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Game 7 of the 2000 WCF? wtf are you talking about...Portland bricked all their shot in the 4th and sheed bricked 2 huge ft's. Spurs fans have no right to complain about crooked refs ever again because of TIM ING DONAGHY
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
The Sonic Meltdown will always be etched in my mind..because it was the first time a 8 beat a 1, and I remember watching every single game, and thinking the Sonics were gonna sweep this team, and wind up in the finals against the Magic.
Game 7 of the 2000 WCF? wtf are you talking about...Portland bricked all their shot in the 4th and sheed bricked 2 huge ft's. Spurs fans have no right to complain about crooked refs ever again because of TIM ING DONAGHY
I might be wrong with this, but after Denver came back down 0-2 to beat the Sonics, didn't they also fall down 0-3 to Utah in the next round only to tie it up (but ultimately lost game 7)? I'll have to check that, but imagine how crazy that woulda been
I voted for Dallas vs. Golden State, though I know that the Nuggets beating the Sonics was probably a much bigger feat, the shame Dallas faced was just awful after that series.
I would say the 2006 NBA Finals should be up there too. Who the really believed the Heat were going to win?
I honestly did
The Mavs vs. GS series upset has really been overblown. While a 67-15 record was absolutely amazing, the Mavs had most of the wins stacked earlier in the season. Avery Johnson pushed the team way too hard in the first half of the season, and the team peaked too soon. Fatigue set in, and other teams starting finding weaknesses in the Mavs.
Worse yet, they were matched up against the worse possible team, the Warriors. They lost all 3 games against them that year. Not only that, but other high octane, athletic teams have also possed problems to the Mavs that year.
Of the 15 losses:
3 against Warriors
2 against Phoenix
1 against the Wizards
1 against the Nuggets
In other words, almost half of the losses comes against athletic, quick, high scoring teams, when these teams made up far less than 1/2 of the Mavs games.
The Nuggets vs. Sonics in 94 though, was a little different. The Nuggets were 2-2 against the Sonics in the regular season, and the Sonics didn't have much of a pattern of losing to a certain kind of team. It was just Mutombo played way over his head, shut down Kemp, and Karl being embarrassingly outcoached by .... Issel.
If I remember correctly, didn't the Mavericks have a game towards the end of the year versus Golden State in which they sat some of their stars (Nowitzki at least I think) and they ended up losing to a GS team fighting to get into the 8th seed?
If so, that makes it even more hilarious.
Yes, you're right. Generally, you shouldn't blame it too much on the players, blame it more on Avery. I still can't understand why Avery did that in the second last game. GSW would have been out and the Clips would have sealed their spot with a Dallas win. Stupid as . As I wrote a few posts earlier:If I remember correctly, didn't the Mavericks have a game towards the end of the year versus Golden State in which they sat some of their stars (Nowitzki at least I think) and they ended up losing to a GS team fighting to get into the 8th seed?
If so, that makes it even more hilarious.
During the playoffs Avery went all the time small ball with Nellie. Come on, how stupid is that??? Even Popovich got schooled by Nellie recently as he tried to go small ball with him.
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You are correct. The series should've been a sweep though. Denver got some big time home cooking in game 4, and we totally fell apart late in the 4th quarter.
Bump, in all fairness, regular season match-ups do not mean anything. For example, in 2007 the Spurs were swept by the cavaliers, and they were not a team posing as an 8th seed, they were a team that made it to the finals. Then the Spurs swept them.
Okay, but it's all also a question how you were swept. Two of the losses Dallas took by GSW were massive blowouts (okay, the last with our bench playing the entire game; Avery you fool!). I don't know how close the games were you mentioned, but I don't think that the GSW-Dallas series was such a great upset as some people think. I remember that Bill Russel was the only one to mention shortly after the series that he wasn't surprised about the outcome due to the problems Dallas had all the season long with GSW.
Dallas was clearly the better team. They underachieved. Golden State was a terrible 8th seed to get, but the Mavs should have found a way.
Giants win 4/7 versus NE
10 straight to make the playoffs, and won the season series
Go and tell it Avery. Sorry to say that, but he was dumb as f*** during the series. Nellie schooled him perfectly.
So the players had nothing to do with it?
They had. I didn't say that it was only Avery's fault, but mainly. Don't want to write it all again, just look up, I wrote it there.
Sounds like excuses. The Mavs were the better team. Call it what you will (coaching, players...) but they were the better team.
nba history...it only goes back 15 years
lol..I know it goes back farther...I went back further..just thought these were the biggest upsets, and I figured people would know these, and be able to discuss them with knowledge, as opposed to games with the Ft. Wayne Pistons or Minneapolis Lakers..lolnba history...it only goes back 15 years
I didn't think the Heat were going to get passed Chicago that year. It was pretty damn crazy that they actually won it all.
A lot of people don't know about the Nugs Sonics matchup. Seattle was like the Bulls with Jordan and Denver was like this year's Phoenix Suns. No one even thought Denver would make the playoffs. They made it in at the last minute, and even went down 0-2 to Seattle. From the beginning, everyone was saying it would be a sweep. Denver proceeded to win 3 games in a row to win this series...it was insane..mindblowing.
No, epic fail was completing two of the biggest chokes in NBA history in back to back playoff series. Epic fail was getting ready to have the parade and dropping four in a row. Epic fail was Tony Romo fumbling the hold in Seattle. Epic fail was blowing the team up because Kidd and Jim Jackson were both tapping Toni Braxton. Epic fail is the definition of Dallas sports since the mid 90s.
Spurs played Michael Finley at center in 06 to matchup with these same Mavericks, and if not for a certain mental mistake, would have won ... you Mavfans saying it wasn't an upset have the brightest rose colored homer glasses on imaginable. It was most definitely a huge upset.
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