Basketball (NBA, College, etc.)

superfuzzy3 wrote:haha...yeah...well at least UCLA kinda put up a fight there for most of the game

Time to pull out the tape for the 1995 championship and watch that... :sweat:

What NBA team do you guys think will be playing in the playoffs???

I only saw a bit of the UCLA game, but i seriously didn't think they would lose by that much :shakehead: still rather close tho

K.T.Tran wrote:What NBA team do you guys think will be playing in the playoffs???

Doesn't look like the Lakers. :hehe:

the lakers might be able to rally and take the 8 from denver but the schedule's in denver's favor. If denver loses the 8 it will be to kg and the 'wolves and not my lakers...:banghead: I'd almost rather they not make it this year, because then the city would be up in arms and buss would have to do something to give the team a boost....aw who am i kidding, most of the city stoped caring about the lakers around mid-late jan when we really began to slide. i haven't checked the freeagency lists yet but with that and the draft hopefull we'll make some moves and get better otherwise kobe and the lakers are gonna become AI-west but in a much tougher division/conference. i think we need to move lamar, he's better when he gets the rock and creates off his dribble, oh and the whole team needs to be outfitted with those stun bracelets they put on dogs to stop them from jacking up those tripples.
-g out

oh...hell yeah i have that vid somewhere...that last second drive up the length of the court against mizu...are the stuff my march madness wet dreams are made of. :mrgreen: oh and my braket took another major hit today...just wanna say big ups to Vermont!!! :applaud:

Lakers get lit up by Reggie Miller for 39 and lose yet again.

Now they're below .500 and at the ten spot.

And sinking. :puppydog:

Damn so much for my brackets. Kansas lost 1st round and I had them going to the final four :shamefulcry:

Wow, the W's beat the Suns by 10, and on the road! :woot: Things are looking up for the team...

dochira wrote:Wow, the W's beat the Suns by 10, and on the road! :woot: Things are looking up for the team...

Yeah, I saw that in the paper today. Looks like the Baron Davis trade has invigorated the W's... :)

Another dig at that guy in Miami:

From a letter submitted to the Los Angeles Times:

"If Shaq would have run up and down the court when he was with the Lakers the way he runs his mouth in Miami, he would still be a Laker."


Ain't it the truth. :applaud:

bmwracer wrote:
Yeah, I saw that in the paper today. Looks like the Baron Davis trade has invigorated the W's... :)

Yup, we're a whole different team. Things are finally looking pretty good. I guess that universal balance Kevin talked about is starting to take effect :hehe: :hehe:

As long as nothing bad happens in the offseason and the W's add a big man then I think they'll have a good shot at the playoffs. Either sign someone or maybe through the draft.

As for the tourney, damn another 1 of my final 4 teams are dead. :shamefulcry:

BMW,

Looks like the Baron Davis trade has invigorated the W's...

Invigorated? The Warriors are 8 and 6 since Baron Davis joined the team.

I would have been over the moon if the Warriors could have played .500 ball through the rest of the season. But they're doing even better than I could have hoped.

And Davis isn't really healthy yet, nor is he in game shape.

If the east coast media isn't paying attention to what's happening with Oakland now, they're gonna be blown away when they see this team next season.

More than anything else... Davis is the vocal leader, the personality, this team needed.

If Biedrins, our 18 year old, 7 ft. rookie keeps developing the way he has... and keeps growing... this team will not only go to the playoffs next season, they'll do some real damage.

Andanother piece of encouraging news... both Dunleavy and Richardson have already committed to spending a big portion of the off season working with former Warrior great, Rick Barry.

Couldn't hurt.

Hmmm... I wonder if it's too early to start wearing my Warrior cap in the day time?

And don't forget we get a top 10 pick! Odds are knowing how random the lottery is, being the 5th worse team, we could probably get the first pick even. Chris Mullin is a genius! If only we had him as GM a LOT earlier :hehe:

Elt.

Mully's doing a great job. But I wouldn't have wanted him too much earlier. It was too much fun watching him play.

But it figured it was gonna happen. I remember stories from 10 years ago talking about Mully's constant phone calls to other players and other teams... always building contacts. Never falling out of touch with anyone in the basketball business.

He's been aiming at this for a long time.

Geezer wrote:Invigorated? The Warriors are 8 and 6 since Baron Davis joined the team.

Uh, did I damn the W's with faint praise?? :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Uh, did I damn the W's with faint praise?? :sweat:

What canI say? After 11 years in the mildewy corner of the NBA cellar, I guess the skins of Warrior fans have gotten pretty thin.

This is dangerous territory we're getting into here bud. You know... this "hope" thing.

Geezer wrote:This is dangerous territory we're getting into here bud. You know... this "hope" thing.

I'm starting to get used to the "no hope" thing down here... Denver's getting a pretty firm hold of the number eight slot...

No nee-ner nee-ner here, but Idon't know what you could have expected when the owner decided he was willing to break the team up and send the big fella away.

There are lots of great 2 guards out there. But real Centers? Even if they are getting long in the tooth, are few and far between.

You may not have been a big Shaq fan, but he was the reason your guys dominated.

I know this, because I spent a long time being jealous.

Yea even the crop of big men coming out of college is real thin these days. What happened to the good ole battles between David Robinson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Patrick Ewing and the rest of the old guard :sweat:

eltinator wrote:What happened to the good ole battles between David Robinson, Hakeem Olajuwon, Patrick Ewing and the rest of the old guard :sweat:

yeah i miss those good old days. Kareem posting up on some guy on the wing and then throwing up the sky hook, god that was a pretty shot. yeah i agree though, buss made a bad move letting the disel go to miami. sure he runs his mouth and was demanding prolly more money than he was acutally worth, but he is irreplacable. there are plenty of 2 guards in the league, but legitimate powerhouse bigmen, you can name them on 1 hand. the craziest thing about maimi is that it's d-wade that seems to be the barometer of the team. against la, shaq put up like 12 pts in the rout, and his points have been way down for 2 seasons, but he still makes the guards look spectacular like no one else.
-g out

oh yeah the W's are looking mighty impressive. when davis gets healthy you guys might get pretty good. my lakers well time will tell, not making the playoffs will surely get management moving, but i don't know if anyone's on the block worth getting yet.

Geezer wrote:You may not have been a big Shaq fan, but he was the reason your guys dominated.

Yeah, I guess.

But he's still a chump.