NBA Finals Game #1 - Celtics @ Lakers

Pablo Escobar · Post #201 » by **Pablo Escobar** » Thu Jun 3, 2010 10:03 pm

Boston fans concerned about refs LOOL you have to be kidding me your team is the king of setting illegal screens

Post #202 » by **dockingsched** » Thu Jun 3, 2010 10:04 pm

Fencer reregistered wrote:
Boognish wrote:Fish chasing Ray around all those screens means a few easy fouls on Boston's bigs every game. Fish refuses to duck under screens; maybe KG will get caught for a few of those moving pics

A very reasonable opinion ... and also a good example of why Boston fans are pretty concerned about getting their fouls called.

agreed.

Pablo Escobar · Post #203 » by **Pablo Escobar** » Thu Jun 3, 2010 10:06 pm

Buck Foston!!!!!!

PPAW4Life · Post #204 » by **PPAW4Life** » Thu Jun 3, 2010 10:19 pm

What exactly equates to Pau "showing up?"

How he played in the Suns series?

How he played in the Jazz series?

StarneyBinston · Post #205 » by **StarneyBinston** » Thu Jun 3, 2010 10:33 pm

http://nbaplaybook.com/2010/06/02/why-k ... ake-sense/

Some questioning about the Kobe vs Rondo matchup...
What are your thoughts about that fellas?
I mean, we'll soon find out...

PPAW4Life · Post #206 » by **PPAW4Life** » Thu Jun 3, 2010 10:42 pm

Rondo is way more dangerous now than he was 2 years ago and 2 years ago you guys had Kobe playing off of Rondo....how did that help?

It didn't.

Play off of Rondo this time and Rondo will make you guys pay and then some.

supaflash · Post #207 » by **supaflash** » Thu Jun 3, 2010 10:47 pm

How is it going to make us pay vs playing on him? Please explain...

supaflash · Post #208 » by **supaflash** » Thu Jun 3, 2010 10:55 pm

Simply put theres no better way to run this for us. Kobe on Allen wastes his legs and beats him up on the screens for little defensive advantage, and you lose Kobe's ability to help and sag. And then you have Fish trying to stay with Rondo which is tough for him.

Then there is the complaining about cross matching... which favors LA more imo. If the Cs get caught in cross match, its instantly to the post for Kobe and an easy shot or double draw. Conversely so what, you are right back to original matchups. Makes it important to rebound and get offensive boards and tip and to get quality shots so we can get back, but thats a given regardless to keep Rondo out of transition as much as possible.

There is simply no advantage to play this straight up. REGARDLESS of how well Rondo plays, its better to have Kobe sagging and disrupting and saving his legs. At worst Rondo plays as well as he would against Fish, at best he gets stuck taking a lot of jumpers and not getting into the paint as much.

Post #209 » by **snaquille oatmeal** » Thu Jun 3, 2010 11:45 pm

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Hunter103 · Post #210 » by **Hunter103** » Thu Jun 3, 2010 11:54 pm

snaquille oatmeal wrote:is it game time yet? is it game time yet? is it game time yet? is it game time yet? is it game time yet? is it game time yet? is it game time yet? is it game time yet? is it game time yet? is it game time yet?

We'll get there when we get there! :curse:

Post #211 » by **dockingsched** » Fri Jun 4, 2010 12:05 am

13ppg, 40% shooting for pierce against LA this yr? didn't know he was that terrible.

Gek · Post #212 » by **Gek** » Fri Jun 4, 2010 12:11 am

FHCK BAHSTN.

bballcool34 · Post #213 » by **bballcool34** » Fri Jun 4, 2010 12:31 am

dcash4 wrote:13ppg, 40% shooting for pierce against LA this yr? didn't know he was that terrible.

Meh--it's all about context.

Pierce played poorly against the Lakers this season once this season--but he also had an awful game 3 days prior to playing the Lakers-only 4 pts against the Magic(who he just destroyed last series)and then was absolutely awful in February.

In February, it became clear that some nagging injuries- a strained knee against the Wizards were bothering Pierce-- his numbers for the month of February were:

11.7 points, 36% shooting, 25% shooting from behind the arc (and he won the 3 pt contest this year)...so basically, he was injured in February, and him playing badly against the Lakers had very little to do with them....

So basically, he played 1 game against the Lakers and was sub-par in it...He also played the Magic 3 days prior and did awful against them....so 1 game is obviously too small a sample size to really say anything about the Pierce v. Artest matchup.

We'll see tonight though.

RJM · Post #214 » by **RJM** » Fri Jun 4, 2010 12:35 am

THE FINALS ARE FINALLY HERE! LEONIDAS IS ANGRY!!

lakersdynasty · Post #215 » by **lakersdynasty** » Fri Jun 4, 2010 12:37 am

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa goooooo lakers!!! we need pau lamar and drew badly!! vengance!!!

Kobe_for_3 · Post #216 » by **Kobe_for_3** » Fri Jun 4, 2010 12:42 am

its KOBE time!!!! We need to be the aggressors and let them know this in 2010 not 2008!

what would jack bauer do? · Post #217 » by **what would jack bauer do?** » Fri Jun 4, 2010 12:52 am

Lakers in 4 or 5. We're the more physical team we played that way the whole season minus when we got plagued with injuries in march. I'm just calling it how I see it and Fish, Kobe, Artest, and Bynum physically beat down the league this year up until the injuries. All the doubters let's see if they got something to say after the game.

And to add insult to injury we're gonna steal Nate from them in the offseason.

DEEP3CL · Post #218 » by **DEEP3CL** » Fri Jun 4, 2010 12:58 am

Time to swing the machete ! Celtic fans........you about to feel my wrath of fury!

daddyfivestar · Post #219 » by **daddyfivestar** » Fri Jun 4, 2010 12:59 am

Jeffrey Osborne for Game 1 - hell ya

iamworthy · Post #220 » by **iamworthy** » Fri Jun 4, 2010 1:00 am

Lets GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!