NBA Finals
Well
hip hop hooray Lebron James finally got her first Championship!! Yay,
ESPN still hasn't shutup about it yet! I'll give it up to The Heat as
a team for getting that trophy and dominating The Thunder and Lebron
had a great season and finally learned how to not choke, but don't
think for one fucking second I enjoyed one minute of that shit! Where
in the hell did the rest of The Thunder team go besides Kevin Durant
and Russell Westbrook? The bench and all of the role players
disappeared as soon as The Finals began, they couldn't knock down a
shot and played horrible on defense. I do think this was a good
learning experience for The Thunder like other teams in the past and
that sucks for the rest of The Western Conference because that means
that will be even more hungry than they were this year! All in all I
hated The Finals because The Thunder didn't make it interesting they
let The Heat run right through them! I was gonna be pissed no matter
which way The Heat won but The Thunder could have at least made it
fun to watch!
Los Angeles Lakers
When
you're a Lakers fan you're expectations are always Championship or
bust, so to me this season was a failure. But all in all it wasn't a
horrible season for The Lakers, I actually think they did better than
they should have given the circumstances. They had a brand new coach
and system and no off season to work on it due to the lockout, they
lost a few key players to free agency or trade and then also got
fucked before the season started by that asshole commissioner David
Stern who vetoed the trade to send Chris Paul to The Lakers. One of
the things that killed The Lakers this year is they were never
consistent with anything they did from the offense, to the defense
and the bench was just horrendous this season. Both Kobe and Bynum
had dominant seasons and it sucks that their good seasons go to waste
but they can't do everything!
This
offseason I don't think The Lakers need to make any drastic changes,
I know everybody wants to throw Pau under the bus and trade his ass
but I don't believe that's necessary even though it looks like that
is what will be happening. The Lakers need to focus on their bench
and sign role players rather than doing anything major. I think
having two 7 footers in the middle is a major advantage for them,
they just need to get some solid role players who can come in the
game and help out when they're needed. A solid point guard is
something that The Lakers also need to look into getting maybe
someone like Jason Terry.
Quick Hits
- The Dwight Howard saga with The Orlando Magic is getting so old and it's not going to stop going into next year! Before the trade deadline all the chatter was that Howard would be traded for sure, but for some reason before the trade deadline Dwight decides to opt in for one more year with The Magic and swears that he is going to give it one more year with The Magic. Well guess what now it's another off season of hearing about where Dwight Howard might get traded to because he has requested yet another trade! He could have saved us all the trouble by not opting into the final year of this contract and now he'd be able to sign with whoever the fuck he wants to! Instead the saga lives on!
- I
think the biggest effect the lockout had on this season was with all
the injuries. This year it seemed we had a different player suffering
a major injury at least once a week. Derrick Rose spent the majortiy
of his season injured and then ended with the worst injury of them
all, a torn ACL, which he most likely will still be rehabbing when
next season begins. Chauncey Billups suffered a season ending injury,
Manu Ginobili spent a couple months out with injuries, Carmelo
Anthony, Amare Stoudemire, Stephen Curry, Dwayne Wade and many other
players suffered some sort of injury that they had to sit out for an
extended period of time. My guess is that them not getting the proper
amount of conditioning in during the off season and playing so many
games in a compacted schedule had an effect on some of these guys
ending up with injuries.
MVP: Lebron James
Lebron
had a dominant season offensively and defensively and not only was he
dominant during the regular season he actually carried it on into the
playoffs. He was the leader of his team and they relied on him more
since Wade and Bosh were injured throughout the season and playoffs.
He won a title so I guess he actually deserved the award this year!
Defensive Player of the
Year: Tyson Chandler
Besides
Jeremy Lin, Chandler was about the only positive thing about The
Knicks this season.
Rookie of the Year:
Kyrie Irving
This
guy had a great year for The Cavs averaging 18 pts a game, he may not
be Lebron but he is definitely a player they can build around. He was
by far the most impressive rookie this year.
Coach of the Year: Greg
Popovich
At
the start of the season nobody thought The Spurs would be as dominant
as they were this year. Out of all the coaches in the league I think
Popovich handled coaching his team the best given the lockout
shortened season. He had to deal with injuries to key players and was
able to get his role players to step up when he needed to rest some
of the veteran players.
Sixth Man: James Harden
He
was by far the best 6th man in the league, overall he had
a great season and helped his team get into the playoffs. Too bad he
didn't take that into The Finals!