OKC because the NBA stole the team from the Seattle.
Just a lil reminder about lbj’s time in cleveland, He held the front office hostage for roughly 3 years about whether he was going to stay or leave. Which led to them signing guys like Shaq, and trading for Antwon Jamison since it was a “must win now” situation as apposed to building the team properly around lbj.
go spurs
[quote]chobbs wrote:
We screwed ourselves when we for rid of collison [/quote]
Not at all. Collison’s defense is pretty bad and G Hill is pretty good spot-up shooter (ie. he converted to PG) that fits their scheme better than a dribble-drive PG would.
[quote]sam_sneed wrote:
The calls weren’t that bad last night. The Pacers just played like shit. 15 turnovers in the 1st half and they weren’t boxing out.[/quote]
As the first quarter ended with IND already at 9 TOs, even though IND was leading that shit was game over.
Basically, MIA had another gear – at the defensive end in particular – to shift into once their backs were finally against the wall.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
OKC because the NBA stole the team from the Seattle.
Just a lil reminder about lbj’s time in cleveland, He held the front office hostage for roughly 3 years about whether he was going to stay or leave. Which led to them signing guys like Shaq, and trading for Antwon Jamison since it was a “must win now” situation as apposed to building the team properly around lbj.
go spurs [/quote]
3 years is plenty of time to build a quality team, especially when you have an attraction like LBJ. We’re talking about the NBA here, where the average player career is like 10 years or less, and where fans have short attention spans. Every GM wants to win 1 now as opposed to 2 later, there is too much risk to think the other way.
The bottom-line is that, and Noah has hit the nail on the head multiple times, no one wants to play in Cleveland! I mean LOL, not even the idea of playing with the mighty LBJ could persuade all-stars and big free agent names to sign a contract that involved them relocating to Cleveland, Ohio (no disrespect). I remember in the whole Decision fall out, they were talking about how LBJ, Wade and Bosh were talking the season before LBJ left about them teaming up, but Wade and Bosh didn’t want to go anywhere near Ohio LOL.
LBJ milked that bitch, and actually got pretty close, but he decided enough was enough and headed down to South Beach with his buddies.
As a side note, Wade needs to break it off with that suspicious minx Gabrielle Union. He’s been playing like shit ever since they started dating.
Cleveland is a pretty awful place to live
Got my Tix for Sunday. Boom
Oh shit Waittz I just realised you’ve been here since 2004. You’ve been like recently “re-activated.”
[quote]Gettnitdone wrote:
Oh shit Waittz I just realised you’ve been here since 2004. You’ve been like recently “re-activated.”[/quote]
Like a Russian sleeper cell.
Good article. I disagree with the conclusion but the points in the argument are soundly supported. I like the snapshot reviews of both teams’ set plays. However, the lengthy article ignores any influence Popovich will have on this series.
Here’s hoping Pop designs the “LeBron Rules,” or “Heat Rules,” or something like that.
why the fuck do these games have to start at 9pm? If the heat are losing it’s not going to end until 1am with the constant trips to the foul line.
For the non-league is fixed posters here, can’t we sum this series up pretty easily?
The Spurs will let Lebron score 40 every night but try and lockdown the rest of the team.
If Wade is healthy - Heat win in 6-7
If he’s not Spurs win in 5-6
^^ I like the Spurs regardless.
That IND series gave Pop & staff plenty of useful info and SA won’t be turning it over 20+ times out there.
So the Raptors signed former Denver GM Masai Urji to a 5 year deal.
Now Denver announces George Karl isn’t returning…
Former Dallas Maverick defensive guru and current Raptors head coach Dwayne Casey has been pretty underwhelming.
Has gotten the Raptors to play hard (which the previous coach couldn’t do) but can’t draw up a play to save his life.
Interesting how Denver had the reigning exec and coach of the year and let both go.
[quote]chillain wrote:
^^ I like the Spurs regardless.
That IND series gave Pop & staff plenty of useful info and SA won’t be turning it over 20+ times out there.
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x2 you know everyone in the spurs organization was taking plenty of notes during the pacers/heat series. And considering Pop is the best coach in the game and miami only has one worthwhile player i cant see the spurs losing.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
[quote]chillain wrote:
^^ I like the Spurs regardless.
That IND series gave Pop & staff plenty of useful info and SA won’t be turning it over 20+ times out there.
[/quote]
x2 you know everyone in the spurs organization was taking plenty of notes during the pacers/heat series. And considering Pop is the best coach in the game and miami only has one worthwhile player i cant see the spurs losing. [/quote]
Spurs can take all the notes they want, they don’t have Hibbert and West. TD may be the best PF ever, but his game is totally different, so a lot of those notes won’t apply. Spurs will be able to play a lot more inside out ball moving the ball to Tim and passing it out if Miami tries those quick double teams, which will completely change how Miami plays defense in this series(adding to this, the Spurs have more shooters and a great PG). On the other end, the Spurs have Leonard to defend Lebron and nobody else, and they don’t have anywhere near the interior defense that the Pacers did. TD is definitely slower than West, which also matters because of the way the Heat use Bosh on the perimeter a lot.
Matchups are completely different, I’d almost say NOTHING in the Pacers series is an accurate representation of what will work in this series for either team. Given that, you know the Spurs were prepping for Miami, and Pop is a genius, so they’ll have a good gameplan. I hardly think that makes the series some Spurs walkthrough though.
FWIW, the Spurs are a lot more like the Knicks, who Miami struggled with during the regular season in games that Felton played well. There’s some variables there, Felton isn’t Parker, Melo and TD have totally different games, but at the core, ball movement and open shooters hitting 3s has been shown to be a capable offensive plan vs the Heat, and the Spurs can certainly replicate that.
Spurs tonight by 7. Even if they do not win I have them winning the series. Too deep of a bench and Tony Parker is HOT right now.
[quote]red04 wrote:
Spurs can take all the notes they want, they don’t have Hibbert and West. TD may be the best PF ever, but his game is totally different, so a lot of those notes won’t apply. Spurs will be able to play a lot more inside out ball moving the ball to Tim and passing it out if Miami tries those quick double teams, which will completely change how Miami plays defense in this series(adding to this, the Spurs have more shooters and a great PG). On the other end, the Spurs have Leonard to defend Lebron and nobody else, and they don’t have anywhere near the interior defense that the Pacers did. TD is definitely slower than West, which also matters because of the way the Heat use Bosh on the perimeter a lot.
Matchups are completely different, I’d almost say NOTHING in the Pacers series is an accurate representation of what will work in this series for either team. Given that, you know the Spurs were prepping for Miami, and Pop is a genius, so they’ll have a good gameplan. I hardly think that makes the series some Spurs walkthrough though.
FWIW, the Spurs are a lot more like the Knicks, who Miami struggled with during the regular season in games that Felton played well. There’s some variables there, Felton isn’t Parker, Melo and TD have totally different games, but at the core, ball movement and open shooters hitting 3s has been shown to be a capable offensive plan vs the Heat, and the Spurs can certainly replicate that.[/quote]
Agreed, the matchups are completely different. But IND did provide a blueprint for attacking MIA’s trapping-style defense, shutting down MIA’s corner 3’s, exposing their weak rebounding etc.
Of course, James is getting his no matter the defender.
And of course, coaching adjustments will play out on a game-by-game basis.
Should be fun to watch…
Can already tell this series is going to be fun, this pace is fantastic.
LOL some of the posts in this thread are hilarious. Some of you have no clue what you are talking about. The heat will sweep this series 4-0. The spurs are too old and lebron is just too much of a beast. COOL spurs have tony parker…throw norris cole on him, game over.
Parker on one knee with his back to the basket and shot clock under :02 = wow
Also, four total turnovers by SA = wow
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