General Chat / Official NBA 2005 Playoffs Thread

Okay... maybe Fatha's onto something with this whole Houston thang.

and the loss tonight shouldnt have happened, that was an offensive break down, but damn, walker can play some Defensive.

I was counting Indiana out after game 1, but I forgot about the Reggie Miller factor. Never underestimate the Reggie Miller factor. He's more than proved that already this season.

The Miller factor kicked Boston's ass last night.

Also, Dallas FINALLY won, tho it took a 20-0 run in the 4th to win by like 6.

Meanwhile, maybe the Nets won't even get a win at all. I figured game 3 would be the close one, and it was, but Miami didn't let up.

BOSTON WINS IMPORTANT GAME WITH ANTOINE OUT: BILL SIMMONS TO MASTURBATE WHILE WRITING 10,000 WORD COLUMN ON THE EWING THEORY!

hahahahahaha

I am sick. Absolutely sick.

At least my general predictions (who wins/loses; not how many games) are righting themselves... Fatha can go back and hide until the Rockets win their next game or whatever. Too bad Indy lost, tho. Pretty badly too.


In other news, the Nets didn't even win a game while the Pistons have all but eliminated the 76ers. Just as everyone in the world thought.

At least my general predictions (who wins/loses; not how many games) are righting themselves...

All except the Seattle/Sac contest.

That hadn't occurred when I posted that.

Now that it's over, I must admit that I'm surprised slightly. Looks like they've righted the ship, while Cowtown takes another trip to postseason disappointment. I can't say that I'm upset about the Kings losing.

Besides, the Sonics are dead once they meet San Antonio.

I always thought football had the worst refs but now I believe basketball has the worst commish. and refs. I mean wtf was that call in the Houston game where the guy was out yet he was hitting at the ball or the one where the foul was called yet there was no foul at all. Get some glasses guys. And come on $100,000 for speaking his mind go screw yourself Mr. Commishiner.

actually, high school track officials take the cake. the other day I was at a state relay track meet and some asshole official disqualified a team of 3 girls from some school from the javelin event after they all threw over 90 feet (Which is good) because one of them had a hair elastic on her wrist. what the fuck. reason 195003 that track & field is retarded and that most track officials are pathetic shells of human beings.

but that's neither here nor there.

Hope Fatha didn't hang himself after tonight.

Dallas takes a 3-2 lead.

Wizards tie up their series at 2-2.

Spurs whip the Nuggets in OT to take a 3-1 lead. w00t!




Stupid Sacramento.

If you don't believe in NBA conspiracies, watch this series with houston and Dallas.

This is BULLSHIT.

Stupid Sacramento.

Kings have disappointed me once again. They probably wouldn't have been any better off with Webber/Vlade/Christie though.

If you don't believe in NBA conspiracies, watch this series with houston and Dallas.    

This is BULLSHIT.

I will second that. Dallas is a bunch of cock-a-doodle-doo-a-doodle-doo-a-doodle-doo-a-doodle-doo sucking pussies.

What the HELL? David Stern fines Van Gundy 100,000 dollars and threatens to run him out the league? This is fucking absurd? Does he have that many problems with Houston, this same shit has happened for years.

Bad Calls by Refs:
- Phantom Foul: Finley is trapped in the corner, has nowhere to go, probably will throw it away or call timeout.

- Finley's Out-of-Bounds Missed Call: CRUCIAL! HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU MISS THAT, his foot was WELL out of bounds. Dallas went on to score two points on that possession, thus completely killing any momentum Houston had.

- Both jump balls: Both jump balls in this game where thrown RIGHT to Dallas players. Stackhouse not only stole the tip, but the ref basically threw it to him. Mike James never had a chance. Stack hits a three, thus pushing the lead to 8 and again KILLING any rockets momentum.

Throw those in with about every damn offensive foul called against Yao (He cant even fucking post up without the zebras tagging him with offensive fouls) and every fucking bullshit three-point play Dallas got, and you have the worst officiated playoff game in NBA history (just edging out the LAL - SAC game in the WCF a couple of years back).


This ends here, Houston will win this series.

What the HELL?  David Stern fines Van Gundy 100,000 dollars and threatens to run him out the league?  This is fucking absurd?  Does he have that many problems with Houston, this same shit has happened for years. 

Bad Calls by Refs:
- Phantom Foul: Finley is trapped in the corner, has nowhere to go, probably will throw it away or call timeout. 

- Finley's Out-of-Bounds Missed Call:  CRUCIAL!  HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU MISS THAT, his foot was WELL out of bounds.  Dallas went on to score two points on that possession, thus completely killing any momentum Houston had.

- Both jump balls:  Both jump balls in this game where thrown RIGHT to Dallas players.  Stackhouse not only stole the tip, but the ref basically threw it to him.  Mike James never had a chance.  Stack hits a three, thus pushing the lead to 8 and again KILLING any rockets momentum.

Throw those in with about every damn offensive foul called against Yao (He cant even fucking post up without the zebras tagging him with offensive fouls) and every fucking bullshit three-point play Dallas got, and you have the worst officiated playoff game in NBA history (just edging out the LAL - SAC game in the WCF a couple of years back).


This ends here, Houston will win this series.

Fatha' you should know more then anyone that Yao deserves just about every call he gets. He moves on just about every screen, and tries to bulldoze his way down into the post. There's a difference between establishing position and just trying to throw a person out of the way, and Yao doesn't know that yet. Not to mention he does that stupid fucking whiney little face every time he gets called for a foul, even though he deserves them 99% of the time.

As for the Finley call...yeah they definitely blew that. Although, I didn't realize he was out of bounds until I saw the replay either, so I guess the ref just didn't have a good angle. Still, that was a big one that they missed.

I'm not saying this series is over...but um...I could have sworn you were saying something about a....*trying to find the word you used*....sweep I think it was?