GAME THREAD: Round 1, Game 1 - Blazers @ Mavericks, 4.16.11, 6:30 PM

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  1. Entity

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    Pizza ordered, game streaming from ESPN3.com (we don't have cable), family present... okay. I think we're good to go.
     
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    It's going to be a ticky tack game then.
     
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    If this is the way they're gonna call the game, then we're fucked.
     
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    So can we finally put away the myth that playoff basketball is tougher and the refs let more go? It's complete bullshit and totally untrue.

    I can already tell how this series is going to go.
     
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    But the Mavs were the underdogs! Or so they told me.
     
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    :check: Though I'm ok with us being angry and aggressive. Better than laid-back and down by 20
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    LMA is doing great defense, but Dirk is the king of hitting ridiculously hard shots.
     
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    I'm also ok with Dirk taking one-legged fallaways. He'll get his share, but I love that LMA's making him go away from his drive-your-shoulder-in-to-get-space jumper
     
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    WOOOO LA!
     
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    What's funny, and what I envisioned, is that Rice just talked about the UCLA high post play. I envisioned it with with LMA at the high post, though, and Oden in the low post. How much has LMA changed his game? WOW
     
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    L TRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNN
     
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    B-Roy If it takes months

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    The LaBeast is back.
     
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    I love seeing LaMonster. This is the man I"ve been screaming for for 3 years. Whether LMA, or Nate, or whoever else got him into the paint and dropping hooks, half-hooks, and dunks...mucho props.
     
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    Single coverage (especially with Dirk) on LA is not gonna stop him. Easy pickins.
     
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    No kidding.
     
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    Dirk already getting chippy with LMA. Wait until Nate rotates Batum and Wallace on him from time to time.
     
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    BTW, is there anyone that's going to benefit from the longer timeouts and no back-to-backs than 40-45mpg LMA?
     
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    Or, he was a project, as he was advertised when drafted, and he is now near a completed project. I never understood those of you who spent years bitching about him. Sometimes, it takes a post player longer to develop. I like that LMA started outside, and worked inside. Many post players never are able to stretch the defense, because they never develop an outside game. LMA gets alley-oops because teams have to respect the pick and pop, or the 15' wing jumper.
     
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    When the hell did Jason Kidd become Steve Nash?
     
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