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If I remember correctly, in the previous GTA games, I eventually got health that was more than one level. Like the little bar wold have 1X or 2X on there and I would have to lose more than one bar to die. Is that still the case here....or am I thinking of another game? Because these quick deaths are just plain annoying. OH NO, I CAN"T FIND A HOT DOG VENDOR AFTER I JUST GOT IN A FIGHT. Oh and there are apparently 6 billion cops in the city and I can't get in a fight without a cop jogging across the street after me. And fighting two people at once....ugh.

this i totally agree with. especially the eye-gouging, nut-stomping, fish-hooking, extremity-biting part. whenever i hear of a woman getting raped, i always ask myself "is there a good reason she couldn't get a ball shot in?" one of the only useful things my mom ever taught me, was if a man tried to attack me, go for the balls. and maybe this is the 'i watch too much wrestling' thing, but i pity the fool that jumps me in a dark alley, as i have a pretty mean DDT. thats not good advice. Balls are too small of a target and men instictively will protect their balls at all cost. they won't even think about it. As the shot towards the balls come they are going to avoid it...then get pissed off. You are better off with the eye gouging, fishhooking and bitting.

Celtics bench played well. Boston did what they were supposed to do and win at home. Bibby shat another brick in Boston. For some reason he trys to be a scorer in Boston when in Atlanta, he is content on running the offense. Also, Joe Johnson and others bringing the ball up to take pressure off Bibby worked great in the last two games. Then they just went away from it and Rondo made Bibby look stupid again.

gotta agree with Milky on that one. EVERYONE would tase or mase someone. A precious few is prepared to just shoot someone.

You know..... ... I would fuck Cheryl Miller.

LOL. they have to be kidding me.

Nope. Havent even been able to call for one. I called roman for a cab, it came and rode right past me.

Has anyone EVER shot at you? Once... But I don't really want to talk about it. So why the fuck do you need a bullet proof vest.... I have been shot and don't feel the need to get a bullet proof vest.

Ah Acie Law. If only the had done something crazy like play him during the season instead of TYRONNE FUCKING LUE.

Has anyone EVER shot at you?

You have to be fucking kidding me. I thought that the super-flopathon ended last night. What the hell. Seriously, isn't it well past the point where refs should be able to tell a charge from a flop. If one guy barely moves and the other looks like he has been shot by a cannon ball, he PROBABLY was just flopping around. I guess I have to wait to till Zaza gets in to start seeing the flop off.

Sadly I understood every word he said. i didn't realize how often I talked to people with that accent until I knew everything that he was saying.

No, no sarcasm. They really have non sucky fans.

Yeah, you can't hate the spurs because their fans don't suck ass.

I want it on NBC just because of the John Tesh music.

I'd go with "San Antonio won four of the six games played." One of their 4 was against a depleted team and the other, just happned to have a convict calling bad fouls...that didn't change ANYTHING, huh? What I am saying here is that if, say Duncan was to go down for 2 games and the Suns win the series 4-2, are you guys going to actually tell me you would say "Well, the problem is that the Suns were just obviously a much better team than the Spurs. The Spurs should learn to play defense". I am just not buying that happening. Hell, I distinctly remember the lot of you still talking about how Chicago lost to the Magic when jordan came back not because Orlando was better, because Jordan just wasn't all the way back yet and it doesn't count. The same people now pretending that suspensions and injuries don't mean anything now is just funny. See, here's the difference between your argument and your examples: in the first example, you ask "What if Duncan were injured?" Well, in 2000, he was injured, and the Spurs lost in the first round to the Suns, and the next time the two teams played in the playoffs, Duncan was healthy, and the Spurs won. And, they've won every time since then. In your second example, you ask "Well, how come everybody gives the Bulls a pass when they lost to Orlando in 1995?" Well, because they played each other the very next year in the playoffs, and Chicago beat that ass, which fairly decisively ended all discussion on the topic. And, as the resident Kings homer, I'll throw one more example in the mix: Sacramento beat Dallas the first time the two teams met in the playoffs in 2002, 4-1. The following year, Webber went down in Game 2, and the Kings ended up losing that series 3-4, and Kings fans were all about how, if we'd have had Webber, we wouldn't have lost, and Mavs fans were all, "stop making excuses." And then, the next year, Webber came back, and we beat the Mavericks 4-1 again, which pretty much proved (at least in my mind) that the one year the Mavericks beat us was a fluke. Which is where I stand on this side of this argument: San Antonio proved that the Suns beating them in 2000 was a fluke when they beat them the next time they played in 2003. Chicago proved that Orlando beating them was a fluke in 1995 when they beat the shit out of them the following year in 1996. Sacramento proved that Dallas beating them in 2003 was a fluke when they beat them the following year in 2004... Phoenix has yet to PROVE that they're the equals of San Antonio, or that the fact that they lost because they were missing players was "just bad luck." If they were equals, they'd have won at least one of those series. So, again, what's it going to take for you to ever say that San Antonio is better? Playing 4-on-5? A two-game headstart? All excellent points. However, you seem to keep trying to pretend I was saying that the 05 suns were better than the spurs or even equal. Like i said in last years playoffs, we finally get to the the suns at full strength play the Spurs at full strength. Then there were supensions with the series tied at 2-2. See that screams eveningly matched to me. this season, the Spurs won when the only difference betweent he two teams was that Shaq missed freethrows while they were fouling him off the ball. My question is how is that equaling basketball superiority to you? Did the Spurs out defend the Suns? No, the Suns were pretty much scoring when they wanted to. Did they out execute the Suns? Nope. Both teams look equally good and equally bad at times. The only thing they were better at in this series was fouling Shaq without the ball. Its like saying Player A is better than Player B because he beat him in HORSE. In Basketball, it is SUPPOSED to be a offense vs a defense to determine who is a better team. In this series we saw that the spurs had more guys to commit fouls on Shaq than the Suns could commit on Bowen. The NBA basketball was about which team can line up and hit the most freethrows and then call it a game, then fine, but its not. Its about basketball. I would see the OUTRAGE if I was saying the Suns were better than the Spurs, but what about the TWO series tell you that the Spurs are so much superior to the Suns? The difference has been Shaq missing freethrows from hack a shaq and suspensions. Which of those things have anythign to do with real basketball?

You are counting the stephon marbury, rookie Amare team too? Well no shit that the Spurs were better than them then.

I'd go with "San Antonio won four of the six games played." One of their 4 was against a depleted team and the other, just happned to have a convict calling bad fouls...that didn't change ANYTHING, huh? What I am saying here is that if, say Duncan was to go down for 2 games and the Suns win the series 4-2, are you guys going to actually tell me you would say "Well, the problem is that the Suns were just obviously a much better team than the Spurs. The Spurs should learn to play defense". I am just not buying that happening. Hell, I distinctly remember the lot of you still talking about how Chicago lost to the Magic when jordan came back not because Orlando was better, because Jordan just wasn't all the way back yet and it doesn't count. The same people now pretending that suspensions and injuries don't mean anything now is just funny.

Or ______ could work to become a better free throw shooter, and eliminate the need for unnecessary rule changes. They changed the original rule because it was ridiculous how teams would just foul Wilt for the entire game and turn it into a freethrow show. It was boring, it wasn't basketball, and cheap. So they changed the rule. Now, Don Nelson looked at it, found a loophole, and said "well, i am doing it because we can't stop them otherwise" and got an advantage over it. That is pretty much what Pop was saying. We can't stop them so we are going to exploit a loophole in a rule. While its legal, its still cheap. SMART as hell, and I dont' blame him for doing it, but it was cheap.

You mean 4-1, 4-2, 4-1, right? AGAIN. They Spurs were CLEARLY the better team when the two first played. The Suns went 6 deep (with Johnson hurt) and that 6th man was Jim Jackson who wasn't exactly a world beater. The 4-2 last year....comeon. Just...come on. I don't see how you can say one team was better than the other. This year, when it came to regular basketball, they were eveningly matched. THe COMPLETE difference in this series was __________ missing free throws. Not offense, not defense, not coaching, not officiating, not suspension, not injuries, not execution of the offense. The difference between the two teams was that Pop brought guys off the bench to foul a guy off the ball and he sucked ass at freethrow shooting. The suns went up big, they fouled a guy off the ball to cut the lead. Suns were coming back on them, they fouled a guy to keep the lead.

Seriously...his go to move was a travel. It never got called. Why did he think it would be called there?

Patrick Ewing, anybody? Not even close. Sure, he should have dunked the ball, but the guy hit plenty of "He totally didn't just travel" hook shots across the lane to win big games. Yeah, he took 6 steps, but still...

What did Stockton do, then, to deserve his lack of Finals success? Deal smack while at Gonzaga? Guilty by association? That's like saying Shaq and the rest of the Lakers got punished because Kobe screwed that hotel clerk in Colorado, not because Kobe's head got too big or because they over-relied on veterans like Malone and Payton off the bench instead of young guys. Well...that team did have Karl the 13 year old impregnator Malone on the team (and now that I think about it, Cheryl Fords mom was 13 too when she got pregnant with Malones child. He was only 17 at the time. Then when he was around 19-20, he got ANOTHER 13 year old pregnant....ASSHOLE) and Kobe "He is a hero for going to his RAPE trial and coming back and playing" Bryant on the team. If karma doesn't fuck that team over, who does karma fuck?

They would have lost to anyone. The games they won on the way to the finals featured them keeping the ball out of Sucky VonChokesalot hand. Stocktons three, Horney's layup, Ostertags block. All plays that fuck up would have fucked up. The bulls doubled stockton two years in a row to force him to pass to Malone with the game on the line and he turned it over both times. That dude really did suck ass. For people to put him in the All-Time PF list over Barkley or Mchale is embarrassing. (duncan is still a center. Fuck the spurs lineup chart)

I felt so sorry for Stockton being stuck with the biggest choke artist in the history of the NBA. People talk so much shit about Chris Webber, NO ONE has ever choked as much as Karl Malone in big games. If it was a possession, he would lose the ball. Count on it. If he went to the free throw line, he was going to miss. Count on it. You could have walked the fuck away from Karl Malone with the game on the line and he was going to trip and drop the ball out of bounds. And on top of that he was Bruce Bowen dirty in that he tried to hurt other players. Stockton was annoying dirty in that he just would piss you off. Thats why I like Stock. But fuck Karl Malone. Jerry Sloan, Jeff Horecek and John Stockton should show up at his door with a bar of soap in some socks and beat the shit out of him for completely karma fucking their chance at a NBA championship.