Any Mavs fans suprised by the sudden Finley hate?

[DampierAmGod]

Not only was the crowd very suprisingly anti-Finley Saturday night but holy shit radio personalities in DFW have been owning this bastard left and right :lol

I remember a line on FoxSports Radio where they were running down the box score and they came to Finley with his 6 points in 27 minutes and they were like "Yea here's Finley with 6 points in 27 minutes, those numbers should sound familiar to Mavs fans." Then the other guy chimed in with something like "Yea and 27 minutes... wow. Spurs fans any time Finley plays 27 minutes you know your team was in trouble and lost the game." I almost pissed myself :lol

But the crowd booing him seemed to make him nervous and hesitant like he was in their first meeting this season so here's hoping they boo him even more.

[timvp]

Classless Mav Fan is no surprise. Before Fin got there your team was a joke. He helps build the foundation of what you have now and he gets booed?

Great fans you have there.

[bgantz]

I don't agree with the booing....but in 2 regular season games in dallas, finley got his standing O. He deserved it. Like I said...I don't agree with it, but it's the playoffs now and when a team is trying to eliminate you, you consider everyone the enemy. Van Exel was great here too....but he doesn't get cheered anymore either. I wouldn't call it classless...it just is what it is.

[ponky]

I still love Finley. It's the playoffs, not exactly the time for brotherly love, kinda the same way AJ is getting razzed by Spurs fans.

[ponky]

Classless Mav Fan is no surprise. Before Fin got there your team was a joke. He helps build the foundation of what you have now and he gets booed?

Great fans you have there.


Right, kinda like the way AJ has been dissed since, let's see, Game 2?

[DubMcDub]

Classless Mav Fan is no surprise. Before Fin got there your team was a joke. He helps build the foundation of what you have now and he gets booed?

Great fans you have there.

Someone sound the hypocrisy alarm.

[Kori Ellis]

Someone sound the hypocrisy alarm.

timvp is Avery's biggest fan -- Spurs fans kill him about it. So he's not being a hypocrite.

[Kori Ellis]

I wonder what the reception for AJ will be in Game 5 at the AT&T compared to Games 1 & 2 though. I'd expect a lot more booing. In Game 1, I think he nearly got a standing ovation.

[J.T.]

AJ didn't make the Spurs perrenial championship contenders. That was Robinson and Duncan. AJ was just a roleplayer. Finley on the other hand helped make the Mavs into what they are now. If it was David Robinson coaching the Mavs right now, then Spur fans would have no right to talk smack about him.

Your fans are booing an All Star player who was just as important as Dirk, Nash, and others when it came to making the playoffs every year? That is fucking sad.

[whottt]

Someone sound the hypocrisy alarm.


Um...you just called the biggest AJ lover and defender in history a hypocrite...His man-love for AJ is legendary.

And you wonder why we think ya'll are a bunch of stupid fucks. I am sorry...but you guys are complete dumbasses.


You know...being a dickhead won't get you run from this site...but being stupid will. You guys seriously need to get it together.


Here is a starting point for you...

If you don't know what you are talking about...then don't start typing on that keyboard.

[J.T.]

Mav Fans are slowly becoming the laughingstock of SpursTalk. Oh wait already there.

[ponky]

Mav Fans are slowly becoming the laughingstock of SpursTalk. Oh wait already there.

It won't really matter what we are on spurstalk when we take this series.

[J.T.]

It won't really matter what we are on spurstalk when we take this series.

We'll see. Last I checked it's a 7 game series, not 3.

[ponky]

We'll see. Last I checked it's a 7 game series, not 3.

True, but I think tomorrow is the one to win for either team. If Spurs don't win it, I don't see them winning three in a row. If Mavs don't win they have another opportunity but it's just going to get tougher for them.

[Kori Ellis]

True, but I think tomorrow is the one to win for either team. If Spurs don't win it, I don't see them winning three in a row. If Mavs don't win they have another opportunity but it's just going to get tougher for them.

Agreed.

[NuGGeTs-FaN]

I still love Finley. It's the playoffs, not exactly the time for brotherly love, kinda the same way AJ is getting razzed by Spurs fans.

yeh its the playoffs, stuff him and what he has done for their organisation
:lol

the regular season is different, a win doesnt matter as much as it does now. Of course the majority of mavs fans would still love Finley and what he did for the organisation but why would they cheer him and let him feel comfortable during a HUGE playoff series? :smokin

He may be a professional but i bet the booing reception was in his head for game 3, especially after getting a welcome reception there during the regular season.

[T-Pain]

True, but I think tomorrow is the one to win for either team. If Spurs don't win it, I don't see them winning three in a row. If Mavs don't win they have another opportunity but it's just going to get tougher for them.
yeah me too. Unfortunately, if the spurs do lose tonight, I think there done. I dont see them winning 3 games in a row either. With Duncans foot and Parkers hip and theigh along with the lack of contributing big men (which would be crucial should we play Detroit in the finals), I dont see it happening. Its a must win for the Spurs.

[Ginofan]

I thought I saw someone posted that Dirk jokingly told the crowd (in an interview) to boo Fin.

[SPARKY]

Dallas fans are the worst of all time.

[exstatic]

The equivalent isn't AJ, the equivalent would be Ice or DRob. That would just never happen here.

[DampierAmGod]

Classless Mav Fan is no surprise. Before Fin got there your team was a joke. He helps build the foundation of what you have now and he gets booed?

Great fans you have there.

It's the playoffs guy, Finley got standing ovations both times the Spurs came to the AAC this season. You don't cheer an opposing player in the playoffs. Not to mention there are plenty of people pissed because he went to the Spurs. And to top it all off Spurs fans do the same thing to AJ, a starting member of their first title team in this little mini dynasty, which is far more impressive than anythign Finley did in Dallas. Hypocritical much?

Nash got booed in the playoffs last year and he was much more important the last few years than Finley was.

[spurschick]

It won't really matter what we are on spurstalk when we take this series.

Regardless of what happens, I'm hoping that what you will be is gone.

[Holmes_Fans]

If Finley had gone to the Pistons, Heat or any other team we might face he wouldn't get booed. The fact that he is now playing for our biggest rival is why he is getting booed. Think of it as when Emmit Smith left the cowboys, had he gone and played for the Redskins or eagles, he would of gotten booed. But he went to Arizona, who isn't a big team rival.

[AlamoSpursFan]

Not to mention there are plenty of people pissed because he went to the Spurs.

Pissed at who? If it's anybody other than Mark Cuban, you Mavs fans really are as stupid as you post.

:lol

[Spurminator]

Yeah this is just like the Avery situation. Remember when Avery got that enormous contract and then the Spurs cut him under the amnesty clause so they wouldn't have to pay the luxury tax? Just like Finley. That dick.

[Jimcs50]

Classless Mav Fan is no surprise. Before Fin got there your team was a joke. He helps build the foundation of what you have now and he gets booed?

Great fans you have there.


:smokin

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

The only bad thing about the playoffs is the invasion of the trolls.

[LB7]

Um...you just called the biggest AJ lover and defender in history a hypocrite...His man-love for AJ is legendary.

And you wonder why we think ya'll are a bunch of stupid fucks. I am sorry...but you guys are complete dumbasses.


You know...being a dickhead won't get you run from this site...but being stupid will. You guys seriously need to get it together.


Here is a starting point for you...

If you don't know what you are talking about...then don't start typing on that keyboard.

First of all, thats great that he is an AJ fan. Don't be an idiot and think that that comment was just meant for him. I realize he was the one who made the comment, but the majority of this board has had nothing to say about AJ except bad things. So, before you start making a collective group and name calling, think about what you are saying. You are probably one of the ones who wants AJ's head right?

[strangeweather]

If Finley had gone to the Pistons, Heat or any other team we might face he wouldn't get booed. The fact that he is now playing for our biggest rival is why he is getting booed. Think of it as when Emmit Smith left the cowboys, had he gone and played for the Redskins or eagles, he would of gotten booed. But he went to Arizona, who isn't a big team rival.

Yeah, but it's not like he was doing it like Deion Sanders -- who wanted to jump from the Falcons to the 49ers, and from the 49ers to the Cowboys, and from the Cowboys to the Redskins just so he could put the screws to his old team. Fin was just looking for the best organization to land at.

And it's not like he was a free agent that the Mavs tried to resign but chose to jump ship instead. He would have been happy to spend the rest of his career in a Mavs uniform, but he got cut loose.

[AlamoSpursFan]

Not only was the crowd very suprisingly anti-Finley Saturday night but holy shit radio personalities in DFW have been owning this bastard left and right :lol


And there's only one holy shit radio personality in DFW.

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[LB7]

I love Finley but this constant talk of how we screwed him over is getting ridiculous. He wasn't producing like a started needed to, and he didn't want to sit on the bench in a Mavs uniform. He wanted to start. He didn't fit here anymore with AJ's style. Its business. Get over it and move on. I was a big Finley fan, but I understand thats they way the NBA goes. If a player doesn't fit, you don't have him anymore. Get over it already. It happens on every team in the NBA.

[strangeweather]

I love Finley but this constant talk of how we screwed him over is getting ridiculous. He wasn't producing like a started needed to, and he didn't want to sit on the bench in a Mavs uniform. He wanted to start. He didn't fit here anymore with AJ's style. Its business. Get over it and move on. I was a big Finley fan, but I understand thats they way the NBA goes. If a player doesn't fit, you don't have him anymore. Get over it already. It happens on every team in the NBA.

He didn't get screwed over. When you're building a team, you do what's right for the team.

But he also didn't betray the organization, either, like a lot of Mavs fans seem to think.

[AlamoSpursFan]

He wasn't producing like a started needed to, and he didn't want to sit on the bench in a Mavs uniform. He wanted to start.

Which explains the hell out of why he took Popovich's offer to come off the BENCH.

Nobody held a gun to Cuban's head and made him give Fin the contract to begin with.

[SPARKY]

It's the playoffs guy, Finley got standing ovations both times the Spurs came to the AAC this season. You don't cheer an opposing player in the playoffs. Not to mention there are plenty of people pissed because he went to the Spurs. And to top it all off Spurs fans do the same thing to AJ, a starting member of their first title team in this little mini dynasty, which is far more impressive than anythign Finley did in Dallas. Hypocritical much?

Nash got booed in the playoffs last year and he was much more important the last few years than Finley was.

Finley is closer to superstar status than AJ could ever have been.

Bitter much about the Spurs' 3 titles? Damn.

[DampierAmGod]

Going to your in state rival is a betrayal no matter how you want to cut it.

Regardless, booing him is in no way classless or sorry considering he's now the enemy and he got standing ovations in the regular season. AND you still have the fact that Spurs fans boo AJ and trash him here. Can't have it both ways.

Finley closer to All-Star status? What the fuck is your point? He was released because compared to his 1-2 good seasons, he was average making All-Star money and still is an average player at best. Don't give a shit about your titles, don't know why you'd even bring them up other than to make an ass out of yourself because you have no arguement.

[loveforthegame]

Just like the Dallas media (and fans) to continue bashing Finley when he's not even a part of the team. If he were still taking 15-17 shots and only scoring 6 points while being the 2nd option then I'm sure more fans here would be upset with his performance. But he's lucky if he's 4th (rightly so behind Duncan, Parker, Manu) option and he's not even averaging 7 shots per game in this series. The media and fans fail to recognize his role is way different here but they're so used to ripping him about taking too many shots and not scoring enough points that they can't even write a correct article.

Mike Fisher wrote in one of his articles after game 1 about how Finley launched shots and only scored 7 points while Stack scored a solid 24 points and had a minor goof at the end of the game. I called him on it saying how is 6 shot attempts launching while Stackhouse jacked up 21 and only managed to score 24 points? And if Fin had trapped himself in the corner on that 3pt attempt he would have been flamed instead of having the label of a small goof attached to his name.

I'm not saying that Fin has played well (compared to the Kings series) but he's been far from bad. And at least he's playing within the role he's given and not trying to be more than that.

[strangeweather]

Going to your in state rival is a betrayal no matter how you want to cut it.

The Mavs had a remarkably simple way to keep him from going to the Spurs -- all they had to do was not cut him. He didn't ask to go looking for a new job, but since he had to, he tried to find the best situation. Betrayal my ass.


Regardless, booing him is in no way classless or sorry considering he's now the enemy and he got standing ovations in the regular season. AND you still have the fact that Spurs fans boo AJ and trash him here. Can't have it both ways.

I don't like Spurs fans booing AJ either. AJ is great, and if Pop ever retires, I'd love to have AJ coach the Spurs. I'd cheer him, or Sean, or Mario Elie, even if they came back coaching the Lakers.