Category: NBA

Series tied 2-2

San Antonio shooting: Game 4: 35.5% Regular Season: 48.1%. Lets start in the 1st 2-2 Tim Duncan Elbow J 4-2 spurs. 7-6 Golden State now and Carl Landry hits the hook 8-6 spurs. Then 15-14 GS but Tony Parker with the fader 16-15 San Antonio. Spurs 13-18 (72.2 %) in the 1st quarter. 2nd Quarter now 42-34 Spurs but Golden State wont let up that easy Harrison Barnes… Yes cuts the lead to 6. Next Warriors possesion Barnes being a force inside. 44-38 Spurs now and Stephen Curry lays in the bucket. Then the Warriors hit a 3 Warriors down 3 at the break. 3rd quarter action now: 62-58 San Antonio and Lenard… STOP LOOKIN AT MY LEMONADE! 64-58 Spurs.69-60 Spurs now Danny Green 2 hand slam. Curry and Thomson have been turning it over and missing shots all game for Golden State Curry…3 no! in the first three quarters Curry and Thomson combined for  11 points.4th quarter 94-84 Spurs Manu Ginobli 3 yes.

BOX SCORE

WARRIORS 91SPURS          109

Key Players        PTS

(GS) Curry           9      8AST (4-14 FG)

(SA) Parker         25    10AST
(SA) Duncan      14     11REB

Grizzles lead series 2-1

Against the Grizzles the Thunder have shot 36% and 35% from 3. Let’s start 48-35 Thunder in the 2nd. Perkins gets the steal passes to Durrant who dumps it to Martin Thunder up 15. Let’s Resume in the 3rd 72-65 OKC Grizzles ball. Jerryd Bayless driving…gets the bucket to fall and 1! Then Martin loses the ball Allen scoops it up and lays it in tied at 74. Then 4th Quarter 86-85 Memphis but KD from the elbow… Thunder up 1. Later 91-90 Thunder, Grizzles ball then Mike Homley Jr. driving and gets the finger roll to fall. 10 Seconds left 94-92 Grizzles Thunder ball and who does it go to? KD drives and scores. 6 seconds left Zach Randolph for the grizzles… NOT IN THIS HOUSE! Kendrik Perkins with the rejection so we go to OT. 20 seconds left in OT now 98-97 grizzles and Marc Gasol… CLUTCH! 100-97 Grizzles. Thunder inbounding last chance… but Tony Allen with the steal and the Grizzles win 103-97 after the free throws.

Box Score
THUNDER 97
GRIZZLES 103

Key Players PTS
(OKC) Durrant 27 5-7 3pt, 7AST
(MEM) Conley 24 5 AST, 4 STL
(MEM) Gasol 23 11 REB, 6 BLK

Amare Stoudemire’s 1st game back since March 7th. J.R. Smith battling an illness. So lets key in on: J.R. SMITH. Smith 3 pointer-won’t go. Then on defense not paying attention and leaves a Pacer wide open for the 3. Back to some highlights 2nd quarter: Knicks driving pass to Stoudemire and DONT TOUCH THIS! The slam dunk for Amare. Lets Key in on: Knicks turnovers. After a turnover David West for the Pacers: GOOD! After another Knicks turnover Pacers layup… YES Pacers up 3 at the break. Let’s key in on: Hibbert. And then Hibbert for the Pacers with the lefty hook! shot up for the pacers no good no problem Hibbert tips it in. Then George Hill for three! Pacers win 82-71

Knicks 71
Pacers 82

Key Players POINTS

Anthony (NYK) 21 6-16 FG, 5 REB
Stoudemire (NYK) 7 3-8 FG
George (IND) 14 8 AST, 5 STL

Highlights: Before the game the teams did not shake hands and that goes to show some of the hatred in this rivalry. In Game 2 there was 9 technical fouls 1 flagrant foul and 2 ejections. Nate Robinson driving for the Bulls, Chris Anderson blocks and falls on him but then Joakim Noah pushes Anderson down. Lebron James fouled by Nazr Mohammed James looks like he pushes Mohammed back technical for James but wait Mohammed shoves Lebron onto the floor Goodbye, sir Mohammed ejected. 2nd half now lets get to the real highlights James on the fast break but NO! Robinson comes in from behind to block James! 4th quarter 81-78 Heat, Wade cuts backdoor James to Wade SLAM DUNK!!!! 2 and a half minutes to play Heat up 4 and James… DAGGER! Heat up 5 now and Norris Cole hits the 3. Then James: need any salt in that wound? driving and makes the bucket and the free throw.

Box Score

Heat                    104

Bulls                     94

Key Players:            Points

(MIA) James               25        8 REB, 7AST

(MIA) Bosh                 20         19 REB
(CHI) Boozer               21          10-16 FG

(CHI) Robinson          17          6REB,7AST

 

 

Highlights: Early in the game Seth Curry the 3… Bang, Later in the 1st Klay Thompson… SWISH! At the end of the first Curry and Thompson combined for as many points as the entire Spurs team had. In the second 3 pointer? Sure! Another? Yep! Even another? Swish!29 points (11-18, 7-8 3pt) in the 1st half for Thompson. But the Spurs come back in the third. Danny Green for three then Manu Ginobili no but rebounded and Gary Neal makes another one from bonusphere. Last seconds of the third Warriors ball.. what do thinks gonna happen? Clay three yes! 4th: Ginobili with the 3. But Curry driving and puttin in the bucket. Then Curry from the top of the key… BANGBANGBANG Warriors win 100-91

BOX SCORE

TEAM                     SCORE

WARRIORS              100

SPURS                      91

Key Players                    PTS

(GSW) Thompson          34    8-9 3PT, 14 Reb

(GSW) Curry                  22

(SA) Duncan                    23      9 Reb

(SA) Parker                      20       6 Reb

MVP: Lebron, You’re crazy if you don’t this guy is unstoppable

all-nba 1st team

PG Chris Paul

 

SG Russel Westbrook

 

SF Kevin Durrant

 

F  Lebron James
C Marc Gasol

all-nba 2nd team

PG: Tony Parker

SG: Kobe Bryant

SF: Carmelo Anthony

PF: Blake Griffin

C: Tim Duncan

Honorable  Mention: James Harden

 

I went 6 for 8 on the round 1 match-ups lets see what I can do now

East

Heat over Bulls in 6

Knicks over Pacers in 7

West

Thunder over Grizzles in 6

Spurs over Warriors in 6

All game are predictions

Conference Quarterfinals

East

1 Heat vs 8 Bucks

G1: Heat

G2:Heat

G3: Bucks

G4: Heat

G5: Heat

4 Nets vs 5 Bulls

G1: Nets

G2: Bulls

G3: Nets

G4: Bulls

G5: Nets

G6: Nets

3 Pacers vs 6 Hawks

G1: Hawks

G2: Hawks

G3: Pacers

G4: Pacers

G5:Hawks

G6: Pacers

G7: Pacers

2 Knicks vs 7 Celtics

G1: Celtics

G2: Knicks

G3: Knicks

G4: Celtics

G5: Knicks

G6: Knicks

West

1 Thunder vs 8 Rockets

G1: Rockets

G2: Thunder

G3: Thunder

G4: ThunderG5: Thunder

4 Clippers vs 5 Grizzles

G1: Grizzles

G2: Clippers

G3: Grizzles

G4: Grizzles

G5: Clippers

G6: Clippers

G7: Grizzles

3 Nuggets vs 6 Warriors

G1: Nuggets

G2: Nuggets

G3: Nuggets

G4: Warriors

G5: Nuggets

2 Spurs vs 7 Lakers

G1: Lakers

G2: Spurs

G3: Spurs

G4: Spurs

G5: Lakers

G6: Spurs

Conference Semis

East

1 Heat vs 4 Nets

G1: Heat

G2: Heat

G3: Heat

G4: Heat

2 Knicks vs 3 Pacers

G1: Knicks

G2: Knicks

G3: Knicks

G4: Pacers

G5: Knicks

West

1 Thunder vs 5 Grizzles

G1:Thunder

G2: Grizzles

G3: Thunder

G4: Thunder

G5: Grizzles

G6: Thunder

2 Spurs vs 3 Nuggets

G1: Nuggets

G2: Spurs

G3: Nuggets

G4: Spurs

G5: Nuggets

G6: Nuggets

Conference Finals

1 Heat vs 2 Knicks

G1: Heat

G2: Knicks

G3: Knicks

G4: Heat

G5: Knicks

G6: Heat

G7: Heat

West

1 Thunder vs 3 Nuggets

G1: Thunder

G2: Nuggets

G3: Thunder

G4: Nuggets

G5: Nuggets

G6: Thunder

G7: Nuggets

Finals

1 Heat vs 3 Nuggets

G1: Heat

G2: Heat

G3: Heat

G4: Nuggets

G5: Heat

Champs:

MIAMI HEAT

 

 

Team                                 Lakers                  Jazz

Record                              43-37                    42-38

Game 1                              vs Spurs             @ Timberwolves

Game 2                            vs Rockets         @ Grizzles

Projected Record         43-39                     43-39

Projected playoff Spot  not in playoffs    8 seed

 

jazz hold tiebreaker

I’e been looking at possible trades: trade deadlne Thursday at 3pm

First we will try this

Lakers receive           Nets receive

Brook Lopez             D. Howard

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine/?tradeId=blyewzq

so since that doesn’t work lets try this

Lakers receive           Nets receive

Brook Lopez             D. Howard

M. Brooks

Keith Bogans

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine/?tradeId=awzgafm

Celtics receive         Suns receive

M.Gortat                    R.Rondo

Heat draft Pick

Grizzles Draft pick

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine/?tradeId=ab5h5oj

so that works.

Bucks receive          Hawks receive

Josh Smith                L. Sanders

John Henson

Bucks draft pick

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine/?tradeId=ajh32go

that doesn’t work

Bucks receive          Hawks receive

Josh Smith                L. Sanders

John Henson

Bucks draft pick

S. Dalembert

but this does

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine/?tradeId=bya85cc