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I'm a Spurs fan. This is SPURStalk. I've been here for a while. Besides, it's the offseason for me. It's not like my team is playing in the ing NBA finals or anything.
What's your excuse, again?
Oh puh leeeze.
So it's because I'm afraid of you that I wasn't posting? So I'm somehow required to show up and post on the boards when the Mavs are winning? Son, you think way too highly of yourself.
Not that I owe you an explanation, but it's only fitting that I prove you wrong once again. I didn't feel like talking about the Spurs, but it had nothing to do with you or the Mavericks. I'm still pissed about smallball, and I was sick watching Pop sit his centers while an inferior Mavericks team took advantage. I was sickened having to watch the Spurs abandon the defense that won 62 games for the hacking, chasing, shot clock violating mess it became. I guess I could have taken a cue from Mavericks fans and posted up how unfair the world is because my team was losing, but that isn't my style. I guess I could have showed up on the site so some stick in Dallas wouldn't think I was "yella", but to be honest it didn't occur to me. Once I had seen enough of it, I posted up exactly what I thought and discussed it with the Spurs fans that I respect, and for whom I continue to log into this site.
Understand this: I have zero respect for your basketball knowledge, and I could give a what you think. You are so predictable, it's not like I even need you to post it for me to know what you are going to say. You have done nothing to add to that, and you are pissed that I've continually embarassed you on this site. If you weren't such an incompetent asshat it wouldn't be so easy. Nobody asked you to suddenly show up when your team made the conference semis. I was here for years before you showed up, and I'll be here long after you are gone.
I'm a Spurs fan. This is SPURStalk. I've been here for a while. Besides, it's the offseason for me. It's not like my team is playing in the ing NBA finals or anything.
What's your excuse, again?
who pays attention to when people are posting? thats some weird . leonard must not get out much except to piss eat and get mommy her carton of kools from the 7-11 down the street.
According to Rule 4, Section VI, which deals with frontcourt/backcourt.
Replays showed Wade leaped near midcourt to catch the ball in the air, landing with possession in the backcourt.
Part of the rule states that, "frontcourt/backcourt status is not attained until a player with the ball has established a positive position in either half during a throw-in in the last 2 minutes of the fourth period and/or any overtime period."
LOL...
1. I signed up here in March....not when the Mavs got to the semi's.
2. I couldn't care less that you weren't posting and certainly didn't want you to post because I was here.
3. Have you contacted Pop to tell him about his mistakes running the Spurs?
4. How exactly have you embarassed me? I guess I missed all that.
5. Sharing my "basketball knowledge" with you has never been my intention. Not sure where you got that from...
6. I'm out...back tomorrow...win or lose...
Ouch, stinger...
Like I said...he's one of about 3 people that I'd actually notice has disappeared...
I just don't buy all this cuban hating. It reminds me of high school when you would say something bad about a person so your friends wouldn't think you liked them, when in reality you love them.
Come on spurs fans. Show cuban the love!
Well, I'm an adult now. Don't care for the man.
An attention -- have you ever seen any sports owner with more face time?
No, you haven't.
we're not stuck in high school like cuban and you
Ya know, that's a good question.
Jerry? Steinbrenner? Dan Snyder? The Maloof's? Vince McMahon (he does own the wrestling org, I think)?
And with that, we have found the level of the room...Vince McMahon
Spurs fans and Cuban have been complaining about the same things. The difference is Cuban has a camera in his face.
Dan Synder watched Cuban on Letterman and remarked, "What an asshole!"
Cuban has been complaining about himself?
The difference is, he's the owner of the team. Ideally, if he has a complaint, he should complain in a way that doesn't reflect negatively on his entire organization -- preferably, without it ever being made public.
I wonder what Mrs. Cuban thinks?
That she wishes that he spent half as much time with her as he did jacking off watching his own image on TV?
The difference is Cuban's an idiot. There are some people here who can actually sound rational while making complaints, unlike Mark "Just because it was a closed fist doesn't make it a punch" Cuban.
"Jackpot!"
the NBA doesn't care what Cuban wants the league to do regarding his team.
now that the NBA said Tuesday that there was no backcourt violation on the play that led to Dwyane Wade's winning free throws in Game 5 of the NBA finals, it would bring more fire in him to whine & whine forever
i just wish the Heat will play like game in game 4, win the series and end all this bruhaha! Cuban & Aj are getting on everyone else's nerves. They're out of control.
WAHHHHHHHHHHH! Sob, Sob!
would cuban like some cheese with that whine?
the only thing that is rigged is the Gorillas set to gang rape Mark Cuban
Spurologist,
I mean this as nicely as possible but really, drop the ing re ed gorilla rape .
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it was fun while it lasted. Failed sponsorship by Mark Cuban led to its dismissal.
So with apologies to American Airlines, the AAC shall be dubbed the "Whine Cellar" for the remainder of this series. We're not talking white, red, sweet, dry or any other variation. We're talking pure, unadulterated whine.
OK, as the Mavs lost three games in a row, along with their grip on a 2-0 lead that was on the verge of becoming 3-0, all we've heard about is the officiating. All we heard out of Dallas after Sunday night's thrilling one-point overtime victory was how Heat guard Dwyane Wade committed an offensive foul and was not fouled by Dallas forward Dirk Nowitzki, thus making his two free throws that clinched the 101-100 victory unworthy.
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And oh yeah, there was the rather large cir stance of Mavs forward Josh Howard calling timeout before Wade's second free throw thus expending Dallas' final timeout and preventing them from advancing the ball beyond midcourt with 1.9 seconds left as opposed to having to travel the length of the floor.
Sure, they can claim all they want Howard was telling the officials they wanted a timeout after the second free throw if he made it. But what was the point of that? In an incredibly raucous building with so little time on the clock, why would he walk to an official who may or may not hear an entire sentence, look at him and signal timeout?
It was in plain view of everyone, including a national television audience. There was no reason for it, and it will forever be a historic moment in Finals lore.
Of course, Dallas owner Mark Cuban was going to complain (and the NBA noticed, given Tuesday's $250,000 fine). That appears to be at least 30 percent of his job description, to complain about everything. He even admitted in his blog that he's a whiner. Well, that's just fine Mark. And while you were espousing the finer intricacies of Mavericks braggadocio on late night television with your team up 2-0, it did nothing but incite the Heat.
And one more thing we might like to make clear. Wade made his two free throws. Had the Mavericks not missed four of their last eight free throws and this is from a great free-throw shooting team, not the rock tossing Heat this wouldn't have mattered. You guys would have been returning home to the Whine Cellar up 3-2 instead of down 3-2.
Even more so, had Nowitzki the superstar who was shooting 94 percent from the free throw line much of the playoffs, not missed a late free throw in Game 3 and in Game 5, chances are the series never would have been returning to Dallas. It would be over.
It's kind of like Al Gore complaining he was robbed by the hanging chads of Florida in the 2000 election. All he had to do was carry his own state of Tennessee and allow Bill Clinton to help him get Arkansas, and Florida wouldn't have mattered.
The Mavs have taken Mark Cuban's lead ... and it isn't helping matters at all. (Lynne Sladky / Associated Press)
That's not justifying the Florida political shenanigans. That was handled dubiously any way you look at it. And that's not to say it was fair the way Wade was 21-of-25 from the free throw line Sunday (the exact same numbers as your entire team, while the Heat overall was 32-of-49.
But hey now ... if y'all hadn't missed four in the final minute of regulation and overtime, y'all probably wouldn't be so steamed right now.
Even though the one-game suspension of Jerry Stackhouse for his hit on Shaquille O'Neal in the second half of Game 4 was ludicrous during previous eras of basketball, it was right on the money in the NBA, circa 2006. It may pale in comparison to the clothesline Raja Bell put on Kobe Bryant, but realistically Bell should have gotten multiple games if they were being consistent based on the act itself. At any rate, Stackhouse did not attempt to make a basketball play. O'Neal, all 325-plus pounds of him, was airborne and vulnerable. Stackhouse came at O'Neal high and hard with a shove that could have injured him.
Had Ron Artest or Danny Fortson made that play, people would have been calling for a season-long expulsion.
The bottom line is, according to the present day interpretation of the rules, he earned a suspension.
"It's sad for the players that he's decided to become the story of the Finals ... I think the pressure of his first Finals may be getting to him."
David Stern on Mark Cuban, Best Damn Sports Show
So now, Stackhouse will be back for Game 6 at the Whine Cellar with another level of energy for a team seeking some version of controlled rage because they are convinced they've been hosed.
Funny how whenever the San Antonio Spurs mentioned officiating briefly during the early losses of their seven-game loss to the Mavs, everybody said they were nuts. Give the Mavs credit.
Well, it's time to give the Heat their due for bouncing back from the verge of extinction in Game 3 to take a 3-2 series lead. Had the Mavs taken care of business the way they should have, all of this officiating conjecture would be moot. In fact, that's virtually always the case when it comes to tough losses on a shaky call. There are plenty of other reasons for the loss that had more to do with the outcome than blaming it on an official.
So as the throng heads for Big D, and the strong possibility of this series being extended to a seventh game in the Whine Cellar, there is just one more bit of advice for the Mavs.
Y'all may be proud of your knowledge of fine whine, but this is a beer-guzzling series survival of the toughest. Just shut up and play.
Article by Mike Kahn (Foxsports)
I'm down with calling the AAC the "Whine Cellar". from now on. Anybody with me?
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