NBA Basketball

[M4TM]

hate to say it, but dayum, CP3 is toying with the lakes.

Q9fFSBTc1OU

[suremanok]

i didn't think the knicks would be the first one to get ousted from the playoffs, let alone be swept. i thought they would've at least taken one game.

d'antoni sucks.

[Christmas In A Submarine.]

I've got no real love for Manu, but this is fucking outrageous:

WoK2VFqtS80

[lintmunro]

Derrick Caracter apparently got drunk, went to IHOP and punched a pregnant waitress in NO last night.

[MJR]

Portland ftw tonight! Let's make it 3-2 and win this series at home.

[mpc60]

Hope too! But i think the mavs will change their defense on Roy, they wouldn't want to live again a comeback as the warriors some years ago..

[Christmas In A Submarine.]

I don't really expect Roy to have another great game, but as long as he can be on the floor without being a liability he can change their game. Wallace needs to show up, he can cut the Mavs up.

Either way, I just got some tickets for game 6...

[youkinorn2]

Will be at the game tonight (my location lies).

Go Mavs.

[MJR]

Your location may lie, but your avatar does not.

[suremanok]

anyone know of a site that is streaming this game? i don't got nba tv

[Christmas In A Submarine.]

here.

[LandoCal126]

i don't got nba tv

I do, but it is not coming in... WTF?!?!?! Anyone else in NY having an issue? Need me some Blazers...

[Christmas In A Submarine.]

Dude, click the link I just posted.

also: I'd like to hear Dallas fans complain about the calls in this first half.

[lintmunro]

Dallas fans could complain about calls in a game that doesn't even exist. It's what they do.

[LandoCal126]

Dude, click the link I just posted.

DUDE, I understand I can watch it on a computer (Thanks for cluing me in). I was curious as to why it wasn't working right now and if anyone else was having the issue. Thanks for the link!

[selaviso]

gerald wallace is my dude. so glad he is a blazer now. i think he was the best trade this season.

[LandoCal126]

Is he aware of this little fact?

gerald wallace is my dude

[atrak]

spurs are playing like suckers right now. one more quarter left and san antonio down by 13. really shocked at how out of sync the spurs look. they act like they haven't ever played with one another before. spurs lose this game and the series is basically over.

might see a grizzlies / thunder 2nd round.

[Christmas In A Submarine.]

DUDE, I understand I can watch it on a computer (Thanks for cluing me in). I was curious as to why it wasn't working right now and if anyone else was having the issue. Thanks for the link!

Oh word, I just thought you meant that league pass was dead and you had no way to watch it...

anyhow:

did anyone else just see andre miller go all rondo? up and under with the left? yikes.

also:

[Aeroplane]

As a Spurs fan, I'm really at a loss for words. Players have vanished and Tim, Tony, and Manu are playing like they can just win it on their own. 3-1 isn't a death sentence, but it is gonna take a miracle.

[i wear shooes]

Feels like the Grizzles are the #1 seed and the Spurs need to spend the summer in a retirement home.

[chantheman]

Q9fFSBTc1OU

just not fair

[youkinorn2]

Dude, click the link I just posted.

also: I'd like to hear Dallas fans complain about the calls in this first half.

Dallas fans could complain about calls in a game that doesn't even exist. It's what they do.

The only person who has really complained vocally in this series is Nate McMillan (even though Tyson Chandler is the only person who should be complaining).

Basically, this was a game that showed the fact that the Mavericks are just a better all-around team...but that's been pretty clear from the beginning.

[Christmas In A Submarine.]

Portland lost that game for a variety of reasons, most of them their own fault.

But those two quick fouls on Gerald Wallace absolutely got portland out of their rhythm. Both teams were cold to start, and Portland finally got it going and immediately got screwed by Wallace having to sit. For the rest of the game any blazer player that got into the paint would have to hit the ground like a sack of potatoes to get a foul called while all Dirk had to do was open his mouth...

(not to say that plenty of the calls on Dirk weren't legit, portland was helping out terribly on him. But a bunch of them were silly. The one on Batum on an offensive board sticks out...)

I don't blame the loss on the refs at all, (the real problem was rebounding, on both ends) but portland is the younger, less experienced team (though I'm not sure they're "worse") and it's hard to understate the degree that a few egregiously bad calls can throw them off their game when they're trying to go on a late run and get back in it. (brandon roy getting bodychecked by marion on that steal?) That being said, they didn't try very hard...

McMillan also had some questionably late/weird substitutions (why wasn't the roy/chris johnson lineup that was so successful early never used again?) why was andre miller in for so long before bringing in roy? (Who was arguably doing a better job setting up the offense quickly and cleanly than andre was.)

Either way, thursday will be interesting.

[youkinorn2]

At least one of those fouls on Wallace was a pretty weak call, but there have been plenty of those all around this series (and in the playoffs in general this season, from what I've seen).

But nothing compares to when Chandler got whistled for picking the ball up off the ground while completely avoiding contact with a diving portland player (forget who) in game 3. Or the double tech when Aldridge went at him and he just walked away with his arms up.

Seriously...not saying calls have been outrageously biased in any direction except for against Tyson. ha.

[Christmas In A Submarine.]

wait wait wait: the double tech was because tyson tossed an elbow at lamarcus after the play had ended and clipped him in the face...

not saying it should've been a tech, but chandler does that whole "body somebody up, give the extra shove, then walk away with my hands up grinning like a fool" and be surprised when the other team takes exception.

and like you said, "at least one" of those calls on gerald was junk, which just shows how important that one call can be... the blazers were definitely looking like they were in control when he had to sit.

(ahhh, what might have been. etc etc)

but in general, I agree: despite how entertaining all of the playoffs have been this year the reffing has been awful. And this series is arguably the worst, not just in blown/incorrect calls but just how fucking tight the refs are calling some games, then not the next... even quarter by quarter they've been inconsistent: ugh. It's infuriating to watch in general, of course it's worse when it's happening to your team...

[Epoc]

The number of touch fouls during the last 2 minutes of games has been ridiculous.

[chantheman]

tony allen

[chantheman]

good read about the kings and small market teams in general. bill simmons at it again

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/110425&sportCat=nba

[Christmas In A Submarine.]

If there were a Kevin Durant and Sam Presti to go around for every small-market team, things would be fine. But you're much more likely to get stuck with Tyreke Evans and three Maloofs.

That was a great article...