No NBA finals thread?

[DonTadow]

I think you gave it to me....cough...Spurs still win it all...cough

I predicted it in 5. Ain't gonna happen. Detroit in 6? Still possible but unlikely. I just wish the games were closer. Enough already with these blowouts.

I'm not one to complain about refs. Thought the game was called pretty evenly.

I think someone said it best earlier when they described this series as a game of chess. The blow outs down't surprise me. In Chess you go back and forth testing wits until your opponent makes a mistake. ONce taht mistake is made it becomes you dominating him until you win.

 

[Desdichado]

I predicted it in 5. Ain't gonna happen. Detroit in 6? Still possible but unlikely. I just wish the games were closer. Enough already with these blowouts.

Yeah, but you never know which team will have the blow-out!

I'm still hopeful that San Antonio will collectively get their heads back on, and we can have some individual games that are closer though.

 

[Krug]

Well at least the TV stations should be happy that it looks like it's going to go to 6-7 games, to make up for the poor ratings.

 

[drothgery]

Huh? What the heck do you consider to be basketball? To me, that is good basketball -- the star player driven style of teams like the Lakers -- to me, that's not basketball.

To be honest, it seems like you're making excuses for why your disparaging predictions about the Pistons aren't coming true. I never understood why you were so quick to discount them in the first place, or why after they start winning games again, you are so quick to discount it as vagaries of the ref's, or some other external factor.

I like up-tempo basketball, and don't think it's supposed to be a contact sport.

The two games that were tightly called, San Antonio won handily (especially game 2). I didn't see game 3, but if it was called like game 4, where there seemed to be a "no blood, no foul" rule in effect, it's really hard for anyone else to get down to the Pistons' level.

 

[DonTadow]

I like up-tempo basketball, and don't think it's supposed to be a contact sport.

The two games that were tightly called, San Antonio won handily (especially game 2). I didn't see game 3, but if it was called like game 4, where there seemed to be a "no blood, no foul" rule in effect, it's really hard for anyone else to get down to the Pistons' level.

Basketball is at times more of a contact sport than football. Have you ever played real basketball before? I played in H.S. and you come home brused and broken a lot. I play at the gym and even pick up games has its scratches and nicks. There have been the same amount of fouls called in all four games. I believe now though the refs are not calling that pitty patty stuff they were before. Those ghost fouls and touch fouls. That's how basketball is suppose to be. This isn't croquet or golf. This is 10 grown men mixing it up to put a basket in the hoop.

 

[Desdichado]

I like up-tempo basketball, and don't think it's supposed to be a contact sport.

Well, yeah, that's why fouls are called. If you get up-tempo basketball, the incidence of fouls goes up too.

The two games that were tightly called, San Antonio won handily (especially game 2). I didn't see game 3, but if it was called like game 4, where there seemed to be a "no blood, no foul" rule in effect, it's really hard for anyone else to get down to the Pistons' level.

See, that's where you lose me. That sounds like a pretty lame excuse to me. "Detroit was cheating -- that's why they won!"

 

[loki44]

Finally a close game. You had to figure Horry was going to have one of those finishes this series. Great stuff.

 

[DonTadow]

Finally a close game. You had to figure Horry was going to have one of those finishes this series. Great stuff.

Yeah congrats on this game to san antonion. I was a little miffed that Detroit left HOrry wide open in the final seconds, then hamilton tried to win the game on his own instead of dishing it to an open Tayshun.

 

[d20Dwarf]

This is 10 grown men mixing it up to put a basket in the hoop.

I thought they were trying to put the ball in the rock?

 

[drothgery]

See, that's where you lose me. That sounds like a pretty lame excuse to me. "Detroit was cheating -- that's why they won!"

It's not really "Detroit was cheating" so much as different teams of NBA officials have wildly different standards on what is or is not a foul (despite this, the NBA is a model of consistency compared to the international game) and they've almost all internalized the crazy notion that more contact should be allowed in the playoffs and/or late in games.

In this series, if a lot of contact is allowed (and the game's called the same way on both ends, which almost always happens -- NBA refs may make mistakes, but they don't tend to favor one team or another) it favors Detroit; if very little contact is allowed, it favors San Antonio. In my opinion, the refs allowed way too much contact in game 4.