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One might suggest that with Rose putting up 32 shots there really wasn't much chance for anybody else to do much. In fact, while I doubt it will happen, after watching Rose and Westbrook in these playoffs it would be kind of nice if people got off Reke's back for being some sort of supreme ballhog. Rose is averaging 28.3 FGA in this playoff series, Reke had 1 game with that many shot attempts all season long (when he scored 35 against Golden State). Rose is averaging 23.3FGA in the playoffs while shooting .409. Westbrook is averaging 21 FGA in this playoffs, while shooting .392. Reke averaged 16.4FGA a game this year. 16.2 last year. Would be nice if this gave people some perspective.
I'm not sure why you guys are getting all over the Lakers organisation/franchise and its entire history over two plays by Bynum and Odom. No scrap that, I know why you guys are doing it, I just think it's silly, but that's just me. I know that a large part of your hatred for the Lakers comes from their fans, whom I don't have interaction with.
And posting clips of the same guys taking cheap shots is also a little redundant if you ask me. Half the players in the NBA have had their share of dirty shots and fights. Ron Artest was a King, but somehow I don't think you guys were saying that the Kings were horrible scum blablabla when he did his share of stupid things.
Props to Dallas for playing really well. I can't stand JJ Barea because he just annoys me (when he plays the Kings especially), but man the Lakers had no answer for him. I do think that the Lakers frankly had a very underperforming bench. Going into this season, their bench looked spectacular on paper, and Shannon Brown was shooting the lights out to begin the season. But Matt Barnes and Steve Blake basically did nothing in the playoffs, and their bench was pretty much Odom + Brown. No clue what happened to Gasol either.
If there's one thing I think we should learn from this series, is that you need to have real designated 3 point shooters. The Lakers really don't have that 3 point specialist, and Fisher, Kobe, Blake and to a lesser extent Barnes are all guys that have decent %s for their career, but really aren't pure shooters like Korver or Peja. They used to have Vujacic and Radmanovic, who although weren't as good as say Korver and Peja were pretty reliable shooters. That's why when people say Omri is shooting 39% from 3 I'm still not sold, because he just isn't that spot up shooter we need. His mechanics aren't there.
Maybe I'm thinking into this too much, and when the ball goes in it's all fine and dandy. But this is my opinion.
Congrats Mavs!
I agree with you on the 3 point shooters. The 3 position on the Kings is going to have to be a good three point shooter, especially if we keep Dalembert, and so far neither Greene or Casspi have shown they can do the job.
The Lakers got old, arrogant and lazy. Team chemistry fractured again, as it sporadically does down in that land of egos.
People always overreact and pull very silly lessons from single series and events. Its probably responsible for 2/3 of the wrong headed thinking inthe NBA. Not just fans either. Always the dumb fads this way or that.
These are the two time defneding champions we are talking about. Three straight trips to the Finals. And with largely the same roster they trotted out this year -- in fact if anythind adding Blake and Barnes should have added even more shooting if they had not disappointed. When did this sudden need for pure designated 3pt shooters come about? Sometime during the offseason between last year and this year?
The Lakers got old, arrogant and lazy. Team chemistry fractured again, as it sporadically does down in that land of egos. Pulling some sort of meta lessons about how you just have to be built like Dallas (a team that had been eliminated in the first round 3 of the past 4 seasons) in order to win out of this series is just drawing the wrong lessons.
Agreed Brick, Dallas has always had 3 pt. shooting. The major difference between the Dallas team of years past and this years Dallas team is Tyson Chandler. He is what put them over the top. Yeah people are going to see the hot 3 pt shooting during this series for the Mavs and react, but when it comes down to this Dallas team advancing and possibly winning the title, it will be the addition of Chandler. He has solidified the interior, sets solid screens, cleans up the garbage underneath, and protects the paint. Dallas has never had a guy like Chandler in the middle. They tried with Bradley, Fail. Then Lafrentz, double fail. Dampier, don't think so. Haywood, nope. (although his role off the bench is important.)
I know people want to talk about the Lakers imploding, Paus personal drama, etc. But, Dallas was the better team. They could play 10 more best of 7's, and I'd feel confident in Dallas winning all 10.
The ball cannot escape the gravitational pull of Russell Westbrook.
Either that or Donte Greene's ghost has possessed KD.
LeBron James apologizes for comment
LeBron James says he's sorry for using the word "retarded" in a postgame news conference.
The Miami Heat star muttered the word after Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals as he and Dwyane Wade listened to a question about Wade's takedown of Boston guard Rajon Rondo.
James had his hand covering his mouth when he said "that's retarded" as a reporter asked Wade whether the play that dislocated Rondo's elbow was dirty.
After Game 4 on Monday night, James opened his postgame comments by apologizing for using "the R-word."
[. . .] Rondo had an MRI on the elbow Sunday that confirmed his dislocated elbow. He's considered a game-time decision for Monday's Game 4.
Wade indicated he didn't feel any retribution was warranted and wasn't concerned about more physical play.
"It's basketball. Keep them back from what? Are they going to beat me up? For what?" Wade said after the Heat's practice on Sunday. "Did anyone watch the replay? Obviously I watched it. I'm done, I've moved on from that."
Wade has said he didn't feel it was a dirty play. Replays showed that after Rondo poked the ball away from Wade that it was Rondo who may have made the first move. Rondo appeared to grab Wade's waist and pull him back away from the loose ball. Wade reacted by grabbing Rondo's waist and pulling him backward over Wade's leg, causing Rondo to crash to the court.
By Sunday afternoon, everyone has watched the footage and the coaches seemed to be looking to cool tempers and move on.
"It was a hard foul," Rivers said. "Let's put it like this. He didn't intend to hurt Rondo. I don't honestly believe in 99 percent of cases in our league the player ever intends to hurt anybody. But he did and it just happens."
Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said there were more physical plays in the game but that the Wade-Rondo entanglement got most of the attention because of the nasty injury Rondo suffered.
How in the world did Kobe get on the All NBA First Team Defense this year?
I mean, he was almost pathetic at defense this year. Geez.
I really can't understand why Joe Johnson is getting paid as much as he is. He takes ball-hog to a whole new level. I feel sorry for the rest of the Atlanta players, especially Teague, because guys like Johnson and Crawford just destroy any flow that they try so hard to establish.