No NBA finals thread?

[loki44]

Just like all of the U.S. sports the game has gotten softer in the last decade or two. People complain about the physical defense of Detroit, which is NOTHING compared to the bad boys era. The same thing has happened with football. Now that sports players make more money rules have been passed to keep them playing longer.

I agree that the Pistons of today are probably even a bit cleaner than the "Bad Boyz" of yore. Like I said, I don't think the game has changed that much over time, apart from the fact that the players are bigger, better, and stronger. As far as rules being created to prevent injury goes, I only see that in the NFL, not the NBA. A guy like Jack Tatum or George Atkinson would be absolutely vilified in today's NFL. They played within the rules of their time. I love the NFL as much as I do the NBA but the way QB's and WR's are protected nowadays simply goes way counter to the way that I grew up with the game. I'm not complaining though. It's a different time with diffrent realities. Change is not necessarily bad, just different.

 

[Desdichado]

Just giving this a little bump in anticipation of tonight's game...

 

[DonTadow]

This is the big one ... the superbowl of basketball. I've seen so much red and blue walking around downtown today its crazy.

 

[Elric]

My beef with people complaining about refs is when the claim is made that they favored one team over another because of $, or some sort of unspoken mandate from the NBA head offices (okay, since I've moved to Atlanta and become a fan of Georgia Tech I've been known to complain about the refs favoring Duke in one way or another, but the NCAA is another debate).

So the NBA is off limits but Duke is fair game? We earn everything, especially our #1 seedings With next year coming up, good thing you're not a Carolina fan. I'm really excited for game 7 tonight and just hope it is a good game. This is the first really close NBA finals in a long time.

 

[Desdichado]

First game 7 in --what? --eleven years?

 

[Mr. T]

I pity the fool that goes for the Spurs when they know full well that the Pistons are going to win it all. This is (I think) the first time that a team has won two back to back games on an opposing team's court, when Detroit wins.

It all comes to this.

 

[d20Dwarf]

All you Spurs hatas better rethink it. Did you see Ginobli drive through the defense near the end there (not the very end, but a couple minutes to go)? Detroit looked like they had fenders tied to their shoes. Clutch defense that smothered the Pistons from the end of the 3rd all the way to the end. The Spurs didn't look that great most of the last 5 games, but they came through and played with the heart of champions when it really mattered most. Sometimes that's all it takes.

To the Pistons, hats off. They are a great team and *definitely* deserve their success. I was a huge fan last year and rooted for them this year too, until this series obviously. So, I was a happy basketball fan this year (except the Mavericks meltdown again ).

Go Spurs!!!

 

[DonTadow]

All you Spurs hatas better rethink it. Did you see Ginobli drive through the defense near the end there (not the very end, but a couple minutes to go)? Detroit looked like they had fenders tied to their shoes. Clutch defense that smothered the Pistons from the end of the 3rd all the way to the end. The Spurs didn't look that great most of the last 5 games, but they came through and played with the heart of champions when it really mattered most. Sometimes that's all it takes.

To the Pistons, hats off. They are a great team and *definitely* deserve their success. I was a huge fan last year and rooted for them this year too, until this series obviously. So, I was a happy basketball fan this year (except the Mavericks meltdown again ).

Go Spurs!!!

Congrats. it was a good series and the game went down to the wire. I thought the pistons went to rasheed too late and billups turned the game around on a dumb long pass among four spurs in the early fourth quarter. We had a chance to sit on a good lead and we blew it. Hats off to the spurs.

dangit i won't get my parade. I guess its back to work monday.

 

[drothgery]

Let's hope we never see anything like this game again. This is pro basketball, with 48 minute games; both teams barely combining for 150 points is just wrong.

 

[DonTadow]

It really sucks when your team looses. My phone/email address has not stopped blowing up with spurs fans.

HEHEHE goooo Lions... man has it come to that