2013 NBA Playoffs Thread

[EKBATAN]

sucks that soooo many good players are missing. This is by far the most boring NBA playoffs i have ever seen in my 20+ years of watching this game. Takes the fun and competitiveness out of it when the big players are missing.

[Ghermez Agha]

sucks that soooo many good players are missing. This is by far the most boring NBA playoffs i have ever seen in my 20+ years of watching this game. Takes the fun and competitiveness out of it when the big players are missing.

baba it just started you cant say its the most boring play offs until its over! the first round won't be too exciting but we have every reason to anticipate a very exciting second round in both conferences!

[Masoud_A]

the game was overall a pretty sloppy/streaky game for both teams. especially the celtics who by the end of the 3rd quarter only had 4 points from their bench and as a team only scored 25 points in the second half. pierce sucked and couldnt hit a shot to save his life and KG was invisible. J kidd IMO was the difference maker in the game, its unbelievable how efficient this guy is at his age...he came up with some big shots, rebounds, steals, and assits in the second half. to sum things up, either team could have came out as the winner, the knicks just started and ended the game much better and that was the difference, melo started and ended very well, struggles in the second and third quarter though.

totally agree on green, im a big fan of him and have been since he was in college, hes such an athletic player and has so much potential. ig the poor guy didn't have such severe injuries and heart issues he'd probably be an all star by now. the team needs to build around him and rondo.....getting rid of KG/pierce while they still have some value to young teams like houston for example could be a great place for boston to make a deal with so they can get some young pieces to build around rondo and green.

Boston basically handed the game over to the Knicks although I never thought they would be so close to pull off an upset in MSG. Their 4th quarter performance was horrible, Doc Rivers is very overrated, all they did was ISO after ISO after ISO. Since Pierce's shot was off they could not capitalize on the Knicks bad night.

JR smith just won 6th man of the year, very well deserved!

It was a close race between him and Crawford, couldn't go wrong with either choice, statistically JR was a bit ahead of him in points and a few other areas so I guess that's what gave him the edge. He has transformed into a totally different player this year, he grew a lot as a player and played consistent good basketball throughout the entire season.

Masoud isn't gonna be too happy about this I'm assuming

Jarret Jack is my 6th MOY and as I said JR is not gonna be your savior in postseason. He made many mistakes against Boston which is natural for him as he is mostly a spot up shooter who gets hot every now and then.

[EKBATAN]

baba it just started you cant say its the most boring play offs until its over! the first round won't be too exciting but we have every reason to anticipate a very exciting second round in both conferences!

no its boring cuz alot of good players are missing. Teams like Miami will just breeze thru

[Ghermez Agha]

Boston basically handed the game over to the Knicks although I never thought they would be so close to pull off an upset in MSG. Their 4th quarter performance was horrible, Doc Rivers is very overrated, all they did was ISO after ISO after ISO. Since Pierce's shot was off they could not capitalize on the Knicks bad night.

Jarret Jack is my 6th MOY and as I said JR is not gonna be your savior in postseason. He made many mistakes against Boston which is natural for him as he is mostly a spot up shooter who gets hot every now and then.

agreed, boston's lack of offense is definitely what got us the win, and I don't think they'll get such a chance again, definitely not in MSG atleast.

on JR, I wouldn't really say he is a spot up shooter....hes just a shooter in general being he can spot up or create his own shot off the dribble (which is how he scores most of his points) and even through ISO's a decent amount of the time. his drive to the basket is really good too, which unfortunately we don't see as much as we should, this guy can get past anyone very easily, he just cant get rid of his old habits of loving to shoot so he prefers to score that way more often. We'll see if he can continue his good form in the play offs. he's going to need to be a bit more efficient than he was in game 1 shooting the ball, but even then we saw his hustle on defense make up for his streaky shooting throughout the game and still managed to hit a few big shots.

[Ghermez Agha]

no its boring cuz alot of good players are missing. Teams like Miami will just breeze thru

I don't know man, Miami is good as hell and they clearly are favorites. I got my $ on them too don't get me wrong here, but I just disagree that it will be a breeze for them to get past the nets/knicks/pacers.

[Masoud_A]

no its boring cuz alot of good players are missing. Teams like Miami will just breeze thru

Come on Ekki we know why you really find it boring, LAL are shit this year deal with it.

[EKBATAN]

Come on Ekki we know why you really find it boring, LAL are shit this year deal with it.

lol u guys love to label me biased but im not a big laker fan at all. when do u ever see me support them crazy? sure i like kobe and would prefer them to win but i dont really care for them much. im originally a bulls fan cuz when i started getting into basketball in Iran, my fav players were scottie pippen and jordan...i was never really a lakers fan and after that bulls era, ive never really had a team, i just enjoy watching a good game

[Ghormeh Sabzi]

I don't know man, Miami is good as hell and they clearly are favorites. I got my $ on them too don't get me wrong here, but I just disagree that it will be a breeze for them to get past the nets/knicks/pacers.

[Ghermez Agha]

^ lol good one. they are a pretty good team when D-will plays at a high level. when he does they are a threat to any team.

[masoud nekounam]

NYK to make it 2-0 tonight. I'm hopeless.

[Ghermez Agha]

NYK to make it 2-0 tonight. I'm hopeless.

boston just cant score in the second half, k-mart swatted everything that came his way inside the paint. shots started knocking down for us in the second half and when a team can shoot the way the knicks do, theres really nothing you can do about it. the best thing you can do to capitalize against a shooting team is take advantage of their cold streaks throughout the game, which boston wasn't able to do for 2 games in a row. i dont see this series going past 5 games ATM, could even be a sweep.

[Ghormeh Sabzi]

yeah baby!! #BenchMob lives

[EKBATAN]

yeah baby!! #BenchMob lives

damn this guy Gibson got some monster dunks in him. see others like this before too.

it trips me out how these big guys let this happen to them LOL they dont anticipate it and dont time their jump..if they wait a sec for the guy to go up in the air then jump to block it, they'll be more successful...but they always go with the instant reaction of jumping with the guy who is dunking and get caught lol

[Ghermez Agha]

Westbrook out for the remainder of the playoffs most likely...OKC will have trouble in the next round without him. Not favorites to make it out of the west anymore IMO.