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Official 2010-2011 NBA Playoffs Thread

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You know dirk got FUCKED up last night. From deadspin, $80k bottle

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Sureshot324 said:
Miami is a pure 1 on 1 team. Dallas capitalized on this by going pure zone all series. Lebron did exactly what you're supposed to do against a zone. Drive in and let them swarm you and kick it out to the open man. Miami is just not a good spot up shooting team.

Miami is going to be seeing a LOT of zone next year. Either they will learn to adapt or their next season won't be nearly as successful as this one.
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True. I think the Heat will be better though. This is the first year for the Big 3. This is arguably the worst they will be for about 5 years. So unless a lot of other teams get better (Orlando, Chicago) Miami has a pretty good choke hold on the East as everyone else is old, well maybe Knicks if they can play some D can make some ripples. The West has a lot of up and coming teams though, OKC, Memphis?, Lakers are always tough. Dallas and LA are older over all, but they still have stars who are pretty awesome. Spurs are old though.

For the record, I'm glad Dallas and Dirk won and LeBron and Co. lost.

Well, we probably won't have to worry anyway, I really doubt we will see any NBA until after the New Year anyway. Their lockout is going to be much worse than NFL imo. NFL is making money it's just deciding how to split up all the loot. NBA....a lot of teams lose.
 
Asked if it bothered him that so many people were happy to see him fail, James somehow managed to achieve his low point in a year that began with his previous lowest of lows, "The Decision."

"Absolutely not," James said. "Because at the end of the day, all the people that were rooting for me to fail, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today. I'm going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that."

And it got worse.

"They can get a few days, or a few months, or whatever the case may be on being happy about not only myself, but the Miami Heat not accomplishing their goal," James said. "But they have to get back to the real world at some point."

In other words: Hate away, everybody. You'll never be me.
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I'm so fucking happy Lebron didn't get a ring this year. I hope he never does.

Congrats to the Mavericks and their fans. They earned this victory!
 
Via said:
Holy shit - can this guy say anything right?



James agreed the loss felt like a ''personal failure'' but also said ''it hurts of course, but I'm not going to hang my head low.''

And he said he wouldn't let it bother him that so many were so happy to see him fail.

''Absolutely not, because at the end of the day, all the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today,'' James said. ''They have the same personal problems they had today. I'm going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that.

''They can get a few days or a few months or whatever the case may be on being happy about not only myself, but the Miami Heat not accomplishing their goal. But they have to get back to the real world at some point.''



Translation - get back to your shitty lives, you peons, and dream (if you can) about mine. I would wipe my ass with you if it wasn't a bother.
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I don't think he necessarily meant it that way, but it does sound pretty bad. lol.
 
I'm happy Dirk and Kidd got their rings.
I'm also happy the Lakers and Celtics didn't get to the Finals.

I still would have rather Miami won though. 🙂
 
QueBert said:
He's been in the NBA what 13 seasons? He hasn't WON yet, he's choking tonight in what's easily the most important game of the year for them. TONIGHT he's choking, he's had open shots that my sorry ass could have made, he's 1-9 tonight. So yeah he's choking.
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So, I see you haven't returned to this thread to say anything since that pronouncement.

Guess what happened last night took the wind right out of your sails........and the Heat choked last night, not Dirk or the Mavs.
 
Meghan54 said:
So, I see you haven't returned to this thread to say anything since that pronouncement.

Guess what happened last night took the wind right out of your sails........and the Heat choked last night, not Dirk or the Mavs.
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Quebert is a wade/lebron nuthugger.

He will say anything to defend his "superstars".

And yes, he's completely gone from this thread now that he's lost. It feels so good that his team lost.
 
Joke I heard at work today...

Q: How good am I at playing Basketball?
A: Well, I have just as many NBA Championship Rings as Lebron James.
 
OCGuy said:
Meaning what? Championships are hard to come by, and Kobe won his first when he was 21. Lebron is how old now and doesnt even have 1?


"When ur at the movies, set your phone to lebron mode, no ring!"
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Without Shaq, Kobe wouldn't have had any of those early rings. I'm not a Lebron fan but he was in a shitty team all this time and literally carried the team by himself to the finals while Kobe needed multiple All-Stars just to get to that point without Shaq.
 
zerocool84 said:
Without Shaq, Kobe wouldn't have had any of those early rings. I'm not a Lebron fan but he was in a shitty team all this time and literally carried the team by himself to the finals while Kobe needed multiple All-Stars just to get to that point without Shaq.
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LOL. Lebron just proved that having 3 max-contract players doesnt mean shit. You have to be able to finish.

And Shaq needed Wade to do it without Kobe. The "X wouldnt have won without Y" arguments are retarded.
 
OCGuy said:
LOL. Lebron just proved that having 3 max-contract players doesnt mean shit. You have to be able to finish.

And Shaq needed Wade to do it without Kobe. The "X wouldnt have won without Y" arguments are retarded.
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Of course having great players doesn't mean anything, look at that year that the Lakers had Malone and Payton to go with Kobe and Shaq. Teams need time to gel. It's just funny with your blind love of the Lakers. Sports fans have short memories, Kobe crying like to little baby trying to get traded. At least Lebron waited until his contract was up, Kobe didn't even want to wait.
 
OCGuy said:
LOL. Lebron just proved that having 3 max-contract players doesnt mean shit. You have to be able to finish.

And Shaq needed Wade to do it without Kobe. The "X wouldnt have won without Y" arguments are retarded.
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lulz, the kobe nuthugger calling others nuthuggers. good stuff.

your choking "hero" could never do anything without shaq or other centers carrying him. kobe is no finisher.

http://chasing23.com/the-myth-of-playoff-kobe/
 
OCGuy said:
LOL. Lebron just proved that having 3 max-contract players doesnt mean shit. You have to be able to finish.

And Shaq needed Wade to do it without Kobe. The "X wouldnt have won without Y" arguments are retarded.
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Shaq got to the finals twice without kobe, and lost one of those because Nick Anderson managed to miss 4 straight free throws. The mistake the Big 3 in miami made was that they decided to be 3, instead of 2. Arguably, it's better to base a team on 2 max players, at most, because 3 won't leave you with enough money to fill out the rest of the team.
 
zerocool84 said:
Of course having great players doesn't mean anything, look at that year that the Lakers had Malone and Payton to go with Kobe and Shaq. Teams need time to gel. It's just funny with your blind love of the Lakers. Sports fans have short memories, Kobe crying like to little baby trying to get traded. At least Lebron waited until his contract was up, Kobe didn't even want to wait.
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lulz, i'm a lakers fan, but hate kobe. the trade thing, ratting shaq out, whining, arrogance... he's just a straight up bitch.

preslove said:
Shaq got to the finals twice without kobe, and lost one of those because Nick Anderson managed to miss 4 straight free throws. The mistake the Big 3 in miami made was that they decided to be 3, instead of 2. Arguably, it's better to base a team on 2 max players, at most, because 3 won't leave you with enough money to fill out the rest of the team.
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anyone saying that one person alone is responsible for a championship is clearly delusional. sure, kobe couldn't have done it without shaq, but shaq couldn't have done it without kobe. shaq had penny in orlando, and dwade in miaimi. it takes a complete team to do it and the mavs this year are a great example of that. everyone on that team contributed.
 
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OCGuy said:
Meaning what? Championships are hard to come by, and Kobe won his first when he was 21. Lebron is how old now and doesnt even have 1?
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Darko Milicic is the youngest player to ever win a championship, so clearly he's even better than Kobe. Or maybe it's not about age, it's about the number of rings, which is why everyone agrees that Robert Horry is better than Michael Jordan. Or maybe all those arguments are silly without taking into account the personnel that was around those players, being that basketball is a team game and all.

One thing that is very difficult to argue with: LeBron James had a disastrous showing in the NBA Finals this year. He had the single biggest drop-off in scoring between regular season and Finals in NBA history. He played terrible basketball, and with the Heat constructed as top-heavy as they are, that sort of production from James on the big stage is ultimately going to end in failure. He lacks the competitive nature of Kobe or Jordan, and while that might make him less of an asshole to be around, it also makes him less of a closer on the big stage. That's very damning to his reputation as one of the elite basketball players of all time.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
Darko Milicic is the youngest player to ever win a championship, so clearly he's even better than Kobe. Or maybe it's not about age, it's about the number of rings, which is why everyone agrees that Robert Horry is better than Michael Jordan. Or maybe all those arguments are silly without taking into account the personnel that was around those players, being that basketball is a team game and all.
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The difference is that Kobe is consistently in the conversation for top 5 players of all time, and Horry and Milicic are not.


I have no reason to argue the greatness of KB, his legacy is pretty much set, and he still has a small window to win more.

This thread is about how over-rated Lebron was. I think his failure to win this year with a stacked team will balance out the hype at least.
 
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