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Cavs Are Boring ! Cavs Are Boring !!
So the focus is now on how the Cavs look and execute on offense.
(this is a cut and paste off of CNNSI)
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...eck/index.html
The Spurs deserve huge heaps of credit for locking things down in the Finals (Cleveland is averaging 80 points per game), and Ferry hasn't exactly provided Brown with a murderer's row from long range (Ferry thought so in 2005, but somebody kidnapped Donyell Marshall's jump shot). But there is little reason Cleveland should be struggling this badly and making things so unpleasant to watch. Again, even with one of the league's most charismatic and jaw-dropping talents in LeBron James, the Cavs are about as aesthetically unappealing as teams not featuring Jeff Van Gundy get.
Cavs Are Boring ! Cavs Are Boring !!
Cavs and Cavs alone are the reason the Finals sucks ass for non-Spurs fans.
The NBA better fix the junior conference for next year, or we're gonna endure the boring bull for the the Spurs next 3 championships.
Here's another snippet from Sportsline.com:
http://www.sportsline.com/nba/story/10223462
"While these Finals could go down as the worst in modern history they still add to the legend of this San Antonio dynasty, which has proven they can play up-tempo or play the dismal NFC East-style of basketball Cleveland enjoys."
I'm gonna disagree with this premise.
Cavs play good D. That is not "dismal" basketball, it may be "boring", but it shouldn't be.
How come when a pitcher throws a "no-hitter", it's big news, but when an NBA team holds an opponent to 70 points, it's boring?
EDIT: should have read the article first. It criticizes Cavs offense, not defense.
My bad.
cavs are so ugly to watch I had to get hammered last game to keep watching.
Spurs weren't much better, and I know defense wasn't the entire problem.
Lots and lots of bad shots / open misses.
Still, you sorta expect Spurs to be a little off, offensively, on someone else's home court, in a game 3 when they're up 2-0.
Cav's should have taken their "home" energy and done something. That's usually the way it's worked in so many playoffs, Detroit, etc...right? , Cav's actually looked better in the games in San Antonio.
Well, then again...mebbe not.
They haven't looked good yet.
LMAO @ Spurs fans calling any team "boring".
Whats the one constant with NBA's worst ratings?
Answer: The Spurs.
People are completely indifferent to the Spurs. They would rather watch something else.
What's the one constant with the NBA Finals?
Answer: No Suns
fine with me. Spurs will still be in history books. Suns on the other hand, noone will remember what position they finished or who was in their roster
http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/6918878The NBA - it's not fantastic
The NBA (new official motto: "Rise up and go to bed") is stuck in a two-month stretch of misery eclipsing any hard times currently being experienced by John McCain.
This stagger goes far beyond the painful fact that its next championship team has a French point guard on the cusp of marrying a Hollywood hottie, a back-up power forward with more rings than the Olympic logo, the best big man of his era, the best perimeter defender of his era, a sixth man who resembles Italian actor Roberto Benigni and still has managed to anesthetize a sporting nation.
If you've never played or coached, it's probably difficult to appreciate the San Antonio Spurs.
But this is not an indictment of the Spurs, who are doing whatever is necessary to conquer a league in serious trouble.
While the Spurs were becoming the most taken-for-granted great team since Ben & Jerry, the NBA has experienced several setbacks. We'll begin with the disaster-grabbing Dallas Mavericks, whose best regular-season record did nothing to prevent them from being gunned down in the first round by former coach Don Nelson and his Golden State Warriors.
In one barrage of 3-pointers, the league's MVP and most entertaining owner were goners.
Just as quickly, the Warriors' fan-friendly, free-wheeling style was choked to death by the Utah Jazz.
While that was happening, a dandy series co-starring the Spurs and Phoenix Suns managed to capture everyone's imagination. But instead of pushing our interest to a Game 7, the league's well-intentioned, bench-leaving rule sabotaged what should have been the greatest showdown of the year.
Commissioner David Stern, who backtracked like a frightened toddler when players whined about his new synthetic basketball, refused to make a rules interpretation that would have greatly assisted his sport's popularity.
Things haven't improved much for the NBA since this brawl during the Suns-Spurs series. ( / Getty Images)
Instead, two Suns who didn't touch anyone during this brief fracas were suspended for one game against the team whose backup power forward created the mess.
Then again, if Stern was as progressive-minded as some believe, the Spurs-Suns would have occurred in the Finals after surrendering to a conference-free, round-by-round playoff reseeding program that doesn't exist.
When the Suns and their highly appealing offensive tactics were eliminated, the NBA's opportunity to seize the interest of casual fans and previous deserters vanished. A league and sporting culture that was prepared to embrace a wide-open style had to settle for a quartet of final four playoff teams that emphasized defense.
As a coach, I understand the importance of defense and use it as a guideline for my sideline rants. But a commitment to defense shouldn't require a simultaneous commitment to prehistoric offense.
While the Magic Lakers and Bird Celtics and their fast-breaking philosophies now seem like touchstones from another sport, offensive greatness hasn't completely disappeared.
For example, the NFL's Super Bowl-winning roster includes recent entries by the score-happy Indianapolis Colts, St. Louis Rams and Steve Young's 49ers.
Without the Suns, Stern's flow-choking playoff officiating helped create a 75-72 tractor pull disguised as Game 3 in Cleveland.
On top of the on-court issues, the draft lottery came and went with the selections that will yield rare prospects Greg Oden and Kevin Durant secured by two teams from the prosperous Western Conference.
One team savagely mugged by the prevailing lottery-selection process was the formerly mighty Boston Celtics, whose ascent would greatly assist any NBA revival. But Stern remains married to his weighted ping-pong system because he's unable to prevent the league's worst teams from losing on purpose.
Additional angst or embarrassment was fielded when Billy Donovan backed out of his deal with the Orlando Magic and returned to coach the Florida Gators. In his place steps Stan Van Gundy, whose new job inspired Miami Heat boss Pat Riley (the guy who stole Stan's South Florida gig) to bring up compensation issues.
At least Kobe Bryant woke up on the wrong side of a newspaper story and provoked discussion about the league.
Basically every NBA fan has said "This Sucks" and changed the channel.
Stern has no one to blame but himself.
This stuff is always said as if it offends our sensibilities. Can any Spurs fan here, honestly say they get all teary eyed becasue the rest of the country finds us boring and Nielsen's archaic 'only-7-households-in-America-have-our-ratings-box' say we get a share slightly better than the NHL and worse than Pre-Belmont coverage?
good. why are you still logged in?
Oh i see...so the ratings system is completely screwed up, right?
The Spurs truly are a draw, its just the system for measuring that is bad.
Funny that these numbers are always significantly higher when the Spurs aren't around. Why is that?
Thats the dumbest excuse I've ever heard. Even if they only factor one out of seven houses, that doesn't negate the fact that the Spurs draw much less viewership from this sample than when they're not in the finals.
at least our team is only boring, not a bunch of whiny loser es like the Suns
good. why are you still logged in?
I found it quite humorous that Spurs fans, themselves, have FINALLY admitted their games are boring.
NOW THEY'RE JUST BLAMING IT ON THE OTHER TEAM!!!!!
if you don't think cavs are ugly to watch you need to open your eyes. this has been said of them since Nets series.I found it quite humorous that Spurs fans, themselves, have FINALLY admitted their games are boring.
NOW THEY'RE JUST BLAMING IT ON THE OTHER TEAM!!!!!
And yet everyone is pissed off they don't get to watch them.
What does that say about the Spurs?
Everyone in Arizona.
I think average NBA fans have forgotten about the pathetic suns, noone misses them. and they were really pathetic this time around
1) How many times have we watched Duncan hold the ball for 15-20 seconds before shooting a bank shot?
2) Tony Parker walks the ball up the court on nearly every possession.
3) The Spurs (almost in unision) look to Popovic nearly every time they get possession of the ball for their next set play (they might as well just huddle up).
4) The Spurs are the best in the league at imposing their will (style of play). But you want to pretend the tempo/style of these games has been determined by an extremely unexperienced Cavs team?
Try again.
Did u just miss that foxsports.com article I just posted (scroll up).
Thats from TODAY, pal!
I am curious. Would fans of other teams actually watch a series if their team isn't in it? For instance, I only want to watch the Spurs. I could care less about the 29 other teams in the league. I suppose that's why they make such a big deal about market size. If it didn't matter what city was in the finals then they wouldn't worry about TV ratings. I'm a Spurs fan, not really a NBA fan. Sure I love basketball but I feel no connection to the other franchises. The same holds true for me with football. I have no rooting interest in any of the teams since there isn't one in SA. I have to have an emotional attachment for me to really pay attention.
Yah like 90% of us need that excuse. Spurs on? I'll get teh booze.
Tonight is SA Fan night at the Q. Here's to the CLE fans being Great hosts and fans!
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