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

after all the nba is the only major professional sports league in what, the last 50...60...70 years? where a corrupt official was outed

it also explains why joey crawford still has a job, i.e. he knows where sterns bodies are buried

joey crawford has a job because the refs have a union

your mom has a union

shaq was physically overpowering but also super skilled, perfect footwork amazing touch, thats what made him so devastating

― lag∞n, Sunday, June 2, 2013 7:15 AM (2 hours ago)

yeah he was so nimble and athletic, especially in his early years. it's just a weird thing to complain about. like when you're calling the most complete player in the history of the game "boring"

i kinda agree that brons game is often unbeautiful compared to many all timers, but if you think theres nothing to appreciate and enjoy there youre trippin

and his passing and fast break game is beautiful and fun

http://i.imgur.com/A3xOtcS.png

lol

i think wade needs to convert more touches

Myles Brown ‏@mdotbrown 10h
Wade: "We gotta do a better job" Bron: "We?! You speaking French?"

haha both him and bosh were being hella passive anyway

as kerrs been hammering on during the games indys ability force miami to go big is killing their offense, its really the small ball lineups that are transcendent, w two bigs theyre ordinary

bron all dribbly dribbly around the perimeter

http://larrybrownsports.com/basketball/roy-hibbert-jason-collins-no-homo/189994 good on roy

'sry bro its just something they say in rap songs'

i blame dipset

all pink everything

if miami loses tomorrow and wade has an off season next year and they dont win maybe bron will go back to cleveland :)

last night after the game shaq was all 'roy hibbert best big man in the game' and charles looking mad exasperated 'look hibbert is a good player but hes not THAT good'

chuck otm, miamis just go no one who can bother him at all, he looks like hes running drills out there, even when they bring the double team hes just calmly making the right play which is a credit to him, the pacers altogether look so much more comfortable on offense than the first game where it seemed like a miracle when they were scoring good after almost turning the ball over every play

seems lik theyve kinda figured miamis D out, swing the ball and youll eventually get what you want, and their size is really helping to neutralize miamis lane shooting ways

also chuck was all lets see more than one series of this before we anoint paul george a superstar which is also otm tho obvs hes been ridic, and w bron on him

ya paul george has been on one for the entire series

i have another meme idea if miami loses 'are the heat built for the regular season?'

Paul George's playoff success really hurting the argument that he's the next T-Mac

tmac is in the finals dawg #tmac #playoffs #success

lol matt i thought the tmac comparisons were just you

"I am able to replay a lot of plays in my head," James said, and soon he started to list – one by one – the circumstance of every, easy Wade miss on Saturday night. No video clips needed, James remembered them all.

"We can state the obvious: They're both struggling," James said.

damn bron http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--lebron-james-dwyane-wade-chris-bosh-big-three-miami-heat-065701885.html

Ujiri fires Stefanski on day one, ice cold

interesting team you put together here ed

lol knives out in miami

bron having nam flashbacks of boobie gibson bricking threes and antawn jamison getting murked
then he goes against the spurs and starts putting on his cavs jersey, wade glances at him "bron, you ok?" but he cannot be roused from his manic state

"looks like im going to have to do this myself", he barges in on birdman and takes the opening tip himself. he collects the ball and heaves a halfcourt three which he drains. he's now frothing at the mouth.

bron lacing up his shoes 'oh hi my names lebron whats quicken i dont know how are you im lebron whats quicken'

close my eyes and all i see are explosions and giant video screens and pat riley

"I am in a world of shit." - Lebron James

dave zirin is terrible

his take is pretty simple minded. bomani on twitter has been better

roy apology http://www.nba.com/pacers/news/statement-roy-hibbert

Sean Highkin ‏@shighkinNBA 1m
LeBron gets Jordan/Kobe/Magic comparisons all the time but his best player comp is pre-injury Pistons-era Grant Hill if he'd stayed healthy.

feelin this

Hey yall heard Ps are one game away from the finals :O

Miami will be much tougher at home + Birdman playing more minutes + Wade can still have an efficient game even if hobbled + nobody would be surprised if Bron goes for 48/18/12/4blk/3stl/0to/0fl.

Plus whatever tumult Heat are going through now isn't as bad as after the 2-1 Pacers lead last year, and Heat whipped them three straight after that.

if the pacers win i hope everyone doesnt immediately forget what an amazing upset it is

Ethan Strauss ‏@SherwoodStrauss 2h
Have no clue what'll happen with Miami. But I'd guess that coaches will favor rest over win streaks going forward.

ya, tho personally as a fan i appreciate the heat going for the glory

Can promise that, if Heat lose, you'll hear more about that + LeBron's impending free agency rather than endless loop of D12 nonsense.

lesser of two evils imho

tho i guess rest v regular season wins an irl basketball issue and worth of discussion and is maybe not even actually evil

tbf tho win streaks are kinda bs, wouldve been cooler if they were going for all time win total, not that thats not bs too but its at least relevant in some way

Ha, think Haberstroh mixed up his black actors here:

Roy Denzil Hibbert, the floor is yours.

"You know what, because y'all m------------ don't watch us play throughout the year, to tell you the truth," Hibbert charged. "That's fine. I'm going to be real with you, and I don't care if I get fined. You know what, we play, we're not on TV all the time. Reporters are the ones that are voting. And it is what it is."

* nvmind, TIL that Denzil is actually Roy's middle name :/

haha

the regulator season should definitely have fewer games, 70 or so sounds right