Western Conference Semifinals: (1) San Antonio vs. (5) Portland

Robin Lopez is a better coach than McHale.

 

Welp.

 

What Lopez said is not news, a lot people here (often labeled as LOF) had said that during regular season, the answer was sth. like "superstar gonna ISO".

 

Also, lol at Blazer fans trashing Rocket fans the entire season and praising Spurs fans...meanwhile as they get blown out, get trolled by Spurs fans...

 

sigh*

Its so painfully obvious to every person with a sane mind.

 

I would have Lopez coach the Rockets than McHale.

 

Hate to say that but Lopez is so dam right.

 

Lopez laying truth bombs.

 

What a freaking waste. We'd be right in that game. We should be there, not them

 

I rewound TNT and Robin actually started to say there wasn't any defensive pressure in our series. Quickly corrected himself to say "not as much."

 

That's not really what we were getting screwed on, yes those things happen but it wasn't what was happening.

Asik did that maybe once a game, Dwight too (he happened tog et all ball in game 6 and got called for a foul, whoda thunk it, Duncan does that swipe down all the time mind you)

Aldridge does this move where he buries his shoulder into the defender's chest (a lot of post players do it, heck Dwight does it), the calls on that move were so bad that even Hubie started calling it out. What does it take for him to call out the refs like that? Really ****ing awful one sided officiating. We had 3 fouls on both of them by half time and we had actually committed a grand total of 1 real foul between them.

On one hand we have people saying, Harden needs to get used to the refs not calling pushes in the playoffs and on the other we're being told that you're not even allowed to hold your position against a player's shoulder drop. Does the contradictory nature of what's going on with these two get lost in translation or something?

Dwight gets a technical for walking to the free throw line, whereas Blazers players were doing automatic t's like running away from the foul or arguing incessantly with the refs and nothing, both sides of the court simply weren't being reffed the same way.

 

this has been one gut punch after another. lose to portland. mchale is brought back. spurs showing how basketball is played (also showing how weak the blazers really are). then that lopez comment.

 

There's only 1 answer.

 

Spurs >>>> Rockets

 

water is wet.

What makes it so bad in the end is that this team is willing to continue on the road to failure...even when its so blatant what the flaws are.

 

I am trying to imagine this series but with McH coaching the Spurs.

I am thinking it'd be like the Rockets but with Parker playing
the JHarden part and Duncan playing the DHoward part.
So more ISOs, posting up.

Quite amazing to see ABaynes (who?) being able to guard LMA.

I take it he'd be like our DMo except he'd be sitting on the bench.

Pity McH seems like such a nice guy. Cos I feel bad thinking
that he should be replaced by a more competent coach.

 

Imagine Pop was coaching our roster? That's all I gotta say.

 

I really hope Spurs sweep them. 3 more to go.

I don't even want to talk about our series with them. The amount of BS calls was laughable.

 

Lol. I knew the Spurs would demolish Portland. I'm not watching this series because I'm still too pissed off at the NBA, but I'll be glad to watch the Blazers go down in 4-5 games.

 

sirbaihu (or something like that)