I don’t know about this. The Celtics are great. The Lakers are great. But that Bulls team could beat a lot of all star teams. They were REALLY good. I love every year in any sport if a team starts like 3-0 they go, “can they go 73-9?” “Can they go 117-45?” etc.
No. The answer will pretty much always be no.
I hit my first shot in a game the other day. I WAS ON PACE TO NOT MISS A SHOT THE ENTIRE GAME!!! But then I did miss a lot cause Im terrible.
Altho I did lead the a team in NBA live to an 82-0 record in the regular season one year. So there’s that.
I can’t believe how good the Mets are at losing. Amazing. Just A-fuckin-mazing. I’m pretty glad Im not a Met fan. The Sox have a more tortured history, but this is ridiculous. They get a leadoff triple in the bottom of the ninth with the game tied 6-6. They don’t score. Then they lose 9-6.
Ok, now I usually don’t make predictions, but the last time I had a crazy irrational gut feeling like the one I have right now, it was halftime during THE game 4 when I thought, “You know what? We’re F’n winning this game!”
Seriuosly, I had that thought. I almost made a post about it at halftime guaranteeing a win, but then I figured it was a little dishonest because I would just remove it if I was wrong. Anyway: here goes:
Pedro Martinez will throw a No-hitter/perfect game/really good eight innings of baseball tomorrow.
Im giving myself some leeway. Whatev. Deal with it.
Petey is due for a perfect game. It’s gonna be “For the Love of the Game” style. You heard it here first, 20 hours before it even happened.
After Kobe made his first three in the first few minutes he turned to a fan and said, “Not tonight.” Not to try to make myself sound smart (I would never do that!!111!!), but I was happy when those first few shots went in. I told one of my friends that this guaranteed we’d see a Kobe that would jack up a bunch of fadeaways and crappy threes thinking, “but wait, I’ve made these before!” It was kinda like what Bill Belichick said about Freddy Mitchell: “He’s terrible. We were happy when he was in the game.” Kobe’s not terrible, but we are happy when he’s in the game if he’s jacking up crap like he did last night.
Just wanna say, I really have NO confidence in the Celtics to win this thing. I’m scared as hell. What’s a new way they could kick me in the stomach? Get a 3-1 Series lead and then blow it. Thanks pessimistic brain.
I’m really enjoying these finals. So far, at least for me, the Finals have been awesomely great greatlyawesomely great to watch. Game 4 was awesome obviously. The Celtics have a good chance to win the series. So don’t get me wrong here, this is awesome. Have I said awesome enough? It’s June and I haven’t dove head first into the Redsox yet. Should they sign Barry Bonds? I don’t even really care yet! (although the answer is yes)
It’s just that, there is a guy missing here.
Antoine Walker was the man. He was the Celtics. He was there before Paul Pierce, and though we all knew Pierce was better, Antoine was the Celtic player. We loved the Walker Wiggle. We loved how he chucked threes like crazy. We loved it because he played like we all wanted to play. He was a chucker who sometimes got hot, and when he did you didn’t forget it (when you’re hot baby, you’re hot. I still remember this call just because how many times it was played over and over again. Look how when he releases it he KNOWS it’s in). He played like a 7th grader who was 6-9. He frequently led the league in threes attempted, and it wasn’t unusual for him to shoot ten to fifteen 3’s in a game. I remember trying to copy Antoine’s quick release shooting form. It messed up my jumper for like 6 months. He was the king of flip shots in the lane, mostly because they weren’t too different from his normal jumpshot. And yeah, we definitely got mad at him. Why would he shoot soooo many bad threes? But he was kinda like us at that time. Just trying to have fun and slowly learning how to play the right way, we hoped. He was the star of the the only Celtic game I’ve been able to attend. He led a comeback charge late in the game against the Trailblazers by hitting the same threes he had missed before, because he always KNEW he was going to make his next shot. He got hot, but he still came up short. It usually ended up like that.
Then it happened. I was sitting in Spanish class. My friend walks in and goes, “The Celtics just traded Antoine.” What? We knew he was being shopped, but at least for me, I never thought he would actually leave. We were quick to ask for corroboration on the story, after all, we weren’t supposed to use the computers in the lab to get sports news. But it was true. An era was over. The news passed through the school like a bad rumor.
We got Antoine back the next year for a few months. It wasn’t the same, but it was definitely kinda cool. Even though he hadn’t been gone too long it seemed like we were connecting with the past. Here’s a good article about this time (it’s Simmons). But then he left again. He won a title with the Heat, which was great, but since then he’s kinda vanished. He’s toiling in Minnesota, with a few other former Celtics (Al Jeff!). Walker only played in 46 games this year and only averaged 8 points a game. Even more shocking, he only averaged about 4 three point attempts per game.
And now that the Celtics are playing games in June for the first time in my lifetime, he’s not here. He deserved to be here for all he put up with over the years. We never really appreciated him until he was gone.
Everyone was complaining about the freethrow discrepancy. Ok, there were a few calls that went against the Lakers in the first half. The Celtics were being favored. Sure. But by the end of the game, the foul discrepancy was only 28-21. This is not a statistically significant number- that is- just by looking at the numbers we cannot be sure the officials really blew the game. Anecdotally, sure, the Lakers shoulda gotten a few calls, maybe Kobe’s second foul was a little cheap etc. Thing is, people are pointing to the free throw discrepancy. You gotta look at the foul discrepancy, and it was only 7. Also, Radmonovich traveled, and Fisher, what’s the word, molested Paul Pierce to get a steal at the end. Doesn’t completely make up for the calls earlier, but I don’t think the Lakers would have won had the game been called 100% correctly.
Lastly, Kobe indicated in his press conference that the Lakers “learned a few things” (or something) from the fourth quarter that they can use “at Staples.” Right. So wait for the Celtics to not care about the game anymore and then make your wide open shots. Go 7-9 or whatever from three point line. Except spread that over the whole game, that’s like 28-36!! The Lakers are gonna win game three by like 60 points!! Seriously Kobe, in order to get all those shots again you will have to fall behind by 24 again. I’ll take that scenario.
I actually didn’t think I’d be able to stick with my original prediction this long. Celts in 4 is holding up.
…that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
It seems EVERYONE is picking the Lakers. Is this series really that lopsided? I thought it was close, expect some sort of preview/prediction thing later. It’s gotta be close. Maybe the Lakers should be a little favored; I’m just surprised by how much they are favored. I guess we will see.
Basically, the phrase “Beat LA!” has been floating around early and often in the circles I roll with (yeah that’s right, I totally “roll” with “circles”). Anyway… I thought you all would like to know where that phrase actually comes from, and I think you will be surprised.
Firstly let me say, I really like the “Beat LA” chant. It’s simple, to the point, and with everyone yelling it, you can get chills down your spine. It’s kinda like the UC-LA chant that way (I like that chant even though I don’t like UCLA, except I like when they produce bad players on teams that I don’t want to win).
That said, the “Beat LA” chant was not started during the Finals when the Celtics were playing the Lakers. No, it was started when the Celtics were playing the 76ers. The Celtics were getting beat by the 76ers in the garden in game 7 in 1982 (7-8 minutes in you can hear the chant). Remember, at this point in 1982, the Celtics hadn’t played the Lakers in the Finals since 1969. When it became clear that the sixers were going to win, the Celtic fans knew that the sixers were going to play the Lakers in the finals, and they also knew who they supported in that matchup. They chanted “Beat LA” at the sixers, demanding that they beat the hated Lakers for them. They didn’t succeed however, the Lakers won in six. The next year the sixers would sweep the Lakers, in case you were wondering.
So yeah, the chant has slowly been adopted so it can be used when the Celtics play the Lakers, but it didn’t originate that way. I originated due to the sarcastic/witty/honest boston garden crowd.
Lastly, a sidenote, during that series the fans also started their famous “See you Sunday” chant. Sunday was the day of game 7. They chanted this during game 5 while down 3-1 in the series. This chant would’ve been more legendary had the Celtics won game 7.
Everyone remembers the first time, whether it’s 2002 Pats-Rams, 2004 sox-cardinals, or sixth-grade behind the swingset (just kidding).
This is gonna be awesome. Im not sure if Im gonna be able to go to game 2 like I wanted, but either way,this is awesome. And I don’t care that Im basically talking to myself right now.
Here are a few highlights to reminisce about before this series starts. (And yeah this first one probably should’ve been a Laker win, but I will take it!
Those, I believe, were both back in 2001-2002, when the Celtics could’ve met the Lakers in the Finals if the celts had beaten the Nets. Of course, while the Celtics won both in the regular season (again, I think these were the same season), they probably would’ve been swept.
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he chucked threes like crazy. We loved it because he played like we all wanted to play. He was a chucker who sometimes got hot, and when he did you didn’t forget it (
way, we hoped. He was the star of the the only Celtic game I’ve been able to attend. He led a comeback charge late in the game against the Trailblazers by hitting the same threes he had missed before, because he always KNEW he was going to make his next shot. He got hot, but he still came up short. It usually ended up like that.
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