BS: NBA (basketball) 2018 playoffs

Subject: RE: BS: NBA (basketball) 2018 playoffs
From: gillymor
Date: 22 Apr 19 - 06:30 PM

It's only the first round but the Celts look like their coming together at the right time. What a pleasure to watch a couple of smoothies like Irving and Hayward.

Subject: RE: BS: NBA (basketball) 2018 playoffs
From: keberoxu
Date: 22 Apr 19 - 05:44 PM

The Celtics have now put paid to the Pacers.
We'll see how Brad Stevens holds up.

Subject: RE: BS: NBA (basketball) 2018 playoffs
From: Neil D
Date: 20 Apr 19 - 11:12 PM

Well keberoxu, I think your Celtics can probably make the finals this year, IF Kyrie stays healthy. The Sixers aren't always on the same page and Toronto's Kyle Lowery has a tendency to disappear in the playoffs. As for the Bucks, Antetokounmpo will probably be the MVP but that team leans too heavily on him and he is already showing fatigue only 2 games into the "second season".
My Lebronless Cavs didn't get in the playoffs but maybe we'll get lucky in the lottery and win the Zion Williamson sweepstakes. I'm pulling for Portland in this playoff for no other reason than CJ McCollum being from my hometown.
But, sorry to say no one, not the Blazers, nor the Rockets, nor the Celts are going to keep Golden State from winning yet another championship. Ho-hum.

Subject: RE: BS: NBA (basketball) 2018 playoffs
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Apr 19 - 06:47 PM

Another year, another play-off season.

The play-offs at the moment in Boston
are ice hockey, for the Stanley Cup.

As for the Boston Celtics, there is a play-off matchup with
the Indiana Pacers.

In USA Today, an interesting interview was printed between
Boston's coach Brad Stevens and
an Indiana journalist, Gregg Doyel.
The better to do an indepth piece,
Doyel left Indiana and went to Boston, where
he joined Brad Stevens at the Celtics' practice facility.
I'll see if I can make a link --
the interview clicks, between journalist and subject,
the conversation gets below the surface
of Brad Stevens' self-deprecating presentation
as he discloses the internal motivation for his own progress as a coach.

Gregg Doyel interviews Brad Stevens

Subject: RE: BS: NBA (basketball) 2018 playoffs
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Jun 18 - 01:22 PM

Wonders never cease.
The NBA champions this year are the Golden State Warriors.
They swept the finals,
consistently defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James.

It figures that I would be visiting the State of Arizona
when the Boston area, where I live,
is savoring Cleveland's defeat
after Cleveland defeated the Boston Celtics.

Subject: RE: BS: NBA (basketball) 2018 playoffs
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Jun 18 - 11:15 PM

It's the playoff finals.
Currently the beginning of June,
and Game 1 has been played already.
The Golden State Warriors won in overtime.
The Cleveland Cavaliers were very grouchy about it.

So now we see if
the finalist teams wrap this up in three games,
or if it progresses
to six/seven games.

Subject: RE: BS: NBA (basketball) 2018 playoffs
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 May 18 - 01:25 PM

Now that the Boston fans have calmed down,
the ones with longer memories
are recalling days of yore
when the NBA playoffs matched the long-ago Celtics with the L A Lakers.

And there was some high-pitched yammering from the sportscaster
on the local news station this morning,
remarking that some kind of record is being set
by the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors,
about how many playoffs in a row have come down to those two teams.

Subject: RE: BS: NBA (basketball) 2018 playoffs
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 May 18 - 12:28 PM

Last year, when the Cleveland Cavaliers rose to prominence,
one of the big stories about them was
coach Blatt. He is a Cleveland native
and had gone on to coach basketball in Israel,
where he is something of a sports hero.
So when the Cleveland Cavaliers made him their coach, it was a big deal:
local boy makes good, big homecoming, and so on.
However coach Blatt and LeBron James did NOT get on with each other.
LeBron James stayed, Blatt lost the job.

Not sure where Blatt is today.

Subject: RE: BS: NBA (basketball) 2018 playoffs
From: gillymor
Date: 28 May 18 - 11:33 AM

These things are hard to predict but the future looks bright for the Celts.They went a long way in the playoffs without their 2 best players, some of their youngsters really stepped up and they have one of the best coaches around. I admire LeBron and acknowledge his greatness but I was pulling for a Boston\Houston final just for a change. But what the hey, my Caps are in the Stanley Cup finals.

Subject: RE: BS: NBA (basketball) 2018 playoffs
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 May 18 - 10:22 AM

Well, there is no joy in Mudville, to switch basketball for a baseball metaphor (Casey at the Bat).
LeBron James was too much for the Boston Celtics in the end,
and the Cleveland Cavaliers continue in the playoffs;
Boston will have to watch the rest of the playoffs from the benches and the stands.
Well, someone had to. And the Celtics went through this last year.


Tonight is the divisional Game 7 tie-breaker for the Western conference,
which is a home game for the Houston Rockets
versus the Golden State (California) Warriors.
Whoever wins THAT
has to beat LeBron James and Cleveland
to win the NBA playoffs.

Subject: BS: NBA (basketball) 2018 playoffs
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 May 18 - 09:19 PM

While I am a non-sport nerd, I do live near Boston,
and Boston is nuts for sports.
Right now the NBA playoffs for this year are
in, I think, the divisional phase.
And it's personal for the NBA professional team
called the Boston Celtics, pronounced Seltics, by the way.

Last year the basketball team in green jerseys
was trounced by LeBron James's Cleveland Cavaliers.
Guess what ...
the two teams have been duking it out for six straight games
and tonight, as we speak,
is the tie-breaking seventh game.

It has all the makings of a shoot-out --
LeBron is seemingly more than human;
his team isn't so bad either.
But the Celtics have got the fire in their tummies
and they are fighting back.
Let's see what happens.