It's tough to close out a team on the road. Also, expect some pretty favorable officiating for Miami next game, since the league would love to have this epic go 7. I expect a Miami blowout, then a competitive game 7, just like last year.
wade deserves the finals MVP. he's been the best player in this series. lebron has been a worse player than chris bosh in terms of overall impact. bosh at least is playing close to his potential. lebron is playing like he's kevin durant and pulling the ghost act. if dallas wins, dirk will win it obviously. EDIT: you forget that the refs have favored dallas in all 3 home games by a wide margin. i expect the refs to make up for miami in miami, which will make the game easier for them. they don't double wade as much as lebron, so expect wade to continue to get more plays called for lebron throughout the game. dallas is forcing lebron into the facilitator role or shoot jumpshots.
Tonight Skip Bayless is already seated at the dark & otherwise empty 1st & 10 set. For the next nine hours he'll be perfecting his most intense serious-face yet. Nailed it. This one's squarely on Chris Bosh. Unfortunately the haters won't accept the fact that LeBron was the one with the (fun fact) first triple double in Miami post-season history! He can get a quadruple double for all they care, but at the end of the day he can't do it ALL by himself. Get LeBron some freaking HELP out there!
What that post shows is that you did say last 5 minutes, when earlier you said you didn't. And I do agree with you, Lebron had a pathetic game. Thanks for agreeing with me too! But this troll game that you play goes nowhere. And I do agree triple doubles are insignificant, but it's even more insignificant since he choked. Here is what I'm going to do that you should learn to do, I'm going to concede that I didn't phrase properly. Maybe you should try that too? I didn't take anything out of context. You said "I never said last 5 minutes". I just pointed it out that you did. How is that taking it out of context? I'm talking to a moron. I'm not even going in circles. I'm wasting energy.
This. Miami (and fans) just seems to be in denial. Face it... it will take game seven for the cHEAT to win it.
the refs (as always) have set this up for a 6 possible 7 game series. can't complain it's been a good series thus far. lebron was right. going to miami made the nba more interesting.. as long as some teams can kinda hang with the heat. gonna be tough for both teams to close it out. go mavs anyway. hope dirk and lebron n co. go off for one more game and the mavs beat the home court officiating.
If any team can beat the blatant ref favoritism (and it'll be bad in game 6), it's Dallas, because if they are hitting shots like tonight there's not much the refs can do. I'm actually shocked that this game was close at all.
i would certainly hope so. dallas was +24 in fouls in the 3 games in dallas. +24. geez. during the season, i believe both teams drew about 1 more foul per game than their opponent. in the 2 head to head meetings, the difference was just a few fouls. in miami, dallas was called for 4 more fouls. so it appears to be very even. but in dallas, +24. so either dallas became the most discplined team ever while miami simultaneously became incredibly foul prone or all the 50/50 calls became out 80/20 calls for dallas. espn doesn't have game 4 play by play, but in games 3 and 5, chandler was called for one non-shooting foul while he drew 10 non-shooting fouls. and with that, i will stop talking about the refs. i will just assume they know what they are doing and every call is correct going forward.
The funny thing is that there will be plenty of outcry on the Internet should the Heat get some home cooking next game (and I expect it to be bad). No one cares right now because 99% of the world is rooting for the "good guys" like Jason Terry.
http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/team/_/stat/differential/sort/freeThrowsAttemptedDifference Cheat bandwagons should be ashamed of talking preferential treatment. +112 FTA differential and the next team +35 in playoff and that's not enough? Is it because Wade and LeBron didn't shoot 16FT each in every game like Wade didn in 06?
Welchbug is so desperate to have the Heat lose since it loosely (very loosely) correlates to Kobe's status as an all-time great. He'll have to suffer through this song and dance for many years, unfortunately.
Prior to the start of the finals, JVG said that the refs have been allowing Miami to be very aggressive on defense, but he wondered if the refs will continue to allow them to play the same way. It almost sounded like he thought the refs had been letting Miami to get away with a lot more than they usually would, or even maybe should. Anyway, I keep thinking about that as I watch Miami pick up a ton of fouls on the defensive end during these finals.
Yeah, but that has been their MO all season, so it's kind of ****ty to start changing that up during the year. Dallas has been getting a lot of cheap fouls, for sure. I think they did the same in previous series, though. Anyway, this will all even out in the next two games. NBA reffing. It's fan...tastic!
as much as i hate the heat n lebron, it would be foolish to count them out. i hate them b/c from 2-4 they are able to beat anyone handedly. but ur right, like phoenix, dallas has the ability to shoot themselves to a win. i think a lot of credit needs to go to Kidd's leadership too. I remember when we won our first gold with Lebron, Kidd was leading and lbj said he didnt want to ever play international tournaments/olympics again unless Kidd was playing or player/coach.
What has impressed me about Kidd is the dagger shots he has hit time and time again in these Finals. It used to be that you could just sag off Kidd and not worry about him. Why he didn't add this to his game at an earlier age is beyond me.. it's the only thing preventing him from being one of the all-time greats.
Screw every last one of you who is a die-hard Rockets fan and seriously rooting for the Mavericks to win this. Why not root for the Jazz and Lakers while you're all at it? Disgusting.
