Celtics redeem themselves...
Don't Taze Me, Bro!
suggest that they will make it to the finals.
Boycotting the 2008 China Olympic Games--
Old_Golden_Throat
corporate, no longer pure (money-making vs. pure sport)?
Ken Cheng
wrote:
> With a blow-out like that, I am willing to give them a second chance and
> suggest that they will make it to the finals.
It also leaves open some serious questions, however. A team capable
of today's one-sided affair should never have let it come down to a
Game 7.
That's going to be in the back of many people's minds as the playoffs
continue.
Ken Cheng
wrote:
> Why are you boycotting the Olympics? Is it because it has become too
> corporate, no longer pure (money-making vs. pure sport)?
It probably has something to do with the Tibet/China situation.
Don't Taze Me, Bro!
"Old_Golden_Throat" <chick_he...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Why are you boycotting the Olympics? Is it because it has become too
> corporate, no longer pure (money-making vs. pure sport)?
It's because the Chinese have kicked 1.5 million people out of their homes
without giving them adequate places to live, so they can quickly build
venues for the olympic games. I refuse to be entertained by something that
cost so many people their lives and homes.
Much for the same reason I don't watch war movies that glamorize war.
Don't Taze Me, Bro!
"Ken Cheng" <kenc...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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Shockingly, that's only one small piece of the puzzle.
Don't Taze Me, Bro!
They will react one of two ways. Either they realize what is at stake now
and that its not an easy cake walk... or they fold against Detroit.
Sac D
"Don't Taze Me, Bro!" <No2Ex...@Earth71.net> wrote in message
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I think the old are weary Pistons are gonna clobber the Smelts when (and if)
the time comes....
Old_Golden_Throat
hinges on whether or not they can win one of the first two games in
Boston. If they do, they'll have a chance. If not, it will end
quickly in 5. Then the Hawks series will be a mere dot in the rear-
view mirror.
zcar...@yahoo.com
wrote:
LBJ is gonna get double-teamed everytime. Difference between Cavs and
Hawks are that the Cavs can shoot perimeter shots.
Avant Grape
People kept dissing the Celtics. But the fact is that Atlanta played a
fantastic series. They are an up and comer.
-JC
zcar...@yahoo.com
wrote:
> With a blow-out like that, I am willing to give them a second chance and
> suggest that they will make it to the finals.
>
> Boycotting the 2008 China Olympic Games--
That shouldn't mean a thing. You can't save blowout points for the
next game. I think Cavs will take it 6 or 7.
MoMo
I think we know the Celtic's weakness now. They don't close games
well. Who's their closer? Is it Pierce? Is it KG? KG most say he's
not a proven closer. I'm not saying his Chris Webber, but I don't
think he's Kobe either.
Huang GAng
wrote:
> "Old_Golden_Throat" <chick_hearn_3...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
Interesting numbers. Where you got them? CNN?
Don't Taze Me, Bro!
"Huang GAng" <kongwong...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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The numbers vary. It has been suggested around 1.5 million. Some have just
said hundereds of thousands.
One of the great logical fallacies is suggesting that no matter the source
"it probablly is not true." However, I have seen actual footage of these
homeless having their houses marked one week, and torn down the next...
leaving them on the corner of the block with no where to go.
http://cgmg.jour.city.ac.uk/news.php?story=129
"It was the middle of the night when the bulldozers came. Scores of families
living in the building woke to the sounds of the courtyard wall being
flattened in the name of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Governments and human rights organisations across the world are hoping that
the Olympic Games will open up China and further the progress of individual
freedom, but behind this facade lurks a sinister element to the Olympic
hysteria that is getting little attention.
The demolition and relocation of homes to make way for the city?s Olympic
village has been occurring at a staggering rate, leaving hundreds of
thousands of Chinese people homeless and frequently without sufficient
compensation.
?The demolition and evictions are nothing new,? said Justin Finnegan, a
businessman living in Shanghai who worked in Beijing. ?Even before the
Olympic decision they?ve been bashing stuff down in an effort to modernise.
People aren't being compensated enough or getting enough advance notice.
Maybe the saddest part is that many of the places they?re destroying were a
lot of hutong (traditional Chinese lanes and alleyways). So the city is
losing a lot of its culture.?"
Miguel MB
Old_Golden_Throat wrote:
> Why are you boycotting the Olympics? Is it because it has become too
> corporate, no longer pure (money-making vs. pure sport)?
I'm boycotting them, too. I will NOT be competing. I will
only watch them on TV.
Miguel MB
Avant Grape wrote:
They will be one of the trendy picks in the East next year.
Magic-MARK-er
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> With a blow-out like that, I am willing to give them a
> second chance and suggest that they will make it to the
> finals.
>
One of the announcers during the Lakers-Utah game was
discussing the Celtics game and commented that never has
a first round team who it took 7 games to win the first
round series ever even make it to the finals.
MoMo
> "Don't Taze Me, Bro!" <No2Exis...@Earth71.net> wrote innews:U9oTj.5982$aA1.3014@trnddc05:
>
> > With a blow-out like that, I am willing to give them a
> > second chance and suggest that they will make it to the
> > finals.
>
> One of the announcers during the Lakers-Utah game was
> discussing the Celtics game and commented that never has
> a first round team who it took 7 games to win the first
> round series ever even make it to the finals.
Makes sense. If you have that much trouble in the first round, you are
either a lower seed (4-8) that has the harder road. Or, you're a high
seed (1-3) that is having trouble closing the deal. The Celtic core is
old enough that they can't expect to do two rounds of 7 games series
and still have enough gas left to beat the Pistons (especially if the
Pistons finish the magic in less than 6 games). Boston could beat the
Cavs in game 7 but be tired/injured/beatup enough to lose game 1 in
their own building. Poof. there goes home court.
Miguel MB
MoMo wrote:
It also makes sense because they've only been playing best-of-7
series for a few years. I'm pretty sure some teams made it to
the Finals after playing a deciding Game 5 in the 1st round.
Huang GAng
wrote:
> "Huang GAng" <kongwong_no_sp...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>
> - Show quoted text -
Yeah, keep buying in those bullshit about people driven into
homlessness. Actual footage taken in India, right? Where the hell
is the homeless staying after then? Their home been bulldozed so they
must be living, uh, in the streets right? Yet all these reports, and
no one can produce a single picture of the hundreds of thousands
homeless people living in the street, the before and after shit. On a
similar note, I was invited to invest in another rundown old property
that is estimated will be modernised last June. Squater investment,
for lack of a better term, had been rampant. So in reality, I saw a
lot of people taking advantage of the olympic to make a buck in the
modernising effort instead of being driven into homelessness like you
so passionately cared.
Funny how all these bullshit about preserving local culture always
came from those who don't live there. Assholes who never share a
single bathroom/toilet with five families is bitching about losing
cultures. Wait till Mr Finnegan get out of his luxury apartment or
his five star hotel room, and spent a fortnight in those Huton that he
so cared about, then he can fucking talk about preserving cultures.
Unbeleiving racists shit.
So keep your head buried in your ass with all those filth fed to you
by those propaganda machines you call free press and continue to be
ignorant, the Olympic would be much better off without idiots like you.
Huang GAng
>
> - Show quoted text -
I think the 2000 Lakers just did that with the kings, not checking my
numbers, but I kinda remember that.