2011-2012 NBA Season

[UMFan83]

OKC gets a big steal there. They need more.

 

You mean THABO got a huge steal. That's my boy. Good draft pick by Pax even though the majority of his career is with another team. (and traded Thabo essentially for Taj Gibson)

[SpongeWorthy]

Why did the ref feel compelled to call a block there?

[Soul]

Blah blah blah.

[Splendid Splinter]

Haha... When Westbrook was shooting that 3, I thought Erik was coming out to guard him.

[SpongeWorthy]

Durant black holed a few possessions down the stretch. Make correct basketball plays like Lebron!

[CubColtPacer]

How was that not a double dribble/carry on LeBron on the Harden play? Harden pokes it away, LeBron gets it back. He then takes a dribble, an obvious pause with the ball in his hands, then the ball goes down again. I know the NBA is lax about that rule, but they aren't usually anywhere near that lax.

[UMFan83]

OKC gets a big steal there. They need more.

 

You mean THABO got a huge steal. That's my boy. Good draft pick by Pax even though the majority of his career is with another team. (and traded Thabo essentially for Taj Gibson)

 

Whoops, a little too premature in my Thabo praise.

[PosterToBeNamedLater]

How was that not a double dribble/carry on LeBron on the Harden play? Harden pokes it away, LeBron gets it back. He then takes a dribble, an obvious pause with the ball in his hands, then the ball goes down again. I know the NBA is lax about that rule, but they aren't usually anywhere near that lax.

They are with him. He and wade are allowed to travel at will. And I am not just talking on drives. Wade gets to switch his pivot foot all the time. He blatantly did it a minute or two after they called it on Thabo early in the game. The NBA and its rules on traveling feel like the NCAA and going after the big schools. Kentucky pays $200k for a player... hit middle tennessee state with some violations.

[Soul]

Thunder better win next game or they're done.

[Splendid Splinter]

How was that not a double dribble/carry on LeBron on the Harden play? Harden pokes it away, LeBron gets it back. He then takes a dribble, an obvious pause with the ball in his hands, then the ball goes down again. I know the NBA is lax about that rule, but they aren't usually anywhere near that lax.

 

It's just as bad with the 3 or 4 steps travel when a guy from the 3 pt line put his head down or does a spin move and goes towards the basket. Patrick Ewing made a HoF career out of this with his running hook shot.

[PosterToBeNamedLater]

How was that not a double dribble/carry on LeBron on the Harden play? Harden pokes it away, LeBron gets it back. He then takes a dribble, an obvious pause with the ball in his hands, then the ball goes down again. I know the NBA is lax about that rule, but they aren't usually anywhere near that lax.

 

It's just as bad with the 3 or 4 steps travel when a guy from the 3 pt line put his head down or does a spin move and goes towards the basket. Patrick Ewing made a HoF career out of this with his running hook shot.

I don't really get when that becomes OK in the player's mind. I am certainly a nobody when it comes to basketball, but I would feel completely awkward with taking even 3 steps. When does it become OK in your mind to take 4 regularly and sometimes 5 steps on drives to the basket?

[CubColtPacer]

How was that not a double dribble/carry on LeBron on the Harden play? Harden pokes it away, LeBron gets it back. He then takes a dribble, an obvious pause with the ball in his hands, then the ball goes down again. I know the NBA is lax about that rule, but they aren't usually anywhere near that lax.

 

It's just as bad with the 3 or 4 steps travel when a guy from the 3 pt line put his head down or does a spin move and goes towards the basket. Patrick Ewing made a HoF career out of this with his running hook shot.

 

Yeah, and in this case the result isn't nearly as bad because Miami gained no advantage on the play. It just looks so odd when there's such a long time between dribbles on a play like that which makes it more obvious IMO. But after looking it over again, his palm wasn't obviously under the ball at any point. The strange part was that the ball stopped when his hand was touching it on the side, and then his hand had to move back to the top of the ball to dribble again. So it certainly looks like a violation, but I don't know if it technically is.

[Magnetic Curses]

i do not want to bow before the golem

[Formerly Snayke]

Oh this is fun.

[Formerly Snayke]

Wade goes from rolling around like someone shot him to pretending he was fouled on a shot. What a player.

[PosterToBeNamedLater]

Wade goes from rolling around like someone shot him to pretending he was fouled on a shot. What a player.

So pretty much the two typical Wade plays then?

[Formerly Snayke]

Thunder have nobody but Westbrook and Durant.

[wolf stansson]

LeBron with a quad cramp. The Pentagon has upgraded the Paul Pierce wheel chair threat level to: Yellow.

[ChiCubsFan]

Gross

[bcl412]

This series has felt like the Eastern Conference Finals from last year.

[Formerly Snayke]

The last 90 seconds for OKC were just hideous. Two bad possessions by Westbrook and a no-call on Durant.

[Formerly Snayke]

What was Harden thinking?

[ChiCubsFan]

I remember when James Harden was good at basketball.

[Formerly Snayke]

I remember when James Harden was good at basketball.

 

He's quite the liability, but dear god, why was he not shooting?

[Soul]

I think this series is over.