Official 2011 NBA Playoff Thread

[West1]

Can't wait for tonight myself. Lakers are a very good Road Team.
I think the games will be decided from our bench, if no ones scores then it's going to be a L O N G day (guessing Lamar will start). If they show up, we get the "W".

If Lamar starts, I hope to see Atrest come off the Bench in Game4... Will be interesting

Go Los Lakers!!!

 

[deangelo]

can't wait guys. i'm excited about tonight's game. i've always loved kobe on the road in the playoffs.

can we trade pau gasol back for marc gasol though? no one has frustrated me more this playoff.

i thought the six man of the year played for our team....the jet outplaying him?

Terry isn't out playing Odom, Odom has more responsibilities than terry, first he got to guard dirk and rebound, bring the ball up, be the primary playmaker on the second unit during the 2nd and 3rd quarters..

while all terry's role on the mav's is to pop and spot up..he guards nobody cause the mav's play a half baked man zone, doesn't need to rebound and does'nt need to bring the ball up for the mav's or create plays..

Terry is a one dimensional player for the mav's while odom needs to be a swiis army knife for the Lakers to make up for Gasol's dissapearing act

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

huh? LO at small forward? personally, i don't see phil messing with the rotation of 7 footers. i've always wondered why in crunch time he didn't put all 3 of them on the floor when defensives rebounds are critical and you're going to call time out when you get the ball back though. or when it's a drawn up play for kobe and they can get some tip ins

deangelo...i didn't say terry was playing odom.i'm saying terry is having a better series. if we were voting for 6th man of the year off of the last 2 games, we'd have given it to terry. i do see your point though

personally i like my 6th men to be scorers. J.R. smith, jason terry, jamal crawford and oj mayo are my fav 6th men. i just want em to come off the bench and score in bunches

 

[deangelo]

huh? LO at small forward? personally, i don't see phil messing with the rotation of 7 footers. i've always wondered why in crunch time he didn't put all 3 of them on the floor when defensives rebounds are critical and you're going to call time out when you get the ball back though. or when it's a drawn up play for kobe and they can get some tip ins

deangelo...i didn't say terry was playing odom.i'm saying terry is having a better series. if we were voting for 6th man of the year off of the last 2 games, we'd have given it to terry. i do see your point though

personally i like my 6th men to be scorers. J.R. smith, jason terry, jamal crawford and oj mayo are my fav 6th men. i just want em to come off the bench and score in bunches

I never said terry playing LO...outplaying as a 6th man i meant

How can terry not have a better series than L.O when all he does and seems to do is shoot..I'd like to see him guard somebody

With a guy like Dirk who commands double teams and kidd who is a master of drive and dish how hard is that??

The terry role on the Lakers should have been shannon brown, instant offense and a spark plug..he was doing good at the start of the year just like pao I don't know what happened to those guys now..

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

all i know is terry's finger prints are on the game regardless of systems...odom has not left his finger prints. tell me you wouldn't take terry on our team right now? lol

 

[West1]

Lol, yes LO as a SM forward and let gasol/odom switch guarding Dirk.
I feel good about this game and in a weird way feel more comfortable playing away.

 

[deangelo]

all i know is terry's finger prints are on the game regardless of systems...odom has not left his finger prints. tell me you wouldn't take terry on our team right now? lol

I wouldn't really


too small for a SG, too shoot first for a PG, a mismatch on defense..


I'd rather take my chances on JR smith, Harden, crawford for a 6th man..


It's all about dirk for the Last 2 games for the Mav's..If terry has fingerprints Dirk has his colored picture on the last 2 games


GM1 terry scored 15 pts., odom had 15 pts. and 12 rebounds

terry shot 6-10, odom 5-10 both played 30 mins.

I'd take Odom for game 1 against terry

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

you aren't going to include game 2?

terry can just guard kid or the matrix, how hard could that be? i doubt he'd be any more a realiablity then Fisher

 

[deangelo]

Lol, yes LO as a SM forward and let gasol/odom switch guarding Dirk.
I feel good about this game and in a weird way feel more comfortable playing away.

this is a series in which the Lakers miss Ariza, he would be more effective against a dirk cause he gets in the passing lanes, is longer and has quick hands a better spot up game than artest or even barnes now

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

check terry's plus/minus for game one also

if you go small on dirk, he'd just take him in the paint. dirk is perfectly taking whatever you're giving him. you go big he goes outside, you go small he goes inside. ariza would be no help

he did the same thing in round one where portland would try to mix up lamarcus aldridge, gerald wallace and nic batum. Batum would be the closes comparison to ariza. it didn't work