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Dominican Power
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Adam Blade
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MiamiWesker
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I'm going to the OKC game tonight, should be awesome. Still I feel like a bad Miami fan as the Marlins opening is such a huge event for our city. Oh well no way in hell I am passing up OKC tickets.
From all i've heard, i hope you have already started to make your way there, traffic is apparently pretty bad.
Barry nor Dr J aren't top 3 all time and possibly GOAT so they aren't better than Lebron.
ryutaro's mama
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Start a fucking "YES YES YES YES!" chant plzkthxbye.
kevo_huevo
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who would rank up as the most unclutch players? nick anderson? john starks?
MiamiWesker
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Oh how far we have fallen.
That image reeks of sadness.
While I agree that TD is better than Malone, Malone had some stiffer competition in the 90's. Spurs beat the Knicks, Nets, Pistons, Cavs in the finals. Not the strongest of competition.
I'll get there at the start of the 2nd quarter.
Typical heat fan. smh. LOL
:lol
Eh, i wouldn't have said their toughest games were ever their finals, but getting out of the west was pure hell for anyone in the 2000's.
2 years ago, Nash Vs D-will
Dragic goes off for 20 in a half. Suns still lose with 2 really late dumb plays that let the jazz come back from 5 down with 10seconds to play or something. Deron came up big.
Sigh.
It wasn't easy in the 2000's, either, and facing the Bulls in the Finals makes it much worse. The Spurs had it easy in the Finals, the Jazz didn't. Remember, one of those Bulls teams went 72-10, and doing that in the 90's is pretty tough. Though, like I said, I would still pick Duncan, cause Malone had Stockton.
I may not remember this right, but didn't one of those spurs runs bump out a kobe-shaq lakers team?
Not saying Jordan bulls weren't a tough team to beat. But he played for 16 years or something. Jordan bulls only won 6 times. Thats 10 other years.
Boombloxer
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IIRC, they also had first-round byes back then and each series was less games. 11 in 13 isn't impressive when there's only two rounds you have to win.
In more recent news, Bynum has lost his mind and I'd like our coach fired.
Also, inferior team acknowledges what world already knew--there is no rivalry if you've never been more successful than the other team.
2003, by 28. One of the few times the Lakers lost to the Spurs in the playoffs.
I seem to remember CP3 performing a magical whirling dervish the last time the teams met...surely someone has this gif.
Blake and Cp3 flopping is laughable.
Have fun at the game dude. I'm gonna be missing both the new Marlins park opening and the Heat-Thunder game
Hopefully I can get back in time to catch some of the action but I doubt it....ItWasMeantToBe19
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I can't believe ESPN is hyping this game as the game to decide the MVP.
Like, it's a pretty long season and not a one or two game thing...
Like, it's a pretty long season and not a one or two game thing...
Let me stop you there.
Until the refs/league fix it (and it has to be from the beginning of pre season so players have time to adjust and SUPER strict) the floppers are in the right even if I hate seeing it.
It's not like some Bruce Bowen step under a dudes foot to try and snap his ankle style bullshit that would get you punched in a pickup game even full of 50 yr old rich fat dudes.
When it comes to awards ESPN has always been about hyping nonsense stories over stats and realities of the game. This thread was just as guilty of it last Thunder/Heat game.
Yeah in 02-03
Lakers 3 peat. Spurs topple them in 2nd round (year shaq missed ton of games for toe surgery). Next year with Malone/Payton Malone gets hurt, and then Kobe literally throws the finals without basically any media attention. If Lebron played a finals anywhere near as bad as that one? Oh Lord this thread would be in literal flames on the neogaf server
Syphon Filter
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Yes.
cuevas. PhD.
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Duki haha, I like you duki
That was one of the worst series ever.
Btw, anyone saying that the Spurs were a one man team didn't watch that series.
Tony Parker killed us. So many of his stupid runners in the lane every time the Lakers tried to make a push. Robinson also had some huge clutch plays for the Spurs. Multiple cuts to the basket for lob dunks with just a few seconds left on the shot clock. Fucking open dunks when the Lakers were like 3 seconds away from a stop. It's hard to hate such a classy guy, but goddamn I wanted to beat his old ass with a baseball bat during that series.
Also, that was the year when Kobe started dominating the ball and taking the most shots on the team. Lots of people don't remember, but Shaq often looked gassed that year. He looked helpless against Duncan and Robinson on countless possessions.
Robert Horry was also horrible for the Lakers in that series.
Just because no one is stopping the drug lords in mexico from slaughtering people, it's ok, until the government cracks down on it!
Just because you get away with something doesn't make it right.
That series was such a fucking joke.
Stanislav Medvedenko was legitimately the Lakers third best player that series.
Khalifa Jayy
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... after LeBron right?
Yeah, but we're talking 90's Bulls teams here, they're far and away much more formidable than any team the Spurs had to face. Besides, the Jazz didn't have an easy walk to the finals. The Lakers teams they beat were pretty tough too.
Hard to take that seriously when everytime he does do something clutch people just go "LOL LeTravel!" Or ignore it like his 16 straight points last night when Philly cut their lead to 4-5 with 2-3 minutes to go. Until people realize the last 2-5 minutes not just the last 5 seconds also counts as clutch it's hard to take people seriously.
ryutaro's mama
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He was super clutch that one time against the Pistons
before he got unclutchly swept in the Finals.
ClovingWestbrook
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literally?
Black Mamba
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There's no such thing as a pure one man team, but Duncan was way more part of that team than anyone other than Hakeem in '94. Parker contributed at times, other times was benched for Speedy Claxton. Jax chipped in as did DRob. I mean, in basketball you can't actually win with just 1 player being good.
But Duncan carried them big time. BTW, in the Laker series, DRob was trash. Duncan destroyed the Lakers. Something like 30 and 13 on 55%. Lakers had no answer. Horry looked so tired in that series.
Thank you. I try. lol
This was the biggest reason they lost that series.
And that game 5 winner he missed changed the series as the Lakers would have went up 3-2.
obijkenobi
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If the Spurs win and the THunder lose, that would make my night complete
ryutaro's mama
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Don't mention that shit to me.
I was standing in my living room in stunned disbelief when that shit clanged off.
The 90's bulls were on a different level to most chip teams, yes, but that doesn't count for the other 10 years he didn't win anything.
I remember he was like 0 for 18 for the series from the 3 and Duncan killed him on the other end. That was the worst shit I have seen from a player in the playoffs and Phil refused to stop playing him.
Black Mamba
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I remember that play so vividly because it was so devastating to me. I swear it's the only game winning shot Horry ever missed. And it should have gone in.
Don't think I was ever as upset after a Laker loss as that one. I was certain that shot was going in. I even called the play for Horry before it happened. How did it not go in? Everything was lined up for him...
If the Spurs win and the THunder lose, that would make my night complete
Meh
CoffeeJanitor
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Durant won wc player of the month, beating love
Yeah, i mad...
Yeah, i mad...
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