San Antonio vs........"Cleveland"?!?

[Doctor DM]

And the Tigers beat down Texas for the 2nd night in a row.

Why couldn't the Pistons be more like the Tigers? Why? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?!?!?!?!?

(goes off and sobs in the corner)

 

[GlassJaw]

For some great insight on the series (and sports in general), I highly recommend that everyone read Bill Simmons on ESPN Page 2. He is hands down the best sports writer going right now. End of debate. Required reading for any sports fan.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Unless of course someone takes your post and quotes it!

I don't think that's allowed.

Game One of the Finals is over. Cleveland made it look better on paper by outscoring SA at the end, but it wasn't enough. Was anyone surprised?

I think Cleveland's best hope of winning the series is to get Duncan and Parker in foul trouble early and often. Throw Varejo at Duncan; he's good at falling down. Parker would be harder. He's so quick on offense and doesn't take chances on defense. However, they could do it if they successfully bribed the referees.

 

[TarionzCousin]

For some great insight on the series (and sports in general), I highly recommend that everyone read Bill Simmons on ESPN Page 2. He is hands down the best sports writer going right now. End of debate. Required reading for any sports fan.

I don't know if he's the best, 'cause I don't read any sports columns--but he's damn funny and insightful.

Check out his comments regarding the Lakers trading Kobe Bryant: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/blog/index?name=simmons&entryDate=20070530

...especially about sending Kobe to Phoenix. "(E) The most selfish player in the league (Kobe) playing with the most unselfish player in the league (Nash). What a fascinating sociological experiment. If Nash can turn Kobe into a team player, I'm voting him for our 2008 president even though he's Canadian."

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

If the sports writers' assessment of the game was accurate, I may have been wrong in saying SA in 5

The Cavs may just surrender after 3 games...

 

[drothgery]

If the sports writers' assessment of the game was accurate, I may have been wrong in saying SA in 5

The Cavs may just surrender after 3 games...

If one ignores "comebacks" late in the game that don't actually put the outcome in any kind of doubt, it looks like they surrendered after the first quarter of game 1. And the Spurs are the team with the French guy.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

And in Game 2, the Spurs tried to nap through the late stages of the 4th quarter...however, they were annoyed enough by all the turnovers that they eventually put it away.

If they don't do anything different in Game 3...Cavs fans, there is always next year.

Does the NBA have a "skunk" rule?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

They tried. They really did.

I'm still getting out the broom.

 

[TarionzCousin]

If the sports writers' assessment of the game was accurate, I may have been wrong in saying SA in 5

The Cavs may just surrender after 3 games...

The Cavs should have surrended after three. Sure, they scored quite a bit AFTER the games were decided, which made it look closer on paper than it really was.

The Spurs had a nice "killer" instinct. They deserved the trophy.

 

[drothgery]

The Cavs should have surrended after three. Sure, they scored quite a bit AFTER the games were decided, which made it look closer on paper than it really was.

The Spurs had a nice "killer" instinct. They deserved the trophy.

The interesting thing was how much of a sense of inevitableness was hanging over the playoffs. Once the Warriors upset the Mavs, everyone knew Phoenix/San Antonio was the actual NBA Finals (and the more daring just handed the title to the Spurs at that point; me, I think that Suns had a real shot); some columnists acknowledged it, others tried to make a case for Utah or Detroit or Cleveland, but you knew their heart wasn't in it.