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I just have to say, I love both teams and all their players.
I guess I'm leaning more towards Dallas but there are some playes on Miami that truly deserve a championship. Like Gary Payton, Alonzo and Jason Williams.
At the same time there are also guys on Dallas that deserve it.
I don't know. I'll be happy no matter who wins. But thank God the Spurs and Suns are out! I don't like them :D
Miami.
Nowitski>Shaq, but the Heat also has Wade.
v 4 DALLAS ! :)
Looks like Dallas has it in the bag. I didn't see this thread initially.
I didn't see it either. :blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™
I gotta root for the Texas team. :D
I think, for me, it was because I was banned for some days.:shutup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Skizo
I can't fucking believe Miami won. What a comeback!:O
Who would thunk it?
Shaq makes 2 free throws down the stretch......and Dirk...Dirk Nowitzki misses one to lose the game. Wtf?!
This is some shit outta a book or something.
Dallas.
Nowitzki.
'Nuff said.
Busyman-
Read the steroid thread and tell me what you think.
So far he has shown up for one game. Dallas needs more. Jason Terry bailed them out the first game with 32 points.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
I still don't see Miami winning the series, however.
I do want them to win. I was never a Dallas Mavericks fan and really, who was? :idunno: The Mavericks fan I knew (that was always a Mavericks fan) was a friend of mine who likes everything Dallas including the Cowboys.
Anyone else who is one around here became one in the last 3 years.
The winners bandwagon and all that.
Dirk NowitzkiQuote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
2 for 14 shooting.
Dallas loses 98 - 74
The series is now tied 2 - 2 and now it moves back to Dallas.
If Dallas is going to win, Nowitzki has got to show up for more than one game. He is playing like basketball is not a contact sport.
So far, the clear MVP of series is Dywane Wade.
He is playing excellent ball.
Btw, I didn't know you were a basketball fan really.
I assume when you were in Texas (before moving to your northern village compound) that you watched the Dallas Mavericks.
I say that 'cause previously you hawked on the play of Steve Nash and now Nowitzki. Both of them are easily in my top 10 players in the league.
Never lived in Texas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™
I've always appreciated big guys who can play the floor, going back to people like Sikma and Shrempf.
Magic being a 6'8" guard kind of overshadowed the 6'10"-7' guys who were Garnett before Garnett was.
I'm sure I'm overlooking some others...
I grew up watching Alcindor, Gilmore, Hayes, Lanier, and Walton play college ball, and I was once privileged to watch Wilt Chamberlain arrive in the Warriors lockerroom in Philly before they moved to 'Frisco.
I was born in Philly.
My brain fart. I don't know why but I thought you lived in Texas before.:blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
So you liked Nowitzki 'cause he's a mobile big guy (the most mobile I'd say). What about Nash? He and Nowit' are the only two guys I've heard you say anything about. I thought it was a Texas connection since there are good players in the NBA like Mike Miller, Kobe, Wade, Garnett, etc.
YESSSSS!!!!
Jerry Stackhouse has been suspended for Game 5 for this......:stars:
That's 300+ lbs. crashing to the floor.:pinch:
I liked Jerry when he played for the Wizards but he ended up being a little bitch in his last year.
He wore out his welcome in Detroit, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™
Truth be told, I don't watch much B-ball anymore, 'cuz I'm not wild about how it's played, college or pro.
The Pistons seem to have developed a bit of a work ethic from year-to-year, but if Joe Dumars wasn't running the show, I probably wouldn't care about them, either.
Individual players come to my attention, but I find the ones I can stand to watch are difficult to abide when they are revealed in the press, Sportscenter, etc.
I really like Tim Duncan; he gets more done by mistake than others do on purpose.
I like Wade alright.
I can't stand Kobe; understand, he's got mad skills, but old Joe shoulda beat his ass more when he was a kid.
I liked Barkley.
I liked Mo Cheeks and Moses Malone.
Bird was perhaps the most fundamentally sound player I've ever watched.
Magic was, well...Magic.
His Spartan teams were probably the last college ball I actually followed.
I remember watching Lenny Bias some at Maryland.
Tragedy that was....but he was an idiot.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
Wade came outta nowhere. First he pulled an upset and advanced to the second round of the playoffs WITHOUT a Shaq. Now he is easily one of the most exciting players I've seen in awhile.
What's wrong with today's NBA? It has as much style and flair as the old days...even more actually. I know the off-the court stuff and brawling taints it kinda but the game is the game is the game.
Seeing both most recent NBA champs getting knock out of the playoffs is refreshing. I wanna see Shaq get another ring. I think as far people go, he is the antithesis of Kobe.
Actually, I like Shaq too, but I think he could have taken slightly better care of himself (that is to say, I find it unfortunate he didn't dedicate himself to conditioning; now, if he had Karl Malone's workout ethic...).
He's got a propensity to say some goofy things occasionally, but he's a great player and a pretty fair role model.
I guess it's the army brat in him.
The game has become a bit too individualistic for me; witness Kobe and his 80-point game-a stunt.
If Chamberlain had never learned the me, me, me lesson, I probably wouldn't have liked him either.
There was a fellow named Robertson who would absolutely dominate a game feeding everybody else.
I realize the game has changed, but it is geared to please the crowd.
These days you have to be a genuine afficionado to appreciate baseball properly (my opinion, obviously; anyone can sit in the stands and root for a team), there is so much happening that is not apparent...
Basketball used to have a bit of that (for me), too.
I think you look at alll this other stuff like the brawl for instance and get turned by the game itself. That is not the game. It is a mere hiccup. In some instances the game is individualized but the days are gone where you've got coaches making players do 5 passes then shoot.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
If you have the shot, you have the shot. You have players that rise individually and you can't ignore them. The Wizards have a previous Most Improved Player (Gilbert Arenas) and Best 6th Man (Antawn Jamison) and now the franchise players.
I think restricting 18 year-old high graduates from playing was a mistake. Sure you have ones that don't make it but you have ones that do. That's life. College is not supposed to be the Minor League of basketball anyway.
Would we have had
Kevin Garnett
Kobe Bryant
Sebastian Telfair
Lebron James
Jermaine O'Neal
Moses Malone?
You always have those that say, "But they could have got better in college." They also could have been injured. So what.
I am a heat fan so go heat!
Dirk might be better than Shaq but the Heat have D-Wade and Pat Riley!
Last night's game was a stunner.
Dirk had an average game...again.
Wade had a phenomenal game....again (bad percentage though).
Heat win 101 - 100 to go up 3 -2 in the series.
They can close out FTW in Dallas (Game 6).
Dirk (and the whole team for that matter) was perfect from the charity stripe until he missed one in the 4th quarter when they needed it most.
Dirk is a choker.
Wade, on the other hand, makes both of his at the VERY end.
There was controversy because between Dirk's free throws, Josh Howard called a time-out...using their last. Because he did that, Dallas couldn't stop the clock after the last free throw and advance the ball the half-court which was terribly needed with less than 2 seconds left.
Coach Avery Johnson argued that it was assumed he wasnted the timeout after the 2nd free throw. Yet Josh Howard put his hands together for the time-out after the first free throw.
I think the refs made the right call. Hell Chris Webber lost a college championship from calling a time-out he didn't have.
Yep. Back in the days of the Fab-Five.Quote:
I think the refs made the right call. Hell Chris Webber lost a college championship from calling a time-out he didn't have.
I remember wanting to kill Webber for that. Poor guy though, he'll never live that down.
We both were wrong. Nowit actually showed up this game butQuote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
THE MIAMI HEAT ARE THE NEW NBA CHAMPIONS!!!
I didn't think they would win but they did and....I'm glad.
Shaq gets his 4th. Wade (in only his 3rd year in the league) gets his first and so does (and finally) veterans, Gary Payton and Alonzo Mourning. Also can't forget Jason Williams (White Chocolate:lol: ) and Antoine Walker.
I must say this series was a battle but Miami won 4 in a row to grab it. Many players like Udonis Haslem and Antoine Walker stepped up with double digit scoring. The Heat had about 10 FUCKING BLOCKS with Alonzo having about half of them. They all were brutal too.
Dwyane Wade has to easily be the MVP. He knocked down free-throw after free-throw at the end and averaged about 35 points for the series.
A no-brainer.
I guess someone has to get bumped of my top ten players. I don't think Wade was on it but HAS TO BE now.
Wade
Shaq
Kobe
Nash
Arenas
LBJ
aww hell I'm going to sleep.
I think this is the 3rd time out of 27 in Finals history that a team came back, down 0-2 to win a Championship.
amazing... simply amazing...
heat deserved it all along and from the beginning of the season i said they were in for a great chance of winning it all.. and they went on and did just that.
shaq, wade.. the next kobe-shaq pair? we'll see...
It was funny every time Nowit' shot a free throw in Miami. The whole crowd was yelling "Daaaaavid Haaaaaselhoff!" and waving his picture in the seats behind the backboard.
I wish I was there. I love David Hasselhoff.:mellow:
Oh and to any Dallas fan that comes in here saying Josh didn't call time-out...well he didn't...he signaled for it........TWICE so STFU.
David Hasselhoff is an asshole; ask anybody. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™
Weird too. Wifey was was watchin' some show last night called I've Got Talent (or some shit like that) and he was a judge.:mellow:Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
Wtf? We aren't Germany. He was not a hit here (as far as I know). Maybe Dirk picked his favorite singer for the show.:mellow:
One of the blocks after his airballQuote:
The Heat had about 10 FUCKING BLOCKS with Alonzo having about half of them. They all were brutal too.
Another block that saved Gary Payton's dumbass
Why the fuck would a person jabber with a ref when they could close out a team for a championship that they never got?
'Cause that person is an idiot.
Also a sweet pass from White Chocolate for the dunk
I wish the video was at regular speed for the full effect of that pass.
I was at the opening ceremony of the '96 Olympics in Atlanta, and they introduced various celebs before and after the cermony proper, Muhammad Ali amongst them (this was after he had lit the torch), and of the perhaps 15-20 "stars", David Hasselhoff was the only one who acknowledged the crowd from amid an entourage of bodyguards who had nothing at all to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™
Funny thing was, Ali was the first one to appear, and he had no one within 10-15 feet of him as he shuffled along.
Hasselhoff was waaaaaay down the list, but I'd have though he'd be impressed with the fact that, if Ali needed no bodyguarding (in an admittedly controlled setting), he himself could do without as well.
The crowd didn't pay him any attention anyhow, so I'm sure he felt slighted, big, huge international star that he is...
A dork of truly magnificent dimension.
:lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
When I heard he was hit as a singer "somewhere", I just couldn't believe it. Then I heard him sing and really couldn't believe it.
Oh well, as many say, there's a whole world out there.
Yeah, I've heard that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman™