Why should both guys spend 20 min each answering the same queions when they can do it once and spend less time?
i couldn't effing believe it. the difference in haslem guarding dirk with anthony playing help D is enormous. bosh just straight gave up the drive and only haslem was there to challenge and he can't get up even close to as high as anthony for blocks. anthony may have even been able to get that layup. inexplicable. i'll be surprised if this gets back to miami. i've said all season the heat are capable of unbelievable runs and droughts, and it doesn't just apply to in-game action, it actually applies to wins and losses. their whole season was like this. 9-8, 21-1, 13-12, 15-3 were the runs for the season. and now i think it happens the same in the playoffs. they were on a 13-3 run, looking unstoppable and confident as hell. now the bubble has popped. and they've proven all season that when it gets going downhill, it takes them forever to stop it. there's usually a huge run after the drought, but with only 3 losses to go, that's not long enough. the confident, making their 3's team from the first 7 quarters of the series is gone. expect a 4-19 type 3 point shooting game in game 3 and something similar the rest of the series.
Are you serious? LeBron is a whiny player but you won't tar Wade with the same brush?? You must have missed his 2nd quarter tantrum or his b*tching for a call on the final shot of the game which after he put up he fell to the floor clutching his eye as if late 80's Mike Tyson had just hit him with a right.
There was no need for Anthony to be out there IF Haslem was left on Dirk and Bosh moved on to guard Chandler like every other series when Haslem/Bosh and Dirk/Chandler were on the court together.
Yeah and he also scored 36 points and when he went out in the 3rd the mavs cut the lead to 4. Without wade the heat woulda went out in the first round.
Is Mike Miller hurt? I notice that he didn't close the game tonight, and that's Miami's best defensive lineup. Also noticed Haslem made an IDIOT move by not letting the ball go out of bounds on that throw in, which tied the game up (fastbreak). Miami really blew this game. Tons of mental mistakes.
OMG, talk about an overreaction. These two teams are both playing great basketball and are fairly evenly matched. Both have won a bunch of games just like this during the playoffs. Heck, the Mavs had a big lead in the first game and let it slip-- it just didn't appear so dramatic because it didn't happen right at the end like this one. This kind of reaction is the same thing people were doing after the 1st Chicago game, which was actually much worse as far as the Heat were concerned. If the Mavs win their home games, they are a much better team than anyone thought and the rightful champ.
it is funny how things are always blown out of proportion with the heat. like wade is the first guy to ever hold his hand up after a big 3 or something. or like the mavs were actually angered and decided to play hard because of it. were the mavs just not trying in a finals game until then or something? "hey guys, wade was happy about that 3, i know none of us think this is very important, but let's try and actually win this game now to get him back." the mavs won because they hit 9 straight shots that weren't blocked and the heat went 1-11 to finish the game because they stopped driving, and no one made a single thing until chalmers' 3.
Right, because LeBron has never been able to get out of the first round without two all-stars. You are the kind of hyperbole.
Jason Kidd played some great D on Wade. They had a real hard time just getting the ball to Wade for a few possessions. It's weird watching Chris Bosh, I look at the box score and it says he's 4-16. I didn't know he had that many shots and shot such a terrible percentage. The guy is really overshadowed by everyone else on the court.
what's a classy flying plane celebration amongst professionals? but holding your hand up for a while? worst thing ever.
Ain't nobody talking about how many points he scored or didn't score or the Heat getting out of the 1st round. I'm talking about his penchant for whining and b*tching (not like other players don't do the same but his tantrum in the 2nd quarter was ridiculous).
I missed Chandler's press conference but watched the other Mavs players' and Carlysle's. When asked, they talked about it, Terry was the only one who commented that it affected him but IMO he didn't really seem that bothered. But the reporters kept asking them "How did it make you feel?" "How did the bench respond then?" etc. and squeezed a few more quotes out. Then when during Wade and James' press conference, reporters start off by saying "the Mavs players talked about how it bothered them to see you celebrating..." or some such stuff. Obviously, they had a story angle set in their minds and were just fishing for quotes to back it up. Lazy journalism.
i assume they also do it because with the scrutiny this team gets, they know people will try to divide them and get some juicy comment that could be taken out of context from one press conference and ask the other guy about it and then that guy says something out of context and suddenly it's a whole thing. sitting together they can control all of that a lot better i would think and make sure the message is united. but all of that is kind of irrelevant now. i guess they can be united in watching dallas steamroll this shaken team the rest of the series. imagine if the heat even play well enough to lead by 10 in the 4th? this'll be in the back of their heads and submarine them once again. dirk was crazy down the stretch after a subpar game and looking like he was just overwhelmed. he's cementing this playoff run now.
Yes, but he saved their asses in the last series. It seems to me that this game was lost at the end when the Heat tried to stall. They ended up taking contested threes like four times down instead of just running the offense (as bad as it is, it still involves more than late shots). I'm sure they'll adjust for the next game should they have a big lead late.
If it had been up to Wade, the Heat would have been swept by the Bulls. He was complete garbage that entire series.
I said before the series. Dallas has Kidd to guard Wade and Marion to guard LeBron. Everyone said if the Bulls defense couldn't stop Miami, nobody could. Dallas doesn't have the same disciplined team defense Chicago has, but they have some good individual defenders.
JJHickson21 JJ Hickson What happened the last 3 minutes... SOMEBODY has to step up... Can't just be the man when everything going good... 1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply JJHickson21 JJ Hickson Can't make excuses now! 1 hour ago Favorite Retweet Reply
Kidd has zero chance of stopping Wade when Wade decides to drive. But for whatever reason the Heat were content with eating the clock and taking last second jumpers.
