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Post by stratman19 on Jun 7, 2005 20:28:41 GMT -5
I agree Rocky. This series with San Antonio has at least the potential to be one of the better NBA Finals in the last several years. Here's hoping it goes six or seven games, with the Pistons prevailing.
And forgive the Shanester. While he is my exalted Cobra leader, he obviously doesn't know shit about roundball. ;D
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Post by Meursault on Jun 7, 2005 21:03:35 GMT -5
I agree that both teams deserve to be there, though it was close between the Pistons and the Heat. I think the Phoenix could have done better against San Antonio, but San Antonio have a great team, and Manu Ginobli is all the flash they need, and hell Rasheed Wallace has a championship belt, that's pretty righteous.
Shaquille O'Neal is a great actor btw.
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Post by Meursault on Jun 10, 2005 15:48:27 GMT -5
San Antonio 1, Detroit 0
Rocky, Stratman, how did you feel about game 1?
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Post by rockysigman on Jun 12, 2005 1:57:40 GMT -5
The first quarter was great...
I think I've already supressed the rest of it.
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Post by RocDoc on Sept 23, 2005 19:54:14 GMT -5
 Disappointment at the European championships as the defending champs, Lithuania go down to the snail-eaters, the French, who wiped them up, winning by 16 points on Thursday...shit, I was hoping to get together with some of the local Liths and catch one of those games (evening games in Belgrade Serbia which transposes to mid afternoon here in the States...minus 7 hours) and slam several beers. And now, nothin'.... The bearded guy is a high school buddy of my bro-in-law... |
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Post by rockysigman on Sept 23, 2005 19:57:51 GMT -5
Disappointment at the European championships as the defending champs, Lithuania go down to the snail-eaters, the French, who wiped them up, winning by 16 points on Thursday...shit, I was hoping to get together with some of the local Liths and catch one of those games (evening games in Belgrade Serbia which transposes to mid afternoon here in the States...minus 7 hours) and slam several beers. And now, nothin'.... The bearded guy is a high school buddy of my bro-in-law... Wow, that's surprising. The Lithuanian team looked pretty impressive in the Olympics. I didn't know that anyone played basketball in France other than Tony Parker. |
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Post by RocDoc on Sept 24, 2005 14:40:02 GMT -5
A whole lot of the most important players for the Liths either retired or have just been signed to the NBA... Their main 3-point marksman Arvydas Macijauskas was signed by the New Orleans Hornets (just in time for Katrina, naturally) and he was going to play BUT he sprained his fucking ankle relatively seriously about a week before the Lith national team's training camp was to begin...and he needed 10 days to heal according to the Lith trainers/doctors which would have given him maybe 5 days to spare before going to Belgrade...but the New Orleans management put its foot down and said 'No, stay off the damn foot and don't fool around with this European bullshit'. The guy is going to make HUGE money compared to his pro contract with one of the best of the spanish teams in the Euro league, Ceramica Tau I think it was. Sarunas Jasikevicius promises to make a huge impact with the Indiana Pacers, esp with Reggie whathisname gone and them having more than adequate talent to be a very dominant team...Jasikevicius was THE league MVP of the entire European league while playing with Maccabi Israel. Jasikevicius wasn't forbidden, but pleaded extreme fatigue and said he simply needed a break. Him I can forgive because at that time he was the first out and likely figured they'd still have a pretty good nucleus of a team without him...hah. Zydrunas Ilgauskas, the guy who spent the first 3 years of his contract with the Cavaliers injured with (I think) stress fractures of his feet...full years gone for this guy who had superstar potential. He was the rookie All-Star game's MVP the year he came in BTW... Well, he's never seen fit to play for the national team, in fact he's never even gone back once to visit his home country...interesting what money does. He's a weird dude. Cleveland ALSO this year traded for a 7'3" Lithuanian high school kid, Martynas Andriuskevicius (Martin Anderson, basically) who Orlando (or Miami, I can't remember which) took in the first round of the draft, maybe like 18th overall. He's that highly regarded. So there 2 Lithuanians on the Cavs team this year...I'm not sure why Andriuskevicius didn't play for the national team(would have been his first time) sort of an off-season clause written in which controls his likelihood of being injured playing for some silly national pride-thing... Denver drafted a guy who played for the U of Missouri, Linas Kleiza, who was a superstar there on a very weak team...there was a Thanksgiving day game in which U of MO played a ranked team (Michigan?) and Kleiza scored over 40 points and Mizzou almost upset that team. I had someone at the hrealth club tell me, 'What? You didn't see that Lithuanian almost upset ______ yesterday?? He was on FIRE!' He would've been rook on the national team too, but prob decided to not chance losing the brass ring in the NBA. Then of course the Chicago Bulls (YES!) just signed Darius Songaila away from Sacramento, so here's another Lithuanian who's already been in the NBA for a couple of years, but I feel was WAY underutilized with the Kings, because when he's played for the Lith national team, he was a far more active player, very steady...don't know why he chose not to play this year either. So the NBA will be loaded up with Liths pretty well. But with national team veterans Jasikevicius, Macijauskas and Songaila out and a couple more having retired, everyone in Lithuania was simply praying for maaaybe a fourth place. If that. Lithuanians are a realistic lot and very knowledgeable about b-ball....never could there be a Cubs fan among them.  |
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Post by shin on Oct 24, 2005 0:42:38 GMT -5
If anyone here wants to join a fantasy basketball league, with a draft this Tuesday night, PM me...
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Post by rockysigman on Dec 30, 2005 15:17:13 GMT -5
Time to talk some basketball...oh man...  |
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Post by RocDoc on Dec 30, 2005 16:04:03 GMT -5
Good game last night...
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Post by rockysigman on Dec 30, 2005 21:58:55 GMT -5
And to say nothing of the other 23 games they've won already...
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Post by phil on Dec 30, 2005 22:07:57 GMT -5
Time to talk some basketball...oh man...
The basket should be raised a couple of feet ... !!
Way too easy right now ...
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Post by RocDoc on Dec 31, 2005 13:38:38 GMT -5
THAT looks easy to you?
They beat the shit out of each other to get to one of those 'easy' dunks. Or there's a pin-point pass play...and I've read somewhere that in the league, there's shitload more 3-point shooting (behind that arc that's drawn above the 'key') than there's ever been...
A couple of feet, eh....
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Post by phil on Dec 31, 2005 14:04:50 GMT -5
At least !!
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Post by RocDoc on Dec 31, 2005 14:27:45 GMT -5
I'll mention that to David Stern then...
There's this expert in Quebec...
~
So WhyTF aren't you out on the friggin mountain, Ski-Boy?
I saw 2" fresh snow out there yesterday on my yahoo ski reports...
...and don't gimme no whiny 'But my hip hurts...'
Be a man!
;D
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