He left Lebron in the game. Hell if all he was going to do was pass the rock, he could have left Bibby in the lineup.

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There was a stretch about the 6 minute to 3 minute mark that LeBron was acting like the ball was a hot potato.

He scurr'd

I thought the exact same thing. He passed on open shots and didn't even think about putting the ball on the floor.

Really when you think about it, the only other guys on the floor except Wade who wanted the ball in their hands and weren't afraid to shoot were Chalmers and Eddie House.

Like Coach said, everyone else was playing Hot Potato.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYe8B--jrbs

Eat a fat rod, douchebag.

I didn't say it was spoelstra's fault although I did say he got outcoached. Carlisle made some great adjustments and ultimately that was the difference. Going zone was huge on the defensive end and going to the high pick and roll was the difference on the other end.

You said it was 'the big difference', which is insanity. Carlisle's a great coach, but Spoelstra did nothing wrong in this series.

Classy move by Wade shaking hands after the series. I didn't see Lebron doing it, because he seemed to rush off the court and the camera followed him to the locker room. Not saying he didn't do what Wade did, they just didn't show it. Anyone see him congratulating the other team after the game?

Also looked like Bosh broke down walking into the locker room a couple of times and was visibly crying.

James congratulated Kidd.

RuPaul crying? Shocking.

Jason Kidd turned back the clock in game 5 and 6.

He really deserved a championship. He's been a fantastic player for over 20 years.

Definitely. Happy for him.

Definitely agree. And Dirk Nowitzki makes the NBA worth watching. Exudes class and couldn't be happier for him, especially after '06.

I agree. Carlisle was a mad genius. Barea started more games in the finals series than he had the entire season. When things were not going well, Carlisle completely changed his entire rotation. He put Cardinal in the rotation and got big minutes from him, Peja was completely nailed to the bench. It all worked like a charm for him. Stevenson played much better coming off the bench and had a great shooting series...over 50 pct from 3. It was a great series to watch and an even greater result. The Mavs played with zero fear.

Nothing wrong? He put Eddie house on Jason Terry. Miami went key stretches without any semblance of an offensive game plan. Those things aside, I am not pinning the series loss on spoelstra. I am merely crediting Carlisle with an outstanding job. Is it not possible that spoelstra could do a decent job but yet still get completely outcoached?

Big deal. He traded defense for offense, coaches often do that when their team is in a hole. Carlisle played Stojakovic and Cardinal over Corey Brewer this series and neither of those two could guard a folding chair. And Miami's offense is a mess at times mainly because neither LeBron nor Wade know how to play without the ball.

It sounds like you're pinning the loss on him if you say coaching was 'the big difference' in the series. The big difference was that Dallas had a closer and Miami didn't.

No disagreement that Carlisle coached a great series.

I saw LeBron just recently and i asked him if he had change for a dollar.
He gave me 75 cents
I asked him "That's it???"
LeBron replied " Sorry i don't have a 4th Quarter."

Oh no he didnnt

Wade isn't a "closer"? That is news. From what I had heard, he was one of the best "closers" in the game...whatever that means.

Putting Eddie House on Jason Terry wasn't merely trading defense for offense. It was putting your worst perimeter defender against the other team's best offensive player (terry was their best offensive player last night and for other parts of the series). Why wasn't he matched up against Kidd as Van Gundy astutely pointed out or anyone else for that matter. That's coaching and at the times he was on Terry, they weren't in much of a hole although they were after a few minutes of that matchup.

If I say that Dirk Nowitzki outplayed Udonis Haslem and was "the big difference", does that mean that I am pinning the loss on Haslem? Of course not. I am merely stating the obvious. The same goes for the coach. Like Haslem, Spoelstra did a credible job during the series. He simply didn't have anywhere near the effect that Carlisle did for his respective team. He didn't have "skins on the wall" to garner the type of respect necessary from players like Lebron and Wade. Riley does. It will be a big difference next year if Riley is there.

You can't sum up what happened in this series to a few minutes down the stretch in every game. Do you play chess? The end game is merely a result of the opening and the middle. The Heat had two queens but the mavs had but one queen and a full compliment of pawns. Carlisle used his advantage of material to wear down the Heat's advantage in firepower.

The Heat had to work much harder on defense and by the late stages they were worn down especially in the last couple of games. It is undeniable that much of that had to do with the adjustments that Dallas made on the offensive end.

Lebron apologists awful quiet this morning. Let's leave it to Lebron to put things into perspective, he always has a way with words.

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Well said, Lebron, well said. :rolleyes: