8. Golden State beats 1. Dallas Mavericks 4-2 in 2007 First Round
8. New York Knicks beat 1. Miami Heat 3-2 in 1999 First Round
8. Denver Nuggets beat 1. Seattle Supersonics 3-2 in 1994 First Round
8. New York Knicks beat 2. Indiana Pacers 4-2 in 1999 Second Round
you can tell there's a lot of young folks here. The seattle nuggets series was unreal and the nuggets were not a underachieving team masquerading as an 8th seed like the warriors. They were a determined 8th seed and seattle was a contender.
Phoenix W 124 - 119 34-39
Sun 1 Memphis W 122 - 117 35-39
Wed 4 @ Houston W 110 - 99 36-39
Fri 6 @ Memphis W 116 - 104 37-39
Sat 7 @ San Antonio L 99 - 112 37-40
Mon 9 Utah W 126 - 102 38-40
Fri 13 @ Sacramento W 125 - 108 39-40
Sun 15 Minnesota W 121 - 108 40-40
Tue 17 Dallas W 111 - 82 41-40
Wed 18 @ Portland W 120-98 42-40
they went 15-5 in the last 20 and 8-1 in these last 9. this wasnt an ordinary 8the seed. look at the scores of the games
agreed.
yeah im kinda tired of people saying "NO EXCUSES you were a 1 seed you should win that series every time." sure we went 67-15, but went 0-3 against the only team that mattered at the time including two blowouts
man its pathetic how you've gone as far as to lie to yourself in public. Mavericks should have won that series in 6.
Hey let's use our first round pick on a kicker!
Hey let's give our head coach to another team and keep using the same playbook! It's not like we'll see him in the Super Bowl or anything!
so going 0-3 vs them in the season makes us the favorites in the series?
we didnt go 67-15 vs Golden State that year. FYI
We were watching a different series. Dallas was on its heels from the get. Play that series ten times, Golden State wins the majority IMO.
i think part of the problem is that Dallas was excpecting a different GS team in the playoffs just because they were an 8th seed, rather than the one that finished red hot and once they quickly figured out this was the same GS team that gave them nightmares all season, they panicked a little bit thinking that they absolutely could not lose to an 8th seed. if it was a 4th/5th seed matchup i think Dallas wouldn't of played as tense but they still wouldve lost IMO
Avery panicked before Game One. That was the biggest problem from where I was standing.
No team with Devan George starting at center is expected to win a playoff series.
Every year, we hear how the 8-seed isn't a typical 8-seed. I remember hearing everyone saying that about Denver in 05. Sacramento in 06. GS in 07. Atlanta in '08... Dallas' loss most certainly was an enormous choke. They locked up the best record in the league and got their top players tons of rest, going against a Warriors team that was in a huge dogfight to make it. The Mavericks should have mopped the floor with them with all the rest they got, similar to what the Lakers did to the Spurs last year, but they instead themselves in every game but the second of the series. They came within a couple of minutes of dropping that 4-1, and were slaughtered in games 1,3, and 6, and came a gimmick defense and a Dirk hot-streak from being slaughtered in game 5. Maybe you could make a decent argument for the Mavs if they had blown a 5-game series like you could for the Lakers blowing the 3-gamer in 81 to Houston, but that was a full series and the team was healthy on top of everything. GS over Dallas is easily the biggest upset in that list.
Four Upsets
8. New york Knicks beating 1. Miami Heat prolly ranks up there
The lakers losing game 7 on their home floor to the Boston Celtics by a bucket in the 69 finals
the Lakers losing to Pistons in 2004 is a huge upset
The PHX suns losing to the SA SPurs to crooked refs in the WCF must a major heartbreak for zona fans
No way that was an upset. Houston's record was bad because they were resting their players a lot of the season. All three of Houston's opponents in the WC playoffs were better than Orlando; they beat a 60-22 Jazz team in the first round, a 59-23 Suns team in the second, and a 62-20 Spurs team in the WCF. Safe to say no one was underestimating them against a 57-25 Magic team making its first playoff run.
Pretty much any time the lakers doesnt win is an upset
Laker fan has no right to ever complain about crooked refs after game 7 of the 2000 WCF and game 6 of the 02 WCF... or game 7 of the 88 Finals.
Exactly. That wasn't an upset. Of course, it's weird if the 8th seed wins against the 1st seed, but we played 0-3 against them during the season. 15 losses in overall and 3 alone against one team? To call it an upset is definitely the wrong term.
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Yes. I think the Clips had an advantage of 8-9 wins against them, but they couldn't close it. Well, it's also Avery's fault. We had problems against them all season, but the second last game of the season, he should have tried to beat them with our best team, not with our bench. Yes, our first squad couldn't make it in the first two games against them, but still. Look at this and you see why Avery was a fool: Game log. During the playoffs Nellie schooled Avery in a way that you would think even Isiah Thomas could have made it better...
I agree.
Epic fail. It seems you haven't even read the whole thread. Probably you're just sticking to your opinion because you only want to bash Dallas, nothing else. Well, nothing new for a Spurs fan. IMO the biggest upset was Denver-Seattle in '94.
NY vs Indiana was the 1999 ECF, not second round
The Warriors really were a great, great team in 2007. It's not as though they beat the Mavs and then promptly lost in 5 games to a just-OK team like the Jazz.
I agree with you. I thought Dallas beating Golden State would have been the upset, even though the seeds meant Dallas should have creamed them. A lot of people thought Golden State would win, or at least make it a very challenging series because they just owned the Mavs.
I can't recall anyone thinking the Nuggets would even be a challenge for the Sonics, and it certainly shocked the heck out of me.
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