Boy, i’m oh so excited to watch Kobe and Shaq each score 40 points a game and steamroll the Nets in 4. :rolleyes:
Damn it did I want Sacramento to win. With the exception of Webber, who looks like he might cry whenever things don’t go his way, I love the whole team. Bibby especially, he and Steve Nash are my two favorite players in the league (outside of my own team, the Sixers, of course). But oh how I despise those cocky, pompous Lakers! Hell, I hate all the dynasty teams, the Yankees, the Redwings, and especially the Duke basketball program. The Celtics are okay at the moment because they haven’t won in a while, but if they win two championships anytime soon they’ll make the shit list too. As for my home team, we haven’t had anything resembling a dynasty since Wilt the Stilt played ball.
Fuck L.A., and all the glitzy, shallow hollywood types, as if they didn’t have enough going for them, they need to win the NBA championship every goddamn year?
bibby can only do so much. peja probably shouldn’t have even played. doug christie couldn’t hit anything either. and webber didn’t take over when it counted, which is par for the course.
suffice it to say, i will not watch any finals games. i like kidd and martin, but i can;t stand the rest of the nets. and i hate the lakers. shaq is the biggest waste of god-given basketball talent (read: size) ever. at least kobe goes out there wanting to win. shaq thinks the league will hand him the title just for suiting up. but you know what? looks like they will this year.
I’ll miss watching Vlade out there. He always looks like he should be playing with a cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth. That phantom sixth foul last night was so terribly painful to watch.
I agree with you both WSLer and downbylaw. I think Marv Albert even said that every game in the series was won by the team with the better FT percentage and the Kings still couldn’t get it done from the line. I like Christie but he was something like 2 for 9 when he bricked an important shot badly late in the fourth, and you are right about Peja he hasn’t played well since the injury and should had sat out. What a disappointment. I wanted to see Kings and Celtics in the finals.
As for Shaq, if I have to hear Bill Walton tell me one more time how he is a “historic” player I will put my foot through the TV.
From a non-biased observer who didn’t really care who won, but just enjoyed the series, I have to disagree with the “phantom” label. Despite what the announcers said (and I do despise the blowhard Walton), the reply clearly showed Vlade pulling back on Kobe’s right shoulder as they went for the ball.
And before anyone starts, I’m not even going to try to defend the officiating in the series. For instance, when Bibby drove baseline and kicked it out to Christy for the brick, Bibby was clobbered by three of four Lakers without call. But, I just wanted to state that I thought that the call on Vlade was justified.