NBA Playoffs Start Saturday!

[hoop-be-doo]

Btw, if anyone cares the Bulls defeated the Pistons tonight, and are only down 3-2 in the series.

I certainly do, the pistons are making it tough on themselves again. Hinrich was class in the win at the palace.....roll on game six.


My take on the Suns/Spurs.......Horry lowered himself, that was a really cheap play........but stu Jackson lowered himself further with the bans for Amare/Diaw, especially considering some of the no calls on other games in other series ( hack all you want guys but don't you dare walk over this line that I've drawn....what kind of message is that)


But from a neutral perspective a big thanks to the Suns and Spurs this series has it all.

[WilyWestbrook0]

The Bulls are a tough team. I didn't expect them to go down without a fight, but winning two consecutive is even more impressive than I imagined.

People underrate the Jazz. I was on basketballforum.com where a lot of people were giving TMac crap for not being able to close out the series against them (never mind that Rafer Alston and Luther Head barely shot over 30 percent in the series and TMac played rather well, especially in the final game), but the Jazz are for real. Boozer should have made one of the all-NBA teams. Utah didn't have a single player make the all-NBA teams! WTH?

[sweetdizzel17]

[QUOTE=RenegadeLonghorn]
Ouch. Utah just beat Golden State to win the series.[QUOTE]

And ouch for the world my friend...the playoffs are destined for boredom

[nman0808]

If Amare and Diaw are suspened for leaving the bench, then Tim Duncan should be to.

When someone dunked the ball, I forget who it was, Tim ran all the the way to the three point line, whats that crap? I know he wasnt starting anything, he was just excited, but rules are rules. The whole situation sucks for the Suns becasue there best player was cheapshotted (is that a word?) and they still get the worst part of the deal. Everyone knows Amare and Diaw are a much bigger part to the Suns than Big Shot Rob is to the Spurs.

[Aikman_TheGreat]

Yeah, but the NBA isn't going to do anything to the beloved Tim Duncan. Maybe if it was Bowen, Parker or some other Spur then something would have been done, but not Duncan.

[RenegadeLonghorn]

God is with the Suns tonight. Just watch the game. The ball bounces their way on every rebound and their shots are falling. All the Spurs shots are rimming out. Even when Ginobili finally made a 3pt the refs called an offensive foul. Bad luck. Game is in the second quarter but the Spurs have already lost.

[WilyWestbrook0]

The Suns will win the series, and then the conspiracy talks will be all over. ; )

[the_future]

Renegade - The Spurs aren't out of it yet. I'm not sure if we can keep up this pace with a small lineup, and pretty much no depth. Kurt Thomas is going to have to play around 40 minutes w/out Stoudemire and Diaw. If fatigue starts setting in around the 3rd or fourth quarter, and the Spurs are within striking distance then they will have a great chance at winning the game.

[RenegadeLonghorn]

The Suns will win the series, and then the conspiracy talks will be all over. ; )

Part of me hopes that will happen. I'm getting real tired of people saying the NBA favors the Spurs, NBA loves Tim Duncan, Spurs are a whiny team, blah blah blah. Wasn't it Tim Duncan who got ejected for laughing and fined $50K for that incident?

[RenegadeLonghorn]

Renegade - The Spurs aren't out of it yet. I'm not sure if we can keep up this pace with a small lineup, and pretty much no depth. Kurt Thomas is going to have to play around 40 minutes w/out Stoudemire and Diaw. If fatigue starts setting in around the 3rd or fourth quarter, and the Spurs are within striking distance then they will have a great chance at winning the game.

I wish that was true but it won't happen. Mentally the Spurs don't see to be in it. If anyone watched the halftime show Barkley said it well. Spurs are hurt by all of the talk and are showing it in a lackluster effort.