gustavratzenhofer wrote:Utah Jazz. I still think that's hilarious.
I know, right? After they moved the team from New Orleans, they should've retired the name with the city.
This team should've been the Utah Muzak.
this thread is much more entertaining than a detroit-cleveland playoff game...
...not a very high bar to reach, you gotta admit.
Boozer (great dog's name, there) made a play early on that amounted to nothing and was completely lost in the flow of the game, but it showed a lot about the way that guy plays basketball.
He was at the high post with the ball at the extended elbow on the left side. San Antonio was in a match-up zone at that point, and someone (I think it was Bowen) was half-fronting him as he came up to the elbow. Whatever Jazz player had the ball on the wing made a lazy pass in to Boozer that was pretty much right into Bowen's hands. Boozer put his left hand between Bowens, and popped the ball up over his head and behind him as the ball came in, then caught the ball behind Bowen. Just a deadly cool, level-headed bit of juggling to save the possession. He ended up making a one drivel move away from the basket and missing a tough fadeaway, but he made one hell of a catch there.
If I saw that one play by a college player, I'd think about drafting him. Like watching Wade in the tourney when he was at Marquette. I remember watching at a Super 8 in Wisconsin and thinking, that kids gonna be good.
Boozer is not only a great dog's name, it's also a pretty good NBA name. Carlos is not the first Boozer in the NBA. Bob Boozer (no relation, as near as I can tell) came out of Kansas State at the same time Wilt Chamberlain came from Kansas and played over a decade at the pro level.
What a game that was. Lebron James. Jordanesque? Oh, I think you can definitely use that word for it. I was f*cking LOVING that ****! Well, now I know what I'll be doing at 8:30 this saturday. We got ourselves a series, boys!
I'd like to stand the frikkin Pistons in a row and throw rotton vegetables in their koolaid-heart-pumping, choke-in-big-game faces.
Yeah, their defense was horrible at the end there. Maybe they were just exhausted. It sure seemed like everybody else was. Except that #23 kid. Holy f---ing ****, what a game. I haven't seen **** like that since
the flu game.
Looked like he hurt his back when he went down early in the first overtime. The way he held himself when he got helped up looked like, "Don't let your lower back move, damn it." I know that look.
Plus, he said, "Ow, my back."
Not exactly the old "flu-like symptoms," though. But how sad are the rest of the Cavs on offense? And the coach? What's the point of using your timeouts if you're never going to draw up a play?
kickycan wrote:What a game that was. Lebron James. Jordanesque? Oh, I think you can definitely use that word for it. I was f*cking LOVING that ****! Well, now I know what I'll be doing at 8:30 this saturday. We got ourselves a series, boys!
Yeah the cry baby got his win.
I hate that guy. He's a fantastic athlete but he's a big crybaby. He pouted for half the damn game after his technical. Wah wah, cry....we lost a guy in the stupidest call ever. Ejected....he hardly deserved that.
I was going to stay up and watch but went to bed. I woke up at the end of the first OT and wish I had stayed up. But this morning, when I heard they lost in double OT, was glad I'd gotten my rest.
snood wrote:I'd like to stand the frikkin Pistons in a row and throw rotton vegetables in their koolaid-heart-pumping, choke-in-big-game faces.
There's a famers market down the road from my place...we can stop off there on the way to the game on Saturday.
What is with Chauncy lately?
i didn't watch the game, but i'm glad bron-bron pushed kobe to the back pages...
Bella Dea wrote:kickycan wrote:What a game that was. Lebron James. Jordanesque? Oh, I think you can definitely use that word for it. I was f*cking LOVING that ****! Well, now I know what I'll be doing at 8:30 this saturday. We got ourselves a series, boys!
Yeah the cry baby got his win.
I hate that guy. He's a fantastic athlete but he's a big crybaby. He pouted for half the damn game after his technical. Wah wah, cry....we lost a guy in the stupidest call ever. Ejected....he hardly deserved that.
I was going to stay up and watch but went to bed. I woke up at the end of the first OT and wish I had stayed up. But this morning, when I heard they lost in double OT, was glad I'd gotten my rest.
Stupidest play ever? Are you talking about McDyess? It was a horse collar -- and I'm saying this as someone who wants to see Detroit move on.
Is that what she was talking about? Hmmm. I was going to quote that same post and respond that I must have missed that play. I don't remember any crybaby stuff. And I don't think there was too much question that it should have been a flagrant. Maybe you could make a case that he shouldn't have been ejected, but it wouldn't be a very strong one, I don't think. I thought it was a pretty reasonable call.
I wish Sam Cassell was in the playoffs.
Sam was always fun to watch.
Well, another weekend night elimination game that looks to be a great one. That probably means it will be another anti-climactic blowout **** game, but I can hope...
Only a blowout in the fourth quarter. Those kids in Cleveland are definitely fun to watch while they have fun. They play as if it were a game rather that a business. Most refreshing!
kickycan wrote:Is that what she was talking about? Hmmm. I was going to quote that same post and respond that I must have missed that play. I don't remember any crybaby stuff. And I don't think there was too much question that it should have been a flagrant. Maybe you could make a case that he shouldn't have been ejected, but it wouldn't be a very strong one, I don't think. I thought it was a pretty reasonable call.
He shouldn't have been ejected.
And Labron was pouting. I can't believe you didn't see that. And he played like **** for like 30 mintues after that.
He got him across the neck -- and then followed through. It's like the difference between a 5-yard and a 15-yard facemask penalty in football: if you make contact, that's one thing, but if you maintain contact and make it a malicious act, the penatly is steeper. I know Steve Kerr was all indignant about it being called a flagrant-2, but this kind of play gets you thrown out in the NBA these days. It's not 1990 any more, and players get tossed for less.
And pouting? In the NBA? The league of spoiled children? Surely you jest. What killed me, though, was Webber's halftime complaints about flopping. I've watched Webber for years, and he is not the least bit afraid to flop. And sure enough, in the last couple minutes of the 4th quarter, both he and Billups pulled the old Vlade Divac trout move.
patiodog wrote:
And pouting? In the NBA? The league of spoiled children? Surely you jest.
I am not. And I can't stand it. Especially when players who the media can't stop raving about do it. (labron this labron that, what a god, he's the best, blah blah blah)
He is a great player, no doubt. But he's a big cry baby. And if you think otherwise, are we watching the same player?