NBA Memorial Weekend

Uh oh, I have a feeling the Kings are gonna take this...
But, I\'m still rooting for the Lakers.

GO LAKERS!!!!!!!

Originally posted by \\/apor Snake


You know that the Celtics matchup better with the Lakers. Truly if you are a Celtics fan you should be rooting your nuts off for the Lakers. If the Kings meet the Celtics in the finals, Kings will sweep. Celtics just don\'t matchup with the Kings at all.

well Vapor lets break down the three matchups

One- Pierce takes lucky shot to win the game by one they never should of won that game
Two- Shaq was missing celts kill lakers
I forget what happened that appearence but it was the only fair way to look at the celtics vs lakers

and Im not a huge celtic fan im actually a pacer fan, but now there eleminated im rooting for celtics

and I hate lakers more then i like celtics

Yes Tony you don\'t know basketball.  It appears to me that the "Almighty Lakers" have their back against the wall.  If you go through each team\'s lineup you will see that the Kings are better.

Vlade vs. Shaq- Shaq
Webber vs. Horry- Webber
Turkoglu/Peja vs. Fox- Peja/Turkoglu
Bryant vs. Christie- Bryant
Bibby vs. Fisher- Bibby

Bench

B Jackson vs. any Laker bench guard- Jackson
Pollard vs. Walker- Pollard

I admit that the Lakers are a great team, but they aren\'t as good as the Kings.  All of the pressure is on the Lakers now, the Kings don\'t have to win Game 6.  The Lakers do.  If Bibby and Webber have big time clutch games on Friday then Sac Town earns a trip to the finals.

Fayded should stick his foot in his mouth :rolleyes:

That\'s a discrace to even say Peja can take on Kobe. Really. Peja is what, 6,10\'? 3 inch advantage? He only has a shot and some average passing skills. Kobe has the best all around game in the NBA today right next to Tracy McGrady and Jason Kidd. Who made NBA All First Team this year? Kobe. Peja didn\'t.

Fox can still guard Peja, he did it last night, held him to 2 points. There were I think 3 situations where Peja could have scored, but he screwed up.

So the flopping issue is still being argued over. Shaq had 12 dunks. That\'s phenominal. Especially when he was posting up on Vlade, and he flopped before Shaq even made a move. So go eat your words, cause Vlade has to be the biggest animator since Sabonis Shaq\'s faced up on. Only plus I\'d give Vlade is his passive game. Shaq can pass too pretty good, but Vlade\'s are a little nicer.

Again, when your a guard, you take the charge. I wonder why everyone b*tches over this issue. It\'s the fundamentals of basketball as a guard! Plain a simple.

Originally posted by luckee
Ill drink to that, but remember this too, while he didnt score as much as bibby, he sure did open up alot of points with those amazing passes. Id still keep bibby tho

The only problem: Often the other Sacramento players didn\'t know any better where the ball was going than the other team did.

And unfocused, I disagree with your breakdown of the situation, and hell, I disagree with breaking down the situation as you did at all.  Shaq over Divac and Kobe over Christie are by far bigger mismatches than the ones the Kings have in their favor (and I\'d question that the Turkoglu Fox matchup is a mismatch...)  Besides, the Lakers have the better coach, incase you forgot to put that inm and they have more experience in these situations.  If the Kings win it, it\'s not because they have better players, but because they play better together.  They seem to have the better team game and chemistry.  The Lakers are the better team.  Better teams have lost before.  It\'s called upsets.  For example, do you really believe that the Patriots had a better team than the Rams this year?  No way.  They just were in the right place at the right time to catch them off guard and squeek out a tight victory.

Originally posted by Chumpay




and I hate lakers more then i like celtics

Why shouldn\'t you? The Lakers stomped a hole in the Pacers for the championship.

I\'m not even gonna argue anymore, we\'re going around in circles. The Kings are gonna win by 2 in game 6. Oh yeah, Derek Fisher still can\'t guard Mike Bibby.

I won\'t argue over that.

But..

Kobe > Bibby

Kobe may be better than Bibby, but he is also 3 or 4 inches taller than him.  Plus Kobe has a lot more playoff experience.

shock even you have to admit that before game 5 Fox was playing horribly.  If Peja was 100%, which he is obviously not, he\'d take Fox for more than 2 points.

He was playing horribly offensively or defensively?  Yeah, Peja would take him for more than 2, but he wouldn\'t dominate as you seem to be saying.

Originally posted by \\/apor Snake


Why shouldn\'t you? The Lakers stomped a hole in the Pacers for the championship.

and thats a reason to like the lakers more then the pacers....damn whats that called selling out?

Celtics played like **** last night god almighty vapor there\'s no point in arguing with you over lakers vs celtics truth be told... celtics will be lucky to get to the championship

Originally posted by Chumpay
Celtics played like **** last night god almighty vapor there\'s no point in arguing with you over lakers vs celtics truth be told... celtics will be lucky to get to the championship

The Lakers will be lucky to get there too.  Kinda goes hand in hand with being down 3-2.

Go Nets

The Die Hard Knick fan turned Net fan...how sweet....god you are a poser shock.

Originally posted by unfocused
The Die Hard Knick fan turned Net fan...how sweet....god you are a poser shock.

How so?  Because I route for the closest team to me when my favorite team is out of it?  I never had anything against the Nets, and I like them better than the other teams left.  Am I just supposed to sit opinionless, and not route for anyone once my favorite team is out?  I don\'t think so.  I am still a Knicks fan, first a foremost.  The Nets are simply the team I like best of the remaining teams.

If you think that makes me a poser, then I\'d have to disagree.  Completely.

I\'m a pretty big Knick fan, maybe cause I got season tickets behind the rim

But, I stopped going to their games when they stopped believing in themselves. They crowd just wasn\'t in it anymore, and I got bored watching them get beat cause their confidence in themselves wasn\'t there.

If the Lakers manage to overcome a 3-2 defecit in the playoffs, it won\'t be by luck, rather expirence. They have plenty of it. If they shall loose, it\'s another learned lesson to them, just makes them more hungary next year for a title. Although, if the the Kings win it, I hope they know 2 things. One they played great all around basketball during the regular season. But if they manage to win a title, I hope they know they can\'t deny that they flopped their way there. Kinda like Tim Duncan, who can really just shove that MVP title right in his closet, cause Jason Kidd should have gotten it.