Lakers by 5.Quote:
Originally Posted by Glenn
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Lakers by 5.Quote:
Originally Posted by Glenn
Look for the Sterns to shoot anywhere from 10-15 more free throws than the Lakers.
I'm looking for Odom to wake up (6 of 12 for 18 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists), TD to play hard while getting a tech (26 points and 16 rebounds) and Manu to come back down earth (more like 6 of 13 for 21 points).
LOL@Stern
Joey Crawford doing another Spurs playoff game, at home no less.
Joey Crawford might not get out of that city alive after tonight. My...God..... He is treading death threat territory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Glenn
i don't like ticky-tack fouls being called. i like the players to play and the refs to swallow their whistles on the last posession in particular. BUT that foul on barry HAD to be called. not in the act but he should've been at the line for 2 shots IMO.
unfortunately the way the nba is these days, you don't get those foul calls unless you dramatize the foul by diving to the floor like you've been shot. if barry had done that the game would've gone to OT after he hit his 2 FTs.
spurs are on the ropes now. oh well...
It's official.
I wonder if the fans in SA are acting like us Pistons fans (Blow up the team, Fire Pops, etc.) then again it's wrong for me to compare us to SA, they're core won 3 titles, we won 1...
I'm not here...
AAAAAAhahahahahahah! This almost makes me start liking the Lakers.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/8191542#
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Among the several motivational ploys used by coach Phil Jackson was a pre-game screening of Alec Baldwin's famous speech from "Glengarry Glen Ross." The movie, you might recall, features Baldwin as a real estate hustler, though in the minds of his underlings — all of them semi-broken salesmen — he might as well have been the prince of darkness.
"You know what it takes?" he asks, reaching into his attaché case to display two metallic spheres dangling from a string. "Brass balls ...
"The money's out there, you pick it up. You don't, I got no sympathy for you. You want to go out and close ... close! It's yours. If not, you'll be shining my shoes ..."
"Always be closing," Jackson said Thursday afternoon. Apparently, what holds true for David Mamet's real estate hustlers applies to ballplayers as well. "It's the way it is in this game."
Some hours later, after Jackson's Lakers had concluded an improbably lopsided 4-1 trouncing of the defending champions in the Western Conference finals, Kobe Bryant was asked if the film had been effective.
"We got the message," he said.