Comments on: NBA Playoffs: Thunder learning lessons. The hard way.

By: purdueman

purdueman — Wed, 25 May 2011 03:50:23 +0000

dirty… I’d take Wade on the Bulls in a heart beat, but even though good as he may be, you can have classless La BUM. Coffee is for closers; La BUM ain’t no closer without Wade, Bosh and Haslin carrying his bags.

The Heat just basically eliminated the Bulls a few minutes ago, but I’m ok with that because it will put ENORMOUS pressure on Bulls management to finally bring in a legitimate 2 (shooting), guard to complement Derrick Rose.

Rose is only 22 you know… a babe by NBA standards, and for him as well as the rest of the Bulls 10 rotation players, this is only their first experience in the pressure packed NBA semi-finals. What year is this in the NBA for La BUM? Year 7 or year 8? … and he still has no rings.

The bottom line? Since Magic joined the Lakers way back in the ’70′s, only one team (the Pistons), has gone on to win the NBA Championship with only one star player. The Bulls obviously only have one; the real question is, what will they now do in the offseason to address their glaring and obvious weakness? (i.e., the lack of a legit 2nd scoring option).

As for the Heat? Sure, it’s easy to be a bandwagoner, as anyone can get behind a winner. The really sad part is that if the Heat go on to win the NBA championship this year it will be a championship bought, not earned.

By: danvoges

danvoges — Tue, 24 May 2011 20:36:50 +0000

i think the durant quote in the second bullet is wrong… he said something about not wanting to turn the ball over again.

By: fdjlakers1

fdjlakers1 — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:05:50 +0000

Bulls in 7. They’ll come thru and then match up against Dallas. As a die-hard Laker’s fan, although I was disappointed (disgusted, actually) at the Lakers’ lack of effort in game 4, I am glad Dirk and the gang will get another chance at the title. They are a hard working, never-give-up, group of athletes and I hope they make it this time!

Winning when down by 15 pts with 5 minutes to go is incredible, to say the least!

By: LPad

LPad — Tue, 24 May 2011 15:40:58 +0000

Am I the only one that find stories like this funny? The only hard lesson that the Thunder need to learn is that they need better all around players. This part of the story sums it up:

“Yet (Sefolosha)he was the guy taking a key late three because he was open. He was open for a reason. Jordan learned the pass the ball with the game on the line but Steve Kerr was a knock down shooter (career 45 percent from three). It’s not just making the pass, it’s making the pass to the right guy.”

Durant doesn’t need to learn to pass the ball to a knockdown shooter. He needs a knockdown shooter to pass the ball to. The reason why teams like the 80s Bulls lost to the Pistons is because the Pistons were better. The only thing the Bulls learned is that they needed to get better. The only thing the Lakers learned after losing to Boston was that they needed to get better, which is why they got Artest because he could play the physical D on PP that they needed to get over the hump. But if you read sportswriters, you would come to the conclusion that teams have to have an intellectual awakening to win a title.

By: dirtyassfish

dirtyassfish — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:39:56 +0000

Usual hate, Way to keep it classy Perdueman. If you had Lebron,Wade,Bosh,Riley youd be dancing in the streets. As a Bulls fan you dont have much room to talk you had 2 of the top 50 players of all time with Steve Kerr,John Paxton,Horace Grant,Dennis Rodman , Ya those scrubs right? They didnt make Phil Jackson look like a God did they? Then Phil had Kobe/Shaq , Kobe/Gasol/Kardashian Lets see him try that with Sacramento, Cleveland or Detroit. If you have great players you get all the credit, If you have crap players you lose your job.

By: purdueman

purdueman — Tue, 24 May 2011 08:45:04 +0000

As a Bulls fan, if the Bulls were able to pull a rabbit out of a hat and find a way to beat Miami (which I’ve said all along would be a reach without a legitimate 2 guard on their roster), I’d rather see the equally playoff inexperienced Thunder advance.

As a La Bum detractor though, I’d much rather see Dallas advance (and up 3-1 I think that that’s now a foregone conclusion). At least if the Bulls can’t remain in it, it will be fun to watch Dirk dismantle Miami’s “big two” punks. Greaser Pat Riley is easy to hate too, because of his smug, uppity attitude.

Hey pal, ANY GM would have looked brilliant had they been able to sign La Bum and Bosh, while keeping Wade; doesn’t exactly take a lot of smarts to do that you know! I’d like to see you pull that off being the Sacramento, Cleveland or Detroit GM… now THAT would be something you would have EARNED bragging rights to!