[quote]chillain wrote:
1 - Despite preferring to see more of OKC, I’ve still got SA in five. We know Popovich and his staff will make ongoing and timely adjustments but I’m still not sure we can say the same re: Coach Brooks.
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x2, although Brooks coached a hell of game in G3. Pop has an infinitely better track record though and he will get the better of Brooks throughout the course of the series, if not in that one particular game.
[quote]scj119 wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
I don’t really believe they had any hard time at all selling the team. They wanted to sell to someone who would keep it in New Orleans, THAT was the sticking point. If they just wanted the cash though they could’ve sold to a good number of people. [/quote]
I dont think people even go to those games in NO, or care to be honest. It’s a saints town, and that’s it.
Seattle on the other hand… They actually supported their team. Except that fuckhead smug douche stern demanded a new arena, even tho the Key arena is still pretty cool.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
[quote]scj119 wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
I don’t really believe they had any hard time at all selling the team. They wanted to sell to someone who would keep it in New Orleans, THAT was the sticking point. If they just wanted the cash though they could’ve sold to a good number of people. [/quote]
I dont think people even go to those games in NO, or care to be honest. It’s a saints town, and that’s it.
Seattle on the other hand… They actually supported their team. Except that fuckhead smug douche stern demanded a new arena, even tho the Key arena is still pretty cool. [/quote]
People who’ve never been don’t understand just how big basketball is in the Pacific Northwest. It’s no coincidence that several pro’s come from the Portland-Seattle pipeline. Taking away Seattle’s team was a boneheaded move on a large scale, and hurts the leaguer in the long run.
I know what’s it’s like to have a team you love taken away, and then be very succesful with superstar players (Ravens & Rlewis, and Ereed). So i know what theyre going through, and it makes me hate stern even more.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
[quote]Aggv wrote:
[quote]scj119 wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
I don’t really believe they had any hard time at all selling the team. They wanted to sell to someone who would keep it in New Orleans, THAT was the sticking point. If they just wanted the cash though they could’ve sold to a good number of people. [/quote]
I dont think people even go to those games in NO, or care to be honest. It’s a saints town, and that’s it.
Seattle on the other hand… They actually supported their team. Except that fuckhead smug douche stern demanded a new arena, even tho the Key arena is still pretty cool. [/quote]
People who’ve never been don’t understand just how big basketball is in the Pacific Northwest. It’s no coincidence that several pro’s come from the Portland-Seattle pipeline. Taking away Seattle’s team was a boneheaded move on a large scale, and hurts the leaguer in the long run.[/quote]
http://www.databasebasketball.com/teams/teamatt.htm?tm=sea&lg=n
http://espn.go.com/nba/attendance/_/year/2007
Maybe they used to support it, last time they had consistently sold out was 98-99. They were in the lower third in attendance before the move.
Not to mention key arena only holds a little over 17k for basketball when the majority is 18k to 21k thats alot of revenue they were losing out on.
On the couch with my Mac watching Tyronn Lue highlights.
Waiter!
[quote]scj119 wrote:
[quote]Teledin wrote:
[quote]scj119 wrote:
The main reason I don’t believe in conspiracy theories about the NBA is that I’ve never met 5 people who could keep a secret, let alone hundreds.
That shit would have been leaked eons ago.[/quote]
Flawed logic man. Have you ever worked in the corporate world? There really is no such thing as objectivity or pure chance.
Money talks. The kind of coin the ‘need to know’ guys are earning makes it easy to keep their mouth shut. If there is shady stuff going down, someone will eventually whistle blow it.[/quote]
You know what makes money? Telling people about a conspiracy or writing a book about it.
You’re telling me that people who have been in that room and are no longer under the employment of the NBA wouldn’t be talking for $$$ if it was true?[/quote]
Valid point.
Also consider the shit storm it would bring if someone come out and blew the whistle on rigging the lottery. Lawsuits against a corporate where 20 million is considered loose change isn’t ideal and any proceeds made would just be reinvested into fighting the case, which would be a losing battle anyway since a condition of employment is to keep sensitive information on a need to know basis which doesn’t seize after termination/retirement.
Work for any large scale organisation and you will see what I mean.
It’s all corporate politics.
as much criticism as James receives for his passive play at times this year and in last year’s Finals, one would think D Wade wouldn’t be caught dead doing THE EXACT SAME THING in the here-and-now…
(imo) that was garbage from D Wade tonight, inexcusable
[quote]chillain wrote:
as much criticism as James receives for his passive play at times this year and in last year’s Finals, one would think D Wade wouldn’t be caught dead doing THE EXACT SAME THING in the here-and-now…
(imo) that was garbage from D Wade tonight, inexcusable
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I wouldn’t exactly call that a garbage game, but it wasn’t all that great. He did make big plays though, as did Lebron. Boston’s game plan is clearly trying to take Wade completely out of the game. He’s been doubled and even tripled team every time he touches the ball. Games 1 and 2 of this series Wade absolutely dominated the second half after getting really slow starts. You can’t call Wade doing “THE EXACT SAME THING” honestly. Lebron in the finals was completely absent besides game 1. There was basically zero production coming from him, and it happened every game after game one of that series, if I remember correctly. You can’t honestly compare that type of passiveness to Wade’s. But Wade needs to start attacking in the first half more.
But Lebron is playing absolutely incredible overall. Surprised to see he only got 3 assists vs 7 turnovers though.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
[quote]Aggv wrote:
[quote]scj119 wrote:
I don’t really believe they had any hard time at all selling the team. They wanted to sell to someone who would keep it in New Orleans, THAT was the sticking point. If they just wanted the cash though they could’ve sold to a good number of people. [/quote]
I dont think people even go to those games in NO, or care to be honest. It’s a saints town, and that’s it.
Seattle on the other hand… They actually supported their team. Except that fuckhead smug douche stern demanded a new arena, even tho the Key arena is still pretty cool. [/quote]
People who’ve never been don’t understand just how big basketball is in the Pacific Northwest. It’s no coincidence that several pro’s come from the Portland-Seattle pipeline. Taking away Seattle’s team was a boneheaded move on a large scale, and hurts the leaguer in the long run.[/quote]
Agreed. I’m the least “conspiracy-theory” guy on the planet but that Seattle move was by far Stern’s shadiest move - a move I hated at the time and still hate today. A solution could have been found.
^^my wife and her family are from Seattle… Everyone up there that I know HATES the Thunder and her dad even routed for the Lakers in that series.
We watched a couple games together and he said “I never thought I’d actually be routing for the Lakers” lol
That area really does love their sports teams (not just basketball) I think it partly has to do with the crappy weather… Not too much to do outside year round so they are into watching their sports.
Yeah maybe “passive” isn’t exactly right, but letting the defense consistently dictate isn’t something that alpha-dogs typically do.
And as this writer argues, the failures of that last possession were much more about D Wade than Coach Spo:
[quote]gregron wrote:
^^my wife and her family are from Seattle… Everyone up there that I know HATES the Thunder and her dad even routed for the Lakers in that series.
We watched a couple games together and he said “I never thought I’d actually be routing for the Lakers” lol
That area really does love their sports teams (not just basketball) I think it partly has to do with the crappy weather… Not too much to do outside year round so they are into watching their sports.[/quote]
My girl’s from Portland, and I met her while I was living there with my cousin, who now lives in Seattle. People don’t understand that it drizzles 20+ hours a day, EVERYDAY, for 9+ months a year up there. Basketball is the one sport that can be played year round indoors, and EVERYONE up there plays. The Trailblazers haven’t won a championship since the mid 70’s but there are mural’s celebrating their victory all over the place. There are at least 10 dudes in the league right now from Seattle, and at least 5 from Portland. The weather is the same reason so many musicians and microbrews come from the area. If you can’t do shit outside you might as well excel at something indoors.
OKC has been getting some pretty ridiculous calls in their favor so far this game. With that, the Spurs look a little shook.
Anyone else find this ‘Spurs have lost their confidence’ narrative really annoying? They’re making then sound like fragile pubescent girls.
Maybe it isn’t a loss in confidence but OKC has just been the better team?
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
^^my wife and her family are from Seattle… Everyone up there that I know HATES the Thunder and her dad even routed for the Lakers in that series.
We watched a couple games together and he said “I never thought I’d actually be routing for the Lakers” lol
That area really does love their sports teams (not just basketball) I think it partly has to do with the crappy weather… Not too much to do outside year round so they are into watching their sports.[/quote]
My girl’s from Portland, and I met her while I was living there with my cousin, who now lives in Seattle. People don’t understand that it drizzles 20+ hours a day, EVERYDAY, for 9+ months a year up there. Basketball is the one sport that can be played year round indoors, and EVERYONE up there plays. The Trailblazers haven’t won a championship since the mid 70’s but there are mural’s celebrating their victory all over the place. There are at least 10 dudes in the league right now from Seattle, and at least 5 from Portland. The weather is the same reason so many musicians and microbrews come from the area. If you can’t do shit outside you might as well excel at something indoors.[/quote]
Bill Simmons often mentions how Blazers fans give him as much hate mail as like Lakers fans despite the huge difference in fan base sizes.
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
OKC has been getting some pretty ridiculous calls in their favor so far this game. With that, the Spurs look a little shook.[/quote]
I started watching in 2Q, but Harden had a couple iffy calls against him, maybe it evened out.
One thing I don’t like: Spurs won 20-some in a row… they lose a measley two games (on the road to a very good team) and he starts Ginobli over Green? You’re going to change the formula that won you an insane number of games just because of 2 losses? Unlike Pop to overreact like that.
Spurs coming back in early 3Q now.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Anyone else find this ‘Spurs have lost their confidence’ narrative really annoying? They’re making then sound like fragile pubescent girls.
Maybe it isn’t a loss in confidence but OKC has just been the better team?[/quote]
“Momentarily annoyed/frustrated/exasperated” can be easily mistaken for “lost confidence”
They will come back. This is not their first rodeo.