C-Vig hasn't been around enough since the game 1 loss, I wanna lol Hawks at him more.

Also tarheels, kidcolin, about Lebron's "travel",
http://www.nba.com/videorulebook/category.html?cid=76

why don't you tell him how you really feel Vic?

Super nice gesture by the Cavs. Weirdly curious about what sort of DNA evidence can prove you innocent of that after 29 years though.

I hate the Celtics, but I like sailorsaint.

yeah that is really cool.

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It was a rape case. Sperm, blood, whatever genetic material the rapist left at the scene (and was entered into evidence) could have been used to clear that guy.

This is good as a specific observation.

More generally though, it continues to amaze me how a forum full of people who like to yell "sample size" when it suits their needs so regularly get hysterical over the results of a single playoff game. Just looking at the first round - the Jazz, Spurs, and Suns all looked bad in losing the first game of their series. All were written off to some degree / loled at, and all three went on to win four of the next five games.

Also, historically it is surprisingly common for an underdog team to "steal" one of the first two on the road. Even if you think the Celtics are being undervalued, they're still series dogs. Also, it's very common for the favored team to win both of their road games.

Without delving too much into matchups (I don't care and don't spend much time analyzing anything EC-related), I'd say the most likely outcomes, in order, are:

- split
- Cavs with both
- Celtics with both

We'll see but six games provides more clarity than two, and when the Cavs close out in Boston in a week I can see people looking back and going yeah, that makes sense.

I guess I didn't realize they stored that stuff for 29 years and that they'd still be able to prove after all these years that he didn't actually do it. What would make them suddenly retest this stuff for example. Just seemed odd overall to me.

i was referring to the line that was set before the series began.

There was some sort of journalist pushing for the retesting, presumably there was something fishy about the case that drew someone's attention. In general, the police never throw away anything about these cases because if the guy wins a retrial they might need to re-enter that stuff into evidence.

Clark, I'm sure you probably already know this but....

Particularly in the internet age, the Vegas market is ridiculously efficient. Theres absolutely no way that Vegas would have a line of 225 on a big time series when the true line is 130. Therefore, if you're doing your own projections and come up with something that differs with the Vegas line that drastically, I think its best to rethink your own projections a bit and ask yourself if you're overlooking an aspect of it.

im ready for a new avatar!

completely agree, its really annoying and is contradictory to a lot of the analysis itt

DNA is forever

and same thing here.....unless you have a proven track record of beating the Vegas lines over a large sample size, I simply don't think you can call a line "loltastic." With either some inside info, a proven winning system, or a statistical simulation of some sort it is indeed possible to find SMALL edges on Vegas lines, but even then you won't fine "loltastic" lines.

But lets be honest.....99% of the people who make comments like yours or this one:

don't have any proven success beating the market. Rather they just "watch the games" and think they are somehow naturally gifted enough to be able to beat it. And then they make results oriented comments after the fact and/or have selective memory regarding their past success.

u wont get an argument from me there. i have zero clues about sports betting professionally. but i would have took that bet before the series not just after i knew the outcome. Maybe its the homer in me or maybe its cause we spank the jazz a lot i dunno. but i would have took it for sho.

oh and i never said i'm gifted at beating the marker lol.

PSA: Bill Walton giving an awesome interview on WFAN right now. You can listen wfan.com

CO, BW. I just turned it on and the first thing I heard is that he starts working out every day at 4:30am

Damn, it really sucks that someone as awesome as Walton has had such bad luck with his healthy. He basically has metal wrists, ankles, and spine.

Assani,

LDO

i will gladly bet on that. ie, if cavs win both you win. if celts win both, i win. split is a push.

up to 1k. open to anyone obv.

sorry but this series has the same feeling as last yr vs the magic.

lol at thinking vegas lines are perfect. they had the cavs as heavy favs over the magic last year and was pretty friggin clear that the magic were at least very close and more likely better.

Nothing new, but Pops is awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWCcroQztJM#t=2m42s

Saw that interview this morning, pretty funny.