Stephen Jackson made 3 consecutive 3 point shots! This guy is crazy! Fire control!!!

Wah tis quarter Warrior so strong wo....

Holyshit Stephen Jackson is on 1.000 3 point. 7 out of 7 !!! Holy cow.... gogogog GSW

wah 3rd quarter no nid 2 play liao lah...

This post has been edited by wayne_chen: May 4 2007, 12:43 PM

dammit, we wont be having game 7 of houston vs utah, will we?

it has been the best series IMO. closest and the best

So, wat the result? i can view in internet dunno y?
plz let me knw the result

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Added on May 4, 2007, 1:07 pmYeah, v ll b havine the 7th and the last match at Houston...
Hope can wt home.....

This post has been edited by -br0k3n-: May 4 2007, 01:07 PM

Dallas 83
Warriors 106
Time left onli 1.33

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Added on May 4, 2007, 1:13 pmNo nid 2 play liao...
Sure Warriors win it...

This post has been edited by wayne_chen: May 4 2007, 01:13 PM

Thx... look like warrior now wait to face houston or utah....
dunno is a gd thing or not dallas lose?

Haha..
Warriors win over Dallas liao...
The score is 111-86...

UH OH!

8th-seed miracle revived!! GSW is the 1999's NYK!

dirk held to 8 points only, avery johnson gotta be very headache, haha

don nelson rocks

OMFG.. Dallas got eliminated..

Golden State 111, Dallas 86
Baron Davis and Stephen Jackson shot the ragtag Warriors right into the second round, capping perhaps the NBA's biggest playoff upset with yet one more memorable performance on their home floor.

Davis willed the Warriors on one good leg, shaking off a strained hamstring to score 20 points, Jackson made a franchise playoff-record seven 3-pointers, and Golden State became the first No. 8 seed to capture a best-of-seven playoff series with a 111-86 victory over the NBA-best Dallas Mavericks in Game 6 on Thursday night.

Whoa, Nellie, what a shocker!

Coach Don Nelson's emotional bunch of castoffs beat his old team by holding likely league MVP Dirk Nowitzki to eight points and 2-for-13 shooting, after he saved the Mavs with 30 points in their six-point Game 5 win Tuesday. The Warriors, making their first playoff appearance in 13 years, will open the second round Monday night at either Houston or Utah.

Jackson -- who avoided a suspension for Game 6 after two ejections in the series -- hit four 3-pointers during a decisive 24-3 third-quarter run and finished with a playoff career-high 33 points, while Davis also added 10 rebounds and six assists. He sat down with 2:19 to play, throwing his arms in the air to the fans who chanted "MVP!" When the final buzzer sounded, the Warriors hugged as confetti streamed onto the court.

"This is a great feeling, to make history, to upset a No. 1 seed and do it on our home floor," Davis said. "We came here and handled our business in the second half."

Andris Biedrins had 12 points and 12 rebounds, not to mention a handful of key hustle plays, Matt Barnes took advantage of his first start of the series with 16 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists, and Jason Richardson added 15 points, five rebounds and four assists.

Josh Howard scored 20 points and Jerry Stackhouse had 14 of his 20 points in the first quarter for the 67-win Mavericks, who along with volatile owner Mark Cuban had high hopes of going deep in the postseason after their remarkable regular-season showing.

The Warriors became only the third eighth seed to upset the No. 1 and the first since the opening round went from best-of-five to the current format. The Denver Nuggets (1994) and the New York Knicks (1999) are the only other teams to win a series.

After years of failure and its share of unsuccessful personnel moves, Golden State is suddenly as big in the Bay Area as Barry Bonds' home run chase across the water in San Francisco.

"Baron toughed it out," Barnes said. "He's our leader and nothing's going to stop him right now. We've got a lot of talent and a lot of heart and we're looking to do a lot more damage."

The Warriors lured Nelson out of retirement to turn around a franchise that hadn't been to the postseason since he took them there in 1994 during his first stint as coach, dropping former Stanford coach Mike Montgomery in late August after two losing seasons.

Back home, Golden State won again behind its deafening, towel-waving crowd that Mavs coach and former Warrior Avery Johnson described this way: "If you haven't been to the playoffs in 13 years, your fans are going to be pretty crazy."

And the "We Believe" mantra that now rocks Oakland -- Mickael Pietrus led the team out of the locker room holding one of the bright yellow T-shirts sporting the logo -- has even caught the attention of celebrities like rapper Snoop Dogg, popular guitarist Carlos Santana, actors Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson, and golfer Fred Couples. They were all in the stands for the clincher -- and a few even headed to the celebratory locker room afterward. Ron Artest stopped by to offer his best, too.

"The fans gave us so much energy," Richardson said. "It felt great that we actually put them away like that. We played great defense tonight."

Nowitzki missed his first eight shots, bricking consecutive 3-point tries late in the second quarter before hitting a 16-footer for his first basket of the game with 38 seconds left in the period. Dallas trailed 50-48 at the break but couldn't match the Warriors' energy in the third. The Mavs went 5:07 without scoring as Golden State turned it into a rout, leading 86-63 going into the final 12 minutes.

"We were there at halftime," Johnson said. "We were only down two. We just came out and had one of our worst third quarters this year. ... This is a very disappointing end to the season."

The Warriors traded for Jackson in January in an eight-player swap with the Indiana Pacers to pair him with a healthy Davis as this playoff-starved franchise tried -- and ultimately succeeded -- to end the NBA's longest postseason drought.

Johnson, groomed by Nellie to be a head coach, said the Warriors had "10,000 pounds on their right arms up there in Oakland" to close out a series Golden State led 3-1, but 20,677 screaming fans from every corner of Oracle Arena put all the pressure on the cold-shooting Mavs.

The Warriors hadn't won a best-of-seven series in 31 years, since beating Detroit in a first-round series in 1975-76 -- the year after winning their only NBA championship in California. Golden State had lost its last five best-of-sevens and hadn't won any playoff series since beating San Antonio 3-1 in the first round in 1990-91.

Johnson brought his team back to California immediately after Game 5 so the Mavs could get more comfortable in the Warriors' raucous confines, while Golden State spent the night in Dallas.

"They're a hot team right now," Johnson said. "They can put you in a bind with some of their small lineups."

Dallas' first seven made field goals were 3s, 4-of-6 from Stackhouse in the opening period, and the Mavs were 0-for-14 from 2-point range before Jason Terry's jumper at the 11:22 mark of the second quarter.

Barnes earned his first start of the series over Monta Ellis and played through a pulled right hamstring, just like Davis.

The Mavs, who lost in last year's NBA finals, became the first time to win 65 games and fail to win at least one playoff series. Even worse, it came against Nelson, who spent 10 seasons helping taking Dallas from among the league's worst teams to one of the best.

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HAHA! Looks like the guy who said "Dallas gonna win 4-0 definitely" is definitely super-wrong.

Yaloh...
Who say tat de...

lol...
pity dallas...
they are such good team...

mark cuban has got to be thinking, what the hell do i have to do to win a championship.

by far, i have got the best team on paper. best record in the NBA and i still end up being f***ed in the first round.

dirk has got to say, dammit i am of to LA

Walton To Test Free Agency

Lakers guard Luke Walton can become a free agent after the NBA finals, and the fourth-year forward might sign elsewhere.

"Ultimately, I'd like to be back, but it's hard to say" what's going to happen, Walton said. "It's free agency, so I have to go out and see what else is out there.... It's part of the business."

"In a perfect world, I'd be back here in L.A. with the same guys and the same coaches. Hopefully, we'd be able to build on this and compete for a championship with these guys."

Utah 94, Houston 82
Andrei Kirilenko shadowed Tracy McGrady all night. Now he'll be following McGrady back to Houston, too.

Kirilenko easily had his best game of the first round with 14 points and five blocks to lead the Utah Jazz to a 94-82 victory over the Rockets on Thursday night, tying the series and forcing a Game 7 Saturday in Houston.

"We kept it alive," said Kirilenko, who hadn't scored more than eight in the first five games. "I think it's a great performance by everybody."

Carlos Boozer scored 22 and Mehmet Okur added 19 points as he finally started hitting his 3-point shots, making four and matching his total for the first five games.

"I don't give up. If I'm open I'm going to take it," Okur said.

Kirilenko was exhausted after trying to keep up with McGrady. The Rockets' superstar still scored 26 points, but nine came from the foul line as Kirilenko and the rest of the Jazz pretty much shut down every route to the basket.

Utah didn't let McGrady get much easy scoring and the Rockets fell to 0-3 in playoff road games. Yao Ming added 25 points, but he also had eight turnovers -- two more than his rebound total -- as Okur and rookie Paul Millsap constantly pressured the 7-foot-6 center.

The rest of the Rockets besides McGrady and Yao combined for 31 points. Houston finished with 19 turnovers.

"Our guys were fighting for our lives," Utah coach Jerry Sloan said.

McGrady has never made it to the second round of the playoffs. After Houston won the first two games of the series, the Rockets appeared on their way there, but have not been able to find their way out of Utah with a victory.

The home team has won every game in the series, which bodes well for the Rockets. That was about all the solace Houston had after cutting an 11-point lead to one twice but never quite completing the rally.

"It was right there for us, man. Down to one point," McGrady said. "We put ourselves in great position to pull this game out, but things went the other direction."

Deron Williams had 15 points and eight assists and rookie Paul Millsap scored all of his eight points in the second quarter, as the Jazz took control and then held off several rallies by the Rockets down the stretch.

The home team has won every game in the series, which bodes well for the Rockets as they prepare for Game 7 Saturday night at home.

"They just put a lot of pressure on us and just made everything tough," McGrady said.

Kirilenko scored six points and blocked three shots in the fourth quarter. McGrady tried to drive on him once with the Rockets down three, but Kirilenko stayed on him and swatted the ball away during a 13-4 run that sealed it for the Jazz.

"We had a game we had to win or we were going home," Kirilenko said. "That's hard to play with this kind of intensity on both ends of the court, but we had to win."

Kirilenko got a layup to roll over the front of the rim and in and added a 21-foot jumper during Utah's late run. Yao dunked to get the Rockets within 81-76, then the Jazz answered with a jumper by Williams, two free throws by Boozer and a 3-pointer from Okur, who went 4-for-7 from beyond the arc.

"They outplayed us down the stretch. We've just got to get on the plane and figure out a way to play a little bit better," Houston coach Jeff Van Gundy.

Okur had made just four of 25 3-pointers in the first five games.

Okur was intense all night and it showed in the second quarter, when he took a hard foul from Juwan Howard. Okur got Howard in the air, then went up for a shot as Howard was coming down with a forearm.

Okur crashed hard to the floor and came up almost swinging. Instead he nudged Howard and got in his face before the two players were separated. Howard was called for a technical and was livid. He got right in referee d*** Bavetta's face and was yelling, but he was pulled away in time to avoid a second technical.

Okur made all three free throws to put Utah up 36-35. Utah led 46-43 at halftime.

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This post has been edited by wayne_chen: May 4 2007, 04:39 PM

i dunno what happen to the mavs to be honest... if they just play like they were in the regular season, i think they will advance instead of the warriors... or actually they din treat GSW as competitor or wat..

well, they got the punishment now... although GSW is not a stronger team compare to the mavs, but the team who has the passion, determination, desire to win, that will make the team better, and that is Warriors..

this is fantastic! i am going to coin a new word today, "nellied". Avery Johnson got nellied!!!