Tonight's playoff thread

by Mike Prada on May 15, 2007 7:52 PM EDT in Game Threads

You can pick up until the end of the first quarter for the first game, because I'm getting it up so slowly.

Here are tonight's lines:

Bulls at Pistons: Pistons by 8.5.
Over/Under on Chauncey Billups' points+assists: 30.

Warriors at Jazz: Jazz by 4.
Over/Under on Deron Williams' fouls: 3.5.

This is an open game thread, so vent about the awful decision to suspend Amare Stoudamire AND Boris Diaw 1 game each here.

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Picks

Pistons and over
Jazz and under

You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.

by Mike Prada on May 15, 2007 7:52 PM EDT reply actions

picks

little late for the fits game but...

Jazz and over

by finkad01 on May 15, 2007 8:20 PM EDT reply actions

i cant read

just read the first line so

pistons and under

by finkad01 on May 15, 2007 8:21 PM EDT up reply actions

PICKS

pistons
under

jazz
over

gman and gwiz should go on tour.

by i love gwiz on May 15, 2007 8:51 PM EDT reply actions

If the Spurs go on to the NBA finals, this will be the most bullshit offseason ever. Horry basically just played the role of Tommy the badguy sidekick from Karate Kid. Flagrantly break the rules with four seconds left, get kicked out, but take the other side out in the process.

What serious team player isn't going to get up from the bench after watching their leader get clubbed like that? If they get into the melee, sure, you've gotta boot them for a game. But this is just crap.

by sierradave on May 15, 2007 9:29 PM EDT reply actions

Totally agree

Now that the NBA has essentially rewarded the type of behavior Robert Horry exhibited, what's to stop a team from sending in a bench guy to take out a star player? You're essentially rewarding dirty play, which puts you right back at square one if you're the league office. Isn't that exactly what they were trying to take away?

You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.

by Mike Prada on May 16, 2007 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions

picks

bulls
under

jazz
under

by steelers1016 on May 15, 2007 10:19 PM EDT reply actions

Not just because i want the suns to finally win

What is going on in professional sports? FIrst Pacman Jones gets suspended for a season for offield incidents, then this. How come hockey players can fight and the refs will not do anything, and it seems like baseball players charge the mound, and then basketball players get suspended at CRUCIAL times.

I want to see the best players play, not sit on the bench.

by steelers1016 on May 15, 2007 10:32 PM EDT reply actions

Suspension

I don't see what the league gains from the Suns suspensions. Horry should have gotten one game, maybe, but taking away two key players from one of the most important games of the year is just ludicrous. And for what? Sure, they may have violated the letter of the rules, but there was no fight, and they didn't do anything. So Stu Jackson practically hands the crucial Game 5 to the Spurs. It's insane.

by Vanilla Gorilla on May 16, 2007 11:36 AM EDT reply actions

Exactly

This was hardly a fight. Lots of people point to the Knicks-Heat example from 98, but that was actually a fight, and the Knick players actually left the bench to participate.

Amare and Diaw were at least 20 feet away from the rest of the crowd, and they get suspended? Huh?

You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.

by Mike Prada on May 16, 2007 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions