Day 12 of the NBA 2k9 Playoffs
by R Dizzle on Apr 29, 2009 4:10 PM PDT
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I've got to give the Bulls their props. They go from having the #1 pick in last year's draft (Rookie of the Year) to taking the defending champions in the first round to three overtime games. Three? That's right, new NBA record. Much respect to DRose, Ben Gordon, and crew.
Yes, it's official. As if the series didn't have enough drama, Dwight Howard is suspended for the next game against the 76ers for his flagrant foul against Samuel Dalembert. Might make things a little tough for the Magic to finish off the series. Look for a Game 7.
As for the Spurs and Mavs, looks like Dallas is moving on to the second round for the first time since 2006. And who beat them back in 07 in the first round you ask? ...I don't even want to think about it. What's more interesting (and subsequently less depressing) is that the Spurs exit in the first round was the first time since 2000. Guess they really know how to build a strong team...
Don't look now, but the Rockets lost last night leaving them with a 3-2 lead in the series. Just when we thought they might make it to the 2nd round...
Jump for some quick thoughts about today's games.
#5 Miami Heat at #4 Atlanta Hawks, 5 PM on TNT
Zaza Pachulia is his name. Playing intensely in the playoffs is his game. Remember him last year? He single-handedly stopped KG throughout their 7 game series. In the last game alone, Zaza pulled down 12 points and 18 boards. Sure, D-Wade's going to bring the heat (pun intended) but it's all about Zaza if the Hawks want to gain the lead tonight...
Blog Battle: Peachtree Hoops (Hawks) vs Peninsula Is Mightier (Heat)
#7 New Orleans Hornets at #2 Denver Nuggets, 7:30 PM on TNT
How do you possibly lose in the playoffs by 58 points? They say don't give and keep fighting, but after that HUMILIATING loss, the Hornets stand no chance. Like the Sopranos, this series is about to be over. Find a new one to watch.
Blog Battle: Pickaxe and Roll (Nuggets) vs At the Hive (Hornets)
Post your Day 12 predictions and any ongoing game thoughts you have in the comments.
Heat at Hawks:
Hornets at Nuggets:
Heat at Hawks: Hawks
Hornets at Nuggets: Nuggets
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My picks
Heat at Hawks: Hawks
Hornets at Nuggets: Nuggets
If Wade’s back is still bothering him, I don’t think the Heat have a chance. I also don’t see any chance the Hornets will suddenly find that magic spell to wake them up. They are boned tonight.
Also, I got some more looks at the replays of the Rondo foul on Miller, and I’ve changed my mind and called it a flagrant 1. I’m disappointed in the NBA for not upgrading the foul to a flagrant. Tomorrow’s Bulls-Celtics game 6 will be a MUST WATCH game.
I’ll go with the Heat and the Nuggets.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Apr 29, 2009 4:42 PM PDT reply actions
Hawks & Nuggets
Dwight Howard deserved to get suspended but so does Rondo, or at least changed the foul call to a flagrant 1 at the most.
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Hell yeah
Just the fact alone that Miller’s lip was bleeding from the flagrant should have been a flagrant. Just that game right there could have screwed the bulls out of a series win.
Um, they put brad miller at the ft line to tie the game, he missed. the blood came from falling on pierce, not the rondo foul.
screwed the bulls? oh like fouling out ray allen in game 5 in the 4th quarter down 11 for breathing was screwing the bulls
by PaintItBlack on Apr 30, 2009 4:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Dammit, give the Celtics credit
For playing so tough without their best player and best bench player (Powe), and being forced to give minutes to the likes of Veal Scalabrine aka Semi-Pro‘s Jackie Moon. And give Rajon Rondo credit for being such a complete badass: not only clocking Miller so hard that he missed the subsequent FT — a miss which effectively swung the whole series in Boston’s favor — but also consistently outplaying the more heralded Derrick Rose, and by a wide margin. Heck, in the playoffs, Rondo’s outplaying CP3 by a wide margin…
Through 5 games
24.2 pts (.511 fg)
10.2 reb
10.2 ast
3.2 stl
2.2 tov
Averaging a triple double? That is totally sick.
Meanwhile, Perk, Pierce, and Ray have all busted ass to make up for KG’s absence. It’s pretty clearly the Year of the LeBrons, but you gotta give the Cs some props for looking every bit the part of defending champs.
Thing 1
Veal Scalabrine aka Semi-Pro‘s Jackie Moon
thats exactly what i was thinking.
can somebody get him a head-band that matches the rest of the team’s head-bands.
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by gametime_gsw on Apr 29, 2009 6:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha
Also, can somebody get him a head-band body that matches the rest of the team’s head-bands doesn’t have jiggly man-boobs?
Thing 1
by Sleepy Freud on Apr 29, 2009 6:49 PM PDT up reply actions
yea... i didn't catch the man-boobs
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by gametime_gsw on Apr 29, 2009 6:55 PM PDT up reply actions
lol, that headband is suppose to be help from concussions, which he had 3 this season…
by PaintItBlack on Apr 30, 2009 5:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Scalbrine makes me wanna eat veggies!
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IMO, Rondo has been the best non-Lebron player in the playoffs
But it was still ridiculous that he didn’t get called for a flagrant. He was clearly NOT going for the ball. Hell, he admitted as much after the game! If I were Brad Miller, as soon as the clock hit 2 minutes to go in the 4th quarter in game 6, I would absolutely clobber Rondo. No questions asked. Rondo’s not a great free throw shooter anyway, and if the refs aren’t going to call that, then I’m taking advantage of it.
Clobber rondo, yet ironically rondo was probably clobbering Brad Miller for smirking and laughing about baitiing the refs into fouling out ray allen…or his sissy act towards glen davis, or just being out there to be an instigator in general.
neverending cycle
by PaintItBlack on Apr 30, 2009 5:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Good post..
Im sick of hearing how the underdog bulls are giving the defending champions all they can handle
1. The Bulls winning perecentage after the Brad Miller/ Salmons trade was good for 4th in the east
2. The celtics winning percentage without KG wasnt much better.
3. The celtics are completly exhausted, have no bench production whatsoever right now and are starting rondo, perkins and davis, 3 YOUNG PLAYERS, with pierce and allen and having to play them over 50 minutes
by PaintItBlack on Apr 30, 2009 4:59 AM PDT up reply actions
ouch wade is DOWN
VERY down. I don’t think he’ll be back for this game.
hahaahaa
Chris Quinn needs to show what he’s got
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by LighTz707OuT on Apr 29, 2009 5:37 PM PDT up reply actions
wade's back
getting boos from the hawks crowd
you need to get out of class :P
Hawks jones grabbed wade going for a layup, wade took exception and had some words for jones. Hawks and Heat converge, but the refs broke it up quickly. 2 double Ts called
by IQofaWarrior on Apr 29, 2009 5:50 PM PDT up reply actions
lol
I wish. It’s a damn programming class.
I thought you said wade was down for the count?
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he hit the back of his head on the floor when falling
he was still down when going to the commercial break. I thought he got a concussion. Apparently, he’s ok enough to go.
Hey, I’m a software programmer, and I’m damn good at it. :)
by IQofaWarrior on Apr 29, 2009 5:55 PM PDT up reply actions
ooh damn
crazy. Can’t believe he’s still playing.
Oh, so that’s what you do? I’m not a programmer, and I’m struggling haha. It’s C
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yes, i program in C/C++ at work
but i’ve done several other languages for fun and practice. It takes a certain mindset to do programming. For me, I have logical, mathematical, and physics type mindset, and I apply that when I design and write code. I’m a total geek, haha!
by IQofaWarrior on Apr 29, 2009 6:03 PM PDT up reply actions
not to be sexes or anything
but whenever Violet Palmer officiates a Warrior game she seems to favor the other team.
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by LighTz707OuT on Apr 29, 2009 6:04 PM PDT up reply actions
it was nothing close to a flagrant, he was going for the ball
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this game's getting away from the heat
if this second qtr gets way out of hand, I’d rest wade for the 2nd half and wait for the next game.
chris webber sucks!
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by gametime_gsw on Apr 29, 2009 6:38 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
what are nuggets fans chanting...?
We want Dallas?
Congrats Nuggets for making it to round 2
a new story to follow in the west
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