#focus#mustwin#playoffs#drama? : 2013 NBA playoffs

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#TYBG

very rare

idk if i could live in la but i have a fuckin' blast every time i go there.

hibbert block was awesome, love the close-up hands shot

Could never rep LA over Portland but it pains me to admit I have a great time whenever I go out to LA, even w/o a car. Just remember that every1 in LA is a celeb but you have to start as H List and start working your way up.

clay la is dope if you like 72 and sunny all day every day then do it do it

portland is cool as hell every time i've visited too of course

lmk if you want real advice i lived there a long time

i forgot until i looked them up that paul george and lance stephenson were in the same draft

presti's gotta amnesty perk right? he had a negative per! negative! you only really want him now to guard maybe three guys, one of them being marc gasol (or zbo) and he just proved he can't do that anymore. don't you just roll the dice by drafting a couple of big men and/or sign a couple of the jason collins types who are always floating around if you feel you really need a backup true center? the spurs got by on spare parts centers for ten years basically

obv they really played timmy at center about fifty percent of the time but point is there's always a rasho nesterovic around for a third of what perk will make

Rasho made a lot of money!

ha i guess he did! i assumed he didnt but bigs do always get overpaid. i guess i should check everything i assert on basketball-reference first

I visited LA for the first time last month and except for the weather and the few ilxors I met I didn't like it at all. Loved Portland when I was there a few years ago.

Presti will not amnesty Perkins, because if he did Perkins would scowl at him.

"the Knicks, who most of us thought were built to challenge the Heat, now are out of the playoffs" -Mike Wilbon

wilbon somehow turned into one of the dumbest people on tv, i don't get it

zach lowe saying on twitter today that the 2 seed winning six games in the playoffs isn't a failure was pretty dumb tho too

weren't you arguing a few weeks ago that the knicks 2 seed should come w/ a heavy asterisk because so many other players in the east are injured

it should come with an asterisk because it's the East

weren't you arguing a few weeks ago that the knicks 2 seed should come w/ a heavy asterisk because so many other players in the east are injured

― 乒乓, Sunday, May 19, 2013 3:20 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

how does this not strengthen the argument that it's a failure that they got the 2 seed and only won 6 total games

well you could infer the opposite which is that they're really more like a 5 or 6 seed who happened to get #2, and therefore weren't really gonna win that many games anyway

I don't see how the amount of games won is a particularly good indicator of anything. I mean would the point be moot had they won 7?

remember when rick reilly said memphis couldn't win in the playoffs because Z-Bo was a "punk"

"Never pick a team with Zach Randolph on it. He has an extra punk chromosome." --Rick Reilly, 2011

that was a nice ambidextrous eurostep by conley

are they really gonna give ginobili 3 fts here smh

hahahahah fuckin bullshit

BALL DONT LIE MANU

omg kawhi leonard low post move?

Can't wait for manu to retire

omg kawhi leonard low post move?

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, May 19, 2013 4:15 PM (8 minutes ago)

doesn't matter he was drafted in 2011

TA just straight-up tripped parker

playoff tiago is not good tiago

#drama

pop just let boris have it for that dumb pass to manu

"are you shitting me??"

why does boris hate shooting so much idgi

BONNER

manuuuu

z-b0

a series doesnt start until the home team loses

... amirite?

well you could infer the opposite which is that they're really more like a 5 or 6 seed who happened to get #2, and therefore weren't really gonna win that many games anyway

― 乒乓, Sunday, May 19, 2013 3:25 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

this would make sense if we were talking about the knicks in a historical context, but nothing changed in the 2013 eastern conference between the regular season and the playoffs that altered the landscape

why not rest timmy?

well a good defense is always more valuable than a good offense in the playoffs and indiana had the league's best D

also you're acting like the knicks didn't lose to a #3 seed in indiana

i think your first argument is more on the nose... out of all the teams the knicks only had the 7th or 8th best record, they were never really a 'true' #2 seed

a good defense is not always more valuable than a good offense, actually you're on defense for half the time and offense for half the time so they're equally important

good contribution k3v

if the entire carmelo era was building up to beating a 7 seed missing its best player and then losing in the second round i'm certainly not going to complain but that is muuuuuch closer to the "failure" end of the pendulum than it is the "success" end

stronger defensive teams do tend to do better in the playoffs, though

it is true though that if you're not top 10 in both categories you're gonna have trouble making the nba finals

and by pendulum i of course mean spectrum