Originally Posted by Al3xis
you're going off the premise that because something has never been done it can never be done. Even though it's been done in other sports.
Should we turn off every NBA playoff series when a team is down 0-3? I mean, it's never been done before, so it never can occur.
Do you have a reason why this is strictly an NBA issue?
No clue.
Best guess? Stars win this league more then any other. Albert Pujols can't do any good in the 9th inning if the 7-8-9 hitters are up.
Football can't rely on stars when their are 22 starters, and if your defense is on the field, Joe Montana isn't gonna be able to save you.
NBA, stars on the court the whole time. BOTH sides of the ball, and every 24 seconds, you get the ball back. (mostly)
It also has the fewest players on a team, and on the court.
I've already said, reason teams don't win isn't because of dancing, but I know for damn sure no team of tinkerbells has evern won anything. LA was about revenge last year. The Celts were a hungry big 3. Spurs? I mean, Tim Duncan? Do I need to go on?
Dude would hit game winners and just sorta walk back to the bench.
But they were all stoic, just win, no flash. Wade and the refs won before that. (for all my conspiracy homies
) You know damn well no dancin goin on in Detroit. LA? Nope. Shaq is a fool of a clown, but with Phil and Horry and Fox, Fish and crew, that team was business. MJ and his lot. Rodman was the biggest clown ever, still no dancin or fake photos or practicin his handshakes before games with 11 team members. The dream, nope. Bad boys? Nope. Showtime? Big smiles, lotta fun, rip your heart out to win. Bird's Celts? Whitest team to ever win, still no dancing. Dr J 6ers? No sir. And that's all the way to 1980.
It just has not happened. All of them have quirks, they all have rituals, they all were up to something. None of them posed on the bench for fake bowling. No birthday cakes. No 88 handshake salutes. No dancing a jig on the sidelines. No eye patches when they make a single shot in the first quarter and play Godfather music. None of it. I'm not sure why you are having a hard time with that. Now an accomplished NBA writer just wrote damn near word for @#$%^& word what I have said for 2 years, and still you have issues with it.
And hey, if a series is 3-0, then yeah, it's over. Same/same. Nobody done it, then you can claim it. Until it happens, that's the way it goes is it not? How you gonna fight the grain on something that has never been done before? Nobody's ever scored 50 in 10 straight games. Expecting it any time soon? Well then, what's different here?
