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make it a poll
i think it will be cool to know everyone's opinion on this one so we have a say from wise...
make it a poll
the foul
06 Foul, because it is something that the players could have controlled and Ginobili did not play smart, so it's a bummer, because we were 10 seconds away from going to the WCF.
We played 0.4 perfectly, there is no other way we could have played it, unless we knew what was going to happen beforehand and denied Fisher the ball. Manu played Fisher perfectly on that play.
tough one... id i had to choose it would be the foul because , in effect, it ended our season. concerning the .04 incident we still had the chance to win game 6 in LA and we folded..
was working on it plz vote!
Manu's foul. That was something under our control, and we made a mistake.
.4 beat us and was really disheartening, especially after our own near miracle play from TD, but there was just not much we could have done. It hurts less when people beat you than when you beat yourself.
0.4 hurt more. The Spurs made a great comeback in that game, Duncan hit the miracle falling down shot, Lakers fans started leaving the SBC Center, all was well... T'wolves in the WCF, what a joke
Although I'm not a Spurs fan, from my viewpoint, the foul hurts, because everytime i look back, that was such a special and memorable year, only to have it all overlooked by our finals loss... as special as it was to finally beat the Spurs, it hurts knowing that ultimately it was completely meaningless.
.4 second shot. Only because it came right after Duncan's greatest shot.
For sure, Fisher's 0.4 shot because we didn't have a chance to win after that. Plus I thought we had to game won after Timmy's shot. So I was riding high on good emotional until in Fisher made the .
Even with Manu's foul, we still had a chance to win and it even went into OT but didn't pull it off.
For me, personally, 0.4.
Partly because I didn't watch game 7 of 2006 WCSF - I was too angry and upset to be able to sit down through it. Between stupid mistakes on the Spurs parts, ineffective defense and a plethora of bad calls, I was simply unable to watch it and maintain my sanity.
But the Mavs weren't the same rival or threat until after they beat us, the Lakers were still a rival that year. That game WAS the series. The foul didn't make me physically ill (the whole series did though), 0.4 did. Yeah.
they both pissed me off equally
Even before the foul, I never really felt like that game was in hand for the Spurs. Frankly, without the foul, I'd give it a 50/50 shot the Mavs still win the game anyway.
0.4 was against my most hated team of all time, and the sheer luck of it made it worse for me than anything, because 9,999,999 times out of 10,000,000 that doesn't happen.
The clock was incorrect for 0.4 shot, so it's not that bad. I think the foul hurt worse, because I wouldn't give the Mavs a 50/50 shot after that point.
I can't pick between the two, they are both pretty sad.
.4 shouldn't have happened, the NBA even changed the rules to make sure it don't again...
and that foul was just bonehead... give him the layup.. and we win off free throws...
pps- time delayed replay shows the backboard being red and the ball on fisher's tips.. so yeah id say the foul now that i think more on it..
Neither. We played like dog both games and we didn't deserve to win. We underachieved and I hate that more than anything.
We had to bust ass to make the games close. And for the last time, Manu did not cause us to lose the game. If he doen't foul Dirk, its a one point game with plenty of time for the Mavs to play a FT contest game with us.
Plus, they were known to hit 3's so it was not a given. Manu had just given us the lead with his last 3. Dumb foul but no way did it cost us the game. We had the last shot of regulation AND lost in OT.
With D-fish's shot, I had spent the first half pissed and disgusted at our effort and mistakes. Again, Manu did his best along with Parker to get us back in the game but it was only Game 5. We still could have won 6 and forced a game 7. We just weren't good enough.
What really hurts the most was us losing to Portland in David's rookie year. We played our asses off against a more experienced team and blew it at the end because of a careless pass and a questionable break away foul. We owned Portland at home and took them to OT and 2OT in Portland. That series was tough.
The foul because it gave Mav fan carte blanche to talk trash and made them into even bigger bags, which I didn't think was possible.
But we also went into OT against Dallas and won that (and didn't).
Worst one though was .4 b/c when TD made the insane long distance shot, you couldn't help but think that the Spurs had won the game. Then Fisher tears our ing hearts out
If we don't foul, we win the WCF. Period.
When Fisher hit the .o4, we still could have won the series but were further away from the Finals.
On the mavs game, everyone was playing terrible but Manu, was Manu, and only Manu the only reason we were so close to win it. He played amazing, and when he plays like that he makes a few mistakes here and there since he takes more risks. Yes, the fould hurted me, but it wasn't a dagger to the heart like the 0.4 shoot, not even close.
Everyone will remenber 06 as the season manu ed up, that bothers me, i remenber 06 as the season everyone chocked but Manu. He almost saved our asses, and just because he didn't won at the end he's supposed to be the bad guy of the movie.
Why do we have this thread every month or two? Quit being such whining es; the team has had and continues to have such success, and still everyone wants to dwell on a couple of losses.
.4 because not only was it the ing Lakers, but Karl Malone too. I kind of figured that at some point the Mavs would beat in the playoffs. For whatever reason I just didn't have a championship vibe in 06. I was feeling it in 04 and when Duncan put in that shot it was like MDM 2.0. Then it felt like the entire rug, the floor, the subfloor, and most of the concrete slab our apartment was built on was yanked out from under me.
http://www.nba.com/games/20060522/DALSAS/boxscore.html
T.Duncan C 49:33 12-24 0-1 17-23 6 9 15 6 4 1 3 3 41
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