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You never answered my question.
I just can't believe so many people on here don't like how strong I think our chances are... we will be the best in the East... I can't say we will beat you all though. You will be our biggest challenge. I hope your team doesn't have an injury plagued season this year after all the times you guys hated on my if's. You don't want any bad kharma.
You never answered my question.
I never said my team is tougher than yours. In my eyes we are equals... the past... especially three years ago... holds very little bearing on this season. We have the two best rosters in the league. You all have the best chances of winning the le this year... we are second to you there... but I just want you all to see that we are your top threat... so you aren't surprised in June.
AND... I already answered your question before you asked it... I have been trying to give you guys some insight to our team to show you how deadly we are... we haven't won a championship since the ABA days... but honestly how does that determine how good we will be this year. I am just trying to open your eyes and to quit seeing yourselves as the only team with a big chance of winning it this year.
Detroit and Miami will struggle a bit this year... and you have no one even close to as good as you out west...
I will stop ranting when I start seeing some acknowledgement of how high our chances are to be facing you all. I have seen a few glimmers of hope from some of your statements but then by the end of your posts you are back to asking why we should be taken seriously when I have given so many reasons already.
Last edited by jermaine7fan; 09-03-2005 at 06:14 PM.
I edited it at the bottom for your answer... read it again.
I agree you will be a good team.
BUT...
My team has gone through and back... Moreso than your team has even with the injuries and suspensions. We've gone through YEARS of being beaten, made fun of, and pounded out of the playoffs by the Lakers. We beat them, and we've never been the same since. Our team knows all the kinks and tricks of being in the Finals. Our coach knows what it's all about. He's the best at his job. We have THE BEST PF in the League. We have leadership, veterans like no other team. We have young feet, we have experienced feet. We can go small, we can beat a run-and-gun team. We can beat the toughest and most powerful defense in the league. We've won 3 rings in 7 years. We have so much clutchness, it's insane. We have so much defense, IT'S insane. All this makes you y.
Forgive us.
Pacers are a talented team but ....
they are the biggest collection of punks in the NBA. I watched a ton of games last year, including Pacers, and no team was as close to being as confrontational as the Pacers. The Detroit incident didn't just accidentally happen to involve the Pacers. "We ride together" Jackson is a punk, loveable but nonetheless a punk. Tinsley is a hotheaded punk. Artest, well he's just palin borderline psychotic. O'Neal is a punk. And now they've added another hothead in Sarunas. Pacer fans seem to get off on it, think it's macho. Carlisle tolerates it, maybe even endorses the hardass play.
Contrast this with the Spurs. The Spurs went through three extremely physical series, Denver, Seattle and Detroit. In all these series, in all these games there was one Spur involved in any confrotation whatsoever, that was against Seattle when newcomer Glen Robinson shoved a Sonics player and drew a technical. Pop immediately sat Big Dog's ass on the bench where it stayed the rest of the game.
Ultimately if the Spurs do play the Pacers in a final I'm totally confident the Spurs will win, not because they're necessarily more talented but because they are ten times more intelligent, more professional and more diciplined than the Pacers many of whom are dumbasses. And if you don't believe me read about Jacks recent wedding.
He did a nice job on Hamilton but he didn't shut him down. That being said Bowen is the NBA's best defender at his position.
to tell you the truth i stopped listening when you said ARTEST has better offense than MANU...
16.7 points per game. 38.6% from the field. 16.7% on threes.
That is getting shut down hardcore.
You have got to be smoking!!! We have gone through your team can't even imagine... you were beaten by the Lakers because they had been better than you... we were beaten by the Pistons because of injuries and suspensions... AND NO OTHER TEAM IN THE HISTORY OF THE NBA HAS GONE THROUGH WHAT OUR TEAM DID... WE WERE DOWN TO SIX ING AVAILABLE PLAYERS AT ONCE YOU ALL HAVE NEVER BEEN CLOSE TO LIKE THAT! You have won three 'ships in the last decade... how is that even close to going through ?I agree you will be a good team.
BUT...
My team has gone through and back... Moreso than your team has even with the injuries and suspensions. We've gone through YEARS of being beaten, made fun of, and pounded out of the playoffs by the Lakers. We beat them, and we've never been the same since. Our team knows all the kinks and tricks of being in the Finals. Our coach knows what it's all about. He's the best at his job. We have THE BEST PF in the League. We have leadership, veterans like no other team. We have young feet, we have experienced feet. We can go small, we can beat a run-and-gun team. We can beat the toughest and most powerful defense in the league. We've won 3 rings in 7 years. We have so much clutchness, it's insane. We have so much defense, IT'S insane. All this makes you y.
Forgive us.
AND
- your coach is the best... I'll give you that...but Carlisle is the third best
- you have the second best PF in the league... Garnett is the best... and JO is not even a half-step behind Duncan in terms of skill.
-You have old feet... our team is ALOT younger than yours... and just as skilled
I don't blame you for being y... but you aren't the only top notch product out there... which many of you seem to feel you are.
I will forgive you when you cut the yness.
Last edited by jermaine7fan; 09-03-2005 at 06:50 PM.
Talk is cheap.we will be the best in the East.
Who made that claim?
you got me on the 3's thing, Rip has no business lobbing those up especially agianst Bowen. Although he was 1-6 for the series, no series killer there.
He averaged 18.7 for the season, 2 points less in the Finals isn't hardcore shutdown.
You'll have to refer back to Marion for the hardcore thing.
Ron is a SF... and better than Bowen at D... so is Kirilenko on both accounts.
It is... but you all have forced it on me... I will now be here with the I told you so's in June... I didn't want to have to do it... I would have rather been praising your team and mine... now I will have to bring the I told you so's...
Don't get emotional on me, now.
Our team had 7+ players out including DRob (the best at the time) out in the season before Duncan with injuries. So don't make your team out to be the martyr of the league stating that "No other team in the HISTORY of the Nba has gone through that".
I'm talking about the it cost us to get there.You have won three 'ships in the last decade... how is that even close to going through ?
I see we disagree in lots of things...- you have the second best PF in the league... Garnett is the best...
Your team is not experienced nor polished in the playoffs. THAT counts way more than how young the team is.-You have old feet... our team is ALOT younger than yours... and just as skilled
Again. Until you prove to be top-notch and competing up there with the big guys, I'll accede.I don't blame you for being y... but you aren't the only top notch product out there... which many of you seem to feel you are.
kirilenko played 41 games last year and Artest played 7. You have to play to be considered the best.
How is taking Detroit to six games with a team full of injured players not proof? You guys went only one more game than we did with your best product versus a s of the product we will have this year... and Garnett is the best... you are blinded by the silver and black there.Don't get emotional on me, now.
Our team had 7+ players out including DRob (the best at the time) out in the season before Duncan with injuries. So don't make your team out to be the martyr of the league stating that "No other team in the HISTORY of the Nba has gone through that".
I'm talking about the it cost us to get there.
I see we disagree in lots of things...
Your team is not experienced nor polished in the playoffs. THAT counts way more than how young the team is.
Again. Until you prove to be top-notch and competing up there with the big guys, I'll accede.
They will be playing this year... therefore Bowen is no longer the best at his position... he was the best for 43 games or less last year. That is no longer the case.
I will be seeing plenty of this on here in June...
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If you think we will not present you a challenge.
You had your full team the year before with the same result.
2 starters gone from last year, Miller and Davis (Pistons) and 1 walking time-bomb back on the team and all of a sudden your the best? No.
If you knew anything about basketball and how the NBA works, you'd know all teams match up WAY differently than they do with others.
Just because you matched up well with one team doesn't make you better than another team that doesn't match up well.
e.g.:
The Nuggets and Sonics gave us . Did that make them better than the Suns just because we almost swept them?
Give me a break.
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