Massive G
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Post by Massive G on May 26, 2011 22:57:22 GMT -5
But still it was a dumb thing to say Remember damn near everyone was predicting that the Lakers would have another three-peat. Would you call the people who thought the Lakers would get another title this year fools? I'm not sure they were after 17 games though. Neither were they writing them off after 17 games. I think that's the point. People were way too eager to bury the Heat that they didn't stop to think if it made sense, they just assumed they would continue to struggle for the rest of the year.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on May 26, 2011 22:59:17 GMT -5
I'm saying the Heat will win it all in 7. But that probably means that Dallas will win the Finals when it comes down to it. Either way, I'm sticking with the Heat winning the NBA Title. If there's one positive to come out of this Finals series, it's that we're guaranteed to see one member of the 2002 Sacramento Kings team walk away with the NBA Title. 9 years after that controversial series against the Lakers with all of those referee calls against the Kings, either Peja Stojakovic or Mike Bibby will walk away this year as a member of an NBA Championship team. That's a good silver lining regardless who wins.
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Post by MGH on May 26, 2011 23:00:18 GMT -5
God knows one of those guys from Sacramento deserves a ring. I was rooting for LA in that series that year until that Game 6. Nothing about this Miami team has been a "conspiracy". Game 6 in Staples was.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on May 26, 2011 23:02:37 GMT -5
God knows one of those guys from Sacramento deserves a ring. I was rooting for LA in that series that year until that Game 6. Nothing about this Miami team has been a "conspiracy". Game 6 in Staples was. That game single handily made me never be able to be a fan of the NBA. Sure the occasional look in for social reasons but never an avid watcher.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on May 26, 2011 23:03:17 GMT -5
Remember damn near everyone was predicting that the Lakers would have another three-peat. Would you call the people who thought the Lakers would get another title this year fools? I'm not sure they were after 17 games though. Neither were they writing them off after 17 games. I think that's the point. People were way too eager to bury the Heat that they didn't stop to think if it made sense, they just assumed they would continue to struggle for the rest of the year. Oh yeah, the people who thought they'd struggle all year were a little foolish. Even I saw that they'd at least get 45-50 wins easily, just from that fact that they had 3 All-Stars in the mother f***ing NBA Eastern Conference. If you can't get at least 45-50 wins in that situation, you might as well pack it in. Hell, we all know LeBron himself was able to lead a sub-par team(overall) to 50-60+ wins consistently in the Eastern Conference for years. Add in Wade and Bosh, and they were definitely going to be one of the top 4-5 seeds in the playoffs by default. I only counted them out because they struggled against playoff-caliber teams and any team that could punch them in the mouth inside the paint gave them extreme fits.
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Massive G
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Post by Massive G on May 26, 2011 23:04:09 GMT -5
lol @ that reporter trying to egg D Rose on.
"what's it like Derrick, to shut down D Wade, and he has LeBron James, and Chris Bosh... what's it like to shut down a superstar and he has other guys who can get it done?"
translation: "what's it like to play with Keith Bogans and Kyle Korver?"
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Post by MGH on May 26, 2011 23:04:21 GMT -5
My ever lasting image of that game is Lawrence Funderburke standing with his arms straight up as Shaq walks in to him and shoots a hook shot straight up in the air, and a whistle blows yet again. Lawrence Funderburke, who was only playing because the officials had already fouled out Pollard and Divac.
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Unocal 76
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Post by Unocal 76 on May 26, 2011 23:04:43 GMT -5
Miami finished with one more win than the Mavs- 58 to 57.
Remember the Afflalo buzzer beater before the All Star Break? If he misses that, Mavs would have the extra home game. Or if Miami had not pulled out the OT game at Portland.
The little nuances like that can be magnified in situations like this.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on May 26, 2011 23:05:43 GMT -5
My ever lasting image of that game is Lawrence Funderburke standing with his arms straight up as Shaq walks in to him and shoots a hook shot straight up in the air, and a whistle blows yet again. Lawrence Funderburke, who was only playing because the officials had already fouled out Pollard and Divac. Mine is the foul Mike Bibby got for getting in the way of Kobe's elbow.
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Massive G
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Post by Massive G on May 26, 2011 23:08:02 GMT -5
My ever lasting image of that game is Lawrence Funderburke standing with his arms straight up as Shaq walks in to him and shoots a hook shot straight up in the air, and a whistle blows yet again. Lawrence Funderburke, who was only playing because the officials had already fouled out Pollard and Divac. Mine is the foul Mike Bibby got for getting in the way of Kobe's elbow. I remember that, that was the angriest I've ever been watching a sport.
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Unocal 76
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Post by Unocal 76 on May 26, 2011 23:08:17 GMT -5
There probably would not have even been a game 6 in that series if Robert Horry clanks iron in game 4.
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Post by MGH on May 26, 2011 23:10:38 GMT -5
My ever lasting image of that game is Lawrence Funderburke standing with his arms straight up as Shaq walks in to him and shoots a hook shot straight up in the air, and a whistle blows yet again. Lawrence Funderburke, who was only playing because the officials had already fouled out Pollard and Divac. Mine is the foul Mike Bibby got for getting in the way of Kobe's elbow. And it wasn't even one of those things where someone swings the ball around and their elbow gets a guy in the nose. Kobe was plastered to him, and when the whistle blew to inbound the ball Kobe gave him a f***ing forearm shiver to the face. What a disgrace.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on May 26, 2011 23:13:10 GMT -5
Mine is the foul Mike Bibby got for getting in the way of Kobe's elbow. And it wasn't even one of those things where someone swings the ball around and their elbow gets a guy in the nose. Kobe was plastered to him, and when the whistle blew to inbound the ball Kobe gave him a f***ing forearm shiver to the face. What a disgrace. I say we march to the NBA offices and demand they give the 02 Kings and Nets (because who knows who would have won) rings and strip the Lakers of it so we can right this wrong.
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BearDogg-X
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Post by BearDogg-X on May 26, 2011 23:29:07 GMT -5
Dallas in 6.
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Post by vm88 on May 26, 2011 23:35:35 GMT -5
How long until we get the first Finals montage consisting only of "The Decision", pre-season LeBron, Wade, Bosh pep rally, Heat season highlights....and then at the end a vague mention of the Mavs being there? ESPN is probably already feverishly working. It's on Sportscenter right now. I'm not surprised at all. EDIT: And hey, the Coach is hosting "NBA Tonight."
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Post by Renslayer on May 26, 2011 23:52:05 GMT -5
When you're nWo, you're nWo 4 LIFE!!!
Heat in 5.
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Post by S-Chrome on May 26, 2011 23:59:52 GMT -5
Throwing my support behind the Heat. I feel dirty.
But it'll still put a smile on my face in the event that the Heat win. I mean, Mavs fans crying conspiracy again? Freakin' delicious. If not, Dirk Nowitzki draws comparisons to Larry Bird, the prick Jason Kidd gets to be a quitter and still win the big one and Jason Terry gets a ring with that stupid thing he does with his arms. Blecccccchhh!
Heat in 6. I mean, hell, the Mavs have got to hit the damn wall sometime, right?
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on May 27, 2011 0:01:08 GMT -5
I suggest we change the name to Winning It All And it wasn't even one of those things where someone swings the ball around and their elbow gets a guy in the nose. Kobe was plastered to him, and when the whistle blew to inbound the ball Kobe gave him a f***ing forearm shiver to the face. What a disgrace. I say we march to the NBA offices and demand they give the 02 Kings and Nets (because who knows who would have won) rings and strip the Lakers of it so we can right this wrong. Kings would have won. No disrespect to the Nets, but nobody from the East was going to beat Sacramento or Los Angeles in 7 games. The officiating that entire series was terrible on both sides, but game 6 was just unreal. And it sucks that quite possibly the most exciting playoff series that I can remember is marred by terrible officiating.
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Post by triplethreatmark on May 27, 2011 2:12:49 GMT -5
Go Heat! New new new new NEW WORLD ORDER That was the entire cause of our theme for the NBA season this year being the WCW. For that I'm glad. Also, since the season will be over within 7 games, I have to ask, are we going to be doing the WCNBA gimmick/theme next season as well? Please say yes. Of course. I'd be pissed if we didn't. As far as the finals go...meh. However, if the Heat do win the title, imagine the heel heat (no pun intended) they're going to get next season. It'll be on Hassan levels.
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Post by Unocal 76 on May 27, 2011 2:35:06 GMT -5
With the NBA Finals set, we have four days of NBA Finals talk.
Let's start with a fun fact:
Did you know that two NBA Finals games failed to have one or both teams outscore an entire team's half?
In game 3 of the 2003 NBA Finals, the Spurs and Nets had a halftime score of 33-30.
In game 4 of that series, the final score was 77-76.
To put that in perspective, that same playoff year, the Dallas Mavericks had 83 points in the first half.
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