Official NBA Playoff Thread-2009

thats really no excuse. Hes the best player on the team, he supposed to shoot the ball well in the Conference Finals.

 

Billups has to play better too Melo still had lik 31 last night but where was J.R. Smith and Billups, D.Jones and Kleiza had more than J.R.Smith, JR shot lik 10 3's and only hit 1. When the shot is off a player should take it to the hole and drive making the defense foul him sending the player to line shooting free throws which Melo has done. There is no reason for Billups continue his disappearance in tough series like he's known to do plus he's guarding D.Fisher come on now whose definitely not making him work on defense.

 

agreed. Melo did drive the bucket alot in the last 5 minutes of the game, and got no calls, but so did the Lakers, i just wants some consistency. As far as Billups you are right, his 3 straight turnovers pretty much cost the Nuggets game 6. K-Mart had 2 misses at the beginning of the 4th from about 5 feet out, and the Nuggets were not finishing shots. I cant blame the refs for the outcome, thats all on the Nuggets. Melo needs to start shooting outside better, J.R. Smith was a waste of space last night, Nene was mostly a non factor, and you have to expect more out of a guy who is one of the best point guards in the league in Chauncey Billups.

Mastermind, i just hate kobe. He is a gr... he is a gr.... he is a great player, there i said it, the best closer in the league, and probably the one guy in the league who anyone with any common sense would want to have the ball with the game on the line.

I just think at this stage in their careers, Lebron has done more with less. Kobe had Shaq, and Robert Horry, and the Lakers do not win those championships without those guys. Lebron has nothing. I would hate to see what the Cavs would look like if they had, a big that was worth a damn, and a scorer off the screen, like Rip Hamilton.

 

The Lakers have the best offense in the league.
The Cavs have the best defense in the league.

Come playoff time, they each get about the same support.

 

for having the "best defense in the league" they sure as hell cannot guard the pick and roll.

those 2 teams arent remotely even.

ok, lets say you were on the playground picking a team, and you had the current lakers and cavs roster to choose from.

Kobe and Lebron would go 1 and 2 or vice versa, and then after that if it were me i would take in this order....

Gasol
Odom
Ariza
Bynum
Shannon Brown

then i would take Cavs players.

 

Agree, but no one ever mentions the no calls that go against the Lakers. Melo should've been called for a flagrant on Kobe, Brown should've got a +1 on a posterization of Birdman, and Gasol got slapped so hard on the wrist late in 4Q, I could hear it through my TV speaker over the Staples crowd. The officials were equally bad on both sides and are not why the Nuggets lost.

 

not even a fan but lebron had 8 turnovers over the entire game that went into overtime. he handles the ball almost every time down of most every minute and does absolutely everything for that team.

to nitpick over 8 turnovers is a pretty weak argument.

hes averaging 42+, 7+, 7+.

its ok to be a kobe fanboy but to overlook lebron just to make your case isnt valid.

 

i agree, all i want is consistency.

 

they led the league in fg % defense against the two/three i believe.

they can play great defense but sometimes you have to give the other team credit. they create huge mismatches.

its a team game, none of that matters. clevelands players work well in their system.

 

they work well because of lebron, no? i think thats a pretty safe assumption.


those guys are scrubs much the same way the hornets are around paul.

so yeah, it matters.