The Perpetual NBA Thread

[Eismann]

What if Amare returns? Would that be the end of the MAVS finals dream kaya? Hmmm....

[ILuvDetailing]

Return this season? highly unlikely... the Suns have around 80million reasons not to rush Amare back.

[mazdamazda]

his fantasy ranking thing is quite annoying actually, i can't believe he popped amare into the top 50 based on his speculated return lang...

are you talking about brandon fuston (yahoo fantasy)? the one who placed amare in the top 20 big board just after playing 1 game? hehe.

and... shaq is on the bubble! hehehe... what gives?

[theveed]

ah yes, sorry wrong guy heeh

[BlueBimmer]

dokleng un hahaha

[ILuvDetailing]

I can understand the Amare thing, having 20pts and around 10rebs in his first game back will certainly put a smile on his fantasy owners (specially if you picked him up off the waivers).

Owning Shaq has its benefits however there is a silver lining, his FT% is atrocious, he can singlehandedly loose your FT% battle, plus he has a rather high TO rate for a bigman. No longer a nightly 20-10 monster he used to be. FG% is nice to go with good reb #s and around a block or two per.

[Eismann]

Will Raja play? Mavs beat the Suns playing small ball D in Game 3...If Raja is out again, PHO is in deeper sh.t today.

[ILuvDetailing]

AFAIK, Raja is still out, he's still not cleared by the medical staff to run or jump. If he's unable to go, bad news for Phoenix.

[Eismann]

Looks like it....but PHO is up early ha. Ok, looks like D'Antoni figured out Dallas small ball D in the early goings.

[Eismann]

Teka Bell is in the game......so much for D' Antoni's ingenuity.

[theveed]

Bell is in? Eh sya nagsabi na di sya pwede hehe, psy-war??

This series is becoming a Marion - Dirk, Diaw - Howard, Nash - Terry cancel-out series... So mga ibang players ang difference makers hehe.

Phoenix up by a dozen... Seems like if Barbosa plays aggressively, the Dallas defense changes dramatically.

[theveed]

Phoenix up by 23 with 5mins remaining. Diaw and Barbosa leads the way. Holding Dallas down to 71 points.

Dirk 3/13 shooting, Terry 4/11, Stack 4/10... Whole team shooting
40% vs. Pho 56% FG... TO 14 to 6... Blocks 1 to 7... Phoenix is dominating defensively.

[Eismann]

Galing ng team mo bro, 'tip my hats to PHO. Series tied 2-2, Off-night si Dirk and Leandro is carving out a higher contract for himself...damn.

[theveed]

KURT THOMAS PLAYS HIS FIRST PLAYOFF GAME THIS SEASON!!!

Pinasok with 4mins left... Dallas will have a great rebounder and defender to contend with next game.

[ILuvDetailing]

Great series.

[theveed]

This is a BLOWOUT... not even close... Suns almost buried Dallas by 30 if they didn't pull out all the starters and plug in Burke, Thomas, House etc...

Eddie House pops in and drops 8 points in 12mins as well...

ROLE PLAYER OF THE NIGHT

Udonis Haslem – The Heat power forward played a solid game, making six of 10 shots and giving space to Wade and O'Neal with his outside shooting. But Haslem's game is about much more than making shots. He is the "heart and soul" of the team, according to coach Pat Riley, who cites Haslem's defense and rebounding as being critical to the team's success. Haslem rotated to help out on Hamilton, who tried to work himself free off screens but constantly found Haslem in his way. Haslem's work – and that of the entire Miami defense – slowed Hamilton to a 4-of-15 shooting night.

I agree, when Udonis plays well (and he usually does, if you had him sa fantasy, 50-60%FG and double-doubles aren't uncommon with his garbage-bucket style playing), Miami is tough to beat, he gives Shaq more leeway and relieves him from going after rebounds all the time.

As coach of the T'wolves, Saunders once had seven straight first-round playoff exits. Never mind that his teams were always heavy underdogs -- he still took criticism for not getting them to the next level. Anything short of a title this season and he's going to face those old slings and arrows again.

Privately, throughout the locker room, the players will tell you they dislike Saunders' emphasis of zone defense, which goes against their preferred manly version of man-to-man. There is a distinct lack of respect.

... While it is Wallace's job to go all out all the time, it is also a coach's job to foster an environment that makes it happen.

Larry Brown knew it, and that is why – despite his constant sideshow of drama – he never lost his locker room.

Hmm, It'll be incredible if a coach of a 64win team gets fired after a season... But it seems like crumbles in the Playoffs.

[empy]

ibang klase talaga tong Suns...D'Antoni must make them shoot 1000 jumpshots and 500 threes every practice...give them 5 inches and it's 3's in your face. of course, they get the ball open and in rhythm all night courtesy of mr. Nash

[baiskee]

lupet... umuulan ng 3s! patay miami dito. tsk..tsk..tsk..

[theveed]

Actually Suns only hit 7 3s, that's not even a high number for them, that's how much they shot the last game as well...

They actually hit 10 during their game 2 loss and they hit an average of 13 3s during their wins against the Clips...

With Miami's shady perimeter D, they'll need to plug in POSEY more and leave Walker out hehe... The Sun's will cream them (like the regular season) outside if Shaq doesn't dominate and Wade doesn't foul out all the Sun's defenders.

[theveed]

Oh... Based on the two Mia-Pho meetings...

Phoenix shot 13 3s (that's a whopping 78points from behind the arc!) EACH OF THE TWO GAMES and won... Other than Dwade, none of the other Heat players were able to cope with the pace. Shaq scored 8 points during one of those games, playing a total of 23 mins only.

Miami lost big to Dallas as well during the regular season... Although Shaq didn't play in one of them. They gave up 11 and 8 3s respectively while shooting just 2 3s of their own in total.

Both games were blowouts, one of them was 112-76 (with Shaq and Wade)