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I want to see the heat having dissipation like a burp after meal.
"SKY-KAWHI"
Kawhi is too modest and humble to ever really decide a nick-name for himself. "Sugar K Leonard" just doesn't roll off the tongue the way it should. I'm liking "Sky Kawhi".
I want to see the heat having dissipation like a burp after meal.
What about Kiwi Lemon?
Go Spurs.
Im thinking and hoping the Spurs will be culminating their 7 year journey to attain another World Championship on Sunday. I saw Lebrons press conference today and he said "Its just basketball." If im a Heat fan that is a sign for concern. Your leader cant just dismiss this as something that is just basketball like we would play on any other day. This is your career validation, and since hes getting curbstomped he just acts like its nothing. this guy, really. Hes so afraid of public perception, he spins stories to make people believe the NBA Finals is insignificant compared to family. Well, ok thanks Lebron but im not falling for that. Own up and promise to play better.
Im a fan of Lebrons and would like him to achieve greatness but definitely not at the expense of our Spurs. Spurs got this. No ing way this team or the city of San Antonio let this opportunity slip thru their hands. Im not really sure what to expect from the Heat. Lebron sounds like hes conceding and they look like they are literally breaking down before our eyes. I said this about Lebron in Game 1 as well. Body shots and left hooks will be thrown hard from Miami. Its just a matter of time till they break down. The Spurs are way too deep and way too hungry. If the Spurs lose this game........ that.
Spurs win 111-76.
Game day has arrived.
Give 'em 48 minutes of , San Antonio. Just win.
GO SPURS GO
once I got to 1,500 posts it all started clicking for the spurs, i think 5 is an omen. now i can't post much b/c i don't want it to go to 1,600 for supers ious reasons. haha
Lol, be careful because you only got 7 left. If you screw it up, we know who is to blame
Scott Foster
Marc Davis
Ken Mauer
Alt. Bill Kennedy
This will be the most brutal 48 minutes of basketball the Spurs have played all season. One more mountain to climb, and they win it all.
5.
JUST DO IT!
GO SPURS GO!!!!!
5.
Dreamed of this moment for 1 year.
Now it's time to close it.
Go Spurs Go !!
Gah. Woke up this morning already nervous. Finish it.
I'm not even going to watch the game tonight. I'll check the score every so often, and might watch the last couple of minutes if we have a huge lead at the end.
Spurs’ Mastery Putting LeBron, Heat To Shame
To call this a clinic is to devalue the immensity of the masterpiece. How do we deify the Spurs with the right words today? Answer: Describe their performance as an art form, an extravaganza rarely seen even on a championship level. All it took was Gregg Popovich to utter six words after their only sluggish game of an epic week — “You move it or you die’’ — for the Spurs to propel their long-sustainable system of selfless, expertly efficient basketball to new heights in the NBA Finals.
When was the last time we saw a team operate with such wondrous, mesmerizing precision? When was the last time you said “Wow!’’ or “Damn!’’ dozens of times about the same team on a June night? Normally, the Finals have some semblance of two-way compe iveness, but the Spurs have been so spectacular the last two games, they’ve reduced LeBron James to an afterthought and the rest of the Heat, including the suddenly useless Dwyane Wade, to bit players.
Yes, the Heat are playing like demoralized dogs who lack heart and desire and are diminshing the legacy of James, who kept holding his midsection throughout a lackluster Game 4.
A second straight Finals blowout at home, this time to a 107-86 tune, must have made him sick to his stomach. There were times during this debacle that the Spurs, with no-look bounce passes and breathtaking ball movement, looked like the Harlem Globetrotters, which reduced LeBron and the Heat to the Washington Generals.
What you’re hearing, people, is the ceremonial opening of one door and the disgusted shutting of another. The Spurs, a special if nationally underappreciated empire since Popovich and Tim Duncan started making sweet les together 15 years ago, are about to enter the pantheon of America’s all-time glorious sports teams. Unless they become the first ever to blow a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals — their predecessors with that advantage are 31-0 — they will back up Duncan’s Swaggy T prediction of revenge over the Heat after last year’s Finals collapse. And unless James and his big-mouth entourage — didn’t I say the Carmelo Anthony-to-the-Heat whispers, which came straight from LeBron’s camp, would have a distracting effect? — sign the Eastern Conference All-Stars to join James before Game 5, this series will be over Sunday night in Texas.
Five les in 15 years shouldn’t happen in the age of opt-outs and luxury taxes. But it’s happening for the Spurs and their crusty coach, Popovich, who thrives on a 21st-century sideline with military-school methods of discipline, ego compromise and team cohesion. “”I’m pleased that they performed as well as they did while we’ve been in Miami, and that’s about as far it goes,” Popovich grunted afterward. “Now, we’ve got to go back home and play as well or better.”
And what was that James said a while ago about “not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven’’ championships?
If the Heat are closed out, he’ll be 2-3 in the Finals, and while the current collapse is more about weak links being exposed and embarrassed by the optimum-performing, 10-deep San Antonio lineup, all future attempts to compare him to Michael Jordan will cease. As in Game 3, we kept waiting for James to assume control with his teammates looking awful, which is what basketball greats do if they aspire to be on the sport’s Mt. Rushmore — his stated goal. Put it this way: If anyone was starting to chisel his likeness on a mountainside, he went home for the summer.
James has 15 assists and 18 turnovers in four games. Last year, in a seven-game triumph for the Heat, he had 49 assists and 18 turnovers. Do not make the mistake of letting him off the hook. Since quieting the social media in Game 2, LeBron has been ordinary and, at times, almost resigned that he can’t win this series.
“They smashed us,” James said. “Two straight home games, got off to awful starts. They came in and were much better than us in these last two games. It’s just that simple. They’re a high-oiled machine, and they move the ball extremely well. They put you in so many difficult positions. If you’re not right on time, right on target, they’re going to make you pay for it.”
Now LeBron suggests the Heat will win the final three games. “We put ourselves in a position where it is about making history,” he said. Really?
Has he noticed the Spurs are fashioning one of the great postseason runs ever, having won 11 games by 15 or more points?
Does he realize the Spurs are shooting almost 55 percent, the highest field-goal percentage for a Finals team through four games since the shot clock was implemented in 1954?
Does he realize the Spurs have put together entire quarters in which they rarely miss a shot?
Has he noticed that Kawhi Leonard — tell me Mark Jackson didn’t say on the ABC telecast, “Who? What? When? Where? And Kawhi?’’ — followed his Game 3 breakout by filling out the stat line with 20 points, 14 rebounds, three assists, three blocks, three steals and more athletic-lockdown defense on James and other Heat players?
Did he see Boris Diaw come close to a triple-double?
Did he notice Tony Parker and Patty Mills again shame Mario Chalmers?
How Danny Green doesn’t miss a shot anymore?
And did he see the Little Two, Wade and Chris Bosh, shoot a combined 8 of 24 from the field?
Did LeBron hear the boos reign down on the two-time champions in a town spoiled by success but also disturbed right now by an alarming lack of effort?
“They played great and I can honestly say I don’t think any of us were expecting this type of performance,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “They were great. You have to give them credit for that. We just couldn’t get into a rhythm on either side of the ball, and it went from there.”
Didn’t expect it? Might another coach have been better prepared? Spoelstra’s players seem more like impressed spectators than serious challengers.
“They put you in positions that no other team in this league does,” James said.
“It’s tough because you have to cover the ball first, but also those guys on the weak side can do multiple things. They can shoot the ball from outside, they can also penetrate. So our defense is geared toward running guys off the 3-point line, but at the same time those guys are getting full steam ahead and getting to the rim too.”
“They’re just one of those teams,’’ Bosh said, “where if you make mistakes, especially early, they’re going to capitalize very quickly.
They’re doing a very good job of starting fast. Not only starting fast, but they’re hitting their shots and getting to the basket, getting to the free throw line. They’re pretty much getting everything they want.”
Maybe the James camp leaked the Anthony conjecture to plant a seed: LeBron needs help, because the teammates around him are fading fast.
You know will see two days of stories linking him — he can opt out of his contract in three weeks — to the Knicks, Lakers and Cavaliers. And you will keep hearing about Anthony. With billions of dollars swirling in a 21st-century sports blizzard, the art of the deal too often takes precedence over the bouncing balls. Yet never have we seen business interrupt a championship series quite like the buzz in Miami before Game 4.
The Heat should have been concentrating on nothing but how to stop a Spurs team that is healthier, deeper, hungrier and better than a year ago.
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Wow...the media is gonna have egg on their faces big time if the Spurs can't seal the deal.
I have a feeling that the heat will win today.
Referees for tonight:
Scott Foster
Marc Davis
Ken Mauer
Alt. Bill Kennedy
I have the same feeling. But I would soooooooo love to be wrong. And I hope you are wrong too.
I fear that folks are counting out the Heat just as people were counting out the Spurs after game 2 of this series and game 4 of the WCF. There always seems to be a tendency to go beyond what the facts are to what we WANT them to be.
I hope so much that the Spurs can repeat the performances of the last two games, but we have to remember that the Heat have had an extra day off, which is more important to them than to our team at this point, I think. And they are still proud.
I would love to think that we could humble them again tonight and for the rest of the off-season.
If JVG and Mark Jackson go off tonight about how ''disappointed" they are if the Heat don't play well against us, I would love to know how to email them.
I have looked around and can't find a way to contact them. Anyone know?
Officials for tonight's game are
Scott Foster
Marc Davis
Ken Mauer
Alt. Bill Kennedy
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