Archive for June, 2009

As the decade is coming to a close it is time to ask the all important question…who is the team of the decade? Looking at the NBA’s history, almost each decade can be defined by a team. In the 50′s it was the Minneapolis Lakers led by the NBA’s first great big man, George Mikan who dominated, winning four championships of the ten. The 60′s were clearly the Celtics decade. Bill Russell, Bob Cousy and Red Auerbach dominated the decade winning nine of the ten titles to be had, in what still is the most impressive run in NBA history. [...]

Even though these guys would probably go 81-1 if they were on the same team, they’re still pussies… 10)  LeBron James – King James might be the best player in the league, but not shaking hands after losing a series is bush 9)    Andrew Bynum – After coming back from his knee injury Bynum played without a heart, soul or pulse 8)    Manu Ginobli – One half of the Flop Brothers 7)   Anderson Varejao – Side Show Bob is the other half of the Flop Brothers 6)   Dirk Nowitzki – Great shooter for a 7-footer, but Dirk rarely ventures into [...]

Well there you go, it’s in the books offically. Lakers took the title this year their 15th in franchise history. The Magic put up some fight, won a game and took two to overtime but the Lakers had the right mix to defend Dwight straight up (for the most part) as well as defend the Magic’s perimeter attack. Offensively the Lakers were able to exploit their mismatches and Kobe just simply wouldn’t be denied. As far as Game Five is concerned didn’t really seem like Dwight or Hedo were really keyed in. This was really the Lakers night though. How [...]

10)  Paul Westphal – When Sacramento starts next season 7-22 the Maloofs could sneak look-alike Henry Winkler onto the bench and nobody would know the difference.  Bad hire Suckramento. 9)    Stan Van Gundy – How does Captain Panic not instruct his team to foul in the final seconds of Game 4? 8)    Mike Brown – COY (Coach of the Year) to the unemployment line in less than a month?  We’ll see… 7)    Lawrence Frank -  Every time I see him he strikes me as a ball boy in a cheap suit with a receding hairline 6)    Michael Curry – Detroit was a complete [...]

Today is just going to be a quick edition as I plan to go more into detail with some of the subjects being touched upon… – First of all, story of the game..Derek Fisher. There is much more being written about him and giving him his due (check this out). All I’ll say is I said it last night..somewhere, Bill Raftery was screaming “Onions!”…maybe even a double order. Huge take and make. Thats why DFish is a winner. And if there ever was a time for him to break out the testicles dance, that was it. – It has been [...]

Revisiting the past 10 Game Fours of the NBA Finals… 1999 – Spurs 96 – Knicks 89 Spurs take 3-1 series lead over Knicks. Twin towers combine for 35 rebounds. 2000 – Lakers 120 – Pacers 118 High scoring affair gave the Lakers 3-1 series lead. Shaq goes for 36 and 21. Reggie hits six three’s on way to 35 points. 2001 – Lakers 100 – Sixers 86 Once again Lakres take a 3-1 series lead in Game Four. Iverson led Sixers an example of how down the east was that year. Beside Iverson the other four starters: Old Mutombo, Aaron [...]

The Magic pulled one out in Game Three. As I expected they did so using an onslought of shooting, posting a sizzling 62.5% from the field. Read off of a tweet from @espndb, The Magic were the first team to have five players score 18+ in a Finals game since ’95 when Rockets did it against the Magic. So it was a special offensive night from the Magic. Despite that the Lakers still had shots to tie or win the game at the end and credit the Magic defense for coming up with stops when they needed them. Onto the thoughts. [...]

To quote Sir Chuck…”A playoff series doesn’t officially start until someone wins a game in the other persons building.” Thats where we are at today on the eve of Game Three. As I said in my previous post, what the Lakers did was basically hold serve and protect homecourt. The pressure is now on the Magic to do the same. Lets take a look back at how each team has fared thus far in the playoffs..the Lakers on the road and the Magic at home. First the Magic at Home in the 2009 Playoffs: In the first round against the Sixers [...]

(Hello, my name is Justin DeFeo. I am 23 and live in NJ. I am the Co-Lead blogger for SCIC. I was previously blogging at Hoopennium, but will now be doing my work here. I hope you enjoy my stuff and I promise to bring it like the Round Mound of Rebound himself!) During the course of watching the NBA Finals or any game for that matter, I do a pretty simple thing. Besides reading along with professional NBA analysts Twitters, just like hundreds over others do, I open up Windows Notepad..and while I’m watching the game, if I see [...]