Guest Ricardomeister Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 How many points did charles Barkley get last night then? That would be Sir Charles to you :winkold: Hoping Los Suns can go 3-0 up tonight on my least favourite team, the dull Spurs, as that should be enough to set up a Western Conference final against, probably, the Lakers. Vaya Los Suns! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodytom Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 How many points did charles Barkley get last night then? That would be Sir Charles to you :winkold: Hoping Los Suns can go 3-0 up tonight on my least favourite team, the dull Spurs, as that should be enough to set up a Western Conference final against, probably, the Lakers. Vaya Los Suns! yeah he wernt bad was he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ricardomeister Posted May 8, 2010 Share Posted May 8, 2010 How many points did charles Barkley get last night then? That would be Sir Charles to you :winkold: Hoping Los Suns can go 3-0 up tonight on my least favourite team, the dull Spurs, as that should be enough to set up a Western Conference final against, probably, the Lakers. Vaya Los Suns! yeah he wernt bad was he? He would always good value for money whether he was playing the game or having another fight! I see he is going to stand for Governor of Alabama..that should be interesting! And well done to Los Suns last night going 3-0 up against our play off nemesis....I won't count my chickens just yet but it is looking good for the Western Conference Final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korda-slovillan Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 How many points did charles Barkley get last night then? That would be Sir Charles to you :winkold: Hoping Los Suns can go 3-0 up tonight on my least favourite team, the dull Spurs, as that should be enough to set up a Western Conference final against, probably, the Lakers. Vaya Los Suns! yeah he wernt bad was he? He would always good value for money whether he was playing the game or having another fight! I see he is going to stand for Governor of Alabama..that should be interesting! And well done to Los Suns last night going 3-0 up against our play off nemesis....I won't count my chickens just yet but it is looking good for the Western Conference Final. yeah, and I take my hat off to my fellow Slovenian, Goran Dragic, who was the man in Game 3, 26 pts in 17 mins, WOW 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ricardomeister Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Get in there! Los Suns complete a 4-0 rout of the Spurs. At least one of my teams are better than the Spurs! Bring on the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrywrose1 Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 How is everyone watching the game? I have ESPN but they're never listed anymore and then I'll switch my tv on one night and I would have missed a game. Driving me mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ricardomeister Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Harry, unfortunately you have to just keep checking the listings every day...Jazz v Lakers is on tonight (I think 3.30 am) but they do usually have 3 or 4 a week on ESPN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted May 11, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted May 11, 2010 Because it's difficult to know a few days in advance which games will be on and ESPN is slow to update their EPG, you can't rely on the EPG. Beat LA! Beat LA! Beat LA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted May 31, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted May 31, 2010 Matching up the Lakers and Celtics Be careful what you wish for, it’s here. What do you know, the Lakers wanted the Celtics all along, as Coach Phil Jackson acknowledged, describing the chance off-season meeting in which he told Paul Pierce , "Get it back, we want to meet you in the Finals." Jackson didn’t even tell Pierce to make sure he brings his wheelchair. We have time to recount all the disrespect shown by each of these teams for the other, so let’s start with the all-important matchups. Here’s how it will go: I don’t know. If everyone thinks they do, no one does until they start playing. In 2008, the favored Lakers, who had just gone 12-3 in the West draw, walked into a matchup nightmare no one saw coming. The Celtics single-covered Pau Gasol with Kendrick Perkins , who pounded on Pau all series and held him to 14.6 a game. Kevin Garnett took Lamar Odom, or, actually, left him on the perimeter while KG played free safety. Flummoxed for three games, Odom scored 14-10-4 That left everyone else to help Ray Allen guard Kobe Bryant, who had two choices: 1) Pass and watch teammates miss. 2) Go one-on-however-many-there-were, the only way to get shots with two or three Celtics tracking him. The Lakers finally figured it out in Game 4, going up by 24 as the ball moved magically, looking like they would tie the series, 2-2. Instead, the Celtics rallied, Bryant couldn’t take over with so few good looks, and the Lakers lost. Down, 3-1, the Lakers won Game 5 to force Game 6 in Boston, their low point of the decade unless something worse happens this series Here are the key matchups, I think. BRYANT VS. RAJON RONDO Bryant has guarded Rondo since the 2008 Finals, mostly to drop off him to play free safety, a la Garnett. Now, however, Rondo makes the Celtics go, making this the key matchup. Bryant gets bored chasing shooters through screens but he’s a great on-ball defender . . . and will have to be to have a chance at keeping the cat-quick 6-foot, 175-pound Rondo out of the lane. That was the role Bryant chose on the U.S. team, taking it from the unit Greece shot up in the 2006 world championships to the ferocious defenders who won the Beijing Olympics in 2008. It’s also what Bryant, playing with a sore knee, did to Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook last month in Game 5, turning the first-round series around. Rondo still passes up open 15-footers but finishes over big men, rebounds over big men, frees up teammates and gets every loose ball in or near his vicinity with his long arms and huge hands. If Kobe plays him, Rondo had better start taking those 15-footers because he’ll get a lot of them. PIERCE VS. RON ARTEST The heavyweight championship, the one and only Ronnie vs. the MVP of the 2008 Finals. Coming off the quietest season in his career, Artest is still a trip, shooting sporadically (seven for 42 on three-point attempts in the first eight playoff games, 16 for 43 since) but throwing a kink into Kevin Durant’s game and holding Jason Richardson, previously averaging 22 in the playoffs, to 17. Neither was a natural matchup for the 6-7, 260-pound Artest, but at 6-7, 235, Pierce is. GASOL VS. GARNETT At 32 in 2008, Garnett was the defensive player of the year, averaging 18 points and 13 rebounds in the Finals, but he’s not that KG anymore. If Gasol isn’t likely to dominate him, Pau still prefers playing someone his size to being hit all night by a battering ram with the initials K.P. Unless, of course, Andrew Bynum can’t play and Gasol is back in against the battering ram. BYNUM VS. PERKINS Known for personal fouls, technical fouls and suspensions, the underrated Perkins is also a great post defender at 6-10 (they wish), 280, with feet quick enough to guard Dwight Howard and shoulders strong enough to come out the other side of Gasol’s rib cage. At 7 feet, 285, Bynum, who didn’t play in the 2008 playoffs, is a whole new challenge, who’s just hoping his knee holds up long enough to squeeze this series in. "I’ll be OK," he said Saturday. "I didn’t come this far to stop now." ALLEN VS. DEREK FISHER If the Warriors had given up Monta Ellis, the 35-year-old Allen would have missed this run, and the Celtics might have, too. Meanwhile, people have been trying to retire the 36-year-old Fisher for years. If Allen is a star, and Fisher a role player, both have shown all spring they’re big-game, big-series players with a knack for winding up with the ball in their hands in crunch time and coming through. BENCHES The Lakers have Odom, Shannon Brown, Jordan Farmar and, fresh off starting the Slovenian Civil War, Sasha Vujacic. The Celtics have Glen Davis, Rasheed Wallace and Tony Allen, who are all useful, and Nate Robinson, who’s like Sasha, only smaller, more explosive and not as mature. COACHES Doc Rivers is more gracious. Jackson is funnier. If one of them is going to have the other’s fans coming after the team bus with torches and pitchforks, guess which it will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 This is gay. The media bias for these two teams is just annoying, so very boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted June 11, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 11, 2010 Game 4 is now on right now (on ESPN). Lakers lead the series two games to one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-dub Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 No offense, but on the eve of the World Cup the NBA Finals seem as important as the Pro Bowler's Tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Didn't see it, but a Celtics win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted June 14, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 14, 2010 Game 5 of the Pro Bowlers Tour^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HNBA Finals is underway. Celtics off to a good start: 30-22 with 8:46 remaining in the first half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted June 14, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 14, 2010 Commentators whining about Ron Artest diving... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrywrose1 Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 Commentators whining about Ron Artest diving... Yet when Paul Pierce takes a flop in the final few minutes of the 4th, they say "he must have learnt that off fisher" Is anyone else really getting irratated by the Celtics? They're just sooooo cocky, Nate Robinson and Big Baby Davis are so irratating, KG banging his chest after every other play, Paul Pierce trying to draw a foul every shot and mouthing off to the lakers fans in LA, ESPN cutting to shots of Ray Allens mother clebrating in the stands every time he makes a shot! And generally Rondo just being too good! I'm not even a Lakers fan, I just get annoyed at how cocky and unsporting like the Celtics are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 I'm irritated by the Celtics. But I would be happy for them to win the next 10 Championships if it means LA don't win one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 This is gay. The media bias for these two teams is just annoying, so very boring. It's the NBA equivalent of Liverpool-Man U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted June 16, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 16, 2010 Celtics could win the title tonight as Game 6 gets underway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korda-slovillan Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 ... but they didn't. Beaten pretty badly. Game 7 on Thursday, I think the Lakers will take the championship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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