2013-2014 NBA Season Thread - Congrats to the Spurs, DBD is still a buster

[lamekilla]

2 starters with 0 points :x

OKC might get swept

Another Spurs/Heat Final

 

[srvballer]

We're this close to getting a rematch of the best rivalry since Bird/Magic. Instead we might get Pacers/Spurs. Please bball gods do us right

 

[617collector]

i wish TNT would cover the East Finals too.  Night and day difference from ESPN to TNT

Seriously.

They need to pull a madden

 

[cole106]

What you guys think of this trade?

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=l8oe8ls

Maybe some draft picks could be added.. couldn find the draft picks on the trade machine

I think it's a good move. What chu think

 

[617collector]

2 starters with 0 points :x

OKC might get swept

Another Spurs/Heat Final

Again people are sleeping on Pacers

 

[rck3sactown]

Pacers win one game and y'all pencil them in already

NT logic duh

 

[617collector]

Pacers win one game and y'all pencil them in already

NT logic duh

Welp it's the only games Roy wakes up for

 

[osirus]

Tunes will change when the other pacer team shows up for 4 games.

 

[srvballer]

Pacers win one game and y'all pencil them in already

I'm not, I'm just saying what I wish doesn't happen bro

 

[nelson999]

Good win Spurs

Your avy 

 

[awwsome]

Pacers win one game and y'all pencil them in already

I still got the Heat in 5.

 

[IATT]

Don't worry, like everyone else is saying, brooks will adjust by game 4.

What I actually think happens, spurs win game 2.. Okc wins game 3 because Durant and Westbrook possibly Reggie too have amazing games..

So brooks doesn't make any adjustments.. Loses game 4.. THEN he tries to change things up, so game 5 after being down 3-1

 

[a-friend]

Good game though Spurs. Way to stay even kill. Sorry for my Thunder, as always.

 

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[h1]Mark Cuban allegedly consulted with a former FBI agent about investigating and suing the NBA in 2006[/h1]
 
By Kelly Dwyer4 hours agoBall Don't Lie

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The Dallas Mavericks  lost the 2006 NBA Finals mainly because the team failed to close out a series of even, coin-flip games, and because the squad had no answer for Dwyane Wade  in his peak. Few teams did back then, and it’s why the Heat won the title that year and why Wade nearly dragged an injured Miami squad to the Finals the year before.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, reportedly, wanted to know if there were other, less blindingly obvious reasons behind his team’s 4-2 series defeat. Because Wade averaged a staggering 16.2 free throws per game in the series, Cuban reportedly hired an FBI investigator to see if the Heat had help from the referees, the NBA, or any number of black helicopters along the way.

From the finale to John Canzano’s five-part series on the NBA’s ongoing image issues with his referees, via Pro Basketball Talk:

During the 2006 NBA Finals, Cuban was frustrated after a Game 5 loss to the Heat, and went on the floor to vent to official Joe DeRosa, glaring, too, at Stern in the stands. Earlier that same playoffs Cuban also criticized how the officials are selected for the playoffs. He was fined $450,000 for those two incidents….

Retired FBI agent Warren Flagg, a 20-year veteran of the bureau, said he consulted with Cuban after that playoff debacle. Flagg now runs his own New York-based investigation and security firm. He looked deep into officiating, as Flagg said, Cuban was considering a lawsuit.

“Cuban asked me what he should do,” Flagg said of the 2006 Finals. “I told him, ‘Sue and you’ll win your case,’ but he knew he’d be killing the Golden Goose.”

When asked about his discussions with Flagg, Cuban said: “I don’t remember.”

Even if Cuban does, he’s likely not going to admit to such, and the bravado behind Flagg’s assertions that he’d definitely win a case against the NBA over referee calls  is the height of ridiculousness. It wasn’t about the “Golden Goose.” There was nothing there.

Fans might recall Miami’s comeback win in the series, and look to those 16 free throws a game (and especially the 25 Wade took in Game 5), while forgetting the context of what we’re dealing with.

You’ll recall …

1. Adrian Griffin, Jason Terry  and Devin Harris could not guard Dwyane Wade. Griffin and Terry could not stay in front of him, and Harris was too thin and too excitable. Wade contributed relatively modest numbers against the Heat in two regular-season games, but that was because he was guarded by the quicker, younger and stronger Marquis Daniels in one game, and because teammate Shaquille O’Neal had one of his best games of the season in another.

2. The NBA was in the middle of a huge cultural shift in that season and the previous one. Hand checks were absolutely out. You could not touch a guy on his way to the hole from anywhere on the court, and some teams, players and coaches were slower to adapt than others. The Mavericks enjoyed terrific seasons in 2005 and '06 because the team was so damn talented, but Griffin, Erick Dampier and Terry just could not get away from trying to hand check or hit in the lane, and as a result the free throws piled up.

3. Mavericks head man Avery Johnson was outcoached. Miami boss Pat Riley maneuvered expert sets late in contests, save for one stroke of luck with the ancient Heat guard Gary Payton hitting an eventual game-winner, and it boggled the mind as to why Johnson continued to insist both Griffin and Terry play Wade with slow feet and outstretched arms. And that’s on top of the misuse of Daniels, then in his third season. He was the perfect Wade antidote, and yet we were all left screaming at the TV while Johnson continually ignored him in favor of Griffin.

Wade saw all this, he knew he could get to the line any time he put his head down, and the referees called a consistent – if frustrating and maddening to watch because of all the breaks in the action – series. It’s true there were some TERRIBLE calls, especially late in games on bang-bang plays, but it’s not because the NBA had it in for the Mavericks. Not for a team playing in a market larger than Miami’s, with an international superstar the NBA could market to no end in the months leading up to the FIBA world championships.

There was no fix worth investigating, no lawsuit worth chasing down. The Mavs lost three very close games against a championship team because both their players and coaches failed to adapt on the fly, and they were blown out in another game that saw Dirk Nowitzki shoot 2 of 14 from the floor.

It wasn’t the Golden Goose that cost Dallas that championship. We remember.

Man what is this???

 

[a-friend]

Don't worry, like everyone else is saying, brooks will adjust by game 4.

What I actually think happens, spurs win game 2.. Okc wins game 3 because Durant and Westbrook possibly Reggie too have amazing games..

So brooks doesn't make any adjustments.. Loses game 4.. THEN he tries to change things up, so game 5 after being down 3-1

This is what could happen in a Scott Brooks life. Good call

 

[awwsome]

Brooks going to lose this series for OKC, I can see it, he's been coaching terrible all playoffs and just getting by on Russ/KD/Ibaka greatness.


Now Ibaka is gone and they're facing the most talented team they've faced with a coach who's so much better than him that it's a joke.

 

[a-friend]

Thunder fans, we need to send Romo some tickets to game two in SA

 

[osirus]

Donuts and bagels

Agree with chuck though.

 

[awwsome]

This dude Chuck said "there's not scoring and then there's not scoring".

 

[IATT]

Thunder fans, we need to send Romo some tickets to game two in SA

I'm in for $20

 

[antidope]

Thats Timmy Ds shorty

 

[iheartboost]

Them southern snowflakes

 

[a-friend]

Thunder fans, we need to send Romo some tickets to game two in SA

I'm in for $20

I got a c-note

 

[awwsome]

Thats Timmy Ds shorty

Well that explains a lot, I'd a been playing better too.

 

[Peep Game]

"They flew them girls in from Houston and Dallas" Chuck stating facts