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Remember 3 days ago when the top story was "should the Heat break up the Big 3 this offseason?"
Neither do I.
Neither do I.
2011-12 NBA Playoffs LD
- Thread starter Big Sexy
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PlayTheGame
The Cerebral Assassin
It'll start back up if they lose Game 1 in either the Eastern Conference Finals and/or the NBA Finals.
PlayTheGame
The Cerebral Assassin
G7 tomorrow will be interesting. Boston should win it (especially since it's a home game for them), but the 76ers have been showing an incredible amount of willpower and composure so far. Outlasting the Lakers, Bulls, and Mavs? Pretty impressive for a young team. However, Miami will now almost be certainly winning the East, so it's a bit of a moot point.
OKC/Spurs, as said, will be a great series and could obviously go either way. It'll be youth and explosiveness vs. wisdom and experience. We'll soon find out which combo is better.
OKC/Spurs, as said, will be a great series and could obviously go either way. It'll be youth and explosiveness vs. wisdom and experience. We'll soon find out which combo is better.
Unsold Bacon
Shucky Ducky Quack Quack
I'm really hoping the Celtics win tomorrow because a Sixers/Heat final would be disgusting. The Heat have owned the Sixers going 11-1 against them in the past two seasons with there only win being in that playoff series last year. Also, from what I remember they've blown them out a few times as well.
PlayTheGame
The Cerebral Assassin
Celtics would be much more entertaining than the 76ers (who are continuing to impress and grow) against the Heat in the East Finals, so I'm pulling for them.
We have the same mindset here. I want the 6ers then the Thunder to face the Heat. The Spurs are the best team out of the 5 left atm and Heat/Thunder would get crazy attention.
Unsold Bacon
Shucky Ducky Quack Quack
I simply want a completive series I could care less if LeBron gets his ring or not. Even if he gets to the Finals, I really can't see the Heat, Celtics, Thunder or 76ers beating the Spurs.
I'm sure LeBron will get it (and many more) evantually.
PlayTheGame
The Cerebral Assassin
C's won a good game. Rondo went off at the end, very impressive. I don't think they can beat the Heat though.
G1 of the West tonight, should be good.
G1 of the West tonight, should be good.
PlayTheGame
The Cerebral Assassin
I feel like the Celtics really needed to (and still need to) win while Bosh is out, because as soon as he returns, that team gets that much better. Considering they lost G1, that doesn't bode well for them. I'd be highly surprised now if this series is even close. I'm not predicting a sweep, but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened.
The West finals are and will be much closer. OKC only lost by 3 points on the road to a great team, which says a lot. G2 should be good tonight, and I'm still torn between who I think is going to win the series. Both of these teams are so good.
The West finals are and will be much closer. OKC only lost by 3 points on the road to a great team, which says a lot. G2 should be good tonight, and I'm still torn between who I think is going to win the series. Both of these teams are so good.
From what I heard it was a pretty sloppy game all around aside from Ginobili's play. Also heard that OKC got a few garbage points late when SA had a double digit lead. Durant also only had 2 shots in the 4th, which isn't acceptable. He's gotta be the dominant ball controller late.
I expect this game to be much cleaner played and a better game to watch, simply because of the fact that these teams are getting back into their rhythm after having a few extra days off. Here's hoping OKC pulls it out and puts a little bit of pressure on the Spurs into G3.
I expect this game to be much cleaner played and a better game to watch, simply because of the fact that these teams are getting back into their rhythm after having a few extra days off. Here's hoping OKC pulls it out and puts a little bit of pressure on the Spurs into G3.
Martin Gabriel
Pre-Show Stalwart
Spurs in 5.
The Spurs are too good of a team for the Thunder to get by them with just Durant, Westbrook, and Harden playing well and I'm not necessarily talking about more offensive production. Guys like Ibaka, Sefalosha, and Perkins need to step up on the defensive end for the Thunder to have a chance. OKC needs to protect home court like the Spurs did.
Spurs are playing excellent in the series so far. But nothing has changed so far in the series. All Spurs did is hold serve by winning their home games. Now it is up to OKC to hold serve on their homecourt.
The positive that OKC can take from this game is Spurs needed to shoot 55% to win by only 9 points. And in the 4th quarter in game 2 they finally found a lineup that can trouble the Spurs offence. The negative for OKC is they lost even after their big 3 score close to 90 points.
The positive that OKC can take from this game is Spurs needed to shoot 55% to win by only 9 points. And in the 4th quarter in game 2 they finally found a lineup that can trouble the Spurs offence. The negative for OKC is they lost even after their big 3 score close to 90 points.
PlayTheGame
The Cerebral Assassin
The Spurs are dominating this series. Trying to defend OKC's hopes right now is practically fruitless. Besides the fact that they've been dominated in practically every phase of the game by the Spurs in both games so far, only a handful of teams have come back from being down 0-2. The Spurs would have to choke it big-time for OKC to pull out the win. They're too good of a team and too experienced/focused to lose a 2-0 lead, especially with 2 home games to go. Experience has proven to be far more valuable than youth.
As for Boston's chances... not looking good. If they lose tonight, I think that series will be over. And I think they will lose tonight. Boston is lucky to have gotten this far and can't hang with the remaining 3 teams. If it weren't for Chicago literally falling apart, Boston wouldn't even have this opportunity.
Looks like we'll have an exciting Heat/Spurs Finals that I can see the Spurs winning. But they won't continue this crazy sweep they're on.
As for Boston's chances... not looking good. If they lose tonight, I think that series will be over. And I think they will lose tonight. Boston is lucky to have gotten this far and can't hang with the remaining 3 teams. If it weren't for Chicago literally falling apart, Boston wouldn't even have this opportunity.
Looks like we'll have an exciting Heat/Spurs Finals that I can see the Spurs winning. But they won't continue this crazy sweep they're on.
Kermit
the Frog
I wouldn't say they dominated both games fully. The Thunder had the win wrapped up in the first game, but fell apart in the fourth quarter. Bad coaching is to blame in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, Scott Brooks is an awesome coach, but he has been out coached since the fourth quarter of game one and on.
The Thunder can't play big, they need to pull Perkins out and shuffle Collison and Ibaka. You also can't keep Fisher in when he only makes two shots in the whole entire game. It would be better to just have Sefolosha play good defense and not score, rather than have Fisher play bad defense and not score.
PlayTheGame
The Cerebral Assassin
Is there any doubt that it's Rondo's team now? Pierce has cleary ceded that to him.
As Big Sexy said, even Rondo's best career game wasn't enough. Unbelievable 3's, great PG-ing, and a great motor (playing the whole game), and yet they couldn't get it done.
With Bosh possibly coming back soon, I think this series is over.
As Big Sexy said, even Rondo's best career game wasn't enough. Unbelievable 3's, great PG-ing, and a great motor (playing the whole game), and yet they couldn't get it done.
With Bosh possibly coming back soon, I think this series is over.
Rondo was iron man today. The older Celtics really put in a mammoth effort in this game to keep pace with the Heat while playing heavy minutes.
Really sad to see how injury and age has affected Allen in this game. He just looked old when asked to go toe-to-toe with Wade for almost the whole game.
It isn't a series until somebody loses a home game. I won't count them out yet but the signs are not good.
Really sad to see how injury and age has affected Allen in this game. He just looked old when asked to go toe-to-toe with Wade for almost the whole game.
It isn't a series until somebody loses a home game. I won't count them out yet but the signs are not good.
