"Yeah, we’re down 1-2 but there’s nobody on this team (that thinks), definitely not myself that thinks we’re not going to win the series," [Mo Williams] said. "Yeah, it’s going to be tough. We know that. We get this game tomorrow and we go home, we have home court advantage. We don’t see ourselves losing two-out-of-three at home."
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I think he's a lot better at talking than playing basketball
We Are All Believers
by Stan in a Van (Down by the River) on May 25, 2009 8:28 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
LOL Stan
Especially with the performance he’s turned in so far this series.
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No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
I can't wait to see what Brian Windhorst has to say about this
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
Yeah I read his article today about Mo's mouth.
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by Stan in a Van (Down by the River) on May 25, 2009 8:44 PM EDT up reply actions
That doesn't even include this current quote
I was curious what he has to say ABOUT THIS. Especially after what you linked to above in the comment above this one Stan. Mo, after the game, and frustrated, is one thing. But, a day later? Dude, grow up.
But, I would say the same thing to Dwight Howard who keeps talking about dis-respect on his own blog. Hell, if Henry Abbott hadn’t linked to it, I probably wouldn’t have read it. It was pretty comical in it’s own right.
I agree with Kelly Dwyer: Each side should shut the fuck up already and get down with the hoop. Histrionics aside, this series has been an incredible one to watch.
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
I gotcha I meant that too =)
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by Stan in a Van (Down by the River) on May 25, 2009 9:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Fair enough Stan
I just wanted to make that clear for anyone else.
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No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
This probably sounds like a biased comment but ..
.. Dwight’s issue with the media is a bit more valid than Mo spouting his mouth off.
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Turk from "Fear The Sword" here
I agree with Dwyer as well, pookey. I’m not a big fan of Mo running his mouth here, especially when he’s shooting 15% under his season averages. That said, I think we’ve still got a good series to go.
Also, wanted to let you guys know you have a great site going here. Best of luck.
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by Turkmenbashi on May 25, 2009 11:15 PM EDT up reply actions
What I'm tired of Turk is
Commenting on this site, and seeing anywhere of 300-500 comments about the refs out of 1500 a night where effort and intelligence play the biggest part of the game.
And, it’s not just here at 3QC. I see it constantly at StR during the season where fans there would constantly complain about refs. I wish more fans would just back off that tact. I really would.
Fans of the NBA complain more about the officiating than any sport, and it’s largely because of players like LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Dwight Howard, Paul Pierce, etc etc etc. It’s gotta stop!
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
by pookeyguru on May 26, 2009 1:03 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm also tired of the David Stern conspiracy theories
But, thats an entirely different conversation.
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
To be honest, I think things have gotten better. You can’t tell me that the refs weren’t blatantly helping out the Bulls in ‘98, or the Lakers during their title runs a few years later. You can’t. You can say maybe it wasn’t because the league told them to — and I have no specific reason to believe that the league did so. But I don’t think anyone could watch those games and escape the conclusion that the calls were going consistently in the favor of the teams that ended up winning.
But to be honest, I haven’t seen anything near that magnitude in the last five or six years. I’ve seen stars get calls; I’ve seen the home team get calls. I’ve seen some games that were just badly officiated in general. But I don’t believe I’ve seen a case where the refs were consistently slanted toward one team. And that makes sense, given how badly the Lakers situation damaged the league’s credibility in the early 2000s. Once it became common even among casual fans to suggest that the league was slanting the series, I am willing to bet the NBA has taken great pains to keep their refs from even doing anything that could give anyone the impression that might be the case.
I mean, I think people would complain about calls anyway, just like baseball fans complain about umpires, or football fans argue about penalties. But that’s a bit different — you rarely if ever see a baseball fan saying, “Bud Selig told the umpires to give the Yankees an extra inch on the strike zone”, or whatever.
Yeah, and we broke your damn shot clock too.
Amen.
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Agreed... good comment
"Why not us... why not now?"
by Mike from Illinois on May 26, 2009 1:19 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, lets hope it stays that way!
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by Stan in a Van (Down by the River) on May 25, 2009 8:49 PM EDT up reply actions
And that's saying a lot...
…given that what is he even talking about? I don’t see the Cavs losing two out of three at home either — if only because they only have two games left at home.
Yeah, and we broke your damn shot clock too.
Let him talk.
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"Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement." - Michael Corleone
SVG Quote of the year...
Magic coach Stan Van Gundy, meanwhile, bristled at the suggestion that Johnson’s blow to the face of Williams was anything more than inadvertent. He said it’s the Cavs who are trying to win by bending the rules.
“I’m upset at the number of times they are flopping,” Van Gundy said. “Mo Williams and Ben Wallace are falling down more than a baby just learning to walk.”
That's one of the funniest coaches comments I've ever heard
Well, besides the obvious funny stuff that always gets linked to. Phil Jackson’s comments during playoff time (like calling Sacramento a cowtown—thanks Phil!), or Jim Mora’s saying "Playoffs? Playoffs? I just wanna win a game!
Ah, SVG, the quote maestro.
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
by pookeyguru on May 25, 2009 9:06 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Link?
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Thanks, Ben.
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this quote cracks me up
“There is nothing personal at all,” Johnson said. “That play in Cleveland, he tried to steal the ball and it’s my job to get open. I don’t remember elbowing him at all. I just remember falling on the old people in the front row. But, it’s nothing personal.”
Close.
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Williams must be a little confused
this isn’t like the all-star game where you whine and complain and then after few people get injured you finally get what you want. You have to earn it in the NBA Playoffs…and it’s been primarily his failure to be a legitimate second option that’s the reason his team is down 2-1.
.. he just needs to play and stop talking.
I understand that he’s confident in his team, but Mo has been a little too out-spoken to the media.
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Williams is just giving the Magic more bulletin board material
…as if the Magic don’t have enough motivation already to win the series.
"Why not us... why not now?"
by Mike from Illinois on May 25, 2009 10:14 PM EDT reply actions
Mo has been talking way too much.
.. Orlando is pissed off as it is with the LeBron v. Kobe talk.
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"Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement." - Michael Corleone
Most people aren't happy with all the Kobe v. LeBron talk.
Both of those teams fans are certain that their player is better, and the rest of their league claims ‘disrespect’ and such.
As for me, I try not to let Nike control my thoughts:)
"It's difficult to win when you're outscored in every quarter." -Bill Walton
by betterthanburke on May 25, 2009 11:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Word. I don't worry about it either.
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I own close to 100 pairs of nikes
so i guess they are very present in my thoughts (they dont control them though, lol)
all we ahve to worry about is going up 3-1 tonight. so amped!
by nowuseemenowudont on May 26, 2009 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions
oniomania
maybe borderline, but im pretty responsible. no debt problems and i dont live check to check. in fact i recently bought a condo in nyc and im getting married in the fall. the wife hates all the sneaker boxes but shes just got to live with it
by nowuseemenowudont on May 26, 2009 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions
im an addict
cant say it any other way. maybe its my new york city upbringing but im a sneaker head. if its not nike sb’s or air max’s, its ferragamo and gucci loafers.
i stay fresh head to toe
by nowuseemenowudont on May 26, 2009 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah.
Honestly, these people need to quit. It is silly to act like Kobe is one of the two best players in the league.
Yeah, and we broke your damn shot clock too.
He's not .. no disrespect to Kobe.
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No disrespect at all — he’s definitely top-5. And you can argue that he’s better than Dwight, or Chris Paul, if only because that’s such an impossible comparison to make. But I think you can compare him fairly directly to Wade, and Wade is better right now. And they’re all at least a couple paces behind LeBron.
Yeah, and we broke your damn shot clock too.
Kobe is top five, sure.
.. but statistically, it’s LeBron/Wade/CP3 .. you can switch Wade or CP3, then it’s Dwight/Kobe, again, you can switch Dwight/Kobe. But that’s the top five, in that basic order.
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I like how it parallels his first statement,
that they wouldn’t lose to the Magic four times, but his numbers are shrinking lol
"It's difficult to win when you're outscored in every quarter." -Bill Walton
by betterthanburke on May 25, 2009 10:20 PM EDT reply actions
Oh well.
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The Cavs haven't figured out how to play the Magic
For the season, the Cavs shot 46.8%. In the three regular-season games against Orlando, they shot a combined 41.6%. Their three-point shooting did improve from 39.3% to 43.4%, but their scoring average dropped from 100.3 to 90.7. Their bad shooting (44.0% overall, 25.7% from 3) in the playoff series isn’t really a fluke – it’s a consistent problem they have playing against Orlando.
"And this he knows if nothing more
That waiting in the dark like destiny
Are those who kissed the dogs of war
And there is no tomorrow."
.. just a matchup problem for them.
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right on.
Big time. Very frustrating, but the truth.
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by scottsargent on May 26, 2009 8:26 AM EDT up reply actions
I sympathize, because the Magic had problems with the Celtics.
That’s the playoffs. It’s all about matchups.
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I didn't want to have to do this, but....he left me no choice
yay MS Paint
I'm a girl.
by TheGiantSquid on May 26, 2009 1:48 AM EDT reply actions 3 recs
I love it TGS
Evil Cowtown Inc: Screwin' Suckaz over since Nineteen Eighty-Five.....
No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. Simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get all tangled up, you just tango on.....
well,it looks like they don't see anything bad happening to them
but it’s still happening. have a better look,cavs,and maybe you’ll start to see things
I like Mo's quote about AJ only playing 12 minutes a game
Mo would be lucky to get 12 minutes if he was on the Magic.
"Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck." - Don Shula
I agree with Stan
Varejo’s flopping and whinning kills me..
I think Mo can be consider a little over confident. They are a prayer shot from being down 3-0
"No matter where you go, you are what you are playa"-Jay Z
Not really, because the Cavaliers had the chance to respond .. and didn't.
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OR
a late LBJ 3 pointer away from being up 3-0. the glass is half full over here buddy
by nowuseemenowudont on May 26, 2009 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't think it's even that.
I get what he’s trying to say, but again, Cleveland had a chance to win the game in Game 1. Mo just missed the shot (which was an incredible attempt, btw). I can’t buy that argument, personally.
I'm the other guy at Third Quarter Collapse, with a Twitter account.
"Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement." - Michael Corleone
Fair enough.
But from a Cavs perspective it’s hard to stomach not being up 2-0 after the first two games with those big leads. The Cavs played much better first halves and the Magic played much better second halves. To say the Magic could be up 3-0 except for one shot is simplifying things a bit. Like I said above, if rashard’s 3 ball rattles out (which happens over 50% of the time even to great shooters) in game 1, the Cavs win that game (likely, with free throws).
Really not trying to be a dick here, it just seems the most fans (myself included) only look at the “bad breaks” their team gets and not the fortunate ones.
No worries. I hear you.
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That's very true
I think part of the issue is that each team had one of the first two games break their way – in Game 1, the Magic scored and the Cavs weren’t able to respond. In Game 2, the Magic scored and the Cavs did respond. Both teams can say that they’d be better off if the other team hadn’t gotten lucky. I think Cleveland was slightly luckier – Lewis is a 40% 3PT shooter, while James is a 34% 3PT shooter, but both teams won games they probably shouldn’t have (although from 3 Lewis has been shooting 60% against CLE, while LBJ’s at 29.4% against ORL). Basically, the Magic could be up 3-0 without James’ miracle, the Cavs could be up 2-1 without Rashard hitting his shot. Just as likely, though, would have been Rashard and James both missing, in which case it’s still 2-1 Orlando.
"And this he knows if nothing more
That waiting in the dark like destiny
Are those who kissed the dogs of war
And there is no tomorrow."
I think you hit it on the head with you're last sentence.
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word up
its still 2-1. focus, execution, support and DOMINATION are all necessary tonight
by nowuseemenowudont on May 26, 2009 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Agreed.
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what has mo and the cavs actually done?
a division title? whoopee!!! mo…you should have to make shot before speaking lil man….regular season means zip mo…
by celticinorlando on May 26, 2009 5:18 PM EDT reply actions
I don't mind his confidence, but he's spouting off his mouth a little too much.
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