NBA Playoffs... lets stick this suckah\'...

lol, now THAT is funny.

in the words of rasheed wallace after game 2 in Indiana   "I told ya\'ll bichas!"

Originally posted by square_marker on April 22nd, 2004
Pistons and Lakers..... Pistons in 7!   Yea you heard it here first.

This guy called it back in April. Too bad the second part of his prediction is not going to happen.

Originally posted by shockwaves
There\'s one difference you\'re missing there Di.

The Pacers play defense.

The Lakers don\'t.

Anyone else want nothing more than to see Kobe found guilty this summer?

You haven\'t been watchin the Lakers lately, they have great D. They have 4 first team defensive players. just took a while to get it to work.

The thing is Vivi is they lack the intensity and the drive that teams like the Pistons have. It was amazing, in Game 6 against the Wolves they played with so much intensity that it really left the Twolves dazed and I don\'t understand why the Lakers don\'t play that "in yo\' grill" defense all the time.

Originally posted by SwifDi
This guy called it back in April. Too bad the second part of his prediction is not going to happen.

I\'m not kidding, I called in before the season begun.  Although I will admit I said it would be the Pistons v. Minnesota.... I still was hyping the Pistons even without Rasheed.

Its all hit and miss, everybody hypes their team. It would have been more impressive if you were just an avid fan or analyst.

Tipoff is in less than 2 hours. Pistons going DOWN. Oh this is going to be fun to watch.

Well i love kobe as player he is the best in the league. If the game is on the line I would want the ball in kobe\'s hands alone.

But I live in detroit and have to go for the home team. The wolves are not a great defensive team like the pistons and besides shaq that is there only big guy lakers have who plays defense. Malone is just tagging alone on the championship ride. Kobe and shaq are there best defenders.

And shaq is very slow and not good off the ball. Shaq will have to step out and guard memo and sheed it is going to be interesting.
Only person who defends in the low post for the lakers is shaq and being big and slow and able to get to the ball he will get called for the fouls.

Go pistons 8:06 I can\'t wait.

I hope the pistons win go detroit.

I haven\'t been this excited about a sporting event since the Niners were in the NFC Divisional Championship against the Bucanneers. :/

Lets go Lakers!

Originally posted by QuDDus
 not a great defensive team like the pistons and besides shaq that is there only big guy lakers have who plays defense. Malone is just tagging alone on the championship ride. Kobe and shaq are there best defenders.

And shaq is very slow and not good off the ball. Shaq will have to step out and guard memo and sheed it is going to be interesting.
Only person who defends in the low post for the lakers is shaq and being big and slow and able to get to the ball he will get called for the fouls.

I disagree. I think Derek Fisher, Gary Payton and Medvedenko play very solid defense. I would feel more than confident with Malone covering Wallace. I have watched the Lakers eliminate Rasheed Wallace so many times, haha...

owned.

Pistons in 6.

Who said their defense wouldn\'t work against the Lakers?  Lakers with 75, Pistons win by 12. (and this on a night when Shaq COULD hit his free throws)

Lakers were extremely flat. I could hardly stomach watching how flustered the Pistons defense was making them, but it was an awesome showing by the Pistons.

All they\'ve done now is awakened a sleeping dragon.

In the worst of situation vapor still keeps the faith.

The pistons exposed just how weak the lakers bench is I have always said that. The pistons have better one on one defenders than anyother team in the league.

Game 2 is going to be on fire

This will be an awesome series, that is one thing I can be assured of at this point. I think this whole:

2 games home - 3 games away - 2 games home

This setup seems to practically favor the visiting team. Three games on the road can be a huge mental strain. The NBA has so many quirky rules. I\'m going to still say Lakers in 6.

Wow, I myself am suprised at the turnout... I thought that this was going to be a sqaush, but it makes things interesting now.

It was funny seeing those ESPN announcers after all of them said the Lakers would take game 1 and the series... LOL