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DETROIT vs. SAN ANTONIO - NBA Finals!
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I know the lack of respect card gets played alot in sports. But I swear with this Piston team it's just been unreal. I've read actuall paid sports writers say the better team didn't win, the Heat would've been a better watch(btw Shaq is NOT fun to watch never has been), Spurs will have an easier time etc. I've seen this team overcome too many obstacles and achieve too much to understand the way they just get urinated on.Shinobi said:
And how is this series bad? The two most consistent teams over the last 3 seasons, the last two champs in an actual competitive final. That's like bitching that the Superbowl wasn't between the Chiefs and the Vicks.
BatiGOOOOOOL
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:lol
Isiah "The Mastermind" Thomas.
BatiGOOOOOOL
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It's like he spends his day playing around with NBA Live or something. "Oh, what do we have here? I guess I can pull that Houston for Duncan trade out, afterall."
Ninja Scooter
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:lol from another forum.
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Odoul said:
You're half right IMO. Shaq himself isn't really a fun watch, but the opportunties he creates for the team he's playing on make the team as a whole fun to watch.
I think the mayor of Detroit just may have announced his own imminent death if the Pistons lose the series :lol
He made a wager with the Mayor of San Antonio that if the Pistons lose the series he'll wear a Spurs jersey for an entire day, but if the Spurs lose then the Mayor of San Antonio will have to wear a Pistons jersey for that day.
This was on Cold Pizza a while ago :lol
He made a wager with the Mayor of San Antonio that if the Pistons lose the series he'll wear a Spurs jersey for an entire day, but if the Spurs lose then the Mayor of San Antonio will have to wear a Pistons jersey for that day.
This was on Cold Pizza a while ago :lol
Nameless
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You know David Stern is in one pissed off mood. This will no doubt the the lowest rated NBA finals in YEARS. I mean the biggest star who is Tim Duncan, is the least popular out of any of the NBA Top10 players, Detroit is void of an astronomical name period.
The ironic thing is that fundamentally this will probably be some of the best basketball played all season long, but people want big names and flashy dunks..These teams offer neither.
The ironic thing is that fundamentally this will probably be some of the best basketball played all season long, but people want big names and flashy dunks..These teams offer neither.
The Faceless Master
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yeah, the casual fans need a star... maybe the league shoulda pimped genobili more instead of wade and nash...Nameless said:
truffleshuffle83
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san antonio is the best team in the NBA, if it wasnt for derek fisher they would have one last year
BatiGOOOOOOL
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Nameless said:
Well, Stern has no one else to blame but himself and the rest of NBA execs for promoting the NBA as a players' league instead of a teams' league, giving much more prominance to the right way of playing basketball instead of focusing in all the flash the casuals eat up. As incredible as it may sound to Mr. Stern, the best TEAMS are always the ones standing in the end, not a single player that won the title thanks to his flashy dunks and crossovers.
BatiGOOOOOOL said:
They promote it as a players league because that's what works and that's what sells. When they tried to promote it as a team's league in the 70s, the NBA almost died. The truth is that for the most part it is a player's league, it just so happens that the one superstar player that is going to be responsible for this year's champions (Duncan) is not really marketable. Of the last 25 or so champions, only one (last year's Pistons) didn't depend on a top-5 superstar player.
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Bat said:
I know that is what sells to the casuals, but they could at least try to find a balance, where not everything is about Carmelo, Lebron and Shaq and the awesome dunks and crossovers from a few players. Give some spotlight to the beauty of team basketball and the sport as a whole and then they may not fear for bad ratings if a Finals like this one ever happens again.
BatiGOOOOOOL
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HAWT!
Legal Step
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I'm rooting for Detroit. Are the finals boring because of no Shaq? These finals could be good especially because both teams play defense.
Ninja Scooter
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the 2001 Lakers would have destroyed this Spurs team already.
15-1, bitches.
BatiGOOOOOOL
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I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER!!!
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Guzim said:
"Why yes I do look like Bronson Pinchot."
And lets not forget about...
the_geche said:
Pistons in 6. Its all about Heart, and the Pistons have much more to lose and gain then the spurs have. The Pistons are licking their chops at not having to defend Shaq-Fu, Tim Duncan is easily one of the top 3 players in the game, but his play goes into the pistons defense much better. He won't be beating people down the floor like in the last series. Tayshaun Prince is going to have his best career offensive series against the spurs. With Bowen covering Rip, and either manu or parker on Chauncy, Prince can post just about everybody up but duncan. and if a big man tries to cover him he is going to do his spin move and take it to the hole, or use his massive wing span to just go over the top of them. Love the Pistons, Love the Spurs, this is going to be some of the best basketball played in a long time. (and for all you people who are playing the injury miami card, look back in 87' when the Pistons were playing the celtics. Vinnie Johnson dove for a loss ball and knocked heads with a celtics and he was out for the series (pistons eventually lost), and the next year Pistons against the Lakers Isiah Thomas got injured in game 3 (still managed to put up 25 points in one quarter), but was very much inefective in game 7 and the pistons ended up losing that series). Staying healthy is part of the game, if your players can't stay healthy then that is nobody's problem but their own. People have been telling wade all season long that he can't run into people and take the hits he does for a full season without it taking a toll on his body. Well maybe now he has learned, if you don't watch your health and what you do in the regular season it will catch up to you. Pistons in 6, Prince MVP
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Just read on another forum that Vlade was just on Rome and he said that Manu is a great player who brought something extra special to the NBA. Then stated that he is rooting for the Spurs since he is good friends with Popovich. He also said that Manu should not get an unfair rep as a flopper.
MANU VINDICATED! :lol
MANU VINDICATED! :lol
Incognito said:
I dub you the new Konex.
And in other news.
Media starts to turn on Shaq
Predictably, some journalists are going to start calling Shaq out for some of the things he said this last season. Of course sports journalists being the dumbest and most cowardly people on the planet, they wait until AFTER he loses before attacking him.
I expect the Skip Bayless article shortly...
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