S14 n Tsx

Damn!!!

WdnUlik2no

Is it back on?

JediMindTricks

great team effort by boston.

JediMindTricks

the finals are off to a great start!

WdnUlik2no

Yep, Game 2 Sunday!

S14 n Tsx

nope. I blame retarded dish.

next game.

edit: Now, everything works fine. wow!!

S14 n Tsx

Boston won.

savage

wow... what a game...

Paul Pierce is amazing... I had a heart attack when I saw him go down... He is amazing, him coming back was the turning point of this game...

and that rebound and dunk by KG!!! WOW...

i also think Rondo played well too...

Just a great game overall, everything I hoped for...

S14 n Tsx

That KG's dunk was sick.

JediMindTricks

total team effort.

ray allen picked up the slack when PP was out.

pj brown was massive.

even cassell hit some big shots.

Trackruner228

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Damn don't mess with Boston sports.

Mokos23

good game

Mokos23

Pierce is da man

Sarlacc

Caught what I could while working. Great game. If the whole series plays out like this then no matter who wins its will have been a good time.

1st Game, Home Court Advantage, Hungry Eyes...all leads to a win. Its just the start.

And I will admit...living in LA...I would like to see the Lakers lose...call me unpatriotic

Mokos23

how come you want the lakers to lose if you're from LA?

UNeeKLiNG

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^because he's a nonconformist....or he's an out of towner like myself!!!

CarbonGray Earl

Celts held serve, played inspired ball to win. The Lakers got to do what they wanted to do, just didn't knock down the easy ones. They get the deer in the headlights look every so often. See game 3 at Utah.

The ball movement was great, but they were caught off guard not by the physicality, but by the atmosphere. Game 2 they should be acclimated to it, Phil will make adjustments, and most of all, Kobe will hit the jumpers. That will likely be the game the Lakers take at Boston.

Pierce played out of his mind though. Those 2 3s really put the Lakers on their heels. Like I said, Lakers got beat, but there is plenty of room for improvement. Celts needed a couple of inspired plays to win it.

CarbonGray Earl

We got alot of em....they're called Clipper fans!!

Osamu

honestly I'm a clipper fan too, but I don't really see it as a cross town rivalry. I just like rooting for the underdog, which has always been the clippers MO except for that one amazing year 2 years back.

Lakers are easily my #2 team, and will always root for them, as long as they aren't playing the clippers. Although if the Clippers keep smush, I might have to trade sides, cause he was the sole reason I hated watching the Lakers the last few season.

I thought today's game was really good. Both teams looked pretty sharp except for the Lakers in the 4th.

Sarlacc

Because I live in LA doesnt mean I'm from LA...and 80% of the fans are all bandwagon fans.

And they are currently building the Clippers training center right were I live...so most of the those guys are in my community...I REALLLLLY can say I'm not rooting for them.

Mokos23

Well at least you guys still have Elton Brand.

CarbonGray Earl

Bandwagon label comes with the territory.

In all honesty, I root for the Clippers except when they play the Lakers. I go to their games when I wanna see an opposing star, like Lebron or whatever. Just too hard to get Laker tickets these days. Must be all those bandwagon fans.

Yumcha

Just for the record, I predicted last week that it would be Boston in 4...just to point out I'm no bandwagoner.

Mokos23

nah, i think it's going to be a 6 or 7 game series.

bent09

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I really hope not because after what ms pierce did last night I am a laker fan.

Dramatic come back my ass. Explain to me how someone is damn near life flighted after crying for 2 minutes on the floor is fine 3 minutes later. Only two people come back that quick after being in that much legit pain, Wolverine and my 2 yr old.

It was a very socceresk. Stupid pansy. This coming from a huge KG and Allen fan.

brianlin87

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biggest faking of an injury i've seen since watching tapes of Isaiah Thomas. F*** BOSTON

UNeeKLiNG

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yea you know when that's going ot be finished? I'm still trying to get into sports if you remember the PM's between you and I at all....let me know if you know anyone within the Clippers that I can speak with...thanks!

And you live right behind LMU right? My gf just graduated but I have a buddy that lives in those houses right in front of homedepot or somewhere in that neighborhood.

UNeeKLiNG

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I gotta agree with Brianlin...PP is bs to me..his game is garbage..and i'm not a laker fan...i've never liked him....or the celtics at that...except KG, Ray and Sam....PP is a dramatic little baby...i mean if his injury was soo bad he wouldn't have been able to come back...to have THREE people carry him out and a wheel chair? that's crap...

but good game overall..if every game in this series is like this i don't care who wins...

JediMindTricks

they said he could barely walk after the postgame conference.

i dunno if anyone else has sprained a knee before, but you can keep playing off the adrenaline for the next hour or so. but the next day is a bitch.

brianlin87

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i suppose you also believe that isaiah thomas was seriously injured and barely walking after his "severely sprained" ankle after lighting up michael cooper of all defenders?



Paul Pierce is a chump.

JediMindTricks

no.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playof...e=Pierce-Game1

why would he fake it?

isiah, not isaiah, is the type of guy and character that would do something like that.

i'd say the majority that believe he faked it are rooting for the lakers.

savage

wow... i love all the haters coming out of the wood work... Paul played well, but you could see it affecting him when he was running down the court, obviously favoring his knee...

Also his teammates picked him up, but that was probably due to the trainers assuming the worst and not wanting to risk it further... Today that knee is gonna hurt like a bitch...

anyways in the end he got the job done... Go Celtics!!!

UNeeKLiNG

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I don't think he faked it...it probably hurt real bad...but to go from can't wait to running in a span of a few mins is pretty unbelilevable UNLESS the team doctors shot him up with cortisone shots...which I'm almost positive they did..which can explain why he could barely walk after the game...if that's the case...he's gonna be hurting in game two...

Palayah8ta

that game was intense... game recognize game.. good shit boston.. but sorry lakers will take game 2.

btw, is KG schizophrenic ?? he like talks to himself like a crazy person and he stares at the ground all crazy..

JediMindTricks

KG is intense, for lack of a better word.

dude gets really focused. sometimes, i worry he'll just pass out like the spelling bee kid.

paz840

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...he does look a little crazy out there sometimes tho

I loved how he kept calling for the ball and abusing Radmanovic and then yelled out "this motherf*** can't f***n guard me!"

Mokos23

who thinks this series will go 6 or 7 games?

JediMindTricks

i think lakers will win in 6. but i'm rooting for boston.

paz840

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boston in 7

Mokos23

i'm sick of these fools:

http://news.bostonherald.com/sports/...sition=emailed

Kobe Bryant may be better than Michael Jordan
Gerry Callahan By Gerry Callahan
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - Updated 2d 22h ago
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It was the most shocking moment of Game 6 between the Celtics [team stats] and the Pistons, but it didn’t involve the Celtics or the Pistons or even Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals.

Maybe you missed it. Maybe you were distracted watching 7-footer Rasheed Wallace shrink to the size of a Webkin before your eyes. Maybe you couldn’t get past the offensive foul Bennett Salvatore called on Paul Pierce [stats]’s 3-point shot, which was only the worst call in NBA playoff history.

Or maybe you just couldn’t stay up that late. For you, NBA commissioner David Stern has two words: Go screw. Who needs you? Stern doesn’t care about you or your children or the next generation of basketball fans. He’s only concerned with maximizing his prime-time ad rates and serving his masters at the network. Commissioner Magoo has a vision for his sport and it extends all the way to June 19.

Anyway, after the kiddies were asleep Friday night, the Celts and Pistons were slugging away at each other when ABC’s superb comedy team of Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy turned their attention to Kobe Bryant and the Lakers. Jackson raved about the play of Bryant, which certainly is nothing new, but then Van Gundy mentioned just how highly his sidekick Jackson regards the Lakers superstar.

“(Jackson) made the statement that Kobe Bryant might be better than Michael Jordan,” said Van Gundy, former Knicks and Rockets coach. “At first I thought it was foolish. Now I can see what he’s talking about.”

And now that is all that stands between the Celtics and the 17th championship in franchise history: the best player in the game. The best player since Jordan. Or maybe the best player including Jordan.

Better than Jordan? That’s like saying smarter than Belichick or tougher than Lance Armstrong or hotter than a NASCAR wife. There was a time when that statement could only be made in jest. Jordan was a player without a weakness, a man who won 10 scoring titles and six NBA titles, an incomparable athlete who somehow got even better when the moment got bigger and who wasn’t happy just to win. He wanted to see you lose, to revel in your pain, to devour your heart while it still was beating.

There was nothing Jordan couldn’t do on the basketball court, but here is Jackson’s point: Exactly how long is the list of things Kobe can’t do? He has greater shooting range than Jordan, is just as tenacious on the defensive end, and may be every bit as lethal in the clutch. He smiles occasionally, but the smile never quite reaches the eyes. The eyes belong to a cold-blooded killer, another Jordan.

And now the daunting task for the Celtics: That killer is in a very good place right now. He is 29 years old, he is healthy and he has a good supporting cast with a terrific big man in Pau Gasol. The Colorado rape case has been all but forgotten and the 18-year-old Laker Girl who recently was linked to him has disappeared, sort of like his old pal Shaq.

You want to know why everyone, from Bill Simmons to Richard Simmons, is picking the Lakers to win this series? Because in basketball the best player usually wins. Because in one seven-game series the best player can raise his game and impose his will and have his way. And right now the best player in the series might be the best player ever. Bryant gives you the feeling the NBA could allow the Celtics defenders to play with tasers and still he would find a way to score 30 a night.

The Celtics beat the Lakers twice in the regular season, but that, of course, was pre-Pau and pre-MVP and pre-postseason killing spree from Kobe. In the first round of the playoffs, while the 37-win Hawks were giving the Celts all they could handle, the Lakers swept the Nuggets, who featured two of the top four scorers in the NBA and last year’s Defensive Player of the Year. The Lakers then knocked off Utah in six, and Bryant averaged 33 points a game while draped in Andrei Kirilenko. And finally, LA snuffed out defending champion San Antonio in five games. With Bruce Bowen dogging him, Bryant went off for 39 in the clinching game.

The Celtics, of course, will double Bryant and trap him and bang him and bump him. And the rest of the NBA will sit home and wonder: Why didn’t we think of that? We watched the Celtics give LeBron James fits in Round 2, but still James and his mates pushed the series to seven. Kobe is a better scorer with a much better supporting cast. He is averaging 32 points a game in the playoffs and shooting 51 percent from the field. James never shot 50 percent in a game against the Celtics. He went 2-for-18 in Game 1, and as Steve Bulpett pointed out here yesterday, Kobe doesn’t do 2-for-18.

Here’s a better blueprint for the Celtics: Game 2 of the first round of the playoffs against Chicago in 1986. Jordan went for 63, still a playoff record. The Celtics won the game and the series and the NBA title anyway.

Now comes Kobe Bryant, the closest thing to Jordan we have ever seen. He cannot be stopped either. The Celtics have to find a way to win the title anyway