NBA 2008 Playoffs thread

[djereza]

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jerseys?? naa daghan sa greenhills...mga 1k ra.

[vcmov_15]

sayanga sa duwa ghapon sa cavs ug celtics oie.. i want the cavs to win they had their chances...

[Archer sensAtion]

@omad and archer:

Naa baligya diha mga jersey nga pirmado na sa mga players?

i dunno...naa pa ko florida kron...

ang pirmado nka suway ko b4 did2 sa l.a. mag linya ka did2 sa staples center...nag tinukloray, na umod ko sa table ni Kobe...hahaha

ang shirt na sa amigo nako...ako gi gift kay adik man to ni Kobe...hehehe

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ahak murag pildihonon ang Jazz...

[JeffCee]

daog njud! phew! LA

[lightning_mcqueen95]

Ana gyud na bai kai lig-on gyud ang lakers oi... Kini nu-on klaro na sa patern nga si Coach PHil Jacson ang mo pildi gihapon sa JAZZ...

tsik...tsik.. tsik...
Kuyawan ko ani da... maoni mag abot sa finals LAkers VS. CAV... Ligon gyud..

[fish]

Ana gyud na bai kai lig-on gyud ang lakers oi... Kini nu-on klaro na sa patern nga si Coach PHil Jacson ang mo pildi gihapon sa JAZZ...

tsik...tsik.. tsik...
Kuyawan ko ani da... maoni mag abot sa finals LAkers VS. CAV... Ligon gyud..

kulatahon nang cavs sa lakers... hahaha! hopefully...

[koontz_circle]

some comments on Bryant's MVP throphy.

source: Yahoo

Does Kobe deserves MVP?

lets look at the good things
had a good year stat wise, had the best record in the west, trusted his team a little more.

as for the bad things: wanted to be traded when his team was doing bad, talked bad about some of his teamates including bynum.


kobe is definitely a great player in the NBA but i DO NOT think he deserved mvp i personaly think pau gasol deserved it
with gasol the lakers are 22-5 (81%) (reg. season)
without bynum and gasol with just kobe there 10-11(47%)(reg. season)

the truth is kobe can not carry a team without another superstar im not kobe hating but its the truth
gasol deserved mvp


no he only got it because they felt he needed to get one before his time is up. they knew he probably was not going to ever win one if he doesnt win this year. look at the young guys already up for mvp, lebron, cp3, d. howard, kobe would probably not get another one.
yea he cant carry a team, he never has and never will. he cant carry his team even with odom, who before he came to the lakers, was a triple double threat and was a good player with wade and butler in miami.
yea without gasol and bynum, theyre 11-10. if kobe wasnt playing for the lakers, but bynum and gasol played, they would have a better record than 11-10.

[koontz_circle]

some comments on Bryant's MVP throphy.

source: Yahoo

Does Kobe deserves MVP?

lets look at the good things
had a good year stat wise, had the best record in the west, trusted his team a little more.

as for the bad things: wanted to be traded when his team was doing bad, talked bad about some of his teamates including bynum.


kobe is definitely a great player in the NBA but i DO NOT think he deserved mvp i personaly think pau gasol deserved it
with gasol the lakers are 22-5 (81%) (reg. season)
without bynum and gasol with just kobe there 10-11(47%)(reg. season)

the truth is kobe can not carry a team without another superstar im not kobe hating but its the truth
gasol deserved mvp


no he only got it because they felt he needed to get one before his time is up. they knew he probably was not going to ever win one if he doesnt win this year. look at the young guys already up for mvp, lebron, cp3, d. howard, kobe would probably not get another one.
yea he cant carry a team, he never has and never will. he cant carry his team even with odom, who before he came to the lakers, was a triple double threat and was a good player with wade and butler in miami.
yea without gasol and bynum, theyre 11-10. if kobe wasnt playing for the lakers, but bynum and gasol played, they would have a better record than 11-10.


sorry mods kaduha na post, ni hang up ako internet connection

[darkwing]

i've had enough of this Kobe hating crap

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...mvp/index.html

LOS ANGELES -- Kobe Bryant never thought this day would come.

Feeling like "an outcast" his whole life, Bryant viewed the MVP award as a popularity contest driven by those who didn't understand him and never would. It's the only way he could come to grips with the fact he had never finished better than a distant third in the annual ballots.

"I didn't expect to win it, to be honest with you. ... I'm still surprised," Bryant said Tuesday after being presented with the award at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel.

Bryant looked like a nervous kid gazing over the auditorium before his first student class president debate. Sitting to his left was Lakers owner Jerry Buss, who refused to trade Bryant during a tumultuous offseason. To Bryant's right were the same teammates he had disparaged by saying he could never win a championship with them. Leaning on an exit door, ready to bolt after Bryant spoke, was former Lakers general manager Jerry West, who had mentored Bryant after acquiring him in a draft-day deal 11 years ago.

"I'm nervous right now," Bryant said. "And I really don't get nervous."

The MVP award -- and the top-seeded Lakers' first extended playoff run in years -- is a direct result of the newfound bond Bryant has forged with his teammates. It was no accident that his best friends on the team had often been guys who spent only one season in Los Angeles, like Karl Malone and Caron Butler. His offseason trade demands, highlighted by his infamous parking-lot tirade directed at center Andrew Bynum and general manager Mitch Kupchak, didn't so much come as a surprise but rather as yet another complaint in a series of criticisms about the Lakers from Bryant, whom Lamar Odom had called "the bad cop to my good cop."

Before training camp in Hawaii, however, while there was still speculation about Bryant's future with the team, Odom decided it was time to do away with the good cop/bad cop dynamic and begin molding the team into a unit.

"I don't want to take too much credit, but in training camp we became tight," Odom said. "I made sure that we had a chef and that we ate breakfast, lunch and dinner together every day. That's when the bonding started. Even the things he was going through off the court made us tighter. Adversity makes a family tighter, and that's when this team became a family. My grandma used to say, 'You could spend time with the devil and start to like him if you hang out every day.' No one here's the devil, but we had to start hanging out to like each other."

Slowly, Odom said, Bryant changed. He was letting his guard down, joking with his teammates, going out with them, talking to them as if they were his peers instead of obstacles in his pursuit of winning another championship.

"You know, sometimes personalities rub off on you," Odom said. "That's something that I think that's happened with me and Luke [Walton] and some of the other guys. You have to have fun around us, and I think that part of us rubbed off on him. We all grow up, but it just so happened that Kobe's grown up in front of the world."

Coach Phil Jackson, who once left the team partly due to constant disputes with Bryant, embraced him twice during Tuesday's ceremony. Jackson said Kobe's transformation during training camp was the turning point in his conversion from the league's most talented player to its MVP.

"There was a lot of dispute, dismay, disorganization, disarray before camp that seemed to refocus our team," Jackson said. "Kobe, in our initial meeting in Hawaii when we started training camp, got up and said, 'I'm Kobe Bryant, co-captain of the team. It's all about winning in this game and I'm here to win a championship,' and then he sat down. He knew to do that he had to have the help of his teammates and he started to get them more involved."

When Odom began seeing Bryant pass the ball to young players such as Sasha Vujacic, Ronny Turiaf and Jordan Farmar, all of whom have had career years off the bench, he knew that the team and Bryant had turned the corner.

"He knew he wasn't going to beat teams by himself," Odom said. "He's so good that it makes sense for him to think that because I've seen him do it before. I've seen him have [62 points] against Dallas, I've seen him get 81 on Toronto and just dismantle a team, but he understood that we had to get better. When he did that, when Kobe starts trusting you, that makes you play even better because when someone that good trusts you and drives you, you can't help but to get better."

Last Friday night, far from Honolulu where the Lakers first broke bread as a team, the players gathered at trendy L.A. pizzeria Mozza for a team meal, a new ritual before each playoff round. During the dinner, news broke that Bryant would be named MVP. When the check came (Bryant picked up the tab), teammates started a chant that Kobe had heard at Staples Center for the better part of his career but didn't think would materialize into anything more.

"M-V-P, M-V-P, M-V-P!"

[Blitzwing]

Shozoko rulez

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