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OKC = this year's version of Mike D'Antoni-era Suns, except Brooks is even a worse coach than D'Antoni.
Way to go, Pop.
Not to say I really disagree with you about the fact that we probably wouldn't haven beaten them, but who would have stopped Parker the way Thabo did?
OKC = this year's version of Mike D'Antoni-era Suns, except Brooks is even a worse coach than D'Antoni.
Way to go, Pop.
No reason to bash OKC.
As much as we enjoyed them failing, we all knew that it was a matter of time for the Heat.
It is only going to get worse from here. They will be able to draft a solid 5 or a good reserve guard this year.
I agree Pop has to go back to defense. He's spent enough time coaching offense. Shots either fall or they don't but the defense can be more consistent. We're capable of playing good defense like in game 3 against the Clippers. We just need to practice it enough. The Spurs make too many defensive mistakes to be championship caliber. Championship caliber teams limit those mistakes.
lol okc dont run any plays man, that is where the problem is....
Pop doesn't play much defense and his 3 is not what it used to be.
You guys (not you personally) are looking a gift horse right in the mouth. Soon enough you will have a bubble or lottery bound team and you will all sit around talking about which middle of the road coach would be best for the team.
Right now you are a perennial playoff contender with the greatest coach in the game who gets more out of his squad than any coach I've ever seen. Still, you act like there's a "get better" switch Pop refuses to activate, as if he hasn't thought "you know, we need to be better defensively, this offensive thing wins games but not championships"
They came together, they peaked, they sustained, they faded and they will end and go their own ways (reads like a romantic story). That's how the story always goes, and yet people act like it's as easy as a lineup change or a philosophy change to get back to the Finals.
We only need two more 1st overall picks and the best two other countries have to offer. After that, if we can get the best perimeter defender in the league and the most clutch shooter of all time, we might have a chance, but the picks have to be top 10 and top 25 all time players.
Should be easy if we could just get Phil to coach.
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Last edited by DMC; 06-19-2012 at 11:46 PM.
Yeah if you say so........
There's always next year
I don't know about you but game 4 the Spurs started this damn TO crap against the Clippers and after that it continued! I said if we turn it over that much like we did game 4 against LAC we are toast against OKC because they fuel their game off of it! The Spurs did just that a few games! So there it goes.
Spurs woulda had a shot. They have a very efficient pass-oriented offense like last year's Mavs. Not as good of a defense or rebounding, but they woulda had a shot. Toss-up series, as far as I'm concerned.
Ehhhhhhhhhhhh yeah a shot like you said, but the D and rebounding worried me! I suppose it could have happened, but would it have? Nobody knows because it did not happen.
I don't agree. Just because OKC, an inferior team to the Spurs with less ball movement who almost never goes on runs of offense or defense without favorable officiating, suddenly doesn't get those calls against the other league-preferred team, doesn't mean said league-preferred team would've done the same to us.
Our offense is better than OKC's. Our offense works in such a way that it moves away from the defensive strengths of the Heat. The Heat defense is good because it can stop specific players. When an entire team can move, shoot, and score, the Heat struggle with it bigtime. That's the kind of offense we had this year.
That is, assuming the series was called down the middle, rather than favoring Miami as much as the officiating favored OKC in the WCF.
It hasn't for me. It's only reinforced the fact that they got a rigged series win. OKC wasn't as good as the refs made them appear to be. It's quite obvious at this point that OKC doesn't belong in the Finals.
Damn son, look into Lexapro or something.
I'd take the Heat in 6 games against the Spurs, and I'm being the generous homer I am.
Not only would they not have beaten the Heat they would not have beaten the Lakers.
The way the Playoffs have been called, both for teams against the Heat and for the Spurs, I really doubt they would have been able to pull it off the series. Too bad though, the off season would be a lot more interesting if the Heat do lose.
Stern aside, Miami struggles to stop quick point guards, has no real post defender and was awful defending the 3 all year. These are our strengths and probably the reason stern ed us, he didn't think miami could beat the Spurs.
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