Bill Simmons- How the West might be won..

HarlemHeat37 · Post #1 » by **HarlemHeat37** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:14 pm

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/080326

thoughts?..

NetsForce · Post #2 » by **NetsForce** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:18 pm

Unsung hero: Sasha Vujacic, quite possibly the league's best bench player of anyone who plays 20 minutes or less. He's a feisty defender, he shoots 40-plus from 3-point range, he can guard anyone and play three positions, he's a legitimate threat to get punched in the face during the playoffs and, if that's not enough, I'm almost positive that he's wearing some sort of hair net. We haven't had a so-much-fun-to-hate-him playoff villain like this guy in eons.

Best part of the article.

Post #3 » by **semi-sentient** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:24 am

Son of a bitch.

I thought Bill Simmons was black?

Scalabrine · Post #4 » by **Scalabrine** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:28 am

the question mark doesnt belong there and why does it matter?

JordansBulls · Post #5 » by **JordansBulls** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:52 am

Nice Summation.

Homecourt in the west will be vital this year. While it is true either team can win on the others floor, I am not sure any team would be able to win two games on the road in the same series. Thus if you have the homecourt and you lose Game 1 or 2 at home, you can get game 3 or 4 on the road. But I am not sure if you lose twice at home that you will get two games on the road in the playoffs in the same series.

Post #6 » by **semi-sentient** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:09 am

Scalabrine wrote:the question mark doesnt belong there and why does it matter?

It doesn't matter, but an apostrophe does belong in the contraction doesn't.

Entengtot · Post #7 » by **Entengtot** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:48 am

i still think its a western finals between the spurs and the lakers. and yes i want a warriors-lakers first rounder

0HeadAche0 · Post #8 » by **0HeadAche0** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:51 am

Im pretty confident that an eastern conference team will win the Championship, teams will have to fight so hard to get out of the West that they will be shot by the time they get to the finals.

black06eclipse · Post #9 » by **black06eclipse** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:54 am

Denver had a healthy season???

total games missed by starters ---94

Post #10 » by **penbeast0** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:56 am

semi-sentient wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

It doesn't matter, but an apostrophe does belong in the contraction doesn't.

I could clean this sentence up grammatically too, but that might be beating a dead horse.

hermes · Post #11 » by **hermes** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:02 am

NetsForce wrote:
Unsung hero: Sasha Vujacic, quite possibly the league's best bench player of anyone who plays 20 minutes or less. He's a feisty defender, he shoots 40-plus from 3-point range, he can guard anyone and play three positions, he's a legitimate threat to get punched in the face during the playoffs and, if that's not enough, I'm almost positive that he's wearing some sort of hair net. We haven't had a so-much-fun-to-hate-him playoff villain like this guy in eons.

Best part of the article.

Post #12 » by **NO-KG-AI** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:08 am

0HeadAche0 wrote:Im pretty confident that an eastern conference team will win the Championship, teams will have to fight so hard to get out of the West that they will be shot by the time they get to the finals.

I hate that excuse, like the teams arent going to bring there A-game in the playoffs, the only way it makes a difference is if the games go more games or not, and the East will be a battle after the first round IMO.

Entengtot · Post #13 » by **Entengtot** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:13 am

^^ see lakers-pacers, lakers-nets, and spurs-nets in the early 2000's still boston detroit are way better than those teams

0HeadAche0 · Post #14 » by **0HeadAche0** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:39 am

NO-KG-AI wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

I hate that excuse, like the teams arent going to bring there A-game in the playoffs, the only way it makes a difference is if the games go more games or not, and the East will be a battle after the first round IMO.

I could quite easily see Boston play 15 games to get to the finals and a random team from West have to play 19 games. In a month thats very tough on a team, with travel etc.

Nebroc · Post #15 » by **Nebroc** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:42 am

Theres like a year between the NBA finals and the CF matchups. Anyways disagree with alot of this artical. The Spurs would spank the Rockets and the Nuggets. The Lakers would crush the Warriors, hell they've been close the last 3 times when they were injured left and right. And NO has a better chance against LA then Utah.

KB20 · Post #16 » by **KB20** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:49 am

Very good article. I love reading what Bill Simmons has to write.

Tom Baker · Post #17 » by **Tom Baker** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:06 am

Biggest X factor: With $100 million-plus in advertising profits at stake if there's a Celtics-Lakers or Celtics-Suns Finals, it will be interesting to see if the Spurs get a single borderline call in May or June. My guess is that somebody on the Suns or Lakers could use a chainsaw and nunchaku to stop Duncan in a Game 7 and the refs wouldn't call it. But I'm cynical that way.

I thought this was the best bit of the article.

I actually LOLed.

Sub-Zero · Post #18 » by **Sub-Zero** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:55 am

I disagree with him on 1 thing, his Celts will be demlished by Detroit in 6 and Kobe will prevail and seek revenge on the Pistons

JES12 · Post #19 » by **JES12** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:24 am

I don't even know why they would play the first two rounds in the East unless the Pistons and the Celtics want scrimmages to keep them from collecting cobwebs while waiting for whoever comes out of the West.

pro2020 · Post #20 » by **pro2020** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:34 am

Tom Baker wrote:
Biggest X factor: With $100 million-plus in advertising profits at stake if there's a Celtics-Lakers or Celtics-Suns Finals, it will be interesting to see if the Spurs get a single borderline call in May or June. My guess is that somebody on the Suns or Lakers could use a chainsaw and nunchaku to stop Duncan in a Game 7 and the refs wouldn't call it. But I'm cynical that way.

I thought this was the best bit of the article.

I actually LOLed.

Well the League already has shown that they won't even review tapes of what Stackhouse did to Ginobili so it's not too funny or far fetched that they'll let certain things happen.