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Official 2013-2014 NBA Playoffs Thread

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This is just the NBA giving Cleveland an opportunity to make up for their giant whiff on Anthony Bennett. Granted, the 2013 draft was the worst draft ever in a very literal sense, but Bennett's been especially disappointing. Embiid will be substantially better, even if he takes a few years to adjust to the NBA game.
 
lol at that major, obvious foul by Lebron on Hill that the refs let slide and turned into 2 at a crucial junction.

So bad the announcers even admitted it.
 
dbk said:
PG concussed, Stephenson bucked his knee and David West got his eye scratched...damn!
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Yet no excuse for Hibbert being so soft and weak in the 4th quarter. Haslem made him his b!tch (or more like Hibbert made haslem his daddy and haslem said, sure, I'll got wit dat.) The pacers are going no where when hibbert plays like that. He is their size advantage and when he's looking for a hug instead of pounding it inside, pacers may as well go to the concession stand, grab a hot dog and a beer, and watch the game from the stands (which they probably will be doing anyways in the next 8-10 days.)
 
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Fuckin Cavs, what an anti-climax.

And Lance is so much fun to watch when he's 'on', unfortunately that didn't quite seem to carry over into the 4th quarter.
 
Here's a simple fact about Miami, if you are not atleast 15 or 20 points ahead with 2 minutes remaining, you are going to loose the game. They will come back and come back hard, they are unstoppable. Since they are getting old and frail they do not put too much effort during the first 45 minutes of the game, they save their energy and stay within 10 - 15 points, come 2 minutes remaining, the old hogs, all of them, give their 200% and out of the 5 talented players they bought, 2 or 3 of them come through and they win the game.

So, notice to all other team, if you are not at least 15 points ahead with 2 minutes remaining, might as well forfeit the game and call it a day
 
I don't understand the "Miami bought" garbage. Do other teams not pay their players? Do they prefer to get cheap, awful players and simply hope for the best?
 
DesiPower said:
Here's a simple fact about Miami, if you are not atleast 15 or 20 points ahead with 2 minutes remaining, you are going to loose the game. They will come back and come back hard, they are unstoppable. Since they are getting old and frail they do not put too much effort during the first 45 minutes of the game, they save their energy and stay within 10 - 15 points, come 2 minutes remaining, the old hogs, all of them, give their 200% and out of the 5 talented players they bought, 2 or 3 of them come through and they win the game.

So, notice to all other team, if you are not at least 15 points ahead with 2 minutes remaining, might as well forfeit the game and call it a day
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ugh.
 
smackababy said:
I don't understand the "Miami bought" garbage. Do other teams not pay their players? Do they prefer to get cheap, awful players and simply hope for the best?
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As far as I'm concerned, they're the Yankees of the NBA, a title I previously had tagged to the Lakers and Celtics. A lot of this has to do with the 70s/80s/early 90s mindset that players stayed with the teams they were drafted by unless they were traded.

I think LeBron took the shitty way out of it - instead of allowing the Cavs to build around him, he had to go sign with big name players in order to compete in a lesser conference. The reality was, they made the move to compete with the Celtics.

And yes, I realize that the Celtics traded for Garnett & Allen.
 
dougp said:
As far as I'm concerned, they're the Yankees of the NBA, a title I previously had tagged to the Lakers and Celtics. A lot of this has to do with the 70s/80s/early 90s mindset that players stayed with the teams they were drafted by unless they were traded.

I think LeBron took the shitty way out of it - instead of allowing the Cavs to build around him, he had to go sign with big name players in order to compete in a lesser conference. The reality was, they made the move to compete with the Celtics.

And yes, I realize that the Celtics traded for Garnett & Allen.
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The Cavs had years to build around him and didn't. Lebron spent 8 years in the Cavs and they didn't give him a god damn thing.

The 70s and the 90s were filled with power teams. Celtics, Lakers, Bulls, Rockets...

Kareem was drafted by the Bucks and traded to the Lakers right before Magic was drafted. Parish was traded to the Celtics right to help Bird. The Bulls traded for Pippen, Kerr, Rodman, etc to help Jordan.

This concept of just drafting hasn't really been the case with the dynasty teams. The Jazz got lucky with Stockton and Malone.

Every era of the NBA has had few teams winning the championship in that decade and are dominated by the power teams. And every one of those teams are the "Yankees of the NBA."
 
He gave the Cavs 8 years, at some point you gotta be a little selfish. If you work for the same company for that long but are never really successful/rewarded, regularly overburdened, and have a chance to leave to go to a better situation, wouldn't you do it too?
 
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