SI. - Cavs making things so unpleasant to watch.

[fyatuk]

1) How many times have we watched Duncan hold the ball for 15-20 seconds before shooting a bank shot?

2) Tony Parker walks the ball up the court on nearly every possession.

3) The Spurs (almost in unision) look to Popovic nearly every time they get possession of the ball for their next set play (they might as well just huddle up).

4) The Spurs are the best in the league at imposing their will (style of play). But you want to pretend the tempo/style of these games has been determined by an extremely unexperienced Cavs team?

Try again.

1) Pretty much never. He normally only holds it for 5 seconds or so before shooting the bank.

2) Uhh... Most teams do at least a majority of the time. It's called conserving energy so you don't peter out in the fourth (see Suns/Spurs game 5 when the Suns completely exhausted themselves). Although I do wish he'd only take 4 seconds instead of 6-7 (scares me with the 8 second timeline).

3) You're point? Takes a couple seconds at most, while TP is walking up the court. The Cavs would too, but they only seem to have one play anyway.

4) Have you watched the Cavs? They like THE SAME TEMPO. Actually, they like a slower tempo than the Spurs. The Spurs can play at any tempo, they choose the one that gives them the best chance to win.

[The_Iceman_Cometh]

God I love Simmons:

Now, I've already written about 1 through 6 (see the corresponding links). But No. 7 has to be one of the weirdest subplots in recent sports history. We've reached a point with the NBA when its offseason somehow became more interesting than its actual season. I have no idea what this means. I have no idea how to interpret this information. For whatever reason, people are more interested in figuring out how the Suns will win the 2008 le over how the Spurs are winning the 2007 le. They're more interested in wondering what the Celtics will do with the No. 5 pick versus the Duncan/Parker battle for Finals MVP. They're more interested in figuring out how Cleveland will find help for LeBron in 2008 than the help he's getting right now.


Where's that guy who said everyone's forgot about the Suns?

The next paragraph:

Here's the easy explanation: Anyone who understands basketball realized by the 10-minute mark of Game 2 that Cleveland was completely outclassed in this series. (Not to toot my own horn, but I tried to warn you before Game 1. All right, I guess that was some tooting. But I did try to warn you.) By the time the Spurs extended their lead to the high 20s and Mike Breen started sobbing on-air that he had been stuck with so many lousy playoff games while Freaking Stockton got to call the Mavs-Warriors series, the 2006-07 season, for all intent and purpose, had been rammed with a giant pitchfork like the one Jason Voorhees used in "Friday the 13th 3D." So it was natural for everyone to start thinking about the summer, free agency, the draft and everything else.