Official NBA 2012-2013 Season Thread

[lacrimestopper]

the griz have the best chance against the heat in the finals:

conley>chalmers, bayless>cole

allen=wade

prince<lebron

zbo>haslem

gasol>>>>bosh (not hating, just my opinion)

 

[uncharteddrake]

No don't leave him alone, yea Lebron flops, we all know this. But for anyone to think that someone would admit to flopping? LMAOOOO! That's crazy.


By the way ohmygosher, what time do the lakers play tonight? Is Kobe cleared to play or not?

 

[datznasty]

The fact that u guys think people would actually admit to flopping is the hilarious part. LMAO!
We all know NBA players Flop, but who in their right mind would admit it?
Some of you guys are nuts sometimes.

Parker admitted once that he lays on the ground longer than needed to get the attention of the refs and it makes Eva nervous

 

[hood17]

Joey Crawford tonight in the OKC/MEM game.

I guess ZBo and Perk will get ejected

I'll be at the game tonight. The team is like 24-0 this season when I attend the games :8 .

I'll never forget 2 years ago when we had the chance to go up 3-1 against OKC and we had that epic triple OT game that turned the series around. That was probably the craziest game I've ever been to. We were standing up pretty much the whole time and it was one of the loudest games.

ooohhh a new blocking foul dance number

I'm surprised they have gotten into it a bit more (Perk/Zbo).

 

[ohmygosher]

Please, I'm begging you. Just stop it!

 

[memphisboi55]

Joey Crawford tonight in the OKC/MEM game.

 

[datznasty]

Not even just Crawford, but Crawford AND Bennett Salvatore. Those dudes are going to get into a back and forth of who can call the most technicals and bad calls in general. Ibaka guarded ZBo last game so him and Perk didn't interact much, don't think ZBo wants it with Ibaka.

 

[franco23x]

the griz have the best chance against the heat in the finals:
conley>chalmers, bayless>cole
allen=wade
princehaslem
gasol>>>>bosh (not hating, just my opinion)

Wade= Allen ??????

Let me get what your smoking!!!

Cole > Bayless

Too bad they would lose in 5.

 

[hypebeast5]

^ bro bayless is cooking cole whenever they would match up

But the heat would win easy, even the Gasol won DPOY i dont see him as a player who protects the rim

But tony allen does match up with a hurt D Wade

 

[franco23x]

^ bro bayless is cooking cole whenever they would match up

But the heat would win easy, even the Gasol won DPOY i dont see him as a player who protects the rim

But tony allen does match up with a hurt D Wade

Wade will be well rested, Cole will burn Bayless into the ground.

Just watch.

 

[bhzmafia14]

I've been saying we had the best chance out of any team in the West to beat the Heat. Seems like some people starting to jump on that wagon now. I don't expect Wade to do much, pretty much the way he's been the entire postseason. Bosh will have his hands full with Gasol. The Heat will win if Lebron goes super saiyon like he did last year. If they get anything less, they may be in trouble. Another big factor is their bench production. If we can't get anything out of our bench, it'll be extremely hard to pull out more than 1 game.

And at saying the Heat would win easy. Memphis is not the type of team that let teams win easy in the playoffs. There's a great chance they don't beat the Heat, but I guarantee you every game will be hard fought and pretty damn close. That's why I really want to see it.

 

[lacrimestopper]

Wade= Allen ??????

Let me get what your smoking!!!

Cole > Bayless

Too bad they would lose in 5.

bro i already kno dwade is top 3-5 shooting guard in the L but hes got 2 face tony allens defense bro. tony allen goes 100% every play. i see his hustle and the one of the hardest things to do is play against someone who hustles 110% and hunts for the ball like allen does. so they kind of cross each other out imo. like, i dont see wade balling out against the griz.

 

[ohmygosher]

Y'all act like Miami coming out the east is a given.

 

[lacrimestopper]

I've been saying we had the best chance out of any team in the West to beat the Heat. Seems like some people starting to jump on that wagon now. I don't expect Wade to do much, pretty much the way he's been the entire postseason. Bosh will have his hands full with Gasol. The Heat will win if Lebron goes super saiyon like he did last year. If they get anything less, they may be in trouble. Another big factor is their bench production. If we can't get anything out of our bench, it'll be extremely hard to pull out more than 1 game.

And

at saying the Heat would win easy. Memphis is not the type of team that let teams win easy in the playoffs. There's a great chance they don't beat the Heat, but I guarantee you every game will be hard fought and pretty damn close. That's why I really want to see it.

im on the wagon for mem and GS cuz i dont want the thunder or SA to win and i certainly dont want the heat to win. but purple and gold is what i bleed till i die. #prayforthebear

 

[blahzee]

bro i already kno dwade is top 3-5 shooting guard in the L but hes got 2 face tony allens defense bro. tony allen goes 100% every play. i see his hustle and the one of the hardest things to do is play against someone who hustles 110% and hunts for the ball like allen does. so they kind of cross each other out imo. like, i dont see wade balling out against the griz.

it doesn't matter if Allen goes 200%, we are talking about d-Wistle here. Allen will be in foul trouble all serie

 

[buc em]

I said months ago that the Grizzlies are the best shot to beat the Heat in the Finals. The Thunder running up and down the court with Durant running iso's all game isn't going to win anything over them. It's going to take a physical, deep team with high quality big men to beat the them in a series. The Heat would have zero answer to Marc Gasol. Tony Allen and Tayshaun also are the best chance anyone has at containing Bron and Wade for a series. I would love to see Z-Bo punk Bosh too.

A series like that though....110% chance that the refs would completely ruin it. The Grizzlies winning the NBA Finals would be David Stern's biggest nightmare.

 

[dirtybuhbuhnew]

the griz have the best chance against the heat in the finals:

conley>chalmers, bayless>cole

allen=wade

prince<lebron

zbo>haslem

gasol>>>>bosh (not hating, just my opinion)

Cole will shut Bayless down.

Wade wll struggle, but he will get at least 15-17

Lebron will COOK prince this go round. This ain't the old T Prince.

I think Miami will start Chris Andersen if they play Grizzles so he will guard Z Bo.

Chris bosh and Gasol will be interesting to see.

The X factor of the finals would have to be Ray Allen. If Ray can get his shot going, Grizzles will be in trouble.

All of this is a "what If"

 

[hypebeast5]

Y'all act like Miami coming out the east is a given.

It was destined The east has been weak for a while

Only team from the west i see making it a series is the spurs those guys have def and experience

And that experience will play a key role cause a crucial guy always choke in the finals

2011: Lebron
2012: James Harden
2013: ???

 

[black migo]

Birdman will put the locksmith on gasol, lebron would probably guard zbo down the stretch and the locksmith would be on him too
ray, battier, cole>>>> bayless,pondexter,prince,allen,wroten

 

[jj watt]

Birdman aint gonna lock up Gasol dude

hes gonna bother him, sure, but ultimately Gasol should eat that Heat series.

 

[tekthemaestro]

as a heat fan, the grizzlies scare us. whoever said a physical team with quality big men is our weakness is telling the truth. memphis ALWAYS gives us a tough time, we never just run them over. theyre a great TEAM. would love 2 see them in the finals

 

[hypebeast5]

Birdman will put the locksmith on gasol, lebron would probably guard zbo down the stretch and the locksmith would be on him too
ray, battier, cole>>>> bayless,pondexter,prince,allen,wroten

Lmfao @ "the locksmith"

After seeing the lakers play the heat i saw Lebron can prevent the pass into the post if he fronts Zbo

Chris anderson aint locking up gasol hell naw

 

[gllahone84]

 at Lebron saying he doesn't know how to flop. 

 

[abubakr shaheed]

memphis got some roughnecks...would love to see lebron gaurd z bo

but i think miami can have trouble with indy...they got good bigs, depth, ahtletic defenders...just cant shoot to save their life

 

[bhzmafia14]

as a heat fan, the grizzlies scare us. whoever said a physical team with quality big men is our weakness is telling the truth. memphis ALWAYS gives us a tough time, we never just run them over. theyre a great TEAM. would love 2 see them in the finals

Exactly. It would be a great series. If people really knew basketball, they would see it as well.

Lebatard was talking about how Memphis scares them and even the random comment by George Karl. Spoelstra and Lebron mentioned it before. They know. Of course, someone on our team will have to play at a superstar level in order to win that series. We can't win it if ZBo or Marc plays average basketball. One of them would have to completely beast and Conley would need to keep up his play.