No NBA finals thread?

[Jdvn1]

Speaking as a Michigan resident, you wouldn't guess that the pistons are underappreciated if you've been anywhere in the state for the last month or so. It really is phenomenal how popular the Pistons are within the boundries of the state. I tried to get into the Palace to watch tonight's game, but I came a little too late. It's amazing when a team manages to seat capacity when they aren't even playing in the building.

Yikes. It's not surprising that a team gets more respect in its home state, though. How many people would've considered Detroit to go all the way at the beginning of the season? How many people outside of Michigan, that is.

 

[Desdichado]

Agreed! One reason I'm such a SA fan is that they're a classy team, no thugs whatsoever. I can't root for teams with thugs.

See, in Detroit, we like our thugs. Although moreso in hockey than in basketball...

 

[Desdichado]

Yikes. It's not surprising that a team gets more respect in its home state, though. How many people would've considered Detroit to go all the way at the beginning of the season? How many people outside of Michigan, that is.

And that was the big problem -- Detroit was underestimated by everyone until after game 6 of the finals series, when suddenly a lot of sports writers and commentators started finally picking them to win after all. You'd think that after winning last year with the same line-up that people would think they were capable, but they made excuses for it and blew it off as a fluke. When Detroit came back this year, they still got no respect until the very end.

I like San Antonio a lot -- before I came to Detroit, I lived in Texas (although the Rockets are my team 4ever!) and my wife would love for me to find a job in San Antone and take us back (before winter hits, preferably ) but I wanted Detroit to win to shut up all the naysayers that ignored the evidence right in front of their eyes and didn't think they even had a chance to win.

Folks like drothgery who picked San Antonio to win 4-0, and then complained about it the whole time anyway, for instance.

 

[drothgery]

Folks like drothgery who picked San Antonio to win 4-0, and then complained about it the whole time anyway, for instance.

The thing is, Detroit's title last year was a fluke. They should never have made it past Indiana, and were very fortunate to be facing the Lakers, which matched up poorly with them. Maybe they would have done the same thing to San Antonio or Minnesota or Sacremento. But I don't think so.

And it's always going to annoy me when a team with a lot of talent, quite capable of playing a fun, up-tempo game, decides to let its opponent dictate the pace of a series. This isn't the first time I've said that I know the "anything you can do, we can do better" thing works for San Antonio, but I don't have to like it.

 

[Desdichado]

The thing is, Detroit's title last year was a fluke.

If it was a fluke they shouldn't have come so close to winning again this year.

 

[DonTadow]

The thing is, Detroit's title last year was a fluke. They should never have made it past Indiana, and were very fortunate to be facing the Lakers, which matched up poorly with them. Maybe they would have done the same thing to San Antonio or Minnesota or Sacremento. But I don't think so.

And it's always going to annoy me when a team with a lot of talent, quite capable of playing a fun, up-tempo game, decides to let its opponent dictate the pace of a series. This isn't the first time I've said that I know the "anything you can do, we can do better" thing works for San Antonio, but I don't have to like it.

That is the wierdest statement I hear. IT shows you the power of marketing. This "FLuke" thing is what the L.A. Lakers marketing machine came up with to explain their playoff collapose and some media bought into it.

First, lets forget about this year, lets talk about last year. they went through 3 high calibar teams including a speedy MIlwaukee, a Indiana and a star studded New jeresey team. And beat them. Then they went and beat L.A. NOw, if L.A. was soooooo destructive, why didn't they lose any of their previous three series. L.A.'s mere presence in the finals last years counters there "they couldn't win together argument". Billups shut down the glove. Tayshun contained Kobe and Shaq was pretty much left trying to score all by himself.

Now, this year, Again they went through A. philiedelphia whom has argueably the best player in the league, Indiana whom had a hot Reggie Miller and a tenacious Jermaine O'neal then to top it off Miami whom has one of the best twosomes in the league. And don't give me the injured argument because everyone is banged up in the playoffs.

Then after that, they play San anotonion and take them to seven games and the series isn't decided until the last two minutes. Admit it droth, you let out a sigh of relief. That hardly seems like the reaction of someone whom's team was playing an inferior team.

I guess I need to see the defination of a fluke. A fluke is, having every major player on every team they played suffer a flue and not play for the playooffs. Detroti proved their at least the second best team in the league. And next year, with a deeper bench, they will be back.

 

[drothgery]

If it was a fluke they shouldn't have come so close to winning again this year.

The Patriots' first Super Bowl win was a fluke. That they deservingly won two more after that (after a year where they missed the playoffs) doesn't keep their first win from being a fluke.

 

[DonTadow]

The Patriots' first Super Bowl win was a fluke. That they deservingly won two more after that (after a year where they missed the playoffs) doesn't keep their first win from being a fluke.

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.

 

[Desdichado]

The Patriots' first Super Bowl win was a fluke. That they deservingly won two more after that (after a year where they missed the playoffs) doesn't keep their first win from being a fluke.

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.

 

[d20Dwarf]

Hey look I stumbled and accidently won the NBA championship.

I thought I was the only one? :\