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144320.18 in reply to 144320.11
Date: 5/21/2010 10:44:13 PM
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Rondo could after a season of chemistry...
He is a cerebral player who knows how to use his" pieces "

I'm salivating for this final.. I think bos v LA are evenly matched

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Date: 5/22/2010 12:30:47 AM
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It should be a good championship series, but i think kobe and pau are too good and the lakers take it in 5 or 6

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Date: 5/22/2010 7:46:27 AM
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Gasol is gonna eat garnett alive

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Date: 5/22/2010 10:52:21 AM
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Like D Howard? lol

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Date: 5/22/2010 1:55:51 PM
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dwight howard is worse than mbenga offensively

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Date: 5/22/2010 3:38:12 PM
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This is probably the best argument I have heard thus far. and I agree??? But for arguments sake if a coach is great why can't they take a bad team and make them great. Phil Jackson has never won a championship nor coached anywhere without superstar stud players. Did he make them great or did they make him appear great. Hard to tell.

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Date: 5/22/2010 4:19:07 PM
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Phil Jackson, though he has never coached a tam full of bad players, is the oil on the teams he has coached. Think about the level of egos he's had to put up with and consider how those teams have performed with him as their coach. Can you imagine the Lakers and the Bulls, two teams with such high levels of egomaniacal bastards being able to put aside their egos on the court with any other coach besides Phil? I'm not sure of his ability to take a bad team and make them better but there is no denying that without Phil Jackson on the Bulls or the Lakers that we would be talking about these two teams to this day with the level of respect we give them.

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Date: 5/22/2010 4:55:00 PM
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Well first of all you arent gonna win without superstar players. And I believe the reason no coach can make a bad team that much better and make them great is because there are other great coaches out there with teams that are better and so as good as that bad team gets they won't be able to compete fully with an already great team. I don't think there's really 1 or 2 coaches that are just plain "the best", and it's harder to compare one coach's skills to another, than one players skills to another. Mostly because there are more tangible factors to compare between players than coaches. For example you can compare win, championships etc. for coaches, but players have those stats as well as their in-game stats.

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Date: 5/22/2010 10:07:50 PM
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I think Goats may be on to something Phil's Zen personality is the calm on the storm of egos he has managed. Good point

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Date: 5/23/2010 11:00:26 AM
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Lakers have yet to play anything resembling strong interior defense in these playoffs. Meanwhile the Celtics have made Howard look like a high schooler, held Rashard Lewis to 15 total points and generally stomped on the souls of the Magic.

Boston/LA is going to be a great series, maybe even historically great. The fact is the Celtics play much tougher defense than LA or any team for that matter, and that gives them an edge. I think the series will go 6 or 7 games and the Celtics will win. Although the way the C's have demolished the two best records in the NBA I wouldn't be shocked if they won in fewer games.

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Date: 5/23/2010 2:00:56 PM
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Youre funny that gave me quite a laugh. The Lakers have played great defense at times when they want to. We havn't played against Dwight Howard so it's less noticable but our interior defense is strong. When the Lakers really want and need to win there's no stopping them. Did you see game 5 against the Thunder? I'm not saying Thunder is nearly as good as Boston but they are a good offensive team and we just completely shut them down that game. The only weakness the Lakers have is defending the pick'n'roll, but we have been improving and I don't think it will be a problem against the Celtics because rondo doesn't shoot outside. Celtics can still run it with ray allen and paul pierce but I think we'll be fine. Gasol is going to make KG his bitch, and Artest is going to keep PP under 20 points. I say Lakers in 5 or 6.

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