[2007 NBA Finals] Cleveland Cavaliers vs San Antonio Spurs

That camera man should be out of a job for ramming his camera into the refs shoulder and then walking off like nothing had happened.

 

again, that should not have been continuation too. its the same thing. so if they made this call, ppl would say lebron got the star treatment.

so its a no-win situation.

all we know is this series is over. now we need some rocket movement on the management front to shore up our team. all i know is we're a player away from going from no first-round to finals apperance. im just that confident.

 

There were loads of bad calls in this game. The Cavs got a lot of hometown calls so why begrudge that last one -- especially when LaBron James was not even in the act of shooting when Bruce Bowen touched him. He took a step and then went up.

 

Watch replay yourself, LeBroom was dribbling and not yet pick up the ball.

 

exactly. lebron took one more DRIBBLE before shooting. that's NOT continuation.

 

I think JVG was wrong. Looks like Bowen fouled him before he got a shot up and I coulda swore he took another dribble. I don't think that was continuation....

Oh well, the series is over. It was over before it begun. Maybe this series would be different if Bron had a solid mid-range game.

 

Could this be the most lopsided series ever? What are the ratings on these games?

 

but i love lebron's interview. he didn't even criticize stupid ass verajao's brain fart on that play.

thats why his teammates play for him.

 

Please...anything passes for continuation in the NBA. And perhaps Van Gundy saw it wrong(which is what i'm going on), but the point is you don't know what the ref calls there.

 

The Spurs do get away with murder, no doubt. And that was an obvious travel by Parker.

But this was pretty much an instance of two teams sucking, only the Cavs sucked the worst. The Spurs didn't score for nearly 5 minutes in the 4th quarter and Cleveland managed to blow 3 layup opportunities and couldn't regain the lead.

What's ironic is that David Stern and Co. have done everything in their power to make the game more offense-oriented, and they still end up with results like this. I don't think there's much else they can do. They're stuck with this mess.

Ok, I take that back. They can get rid of the asinine rule that allowed a cheap shot by Robert Horry to cost the Suns the series against San Antonio. That would be a good start.

 

The game was lost when the Cavs went 5 straight possessions without scoring after LeBron's 3 point play that made it 67-63. LeBron had a couple rim out but they also had two dumb TOs and a very bad shot at the end of the shot clock. A more mature team would have taken the lead (and maybe control of the game). TP's 3 pointer was also another sign to me this wasn't the Cavs night.

Gooden's basketball IQ on defense is on par with Stromile Swift. He has an offensive repetoire but just isn't a smart player.

 

Yes... they are boring... I'm just saying that the bigger market would create more hype around them, and then they'd simply be considered "dynasty"... no matter how they play.

 

obviously that was a foul. whatever, the cavs suck anyways.

 

I want to know what varejao is thinking down two in that situation. He's not a scorer. He is a rebounder/energy player. That was really strange.

 

Exactly. You give the ball back to LeBron. Anderson taking that shot was the dagger.

 

sure. but i think the refs wanted to hold the whistle right there unless it was a blatant foul.

but o well. cavs had no chance anyways. if this was two tightly close teams, i think then it would be a bigger issue.

but no one cares b/c cavs will lose the series anyways.

if that call went uncalled in our series v. the jazz that went 7 games, then its more of a story.

 

The big market would help, I'm sure. The Yankees were destroying teams in the World Series every year during their recent dynasty, and I don't remember too many people complaining about it since they played in NYC.

But restricting the discussion to the NBA, the Spurs are arguably the dullest championship team I've seen in a long time. The Heat last year at least had D-Wade. The Fakers had Shaq and Kobe(along with the neverending soap opera behind the scenes). The Bulls......nuff said.

If you wanna go back far enough to include the 1994 Rockets in the discussion, they were a one-man team essentially which is never that exciting to watch. But the 1995 team was a helluva lot of fun with Clyde in the mix. Plus their playoff run was just plain sick.

Only the 2004 Pistons I think rival the Spurs for sleep-inducing championship basketball. And hell, at least they were good enough to come within a 4th quarter of winning back-to-back titles. For a "dynasty", the Spurs haven't even come close to sniffing two straight championships.

 

ESPN just showed a stat on the least # of points scored by a winning team in the NBA Finals. The Spurs had 5 of the top 7 games in NBA Finals HISTORY on this stat.

THAT is why they are boring, not because of big market, small market, etc.

The Suns aren't a huge market but are fun to watch and get ratings.

I dont care if you are LA, NY, or Chi...78-75 is 78-75.

 

A-freakin men. Stern deserves what he's getting this series. A series setting the game of bball back many, many years.

 

Well, it would be different if Kobe or MJ or Lebron dropped 60 of the 78.