Official 2010 NBA Playoffs Discussion

Doug Collins just said "Big Baby Glen Davis is really battling to get back into shape after that thumb injury"

LA's had injuries, I don't think they've played too many games where they've had a full lineup. Every week there seems to be somebody missing. LA's has played a crazy amount of home games but I would contend that not one team would want to take on their second half of their schedule. I think they have a 8 or 9 game road trip which is just insane.

I think Boston has had a rrrrrrrrrreally easy schedule too. Not as many home games as LA, but they've probably played more crap team's than LA has being in the east. I think there was a stretch between the Orlando games (over one month) where they only played two teams with winning records and in those two team you had one just barely holding themselves above .500(Heat) and the other who hadn't hit their stride yet and were playing like crap (Spurs). Boston's schedule is just now getting tougher but even when the season is all said and done the Lakers will have faced more quality teams playing in the Western Conference.

Are you really trying to say Boston's had a tough schedule? C'mon, Ralpho. I know you're big homer sometimes but you cannot convince me that they've had it tough. Some of those teams mentioned were playing like crap when Boston played them. Cleveland struggled throough the first few weeks, the Spurs played like crap, OKC had a losing record as did Memphis who is just now playing good. You played the Hornets the 1st of NOV before they fired the coach because they were sucking so bad.

The only good teams they've faced when those teams were actually playing good were the Magic, Hawks and the Suns. 7 games and Boston is 1-6 in those games BTW.

Like I said, Lakers schedule has been weak and by that I mean they've played a lot of home games, but I still think they've probably played tougher teams and easily have the worst second half schedule in the league.

wat a horrid loss to the bobcats....still not over that Rockets loss

best game of the season, the Jazz had a rookie who joined the team yesterday from the D-League and played well when Williams went down, the kid ended up making a game winning three after the Jazz tried to chip away at a lead for the NBA 45 second eternity.... big shout out to Mike Brown, blowing this game for the Cavs by drawing up clown in bound plays to get Big Z and LeBron the ball instead of his free throw shooters.

I told you all Jamal Crawford was a team player for years... even when the Knicks were at their worst

I don't know why you'd think that.

When he played for the Knicks he played the same way I've seen him play for Atlanta... play team defense, work the ball and pass it around when it's the right play and when you are hot, shoot the ball. He's always hustled and played hard, always been a team player. He's always tried to get the big men involved. I really don't know why people think negatively of him beyond that he's a gunner when he's hot. That's his game, that's what he's told to do.

He's never ruined any teams or been the focal point of a negative situation. He's never been in trouble. He's never had any team or coach issues that I can remember. He's played out of position or come off the bench more times in his career than he's started and he's never complained or been even a minor issue.

God, we need KG back, that 3rd quarter was disgusting.

Concerning the LeBron not dunking I think you're scraping the bottom of the barrel here. I only say this because you are assuming you know his inner thoughts about a dunk contest. But really, who cares? It's the dunk contest. The guy is in a contract year and probably wants to go all out and can't. You didn't tell us anything except your opinion on why he won't dunk. My opinion is he'd be smart not to in a contract year. If you think it has to do with the spotlight then that's you. I'm sure that's some of it, but this is the dunk contest after all. Aren't spotlights and ego's the number one and two attributes?

Personally I think it's hard not to put him back at number 1 overall individually in the league because of how Cleveland is neck and neck with LA after LA's easy schedule. Everybody made a big deal out of LA starting out tearing it up. Well, apparently Cleveland did too and didn't they BEAT LA? Carmelo is still arguably the best player in the NBA this year, Kevin Durant gets mention but he also still has more help than LeBron and Carmelo in terms of scoring and he cools off some times in the 4th. He's right on the edge of becoming as big of a deal though.

I think KG's prime is over and I also think more people would be talking about the Celtics rebuilding had Paul Pierce not started so well in the first 10 games of so saving their early run and putting them in the position they are in now. Paul Pierce won't get credit in the MVP talks because he missed some time and cooled off at times, but any moron could see what he did at the beginning of the year and know he is the Celtics MVP and what are the Celtics? A top 4 team in the league.

ESPN showed a who's number 1 the other night for dunking, when I watched KG's highlights of Minnesota I realized I forgot how athletic he used to be. I had gotten too used to this current KG.

The Celtics have a good core unit with a good game plan but they need to get him on the court because this year could be it for that core unit. Garnett cant seem to stay healthy or find the spring in his jump.

It's also been about a year or more since I've seen Kevin Garnett jump more than once during a possession and not look like a semi athletic white guy. I haven't seen Kevin Garnett in prime conditioning in a while and that's because every time he gets close and pushes, he seems to get hurt again.

I just don't see how he's going to be strong for the playoffs with the rate he's been going at for a year now. Defensively he'll be fine, but if I'm Orlando or Cleveland, I'm taking it right at him every time, hard.