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05-05-2009 , 07:14 PM

#59351

chim17

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Pretty gross.

They were talking about some other stat about Melo few years ago with Joey Crawford and how he gets more fouls/minute and is out of the game constantly in foul trouble.

NBA is shady business.

05-05-2009 , 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by EYESCREW

Quick funny story. There is one sports bar close to my house that I watch a majority of the Laker playoff games. Last year in the NBA finals the place was packed with Lakers fans as you'd imagine save for this one lone Boston Celtic loud mouth, oh and this dude was loud let me tell you, that was often there by himself or would sometimes bring a few friends. For the most part this guy is a cool guy he just gets a little pumped up when his Celtics are on. Understandable of course. So anyway, the Celtics go on and smoke the Lakers last year in the finals and that guy was there every step of the way screaming and cheering and taunting Lakers fans and pretty much coming within an inch of death on each of the four nights the Lakers lost. I thought it was funny but a lot of times as the night went on and people got more intoxicated the risk of a Falkland Island type war breaking out was but one more Celtic dunk or three point play away from reliving itself. Obviously Mr. Celtic fan would have been Argentina but somehow the guy would start laughing and smiling and the situation would diffuse around him almost instantly.

translation - "laker fans are pussies and if this happened in any real sports city like ny or boston or philly this man would rightfully have his ass dragged out back and the **** kicked out of him"

05-05-2009 , 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by LurchySoprano

http://www.dallasbasketball.com/fullColumn.php?id=1615

Apologies if posted. The highlight:

Interesting. Thoughts?

it's probably a statistical outlier, but it's more fun to think it's not. But damn, those are some shocking numbers. Also, no surprise that the only team Dallas wins against is PHX, after Nash, amare, and barbosa made it a habit to gang rape officials after home wins. They just never got any calls after that.

05-05-2009 , 07:17 PM

#59354

chim17

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Originally Posted by tuq

That is a weird bunch of statistics. Initially I thought the "Crawford" in question was the much maligned Joey, and I'm glad it's not. He is a far better ref than almost anyone in this thread gives him credit for. I'd take a game called by him, Javie, and a non-sucky third ref any day.

You just like him because he wants to fight Timmay.

05-05-2009 , 07:19 PM

#59355

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Originally Posted by Aloysius

translation - "laker fans are pussies and if this happened in any real sports city like ny or boston or philly this man would rightfully have his ass dragged out back and the **** kicked out of him"

Yeah, the 200 or so Lakers fans in the bar were terrified of that dude for sure...

05-05-2009 , 07:23 PM

#59356

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i agree with tud that Joey is ultimately a pretty solid ref, but agree with everyone else that his "I'm the show" shtick sucks, and that he tends to get too whistle happy.

05-05-2009 , 07:27 PM

#59357

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Quote:

Originally Posted by LurchySoprano

http://www.dallasbasketball.com/fullColumn.php?id=1615

Apologies if posted. The highlight:

Interesting. Thoughts?

What are the odds, through pure random chance, that there would be at least 1 ref-team pairing with such a record? Methinks this is just post-hoc cherry-picking. But if anyone wants to offer me a super-favorable Mavs line next time he refs, go ahead.

05-05-2009 , 07:32 PM

#59358

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I’ll let you be the judge of what it all means, of whether Chancellor Stern might should do something about this, and whether the Mavs should not concern themselves with such material and just go play.

Stern knows what's up and he definitely chooses to do something about it. Problem is what he chooses to do isn't favorable as far as the Mav's are concerned.

To the author's credit those are some pretty amazing coinkydinks and I did feel that game three of the NBA finals in Miami was one of the worst officiated games in history.

05-05-2009 , 07:34 PM

#59359

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I can't wait for Stern and Crawford to retire. Unless of course it only means things are going to get worse...

05-05-2009 , 07:42 PM

#59360

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Dammit. Going to miss at least the 1st half of the Mavs game after missing the entire game on Sunday. I've got school presentations and finals stuff out the ass.

05-05-2009 , 07:49 PM

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ATLANTA HAWKS IN THE SECOND ROUND OF THE NBA PLAYOFFS IM GONNA EXPLODE FROM EXCITEMENT

MARVIN SHUT DOWN LEBRON 1 TIMEEEEEEEEe

05-05-2009 , 07:50 PM

#59362

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Originally Posted by tuq

It appears you life n00bz (which is basically everyone but me, Cl.a.rk, and sailorsaint) aren't students of history. In 1986 the Rockets defeated the heavily favored and defending champion Lakers in five games due to the dominance of a center for which LOL had no answer. Sound familiar? The young lad's name was H. Olajuwon.

Classic CBS intro to the game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHB7RC6FIc4

Clip of Sampson's highly improbable game winning shot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF740...eature=related

The Lakers won the title the two years after this btw, and the world was denied another Lakers-Celtics showdown as a consequence of this series, which was kind of a shame because that was if not the best Celtics season ever, the second best. Would have been nice if they could have avenged their series loss from the year prior.

The 86 Celtics were, imho, the best single season team I ever saw.

05-06-2009 , 01:39 AM

#59363

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Originally Posted by sailorsaint

The 86 Celtics were, imho, the best single season team I ever saw.

Well, they were a truly incredible team. 40-1 at home, Walton finally mostly injury-free, Bird winning his third and final MVP. There is nothing about their title that is tarnished; however beating the Lakers (who had beaten them the year before and would beat them the year after, although the latter was marred by McHale's career threatening injury) would have been the icing on the cake. Beating the Rockets - which they had also done in 1981 after an even more improbable run - just didn't have the same resonance as beating the Lakers, which in fact they only did once, in 1984.

05-06-2009 , 01:39 AM

#59364

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LOL @ Mavs 4th quarters.

05-06-2009 , 01:40 AM

#59365

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First in after unlock!

edit: balls.

05-06-2009 , 01:41 AM

#59366

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so I had my 30,000 post today and sadly it wasn't in this thread

05-06-2009 , 01:41 AM

#59367

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Part of it has to be bad coaching i mean Dirk is just chillin' behind the line for like 3 straight possessions.

05-06-2009 , 01:42 AM

#59368

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Is it me, or is EJ getting really frustrated with Chuckles these days?

05-06-2009 , 01:44 AM

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yeah posted that in the other thread. gettin' testy fo sho

05-06-2009 , 01:44 AM

#59370

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He just owned Chuck pretty hard there.

The Mavs bench gets a terrible rap because 1. It features some undersized guys and 2. They often have to play together as a unit, where they look terrible...obviously.

They had 52 bench points. How exactly is that bad.

05-06-2009 , 01:44 AM

#59371

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I completely agree with kenny that Denver is playing better (much better even) than LA right now. Now that means ****all come two weeks from now, but just saying.

05-06-2009 , 01:44 AM

#59372

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On the behalf of the Denver Nuggest I'd like to officially accept Kenny Smith's apology. I didn't realize they were that good either.

05-06-2009 , 01:45 AM

#59373

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Originally Posted by POKEROMGLOL

6 minutes from Howard and 5 minutes of garbage time...

05-06-2009 , 01:46 AM

#59374

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Live postgame conf link: http://www.nba.com/playoffs2009/live2/

05-06-2009 , 01:46 AM

#59375

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i think i posted about it already tonight but I'm getting sick of the CD pins. I don't get why Daly is so revered all of the sudden.

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