I approve of your approval, and also enjoy your tasty meat.

OK -- the next pundit to say something along the lines of "so-and-so doesn't want to play the Spurs, because when the playoffs come around they're a different team because they turn it on"

this worked really well for the heat!!!!

that said the heat lost to a team that really countered their oldness with quickness and kinda wore them out-- who's gonna do that to the spurs? the warriors? <3 them but idk if they could beat the spurs in the first round. i think hornets or jazz would be a good matchup for spurs haters, two teams that play a similar style but have enough younger, quicker guys that could eventually wear them out. i don't see the rockets or the mavs taking them out if they met up in the first round

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lol rip hamiltion played an entire half in this jersey

HAMILITION

GOING THE OTHER WAY

went to the utah/seattle game tonight and lil' jon was in the front row, wearing jazz gear and a d will jersey

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awww crunk not ded srsly

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jEYg2mNCatk

for anyone who is srsly contemplating the question ^^^

nowitzki goes down for 2 weeks w/leg injury and the mavs are only 2 games up on the 9th place nuggz uh oh!

houston has lost 3 of 4 since their historic win streak.

the west is craaaazy crazy!

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This is going to be the most intense end of a regular season ever by a damn mile.

The Nuggets are like "woo hoo, we're going to the playoffs!"

suns win it all, ainge declared gm of the century

observation: <3 rudy gay
prediction: dude will make a dwight howard like leap into the top 10-12 player in the league convo next year

observation: <3 the sixers-- warriors of the east?!
prediction: will lose in the first round in a fun and hard fought series all the while giving philly hope for the future

also igou is playing himself into near max deal range right about now i think

iggy aight, but dre miller is the best player on that squad
always been severely underrated cuz he's fat w a high-ass voice and his game is ugly and weird, but he's a true point who can also score

i kinda wish my nugz kept him cuz then j.r. could start at the 2 and i wouldn't have to watch the anthony carter show

andre went from really good to a slob so quick it's hard to know where to stand with him.

If he's a communications major, I'd like him to take over Reggie's TNT color man responsibilities as soon as he's bounced from the tourney. I don't even care if he's a stuttering Tourettes-addled low talker.

deshawn stevenson looks about ready to join a drone-metal band
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are he and gooden still in a standoff?

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now we just need a guitar player and a lead singer

found both:

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i'm coming around on CP3 for mvp. passed up nash and now leads the assist category too

Warriors will not make the playoffs. ;_;

Honestly, they're not good enough anyway, so it doesn't really matter. I don't even think they're as good as they were last year, even though they've won way more games.

what happened to Barnes? he played a pretty big part in that playoff run last year.

His mom passed away, for one.

so now he can't compete?

You're a Lakers fan, right?

yeah. what does that got to do with it?

carne, I suggest you wait until you feel a deep grief before you become flippant about it.

no thanks,i've had my share.

i like the kid.i hope they can work him into some games and he can make the same kind of impact he did last year.

i believe chris paul is your mvp(out on a limb here). it's still fucking frustrating not being able to see the games behind the wau stat lines but no one else has saved their best for last like this

<3 van gundys

when stan van was still coaching the heat he used to live in my neighborhood and i used to see him around sometimes totally looking like http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/crime/terrorists/mohammed-shaikh-khalid/khalidpak.jpg

totally did not give a fuck

still rofling at "the big cactus"

We're down to the last 3 or 4 regular season NBA games and there still seem to be about 40 different mathematical possibilities for the playoff seeding in the Western Conference. This is somewhat fucking amazing.

is it lame to want to see celtics vs lakers in the finals

no

round 3 predictions????????????!#$$#gadfjkd

lakers v hornets
celtics v pistons

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Donaghy docs allege refs altered games, broke league rules

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3436401

lol

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sonics won't even win 20

-- jergïns, Monday, November 5, 2007 2:19 PM (7 months ago)

ok so they went 20-62 my bad

lol @ nader

http://www.votenader.org/blog/2008/06/11/nader-and-the-nba/

today i observed deron williams @ my workplace. (we sell golf simulators/software) he saw one of our sims @ a local golf tournament and came in to check it out - dude has a pretty good swing. when i say 'observed', i mean it, we were all sorta gawking. felt too embarassed to say anything to him but it was cool