Author Topic: The NBA thread (Read 1519567 times)

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #6180 on:** June 12, 2012, 11:47:13 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on June 12, 2012, 11:29:30 PM

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female friend during that hilarious camera zoom: "is he that guy's bodyguard or something?"

pilonv1 · « **Reply #6181 on:** June 12, 2012, 11:48:17 PM »

good job good effort

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #6182 on:** June 12, 2012, 11:58:09 PM »

dat LeBron fourth quarter passion

OKC stopped Miami from getting the infinite layups and dunks they usually get, forcing them to make jumpers. If they keep that up, they can win this series.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #6183 on:** June 13, 2012, 12:00:24 AM »

Thunder in 6

(i know, putting myself out on a limb here)

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6184 on:** June 13, 2012, 12:14:19 AM »

After the 2 home games, Miami gets 3 straight home games. Most likely scenario statistically is that the team with HCA wins at home, then 1 on the road, then game 6 at home again.

There is of course no big reason why Miami shouldn't beat the Thunder on the road and win the whole thing. Just that a Thunder win in 4 or 5 games would be highly unlikely.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #6185 on:** June 13, 2012, 12:19:26 AM »

After the conference semi finals I'm not making any predictions after seeing how teams fared after leading 2-0

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #6186 on:** June 13, 2012, 12:28:04 AM »

I maintain Heat in 6. They'll win on thursday, then at least win two of the three home games

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #6187 on:** June 13, 2012, 12:29:26 AM »

What in the WORLD is Westbrook wearing?!

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6188 on:** June 13, 2012, 12:36:41 AM »

stepping up his game for the Finals

Still, you put up 27pts and almost hit a triple double and you can wear what you damn well please

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #6189 on:** June 13, 2012, 12:39:14 AM »

Elton John and Agent J.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6190 on:** June 13, 2012, 12:44:54 AM »

I had surgery to avoid having to wear glasses like that, just do not understand

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #6191 on:** June 13, 2012, 12:50:57 AM »

I mean, with those glasses you would think he would be able to see what he was putting on for fucks sakes.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #6192 on:** June 13, 2012, 12:55:07 AM »

I'm pretty sure this is something that's being done on purpose. There's no way a bunch of NBA stars just decided to wear dark brimmed hipster glasses and various goofy shirts out of the blue

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6193 on:** June 13, 2012, 12:56:02 AM »

Not meaning to troll any genuine Sonics fans, who I respect and commiserate with, but holy shit, the Finals have brought a bunch of moaning bitches out from under a rock, haven't they. I'm hearing from people that NEVER talk basketball. Either:

1) they were so butt-hurt that they literally haven't followed the NBA since or
2) they basically don't give a shit and just want a bit of attention now 'cause the Thunder got to the Finals (without any significant help from the people of Oregon....)

Painting with a broad brush here, I know. Sock it to me.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #6194 on:** June 13, 2012, 12:56:25 AM »

I'm pretty sure you're underestimating the hipster quotient of Oklahoma City, PD. It is a bustling metropolis on the cutting edge of everything, after all.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6195 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:03:00 AM »

Weird feeling - I tweeted at Hollinger and he RT'ed me to respond. I was looking at ESPN in a separate tab 5 mins later and freaked out a bit when I saw my name in there:

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Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #6196 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:03:32 AM »

Quote from: Creepy Old Guy on June 13, 2012, 12:56:25 AM

I'm pretty sure you're underestimating the hipster quotient of Oklahoma City, PD. It is a bustling metropolis on the cutting edge of everything, after all.

Nah bro, I've seen Wade and others wear a bunch of goofy stuff to press conferences too. Maybe this is the NBA's attempt to re-gain Etoilet as a fan

pilonv1 · « **Reply #6197 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:06:29 AM »

Quote from: Cormacaroni on June 13, 2012, 01:03:00 AM

Weird feeling - I tweeted at Hollinger and he RT'ed me to respond. I was looking at ESPN in a separate tab 5 mins later and freaked out a bit when I saw my name in there:

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Nice work! The best I ever get is a RT from Ethan Strauss about Thomas Robinson lieing about his height.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6198 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:10:12 AM »

C-Webb RT'ed me once so I think I win there! I really don't angle for RTs or follows though.

I'd like for more basketball people to follow me, 'cause then I'd feel better about tweeting about it all the time. But I guess i'd better man up and start pumping out 3,000 words of quality blog posts a day :'(
As it is, my twitter followers are fairly evenly divided between the Tokyo/games crowd, comics people and basketball people or just random.

etiolate · « **Reply #6199 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:11:38 AM »

I am trying to think of a sports guy I would actually tweet. Of course, I don't have a twitter, so this is all hypothetical. Maybe someone from Yahoo or that dude that does youtube breakdowns of plays. Being as that I don't know their names, this whole thought is probably than hypothetical.

edit: I would totally tweet CWebb. Consider me jelly.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6200 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:16:54 AM »

@SebastianPruitti, you mean?

I should do a list, there are lots of great, funny, clever twitterers out there. I pretty much have twitter open the whole time I watch a game live now...adds greatly to the experience. Of course, you can follow hashtags like #nba or #thunder or whatever and see what the great unwashed are raving about as well.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #6201 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:22:17 AM »

I think he means COACH NICK

who is @bballsource I think. I don't follow his twitter as it's difficult to avoid if I'm watching games on delay

Quote from: Cormacaroni on June 13, 2012, 01:10:12 AM

C-Webb RT'ed me once so I think I win there! I really don't angle for RTs or follows though.

I'd like for more basketball people to follow me, 'cause then I'd feel better about tweeting about it all the time. But I guess i'd better man up and start pumping out 3,000 words of quality blog posts a day :'(
As it is, my twitter followers are fairly evenly divided between the Tokyo/games crowd, comics people and basketball people or just random.

I would think 80% of my tweets are NBA/Warriors related. If twitter had been around in 2007 I'd have lost my mind in real time.

I don't follow any players, most of them aren't that interesting and the weird stuff gets RT'd. I do follow all the bay area beat writers, plus some national ones like Chad Ford, Woj + Berger, and guys like Larry Coon (Salary Cap guru). Most of the ESPN guys are insufferable (sup Chris Palmer)

benjipwns · « **Reply #6202 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:38:21 AM »

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6203 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:42:07 AM »

that is some thrift store shit

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #6204 on:** June 13, 2012, 09:13:33 AM »

:himu

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #6205 on:** June 13, 2012, 11:31:10 AM »

Quote from: Cormacaroni on June 13, 2012, 12:56:02 AM

Not meaning to troll any genuine Sonics fans, who I respect and commiserate with, but holy shit, the Finals have brought a bunch of moaning bitches out from under a rock, haven't they. I'm hearing from people that NEVER talk basketball. Either:

1) they were so butt-hurt that they literally haven't followed the NBA since or
2) they basically don't give a shit and just want a bit of attention now 'cause the Thunder got to the Finals (without any significant help from the people of Oregon....)

Painting with a broad brush here, I know. Sock it to me.

I've been pissed/bummed since Bennet bought the team in 2006, there was no way in hell he ever considered not moving them to OKC. I typically stay quiet about it, but the Thunder making the Finals riled me up.

And honestly, if they win the whole thing, it's fine. I just miss my team.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #6206 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:25:37 PM »

My thoughts on the first game.

Bosh played 34 minutes and pulled down 5 rebounds. He also needs to stop taking 3's. Just because he got lucky in one game doesn't make him a three point shooter.
The Heat got out rebounded and outhustled which is always a very bad sign
Thunder made adjustments at half. Miami didn't. Which happens alot. Restrain from coaching rant.
Miami looked tentative in the 4th. Westbrook and Durant looked totally in their element.

No current reason to see why the Thunder won't win.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #6207 on:** June 13, 2012, 07:10:39 PM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on June 13, 2012, 01:25:37 PM

My thoughts on the first game.

Bosh played 34 minutes and pulled down 5 rebounds. He also needs to stop taking 3's. Just because he got lucky in one game doesn't make him a three point shooter.
The Heat got out rebounded and outhustled which is always a very bad sign
Thunder made adjustments at half. Miami didn't. Which happens alot. Restrain from coaching rant.
Miami looked tentative in the 4th. Westbrook and Durant looked totally in their element.

No current reason to see why the Thunder won't win.

Meh, Wade and LeBron are going to get hot. OKC did a great job of denying easy layups, but Miami will eventually get more aggressive and get more calls. I still say Miami wins tomorrow night, and then wins two home games.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #6208 on:** June 13, 2012, 07:54:25 PM »

Lebron had 30pts and 9 boards, it's not like he was just twiddling his thumbs. But how many times are Battier and Chalmers gonna go 6-9 and 5-7 on FGs?

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #6209 on:** June 13, 2012, 08:01:09 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on June 13, 2012, 07:10:39 PM

Meh, Wade and LeBron are going to get hot. OKC did a great job of denying easy layups, but Miami will eventually get more aggressive and get more calls. I still say Miami wins tomorrow night, and then wins two home games.

And Westbrook and Durant will probably match them however hot they get which means the supporting cast is what matters and the Thunder supporting cast is better.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6210 on:** June 13, 2012, 08:43:56 PM »

Yeah, plus Westbrook isn't injured, like Wade, and Harden is presumably going to score more than 5pts the rest of the way.

The Heat looked tired in the 2nd half. Since obviously that was a result of their hangover from 7 games of the killer Celtics D, I'm gonna go ahead and claim this as a 4th win in game 8 of the Celtics-Heat series

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #6211 on:** June 14, 2012, 02:46:03 AM »

fucking David Stern
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8048426/nba-commissioner-david-stern-radio-host-jim-rome-get-lottery

Jim Rome gets dap

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6212 on:** June 14, 2012, 02:59:32 AM »

that was not Stern's smoothest play

Mandark · « **Reply #6213 on:** June 14, 2012, 04:10:29 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on June 14, 2012, 02:46:03 AM

Jim Rome gets dap

smh pd

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #6214 on:** June 14, 2012, 04:28:28 AM »

No love for Rome? Smh

etiolate · « **Reply #6215 on:** June 14, 2012, 04:52:00 AM »

Quote

Stern responded: "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?"

WOW

edit: I better add, before any doofass replies, I understand the point Stern was trying to go for, but when your league and yourself have had as much legitimacy and corruption questions/worries over the years as the NBA and Stern have, you don't get to use wife beating as a rhetorical question defense.

Mandark · « **Reply #6216 on:** June 14, 2012, 05:00:08 AM »

well you could if it were Jay Mariotti

pilonv1 · « **Reply #6217 on:** June 14, 2012, 07:41:08 AM »

Stern is a gangster, he can say what he likes.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #6218 on:** June 14, 2012, 08:33:03 AM »

Since there's no way Stern can prove that everything's on the up and up, he just dismisses any questions about corruption as outrageous and if you believe it you must be some crazy nutter. It's worked pretty well so far.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #6219 on:** June 14, 2012, 09:20:51 AM »

What Stern did was an old lawyers trick. I did say wow when he said it though.

benjipwns · « **Reply #6220 on:** June 14, 2012, 12:57:32 PM »

Anybody watch the Dream Team thing?

Don't care for that voice over guy, irks me.

at Stockton getting off the bus.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #6221 on:** June 14, 2012, 01:54:37 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on June 14, 2012, 12:57:32 PM

Anybody watch the Dream Team thing?

Don't care for that voice over guy, irks me.

at Stockton getting off the bus.

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I haven't yet but I'm gonna try to watch it tonight.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #6222 on:** June 14, 2012, 02:34:39 PM »

Karl Malone is a crazy right winger but he's still one of my favorite players ever, and I'm still bummed he didn't get a ring. I'd totally hang with him, we could hunt fine Mexican women

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #6223 on:** June 14, 2012, 02:39:01 PM »

Fuck Malone. The Jazz-Sonics rivalry of the 90s was brutal.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #6224 on:** June 14, 2012, 02:39:47 PM »

I think part of my Malone fandom also has to do with him looking almost exactly like my dad

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #6225 on:** June 14, 2012, 05:16:08 PM »

I like all the 80's guys because they are my youth heroes. But then I was kid at that point and didn't attempt to analyze them as real people. Which is probably the more healthy attitude when following sports.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #6226 on:** June 14, 2012, 07:29:17 PM »

Durant's mom debating with Skip and Stephen A, pretty cool
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=8047256

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6227 on:** June 14, 2012, 08:55:53 PM »

Just in case:

Will watch this after GAME 2!

No more excuses about 'only one game'. The Heat better have drained Wade's knee.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #6228 on:** June 14, 2012, 08:57:45 PM »

Imperial March theme for the Heat lol

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6229 on:** June 14, 2012, 09:10:18 PM »

Early lead for Miami, but I love the way this Thunder team just honestly do not give a rat's ass if they go down by 10 or 15 or 20. They just keep coming anyway.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #6230 on:** June 14, 2012, 09:14:06 PM »

Miami had the lead in game 1 too. Not concerned.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6231 on:** June 14, 2012, 09:16:07 PM »

Nope. Starting to feel the Thunder should be spotting everyone 10 pts just to keep it interesting

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #6232 on:** June 14, 2012, 09:16:14 PM »

Miami defense looking great. RIP OKC

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6233 on:** June 14, 2012, 09:21:57 PM »

on the other hand, 16-2 is not good

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6234 on:** June 14, 2012, 09:34:59 PM »

Sefolosha is now what, 0-3 on dunks in this series?

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6235 on:** June 14, 2012, 09:48:25 PM »

too young to be scared, awesome

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #6236 on:** June 14, 2012, 10:51:04 PM »

Good showing for Miami. They absolutely need this game. Hopefully they don't choke it away in the 4th.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6237 on:** June 14, 2012, 10:52:10 PM »

Brooks really needs to quit playing Perkins and Ibaka together. Or Perkins at all. Who is Perkins supposed to be guarding??

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #6238 on:** June 14, 2012, 10:53:20 PM »

Better now, with Perkins-Durant-Sefolosha-Harden-Westbrook but Perkins is still a liability. Collison was GREAT in game 1. He's perfect for this series 'cause of how he guards the pick and roll.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #6239 on:** June 14, 2012, 11:02:13 PM »

Quote from: Cormacaroni on June 14, 2012, 08:55:53 PM

Just in case:

Will watch this after GAME 2!

No more excuses about 'only one game'. The Heat better have drained Wade's knee.

Downloading now before it get's yanked.

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