Day 22 of the NBA 2k9 Playoffs

by R Dizzle on May 9, 2009 11:00 AM PDT in Previews

It's another sad day for the NBA. Ex-coach Chuck Daly, who coached the Dream Team in 1992 and won back-to-back championships with the Detroit Pistons and their "Bad Boys," passed away this morning. His legacy will never be forgotten in the NBA and basketball as a whole.

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YESTERDAY

Dwight Howard came back in yesterday's game with 17 points and 14 boards to take down the Celtics, 117-96. They played short-handed as Rafer Alston was suspended after his altercation in Game 3. Much props to a team that can with in the playoffs with a starter out. The Magic are now up 2-1, with Game 4 being played in Orlando...this series might be in the hands of the Magic....

Looks like Kobe decided to stop with the talking, and let his shooting speak for who he is. I know the majority of us here at GSoM are routing for the Rockets to come out on top, but with Yao being bothered by his foot, the chances are slim. Check out The Dream Shake and and Silver Screen and Roll for more coverage.

TODAY

Denver Nuggets at Dallas Mavericks, 2PM on ESPN

What's this? Dirk's having a "tough time?" What does that even mean? Excuses for losing? Come on man...don't bring your personal life into your work....BUT, if things are going bad, I do feel bad for you. Why not just lose so you can attend to those things? Just sayin...

Whatever, I'm banking on the Nuggets to make the Mavs look like fools on their homecourt. They gave up Game 3 against the Hornets, but come on, these are the Mavs. Go Nuggets!!

Blog Battle: Pick Axe and Roll (Nuggets) vs. Mavs Moneyball (Mavericks)

Cleveland Cavaliers at Atlanta Hawks, 5 PM on ABC

Easy peezy. That's how the Cavs are looking at this series. The Hawks probably stand no chance at all against the LeBrons, and I'm pretty sure they know it too. Are we looking at a sweep? Pull out the brooms! Caaaaaaavvsssss

Blog Battle: Fear the Sword (Cavaliers) vs. Peachtree Hoops (Hawks)

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Dream Team

The best Professional Sports Team ever formed in the history of Team Sports. You will be missed Chuck “Daddy Rich” Daly.

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by ejdacanay on May 9, 2009 11:13 AM PDT reply actions

R.I.P. Chuck Daly

by Golden Boy on May 9, 2009 11:24 AM PDT reply actions

I know the Lakers aren't playing today

But I still never get tired of seeing this.

by Golden Boy on May 9, 2009 11:25 AM PDT reply actions

That

hit was to the chest right? haha.

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by 24k state fan since 87 on May 9, 2009 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions

BLEEP

Cancer! I hope one day that stuff goes away! My mom already had minor breast caner and the treatments she had to do made half her body purple. R.I.P Chuck Daly

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by 24k state fan since 87 on May 9, 2009 12:27 PM PDT reply actions

I'm sorry to hear that

by Golden Boy on May 9, 2009 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah. I am sorry to hear that too.

Cancer is one of the class of diseases I wish didn’t exist in this world. But there’s just so many things in this earth we live in that we don’t understand and cancer is one of them. One sunny day you’re fine, and then the next day, bam!, it hits you and it rarely gives you a chance to fight back either because it was found malignant already or have metastasize into other parts of the body.

But anyways, I wish this country would fund more money and effort to fight this kind of diseases instead of bailing out companies that didn’t really do much but assist themselves towards greed and failure.

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by girltothemax on May 9, 2009 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions

there will be no cure for cancer

because drug companies aren’t looking to make people healthy.

Drug companies are looking to make people less sick not healthy. If people are healthy no one will buy the drugs and the drug companies will only make millions not billions.

This is exactly the same reason why oil companies won’t fund autocompanies to research and develop alternative technology.

by saintdee on May 10, 2009 2:00 AM PDT up reply actions

I'm not really suprised. We're humans after all.

A biotech company called Amgen stopped the research and clinical trials of a drug called GDNF. It was called a miracle drug that cures all the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. To make story short, Amgen refused to give the drug to the sick, begging patients. They won’t even allow other companies to buy the rights to the drug. It’s sickening and discouraging to me that there are humans out there just like you and me that allows money to rule the world.

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by girltothemax on May 10, 2009 8:18 AM PDT up reply actions

Sorry to hear that.

My mom recently past the 10 year mark. Hope all goes well for your mother. My mom said the main thing was stay positive, and it worked.

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by RubberDubDubs on May 10, 2009 12:06 AM PDT up reply actions

Why not just lose so you can attend to those things? Just sayin…

Or…Why not just NOT play so you can attend to those things? Just sayin…

P.S. I wonder if she’s Dirk’s girlfriend.

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by girltothemax on May 9, 2009 1:42 PM PDT reply actions

SIGH.

by jchao204 on May 9, 2009 7:31 PM PDT up reply actions

pancreatic diseases

are extremely painful—right in the middle nest of organs and guts. We have such complex internal systems, cancer is the price we pay for many contributing factors, including our extended life spans (in former times people died sooner from catastrophic wars, infectious diseases, childbirth…), but also all the toxins our technology-dependent culture generates. Consider the life forms we’ve driven to extinction with our life style and waste, and things like cancer and a.i.d.s (probably originated from hunting and eating fellow primates on a large scale due to population pressure and firearms) are nature’s pay-back.

The coaches in Daly’s generation really had a love for the game and athletes from a time when media-glitter and money didn’t smother everything—we’re lucky to have guys like Ramsay and H.Brown around to enrich our understanding of the game. Daly coached in the ivy league, where you can be sure athletics was not a big deal and the money very modest. He’s probably the only person who could harmonize that wild bunch in Det, and did so brilliantly.

Nowitski probably doesn’t even know who his friend really is—she’s has a history of identity changes—maybe affection comes more easily when there’s an element of ignorance, which is why pro athletes, including the most insensitive, arrogant, and narcissistic, are so popular with a public who really knows little about them.

by the.monk on May 9, 2009 2:43 PM PDT reply actions

My picks

Nuggets @ Mavericks: Mavericks
Cavaliers @ Hawks: Cavaliers

Artest’s flagrant 2 was downgraded to a flagrant 1. But it’s still dumb that Artest’s foul was any category of flagrant.

by IQofaWarrior on May 9, 2009 4:04 PM PDT reply actions

But it’s still dumb that Artest’s foul was any category of flagrant.

His history was the only reason that it was called a flagrant. If that was Battier, it would have been fine.

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by Rated-R Superstar on May 9, 2009 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Wow, Mavs are going to be mad at the refs for NOT calling that foul to give

by IQofaWarrior on May 9, 2009 5:03 PM PDT reply actions

“Frustration has boiled over for the Dallas Mavericks!”

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by Rated-R Superstar on May 9, 2009 5:04 PM PDT reply actions

After reaching for the ball, Antoine Wright put his hands up.

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by Rated-R Superstar on May 9, 2009 5:04 PM PDT reply actions

yes

cuz he bumped him

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by LostHawk on May 9, 2009 5:09 PM PDT up reply actions

I thought that Dallas wanted to commit a foul.

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by Rated-R Superstar on May 9, 2009 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions

That's the only question I have

If you’re going to intentionally commit the foul to give, why would you throw up your hands with that “innocent” look?

by IQofaWarrior on May 9, 2009 5:13 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, that’s what I am saying. I thought Dallas wanted to be guilty.

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by Rated-R Superstar on May 9, 2009 5:28 PM PDT up reply actions

WOW....

that was such a foul…

refs blew that call badly…

must feel the way the dubs felt when the refs called ellis for fouling fisher the last few seconds in OT faker vrs warriors…just worse…since its the playoffs

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by LostHawk on May 9, 2009 5:09 PM PDT reply actions

Yao is OUT for the rest of the playoffs

hairline fracture. Just mentioned on the Cavs Hawks game.

by IQofaWarrior on May 9, 2009 6:20 PM PDT reply actions

Yao

done for the playoffs! Disaster..

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by disguy on May 9, 2009 6:20 PM PDT reply actions

It's all up to the nuggets now to stop the lakers

by IQofaWarrior on May 9, 2009 6:29 PM PDT up reply actions

I

think they had the best chance to do it even before the playoffs started.

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by 24k state fan since 87 on May 9, 2009 6:36 PM PDT up reply actions

On the other hand

there’s a chance that without Yao, the game speeds up for the Rockets and they can match the Lakers that way. But it’s not exactly a big chance.

by IQofaWarrior on May 9, 2009 6:39 PM PDT up reply actions

I was thinking that too

Was it last year? or before that? they went on to win like 22 games in a row without Yao. They also had McGrady for some of the games though. I think this team is better though, so we’ll see.

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by disguy on May 9, 2009 6:41 PM PDT up reply actions

It was last year

I remember that because I complained that their 22 game win streak started with a win over us back in January. Looking back at the Rockets 2007-08 schedule and Yao’s game log, Yao was there for the first 11 games of that win streak.

by IQofaWarrior on May 9, 2009 6:55 PM PDT up reply actions

The problem with that is

Odom, Bynum, Gasol

Scola, Landry, Hayes

Very lopsided now

Brandon Jennings, Ty Lawson, or John Wall. A Warrior in 09.
With the 6th Pick in the 2009 MLB Draft, the SF Giants pick Donovan Tate.
Andre Smith in Silver & Black in 2009.

by ejdacanay on May 9, 2009 6:53 PM PDT up reply actions

not to mention that the lakers have guys who can score. sans yao, the rockets are sorely lacking in that department.

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by cap'n hack on May 9, 2009 6:56 PM PDT up reply actions

Yea big time

And they spread the floor very well.

Brandon Jennings, Ty Lawson, or John Wall. A Warrior in 09.
With the 6th Pick in the 2009 MLB Draft, the SF Giants pick Donovan Tate.
Andre Smith in Silver & Black in 2009.

by ejdacanay on May 9, 2009 7:08 PM PDT up reply actions

Best Team to beat Lakers was

Blazers.

Nugget’s will probably be easier than a Rocket team w/ Yao.

Brandon Jennings, Ty Lawson, or John Wall. A Warrior in 09.
With the 6th Pick in the 2009 MLB Draft, the SF Giants pick Donovan Tate.
Andre Smith in Silver & Black in 2009.

by ejdacanay on May 9, 2009 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions

I think they can do it

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by disguy on May 9, 2009 6:37 PM PDT up reply actions

damn

hawks surging at home

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by disguy on May 9, 2009 7:05 PM PDT reply actions

More sissy refs

Now they threw out Zaza for… arguing with the call?

by IQofaWarrior on May 9, 2009 7:14 PM PDT reply actions

game

over

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by 24k state fan since 87 on May 9, 2009 7:16 PM PDT reply actions

by 24k state fan since 87 on May 9, 2009 9:10 PM PDT reply actions

I agree

Wasn’t hard enough.

Brandon Jennings, Ty Lawson, or John Wall. A Warrior in 09.
With the 6th Pick in the 2009 MLB Draft, the SF Giants pick Donovan Tate.
Andre Smith in Silver & Black in 2009.

by ejdacanay on May 9, 2009 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions