By the way Smoove sat in crunch time because he has been sucking big time lately. Most Hawks fans at this stage would rather see him on the bench, with Horford and Zaza in. I don’t know if I cringe more when Smoove shoots an outside shot (there is a reason teams leave him uncovered there) or tries to dribble full court. (But at least the latter results in an occasional ridiculous slam.)

Did anybody notice the karate chop from behind that Kobe gave GHill on the way down the court? I agree with #18, someone should lay the hurt on Kobe a few times and see how he responds. Probably with 50. I hate that guy.

First issue was her continued reference to Joe Johnson as a 3-time All Star. Does that really mean anything? Also, did she see his box score from this past All Star game?

She called a Josh Smith lefty tomahawk jam, “lebron esque” Umm…no, J-Smoothe has BEEN doing that one for a minute now.

Those are just two mis-steps in the commentary (there were a least 2-dozen more).

She needs to step up her game big time.

I went to her wiki page to see what her credentials are (surprise, she’s kind of lacking) and I found this.

“She no longer lives in North Providence with her husband and their two children because I killed her after watching her announce the Cavaliers vs. Hawks game on ESPN”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Burke

pretty funny stuff. but I’m sure that comes down ASAP.

@ I’m da baby pappy …GEE – That movie is a classic, like Eddie’s last good one and Martin’s only good one. Damn near depressin thinkin that Bernie’s gone.

“In a home loss to a Pistons squad that is obviously more happy than they were a few days ago but none of them can publicly admit why—even though we all know The Answer”

so, so cold…even Fed is speechless

I was wondering the same thing. Look at the s/l’s numbers in yesterday’s game:
LUKE 2/6 4PTS
LAMAR 2/5 4 PTS
PAU 12/18 30 PTS
KOBE 18/38 49 PTS
DEREK 1/7 3 POINTS

Kobe was a one-man show. He grabbed a team high 11 boards too. With Pau and Kobe taking an average 28 shots…nobody else can get into a rhythm.

@5 — I agree. He was BALLIN

@18 JZSMOOVE: Why dont a lot more teams “punish” Kobe more while driving to the lane?

‘Cause Kobe will punish them right back with his deadly accuracy and ice grills.

@19 – no confidence in mid-range game…Andy, Z, and Hickson might not look like much but when they crowd the paint and you don’t have a consistent J or you’re busy guarding a World Class athlete then sometimes you’ll wind up doing a disappearing act.
@23) Amar — Deron took 12 shots, only making 3. He HAD to impose his OFFENSIVE WILL in other ways. But yeah, on a different night, he’d have more than 6 pts and 0 rebounds.

FLIP took it to Boobie on an ISO. Didn’t seem like Boob had to foul on that one…it just made the play that much sweeter.

It’s official – Lebron’s BLOW-BY ABILITY is BANANAS. That’s all I’ll say about that.

Umm, what else…oh yeah, if Ronnie and Millsap keep gettin’ into foul trouble, the Jazz will be in TROUBLE for real come playoffs.

DIEGO — So Zaza KILLED the Cavs bigs?? Really. You see a couple of nice dumps in crunch time and he KILLED them?
Andy and Z went 10/15 with 18 boards and 24 pts. And, if I remember correctly, Z was wettin them from 18 feet out seemingly EVERYTIME.

Anyways, Zaza had a nice game down the stretch but using the word ‘KILLED’ is the literary prototype of EXTREME HYPERBOLIZATION.

Lastly my boyz starting to get it back together. They showed signs of life beating the SPURS this weekend to rebound from that awful ROCKETS game. And they literally closed out ATL.
Delonte: 5/16, 0/4 3′s, 2 boards, 2 dimes, 3 picks, 5 turnovers and a jumper that got the Cavs within’ 3 points in crunch time…for 12 POINTS.
Mo: 8/15 FGS, 4/5 3′s, 3 boards, a dime, a pick and game-tying 3-pointer…for 20 POINTS

*And we know what Lebron did to seal the W. Looking good, looking good. Delonte’s still kinda inconsistent but we’ll take that while he recovers fromt the wrist thang. He’ll get it going again.

With the Pistons we are really over looking the fact that they are shooting horribly this year and last night they actually got to the line and set solid picks for each other…AI can pass the ball, but if Sheed don’t hit the three, Stuckey don’t finish the drive, Tayshaun takes 5 seconds to think about what he is going to do next, and RIP only feel comfortable catching passes from guys he played with before Iverson came to the team (lame), then what are you going to do…

Iverson off the bench should work, but will they be running those same lame sets? RIP is 6’7″, so coming off a tight screen with a defender close doesn’t matter as much. Iverson is 7 inches shorter, so He needs more space…

Most of his shots are going to be “poor” shots, because in reality he is shooting the same shots as a prototypical SG that is 6’4 – 6’8…against defenders that same height….The pull up RIP takes, Kobe takes, Joe Johnson takes, etc…Are tougher shots for Iverson to hit, but he has been hitting those shots his whole career…This isn’t Carmelo, Tracy McGrady or guys like this who haven’t carried a team to anything…He put his guys on his back, hurt, under siege and all…

Adjustment happens two-ways, but this is the last time I’m going to comment on it. Iverson needs to try his best to keep his value up…He has to figure out where he will be next year and what kind of role he wants vs what is available to him…

I’d love to see him humbly come back to the sixers with a matured Dre I if Andre Miller walks…Also the sixers would have to find a way to get Ramon Sessions…

Lou can walk…Willie is expendable, even though I like him more coming off the bench….

With AI you get a catch 22. He’s a proficient scorer who can score in many ways and a pesky defender but he doesn’t share the ball or make the extra pass…as much as we’d like him to…

The thing that makes us marvel at AI is the same that that makes us angry at him.
1. He holds the ball too long…at times.
2. He takes bad shots…at times.

When something GOOD happens after HIS ball-hoggin’ or HIS endless dribbling’ or HIS low-percentage shots or HIS un-timely shots on the 24…when something GOOD happens – it’s ALL GRAVY. When ish aint working, it’s CANCEROUS. Damn this situation sucks. I feel kinda bad for AI. Then, I kinda don’t…sooo maybe the Pistons will play better with him coming off the bench…let’s see…we’ll see…we shall definitely see.

Regardless, I aint sold on any team that beats Boston without Garnett. I DAMN SURE AINT SOLD ON THE PISTONS. So, in my eyes, the win was a good win for the books but in reality, it aint ish. Boston will SMACK that group of a role players in a Bunker Hill minute if they show up in the post-season.

I’ll be back to comment later…sumptin just came up.

Usher was there with a bodyguard who was just jacked and looked like he had shoulder pads on under his suit jacket. (Freakin Usher used to be a big Hawks fan and then the frontrunner jumped on the LeBron bandwagon, with some Cavs ownership. Pisses me off.)

Don’t know what Spike Lee was doing there–a little early recruiting of LeBron?

The calls LeBron got everytime he drove to the well were just ridiculous. No doubt who the NBA’s well-treated cover guy is. That and the d-bag sitting behind me (was hating on everything–Hawks and Cavs; and wearing a Patriots shirt? I think he was some jerk-off ticket broker that got stuck with no sale of his tickets) tainted the night.

Oh, and the Cavs big men suck. Zaza killed them. They should go back after Gooden.