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I don't know if this has been brought up yet.
In the midst of this most devastating loss, I was curious to know which loss hurt more - this latest loss to the Mavs or the 2004 loss to the Lakers on Derek Fisher's last second shot?
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Definitely 0.4 because we were cheated, pure and simple. There is NO WAY Fisher could catch, twist and shoot in 0.4, and i am still bitter about that.
This time it really doesn't hurt that much because:
1. I always thought we'd lose playing small ball against one of the two best small ball teams in the league, and,
2. To even get to game 7 OT after going down 3-1 was amazing.
The thing that plagues me is one more FT made, or one missed by the Mavs, and we are in the WCFs. But that's basketball.
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Although I'm not convinced we would have won the series had we won that game, but it definately hurt more.
This loss. The Lakers were the better team in 2004. Shaq, Kobe, Malone and Payton coached by Phil Jackson ... the Spurs were underdogs going into it. Plus the Timberwolves were damn good, not to mention the Pistons coming out of the East were on a mission with Larry Brown in charge.
This year the final four teams left are way weaker.
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Duncan pulled off such an awesome shot. then Fisher pulled one out of his ass.
I always thought 0.4 was moot because the Spurs were destroyed in game 6 anyway.
This series hurts more because we were 21 seconds away from being better than the Mavs. That hurts.
This loss, easily. 2004 we were still alive after 0.4, but didn't have the heart to overcome it. This series Spurs were down so much (down 3-1, down 20 in game 7...) but they showed tremendous heart in coming back every time. Also, as timvp said, the Final 4 are much weaker, the only team that could beat us is Detroit imo, and right now they're not really playing Pistons basketball.
Not trying to argue, just pointing something out.
We had 2,859 seconds other seconds to prove that we were better. In game 5 Dallas was 1 second away from being much better than us. You open Pandoras box like that and Detroit starts saying they were just a few minutes away from being better than us.
this one because its the most recent
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The initial shock of that shot going in and being counted will never be forgotten.
they both suck ass.
.4 for me casue i have a friend that is a laker fans so he talk a lot of , i have no friends that like the mavs thank god
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That sums up my thoughts as well.
Definatly .4 for me.
I have been in europe for the past 4 months and haven't been able to watch basketball, therefore didn't see this one one live, like I did with the Lakers.
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I don't hate the Mavs, but I hated the Lakers bitterly.
personally they both hurt heaps. but in different ways.
0.4 pissed me right off more than anything because the BS should never have counted.
this loss just left me gutted, after returning from the dead, tim playing out of his mind again, then to go so close to beating a team after adapting our game to suit theirs it just plain hurt
This one hurts, but we'll get over it in time I'm sure...Because it played out like how Basketball plays out. That's just how it goes. It was within the rules. We had OT and Mavs outplayed the Spurs there.
0.4 IS TERRIBLE. REWATCHING That FOOTAGE IS JUST so hard to swallow....
Duncan's amazing shot was just too crazy. We had enough to repeat that year, they just stopped playing with confidence...Lakers were not so great. Just on paper. Losing to the Lakers is worse. Mavs is a team I can't hate, they played great. Karl Malone needed to be eliminated pronto. Kobe-Shaq Lakers were the most hated in the country at that time.
That Fisher shot, that sure hurts more
.4 shot was unreal and hurt more.. I still hurt from the 89/90 Portland series also. Rod Strickland's fancy pass killed us... Sean Elliott's free throw shooting in the 1995 WCF sits in my head also..
I got over .04 in 2005. Hopefully, I can get over this loss in 2007.
.4 hurts more, because I hate the Lakers. That was such a bitter rivalry, and for them to get 4 Championships (which looked guaranteed at the time), was unbearable. Sure, we had a shot at game 6, but the Spurs heart was crushed after that.
Actually, 0.4 makes this loss a little more bearable... but not by much!
The Fisher shot hurt more, because Tim had just hit a fantastic shot himself.
The Mavs just squeaked by. The 2000-2002 Lakers were a FAR SUPERIOR team than this 06 Mavs bunch.
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