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"NBA Finals"

I know there's a few NBA fans around here so thought i'd do a playoff final thread where we can talk about the finals or just the beautiful game of basketball itself.

So we have the mighty, unbeatable, super talented Los Angeles Lakers vs the...... ahem ...... Detroit Pistons.

The quartet of Kobe, big diesel, the glove and the mailman vs the defensive powerhouse of Ben Wallace and the jailbait of Rasheed Wallace with Richie Hamilton starting to show up when it matters at the final dance.

On paper the Lakers should walk this series easy and with the first 2 games in LA if we win both of those than that should happen. Detroit will probably be looking to snatch a win in those games to take back to Detroit for the 3 home game stretch, which if they manage to win one of the first two games could make the series a little more tricky for the Lakers then it should be.

Of course the west could just smash the east as they've done for many years now, which i of course will hope happens :-D

I love Basketball yet never get a chance to see it. I occasionally watch it at half 3 in the morning. Lalakers are a good attacking team. Kobe is a fast good shooter and is at his peak at the moment in my opinion.

I used to love watching the Globetrotters who were a skillful team that actually played as a team and not individuals.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHA!

Lakers are a joke.

But let's not be harsh, Lakers are bigger than just a joke. Clearly the people playing in those games hadn't heard of the word tactics, because they screwed it up royally.

I guess Detroit deserved to be labelled "the winners of the series" though.

We didn't give Shaq the ball enough in game 1 - we lost
We gave Shaq the ball in game 2 - we won
Then for the rest Kobe decided he was going to do it all himself and we lost every single one.

Game 4 was the one that annoyed me the most, any game where Shaq scores 36 points is one we should win easily, not lose.


Detroit didn't win the series the Lakers threw it away. It was theirs for the taking and everyone but Shaq decided they didn't want it.

Sometimes they didnt even give Shaq the ball...

I told you we'd win. :-D

Lakers were extremely disappointing. In the playoff finals section they played like Real Madrid did the whole season. Get the ball to Ronaldo and hope that he can get a goal. Except that instead of Ronaldo they have the Shaq.

Exactly like that.

Basketball's a funny old game, we beat the Rockets with the towering Yao and the franchise quite easily, then we beat the defending champs quite easily as well after deciding to show up after game 2 and then we beat the best team in the league with the MVP then we go on to lose to the eastern team. Well i say we but i don't have a clue what team showed up for these finals, there was Shaq (who should have been MVP not Billups) and then 4 other people they must have picked up outside in the parking lot. Kobe appeared for game 2 then disappeared again obviously off to his court case and the rest were desperately poor. A fine example of this is looking at the points averages:

Shaq - 26.6
Kobe - 22.6
Fisher - 6.4

It's no good if only Shaq and Kobe play well, the supporting cast need to do their job which they didn't.


Very poor defeat, wholesale changes for next season needed. Shaq is the only one worth keeping. I'd rather have him in my team than Kobe. Give him a new contract then trade Kobe off to either Philly for Iverson or Orlando for McGrady. Then maybe we'll have a team that doesn't make the Dutch team look in perfect harmony

Nice and easy 4-1, should have been 4-0 if not for a piece of magic from Bryant.

No team has lost the title after taking a 3-1 lead, Come on Detroit.

Malone is injured anyway isn't he? But he's had a few days off compared to 1 so we'll see.. they really need thie game.

I think this is where the Finals will be won. If Detroit win and go 3-1 up i really can't see the Lakers pulling it back, especially with the way they've been shooting this series. (and there was me thinking the main worry would be our defence) If Lakers win and regain the home court then at 2-2 i can see them storming the next 2 games. This for all intents and purposes is the final game tonight, i just hope the rest of the Lakers can finally show up for this series because Shaq can't do it all on his own. I would have thought finally getting that ring would have been all the incentive Malone and Payton needed to play out of their skins but they just can't seem to be bothered. If they start contributing then the Pistons have no chance.