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agree.....Miami had it so easy
Beat all of our demons (Dallas from 06 and 09), Portland who flat out owned us for years on end now, OKC the same and throw in there 012 and then the team that got 6 on US would be blyss! It does seem too good to be true! Now that you mention it that run would be just flat out crazy! I thought of it the other night but failed to get excited at all being we are still a ways away from winning that le. I agree with Houston but Portland has been the team who has beaten us the most throughout the last few years out of any team in the NBA! Houston we could have avenged the sweep this year and 95, but then again 95 was a different team.
agree.....Miami had it so easy
I agree, no more needs to be said.
Of course pacer fans are depressed. THEy lost to the same team 3 straight seasons. This entire season was a build up to a Miami series and they got romped. Indiana is likely to lose Stephenson and will decline. West is getting older, hill/Hibbert aren't getting better and are on awful contracts
OKC series is far from over. There is no indication we are capable of beating them at Chesapeake, and a game 7 against a team wit the two most explosive scorers in the series is never comfy
Miami still wins in 5 like they did the year before?
They were cruising in the regular season no doubt, resting Wade 29 games to make sure he was fully healthy for the playoffs. They even "threw" top seed to Indians resting James at end of season.
Seems they could/should have won 60+ games easily in the East but good for us they didn't.
The compe ion they played in the playoffs was a joke. Worst I can recall from the Eastern Conference and that's saying something.
This deal about 4 straight finals for Heat, 3rd ever, is tainted due to the weak compe ion. Now we need to (after dispatching OKC) prove that and stop the Heat-3-peat. Time for the Western Conference to step up again, heck I MIGHT even root for OKC if they somehow edge us out still.
Indiana doesn't have a single player I'd want to see the Spurs trade for. George is insanely overpaid, Hibbert is even worse, Hill is a below average NBA player making $8 million a season, West makes $12 million and is about to turn 34, Scola is finished, Mahinmi never became , Turner is a cancer whose game couldn't translate to the pros, Stephenson is a time-bomb, Watson is a nobody, Copeland is their version of Errors except he makes twice as much, I mean , that is such a horrible situation.
Larry Bird has exacerbated poor decisions by previous management, too..one of the tiest GMs in the NBA, tbh..
It's pretty crazy that elite, legendary NBA players have such poor ability to analyze other players..
Miami doesn't scare me in the way that OKC does in terms of getting on a hot streak and tearing it up. We've shown that we can beat them and push them to the brink, it's a matter of execution though and that's something I think we will be able to accomplish this time around.
It really is ridiculous. Indiana looked like a true contender at the end of last year. To me they look ready to beat Miami most of the first half of the season. But let's face it they completely fell apart and sucked as a team the entire second half and most of this postseason. Eastern conference as a whole has been a joke since Jordan retired.
And they're stuck with that team until 2016-17.Larry Bird has exacerbated poor decisions by previous management, too..one of the tiest GMs in the NBA, tbh..
It's pretty crazy that elite, legendary NBA players have such poor ability to analyze other players
A team that went as far as it will ever go last year and is going to get a lot worse
They just never had the offensive talent to survive once the rest of the league started caring. You see really so-so teams look unbeatable early every year; think of the 2011 Spurs. It's starting to look like the only reason they made any noise last year was Wade's health. In a related note, I hope like that wasn't the reason the Spurs looked so good against them last year. Doubt they'll be able to just sag off Wade every night again if they can overcome OKC.
I have a strange feeling that Miami will seem like a cakewalk compared to the crap we deal with when playing OKC.
Yeah, that's pretty strange to think the two-time champs would be easy to beat.
If and a big if Spurs make the finals (50/50 chance IMO).
I still think Spurs fate = 97/98 Utah Jazz and remembered as the best team LeBron had to beat during his three-peat. Last year Spurs was well-rested against a Heat team with Wade's health in bad shape, came off a 7 game series. Green was super lucky first five games as well setting finals records.
This year it will be extremely difficult. Spurs is not capable of winning close games, it has the weakest ISO players to ever make NBA finals should we get there. If score is close, just too hard to beat LeBron/Wade/Bosh down the stretch. The league is re ed for allowing this kind of combo to happen. Three franchise players (Bosh was raptor's franchise player, even if it was a bad team) in their prime on one team.
I hope my spurs prove me wrong
Should Boris start next series as well? Splitter is too soft and traumatized to finish strong against Miami... And *drink* Rashard Lewis is looking pretty good smh
Wade is way past his prime.. As far as putting points on the board he's not even remotely the threat that Westbrook is right now not even close.
Rashard doesn't so anything mike miller didnt do...
Without a slashing guard that can get into the paint at will and draw a foul our guys have an easier time staying at home and not over helping. Kawhi and Diaw will take the brunt of the Lebron defense and Green should be able to stay in front of Wade.. It's going to be a matter of making the others beat them and I think we match up better in the interior to exploit fouls and get a rhythm with sharp passing.
I'm fine with Miami if we get there, I think it'd be a great Finals rematch, with us having HCA this time around.
That being said,
The 97-98 Jazz are the fourth best team the Bulls had to beat, with the top 3 being the 92-93 Suns, 95-96 Sonics, and 97-98 Pacers.
The Diaw decision resulted from Ibaka, and Miami doesn't pose anything that resembles that threat though Lebron is when tasked with it. Issue for Splitter will be the Miami small ball lineups, though Splitter is mobile enough to guard anyone whenever Lebron isn't at the PF. You could always hide Splitter away from Lebron, but it's a bit of a waste of his D.
Ya'll talking about the finals like this series is over.
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