I want a Boston LA Finals just too see the Lakers put the nail in Celtics coffin and get a ring and silence there gay Fans. The Lakers have been playing better defense keeping opponents below 90 points I think it was since the season started.

I want too see Boston loose. David Stern wont allow Detroit to go all the way for rating purposes.

Kobe will not loose this time around. His mental psych wont allow it. Phil wont allow it. What a blow to his reputation if they got swept lol. Oh Boy, run to Greece asap.

BTW MLSE should have offered 10 million, plus Peddie’s wife, a Lear jet and snag Joe Dumars in 2006 instead of Fucking GQ Editor who thinks he can run a franchise but doesn’t have a clue.

With Dumars Today where a conference finals team and set for life

The Pistons were very good defensively tonight.

Their roster is much deeper and much better than many others realize.

Using Prince as their situational PG is a 1st-class coaching move by Michael Curry. In conjunction with Stuckey and Iverson, at that spot, this team is now as deep and talented as any in the League.

What’s hilarious … is that some misguided souls in the hoops blogosphere did not think that Kwame Brown was going to be a solid off-season addition to the Pistons team this year, on account of how poorly they thought he played for the Lakers at times last season and in Washington before that. LOL

The fact is … this Pistons team is a very different situation than either of those two other outfits … and there are only a few BIGS in the League today with Kwame’s unique skill set, at his age & size.

Kwame’s play tonight was, indeed, one of the Keys to the Pistons’ terrific performance … as was Arron Afflalo’s.

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From LA’s perspective … they were due for a poor game; didn’t shoot it very well at all, and should be able to use this game as a positive motivator for their next stretch of contests.

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There are soooooo many good teams in the NBA right now it’s a treat to be a hoops aficionado.

Now, I didn’t see the game, but were these numbers because of Detroit’s incredible defense, or because LA was just playing really poorly tonight? I mean, it looks like Kwame Brown outplayed Bynum…

Additionally, lol at Kobe – 29 points on 30 FGA? My god… This will give the “LeBron vs. Kobe” war some ammunition.

Fisher/Kobe/Vujacic were terrible. Actually got to the point that i didn’t want kobe shooting the ball. I love vujacic, but i think last season might have been more of a revelation than a sign of things to come.

Pistons vs Lakers … in June … is going to be one heckuva of a NBA FINAL.

I saw Boston/Denver before this. Note to Mitchell: Notice how Carmelo wasn’t used as a decoy. Plus, give me JR Smith on this team. I’ll take the craziness as long as he brings the athleticism and the clutch three point shooting.

The Lakers’ onslaught has been coming in the 2nd half in their last few games, when they get into their bench for the 2nd time and their opponents just haven’t been able to stay with them.

Of the teams they’ve played so far … Detroit actually matches up with their bench the best …

for example, using the line-up on the court right now:

1/Prince, 2/Iverson, 3/Rip, 4/Brown-K & 5/Rasheed

and might throw a scare into LA tonight, until deep into the 4th Q … before the Lakeshow finally takes advantage of Will Bynum and puts the Pistons the away for good.

1. Sometimes a key to helping a team improve isn’t going to a new set play per se but learning how to do a better job with the set plays that are in the playbook already. You’ve noticed correctly that THE difference in what I’ve proposed is WHO the players actually are, on the court with one another, not the play itself.

Although many people think that Moon & Graham can’t shoot the ball very well … the fact is those people are wrong.

e.g. http://nba.com/hotspots

2. Please notice that (ii) is not exactly the Wing ‘iso’ that the Raptors like to run for Bosh, where he steps out to the perimeter [from the block] on the Right side of the floor. It’s an iso in the Low Post or from a mid-range spot.

3. You’re correct … having Hump’s energy in that Weak Side Rebounding position is a different beast entirely than having either Bargnani of O’Neal there!!! … and, when you put players like Graham in the L-Corner and Moon in the L-TOTK, where they can both (a) shoot the ball effectively and (b) use their athleticism to crash the boards on CB4’s missess [with their individual defenders in a 'sagging off'] … the Offensive Rebounding numbers for this group-of-5 would be significantly higher than they are right now … i.e. when the Raptors run this same play with a combination of Parker, Moon & Kapono in those two spots.

Detroit is so fucking tough and don’t back down from anyone. Lakers are 7-0 and does Detroit give a shit about there record? No, there laying the smack down.

Anthony Parker and Moon would be shitting there pants before the plane lands. There so mentally soft its embarrasing.

What a plan! BC would be crazy not to follow it! Wow! I am so amazing! I should be the GM!

I’d just like to give props to the mens the put this production together. A few years ago, there wasn’t too much fantastic raps material around, on the web and otherwise…raptorblog was a very welcome addition but I yearned for more raps reads to feed my terrible addiction, as carefoot had/has a tendency to get fucking lazy (ie. has a wife, a kid and other jobs, that is to say, a life..and thats good for him), So, the quality articles that pop up and the readers that pop off are just what a creepy raps observer/hesitant contributer needs.

this is all to say. sick fucking site quite the discourse you’ve started here.

gunshot!

Do we have the players to pull it off? Me thinks no.

The other problem I’ve seen with the iso this year (and I posted this at Grange, so sorry if you’re already seen it) is that when Bosh misses, the ball rims weakside or into the paint, meaning it’s an easy D-board for the defending squad (though good offensive rebounders often can take advantage of weakside positioning). The only way I’ve seen around this (because Bosh has enough skill to use the iso effectively so we shouldn’t drop the play) is that someone needs to stick a probe up Moon’s arse and as soon as Bosh releases the shot, the probe goes off and Moon realizes it’s time to crash the boards instead of watching the shot, hopefully picking up O-boards that pop directly out into the paint. Having Hump out there to fight his man for position will also help to pick up some O-boards on the weakside. The other three have to get the hell back though to defend against possible fast break points off outlet passes.

Sorry for the long posts guys, but I’m agreeing with alot of people that the talent the Raps have right now is what they have, and the only way this team improves is through better execution. They’ve got limited offensive plays, we might as well see how they can run them better.