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Post by Two-Tone on Jun 18, 2010 1:17:02 GMT -5
I know this might not apply to some of our international users here but the game 7 finals just ended a couple of hours ago and ..
LAKERS WIN! LAKERS WIN!
and yes I'm a happy pup to see the Lakers go back to back
congratulations L.A. Lakers! 2010 NBA Champions!
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Post by xardas on Jun 18, 2010 2:02:26 GMT -5
I'm not really a fan of basketball but I was rooting for the Celtics. I like underdogs, and despite the fact that the media kept saying that they were too "old", they beat some of the best teams and forced a game seven with the Lakers. However, at least Ron Artest doesn't have to own up to his " If the Lakers don't repeat, blame me." statement he made last year. I've been a fan of him ever since he attacked the fans.
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Post by RaceFanX on Jun 18, 2010 8:58:47 GMT -5
And I've HATED Artest ever since he attacked those Detroit Pistons fans...BECAUSE THOSE WERE MY TEAM'S FANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Personally I skipped this series, I hate both the Lakers and the post-Bird and McHale Celtics. Still congradulations to L.A., at least that traitor Rasheed Wallace doesn't get another ring.
*Imagines of TT in Lakers gold and purple with one of those big "We're #1" foam fingers*
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Post by Two-Tone on Jun 18, 2010 19:48:13 GMT -5
hehe interesting idea RaceFan and yeah this series was all about payback, payback one for Rasheed Wallace since he was part of the Pistons team that ended the Lakers run in the finals in 2003 (I think) and of course this was also payback on Boston for the 2008 finals
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Post by RaceFanX on Jun 18, 2010 22:32:52 GMT -5
2003-04 actually for that Pistons team...and for the record we still talk about that here how our little team of nobodys (serious best guys the Pistons had that year were Ben Wallace and Chauncey Billups) took on the big bad stacked Lakers with Shaq, Kobe, Gary Peyton and special retiring guest star Karl Malone and kicked their teeth in for five straight games (The Lakers won game 2 in LA but that was only a lucky win in overtime after Kobe forced OT with an insanely lucky buzzerbeater). Ironically the Pistons have three NBA titles and two of them came by whooping up on some of the greatest LA Lakers teams in history (The other was 1988-89, where the "Bad Boy" era Pistons led by Joe Dumars, Isiah Thomas, Bill Lambieer and an unbelievably still somewhat sane Dennis Rodman shut down "Showtime" with Magic Johnson, James Worthy and a retiring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in four, putting an end to the Lakers dream of a three-peat). Of course the Pistons have done very little lately though...
The fact that LA dismantled their team after the 2004 title loss (Shaq was traded, Peyton left too, Karl retired) but rebuilt a whole new group and is still winning titles just shows how much they focus on winning. They are the the NY Yankees of the NBA. Just a shame every time the Lakers win a title a good deal of drunk fans decide to riot as a celebration. Oui.
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Post by Two-Tone on Jun 18, 2010 23:46:19 GMT -5
yeah, I remember Shaq tanking that game intentionally cause he didnt get the contract he wanted, but that was the past
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Post by Cadpig the LPS/FIM Fan on Jun 21, 2010 20:00:13 GMT -5
My sport has always and been always a baseball fan. Frankly I didn't watch the Finals but I frankly wanted the Celtics to win. I don't know why I don't really consider them the "Underdog" though. I don't know why but they just don't seem like Underdogs to me.
In my opinion a Underdog is a team is a team that's been doing poor beats a team doing really well. I'm gonna use a baseball analogy in this .
Let's say the Yankees take on the Washington Nationals(The worst team in baseball right now) in a 3 game series. The Nationals would be considered the Underdog.
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Post by RaceFanX on Jun 21, 2010 20:48:16 GMT -5
Actually if Stephen Strasburg's pitching that would be closer than you think. The Nats have a hot one there.
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Post by Cadpig the LPS/FIM Fan on Jun 21, 2010 20:58:49 GMT -5
Yeah, that's true. Stephen Strausberg looks like he is the real deal.And this Bryce Harper kid they got also looks real great as well. Strausberg has proved to me that he is a good pitcher. I don't think I have seen him enough to say he's one of the best but the kid has promise.
A better comparison to an underdog may have been the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Post by thunderbolt2019 on Aug 29, 2022 2:47:19 GMT -5
bump
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