I should stop rooting for teams and players...what a shit week -___- federer's out, heat are looking bad, pull for celtics because I have a lot of boston fan friends, randomly root for lakers and they're down 101-98 with like 14 seconds...... wp thunder, kobe misses the 3 and now thunder only needs 1 ft to pretty much guarantee the win

edit: 103-98 gg

should go study for my exams now, shouldn't even have watched sports hoping for some good news -___-

kd and westbrook too good, dang.

Vindicare605

United States16125 Posts

May 20 2012 05:05 GMT

#2282

Wow.

Way to literally throw away the game Pau Gasol. Nice cross court pass to KD when they've been playing the passing lanes all quarter.

Fucking stupid. That is the most unforgivable turnover I have ever seen. Worse than Westbrook's slip just before it.

RowdierBob

Australia13430 Posts

May 20 2012 05:05 GMT

#2283

Hoho, jinxed the Lakers. Plan worked perfectly =D

seiferoth10

3362 Posts

May 20 2012 05:06 GMT

#2284

Oh well. Great game still.

Jerubaal

United States7684 Posts

May 20 2012 05:08 GMT

#2285

Oh baby, baby. Looks like we're gonna have a Red River Rivalry NBA-style.

Jepsyn

Canada364 Posts

May 20 2012 05:09 GMT

#2286

Kevin Durant is a killer.. thats the second time this series that he is broken the Lakers heart

Scarecrow

Korea (South)9175 Posts

May 20 2012 06:06 GMT

#2287

Kobe's been so bad at closing this whole series, just throwing up bricks towards the end of games.

DoomsVille

Canada4885 Posts

May 20 2012 06:27 GMT

#2288

On May 20 2012 14:05 Vindicare605 wrote:
Wow.

Way to literally throw away the game Pau Gasol. Nice cross court pass to KD when they've been playing the passing lanes all quarter.

Fucking stupid. That is the most unforgivable turnover I have ever seen. Worse than Westbrook's slip just before it.

Really? What about those 2 ridiculous TOs from Kobe in G2? That was waaay worse.

Also yea, terrible TO from Pau.

Durant has been so clutch in the playoffs so far. Really been stealing games for the Thunder. Can't wait for the spurs/okc series. That is going to be awesome.

[X]Ken_D

United States4650 Posts

May 20 2012 09:12 GMT

#2289

In the same situation, when OKCs were down by 10 for most of the game, I feel any other team would be down by 20-30 in the 4th. Laker hit a majority of their shots inside the paint with their size while OKC played nearly perfect just to maintain a 10 points difference lol.

Kobe is often forced to make difficult shots. His teammates needs to step up during clutch moments to relieve the defense away from Kobe.

DystopiaX

United States16236 Posts

May 20 2012 09:30 GMT

#2290

On May 20 2012 15:06 Scarecrow wrote:
Kobe's been so bad at closing this whole series, just throwing up bricks towards the end of games.

Part of it is good D by the thunder IMO, part of it is Kobe being bad, and part of it is Mike Brown's offense consisting of giving it to Bynum/Gasol and if that doesn't work running an iso play for Kobe. It's predictable and the Thunder have figured it out.

x2fst

1272 Posts

May 20 2012 10:12 GMT

#2291

lolkobe retire already. dude is terrible

thuracine

United States582 Posts

May 20 2012 10:34 GMT

#2292

Why Lakers WHY? Play a great game until the final 5 minutes and than run kobe offense wtf just stick to what works. Can't for them to lose so Mike Brown gets fired. And if you are going to let kobe take all the final shots get steve blake out of the game and use a defensive player.

x2fst

1272 Posts

May 20 2012 10:52 GMT

#2293

so i have pau as 90% to be traded

RowdierBob

Australia13430 Posts

May 20 2012 11:24 GMT

#2294

Lakers aren't completely dead yet. If they can somehow snag game 5 it'll be back on.

Just my opinion, but they really should have won games 2 and 4 (although you probably say the same for OKC and yesterday's game). Point being, series could easily be 2-2 or 3-1 for the Lakers. They've been close all series bar game one and if they can close games a bit better they'll still be a chance.

MilesTeg

France1271 Posts

May 20 2012 11:35 GMT

#2295

The amount of help Kobe got from the refs in the last few games is unbelievable. I never complain about that, but there have been so many bail out calls after horrible plays, it's been ridiculous.

SA-OKC is going to be awesome!

RowdierBob

Australia13430 Posts

May 20 2012 11:36 GMT

#2296

And I'll never get all the vitriol Lakers fans heap at Gasol. The guy deserves so much more than he gets from a lot of Lakers' fans. How he routinely gets blamed for losses is unfair on a guy that has given that team so much.

MilesTeg

France1271 Posts

May 20 2012 13:24 GMT

#2297

On May 20 2012 20:36 RowdierBob wrote:
And I'll never get all the vitriol Lakers fans heap at Gasol. The guy deserves so much more than he gets from a lot of Lakers' fans. How he routinely gets blamed for losses is unfair on a guy that has given that team so much.

The big guys always get the blame. Even though they have no control over tempo or the general direction of the offense.

Nothing frustrate me more than to see wing players or guards lose a game, then see all the uneducated basketball fans look at the stat sheet and then wonder why the hell the bigs didn't get more production.

AxionSteel

United States7754 Posts

May 20 2012 14:20 GMT

#2298

Gasol's a great player, and a great team player as well who makes the right team basketball play 98% of the time. He made a bad call the last game, but yeh someone wearing #24 has made dozens of bad plays over the last few games and continues to whore the ball and put up bricks in crunch time. He got bailed out at the free throw line in game 3, but thankfully the better team won tonight.

XoXiDe

United States620 Posts

May 20 2012 15:06 GMT

#2299

Thought Magic had some great words yesterday.

Mista_Masta

Netherlands557 Posts

May 20 2012 15:24 GMT

#2300

On May 20 2012 20:24 RowdierBob wrote:
Lakers aren't completely dead yet. If they can somehow snag game 5 it'll be back on.

Just my opinion, but they really should have won games 2 and 4 (although you probably say the same for OKC and yesterday's game). Point being, series could easily be 2-2 or 3-1 for the Lakers. They've been close all series bar game one and if they can close games a bit better they'll still be a chance.

Good point, but the Thunder have been really good at winning close games. Just look at their series versus Dallas: 3 out of 4 games won by a small difference. The Lakers have been bad in 4th quarters this series, but there's always 2 sides to such a statement; how much is it the Lakers being bad, and how much is it the Thunder being good?