Basketball (NBA, College, etc.)

Major props to Doc for sticking with the bench for so long. :victory:

Big game for the Celts tonight, really a must win for them cause there's no way they can win 2 in LA. :sweat:

Just one of two, that's it, going to be tough though.

Ugh, Lakers in a hole now... Let's see if home court really means anything now.

It didn't the first two games. :shakehead:

Free throws really hurt them, only shot 17-26, :doh: changes the game towards the end, forces you to shoot 3's, Kobe scored 45% of their points, hard to win that way yet they almost did. :sweat:

hitomi #1 wrote:Free throws really hurt them, only shot 17-26, :doh: changes the game towards the end, forces you to shoot 3's, Kobe scored 45% of their points, hard to win that way yet they almost did. :sweat:

It didn't help that the entire team shot under 40%.

This time the Laker starters didn't do a thing compared to the Celtic starters.

Phil's 47-0 record after winning game 1 is in serious jeopardy now. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
It didn't help that the entire team shot under 40%.

This time the Laker starters didn't do a thing compared to the Celtic starters.

Phil's 47-0 record after winning game 1 is in serious jeopardy now. :sweat:

Think you said earlier about his record all things eventually come to an end, :sweat: I'm sure he'll do some adjustments for the next game, when they do well the whole team is more involved though hard to pin any blame on Kobe this game, seems as though he was the only one to show up, :applaud: little more D they may have pulled off an unlikely victory.

hitomi #1 wrote:Think you said earlier about his record all things eventually come to an end, :sweat: I'm sure he'll do some adjustments for the next game, when they do well the whole team is more involved though hard to pin any blame on Kobe this game, seems as though he was the only one to show up, :applaud: little more D they may have pulled off an unlikely victory.

Hopefully the home cooking will energize them.

After taking game three and getting back home court, they seemed to go soft and lost their motivation.... Very disappointing effort.

bmwracer wrote:
Hopefully the home cooking will energize them.

After taking game three and getting back home court, they seemed to go soft and lost their motivation.... Very disappointing effort.

Celts also probably had something to do with it too, but yeah in such a key game you would have thought the at least a bigger effort was there. :grumble: As they mention, Celts really just held serve, they should be up 3-2 because of 3 in a row at home, also seems that they play better when Bynum doesn't play much, :bleh: but what they should do is switch Artest and Odom around, that Artest has such a weak offensive game :beatyou: and doesn't appear as though he can stop Pierce now. :doh:

Odom and Artest are two oddballs: their games are so frustratingly inconsistent. :grumble:

bmwracer wrote:Odom and Artest are two oddballs: their games are so frustratingly inconsistent. :grumble:

Yeah, Odom has been up and down but at least he has the potential to have a big offensive game, Artest is a killer with those 25 foot bricks. :bleh:

Pessimist that I am, I think the Lakers are going to surge in the first quarter or so and then struggle near the end... Like the game in 2008 when they blew that big lead and lost... That had to have been a major turning point in that series. :sweat: :sweat: :sweat:

hitomi #1 wrote:
Yeah, Odom has been up and down but at least he has the potential to have a big offensive game, Artest is a killer with those 25 foot bricks. :bleh:

Artest is going to build me a new house

Tu_triky wrote:Artest is going to build me a new house

I hear he's already applied for his contractor's masonry license. :beaten:


Remember Rick Fox from the early 2000's championship teams?

They used to call him Brick Fox. :rofl:

bmwracer wrote:
I hear he's already applied for his contractor's masonry license. :beaten:

:rofl:

Do or die tonight at Staples.

If the Lakers show up thinking just because they're back in L.A. that Boston is going to wither/roll over, the Celtics are gonna be dancing on center court at the end of the game... :sweat: :sweat: :sweat:

And if that happens, I hope the police are gonna be on alert, 'cause it's not gonna be pretty in and around the Staples Center, given some of the knuckleheads in town. :shakehead:

bmwracer wrote:Do or die tonight at Staples.

If the Lakers show up thinking just because they're back in L.A. that Boston is going to wither/roll over, the Celtics are gonna be dancing on center court at the end of the game... :sweat: :sweat: :sweat:

And if that happens, I hope the police are gonna be on alert, 'cause it's not gonna be pretty in and around the Staples Center, given some of the knuckleheads in town. :shakehead:

And if there's a Laker's victory in game 7, probably have to double the size of the police, :twisted: knuckleheads may not be a strong enough word for all this so called 'celebrating' the 'fans' do when their teams win in any sport. :usuck:

hitomi #1 wrote:And if there's a Laker's victory in game 7, probably have to double the size of the police, :twisted: knuckleheads may not be a strong enough word for all this so called 'celebrating' the 'fans' do when their teams win in any sport. :usuck:

Yup... Those fools deserve to get hammered by the police.

bmwracer wrote:
Yup... Those fools deserve to get hammered by the police.

Yeah, bunch of hooligans, :twisted: we had one of those riots a few years back when SU won the NCAA touranment, had to ship them to jails outside the city because there wasn't enough room after a while. :rofl:

hitomi #1 wrote:Yeah, bunch of hooligans, :twisted: we had one of those riots a few years back when SU won the NCAA touranment, had to ship them to jails outside the city because there wasn't enough room after a while. :rofl:

They should reopen Alcatraz. :mrgreen: :victory: