Time for war! Celtics vs Knicks first round thread

[Mr. Brown]

The crazy thing that's not assists per game. That's total

He's taken 137 shots in 5 games

 

[Kang Deezy]

Knicks actually could lose this series

Media gonna be all over them

Melo disrespected

Boston's home crowd gonna be insane

NY ain't built to deal with that, they're a soft team and can't deal with pressure like that...

And if it gets to a game 7, unless ny goes on a huge run to start the game, their fans are just as soft and will be shytting their pants if its close

The crowd for game 6 would be much different than new york's crowd for game 7

Ny fans would probably be booing the Knicks if they don't come out playing well

 

[Carlos Huerta]

Live by the 3, die by the 3. regular season ain't the postseason.
Corny ass nikkas dressed in all black got what they deserved. And fukk Boston btw and the bombings(RIP and respect for the people though), that was no terrorist attack, just nut jobs killing people. 300 kids getting killed in Chiraq all year and I see no damn FBI legion there.

I can't believe these cats actually went there

 

[DStyles]

I jinxed the manhattan hicks again


I'll be betting on them once more

 

[HiphopRelated]

that wearing black shyt is so fukking corny...

nikkas dressed for their own funeral.

I don't think they'll lose, but that would be up there with Tmac's "happy to be in the 2nd round"

 

[Danie84]

A strategy that could work, is Woodson playing Novak every three ending minutes of the first 3 quarters, and draw up spot-up plays for him; so we can get some type of offense from the supposed "sharp shooter" of the league

 

[*Hulks Up*]

the Ether

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/...game-look-like-fools-after-celtics-win-050113

NEW YORK
Having waited longer than he should have, the stink of his performance still lingering at Madison Square Garden, Carmelo Anthony appeared at last clad in black and wearing a smile as false and empty as his game.

The black stood for a funeral, but not the kind he and his tacky teammates had anticipated. It was a funeral for the idea Anthony has shed his postseason underachiever’s skin. A funeral for the notion these Knicks would roll into the second round full of confidence and possibility. A funeral, most surely, for tact and good sense.

So let’s start with that.

Before the game, Kenyon Martin had encouraged his teammates to arrive at the arena dressed in black for a Celtics “funeral.” Perhaps these jokers should have remembered that two weeks ago bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon that killed three people, injured 264 and damaged that city and this country. Perhaps they should have looked at Wednesday’s newspapers and noted that three more men had been arrested in connection with obstruction of justice in the case.

Since that awful day, sports has become for that city a touchstone to recovery and better days and the resilience we always show when the worst comes to us with a fury of hate and blood; since that awful day the notion of the dead and of any kind of funereal mood related to anything Boston took on a meaning and reminder that should have prevented this stupidity.

What were these guys thinking? What was Raymond Felton, still wearing all black when he appeared before the podium after the Celtics’ surprising win to keep the series alive, contemplating? What were 'Melo and Kenyon Martin and J.R. Smith and the other players doing?

It was disrespectful. It was inappropriate. It was wrong-headed. And, even if you want to argue falsely that the two things are not connected – if you want to try to kid yourself that 16 days should be enough for a city to wipe away the blood and scars and pain and let another city mock its mourning – there’s still good sense. A minor clue by any of these players should have been enough to have put a stop to it.

But they didn’t have that. Or composure, especially after the game, when Boston's Jordan Crawford got lippy and some Knicks acted like spoiled kids. Or any real fire in a closeout game that a pretty poor Boston basketball team still won, 92-86. Or the kind of play from the Knicks’ key guys at a time of year when their team rising or falling rests with them.

The New York Knicks: A team that at the most obvious and important of moments serves up bad basketball and bad manners, to say the least.

Now, probably because of both, Boston heads home having closed the gap in the series to 3-2. They probably will not become the first NBA team to win a playoff series after going down 3-0, but it would be a sweet thing to behold if they did. Sweet for that city, for this country, and for a Knicks team that would get the basketball karma it deserves.


To keep that hope alive Wednesday night, Kevin Garnett muscled his way to 18 rebounds, giving him 52 over the past three games, and the Celtics made up for Paul Pierce’s 6-of-19 shooting night by logging five guys with at least 16 points.

And the Knicks? The guys who strolled onto their home turf dressed in black ready to bury Boston?

This was a game in which New York’s two “stars” combined to go 11 for 38. J.R. Smith missed his first 10 shots. In the two games the Knicks have had to close out the Celtics and win the team’s first playoff series in 13 years, Anthony has gone 18 for 59. That’s not a typo. Really. I checked.

Smith offered his own special kind of awfulness to that by finding a way to get himself banned from Game 4 by giving Jason Terry an elbow to the face before returning for Game 5 and making his fans wish he were still suspended.

This is also another huge stumble by Anthony, who has saddled himself with a career in which he and his supporters want to call him a top-3 player despite the fact he has advanced past the first round only one time in his career.

He is the NBA scoring leader, and he is a great athlete, but he is not yet what he purports to be. Stars shine in the postseason. Stars rise to the moment. Stars comfort themselves (usually) with dignity because they are the faces and fixtures of the league. Stars, at least, can close out a No. 7 seed like Boston at home in a big Game 5.

Remember, LeBron James was shredded two years ago for not being able to translate his skill into a title, and for his slew of insensitive and arrogant comments. I’d know. I was right there, pouring on the criticism, giving it where it seemed due.

So what does Carmelo Anthony deserve, if it turns out he can barely close out an over-the-hill Celtics team, if in these big moments he keeps shooting like some crazed chucker without a sense of the game or his own stroke, and if he’s the face and star of a team arrogant and tone-deaf enough to pull the funeral gimmick with Boston – then not at least have the basketball sense to win the game?

He deserves to be called a guy who is unreliable, weak, clueless and not to be relied on. LeBron figured it all out – his game, his life, his image, his sense of himself and his place in the game – and so you could argue 'Melo can too. And he can. But 'Melo ain’t LeBron on the court, and LeBron never did something as off-putting to my eyes as 'Melo and his teammates did Wednesday.

So there 'Melo was after the game, that fake grin plastered on his face as he took the podium, wearing all black. For a funeral. Still. Again.

Someone asked him about Crawford, who’d mouthed off to him after the game.

“I’m not thinking about no Jordan Crawford, not as this point and time, I’ll tell you that,” Anthony said. “ I don’t think he even deserves for you to be typing (about him) right now.”

I looked at 'Melo's line: 8 of 24 for 22 points.

I looked at his clothes: dressed for a funeral for an opponent representing a city that just buried three of its citizens and saw many, many more maimed and bloodied.

And I thought: There’s absolutely someone on that floor who doesn’t deserve for us to be typing about him, but it sure as hell isn’t Jordan Crawford.

Damn this is scathing,I can't believe wearing black suits pissed off this writer that much. Dude shytted on Melo the entire article and seemed to blame him for the funeral gimmick even after he admitted in the article it was Kenyon's idea.

 

[HiphopRelated]

Damn this is scathing,I can't believe wearing black suits pissed off this writer that much. Dude shytted on Melo the entire article and seemed to blame him for the funeral gimmick even after he admitted in the article it was Kenyon's idea.

Melo the leader of the team breh, if he said to dead it, presumably it would have been deaded, that's the way shyt goes.

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

Nets & Hawks fans shouldn't be talking. You're on the brink of elimination & your series could end in the next 48 hours.

Thunder choked away a 3-0 lead as well, but of course people are quiet about them huh?

 

[Carlos Huerta]

Damn this is scathing,I can't believe wearing black suits pissed off this writer that much. Dude shytted on Melo the entire article and seemed to blame him for the funeral gimmick even after he admitted in the article it was Kenyon's idea.

Doesn't matter whose idea it was. Melo is supposed to be the face and the leader of the team.

 

[Kang Deezy]

It's funny to hear jr smith saying celtics were acting like school girls talking after the game

The same jr smith who called Jason terry a no name, who wore black suit to game, who said series would be over had he not been suspended, the same jr smith who was talking shyt the whole game trying to engage the celtics?

Kenyon Martin guarantees series is over, comes up with idea to wear black, then only wants to talk basketball after game?

Knicks aren't built for this and neither are their fans

 

[AVXL]

the Ether

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/...game-look-like-fools-after-celtics-win-050113

NEW YORK
Having waited longer than he should have, the stink of his performance still lingering at Madison Square Garden, Carmelo Anthony appeared at last clad in black and wearing a smile as false and empty as his game.

The black stood for a funeral, but not the kind he and his tacky teammates had anticipated. It was a funeral for the idea Anthony has shed his postseason underachiever’s skin. A funeral for the notion these Knicks would roll into the second round full of confidence and possibility. A funeral, most surely, for tact and good sense.

So let’s start with that.

Before the game, Kenyon Martin had encouraged his teammates to arrive at the arena dressed in black for a Celtics “funeral.” Perhaps these jokers should have remembered that two weeks ago bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon that killed three people, injured 264 and damaged that city and this country. Perhaps they should have looked at Wednesday’s newspapers and noted that three more men had been arrested in connection with obstruction of justice in the case.

Since that awful day, sports has become for that city a touchstone to recovery and better days and the resilience we always show when the worst comes to us with a fury of hate and blood; since that awful day the notion of the dead and of any kind of funereal mood related to anything Boston took on a meaning and reminder that should have prevented this stupidity.

What were these guys thinking? What was Raymond Felton, still wearing all black when he appeared before the podium after the Celtics’ surprising win to keep the series alive, contemplating? What were 'Melo and Kenyon Martin and J.R. Smith and the other players doing?

It was disrespectful. It was inappropriate. It was wrong-headed. And, even if you want to argue falsely that the two things are not connected – if you want to try to kid yourself that 16 days should be enough for a city to wipe away the blood and scars and pain and let another city mock its mourning – there’s still good sense. A minor clue by any of these players should have been enough to have put a stop to it.

But they didn’t have that. Or composure, especially after the game, when Boston's Jordan Crawford got lippy and some Knicks acted like spoiled kids. Or any real fire in a closeout game that a pretty poor Boston basketball team still won, 92-86. Or the kind of play from the Knicks’ key guys at a time of year when their team rising or falling rests with them.

The New York Knicks: A team that at the most obvious and important of moments serves up bad basketball and bad manners, to say the least.

Now, probably because of both, Boston heads home having closed the gap in the series to 3-2. They probably will not become the first NBA team to win a playoff series after going down 3-0, but it would be a sweet thing to behold if they did. Sweet for that city, for this country, and for a Knicks team that would get the basketball karma it deserves.


To keep that hope alive Wednesday night, Kevin Garnett muscled his way to 18 rebounds, giving him 52 over the past three games, and the Celtics made up for Paul Pierce’s 6-of-19 shooting night by logging five guys with at least 16 points.

And the Knicks? The guys who strolled onto their home turf dressed in black ready to bury Boston?

This was a game in which New York’s two “stars” combined to go 11 for 38. J.R. Smith missed his first 10 shots. In the two games the Knicks have had to close out the Celtics and win the team’s first playoff series in 13 years, Anthony has gone 18 for 59. That’s not a typo. Really. I checked.

Smith offered his own special kind of awfulness to that by finding a way to get himself banned from Game 4 by giving Jason Terry an elbow to the face before returning for Game 5 and making his fans wish he were still suspended.

This is also another huge stumble by Anthony, who has saddled himself with a career in which he and his supporters want to call him a top-3 player despite the fact he has advanced past the first round only one time in his career.

He is the NBA scoring leader, and he is a great athlete, but he is not yet what he purports to be. Stars shine in the postseason. Stars rise to the moment. Stars comfort themselves (usually) with dignity because they are the faces and fixtures of the league. Stars, at least, can close out a No. 7 seed like Boston at home in a big Game 5.

Remember, LeBron James was shredded two years ago for not being able to translate his skill into a title, and for his slew of insensitive and arrogant comments. I’d know. I was right there, pouring on the criticism, giving it where it seemed due.

So what does Carmelo Anthony deserve, if it turns out he can barely close out an over-the-hill Celtics team, if in these big moments he keeps shooting like some crazed chucker without a sense of the game or his own stroke, and if he’s the face and star of a team arrogant and tone-deaf enough to pull the funeral gimmick with Boston – then not at least have the basketball sense to win the game?

He deserves to be called a guy who is unreliable, weak, clueless and not to be relied on. LeBron figured it all out – his game, his life, his image, his sense of himself and his place in the game – and so you could argue 'Melo can too. And he can. But 'Melo ain’t LeBron on the court, and LeBron never did something as off-putting to my eyes as 'Melo and his teammates did Wednesday.

So there 'Melo was after the game, that fake grin plastered on his face as he took the podium, wearing all black. For a funeral. Still. Again.

Someone asked him about Crawford, who’d mouthed off to him after the game.

“I’m not thinking about no Jordan Crawford, not as this point and time, I’ll tell you that,” Anthony said. “ I don’t think he even deserves for you to be typing (about him) right now.”

I looked at 'Melo's line: 8 of 24 for 22 points.

I looked at his clothes: dressed for a funeral for an opponent representing a city that just buried three of its citizens and saw many, many more maimed and bloodied.

And I thought: There’s absolutely someone on that floor who doesn’t deserve for us to be typing about him, but it sure as hell isn’t Jordan Crawford.

How many L's will these NY nikkaz take?

Even though Melo has won 3 games this postseason, don't forget he came in with the worst playoff winning percentage EVER. Fat boy ain't used to being a winner brehs.

@ 6 assists for Fat Boy in 5 games

 

[Carlos Huerta]

It's funny to hear jr smith saying celtics were acting like school girls talking after the game

The same jr smith who called Jason terry a no name, who wore black suit to game, who said series would be over had he not been suspended, the same jr smith who was talking shyt the whole game trying to engage the celtics?

Smfh

yeah the same dumbass that elbowed Terry and really helped put his team in this position too.

 

[Carlos Huerta]

How many L's will these NY nikkaz take?

Even though Melo has won 3 games this postseason, don't forget he came in with the worst playoff winning percentage EVER. Fat boy ain't used to being a winner brehs.

@ 6 assists for Fat Boy in 5 games

seriously though.. you're a fanboy at this point. You ride Carmelo's dikk in all positions

 

[*Hulks Up*]

Melo the leader of the team breh, if he said to dead it, presumably it would have been deaded, that's the way shyt goes.

That's a good point, you can't call yourself a leader and follow suit.

I really don't know what to make of this, I have no problem with the all black, it just shows their confidence.