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Hard to believe really, that I just watched a replay of the last game of the season. No more games on Foxtel or One. No more huddling around laptops at work with Justin TV streaming during lunch breaks. No more alt-tabbing frantically as the boss walks past your desk. The last Finals [...]

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So it happened again. In last year’s Finals Game 4 we saw the Celtics historic comeback, an improbable win snatched from the jaws of defeat, a 48-minute nightmare that LA would wake from only to see the insurmountable 3-1 deficit staring back at them. It happened again this year, not a comeback [...]

Some quick thoughts on Game 3, which I watched last night.

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The Orlando Magic were within inches of leveling this series at 1-1. Inches of Courtney Lee’s layup dropping through at the buzzer in regulation. Inches within a Dwight Howard deflection of a Kobe pass to Gasol that resulted in the game-sealing three point play. Make no mistake, this was a game that could [...]

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I watched parts of Game 1 Friday afternoon at work, trading emails with a few friends about a possible Magic upset, before heading out to a farewell lunch. I checked the scores later on my phone – in the space of one quarter the game had been blown to high hell. Curious to [...]

It always amuses me when I read a playoff series preview, how people do the position vs position thing, coach vs coach, bench vs bench, and then make some sort of conclusion that amounts to adding up points accrued along the way. Hell, it’s the easiest way to do it, and without trawling through two [...]

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ONE: Congratulations to the Orlando Magic on making the NBA Finals. I don’t care what anyone says, the Magic thoroughly deserved this and earned it the hard way. They were pushed by the Sixers after falling in an 0-1 hole, they knocked out the defending champs in Game 7 in Boston, they withstood [...]

Too many thoughts, not enough time to organise them…
I wrote this paragraph after the Magic won Game 3 two days ago (honest, I swear):
For years now I’ve been hearing the same phrase, right up until barely a few months ago when Houston were mounting a playoff run. “You’ll never win an NBA championship with Rafer [...]

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Could you have asked for a better start to the Conference Finals? The two games so far were decided by a total of three points, we saw 40 point games from Kobe and Lebron (and a just as impressive effort from Melo), a broken shot-clock by Dwight Howard, a 70-foot hail Mary from [...]

It was only a few weeks ago when we were claiming the Lakers as unrivaled Western Champions, the Nuggets seemingly filling up the #2 spot by default because everyone else was playing more crap than they were. How things have changed. Not only have the Lakers come off an extremely shaky looking series against a [...]