bobobrazil1984

as much as a cliche it is, re-focusing your play to match up specifically with your new opponent is one constant of deep playoff runs - so I think it's accurate IN THIS CASE to pull out the ole "they dont know how to play in the playoffs" cliche. Each new series requires some ca-jiggering in style and intensity, suited to your opponent. Take the pistons, their style of defense is completely inverted from the Orlando series, where they were sending wave after wave of defender inside to clog up the paint, and now where they are focusing everything on the perimeter. That's where the Bulls have no experience since they've never been outta the first round - they were probably thinking the same thing "well it's the same game, it's the same opponent, we'll have as hard a time as we did in the regular season, we just gotta play our game." Playoffs are really about deep scouting and exploiting mismatches while regular season, nobody really scouts for individual games, they don't have time, many times they miss obvoius mismatches. The Bulls fronted the Pistons post guys each time during the reg. season - so for the series, the Piston guys sank back a bit and got open offensive rebounding opportunities because their defender was too busy fronting them. Gordon is the Bulls top scoring threat, so from literally the FIRST play, billups immediatly attacked him on offense. It was a strategic take-down - while the Bulls players were getting "bored" during their layoff, the Pistons took full advantage of the looong layoff and built a plan. What was the Bulls' plan? Did they have one? With a win tonight, they can get right back into the series though, so maybe Skiles has devised something. They've had an extra day off, as well as home-court coming, so one would hope that they're making some adjustments, and making plans to attack some weak areas of the Pistons, rather than constantly being on the defensive. Their zone in the 4th was *somewhat* effective in stopping penetration - but the Pistons were hitting their outside shots. At the United center their percentage will probably come down so this is probably the time for the Bulls to work that zone now.

maybe Russeou finds Locke, heck maybe she's following him and Ben. Theyve already shown the island healing a locke injury last episode, all she would (theoretically) have to do is yank the bullet out, ie stopping him from dying, and the island should do the rest.

how'd you guess? anyways, i'll stop - they ain't going anywhere. I just hope that we get more of the Charlie/Hurley/Jin awesome-ness next season. I also hope they don't pussy out on the big fight they've been teasing between the Losties and the Others

seconded. Avast! works just fine on VIsta.

Maybe Locke will pull a Jesus and come back to life to be the new leader of the others. That would be the only way to make that group of snooze-ers interesting.

i'm really impressed with Utah's team. Big gut-check here, same with the end of the houston series. Great frontline with Memo and Boozer, fantastic point guard with Deron Williams, defensive wingman in AK47, just a well put together team who can play well in the clutch. I'm impressed.

No Locke, but more Others? life isn't fair.

This was a great episode, until the very end. I'm so. sick. and tired. of. Ben. always. coming. out. on. top. .... .

Pistons/Suns Finals plz. billups vs nash.

that whole 'break up with Peter or i'll kill him' thing was very "Smallville". and Dunst was quite Lana esque. All she had to do was tell Peter and he'da opened up a can of whoop ass on Harry.

which episode is airing tonight? 6?

it seems strange to complain about this when the pistons are leading decisively the entire game, but the foul calls on the piston frontline is ridiculous. I don't know wtf Dick Bavetta is doing out there, sheed, dice, max, and webber, all with like 5 or 6 fouls. Bulls have like a 25+ Free throw attempt advantage. if i were more paranoid i'd wonder if bavetta wasn't trying to find a way to make this series less one-sided, considering his history.

I do feel chasing amy is the best one i've seen, at least up until that retarded "we need to have a threesome to resolve this" thing. at which point it somehow started to feel like the same old overrated kevin smith nonsense.

i'll second every Kevin Smith movie as over-rated. It's moderately funny dialogue that just seems lamer and lamer the more times I hear it. Though I didn't see the latest one with Affleck and J-Lo in it.

I love that idea...I think Kraven would be an awesome movie villian. That storyline is from the Spider-man 3 Game. There are also a few "other" characters in the game, (much like Spider-man 2 had Mysterio) so I doubt we'd be seeing them in any future movies. At least movies by these same people. i dont think that means anything - because they haven't decided yet what the next movie is gonna be about. Heck, during pre-production, the Vulture was going to be in Spidey 3. As I recall, don't other official movie games have various villians that havent been in the movies yet? I think the fact that they've made an effort to have Doc Conners in both films means its at least on the table if they decide to go that route. I was thinking, Conners does have a small sample of the symbiote, it might be interesting if he merged that with Lizard DNA to regrow his arm, it'd be one way of explaining how the transformation was possible (symbiote cells!)

Good stuff. Now all that's left is getting rid of those fucking Others.

I thought it was funny that Mara would never forgive him for f'ing a black barely legal chick... but confessing to a murder, well, now i'll hug and comfort you! Welcome home Shane!!!

an easy idea i heard for hte next movie is that the lizard goes loose on the city and kraven comes to town to hunt the lizard, and of course spidey has to save doc conners from getting killed as the lizard by kraven.

Parker having 32 points is too damn much. Nash needs to D him up better.

Nash was trying to reach in and steal from Parker, their heads collided. Parker looked shaken up more at first but was fine, but Nash kept bleeding (and bleeding and bleeding)

this game is awesome so far!

this is a hell of a 4th quarter.

way too much emphasis being placed on T-mac and the first round. I think in crunch time, that effects everybody on the team, its on their mind. The longer this goes on, the worse it gets.

They wasted 8 seconds in the final 10 seconds by not fouling. T-Mac and some other guy had Deron Williams SURROUNDED and just stood there. Either this was some ass-backwards plan, or T-Mac and the other guy completely caved under pressure. i dunno what the rockets were doing on offense those last couple of possessions either.

I've never ever heard anyone actually pronounce out NES as "ness". Ever in my life. Usually I hear people just calling it "Nintendo" and "Super Nintendo". I've heard N-E-S also, but never really heard S-N-E-S