NBA Playoffs 2015

[deep]

Will try and catch a replay somewhere. Pissed it happened to fall on the same day as the one time in my 24-and-a-half years that I pretended to care about boxing.

that's the advantage of paying Time Warner cable $200 a month and paying PPV $100, my cable box will record one channel and let me watch another

oh, and I get all the Dodgers games, too.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Far be it from me to question Popovich, but maybe his strategy of coasting 3/4 of the regular season is not the greatest idea given the grueling first-round series he got his team into.

It's a catch 22.

He knows his team is too old to go the entire season at an elite level. That last regular season loss killed them.

I think his résumé speaks for it's self, though... so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I think it's safe to say that James Dolan is now just simply trolling New York City.


:::quietly hopes that DaveC hasn't had a heart to heart where Dolan explained to him and only him his true, good hearted intentions:::

#winkyface

 

[gump]

That press release is quite something.

"We did not believe the allegations then, and we do not believe them now".

Fucking infuriating.

 

[gump]

Honestly, isn't this comparable to the Sterling awfulness in LA? I mean, putting a guy who was convicted of sexual harassment in charge of a women's basketball team is mind-boggling.

 

[Hewson]

Fox running the hen house.
Some day I hope we get to see the pictures Thomas has of Dolan.

 

[PhilsFan]

So this morning Larry Brown said the Sixers had Paul Pierce second on their draft board in 1998 but passed on him with the eighth pick "because we'd already told Larry Hughes we would draft him eighth" and now I'm vomiting everywhere and my vision is getting very blurry.

 

[Hewson]

It was a Larry thing.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Paul didn't want to play the right way.


A young Paul Pierce playing aside Iverson would have been a tad interesting... not sure it would have worked out quite as well as you'd think. Pierce was a chucker up until KG arrived late in his career. I get the feeling that they would have clashed with each other.

 

[PhilsFan]

Would have still been better than Larry fucking Hughes.

 

[iron yuppie]

Tell me about it. Hughes was supposed to be LeBron's sidekick the first time through Cleveland, and I don't need to tell anyone how that went.

 

[PhilsFan]

How Larry Brown to think a really dumb draft decision means he's a good guy. Such a jackass. Fuck.

 

[iron yuppie]

I don't know why New York gave up on Shumpert. This guy is super versatile, a great defender, and can score in several different ways. He's been a hell of an acquisition.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Cause our owner just rehired Isiah Thomas?

 

[Hewson]

Cause our owner just rehired Isiah Thomas?

You say it like its a bad thing.

 

[bono_212]

That may have been a costly victory...

 

[cobl04]

What a fucking finish!!

 

[speedracer]

What a fucking finish!!

Quoted for Truth

 

[LemonMelon]

DC punched ATL in the gut twice today.

 

[deep]

Go Cavs

 

[LemonMelon]

Calling it: team that wins this game wins the series.

And I don't think we're winning this one.

 

[bono_212]

Fuck two of those in a row .... This is a great series.

 

[LemonMelon]

No Love and a hobbled Irving and we can't close them out. I'm fucking livid.

Grizzlies or Clippers are about to get a gift.

 

[deep]

Calling it: team that wins this game wins the series.

.

I hope you are right

 

[iron yuppie]

Jesus that was insane. Rose has been tough as hell in this series, gotta admire that. I'm very worried about Kyrie, though.

 

[LemonMelon]

I just don't think we're ready yet. Too many scoring droughts. With Pau, I'm sure the result would have been different, but again, with Love and a healthy Irving it would have been even more lopsided. Cavs are just a step ahead, although this is indeed a very good Bulls team.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

The western champ is going to win by sooooooooooooo much

 

[speedracer]

Selectively fouling an atrocious free throw shooter can be a useful tactic, but doing it for an entire half and eviscerating your entire defense by getting everyone in foul trouble is probably not the best idea.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Analytics told them to do it

 

[Hewson]

Analytics told them to do it

Analytics told them if they don't do it they'll lose by 50, so they saved face.