Hopefully for both our teams it ends up being a case of one man's trash is another man's treasure.

That would be truly awesome.

As a Pacers fan during the "Dark Age" of the nasty boys, I think Jacks still has some left in the tank. He's NEVER shyed away from guarding the best player on the other team, and he's only a few years removed from his best seasons. He doesn't need to carry the load anymore.

He's not what he used to be, but Spurs don't win that first game w/o his defense on KD in the 4th.

As for his attitude, if ANY player is on a winning team, the fans love them. But as soon as they start losing, the fans turn on them. It's the business of pro sports. Artest was liked in Sacramento when he first showed up because he gave them a little hope, same as when he went to Houston and they FINALLY got out of the first round. And recently, LA as well.

hey look! the first foul on Mamai so far...

Hey look! An illiterate Boston fan!

Haters gonna hate! Ready for the Sig bet this year Mal?

I actually really like OKC in the west. Them and the Grizzlies are quickly becoming my favorite west teams.

Stephen Jackson & Ron Artest are pathetic human beings...

I wonder if he meant for his screen name to be RealIQ, but misspelled it RealIk... That would be funny.

Oh yeah, and GO HEAT!

It's easier for me to deal with people whom are being rude if someone reporting the post doesn't decide to follow up with their own... retort..
*edit* neglect the above 2 lines, I t was a 5am mistake.. But the point remains, use the report post button and not sling insults back..

So from here out consider this a warning to anyone tossing rude comments back and forth.. Next time infractions for anyone who wants to insult their fellow posters..

I know in sports threads you're going to get some back and forth "trash talking" but we can do it in a less personal level for sure.

Sorry, but I never reported that post, so please don't paint me there. The post I reported was from a spammer, and I would expect you as a mod to know the difference. So please, go back and research that and come back and tell the truth this time. I didn't need to report it because I handled it on my own. You want to quote me and make me look like a tool. Not good form my man. I also have a PM box iif you want to say something more to me and I'll be glad to address you there.

You are correct.. A slip up at my part at 5 am.. my apologies..
Regardless.
The warning in the thread remains intact.
Report the post instead of slinging insults back.
Since I doubt you nor the original insulter wants a warning from this thread, consider this the "warning" that doesn't officially show on either of your records.

Sorry, but I didn't feel the thread warranted a report. I answered and put him on ignore and moved on and got an unofficial warning for it. Classy. And yeah, now you can go ahead and give me a real warning for your "5 AM slip up," that you are now trying to save face with.

Maybe now we can get back to actually dissecting some games and players.

I think Stephen Jackson had a world of talent back in the day, and he's still a very viable option. I don't know what happened to Artest. I saw him play when Univ of Miami was still in the Big East and St. John's came down here to the Arena. He was amazing back then and was the last graduating class from St John's that meant anything.

Back to last night's Heat Celtics game. I've been hearing on the TV and radio this morning about the disparity in foul calls and not one person has referenced the words of Doc Rivers and his players following their game 1 loss. Basically, "No more easy baskets." So the Heat which has driving slashing players get fouled as they go to the rim and hit the foul line for almost 20 more attempts than the Celtics. Mission accomplished guys.

The fans and the talking heads need to stop complaining about the disparity and check to see what really happened. The Celts did exactly what they said they would and now fans and media are asking questions about Lebron taking almost as many free throws as the entire Boston team.

Didn't watch the game but that is a lot of disparity between calls.
Boston fans noted Rondo getting hammered on a drive to the basket in OT that didn't get called as one of the more important biased non-calls where the stats are already high. Basketball had a noted ref situation a few years ago so I'd say its a legit complaint.

Hockey has had a few games that drove me berzerk because the power play disparity was 8 to 1 for the home team. That referee crew didn't get to do any rounds of next year's playoffs because of that.

That was a bad non-call, but that's the only one. Most times bad calls even out over the course of the game. Just before that play, or maybe just after, Rondo mugged Lebron on a play where they called a jump ball. The refs called the jump ball, but before that happened, Rondo had reached around and it was obvious it was a foul. Then Garnett came over and Rondo reached around a second time and this time got ball and the refs called a jump ball. It really could have gone the other way as well.

Gotta say though, what was up with Rondo last night? He played out of his mind in a way I hadn't seen since Wade took over the Dallas series when the Heat won the championship. That was a phenomenal game he played.

Does anybody know what dejuan Blair did to wind up in pops doghouse? He had 2 great games against okc this yr and hasn't been played in the playoffs very much. He started more games than any spur till diaw showed up and is at least as good as splitter (hack the Blair isn't as good as hack tiago)

I'm not hating on Blair. I wanted him here in Indy, but you don't play a 6'6" center in the playoffs, consistently (I don't care what the team has his listed height as, he's maybe 6'7" max).