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2010-11 NBA Thread

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Lol

http://www.sportsgrid.com/nba/the-miami-heat-are-apparently-crying-in-the-locker-room-right-now/

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If this man doesn't win COY, I'm gonna be pissed.

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look at how ugly Noah's ass is. he is only gonna get uglier

and wow, we get to see MaxPower jump in, only to tell us were all homers? I suppose I could be a homer, but not this year and in the foreseeable future, because my team sucks

so there you have it, S&G, axl's only shooting straight from the hip these next couple years
 
Gaah id watch NBA but its only aired in pay-to-watch channels here 8(
Gotta go to friends house every now and then and watch it =D
 
MaxPower: are you salty because you have switched your Florida fanhood over to the Miami Hear, from the Magic?

I didn't know Northern FLA cats could root for any Southern FLA team ;)
 
lulz

Oddly enough, I seldom cheer for the home team. In fact, I usually root against them. My true NBA love has always been the Spurs, in the East though I do like the Magic. I've never really cared for the Heat and even moreso now that SheBron on the squad. The homers comment was more about people rarely talking about small-market teams/players, eg K-Love.

p.s. I'm a Southern FLA cat. ;)

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well stick around some more, and you will here my annoying ass talk about the Cavs all week-long :)
 
im a closet golden state admirer. really thought the curry ellis combo could work better with the addition of david lee. curry is a creative passer and accurate shooter, ellis is bonified scorer capable of 25-30 on any givin night, but it seems their small size is just too much of a defensive liability. one will have to go unless they can get some BIG size on the frontline
 
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im a closet golden state admirer. really thought the curry ellis combo could work better with the addition of david lee. curry is a creative passer and accurate shooter, ellis is bonified scorer capable of 25-30 on any givin night, but it seems their small size is just too much of a defensive liability. one will have to go unless they can get some BIG size on the frontline
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ha! Im' from the bay...that's my team, I am usually to embarrssed to admit though...last exciting moment was when we upset the Mavs n round 1, I think that was in 07'8o
 
The Warriors are fun as hell but just don't play any team defense... the bulls are rated number 1 defensively and only have 1 player averaging even 1.5spg and one player getting 1.5bpg while the warriors have 2 players in the top 10 (or 5?) in steals.

I think they need a coach like Thibodeau to drill defense into them, they are one of the most naturally talented offensive teams but that means fuck all if you don't hold opponents below 110ppg.

That bulls heat game was sick... Miami is 1 for 9 against the top five NBA teams now, right? Horrible in close games and can't close for shit.

LA, Chicago, SA and Dallas (who, with the exception of LA, have all raped miami this year) show how much more important building a solid TEAM is over putting a couple superstars together.
 
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Miami may be having more regular season struggles than any of us anticipated (probably won't even make it to 60 wins), but they will be a beast in the playoffs.

It was the same story with all of Miami's championship caliber teams this decade, they would cruise through the season without beating any of the elite teams, and then all of a sudden turn it on in the playoffs.

Although I think out of all of the threats to the Heat, Chicago is the most legitimate. Boston fucked itself by trading Perkins. And I'm not confident that San Antonio even makes it to the finals. Chicago just looks like the real deal right now.
 
http://www.nba.com/2011/news/03/07/van-gundy-howard.ap/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt2

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"This is the system David Stern and his minions like it,'' Van Gundy said. "So that's the system you have...I certainly can't have an opinion because David Stern, like a lot or leaders we've seen in this world lately, don't really tolerate other people's opinion or free speech or anything. So I'm not really allowed to have an opinion. So it's up to him.

"He decides and he likes the system he has.''
 
god damn it, Heat might actually win this if they keep going to Wade. give LeBron some touches plz.
 
I hope LeBron never wins a championship.

The only exception would be if he came off the bench as a role player during his last few years in the league.
 
Just wait til this kid is 100%

Better late than never for Lakers' Bynum to earn Jackson's respect | bynum, jackson, lakers - Sports - The Orange County Register

SAN ANTONIO – Before the game Phil Jackson mused about the San Antonio Spurs' uncommon fortune with health this season and said: "They must have Jesus Christ working on their bench as a trainer."


The Spurs would've needed J.C. on the court to beat the Lakers on Sunday.

It might just turn out that this was Jackson's last trip to San Antonio, because anyone banking on the Spurs beating the Thunder in the potential 1-vs.-4 matchup in the Western Conference playoffs must think that San Antonio's 40 percent 3-point success rate in the regular season automatically transfers over to postseason games.


"They're having a magical season," Jackson said nicely enough before the game while still making it sound like people should pay no attention to that man Gregg Popovich behind the curtain.


If this were the lockout-shortened, Jackson-dubbed "asterisk" 1998-99 NBA season that resulted in Popovich's first NBA title, we'd be in the middle of the playoffs right now. And because the Lakers did play Sunday as if it was a playoff game to be gotten, there is suddenly plain reason to believe Jackson won't return to the city he has derided as a "tourist trap" and whose River Walk is to him a "green rio."


If you're keeping score at home, Jackson is done with Memphis ("like Dresden after the war") and probably Orlando ("plastic city"), has one trip left to Sacramento ("semi-civilized" and "redneck in some form or fashion") and might still draw New Orleans ("that mildew smell ... permeates the air") in the playoffs.


But if the Lakers do meet the Spurs in the Western Conference finals, there now should be no question whatsoever in anyone's mind that Jackson has more chance of turning the San Antonio River water into wine than Popovich has of elevating Tim Duncan, DeJuan Blair, Matt Bonner, Antonio McDyess and Tiago Splitter to the point they can eliminate Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum and Lamar Odom.


Then again, neither Dallas nor Oklahoma City can hang with the Lakers if Jackson successfully pulls off his magic trick of making Bynum levitate like this.


Ground-bound much of the season after missing the first 24 games after his delayed knee surgery, Bynum is now demonstrating why I pegged the Lakers to win 68 regular-season games if he was healthy this season.


He initially embraced the opportunity to be the gatekeeper for Lakers' new defense that funnels opponents for him to change or block their shots, but then he let down. He got back on point at the All-Star break and realizes the satisfaction he can get out of piling up rebounds that Gasol doesn't much want anyway.


"We talked to Andrew at the break about defense and what impact he can have on the game," Jackson said. "He showed it today."


In the first game after the break, Bynum had five points, 15 rebounds and three blocks vs. Atlanta. His line Sunday in what Kobe Bryant called a "really dominant" outing was nearly identical.


Bynum's boyhood idol, Duncan, noticed it, too, saying: "He bothered a lot of people in the lane, and just his size was definitely the difference." And you can just imagine how proud Jim Buss, having made the trip to San Antonio, was to see first-hand as his boy looked like the man among boys.


Bynum was coming off a six-block, 17-rebound game (13 in the first half, most by any Laker in a half this season) in just 28 minutes. He added three more blocks and 17 more rebounds Sunday in just 26 ½ minutes.
That means for consecutive games Bynum has kept up a pace that translates into eight blocks and 30 rebounds for a 48-minute game.
Jesus Christ, Phil.


Let's note here that the Lakers lost to the Spurs a month ago because they couldn't get a rebound and a stop, letting McDyess get that buzzer-beating tip-in. Let's note here that Bynum had back-to-back six-rebound games in the Lakers' consecutive pre-All-Star losses in Charlotte and Cleveland.


There's no doubt that having Bynum as what he describes as a "rover" in the paint helps the Lakers run out and rotate aggressively on the perimeter, which happened consistently against San Antonio.


"I realized where I could be a huge help, and that's on the defensive end of the basketball," Bynum said. "Try and get every rebound. Try and block every shot."


Meanwhile, Bynum's always analytical mind has shifted his body away from expending energy posting up hard on offense. That's because his notion now is that isolation post-ups tend to bog down the triangle offense's ball movement. The better shots the ball movement produces then, in turn, help maintain floor balance for the Lakers' vulnerable transition defense.


This being Jackson's farewell season after consecutive titles, it was a pretty risky to alter the defensive scheme toward zone-based principles. It was even more daring to devote major practice time for Chuck Person, in his first season as a full-fledged Jackson assistant after he was hired partly to babysit his buddy Ron Artest, to teach the new defense.


But Person's new drills such as playing with one more player on offense than defense, forcing and training the defenders to be highly active and communicative, have "paid off a great deal," according to Bryant.


So here is Bynum, looking like a standout in a way that was hard to imagine.


Even though everyone – Bynum included – realized Bynum's greatest contributions to the recent titles has been in offering defensive size, no one – Bynum included – expected him simply to cast aside that long-held lust for scoring to do the dirty work.


"This team is going to win regardless if I get 15 points or if I get four points; that's the kind of team we have," Bynum said. "This team won't win if we don't have defensive toughness on the inside."


It's no magic act. It took years of push and pull – Bynum thinking he was underutilized on offense, Jackson knowing he was out of shape, mentally and defensively soft and undeserving of those crunchtime minutes over Odom and Gasol that Bynum openly sniped about missing.


Bynum can score. He will earn his longed-for day in the All-Star sun someday when Jackson is gone.

The far greater accomplishment would be to earn the true respect of the greatest coach in NBA history before he goes out the door.
 
Bynum healthy - Lakers 3 peat
But dude is made of balsa wood

watching him dominate the boards vs. San Antonio was beauty

lol Heat
 
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