2013 NBA Championship Finals - San Antonio Spurs vs. Miami Heat

[JimLeavy59]

:lol:

 

[JimLeavy59]

 

[FirstTimer]

The Heat will win Game 7 by 20.

Spurs pissed down their leg last night.

Typical Finals chorus so far, James shows up, imposes his will, actually drives by Diaw and things go well. Imagine that.

 

[kmanharris]

The Heat will win Game 7 by 20.

Spurs pissed down their leg last night.

Typical Finals chorus so far, James shows up, imposes his will, actually drives by Diaw and things go well. Imagine that.

Only while that momentum sucking Wade was on the bench. Then Spo takes out Miller, Miami's hottest shooter, and puts Wade in and Miami has to pull it out of their ass. :facepalm:

As soon as Wade came in, instead of continuing to go to Lebron like they should have, they made Wade the focal point of the offense and it almost cost them. I just don't get it.

 

[Point Blank]

Refs were scared to call that foul on Bosh at the end, ridiculous.

 

[kmanharris]

And I don't understand how San Antonio fans can complain about ANYTHING the Heat do. The Spurs are the exact same. Lebron and company bitch to the refs constantly, Duncan and company bitch to the refs constantly. Miami flops. San Antonio flops. Their on the court antics are carbon copies of each other.

 

[MrBill]

Refs were scared to call that foul on Bosh at the end, ridiculous.

Two critical possessions with less than 10 seconds remaining. The Spurs have one ticky tack call against them and the Heat have 2 obvious fouls where the whistle is swallowed.

 

[FedEx227]

That's some really weird jumpshot form by Danny Green it's almost as if hes....GASP...initiating contact!

 

[Senser81]

Here is an excerpt from a Slate article I read this morning...

While Game 6 affirmed my faith in sports, the subsequent press conferences and roundtables, packed as they were with superficial dishonesty, brought me right back down. “It may be shallow, it may be narrow-minded and it may be unfair. But it is also reality and there’s little use talking around it,” wrote ESPN.com’s Brian Windhorst before the Heat’s overtime win. “The next three days will define these three years for the Miami Heat.”

Windhorst is right—it is shallow, narrow-minded, and unfair. If Kawhi Leonard makes both of his free throws with 19 seconds to go or Ray Allen’s shot doesn’t go down, then the Spurs are working through their 500th bottle of Veuve Clicquot right about now. There would be stories written about Tim Duncan’s throwback 30-point, 17-rebound performance, Tony Parker’s amazing pair of shots late in the fourth quarter, and Gregg Popovich’s standout on-court leadership. Duncan is the greatest player of his generation. Parker is the best point guard in basketball. Pop is on the Mount Rushmore of NBA coaches. And LeBron James and the Heat are huge stinking losers.

How does one missed free throw—a shot that hovered over the rim, spun around, and fell out—change any of that? It doesn’t make the Spurs any worse or the Heat any better, but everyone on TV is obligated to pretend otherwise. Now, we have to listen to ESPN’s Michael Wilbon and Magic Johnson talk about San Antonio choking the game away, which is about the least intellectually sophisticated thing a sentient being could say after watching the Spurs and Heat fight each other desperately on every possession. And, of course, there’s the talk about how Tim Duncan should have been on the court when the Heat tied the game, and how the refs rigged the outcome by refusing to call fouls on Miami down the stretch.

There’s plenty wrong with the NBA, from the excessive timeouts to the bad officiating to the incessant complaining about the bad officiating. But the most depressing thing by far is how we so easily put aside what makes basketball great in favor of dumb narratives based on the random spin of a ball on a rim. Pretty much every player on both teams oscillated between greatness and feebleness during Game 6. Duncan had 25 points in the first half and five the rest of the way. Parker made two spectacular shots in the fourth quarter, and was otherwise 4-21 from the field. LeBron pulled the Heat back from a 10-point fourth quarter deficit, then helped give the lead away with two late turnovers. He made a clutch three, and he missed a couple more. If you’re desperate to tell me how any of this cements his or anyone else’s legacy, I’ll be happy to pretend to listen.

After a great game, we too often conflate what’s debatable with what’s worth debating. We can argue about Popovich’s substitutions and the refs and how to tote all this up on LeBron’s career ledger. But we shouldn’t let it drown out everything that went right, for both the winners and the losers, in those seven seconds: the way Ray Allen’s feet illuminated decades of preparation, Tony Parker somehow managing to guard every Heat shooter simultaneously, and Manu Ginobili getting off his butt only to see the ball splash through the net. It’s moments like these that make sports worth our time. Legacies can wait. I can’t wait for Game 7.

 

[Argath]

If last nights game proved anything, its that Lebron is still the anti-clutch. Gonna be interesting to see how Parker and Duncan play in game 7 after 45+ min in game 6.

 

[Argath]

Two critical possessions with less than 10 seconds remaining. The Spurs have one ticky tack call against them and the Heat have 2 obvious fouls where the whistle is swallowed.

Spurs got away with a ton of no calls last night. Either side complaining about the refereeing is dumb. Every year people complain about too many whistles and now the refs are finally letting them play and people complain about no calls.

 

[Hasselbeck]

If last nights game proved anything, its that Lebron is still the anti-clutch. Gonna be interesting to see how Parker and Duncan play in game 7 after 45+ min in game 6.

He was huge in the 4th and hit a gigantic three to cut the lead to 2.

 

[Argath]

He was huge in the 4th and hit a gigantic three to cut the lead to 2.

He was huge for 8 minutes of the entire game. In the final 4 minutes, he committed 2 crucial turnovers which should have cost his team the game had it not been for late game heroics by Ray and Bosh and threw up 2 awful bricks that weren't even close to the bucket.

But he made a 3, woohoo

 

[JimLeavy59]

The word clutch needs to be banned.

 

[EmpireWF]

This may be the greatest footage in the history of Miami, Florida.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/mi...ally/-/1637132/20627370/-/qsql1f/-/index.html

The video there shows the MIAMI HEAT FANS who left when the team was down earlier in the game SPRINTING back to the arena with hopes to get back in when the Heat were making their comeback. Of course, anyone with a brain knows that pro sporting events never allow reentry to customers. So, they were left outside...:rofl:

 

[FedEx227]

He was huge for 8 minutes of the entire game. In the final 4 minutes, he committed 2 crucial turnovers which should have cost his team the game had it not been for late game heroics by Ray and Bosh and threw up 2 awful bricks that weren't even close to the bucket.

But he made a 3, woohoo

He fucking scored 16 points in the fourth quarter and had 32 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds. Jesus christ people. I need to just remove myself from social media, forums and shit sports media during the NBA Playoffs.

 

[JimLeavy59]

He fucking scored 16 points in the fourth quarter and had 32 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds. Jesus christ people. I need to just remove myself from social media, forums and shit sports media during the NBA Playoffs.

Jordan wouldn't have turned the ball over or missed any shots during the stretch though you have to remember that. /sarcasm

People need to go back and look at Jordans numbers in his last 3 finals appearances and realize that not even Jordan lived up to the crazy standard they keep Lebron to.

 

[FirstTimer]

 

[Argath]

Right so Lebron has an amazing 8 minute segment of the game and were just supposed to forget the rest of the game even happened. I admit he had a great run in the 4th but he still played like a scrub for 80% of the game. For someone who touts himself as the "King" that's unacceptable. People want him to be considered the best player in NBA history then they better be ready for the scrutiny. Shooting 25 percent FROM THE FIELD and ZERO PERCENT from 3 for 3/4 quarters is beyond terrible. Not to mention his 2 turnovers in the final minute and a half and his two awful bricks. He got a second chance at one and made it, awesome good for him, shoulda made it the first time though. I'm not gonna be impressed with him chuckin up threes and the occasional one went in.

 

[JimLeavy59]

Right so Lebron has an amazing 8 minute segment of the game and were just supposed to forget the rest of the game even happened. I admit he had a great run in the 4th but he still played like a scrub for 80% of the game. For someone who touts himself as the "King" that's unacceptable. People want him to be considered the best player in NBA history then they better be ready for the scrutiny. Shooting 25 percent FROM THE FIELD and ZERO PERCENT from 3 is beyond terrible.

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