playoffs 2006

white tornado · Apr 22, 2006

First off I could not log in today and the computer could not recover my pass word so I reregistered adding a 2 two my name of white tornado. I'm obviously not trying to be a poster with more than one Identity sorry if that causes problems.

Last year playoffs were the most exciting since I started watching the nba in 98, but this years playoffs could be even better. Here is a break down of round one.

Eastern Conferance

#1 Pistons vs #8 Bucks

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Teams
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<LI>Detroit is one of the blakest teams in the league but play great team ball witch is oposed to sterotypical black ball hoging. </LI>
<LI>The Bucks have last years first round draft pick Andrew Bogut as a starter, and Jiri Welsch, and an old Toni Kukoc of the bench</LI>[/list]

What to watch for.
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<LI>How will Andrew Bogut fair aginst the leagues best front line.</LI>[/list]

Prediction- Piston in an easy series.

#2 Heat vs #7 Bulls

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Teams
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<LI>The Heats only white who contributes is starter Jason Williams. Shaq and Dwane Wade are the leagues best combo.</LI>
<LI>The bulls start Andres Nocioni and Kirk Hinrich. Luke Schenscher is a Big Aussie who will have to deal with Shaq off the Bench.</LI>[/list]

What to watch for.
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<LI>Kirk vs J Will</LI>
<LI>Andres Nocioni</LI>
<LI>HowDominate will Shaq be?</LI>
<LI>D Wade</LI>[/list]

Prediction- Heat easy win

#3 Nets vs #6 Pacers

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Teams
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<LI>The Nets start Nenad Krstic who is an up and coming second year seven footer. Zoran Planinic comes off the bench.</LI>
<LI>The Pacers are very white frendly due to Larry Bird. Peja Stojakovic Has been a star in the league and probableits best pure shooter, but some say his career is waning. With a big showing he can regain his star status he deserves. Jeff Foster an Scott Pollard are bangers in the post who don't get media respect but are vital to the teams success. Sarunas Jasikevicius is a good rookie guard.</LI>[/list]

What to watch for.
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<LI>Could this be Nenad Krstics comeing out party.</LI>
<LI>Can Peja regain star status.</LI>[/list]

Prediction-A good series.

#4 Cavs vs #5 Wizards

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Teams
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<LI>Cavs have one white starter in Zydrunas Ilgauskas one of the leagues best centers. Aleksandar Pavlovic might play</LI>
<LI>Wizards are the blackest team in the league without a single white player.</LI>[/list]

What to watch for.
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<LI>Big Z</LI>
<LI>Lebron</LI>[/list]

Prediction -Cavs in a close series.

JoeV · Apr 22, 2006

Look at the Cavs, many of them grew beards for the playoffs. Z's beard is hilarious! I hope they kill the Wizards and beat the Pistons, there is a shot.

white tornado · Apr 22, 2006

<UL>
<LI>#1Spurs vs #8 Kings</LI>[/list]

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Teams
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<LI>The spurs are very white frindley. Manu Ginobili is one of the leages best players but often is not used in a way to totaly show his talent. He could have been finals m.v.p. last year, but this year he has been hurt. Brent Barry, Rasho Nesterovic,Fabricio Oberto, and Beno Udrih are all key players.
<LI>Brad Miller is one of the best centers in the league.</LI>[/list]

What to watch for.
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<LI>Will Manu asume a leading role</LI>[/list]

Prediction Spurs in an easy series.

#2 Suns vs #7 Lakers

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Teams
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<LI>Steve Nash could be a back to back MVP
<LI>Sasha Vujacic and Luke Walton both play.</LI>[/list]

What to watch for.
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<LI>Will Steve Nash play at an MVP leaval again.</LI>[/list]

Prediction Suns win in sweep.

#3 Nuggets vs #6 Clippers

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Teams
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<LI>Eduardo Najera plays for the nuggets
<LI>Vladimir Radmanovic and Chris Kaymen both start, Zeljko Rebraca comes of the bench.</LI>[/list]

What to watch for.
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<LI>Chris Kaymen vs Marcus Cambey
<LI>Vladimir Radmanovic vs Melo</LI>[/list]

Prediction nuggets in a close series.

#4 Mavs vs #5 Grizzles

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Teams
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<LI>Dallas has maybe the best white player in Dirk Nowitzki. Keith Van Horne is a good backup.
<LI>Pau Gasol is a first year all star. Mike miller is a good player, and Jake Tsakalidis has played well of late.</LI>[/list]

What to watch for.
<UL>
<LI>Dirk vs Pau</LI>[/list]

Prediction Mavs in a fun series.

Edited by: white tornado2

jaxvid · Apr 22, 2006

whitetornado, by any name it is a pleasure to read your posts! great job on the playoff preview, it makes castefootball a must read site when guys like yourself add such good information. This is exactly what I like to see on the site, detailed info on white players. I will use whitetornado's "guide" to decide which games to watch.

white tornado · Apr 23, 2006

jaxvid thank you for the kind words I decided to make a guide to the playoffs because many people have given up on the nba. The thing is that there is a reason to watch every playoff series. I consider myself very knowledgeable in my two favorite sports, basketball and Football. I probable watch more nba than any one on the site due to having the nba package on direct TV. That being said I have learned a great deal on this site about other sports. I will continue to break down the playoffs and point out what to watch for.Edited by: white tornado2

white tornado · Apr 23, 2006

Cavs 97 Wizards 86

I'm glad the cavs won. Lebron my favorite black player had a huge triple double posting 32 points, 11 boards and, 11 assists. Big Z played a lot better than his 10 points and 6 board would indicate.

Spurs 122 Kings 88

The Spurs totally destroyed the Kings, it could have been a lot worse. Manu looked good but because of Tony Parker being a shoot first point guard I don't think he will be able to show off his talents to the utmost of his ability. The rest of the white players played awesome. For the Kings Brad Miller played really bad.

Heat 111 Bulls 106

Hinrich had 19 and 8 for the Bulls Andres Nocioni played awesome setting the tempo with his play. Nocioni had 18 points and 16 boards. For the Heat J Will really played good scoring 17, he threw a nice dish to Doliac for a dunk.

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Jofreidr_1488 · Apr 23, 2006

The Clippers just barely pulled out a win with a final score of 89-87 against the 'butt Nuggets'. I was cheering for the Clips all the way, they hardly ever get to the playoffs, have one of my favorite players in Rad and also are playing the Nuggets, a team with a roster filled with malcontents (Boykins whinning about coming off the Bench) and thugs (Patterson, Martin, they did drop Rodney 'trigger finger' White though).

ocaamikedm11 · Apr 27, 2006

Bulls win, dominating the Heat.. and then Posey took a hard foul on Hinrich with the game in hand.. typical to go to a cheap shot..

joshinva · Apr 29, 2006

I hate to say it, being that I detest everything about the Bullets, I mean Wizards, but I am going for them against the Cavs. Just read Lebron hit the game winner with 5.7 seconds left. that sucks.
Got to go for anything to doom the NBA. The NBA is desperate for Lebron James who seems like a decent guy, to take it to the next level. Unfortunately if he does that all the more attention will be on the NBA and that's not good.
Gotta go for the Clips, the Pistons because they are so damned boring, and such.

Kaptain · Apr 29, 2006

Posey got a one game suspension for his thuggish hit on Hinrich. Ginobli gets hit by Artest and now Posey hits Hinrich. Anybody else notice a trend?

Another observation: How the hell could traveling not be called on Lebron James on two crucial plays down the stretch - including the game winner? I think professional wrestling officials could do a better job than NBA referees.

white lightning · Apr 29, 2006

The Mavs take a 3 game lead in the series today with a overtime win over the Grizzlies.Dirk Nowitzki was the star as usual scoring 36 points.He is taking his game to another level.He had to hit a 3 pointer just to send it to o.t. Congrats to Dirk & the Mavs.One more win to go till the next round.I really see the Mavs going all the way to the finals.

JD074 · Apr 30, 2006

Kaptain Poop said:
Posey got a one game suspension for his thuggish hit on Hinrich. Ginobli gets hit by Artest and now Posey hits Hinrich. Anybody else notice a trend?

Absolutely. Kobe Bryant hit Mike Miller earlier in the season, as well. There was a few instances in the regular season that I can't think of at the moment, but this has happened a lot this year.

ocaamikedm11 · Apr 30, 2006

The Bulls win again and even it up at 2-2. I must say, this is the first NBA playoffs in a long time where there are actually some good, competitive first round series... who would have thought the Bulls would take 2 from the Heat, or Bucks even one from the Pistons? Gotta love the underdogs..

Kaptain · Apr 30, 2006

JD074 said:
Kaptain Poop said:

Posey got a one game suspension for his thuggish hit on Hinrich. Ginobli gets hit by Artest and now Posey hits Hinrich. Anybody else notice a trend?

Click to expand...

Absolutely. Kobe Bryant hit Mike Miller earlier in the season, as well. There was a few instances in the regular season that I can't think of at the moment, but this has happened a lot this year.

Add to that some black thug grabbing Kaman (sp?)by the family jewels the other night.

Apparently it is perfectly legal to completely mug Steve Nash at the end of games and also pretend to not hear or see him calling a time-out. Gimme a break. The game is a complete joke when officials consistently miss obvious calls at the end of games.

ocaamikedm11 · May 1, 2006

I also wanted to note that while Walton was his normal caste self, the black guy who does the game with him did say that Hinrich is turning into a star with his performance in the playoffs. And what a great 3 in the last min to give the Bulls a nice cushion.... Hopefully they can win this series!

Bart · May 1, 2006

The refs looked the other way in Cleveland when James travelledto score the winning basket.And the refs didn't hear a time-out being called by Phoenix tonight at a critical juncture. If a player reached in and swatted the ball away from Kobe at the end of a game instead of Nash, the whistles would have sounded like the Attica prison riots.

Kaptain · May 1, 2006

The Suns shot 15 free throws while the Lakers shot 31! Pretty hard to overcome that kind of disparity.

JD074 · May 1, 2006

The Suns/ Lakers series is really disappointing. A lot of people want Bryant to be MVP, so for his team to beat Nash's team is pretty depressing.

Along with Nash being hacked across the arm by Walton, and trying to call a time out, I don't think the Suns should even be playing the Lakers. The Mavericks should've been the second seed, and the Suns should be playing the Grizzlies. Oh well. Win some lose some.

white lightning · May 3, 2006

I was glad to see the Suns kill the LaLa Boys tonight.The Lakers will rarely in the game.Nash controlled the temple and pace from the outset!On the LA for game six.Don't count the Suns out.They do have the MVP you know!!

The Spurs looked good tonight taking a 3-2 lead in the series.Ginobli was sensational with 27 points and 9 rebounds.He had a dunk that left the crowd going crazy.I fully expect the Spurs to wrap the series up in the next game and set up the rematch with Dirk & the Mavs!

Bart · May 5, 2006

The Rapers were up 3-1 and things looked bleak for the Suns. but Steve Nash made big plays, had em runnin and gunnin at full throtte and now it's all even. Even without 3 key players, Nash still manages to make his TEAM play better.

Jofreidr_1488 · May 6, 2006

Well it looks like the nuggets have collapsed! They fired their General Manager today! Hooray! Hopefully alot of the thugs on that team will be traded and a more watchable team formed this off-season.

I think there is another Suns vs. Rapers game on today and am going to try and catch it on my day off.

white lightning · May 6, 2006

Game 7 is about to start.Hopefully Nash can carry the Suns to another huge win over the LaLa Boys.It the Suns win,people can finally shut up about Kobe being the real MVP.We all know that Nash deserves it.Go Suns!

JD074 · May 6, 2006

Wow, I thought the Suns were done. Unbelievable. Right now it's the fourth quarter and they're up BIG. Close the deal, guys!!!

Colonel_Reb · May 7, 2006

The Suns blew out the Lakers! What a series. I hope the Suns beat the Clippers bad.

Don Wassall · May 7, 2006

That was sweet. I hope Nash can remain at the height of his powers for several more seasons.

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