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Dwyane Wade Brings His Best to Cap Off Comeback Trilogy
What a difference a week makes. Dwyane Wade scored only 5 points in Miami’s first game in Indiana, en route to a 75-94 defeat. Chris Bosh out; LeBron James without any help. The Pacers actually looked like the better team and sudden favorites to win the series.
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Nothing Wrong With Some Dirtiness in the NBA Playoffs
It’s hard to speak in favor of violence without coming out as a complete villain or douche, but it’s hard to argue about the fact that people love seeing athletes go at each other. Udonis Haslem hit Tyler Hansbrough instead of blocking him for what the Pacers Forward did to Dwyane Wade earlier on. Retaliation, in the right kind of limits, isn’t something to be frowned upon.
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Nothing to do With Basketball (Celtics vs 76ers)
For the Philadelphia 76ers to win this series, to win any game against better teams, they need to forget about playing basketball. They needed to play ugly and simply mess up the game, hoping to come out on top in the scuffle. Allen Iverson set the spark the lighted the fans that pushed them to a 82-75 game 6 win, giving us a final, seventh game in Boston.
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Kevin Durant & Russell Westbrook Ready to Make Thunder the New Western Conference Dynasty
Usually, when young teams rise in hope for contending for the NBA title, they have to go through the old guard. Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant didn’t just go through the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks. They ripped them to pieces, en route to meet the San Antonio Spurs.
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With LeBron James and Dwyane Wade Playing Like This, The Pacers Have No Chance
The Indiana Pacers lost their focus; They lost their respect for the Miami Heat. On the way they lost Danny Granger, who’s trash talking and behavior only infuriated the Heat in the last two games, pushing LeBron James and Dwyane Wade to play like the best duo in the NBA and on the planet.
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Kobe Bryant Faces Reality – Lakers Aren’t That Good
Kobe Bryant and the Lakers have been here before. Five years ago to be exact. They know they have one great player, but the team around him, built to grant him yet another championship ring, isn’t good enough, and crumbled around him in the few moments he tried to get a breather.
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Rajon Rondo Responsible For Making Celtics Look This Good
Sounds easy enough – Don’t let Rajon Rondo drive into the paint. Just focus all your defensive energy on that, and you’ll be fine right? The Philadelphia 76ers were good as long as they had the hot hand going for them in the first half. Afterwards? Rondo and Brandon Bass just tore their defense to shreds, giving the Celtics a 3-2 lead in the Eastern Semi Finals.
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Tim Duncan Made it Look Easy; San Antonio Spurs Prepared For Much Tougher Conference Finals
The Clippers didn’t make it easy in Game 4, with Chris Paul having his best game of the series. But it wasn’t enough. Tim Duncan missed the conference finals too much apparently, and the Spurs just have too much depth and basketball to get beaten by a one dimensional team like the Clippers. Nearly a month of playoff time, and the Spurs are still undefeated.
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Heat Need LeBron James & Dwyane Wade to Play Like This All the Time
This is what people people expect LeBron James and Dwyane Wade to do every game. To tell you to the truth? This is what they’ll have to do to make it out of this series and for the Miami Heat to get through the Indiana Pacers and anyone else they might come across in the postseason.
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Kobe Bryant Can’t Beat Durant & Westbrook in a Duel
Kobe Bryant scoring 38 points and the rest of the starting five in double figures. Sounds awfully familiar to Game 3. On the other side, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook combined for 68 points, the Thunder’s defense clamped up in crunch time and Durant showed Bryant how it’s done when the game’s on the line.