Wow, I am surprised that we are trending at 67 percent for the Pacers!
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Wow, I am surprised that we are trending at 67 percent for the Pacers!
99.9% fans outside of San Antonio would choose Heat any day of the week, which's a no-brainer. and even in San Antonio the supporting rate will be half-half when the Superfriends come in town tbh
Pacers. Home court advantage would be awesome.
But with the 2-3-2 format, it may be work out for the underdog if they either game 1 or game 2.
heat, because winning against the pacers wouldn't be quite as sweet as destroying lebron yet again.
to be the best, you must defeat the best. they're the defending champs. i want to dethrone them, not let someone else do it for us.
Spurs/Pacers would be such an unexpected finals and I would get a kick out of all the stories whining about the bad ratings and such. It would serve the league right for not marketing anyone but a select few and ESPN acting as if Lebron, Kobe and Durant are the only players that exist in the NBA...
Strangely enough, we might be better off playing the Heat as I'm almost sure we will lose game 1 against whoever we play due to rust from the long layoff, and I'd rather that be on their court than ours.
The Spurs usually play very poorly for at least a half after a rest longer than 2 days. I really hope the occasion (ie. the Finals) means that they will get back in a rhythm more quickly, but knowing this team as I do I'm pretty sure we're going to look very bad for at least the first half of game 1.
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Originally Posted by RuffnReadyOzStyle
I don't know the stats, but I'd imagine that the Spurs win more games than they lose when coming off of a rest of 5-7 days or more.
Either one run it.
lol wut. So you agree it would be an asterick title if we play the Pacers instead of the Heat?Quote:
Originally Posted by Blake
I want the Pacers mainly for home court.
I don't have a strong preference, as both teams are looking very flawed in a 3-3 tie, but if I must choose, I prefer the Pacers.
I kinda think the rest would hurt more against a perimeter team like miami like it did vs. golden state.Quote:
Originally Posted by RuffnReadyOzStyle
I'm starting to lean towards The Heat right now, tbh. I want my Spurs to dethrone them (not The Pacers)... as well as completely annihilate and humiliate them, of course. I want to end Superfriends and revel at watching their organization and fake-ass bandwagoners/"fans" fall apart, disappear, and become lost souls again. I want to make LeBron cry like a little bitch yet again. I want The Spurs to completely own Superfriends as well as The Fakers. :devil HHhhhmmmmmm .... We'll just have to see what happens tonight. :D
If we get Miami, remember when the pundits called a Lakers-Heat Finals? :lmao
Lots of good reasons on both sides...
Pacers: Less small ball = less Bonner = Less temptation for Pop
Heat = More exciting series = Less complaining of a boring series = More satisfying experience if Spurs dethrone the champs
Gotta go with the Heat - but am dreading Bonner Ball.
Indiana never went small and made Miami play their style - Hope Pop was paying attention.
FIFY :)Quote:
Originally Posted by racm
I'm sticking with wanting the Pacers; mainly because of home-court, but also because I'd like to see the Heat choke and not even make the Finals. Fuck what people say regarding asterisks and what not, I don't know why people around here should even give a shit about that. A ring is a ring no matter who you beat.
I'm getting pretty giddy as the last week has been building up to Thursday.
Pacers.
1) Home court advantage.
2) George Hill.
3) ABA matchup, last playoff matchup was Pacers win in 1975.
I have never heard of any logical or rational argument as to why any Spurs championship - 1999 or any other one, including a hypothetical 2013 Spurs-Pacers one - would have an asterisk.
NEVER had heard of any logical justification for an asterisk.
It's simply something nonsensical that people invent in their minds.
Maybe a counter-conspiracy (for those who subscribe to conspiracies):Quote:
Originally Posted by dbreiden83080
Stern is retiring; 2013 is his last Finals. If it gets crappy ratings, it makes no significant difference to him -- it's not like the owners are going to fire him or television executives are going to come after him if the Finals are a fiasco for television and negotiation of ad rates for the 2014 Finals and beyond are Adam Silver's problem. Conversely, the big bugaboo of Stern's commissionership has been the perception that he and his administration will prefer big markets and superstars to small markets and teams lacking star power to sell to non basketball fans. Stern could, in theory, do away with that to some extent by having the last Finals that he presides over be one between two of the league's smallest markets and between teams that don't have great Q ratings. It would allow the last bit of Stern's legacy to be a perception that he stopped favoring pet teams and players (if you buy the existing conspiracy theories in the first place) and that he allowed a Finals between Indiana and San Antonio, even when the Heatles were an option. When people question him about the issue down the road, he can always say: "I don't know what you're talking about. My last two years, the Finals involved teams from Oklahoma City, San Antonio, and Indianapolis. If I was conspiring to favor big markets, I did a really bad job of it."
I think the Heat win tonight, and I don't think they need any help to do it.
No such thing as an asterisk title but the Spurs would have had a lucky easy road to a title playing the lower seed in every possible round and getting an injured laker team in round one. They would have lucked their way to a title. That was the only way I saw the Spurs winning a title so no surprise there. Beating the Heat would be unexpected but not the Pacers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spurs and Mavs fan
Let's go old school
http://www.nasljerseys.com/ABA/Image...Gervin%202.jpg
I don't care who we play. I just really want the clinching win to be at the AT&T Center.
Pacers... Spurs are a lock for the title if they vs the Pacers tbh.
Heat still haven't lost b2b games in almost 65 contests..I don't think it'll happen tonight, but I sure hope it does in the finals.
I WANT EITHER.
HEAT MOST ESPECIALLY. TO SEE THE NAZI STERN AFTER THE SEASON THAT HE HAD THE AUDACITY TO FINE THE SPURS FOR SENDING OUR TOP 4 HOME FOR THE HEAT GAME, THEN TO SEE THE SMUG LOOK ON HIS FACE AFTER HE PRESENTS THE LOB TO THE TEAM HE LIKELY DISLIKES THE MOST.
ONLY THING SWEETER IS IF JOEY CRAWFORD OFFICIATED THE SPURS CHAMPIONSHIP-CLINCHING GAME.
NOT SURE WHY MY ENTIRE POST IS IN ALL CAPS. MAYBE I THOUGHT IT WOULD LOOK COOLER.
GO. SPURS. GO.