(orlando) magic everywhere in this bitch: 2010 playoffs thread

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would watch

nba nit

nba NIT to decide #1 pick, lottery decides the rest

this is the part of the year when the urge to repatriate grows the strongest

stoked for the madness - stickin w/my preseason pick WHO IS CHAMPS 2010 magic all the way

in the west it will be WHO THE FUCK KNOWS

nba really needs that play in tourney btw, single elimination, would be so so raad

a tourney for each conference w/the 8th seeds at stake

noooo fuck tha magic

yah theyre pretty dull

BRAEKIN NEWS: OKC guaranteed to be 8, will play lakers

DURANT please take a rest now or else I will not invite you to my ice cream social

Durant still in his demi-god phase. Should be fun to watch, but OKC will go down against LAL, assuming the refs still have whistles they can blow at odd moments, just to keep things going the right way.

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lol

i am now an OKC fan.

wtf @ kobe and his "u wanna go back to my hotel room?" look.

don't go with him.

you will regret it.

forgot 2 add drunk nowitzki

lakers over OKC in 5 btw

that series could easily go 6 or 7

lakers are 3-1 vs okc this year -- blew okc out once, got blown out once, and then beat them by 2 points twice -- okc could easily steal 2 games

neither team is playing well going into the playoffs. OKC was in the 6th spot not long ago but tanked going down the stretch.

lack of experience and added playoff pressure will kick OKC in the ass

sweet series - could fall anywhere between la winning easily or a dogfight - la could even lose omg

i mean what if durant just goes OFF that could get kinda nuts rite

Durant is very likely to "just go OFF" against LA, but in the playoffs that can screw up a team pretty badly. No one can play one-on-five in the playoffs and win a seven game series. High entertainment value, though.

okc could beat the lakers straight up twice, i think that's p obvious -- if they get durant on a hot night vs kobe on an off night or something...

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the playoff scenarios are dizzying imo, but the most likely scenario has the spurs and mavs fighting first round. i want 2 believe we can beat them, we def have the talent and i think we matchup better than we have in the past (certainly last year). parker can lite up kidd p badly, manu is healthy *knocks on wood*, mcdyess is as good a cover for nowitzki as we've ever had, but the mavs have a lot of weapons

the recipe for ok citys success would seem to be bonkers durant + sik D - id feel a lot better abt their chances if westbrook hadnt been playing like ass for the last 2 months - pg is where they can and must dominate - generally if la losses before the finals people are gonna be pointing and loling at fisher et al

and aimless tell it to the 01 76ers - im sure there are tons other examples of the dominant scorer paired w/solid stingy supporting cast taking a playoff series or three - its kinda a basic nba set up - tho obvs tough to win it all from that base

okc will crumble against the lakers, this is their first playoffs ever, as much as i would <3 a gsw over dallas type situation

the crumble scenario is based on the lakers playing well, not really a given it seems

more of a hunch than a certainty, but it's hard 4 me 2 c kobe not going into mambamode and balling out the gym in the playoffs

does okc every play sick D? i see them go for steals and stuff. but lock down defense? are they capable? Thabo is a good defender, no? i haven’t seen them play enough i guess

theyre currently 8th in defensive efficiency, but iirc they were as high as 3rd earlier in the season, so they can D it up - not sure if they they have the discipline or experience to make playoff style in series adjustments yet, but theoretically they can be a v good defensive team - could see their young legs giving lakerss aging backcourt trouble def

don't know if they can be relied on to make stops in the clutch, but they allow just under 98 a game, not bad

just to be clear i dont at all see okc taking this series, but i do think they could make it interesting, and i would really really enjoy it if they did win

o i agree whole<3edly, and it brings me no pleasure to hunch that way, but everyone on the thunder is about 8 years old give or take and they will be exploited to the extent that the UN will be called in. i think home court and experience will matter that much.

im generally not a huge believer in the decisive qualities of 'playoff experience' but the divide here is massive, also la is just better, even if they havent been playing like it recently

yeah i mean the difference in experience between seeds 2-7 is negligible, but it's an ocean of funk b/w okc and la

i don't want cavs to take the east

yeah fuck that shit

regardless of okc's performance people should be pointing and loling at fisher. dude is cooked.

who else besides the cavs would be a good test for whoever makes it out of the west tho?? magic? pfft. hawks? pbllblfft.

i don't want lebron to get a ring is all

magic and cavs are 2 best teams in the nba right now, in a couple months? we will see

amon why u h8 bronbron :(

just kinda sick of hearing about him >:O

man he's drunk

lol @ him saying "steve jackson, who continued to fight for us" -- yes, yes he did...

are you doubting my account?
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it's just another perfect day iirc :)

i know part of their offense is rondo standing at the top of the key and looking for allen or pierce to come off screens, but that became their WHOLE offense. rondo didn't even attempt to penetrate.

i thought this the whole game 6 actually, they barely screened for rondo and expected him to break down kobe several times down while the rest of the dudes stood in their spots, it was crazy imo. kobe was also giving more pressure that game, backing off again in game 7 allowed garnett to go off to some degree

thing about ray was that he usually uses the dribble-drive as option b coming off screens when he knows his shot is off. but the lakers defended the middle extremely well and he had no space when he did that. i don't blame him because from game three on no one other than his mom was confident when he was shooting j's.

he's nuts, but you know, when have you seen an athlete having more fun and being more honestly about himself?

i'm kinda in love with him right now.

"KOBE PASSED ME THE BALL! He NEVER PASSES ME THE BALL!"

also they should have just fed it to rasheed and have him hit the banker every single time

xp I feel garnett was still hitting j's at a good clip. I do feel pierce was taken out of his game a bit, once they started calling the games a bit tighter and he couldn't rely on his old man lean-ins/getting the foul moves.

I mean every single basketball player loses confidence in his jumper but I feel ray's been in the league long enough to know how to shoot his way out of that. I know it's armchair psychologist but knowing ray's OCD tendencies it's hard not to read tons of self-doubt/lack of self confidence in his play in games 3-7.

imo he was gassed from chasing kobe for the entire series and was well aware of that fact

yeah chasing kobe and running screens all day... i mean does anybody in the league rack up that kind of mileage per game?

they're all circular miles too...dude should be involved in the CERN accelerator somehow

it wasn't just jumpers tbf. dude missed tons of looks around the basket

agreed. touch was off.

I dunno...even when your J is off you don't miss open layups, of which he missed many. it's frustrating when you feel like you roll the dice with allen every single game - is the good allen who drops 4-8 3's gonna show up os is the bad 0-13 allen going to show up.

also tbf ray was splitting duty on kobe w/ rondo

"I told our guys our starting lineup still hasn't lost," - doc

try doing it 3 straight years asshole! <bitter break> i'm sorry i'm not even gonna stoop to address the pile of punkass comments from pierce and ray and baby et al but doc lost a point right when he was the one celtic i was about to salute. you say that shit in the locker room maybe when your team is all crying and shit but not the first words out of your mouth to the media, especially when we know they're all gonna make excuses for you anyway ;)

you won stfu

lettin n***az know est. 1977

okay, i can't love the lakers but i can love artest
that was the best press conference ever.

nothing like a gracious winner tremend

would have given artest the mvp after that game, dude was seriously ballin and i hope to see him all over the place this summer

i still have hope rondo can be rescued from the dark side, i could be killed for saying this but we havent much time

still a bit heartbroken that the incredible Cs run was a few minutes from the championship and simply ran out of gas. in a year or two i bet rondo has the confidence (and jumper) to be the #1 guy to turn that into a last-second duel with kobe, but the other parts are even older. last year if kg was healthy would ray have been not a complete mess, or would pau have stepped up as much as he did last night?

think pau was absolutely dynamite in that game and have to give it up to him.

ha lol tremendoid

ilh still the mvp of the playoffs for me, yall the best

celtics were tough and a worthy opponent do i really have to say that out loud ok. good season, hope we meet again soon...but spare me lakers fans here have never gone places you guys have gone against the lakers like ANY random day much less when you beat us in 08.

yah i would take a lakers-celts series every year...might die of stress though.

I GOT WHEAAAATTTEEEZ

ill admit its hard and you have to keep pulling back cause it's easy to fixate on the worst parts of the opponent with a rivalry like this, and it wasnt even "lakers celtics" that particular team just tormented the lakers and the city til the last second you dont even know heheh

and ron carrying kobe for game 7 of the finals is good symmetry, #8/08 kobe peeks his head out less and less, thankfully, but it is still terrfying to laker fans when it happens

no more celts-lakers finals for 10 years, new rule

all said... celts still heroes in my book

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Scal called up 98.5 this morn at 3 am LA time, for therapy as much as anything, it looks like. Great, great stuff: http://985thesportshub.cbslocal.com/2010/0...day-of-my-life/

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AYO TURN MY MIC UP

hahahahaha

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Is it just me, or didn't the Lakers win the championship last year with almost exactly the same team as this year, the only difference being that they won it without Ron Artest? So why is this video making out like Artest was the man who won it for them? All he proved is that he's about as good as Trevor Ariza.

i'm not sure if they would've won with ariza this year tbh

yeah artest kind of kept pierce in a bottle for this series

i mean they might've... but like i said before the series, artest was way better for the celts series than ariza would've been imo, but i guess you never know

also you're trying to rationalize the actions of ron artest

never 4get
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppYxnV2o0Ug

huh, can't find the original anywhere.

shit, i don't know if the Lakers make it past OKC without ron's defense on Durant.

the lakers limped into the playoffs with no real momentum. the one constant was that they were able to count on Artest to keep Durant pretty well off his league leading average.

huh, can't find the original anywhere.

i know! that was my jam before i even liked him. i got the mp3 if u need that

and thanks ron for caring bout your job

That remix is shitty.
do this instead
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