Comments on: Mavs Make Game 2 A Distant Memory By Touncing The Thunder

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 22 May 2011 22:44:23 +0000

About James Harden “flopping,” Harden has a sore on his forehead. That’s why he wears a hairband, to hide the sore. I maybe wrong, but I’ll bet Tyson Chandler swung his elbow right across the sore, and that’s why Harden fell in pain.

By: Lynn1

Lynn1 — Sun, 22 May 2011 16:37:02 +0000

Its a shame that our best players in this series, don’t see the court till the end of the first period.

John Hollinger has it right on today, if anyone has not seen his analysis, here it is

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2011/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=mavericks-thunderG3-110522

Tyson Chandler is playing Perkins like a cheap guitar.

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 22 May 2011 13:46:41 +0000

Great write-up Darnell. Too much that I found myself nodding my head in agreement with to list, but three things stand out the most.

First, the outstanding observation about Westbrook’s reaction after missing that jump-shot. You’re right that it won’t make it onto SportsCenter, but it darn well should after what happened in Game 2. Second, Nick Freaking Collison. Nick. Freaking. Collison. And third, putting Ibaka on Chandler and letting Collison get after it with Dirk.

Nick was my MVP for the Grizzlies series, and if they come back to win this one, he’ll be in the running for MVP again, the way he’s playing. At this rate, Nowitski will need to call up Zach Randolph about how to deal with all those sleep-disrupting Nick Collison nightmares.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 22 May 2011 13:00:16 +0000

This is going to sound strange but I think you can take some confidence from that game (aside from losing home court advantage which doesn’t seem to matter in this series). I mean absolutely everything went Dallas’ way in the 1st quarter and NOTHING the Thunder’s, and yet Dallas still only wins by 6 measly points. Thunder gotta think they can avoid that sort of start going forward.

By: LP

LP — Sun, 22 May 2011 11:04:03 +0000

“I ain’t know if everybody else knew what kind of fight we was gon be in tonight, but I knew what kind of fight we it was gon be.”

What? I’m glad we don’t pay Perkins for his grammar.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 22 May 2011 07:58:22 +0000

at this point, the only way the Thunder can win this series is to make a starting line-up change, and to give ibaka/collison 30+ min on the floor together each game. Perkins value is zero in this series, since he can’t keep chandler from being his menacing, athletic self, and the other big is a legendary perimeter big man (Dirk). I’d like to see him insert Harden and Collison into the starting 5, and bring Thabo off the bench to match up with Terry, and Perk to match up with Haywood. plus, it would allow Serge to play rotating help D, which is his specialty, and something that Perk has been terrible at this series, due to his lack of ability to, you know, move his feet. This will never happen, though. he’s only in the business of messing with the rotation when Russ is involved…