NBA CHAMPIONSHIP: Who wins and in how many games

[RockHardTen1985]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

Lets see if the Thunder can hold. Used a lot of energy to get the lead.

I dont like this at all. Feels like Miami has played really well.

[cmorioles]

Originally Posted by RockHardTen1985

I dont like this at all. Feels like Miami has played really well.

Yeah, that was a good game from Miami, but this isn't the old ass Celtics with no real defenders on the other side. OKC can throw 4 or 5 different guys at the big 2 and they all defend well.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

Yeah, that was a good game from Miami, but this isn't the old ass Celtics with no real defenders on the other side. OKC can throw 4 or 5 different guys at the big 2 and they all defend well.

Miami is in serious trouble. They can't expect to get more from Chalmers and Battier, Bosh was ineffective and Wade looks old. I don't think OKC did anything special defensively but Miami having zero inside scoring forces them to make jump shots and they just aren't great jump shooters. The fact that Sefalosha can effectively guard LeBron and Wade and allow Durant and Westbrook not to is a big factor because the Heat dont have that same luxury and LeBron and Wade especially looked gassed the last quarter.

Looking at it in simpler terms OKC won despite Battier and Chalmers playing really well, Harden doing nothing, Ibaka having only 6 rebounds and no blocked shots, Miami making more 3 pointers with a better percentage and OKC's bench only having 19 points.

OKC is just a better, deeper team with better, younger players.

[Calzone Lord]

Basketball is just annoying to watch sometimes.

I saw a play where Westbrook sprints in front of Bosh, cuts him off, stops on a dime, and flops when Bosh can't stop in time and runs into the back of him.

If you did stuff like that on a playground -- you would kill the fun of the game and people would want to fight you.

But, in "real" basketball -- that's considered a very smart play...and Bosh's Ethiopian uncoordinated looking ass didn't even complain about the call...nor did the announcers think anything was wrong with the call.

[Clip-Clop]

OKC does everything that the Heat do only faster and better. This is going to be ugly if Miami doesn't try to slow them down.

[cmorioles]

Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

OKC does everything that the Heat do only faster and better. This is going to be ugly if Miami doesn't try to slow them down.

Miami can't really slow them down because they can't play slow themselves, at least if they want to actually score.

[cmorioles]

Great quote from Dirk:

"He's way more of a 3-man than I ever was. He handles the ball way better on the break than I ever did. He's got deeper range. And he's doing all this at 23. He's won the scoring title three times in a row, so that he means he won the first one at 21. I barely got through my rookie year. When I was 21, Gary Trent was still killing me in practice."

[AlreadyHome]

Miami in 6

[Cannon Shell]

I was wrong. Harden has a long way to go. Ibaka looks clueless.

Congrats to Russell Westbrook. Allen Iverson is proud of you, son. SWAG SWAG. You got 43 in a playoff game!! Woo hoo.

I was wrong about LeBron. He's great.

The NBA, however, is awful.

[cmorioles]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I was wrong. Harden has a long way to go. Ibaka looks clueless.

Yes, I told you he is no max guy, at least not at this point in his career. He has at least saved the Thunder some money.