No NBA finals thread?

[drothgery]

Again what's a fluke? I mean what's your defininition.

Webster = A chance occurrence; an accident.

Hey look I tripped and accidently won the superbowl. Hey look I stumbled and accidently won the NBA championship.

In sports, I think a fluke is winning a championship when by any reasonable analysis the person/team who won shouldn't have a prayer of gettng to the championship match/game/series, let alone winning (the Pats first Super Bowl-winning team was one of those, outclassed by the Rams on paper in every respect).

Alternatively, a long string of beneficial coincidinces (each one extremely improbable) happens along the way to winning a title, I'd call it a fluke. Note that it is possible (though not likely) to be lucky two years in a row.

 

[drothgery]

That's beside the point. Detroit really didn't do anything differently the two years, nor did they have any significant staff or player changes. Going to the finals two years in a row without those types of changes, winning once, and coming darn close the second time, pretty much means that it cannot be a fluke.

Sure it can. In 2004, one string of unlikely events helped Detroit win a championship. In 2005, another string of unlikely events (starting with a brawl at midseason which killed their primary rival in their division) helped Detroit come very close to winning another one.

 

[loki44]

Again what's a fluke? I mean what's your defininition.

A fluke is me closing my eyes and making a hole-in-one on a par 3. Finishing 1st or 2nd overall after 105 or so games is not a fluke in any way, shape or form.

 

[DonTadow]

In sports, I think a fluke is winning a championship when by any reasonable analysis the person/team who won shouldn't have a prayer of gettng to the championship match/game/series, let alone winning (the Pats first Super Bowl-winning team was one of those, outclassed by the Rams on paper in every respect).

Alternatively, a long string of beneficial coincidinces (each one extremely improbable) happens along the way to winning a title, I'd call it a fluke. Note that it is possible (though not likely) to be lucky two years in a row.

YOu got two definitions there. The first one.. Well techincally you're saying if someone beats the odds its a fluke. If Las Vegas oddsmakers don't say it should happen then it shouldn't.

By the second definitions. you're saying that the pats and pistons somehow won over 70 percent of their games. That's a lot of look.