Wow. That turned into a rout in a hurry. I'm only looking at the box score/play-by-play, but Miami's line looks pretty brutal. And Dallas didn't seem so hot either, until Stackhouse just went off in the final minutes.
Like I said earlier in the other thread, Dallas has a higher odds of sweeping Miami than Miami winning just one game. Miami's outside shooters are a joke. Shaq's FT is a joke.
You'd think just by chance that Antoine Walker could make a couple of these wide open looks Shaq is getting for him. Just by chance.
That's what suprises me the most... the helter-skelterness. I figured a Pat Riley-coached team would have a good idea of what they wanted to do on offense (and defense) every single time down the court... but they look like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off. I honestly think the 2005 Rockets could sweep Miami right now... and JVG would have the Heat playing with more discipline, fire, and focus.
It always seems like just when a person is ready to think that Walker could be effective in some way, and a good pickup, he finds a way to bring reality crashing back down.
OK, I'm convinced. This game, for all intents, is over. And Dallas looks well on its way to sweeping away Miami as I can't see how Miami can win 2 out of the 3 games in Miami while I can easily see Dallas taking the next two down there. Things just got a lot tougher for our sad sack Rockets in the NBA Southwest.
Why the heck did Stuart Scott interview Dampier instead of Stackhouse who scored like 10 points in a minute?
Why do you think JVG is so special is beyond me. He really hasn't done much since 1999. His three years with Rockets? Mediocre.
maybe stackhouse had already run off the court. like when hakeem just blew through hannah storm's open field tackle attempt after game 1 against orlando. she did manage to corral drexler and kenny though.
He gets more out of less... he had McGrady playing at a higher level than he'd ever experienced before. He helped Yao adapt to a bigger, faster, stronger NBA with rule changes. He got a team made up of retreads like Sura, Barry, Weatherspoon, Bowen, and Padgett to be playing the best basketball Houston has seen since 1997. I can question his GM abilities (if he is in fact the one signing all these players... which is doubtful), but the Rockets main problem has been personnel and injuries... not coaching.
Yup, as I thought, the Mavs are a HUGE mismatch for the Heat, they will run them out of the building. The Heat would impress me if they can extend this thing to 6 games. Damn this Dallas team is scary good! I think the only team that comes close to them is San Antonio...How great is this? We have the two best teams in the league not only in our conference, but in our division! Ahh, no way Les can outspend Cuban, and our management brass are nowhere near as good in evaluating talent/scouting as the Spurs' brass is. I can't believe we took this Mavs team to 7 games last season, and if it wasn't for a few things here and there we could have ended it in 6 games.
I will stop debating with you about JVG because he has nothing to do with this thread. Let us see what he can do next year. I will think anything short of second round is a failure. I hope you agree.
LOL. The pure hatred on the Mavericks made so many Rockets blind to the obvious. The Heat is not in the same league that the Mavericks. This will be the last final appearance for the Daddy and people will remember his 1-9, 1-8 performance at the line for the years to come. He is hurting the Heat big time.
Don't forget Riley is JVG's mentor and not the other way around. The Heat's defense has looked good at times but Riles offense looks like it did when the Rockets beat the Knicks in the 94 Finals. JVG's system would lose to this Dallas team even at full strenght because they just can't score with Dallas or the Suns or for that matter the Spurs. A few years back Yao would be a perfect fit and so would JVG's system, but now the game has moved to what you see Dallas doing.
He's no better than Juwon Howard at this point of his career. Actually, I prefer Howard, for at least he recognizes his own limitations.
No one can match the Mavs' offensive punch, AND they're a good defensive team on top of that. Too much talent, too much balance, a perfect mix of youth and veteran leadership. The Dallas Mavs/Phoenix Suns are the new blueprint for today's league.
I think it's safe to say that Texas will dominate the Finals for years to come. I hope we'll get our turn.
Wow... that much has changed in just one year, huh? Yao Ming scoring 30+ in playoff games in 2005 must have been just an abberation. The Rockets offense was fine in the playoffs last year... its the players they had that didn't step it up in the game 7.
