Ripper

How many Bobcats games did you watch? Wallace started more games at power forward than he did at shooting guard. Quite a few. That whole atlanta thing. BobCats, Grizzlies and atlanta alls the time. And he started ALOT of games at two guard before Matt Carol stepped up and did his thing. Right around the time Brevin Knight went down unti matts explosion in the last two months, it was Wallace at the two. Not counting that week of the Derek Anderson experiment.

3000 Miles to Graceland. Yeah, it was a cartoon with live action characters and alot of shit happened for no reason whatsoever, but I like it. Plus, Spinnin Ice T.

Baron Davis, Tracy Mcgrady, and Gerald Wallace(Wallace was the starting two guard for most of the year for the Bobcats) all would have been a better option over Kidd and Kobe. Josh Smith got moved to PF mid season so I guess you wouldn't place him there. And really, what player wouldn't be a great defender if they played hard defense all the time? Thats exactly why Kobe shouldn't be on a all defensive team. Phil kept Kobe away from big time scorers even when Shaq was the focal point on defense. Teams would draw up their offense to go AT Kobe because he always gambled for steals or was always roaming around to court and would lose his man constantly, and he couldn't play a screen and roll for shit(still can't).

I still don't get how if its on reputation, how the hell Kobe keeps making the first team. Either way, that is just plain bullshit. Jason Kidd is the only player in the top 10 in steals on either team. And he was number 9. I can understand Josh Smith and Gerald Wallace not getting the nod because they are both on bad teams (although I disagree with it. Both change the game defensively and did it against the best teams in the league night in and night out) but Jermaine, Marion and Artest not making it is ridiculous.

The lakers were THE team that year. In other words, they weren't kicking the crap out of teams with 60 wins. They were the 60 win team. But that one loss team was pretty freakin amazing.

Okay, if Jordan was such a killer guard, why didn't he win championships when Magic and Bird weren't on their decline? The Rockets won when they got a team around them that could win. Hakeem went to the finals before Jordan ever sniffed them, but lost to that great Celtic team. In the next few years, the team went to shit. Jordans teams were shit in the start and got better thus he won more. Its pretty simple really. The all defensive teams were named today and were laughable as alway. SOMEHOW Kobe makes all defensive first team AGAIN over the likes of Ron Artest, Gerald Wallace, Shawn Marion Shane Battier and Josh Smith(all of which didn't make the first or second team). Jermaine O'Neil also didn't make the team. Like I said. Laughable.

I knew he had played only 17 games, but he said he never stopped playing basketball or staying in shape during that off season, and he played better in the playoffs that year than he did in the next, only his team lost. The only major thing you can say about that year was that Toni Kukoc's role wasn't as well defined after Jordan came back and it was more solidly defined the next year, but with no Rodman, they weren't winning anyway.

You mean that season where they were injured in the start, traded for Clyde Drexler built some chemistry, got in the playoffs and beat the 60-22 Utah Jazz, the 59-23 Phoenix suns, and the 62-20 San Antonio Spurs in the Conference finals, then beat the 57-25 Orlando Magic in the finals. yeah....They were so bleh. The Rockets were one of the hottest teams in the league going into the playoffs that year, they just had a horrible record at the start of the year, and I think Olajawon missed like 8-9 games at the start of the year and Vernon Maxwell was running up in the stands punching people leaving a hole at the 2 guard position. But the fact of the matter is, they beat almost 4 60 win or almost 60 win teams on the way to the finals. Olajawon was averaged 33 points 11 boards and 3 blocks in the playoffs that year. Nothing "bleh" about that.

Well lets see, the year after the championship, they lost Olajuwon, Clyde Drexler, Sam Cassell, Robert horry and Mario Elie all got injured right before the playoffs. I don't think i need to explain anymore when the starting 5 were injured thus leading to a quick exit from the playoffs in the second round. I don't think you can chalk up the team being injured as proof of Chicagos dominance. The next year they traded for Barkley and lost in the Confernce finals lost to the Jazz off a John Stockton 3 at the buzzer. Not like they got the crap kicked out of them or anything there. Once again, not sure how this goes towards Chicagos dominance though. The next year was injury o rama, where Drexler finally gave in and retired at the end, and they lost to the jazz in the first round. So basically, injuries, and a John Stockton 3 is why they weren't in the finals after that. Its not like they were in the East so honestly, I don't even see how this is a relevant question.

No. They didn't. They lost, and made changes to the team so that they could beat the team that beat them. Thus, they didn't pick right back up at anything. Once again, throwing the 95 playoffs out the window is just trying to alter history. They ran into a dominant big with a rebounding defensive PF and lost. And that is what they would have run into with the Rockets in the finals, only the Rockets were a better shooting team than the Magic. Hell, Michael Jordan himself said after that Suns series, his body was so exhausted from playing so much basketball for those three years he doesn't think they could have won the 4th.

And by the way, I am sick of the "Jordan wasn't back in the groove" bullshit about the 95 playoffs. he only averaged 31.5 points per game and shot 48 percent from the field that year. Numbers a little better than he was the next year BTW. They LOST because the Magic were a better team and Nick Anderson hadn't had his nervous breakdown yet. The next year they added Rodman who was key to them kicking the shit out of the Magic. Cut the revisionist history crap, he was playing the EXACT same way he played the next year in the playoffs. The media just needed an excuse for them losing.

That was the year that they had the number one record and then said "Hey, you know what we should do? Trade Dominique Wilkins! That would be a great. Trade our top player while we have the TOP RECORD IN THE EAST". They were contenders up until that point. And to the people that don't think the Rockets would have won if Jordans Bulls had been there. What. The. Fuck. Ever. The Rockets were deeper, couldn't stop Jordon (who could) but had a guy that made life tough for him (maxwell) they were one of the greatest shooting teams in recent history, and, oh yeah, there was that guy that played Center that no 3 bulls could have stopped. Plus Otis Thorpe could out Grant Horace Grant. In that matchup, there is no way the bulls would have taken those Rocket teams. People think its a possibility that they would go down because of how they struggled with the Knicks, ignoring the fact that the Knicks had Herb Williams, and Patrick Ewing to throw at Olajowan plus Anthony Mason who was one hell of a defender, and Anthony Bonner and they were not bad shooters either (starks stinking it up not withstanding) Anyone thinking the bulls would have won 8 championships in a row are simply nuts. Adding the greatest rebounder in the history of the game and one of the top defensive players ever for those last 3 had a HUGE part in that. Maybe THOSE bulls teams could have taken the Rockets, but not the two that won a championship. Unless you are really thinking that he monster combination of Will Purdue and Bill Wennington were going to stop The Dream. And you couldn't double him. Just ask Orlando or the Knicks. And yes, John "Hot Rod" Williams for Dan Majerle is one of the worst trades in a LONG time. There was absolutely no rhyme or reason for it, noone on the team liked the trade, and it messed up all the chemistry on the team, and yes, that coupled with the firing of Paul Westphal is what lead to Charles wanting out of Phoenix.

That play still pisses ME off.

As a pacer fan you should still be pissed at Larry Johnsons 4 point play.

I enjoyed it as much as a Suns fan could. I am not in the crowd that calls their championships weak because Jordon wasn't around. I don't think the Bulls could have taken them if they had made the finals that year with Jordon. But since they beat the Suns both years of their championship runs, fuck them right in the ear. And here we have the quote of the playoffs: "I will bite a throat for my teammates." - Andrei Kirilenko

That was part of my greatest basketball prediction in history. I told everyone that when the Knicks went up (i can't remember if it was 3-1 or 3-2) that the Rockets would win it in 7 and John Starks would shoot the Knicks out of the game. You can't get more accurate than that. The funniest thing about that game was that John Starks finally gets pulled and Derek harper calmly hits a three and looks over to the Knicks bench as if to say (You know, some more of us can shoot the fucking thing too).

Chambers still had ALOT of trade value. I think he averaged like 16 or 17 per game the year before. But since they were trading for Barkley, his usefulness was gone, and he would have to move to the bench. And Chambers was not a effective bench player. So instead of dealing the guy one year removed from All-star and MVP votes, Colangelo was like "Fuck that...lets keep him". That hurt. Trading Horneck and signing Danny Ainge as a free agent...that hurt too. Trading a 20 point per game scoring 2 guard when you had Chambers to deal and Philly would have taken him. Ugh. And I still say the Suns would have won that championship had Cedric Ceballos not gotten injured in the Seattle series. But that was 14 years ago. I think it is finally time to kinda let that one go. Kinda.

If it had someone like Jason Stratham or Vin Diesel in it, it might have done better. But most people don't know who stone cold is nowadays. Really, you need a famous name to carry a rather mindless action movie. But who was Jason Stratham before the Transporter? He wasn't a famous name in the US as most of the public hadn't seen Snatch LS&2SB. And that movie made a nice amount of money, mostly because of advertising showing Stratham kick a door in. They made the movie look cool so people went and saw it. Same for Diesel and Pitch Black. Before that he was just that stupid dude from Saving Private Ryan. If you make a mindless action flick look cool people will see it and I think this is where the Condemned failed. they didn't make a big enough noise for it. I would think its because they didn't expect to make that much money anyway thus didn't want to spend money on advertising.

*remembers the pain* Fuck Chicago right in the eye. Fucking John Fucking Paxton. And fucking Danny fucking Ainge leaving fucking John fucking Paxson open. And fucking Colangelo making the fucking trade and getting rid of Hornecek instead of Tom Chambers. Jeff wouldn't have left Paxson open to double Horace fucking Grant. And fuck Lushus for making me remember the pain.

Well, he blamed a couple of losses on the refs, so I guess that is a start. IGN simmed the NBA playoffs in NBA 2k8 and the Warriors go to the finals against Detroit and lose. You know what I would love to see. A New Jersey/Phoenix finals. Just because of how kickass that one game was this year.

You don't watch alot of TV I take it, because Next, Invisible, and Kickin it Oldschool have been advertised to DEATH. Its all about demographics. IF the movie is supposed to appeal to 18-25 year olds it is going to be advertised on shows where 18-25 year olds watch. Although I still stand by the fact that the only advertising I have seen for the condemned has been during WWE programing.

Its been answered by razor. And its illegal and bad. Especially if you choose to activate by phone and enter the activation code that you get from the keygen that should have come with the copy. Wrong and illegal. Yeah, using that Adobe CS2 keygen is just plain WRONG. You should be ashamed honestly.

Just for the record, did anyone else besides me pick Golden state? Ripper - hopes one correct prediction makes people forget the 200 wrong ones.

Its alot to ask of a inexperienced team to come back from 3-1. If they lose tonight, I don't think they will take it.

Scott Skiles holds the record for most assist in a game EVER. I don't think anyone will suggest he is the greatest passer of all time.