2010 East Playoff Thread

This is looking very promising right now. If the Celtics lose tonight, the Magic will win the series. Celtics look tired. Rondo does not have the spark in his step tonight. A suns/magic series is not out of the question.

The refs are treating the Celtics like they are the Pistons. I don't even care who wins and I'm disgusted.

Unbelieveable calls. This is why NBA is so bogus. Refs are criminals.

Bad call on Perkins. Might be time for the LeBron/Kobe-conspiracy theorists to switch LeBron for Howard.

I think Howard's elbows have taken out several celtics so far. Excellent "D" with the elbows and he nearly ripped Pierce's shoulder out. Way to go, Dwight.

Howard got hacked by Nate on that play. It was the arm that was fouled that came down funny on bbaby. 100% inadvertant.

Love watching the hack-a-________ strategy fail miserably. If you weren't the one who dreamed up that strategy (giving you a cleverness pass), then it is just a cowardly exploitation of a loophole. You hurt the game of basketball by doing it... and of course it is a bad strategy.

saw the first half at the Oakland airport, but missed the second...and the blowout..as I was in flight...... Are you telling me the refs were giving the Magic favorable calls???
If Perkins ejection holds up, he will have to sit out game 6

I will catch the replay tomorrow on NBA TV...to see for myself.....the last thing I think Stern wants is a Magic/Suns finals.....but then again he may want these conference finals to go seven with the Lakers and Celtics still meeting in the finals.

Apparently the league is the reason the Celtics team we saw at the end of the Cavs series and the first 3 games of this series just decided to stop showing up. I really wish people would decide what side the league is on.

Credit to Orlando for actually making this the series that I thought it would b

Did you catch the tech on Rondo last night where he was calmly talking to another ref when Joe Crawford came barreling in screaming that Rondo had been warned and needed to stop talking to the other ref?

When you can get Mike Breen to criticize the refs then you know they made a bad call.

That was a BS call. All NBA players talk to refs ALL the time in every game. Crawford just need to stop wearing underwear that's two sizes too small for him.

while I don't respect the guy at all, and find it hard to believe most of his charges..... the NBA ref's as a whole are a joke... and really think they should all be fired and start fresh, they need to be taught together on what is allowed and what isn't. I hate how what is a no call for one ref can be a foul for another.

the fact a ref can bet on games just by knowing who's reffing a game is just plain scary.

I wish that the ref-lockout lasted half-way into the season. Perhaps we need FIBA certified refs.