今年 playoff 好刺激
如果可以見到 Lakers vs Celtics 就最好啦...

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[ 本帖最後由 sunnycch 於 2008-5-29 03:28 PM 編輯 ]

NBA playoff 好講經驗同心理質素.
MJ 挨左好多年等 Pippen 打起先開始成為冠軍.
Kobe 學佢好正常, 唔及佢都好正常 (如果唔係 MJ 就唔係 MJ 啦) 但係係球埸內既鬥心佢最似 MJ. 以現今 Lakers 既狀態同 team spirit, Western Conference Champion 應該冇問題.
Spurs 隊波冇乜問題, 唯一既問題係佢地有冇証明自己係 Champion 既鬥心
Celtics 我都係質疑佢地既 mentle toughness, Pierce & Ray Allen 入左 playoff 後, 打得真係麻麻...
Hornets? 太新了, 若對著 Lakers, well.....

Utah is tough at home...
James won't give up, too
Seems all second round series are going to be looooong

點解週日週一兩日假都冇 playoff 睇....

OK, we'll see Detriot in Conference Finals again (that's their consecutive 5 or 6 appearance)...

LA & Utah tied at 2-2
Boston & Cleveland tied at 2-2
NO & SA tied at 2-2 (and now the Hornets are having a comfortable lead of 14 after 3Q Game 5 at home)
home teams win it all......

while the rest are playing normal playoff scoring, LA & Utah are playing like regular season

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When I left the office for meetings the rest of the day, LA was trailing 18-19 points in 3rd quarter at home. I was thinking the experiencesd defending champion was rolling, Tim Duncan was dominating in the middle while Kobe got hold by Bruce Bowen strong defense, (these are the two keys in this match up for the Spurs to win).
However, when I returned home and check the score late night, it was Kobe and the Lakers managed a comeback and beat the Spurs!!! Wow.
That's why I love this game.  In the playoffs, a strong champion contender always able to make such turn around down the stretch.  MJ and the Bulls did it in their 2nd championship run while the face the Portland; Shaq & Kobe did something like that while they face Portland in 2000, and so on.  Only teams with such confidence and the heart of a champion can do it.


Now, the hope for this match-up, Lakers vs Celtics, Kobe vs Garnet, is going to be true....

Furthermore, what do I see the difference between the match up of Lakers, Celtics, Spurs and Pistons? Unlike the past, in the starting line-up of LA and SA, you see there are at least 5 nationalities: Gasol is a Spanish, Parker is a French, Ginobili is a Argentine and Radmanovic is a Serbian.  Even Duncan is from Virgen Island, not from the Continent and the bench.... Comparing the East powers, the major players of Boston and Detroit are US players



I am still a bit worry about this team of Celtics.  For the twenty years, all championship team has a star to count on and carry the team through tough playoff games.  In the 80s, LA had Jaber and Magic, Boston had Bird, and Detroit had Isiah Thomas; in the 90s, Bulls had MJ and the Rockets had Olajuwon; then it is Shaq for the Lakers and Duncan for the Spurs.  This year Kobe is carrying the Lakers, both Duncan, Ginobili and Parker are experienced to carry the Spurs to the win the games, Billups and Hamilton can do the same for Pistons, so do James for the Cavs.  However, after two series and 15 games, none of the Big 3 for the Celtics looks like that person. Pierce and Allen were very rusty, not just during the playoffs but also late of the regular season, (OK Pierce of the Game 7 against the Cavs was an exceptional), and Garnet is not the go to guy when the team need scoring and playmaking.....

and let's remember the traditional, Lakers vs Celtics, Magic vs Bird....

[ 本帖最後由 sunnycch 於 2008-5-23 10:51 AM 編輯 ]

多d交流下吖.
今年 playoff 係近年少有咁緊湊.
YEP, we'll see Spurs vs Lakes in action, LIVE tomorrow morning at PEARL

Thanks Bro Joey.

For all the 5 years I spent in the US for my Tertiary study, NBA was the only TV I kept following and following, I was watching it 5 days a week in my final year.
My writing, both Chinese and English, is sucks in most cases; but it's a flow when it comes to soccer and basketball :p

I like the Spurs, too!  They are a very reliable team when it comes to playoffsl  Don't forget the match up between the two coaches, the Zen Master, Phil Jackson, and the Disciplined, Greg Popovich (who served in US Air Force for years).  The high profiled exciting "showtime" Hollywood LA LA Land vs the boring but reliable San Antonio, even the characters of the players and the coaches fit with the Cities!!!

However, I am a all-time Lakers Fans!

Cheers!!!

真係好為 Celtics 擔心, 作為 Regular Season Best Record 既 Holder, 首兩圈竟然作客 0 得勝, 家陣對住更強更穩定更有經驗既 Pistons已輸掉一主場, 真是....

Don't forget when it comes to playoffs, it's all about defense and experience.  SA has this advantage over LA, Boston and CLE.
However, I'm also quite annoyed (evern though I love to see them win) that for the Lakers' first 2 rounds, 10 games in total, all the winners score much more than 100, only a couple of times that one of the teams scored below 100. This Lakers is a pretty good offensive team for sure, they have several players can shoot the 3, Kobe, Fisher, Walton, Ramdonovic, Vujacic and still have inside games, the beat them you have to slow down their scoring and make it a low scoring game.  
The Spurs can do it, and they did it yesterday, however, these young Lakers still manage to come back and win with both teams scored lower than 90!

Nobody expected they can play that strong and make big jump to the Championship the year 2000, with Phil Jackson newly joined the team as head coach and played Kobe at starter.
Kobe is playing very sophisticated game and with a lot of wisdom this season (he really deserves the MVP). He plays the same position as MJ, he can score like MJ, penetrations, jumpers, drawing fouls, free throws, low post game, defense, passing and etc;  even the mental behavior he copies a lot from MJ; he scores and plays great when he's ill or suffereing light injuries (like MJ too).  He can be silence for half of the game and trust his teamate to run it and explode in the 2nd half.  Just the only missing when compared to the Bulls in the 90's, the inside defense, which the Spurs have a definite advantage of.

I still think this is a long series, LA still might win the second game, but SA will win both at home.... it depends who has the hunger for the ring and who can play in 150% of concentration.

I am worry about the Celtics......

Paul Pierce is not the go to if Celtics want the ring or to build a dynasty...
一個大膽既假設, trade Pierce for LeBrone James or Dwayne Wade!!!

Honestly, if Pierce is good, Celtics wont just be that bad before Garnet and Allen arrive....

NOH was playing good this season, despite Boston, they deserved to be the most improved team.  CP3 was playing good, but why it is Koke because Kobe earn the advantage as a veteran, and he is really a different player when he was KB8.

Why Denver and Utah failed to challenge the LA?  Because they tried to out-score LA, which is not a successful strategy.  Look back how the Bad Boys Detroit Pistons hold up the upcoming MJ's Chicago Bulls -- Jordan's Rule!!!  Defense, slow down the game, foul MJ, disturb their offensive momentum.

Why the hotshot Steve Nash and the Suns kept failing in the playoffs, because Run&Gun never really work in NBA playoffs, except the "Showtime" Lakers in the 80's!!!

只是一個假設, 但 Trade 這種事往往出人以表...
如 Drexler to Houston, Shaq to LA etc etc...
you never know....

I think we had this discussion some 10 months ago....
Ray Allen is the first big question, he is never that kind of Super Star, I had a lot of doubts in his playoff performance, and I still have it.
Paul Pierce is one of the key man for Celtics for years, but he has the talent but not the mental to carry the team.  As I said, if he is good, Celtics should at least stay as a playoff contender in previous years.  Check Kobe, the Lakers were not that bad for the last 3 years
KG is definitely a true all-star, he's a monster with 7-1 but playing as SG for most of his career, but the T-Wolves were never good enough to let him gain a deep playoff experience...

These Big 3 are not that good, cannot compared many other Big 3 once appeared in the League.... say Bird+Mchale+Parish, Magic+Worthy+Jaber, MJ+Pippen+Grant, MJ+Pippen+Rodman, Shaq+Rice+Kobe.... etc

Nowadays, in basketball and soccer, players have all the moves that scoring becomes easy.  Hence, defensive plays (ie able to stop the opponents to score)  become the clue to win Championships.
In the 90's NBA regular seasons is already playoff alike, scoring are just around 100, score diff b/w winner and loser is just around 10; however, some years ago, due to the low scoring avg and low TV rates, the association changed game rules, plus the change of attitude of the players, scoring avg increased to 110+, you'll see lots of games score up to 130+, scoring diff might be 15+, even 20+....
but once it comes to playoff, scoring avg will back to below 100... (that is why I am so surprise that for all those Lakers' postseason games, scoring avg for both teams are still ove 100, even 110).

apologize of the very last line that confused you in that post.  if you checked my blog, I attached a classic matchup pic of Bird & Magic.

I didn't mean to compare any recent rivalries to theirs.  you hardly find one lately, don't you....

we have colleage rivalries of Bird & Magic, MJ and Ewing, and then reunion of Olajuwon and Drexler, Webber and Howard (Fab 5 of Michigan, but it's quite a failure match up while they were in Washington, which just turned to be too much parties and hang around rather than good basketball plays)

Before Game 7,  I really think NOH could beat SAS, really donno why they were miserable at home....

If it is LAL vs NOH, that would be another high scoring series, checking who's going to outscoring who....  

I hope CP3 and NOH can keep up and continue to keep challenge the Title, not become another Mavericks or Timberwolves,  surprised you for a season or two and fell....

咁大口氣???
Spurs 今日既手氣好差....

The Lakers are shooting pretty bad beyond the arc... but how can the Spurs let the go like this inside the paint????
馬刺既內線防守搞乜???

look at the faces of the starters sitting on the SA benches...
you'll never see such faces for a championship team.
I have big question on whether this team really want to defend their championship...