Am I the only one? I pretty much have no interest in either team obviously hoping for the Suns from the West or Orlando from the East. Another thing that turned me off is the hype including videos of Bird vs Magic. Not this crap again.... When it comes to an elimination game curiousity will probably get the best of me.
Myself.
Watched half of it. Then I realized the refs were humping each other all night long, then I stopped watching.
Celtics/Lakers ('80s) will never happen again. Erecting a bridge twixt then and now is silly. The hatreds came natural then. They're pre-packaged now.
Then you could have the best team and still lose. That rarely happens anymore and hasn't for a while. Boston kicked our ass in '08. We kicked their ass last night. That kind of clarity does not lend itself to interpretation like the '80s battles. The officiating straightened up. The road is no longer death valley. And '85 was the break point. Earl Strom calling McHale for his 6th mid way thru the fourth quarter (Game 6) in Boston was a watermark for the NBA.
It sucked that I couldn't catch the game. Got called in for work at about 8:30 Got to see about 15 minutes of the game.
Got home about 11:45 to catch some highlights.
Turning off the cell phone on Sunday. Gonna watch that one!!
Nicely put Cully....
Cully with a good post.Nicely put Cully....I agree back then, there was real hatred between the teams and their fans. Now days it's just not there. The closest thing recently was probably Suns vs Spurs. Even that is mellowing out now that neither can contend.
I turned it off once I knew LA would win. I could care less who wins, it's not like Phoenix is catching either team in championships anytime soon, but it was just bad basketball because the refs kept calling fouls and prevented any kind of flow or rhythm. LA deserved the win, they played well and Boston played like , but I was just hoping for better basketball.
You knew it was for real when McHale clotheslined Rambis and there was an honest debate whether McHale should have done that or not.
i havnt watch a basketball game since the end of the spurs/mavs series....
for some reason im not into watchin the whole game as compared to soccer which i can sit through the whole game
There's maximum control now. And we're getting that because we (Americans) demanded it. Americans don't like to see grown men fist fighting in public. That's why professional rasslin' is so popular, as is the cage fighting. It's controlled, merciful, goodness personafied.
The hammer & tong Celtics & Lakers of the '80s, followed closely by the Pistons thuggery and the Jordan Rules on into the crescendo at Auburn Hills has brought us here, to a sanitized product enhancement. Evolution on demand.
It's like the father in the motion picture "Friday" explaining to his son about the difference between the use of fists & guns. NY. and the NBA perceived the product was starting to loiter "guns," so they took the "guns" away and the fists, put a cop and a camera on every single corner.
Damn Cully,
You need your own column.
Again, good stuff.
I agree with all of this, but I don't think very many die hard basketball fans demanded it. The typical middle aged Scottsdale couple that goes to the game just because it's the in thing to do and not because they're basketball fans, yeah, they probably do demand it. The people who like basketball enough to be posting in an NBA forum probably for the most part hate how many fouls are called these days.
I tried that, and The Princess kept locking them down.Damn Cully,
You need your own column.
Again, good stuff.
I saw the game simultaneously as I was conducting a family BBQ. Honestly, with the way the game was officiated, I felt like I was watching a drug intervention on a severe coke addict. Waste of time, you didn't miss anything. Go figure.
The worst part is when they showed Kobe doing the jaw face, right after showing Bird (during the intro)
While it sucks the Spurs arent't there playing I am still a fan of the game so I am going to watch. On the other hand I could care less if I miss every single World Series game if the Orioles aren't in it. And seeing how our team looks now that could be a century or two.
Tha part about hatreds being pre-packaged... I think you could say the same of all sports, Cully. Things have changed- maybe it's free-agency, AAU ball, whatever- but the old rivalry dislikes just aren't there anymore.
As for me, I didn't watch the game last night... but that's only because I got drunk and passed out at 8:30.
Lol you arent that far from me then. I live in Baltimore and before the Ravens that is all we had. Hopefully one day we will be respectable and not laughable.
I was working, and im also going to work sunday, so
son I didn't watch that crap either. you can pretty much predict what will happen. the home teams will win every game until game 6 or game 7 whenever the league decides to finish the series. If this series could be decided by the players then Boston would win in 5 games no doubt about it, but since the NBA is pushing Kobe harder than ever right now expect L.A. to win in 5 or 6.
I actually forgot about it until I got home late and saw an update.
It's pre-packages for a reason... everybody and their mom knows that it's the creation of rivalry and tension that gets the TV ratings up; what both David Stern and the American media wants is essentially a double-standard: the ability to have a heated rivalry, yet without the thuggery and dirty plays.
Damn, suck his some more. tee, hee.Damn Cully,
You need your own column.
Again, good stuff.
I can't believe some of you didn't watch. The drama, the intensity, the clutch play, it was almost more than I could bear. Coupled with the Laker/Celtic mystique and the media lovefest...all I can say it WOW! This was so much more exciting than the boring Spurs/Pistons final when Horry scored 21 in the final 13 minutes of game five and hit a clutch three to win it and swing the series back to San Antonio!
And who can tire of watching West, Cousy, Russell, Jabbar, Magic, Bird, McHale, Kobe, Garnett commercials and shorts over and over and over again!....?
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