after 82 games, there's part of you that wonders if you have anything left; if you have anything more to give. but somehow, from somewhere, you find it. you dig deeper. you have to. because if you don't, you go home.
(background music: radiohead 'house of cards'!)
go lakers!
ryanj
Apr 18, 08 1:28 pm
...all I know is the Mavs should have stuck with the guy on the left, cuz the guy on the right can't shoot a jumper if his life depended on it.
GO MAVS! (despite our old point guard)
boxy
Apr 18, 08 1:31 pm
i hope the finals are like the old days: celtics vs. lakers
brian buchalski
Apr 18, 08 2:25 pm
detroit pistons own 2008 nba finals
Ron Nichols
Apr 18, 08 2:39 pm
0.4+MVP+Radman+LO+PAU
(& Farmar & The Machine & Ronny & DJ & Mihm)
Are you f****** kidding me????
Bring the rings...
won and done williams
Apr 18, 08 2:52 pm
lakers fans, thought i'd just give you a little reminder of the last time you made it to the finals and a taste of what's to come this year.
boxy
Apr 18, 08 3:02 pm
not a huge fan of the lakers, but you have to admit that a detroit-san antonio matchup will be another dull fest. i'd much rather see the big three against kobe and gasol.
Ron Nichols
Apr 18, 08 3:26 pm
@jafidler
you guys are getting old and won't even go past the 2nd round (orlando)...
won and done williams
Apr 18, 08 4:57 pm
ron, i get the feeling you don't watch the pistons much. philly will actually give them a bigger test than orlando. the 76ers match up well against the pistons. they in fact split the season series. detroit has always dominated orlando. i'm thankful they got orlando over cleveland in the second round. the pistons should sweep orlando. and what you call "getting old" is known as experience which should lead the pistons past boston.
and the lakers, well, who cares? they'll get bounced by the spurs (if they can even make it past the second round).
brian buchalski
Apr 18, 08 5:11 pm
thankfully the east is set up in a manner that detroit might be able to avoid cleveland this year. i don't understand why but the cavaliers have really been detroit's achillies heel the past couple of playoffs
and yes some of the pistons are growing old...but their youthful bench has been improving significantly and will provide the needed spark
and for what it's worth, i feel another detroit/san antonio finals would be awesome...certainly better than a cleveland san antonio matchup
won and done williams
Apr 18, 08 5:16 pm
i agree, puddles. detroit-san antonio will be far more interesting than cleveland-san antonio.
larslarson
Apr 18, 08 5:54 pm
i'm interested to see how boston responds to the playoffs..they've been coasting for the past month or so...and still winning by 10 or more with their bench. boston's bench has grown by leaps and bounds from last year.
a detroit/boston series would be a lot of fun...but they have to beat cleveland first..the worst finals team i've ever seen.
b3tadine[sutures]
Apr 18, 08 5:54 pm
just let me know when Isaiah Thomas gets shit canned, then and only then will i start watching the bball again.
Boston... Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett...
bRink
Apr 21, 08 1:29 am
Anything-san antonio will be the end of the NBA... Common, San Antonio is the most boring team in the NBA... I'd rather see the suns or denver in the finals...
brian buchalski
Apr 21, 08 9:32 am
sheed!!!
chupacabra
Apr 21, 08 9:36 am
Anyone who actually understands basketball does not think the Spurs are boring...they are the definition of precision and execution...if you want Denver just go to your local rec center and watch the games without defense or with Ole' defense at best...that is boring.
Ron Nichols
Apr 26, 08 5:32 am
LAKERS 3 -0 DENVER
I CAN FEEL IT...
Medit
Apr 26, 08 6:27 am
Fot-li
Pau!!!.. bring us an NBA ring to Barcelona (or three or four) in some years!
brian buchalski
Apr 26, 08 9:35 am
i feel like vomiting
Medit
Apr 26, 08 11:45 am
I remember a long time ago, when I was a kid someone gave me an English-Catalan dictionary ... soon I discovered that one of the words that I was curious to know how to spell in English was the Catalan verb "Vomitar" which means "To vomit".. the man who I needed to apply that word to was this guy..:
I couldn't stand the 'bad boys', but I always thought Isiah Thomas was a good player only because he was friends with Magic (who is from Detroit, right?)..
I remember also this other 'bad boy' nicknamed 'the Spider'... mr. Salley.. I thought it was cool that an nba player had a small, somehow discreet and unpretentious tattoo (but distasteful if it was a 'piston' who had it)..
of course that was long before this:
and I remember that in Houston, if my memory serves me well, the Rockets gave Kareem a big Harley Davidson and maybe the city's Key... he collected lots of presents in his retirement season when he played far from the Forum.. I can't remember if they gave him anything in Detroit?
brian buchalski
Apr 26, 08 11:56 am
i remember the kareem retirement tour too but i don't recall if detroit offered any parting gifts or not
and i wish we still had laimbeer playing...this current bunch is even beginning to annoy die-hard fans with their arrogance and sense of entitlement...yuck
won and done williams
Apr 26, 08 2:00 pm
that bad boys team had the best nicknames:
the worm
the microwave
spider
buddha
zeke
joe-d
funny laimbeer and mahorn never had nicknames. oh well, guess they were the original bad boys.
brian buchalski
Apr 26, 08 10:54 pm
fucxk nicknames...i want championships whether i'm riding the viking or vee-king line or not
how about some some waffles & strawberries at the innvik?
boxy
May 6, 08 11:32 pm
holy shit.. lebron went 2-18 for 12 pts and 10 turnovers! one more assist and rebound and he would have had an unorthodox quadruple double.
the crazy thing is that they only lost by four, so i'm thinking that this may go to 7 games.
drums please, Fab?
May 7, 08 1:09 am
kobe mvp, lakers sweep first round, yeah they'll win game 2 against le jazz manaña noche on de way to ze champion-ship !!
boxy
May 8, 08 10:04 pm
i haven't been able to watch the games, but is boston's D just unbelievable or is lebron just playing terrible? 6-24 shooting? holy crap.
drums please, Fab?
May 8, 08 11:17 pm
lakers up 2-0 ova jazz on their way to undefeated champion~ship!
larslarson
May 9, 08 3:20 pm
DJ
a little of both..the Celtics average something like 78 points against at home...and they've been swarming lebron with two or three players..and they never give him an open lane to the hoop...or if they do he's usually met at the rim by two people. i think their basic approach is to make lebron pass and make the other players beat them.
with that said lebron isn't shooting well regardless and has missed a number of shots that were makeable...but he is probably getting defended as well as he has been in the nba...or ever for that matter.
larslarson
May 9, 08 3:20 pm
lets see how he plays in cleveland...cause if they lose tomorrow it's OVA.
brian buchalski
May 9, 08 6:51 pm
Cleveland has started slow against detroit during some previous playoffs and somehow managed turn it upside down pretty quickly. we'll just have to watch and see.
go pistons!!!
brian buchalski
May 10, 08 9:51 pm
no chauncery billups and you still can't stop tayshaun prince, rip hamilton, sheed wallace, antonio mcdyss, rodney stuckey, jarvis hayes, lindsey hamilton, etc.
the only competition that the pistons have this year is from the hockey redwings regarding who gets to use woodward ave. first for their championship parade!
drums please, Fab?
May 11, 08 9:07 pm
wow those jazz are good at home - even series with lakers 2-2
brian buchalski
May 13, 08 8:09 am
uh oh...lebron has tied it up. could he repeat last year's feat against detroit of winning four straight after an 0-2 deficit?
brian buchalski
May 13, 08 10:45 pm
pistons move on...and yeah lebron they're coming after you so you better take care of business at your end. we've got a score to settle from last year
celtics, lakers, pistons...it's beginning to feel like 1987 again
brian buchalski
May 20, 08 1:53 pm
...and the spurs too
what a great looking final four!
won and done williams
May 20, 08 3:43 pm
come on pistons-spurs. i loathe kg and paul pierce almost as much as i loathe kobe and pau.
Dapper Napper
May 20, 08 3:55 pm
I loathe both Kobe and Tim Duncan...now and forever. KG needs his ring. He toiled for so long in Minnesota.
won and done williams
May 20, 08 4:18 pm
dapper napper, you're right. kg isn't so bad; it's just his proximity to paul pierce that sullies him. after pierce recovered that loose ball to seal the victory at the end of the game seven against the cavs and lay gleefully writhing around on the court like an overpaid idiot, i had visions of sheed wallace laying him out in the conference finals. go pistons!
lletdownl
May 20, 08 4:26 pm
im so pissed its down to the lakers and SA...
i cant believe i have to root for the lakers.... tis sacreligious...
go east...
larslarson
May 20, 08 4:51 pm
"after pierce recovered that loose ball to seal the victory at the end of the game seven against the cavs and lay gleefully writhing around on the court like an overpaid idiot"
so we're callin paul pierce an overpaid idiot for being happy that he hustled and beat lebron james to a ball that he never should have beat bron bron to.... pp is one of the least appreciated players in the league...and is anything but overpaid..he's consistently been one of the top ten players in the league and has stuck with boston through ten good and then very bad years...how can you hate on that?
if you want to talk about classless you should look no further than sheed..and why not have him lay out pierce..i mean that's what he's good at..that and technicals...(i know he's also a good player..but what you said about pierce is ridiculous too) and i liked sheed when he was at UNC.
Dapper Napper
May 20, 08 5:08 pm
PP has been toiling a long time in obscurity too, but unfortunately, I'm seeing a Lakers-Pistons final. Man I wishing for Detroit to go old school 'bad boys' on Kobe.
brian buchalski
May 20, 08 5:09 pm
yeah, a pistons-spurs rematch would be sweet! i'd love to get some revenge for that 2005 7 game finals loss to san antonio. maybe sheed could knock horry on his ass...that'd be fun
brian buchalski
May 20, 08 5:23 pm
most nba championships:
16 - Boston Celtics
14 - Los Angeles Lakers
6- Chicago Bulls 4 - San Antonio Spurs
3 - Detroit Pistons
3 - Philadelphia 76ers
2- Houston Rockets
2- New York Knicks
four of the best nba franchises are squaring off for the next month...and arguably the four best franchises are competing if you account for the fact that much of chicago's success was due to the singular brilliance of michael jordan
after 82 games, there's part of you that wonders if you have anything left; if you have anything more to give. but somehow, from somewhere, you find it. you dig deeper. you have to. because if you don't, you go home.
(background music: radiohead 'house of cards'!)
go lakers!
...all I know is the Mavs should have stuck with the guy on the left, cuz the guy on the right can't shoot a jumper if his life depended on it.
GO MAVS! (despite our old point guard)
i hope the finals are like the old days: celtics vs. lakers
detroit pistons own 2008 nba finals
0.4+MVP+Radman+LO+PAU
(& Farmar & The Machine & Ronny & DJ & Mihm)
Are you f****** kidding me????
Bring the rings...
lakers fans, thought i'd just give you a little reminder of the last time you made it to the finals and a taste of what's to come this year.
not a huge fan of the lakers, but you have to admit that a detroit-san antonio matchup will be another dull fest. i'd much rather see the big three against kobe and gasol.
@jafidler
you guys are getting old and won't even go past the 2nd round (orlando)...
ron, i get the feeling you don't watch the pistons much. philly will actually give them a bigger test than orlando. the 76ers match up well against the pistons. they in fact split the season series. detroit has always dominated orlando. i'm thankful they got orlando over cleveland in the second round. the pistons should sweep orlando. and what you call "getting old" is known as experience which should lead the pistons past boston.
and the lakers, well, who cares? they'll get bounced by the spurs (if they can even make it past the second round).
thankfully the east is set up in a manner that detroit might be able to avoid cleveland this year. i don't understand why but the cavaliers have really been detroit's achillies heel the past couple of playoffs
and yes some of the pistons are growing old...but their youthful bench has been improving significantly and will provide the needed spark
and for what it's worth, i feel another detroit/san antonio finals would be awesome...certainly better than a cleveland san antonio matchup
i agree, puddles. detroit-san antonio will be far more interesting than cleveland-san antonio.
i'm interested to see how boston responds to the playoffs..they've been coasting for the past month or so...and still winning by 10 or more with their bench. boston's bench has grown by leaps and bounds from last year.
a detroit/boston series would be a lot of fun...but they have to beat cleveland first..the worst finals team i've ever seen.
just let me know when Isaiah Thomas gets shit canned, then and only then will i start watching the bball again.
WOW!
Prayers can be answered!
Gone Baby, Gone!
Gasol: FG: 14-20 FT: 8-8 Reb: 16 Ast: 8 BS:3 Pts: 36
Recockulous
Sun's fan here scratching his head.
LA vs. Boston Finals
Common...
LA... Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom, Pau Gasol...
Boston... Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett...
Anything-san antonio will be the end of the NBA... Common, San Antonio is the most boring team in the NBA... I'd rather see the suns or denver in the finals...
sheed!!!
Anyone who actually understands basketball does not think the Spurs are boring...they are the definition of precision and execution...if you want Denver just go to your local rec center and watch the games without defense or with Ole' defense at best...that is boring.
LAKERS 3 -0 DENVER
I CAN FEEL IT...
Pau!!!.. bring us an NBA ring to Barcelona (or three or four) in some years!
i feel like vomiting
I remember a long time ago, when I was a kid someone gave me an English-Catalan dictionary ... soon I discovered that one of the words that I was curious to know how to spell in English was the Catalan verb "Vomitar" which means "To vomit".. the man who I needed to apply that word to was this guy..:
I couldn't stand the 'bad boys', but I always thought Isiah Thomas was a good player only because he was friends with Magic (who is from Detroit, right?)..
I remember also this other 'bad boy' nicknamed 'the Spider'... mr. Salley.. I thought it was cool that an nba player had a small, somehow discreet and unpretentious tattoo (but distasteful if it was a 'piston' who had it)..
of course that was long before this:
and I remember that in Houston, if my memory serves me well, the Rockets gave Kareem a big Harley Davidson and maybe the city's Key... he collected lots of presents in his retirement season when he played far from the Forum.. I can't remember if they gave him anything in Detroit?
i remember the kareem retirement tour too but i don't recall if detroit offered any parting gifts or not
and i wish we still had laimbeer playing...this current bunch is even beginning to annoy die-hard fans with their arrogance and sense of entitlement...yuck
that bad boys team had the best nicknames:
the worm
the microwave
spider
buddha
zeke
joe-d
funny laimbeer and mahorn never had nicknames. oh well, guess they were the original bad boys.
fucxk nicknames...i want championships whether i'm riding the viking or vee-king line or not
how about some some waffles & strawberries at the innvik?
holy shit.. lebron went 2-18 for 12 pts and 10 turnovers! one more assist and rebound and he would have had an unorthodox quadruple double.
the crazy thing is that they only lost by four, so i'm thinking that this may go to 7 games.
kobe mvp, lakers sweep first round, yeah they'll win game 2 against le jazz manaña noche on de way to ze champion-ship !!
i haven't been able to watch the games, but is boston's D just unbelievable or is lebron just playing terrible? 6-24 shooting? holy crap.
lakers up 2-0 ova jazz on their way to undefeated champion~ship!
DJ
a little of both..the Celtics average something like 78 points against at home...and they've been swarming lebron with two or three players..and they never give him an open lane to the hoop...or if they do he's usually met at the rim by two people. i think their basic approach is to make lebron pass and make the other players beat them.
with that said lebron isn't shooting well regardless and has missed a number of shots that were makeable...but he is probably getting defended as well as he has been in the nba...or ever for that matter.
lets see how he plays in cleveland...cause if they lose tomorrow it's OVA.
Cleveland has started slow against detroit during some previous playoffs and somehow managed turn it upside down pretty quickly. we'll just have to watch and see.
go pistons!!!
no chauncery billups and you still can't stop tayshaun prince, rip hamilton, sheed wallace, antonio mcdyss, rodney stuckey, jarvis hayes, lindsey hamilton, etc.
the only competition that the pistons have this year is from the hockey redwings regarding who gets to use woodward ave. first for their championship parade!
wow those jazz are good at home - even series with lakers 2-2
uh oh...lebron has tied it up. could he repeat last year's feat against detroit of winning four straight after an 0-2 deficit?
pistons move on...and yeah lebron they're coming after you so you better take care of business at your end. we've got a score to settle from last year
robert horry is still playing?
woohoo! Lakers 4 - Jazz 2 ... go Pau (keep trying those sky hooks)!
to the finals!: http://www.nba.com/lakers/news/080516_gameday_jazz.html
yeah lakers!
celtics, lakers, pistons...it's beginning to feel like 1987 again
...and the spurs too
what a great looking final four!
come on pistons-spurs. i loathe kg and paul pierce almost as much as i loathe kobe and pau.
I loathe both Kobe and Tim Duncan...now and forever. KG needs his ring. He toiled for so long in Minnesota.
dapper napper, you're right. kg isn't so bad; it's just his proximity to paul pierce that sullies him. after pierce recovered that loose ball to seal the victory at the end of the game seven against the cavs and lay gleefully writhing around on the court like an overpaid idiot, i had visions of sheed wallace laying him out in the conference finals. go pistons!
im so pissed its down to the lakers and SA...
i cant believe i have to root for the lakers.... tis sacreligious...
go east...
"after pierce recovered that loose ball to seal the victory at the end of the game seven against the cavs and lay gleefully writhing around on the court like an overpaid idiot"
so we're callin paul pierce an overpaid idiot for being happy that he hustled and beat lebron james to a ball that he never should have beat bron bron to.... pp is one of the least appreciated players in the league...and is anything but overpaid..he's consistently been one of the top ten players in the league and has stuck with boston through ten good and then very bad years...how can you hate on that?
if you want to talk about classless you should look no further than sheed..and why not have him lay out pierce..i mean that's what he's good at..that and technicals...(i know he's also a good player..but what you said about pierce is ridiculous too) and i liked sheed when he was at UNC.
PP has been toiling a long time in obscurity too, but unfortunately, I'm seeing a Lakers-Pistons final. Man I wishing for Detroit to go old school 'bad boys' on Kobe.
yeah, a pistons-spurs rematch would be sweet! i'd love to get some revenge for that 2005 7 game finals loss to san antonio. maybe sheed could knock horry on his ass...that'd be fun
most nba championships:
16 - Boston Celtics
14 - Los Angeles Lakers
6- Chicago Bulls
4 - San Antonio Spurs
3 - Detroit Pistons
3 - Philadelphia 76ers
2- Houston Rockets
2- New York Knicks
four of the best nba franchises are squaring off for the next month...and arguably the four best franchises are competing if you account for the fact that much of chicago's success was due to the singular brilliance of michael jordan