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Feel free to send this 1d10+ an email or two, i know i will,....here's the article
The following article is from: http://www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs...606080339/1006
You can have the Spurs and Pistons - bring on the exciting Mavs, Heat
Finally, an NBA Finals to get excited about. After three years of boring championship teams with boring players, the NBA is back in show business with the Mavs and Heat.
The 2003-2005 seasons saw the Spurs and Pistons in control. Both were, no doubt, great teams that deserved to be victorious thanks to their tough defense and team play. However, teams running balanced offenses and defenses shutting down scorers are reasons to watch college and high school ball.
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The Spurs and Pistons both had (and have) great players, but they didn't have stars. Tim Duncan is a fantastic player who shows great intellect and temperament. Ben Wallace is a great example of somebody who does the dirty work and sacrifices for the betterment of his team. We should all hope that our children grow up to have Tim and Ben's guts and character, but neither one of them is going to get the casual fan to switch over from "Seinfeld" re-runs.
The NBA isn't for hoops purists; it's about letting stars be stars and scores soar. People don't turn on an NBA game hoping to see a well-balanced team win 75-73. Leave the defensive struggles to the World Cup. What makes the NBA fun is letting the big names put up big numbers.
NBA Finals memories are about the great ones doing dramatic things that will live on in the collective memory of the fans. Willis Reed limping out of the tunnel at the Garden. The rookie Magic jumping center in place of an injured Kareem. Jordan's flu game.(Sorry Jazz fans.)
This year we again have the types of stars playing the type of game that will allow the NBA to stop worrying about basketball and get back to doing what it does best - putting on a show.
The Heat have a center so famous that he can be identified by just one name, "Shaq", both in and out of basketball circles. True, he isn't the Shaq he was four years ago, but his outsized personality to go along with his outsized body still make him the closest thing our generation has to Babe Ruth.
This is a guy who once gave Donald Trump a Rolls Royce as a wedding gift, played a genie in a movie, made a rap record called "Shaq Diesel," created a martial art called "Shaq Fu," referred to himself as "The Big Aristotle," tried to squeeze into a pair of John Stockton's shorts, and, oh yeah, carried three different franchises to the Finals.
On the other side is a guy who is quickly coming to be recognized by only a four-letter name - "Dirk." Dirk Nowitzki has already produced a legendary playoff game by scoring 50 points against the Phoenix Suns in the Western Conference Finals. The 7-foot German with a mop of blond hair has the speed and shooting ability to be able to score from anywhere on the floor, and better yet, he plays in an offense that will let him.
A lot will be made about the Mavs getting to the Finals by improving their defense, and that is true, but this is still a team that has averaged 102.5 points per game throughout 17 post-season games. Defense is no longer a glaring weakness for the Mavs, but they can still outscore the other team if that's what's needed.
Shaq and Dirk alone are enough to make this a fun Finals, but there's a whole cast of characters on either side to keep things interesting. Will it be a coming out party for Dwyane Wade or Jason Terry? Will old hands like Alonzo Mourning and Jerry Stackhouse finally get their ring? Who will complain louder about the officiating - Miami coach Pat Riley or Dallas owner Mark Cuban?
Whoever emerges as the man of the hour, it should be an [begin ital] entertaining [end ital] series - and that's what makes for a great NBA Finals.
[begin ital] Geoff Griffin's e-mail address is [email protected].http://www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs...606080339/1006 The Spectrum
Last edited by SuperMan; 06-09-2006 at 08:04 AM.
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Thank god Stern has gotten the uptempo 90-80 game he wanted.
Yeah, let's see how many articles we see today saying what a boring game it was. Any bets?Thank god Stern has gotten the uptempo 90-80 game he wanted.
The game itself doesn't matter. It's all about the flashy names in the series. The score could be 64-59 and it doesn't matter.
what was the score for spurs-pistons game 1?
Do you suppose that if we sign 50 Cent for the minimum and put him on the IL that Stern will let us play in the finals again?
84-69 Spurs
...what a defense!...
Exstatic is right....emailing this guy just gives him the satisfaction of knowing people are reading his drivel.
90-80 ... and didn't the Heat score like 12 points in the fourth quarter?
That fourth quarter was horrendous. I don't think the Spurs-Pistons would have committed what felt like a combined 50 turnovers in the final quarter.
Great offensive player Dirk shot the ball like Ben Wallace.
Yeah, this is exactly what the league needed.
Oh brotha....grow a skin or something. If you sent an e-mail to every writer who you didn't believe that would make you a moron of the highest order.
It's called the first amendment. No different than what we do here. Let the damn thing go. Spurs have three championships with two being in the last three seasons; well now it's two in the last four seasons.
Geesh.
winner winner chicken dinner
I couldn't give less of a about this crap
Thank god Stern has gotten the uptempo 90-80 game he wanted.
Can someone please explain how Dirk is any more exciting to watch than Tim? Look he's shooting another jumper! Wow!!!! And I have yet to see anything resembling a personality from him, or hear anything approaching entertainment in his interviews.
This writer blows.
if not for shaq the stanley cup finals would probably have higher ratings.
He's currently going out with David Hasselhoff. That es ratings my friend
LOL I know, actually it's more like "Dirk's shooting FTs, AGAIN"
D Wade is probably the only truly exciting superstar in the game.
Jason Terry was also exciting last night. Surprised no one has mentioned that....................wait, no I'm not.
Dirk had an off game, that doesn't mean the game wasn't exciting. Where do you guys find this bull you come up with. As I've said before, this series is exciting to every basketball fan who's not a Spurs/Pistons fan.
Don't believe me, compare the ratings at the end of the series.
That was good basketball last night. But not any better than Spurs-Mavs in the semis, and not any better than the "terrible" Spurs-Pistons matchup last year. That's what pisses people around here off.
Well, that and the Spurs not playing.
I'm gonna start buying people miniture violins or some damn cheese for every thread that is started on this topic.
Next thing somebody gonna tell us that Mark Cuban really loves the Riverwalk and that he is going to buy all the members of Spurstalk.com Sidekick 3s for being such loyal fans....
The Spurs/Mavs semis this year were great. But I'd have to disagree with your take on the Spurs/Pistons of last year. I thought it was flat out boring. Spurs fans found it exciting only because their team was in the Finals, and that is to be expected. The Spurs of this year were a much more exciting team for me to watch, I actually stayed awake.
I'll allow that the first four blowouts were not the best quality of basketball, but the last three were classics, especially 5.
You'll have to explain better, I'm not following. First four and especially five aren't doing anything for me.
The first four were blowouts and Game 5 went into OT
Gotcha, the series last year.
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