NBA Playoffs Thread: March 3, 2011. A date which will live in infamy.

[Dimmauk]

Yeah it's crazy how fast people forget how bad Seattle "tanked"and then got raped by OK. FUCKING STERN

[Cail]

Yeah it's crazy how fast people forget how bad Seattle "tanked"and then got raped by OK. FUCKING STERN

for serious...i hope the arena blows up and neither team wins

[Chun Liroy]

for serious...i hope the arena blows up and neither team wins

SO JELLY OF SUPER TRIO DURANT WESTBRICK AND HARDON

[Dimmauk]

Heat in 6

[Roranora]

Thunder in 7. Ibaka with a go-ahead jam over LBJ+Bosh on side-ish, but held off with Serge's open arm (like dunking on Duncan) with under 30 seconds go (great dish from Durant or something)

brick from Bosh, LBJ trying to dish. Wade twisted ankle 3rd quarter, dunno

no MJ rising up, shooting, draining


..unless it's KD doing it



Thunder win unless Westbrook ruins it

[tyven]

hoping the westbrick of last years playoffs makes an appearance GOGOGO BRONBON

[Cail]

SO JELLY OF SUPER TRIO DURANT WESTBRICK AND HARDON

nah i just hate the heat and hate the thunder ownership

[Kaslo]

nah i just hate the heat and hate the thunder ownership

I would hate the Starbuck's ownership more than the Thunder's. Just sayin'.

[Dimmauk]

So people hate on Lebron for leaving Cleveland, but they cool with OKC doing the same thing? LOL

[Dimmauk]

At least Lebron didn't serve Cleveland balls to eat during the show.

[Cleverness]

Unless Lebron flops this Finals he's not even the person I despise the most on the Heat anymore. Mr. Dwayne Wade with his hard fouls and disappearing alot in the Celtics series has taken that crown.

[Dimmauk]

Wade fouls Durant in the face and he explodes in a cloud of puss and clearasil.

[tyven]

p funny from http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-tr...finals-preview

Russell Westbrook and Dwyane Wade are going to guard each other. Not consistently, maybe, but it's going to happen at some point, because Mario Chalmers can't stop Westbrook and Thabo Sefolosha only plays 20 minutes a game. And when it does happen, it's going to be terrifying. Everyone's talking about LeBron James and Kevin Durant, and with good reason. But James and Durant are basically nice young men who happen to be very good at basketball. Wade and Westbrook are, by contrast, demons who have assumed human form in order to slake their thirst for devastation on the basketball court.

Stylistically, they're surprisingly similar, bowling-ball guards who hurl themselves at the rim across space and time. Temperamentally, they're opposites — Wade a contemptuous aristocrat coolly wrecking peasants, Westbrook an enthusiastic experimenter with drugs he invents in his basement. Glasses-wise, it's not clear they can exist in the same room without someone getting hurt, or possibly spontaneously developing 20/0 vision. "I can see clearly now, because I didn't need prescription lenses in the first place," Johnny Nash sings faintly, before they decapitate him.

Wade has had a fairly miserable run/hobble through the playoffs. Westbrook's been playing the best basketball of his career. Both teams need their top guards at full LIL SIDEKICK OF DOOM levels to feel good about this series. Miami needs Wade to get in the paint and keep LeBron from having to score 70 a game (possible, but inconvenient); OKC needs Westbrook to keep improving his turnover ratio while running an offense that's been getting varied and unpredictable contributions from a wide variety of players. There's going to be a moment when they guard each other, Wade looking cold as marble, Westbrook's needle quivering at 9 million rpm and his pupils turning red. And oh man, I can't wait.
— Brian Phillips

[Dimmauk]

p funny from http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-tr...finals-preview

Wade and Sally Jessie will be too busy sharing apparel and eyeglass frame tips instead of playing basketball.

[archibaldcrane]

"slake the thirst" is one of the greatest cliches in the english language.

[Rhinox]

https://twitter.com/piersona/status/...449857/photo/1

This is glorious. Fuck okc

[bluefan]

So whose the chick that sang the anthem?

[Rhinox]

It's amazing how much they play up the okc arena.


The bobcats arena would be loud as well if they gave the fans vavuzelas

[Dimmauk]

Why did Battier get a T too? Sally was acting like a bitch.

[Rhinox]

Why did Battier get a T too? Sally was acting like a bitch.

yeah no shit