OFFICIAL 2010-2011 NBA PLAYOFFS THREAD : VOL. MOST. ANTICIPATED. PLAYOFFS. EVER?

[IATT]

Originally Posted by JapanAir21

And all I was trying to prove is how not to expect that kind of performance from Russ again, or at least not frequently.

Derrick Rose is the first option.

and when i said ibaka, harden and our defense would be better.. what part of any of that was hard to understand about team?


and i never disagreed with your point.. but your point was flawed, because without the great performances by KD and russ in game 1.. the team doesn't win (thus why i said the team didn't play well, just those 2.. maynor did well but only had 4 shots)

 

[IATT]

like tonight wasn't out greatest game.. but KD had a GREAT 4th quarter (more specifically the last 4 mins)

 

[kenji714]

Man these past few games of the playoff was great . I love basketball

 

[airjordan jb23]

at that Z-Bo tweet

at Durant tonight.

I expected Denver to put up a bigger fight in this series...

Big game 6 coming up for Memphis. Its good to see a young team competing with a vet team like the Spurs.

 

[IATT]

bhz.. sorry to say it buddy (congrats though)


hopefully spurs can pull out game 6


least i can relax for the draft tomorrow night now

 

[kenji714]

I wonder if teams that lost really go fishing in the off season

 

[IATT]

Originally Posted by Dr LukeMartin

meh, KD ain't Tracy Mcgrady

yea he got out of the 1st round

 

[nicedudewithnicedreams]

Originally Posted by Dr LukeMartin

Originally Posted by itsaboutthattime

Originally Posted by Dr LukeMartin

meh, KD ain't Tracy Mcgrady

yea he got out of the 1st round

Was waiting for that response. I said he ain't Mcgrady. Do you know what context I was even speaking off? Ain't nobody mention Playoffs shun.

Leave T-Mac alone, bruh.

Please ignore this pointless %%%.

 

[nicedudewithnicedreams]

Originally Posted by JPZx

No one is attracted to Lowry, Martin, Budinger and Thabeet.

Wolves still done rebuilding tho?

 

[bhzmafia14]

Originally Posted by nicedudewithnicedreams

Originally Posted by JPZx

No one is attracted to Lowry, Martin, Budinger and Thabeet.

Wolves still done rebuilding tho?

Lowry is the second coming to you tho' 

 

[Deleted member 38182]

I am attracted to Budinger

 

[franchise3]

#RocketsSlanderBus

Considering that the Rockets starting C for the last year or two has been 6'6 Chuck Hayes, and the Rockets have been a .500 team basically, they'll be ok. Are they going to be a force to be reckoned with anytime soon? Not really, but, a legit big man and they'll be a playoff team once again. They're already close. And that says a lot more than these other bottom dweller WC teams that get talked about.

 

[noblekane]

somebody mention the chuck wagon?

 

[CP1708]

Unbelievable come back by the Spurs. Memphis will be asking themselves why they didn't foul for a while. Easily could have wrapped Neal up while he turned and even took the dribble, just bear hug the dude.

Great shot by him and Manu though.

 

[kevin cleveland]

NEAL WITH IT, bro.

 

[noblekane]

i give props to nba tv tho. it was odd hearing the grizzlies announcers on instead of the usual home announcers for the home team. but praise the lord that they didnt have that garbage spurs announce team on

 

[bdis1986]

Originally Posted by NobleKane

but praise the lord that they didnt have that garbage spurs announce team on

  

 

[osh kosh bosh]

If I were the thunder I would quietly shop Westbrook all the time, unless Ibaka can learn some post moves, very few teams have won a championship with having no big men who can create their own shot. Eric Maynor has proven to be a quality player and unless you're Scottie and Mike this combo hasn't worked out that well.

 

[seymore cake]

Originally Posted by PO2345

Originally Posted by The Bad Guy

Originally Posted by The Fresh Sole

KD saying "this my mother %%+!$#! team"

Originally Posted by Al3xis

"This is my M-F'ing team"

. Good for KD.

I thought it might have been just me but yeah those were the words.

Originally Posted by PO2345

Westbrook was looking at him like, "Is this real life?"

PO

He dead @+% had the

before KD went to the line on the And 1.

Someone please upload that sequence & Durant quote!

Westbrook really wanted the ball!

PO

That.

 

[cato312]

Originally Posted by Osh Kosh Bosh

If I were the thunder I would quietly shop Westbrook all the time, unless Ibaka can learn some post moves, very few teams have won a championship with having no big men who can create their own shot. Eric Maynor has proven to be a quality player and unless you're Scottie and Mike this combo hasn't worked out that well.

Would you start shopping him now, or give it another year for Westbrook to mature, etc.?

 

[streethoopkilla]

still think its too early to shop him. he's only 22 and has alot to learn still

 

[pmatic]

The lessons of Nathaniel Jones

On the moonless night of Nov. 15, 2002, five young boys ran across a park, jumped a 61-year-old man, bound his wrists, duct-taped his mouth, and beat him with pipes until his heart stopped.

All for his wallet.

That man was Nathaniel Jones, the grandfather of future NBA star Chris Paul.

Today, those boys are men, sitting in prisons across the state of North Carolina, some serving 14-year terms, some life. On the TV sets in their prison rec rooms this week, the Hornets point guard has been wrecking the Los Angeles Lakers, averaging nearly a triple-double, the shiniest star of these playoffs.

The five are all about the same age as Paul, same race, same height, and from the same hometown.

They have one other thing in common with Chris Paul: All six wish they were free.

It's something Paul told me during a "Homecoming" episode once on ESPN, and every time I watch him play I can't get it out of my mind. Paul, now 25, said: "These guys were 14 and 15 years old [at the time], with a lot of life ahead of them. I wish I could talk to them and tell them, 'I forgive you. Honestly.' I hate to know that they're going to be in jail for such a long time. I hate it."

Who's heart has that much room?

"Chris Paul hates it?" says Geneva Bryant, the mother of one of the five, Christopher Bryant. "Well, so do I. My boy is 23 now. He's been in since he was 15."

Her son has six years to go. Dorrell Brayboy, 23, has six years to go. Jermal Tolliver, 23, has seven. Two brothers -- Nathaniel Cauthen, 24, and Rayshawn Banner, 23 -- are in until they die.

Paul's attitude stuns one of the defense attorneys who appealed the verdict and lost.

"I've probably tried 30 homicide cases," says Paul Herzog, of Fayetteville. "It's very rare for a family survivor in a murder case to feel that way. You just don't see that ever. That's incredibly generous of Mr. Paul."

To understand how generous, you have to know how close Paul was to his granddad.

The man everybody called "PaPa Chili" was the first black man to open a service station in North Carolina and both Chris and his brother worked at it. PaPa Chili was known to let people run tabs when times got tough. Plenty of times, he'd hand people money out of the cash register to get by. Paul called him "my best friend."

The day Paul signed with nearby Wake Forest, the first person to put a Demon Deacons hat on him was his grandfather.

The next day, he was dead.

None of the five boys were particularly hardened criminals. Only Cauthen had been previously arrested -- twice for running away and once for stealing his mom's car. They decided they wanted to rob somebody. Around the corner, in his white van, came that somebody -- Jones. He'd closed the filling station and was now getting grocery bags out of his van. "Let's go get him," one of them said. They sprinted across Belview Park and jumped him.

Using tape they'd bought that day at a drugstore, they bound his head, neck and hands and began a "relentless, remorseless, conscienceless" attack, according to the judge who sentenced them. Jones died in his carport.

Paul, a high school senior, was so woebegone he was literally sick. Two days later, he scored 61 points for West Forsyth High School, one for every year of Papa Chili's life. He purposely missed a free throw at the end, then collapsed into the arms of his father in tears.

His grief was bottomless. Every national anthem in college, he'd hold his grandfather's laminated obituary in his hand and pray.

And now he wants the murderers set free?

"Even though I miss my granddad," Paul told me, "I understand that he's not coming back. At the time, it made me feel good when I heard they went away for life. But now that I'm older, when I think of all the things I've seen in my life? No, I don't want it. I don't want it."

This is the kind of man Chris Paul is: He was president of his high school class all three years. When LeBron James' girlfriend had a baby, James made sure Paul was there. He's so humble that if you didn't know who he was, you'd swear he was the pool man.

So what can Paul do?

He can appeal to the governor of North Carolina, Bev Perdue, and ask for their sentences to be commuted. North Carolina is not big on commuting murderers' sentences, but I'd put nothing past the powers of Paul.

This kid floors me. Not just with the way he can dominate an NBA playoff game at 6 feet tall in elevator sneakers. Not just for the way he can twist Kobe Bryant into a Crazy Straw. Not just for the way he'd rather pass through a doughnut hole than take the shot himself.

No, what floors me about Chris Paul is his humanity. If strangers had bound my weak-hearted grandfather, beat him for no reason and killed him for the cash in his wallet -- strangers who to this day have not shown a thimbleful of contrition -- I'd want them in prison 100 years after they were in the dirt.

Chris Paul once wrote that his grandfather "taught me more things than I could ever learn with a Ph.D."

One of them must've been love.
Link

CP3 is a better man than me.

 

[scuse7]

Originally Posted by Osh Kosh Bosh

If I were the thunder I would quietly shop Westbrook all the time, unless Ibaka can learn some post moves, very few teams have won a championship with having no big men who can create their own shot. Eric Maynor has proven to be a quality player and unless you're Scottie and Mike this combo hasn't worked out that well.

I would give this team a little more time and at least see how these playoffs work out and even give Westbrook an Ibaka one more year. Ibaka has already developed more since last year.

 

[pmatic]

Originally Posted by Seymore CAKE

Originally Posted by PO2345

Originally Posted by The Bad Guy

I thought it might have been just me but yeah those were the words.

He dead @+% had the

before KD went to the line on the And 1.

Someone please upload that sequence & Durant quote!

Westbrook really wanted the ball!

PO

That

 

[im not you]

I find it utterly ridiculous that you guys are seriously sitting up here talking about breaking up the core of a super young team that just won 50+ games in the regular season and is headed towards the 2nd round right now.

All fueled by ONE guy having a forgettable couple of games.