Guest BlackJesus Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 [b]I didn't make it but 4 blocks down the street in my car ... before I saw 3 dudes in the middle of the road wearing only cowboy hats and boxers ... and they had a large trashcan in the middle of the road with a fire in it .... Also as you go down the street you hear random people opening their door and just shouting loudly or making random screeching sounds I am sure however that it is much crazier further south down by Jza .... I am a little too far north near the Everglades to get the full (tip the cars over effect) [/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WhoDeyForever Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 [quote name='BlackJesus' post='284760' date='Jun 21 2006, 12:50 AM'][b]I didn't make it but 4 blocks down the street in my car ... before I saw 3 dudes in the middle of the road wearing only cowboy hats and boxers ... and they had a large trashcan in the middle of the road with a fire in it .... Also as you go down the street you hear random people opening their door and just shouting loudly or making random screeching sounds I am sure however that it is much crazier further south down by Jza .... I am a little too far north near the Everglades to get the full (tip the cars over effect) [/b][/quote] Ha I love hearing stuff like that BJ. Thanks for telling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest steggyD Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 Wow, so now the players sell and win the championships in two sports... I think it's time for the Apocalypse. There's nothing honest left in this world, nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whodey319 Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 [quote name='WhoDeyForever' post='284732' date='Jun 21 2006, 12:05 AM']I'm never watching the NBA again untill Oden and Mayo are drafted. Horrible year for the NBA [/quote] so true. Theres a good story on espn.com about why its so bad too. Also, Shaq needs to retire he is a liability out there, did he even score 50 for the whole finals? [quote]By Bill Simmons Page 2 Forget about who's winning the championship. I'm starting to feel like the future of the NBA is at stake. We just spent the past two months raving about the "New And Improved" NBA -- end-to-end action, loads of points, dramatic endings, a new generation of superstars coming into their own, coaches and owners willing to think outside the box. And Dallas personified everything that was happening. The Mavericks could play small, they could play big, they could play fast, they could play slow ... talking about them almost made me feel like Rollergirl describing Dirk Diggler. Their offense revolved around a 7-foot German who created a new form of post-up offense, setting up shop at the foul line and destroying defenders in a variety of ways. They had an answer for everything. That was the best thing about the Mavs -- their unpredictability. You never knew what to expect with them. Unfortunately, they still had to get through Miami -- an old-school, MJ Era-type team with one superstar (Wade), another All-Star (Shaq), some overpaid pieces that didn't quite fit and a famous coach. Everything about them is predictable -- one guy creates every shot in crunch time, everyone else stands around and watches him, and every once in awhile those guys get to shoot an open jumper or finish a nice dish. This recipe would be boring if it weren't for Wade, a dynamic talent and the most consistent crunch-time scorer since Jordan. But that's the problem: In between Jordan and Wade, we had to watch all the wannabes pretending to be as good as them. And they weren't. Not even close. Jesse D. Garrabant/Getty Images If Miami wins the title, the new NBA slogan may be: "Free throws! They're FAN-tastic!" Here's what happens if Miami wins the title: New Jersey will say to themselves, "Hey, maybe this could happen to us with Vince Carter"; Washington will say the same about Arenas; Boston with Pierce; G-State with Richardson; the Lakers with Kobe; New Team X with Iverson. And so on and so on. But that's just the thing ... we went through this last decade. There was only one MJ; the formula couldn't be replicated. Same with Dwyane Wade; only LeBron can match him. And everyone else will fail trying, which means we can look forward to another decade of perimeter scorers going 11 for 32 in big games, teammates standing around while stars dribble at the top of the key waiting to challenge two defenders at once, and refs deciding every big game (like in Game 5) by how they interpret contact when the same guy is recklessly driving to the basket over and over again. Does any of this sound fun to you? I didn't think so. As much as I enjoy watching Wade, a Heat title would erase all the progress of this spring. The Heat don't play well together offensively, they don't bring the best out of one another ... they uneasily co-exist for the sake of a larger purpose (an elusive championship). Just watch some of their guys during the average game. Does Shaq ever seem happy? Walker? Payton? Posey? It's a 1990s team playing in a different decade, only Wade is so freaking good, they're getting away with it and, hell, they might even win a championship. As a basketball fan, I think this would be terrible. A tragedy, even. Nothing against Wade -- after all, it isn't his fault his team sucks and he has to play this way -- but seeing an individual triumph over a team YET AGAIN would erase every positive outcome from the 2005-06 season. Basically, the team with LeBron or Wade will win the next 10-12 titles, and it will come down to which guy made more 20-footers with two guys on him and which guy got the most cheap calls from the most spineless referees. That's not basketball, it's a star system. When my wife was asking why I was so ticked off after Game 5, it wasn't because I had money on the game (I didn't), or because I liked one team more than the other (I don't). If Miami wins, we may as well go back to box haircuts again, because it's going to be 1991 all over again -- the "New and Improved" NBA will have been defeated, and the Old-School NBA will reign supreme. If you enjoyed the Spurs-Mavs and Suns-Mavs series this year, just root for Dallas these last two games. Trust me. It's for the best. Some other scattered thoughts as we head into Game 6 of the WWE, er, the NBA Finals ... • Say what you want about Pat Riley pulling an O.J. on Stan Van Gundy (and I have), but you can see why he did it. They never played defense under Van Gundy like they did during these past three games; the overall urgency was never there. Riley also learned a couple of tricks during his Knicks days about evening the odds with an out-manned team -- subtle ways to disrupt the flow of a game, whether it's timely timeouts, constant defensive changes, offense/defense subs, the "no easy layups" rule or whatever. He "uglies" the game up (for lack of a better word). That's why you rarely see the '94-95 Knicks or any of those Mourning/Hardaway Miami teams on ESPN Classic. The games just weren't that fun to watch. More importantly, Van Gundy never would have had the scrotal fortitude to make offensive/defensive subs with Shaq in the final few minutes of any close game, and Shaq never would have allowed it to happen. At this point of his career, Shaq is like Pedro Martinez with the Mets -- you can get 100 pitches out of him, his stats look great, he's invaluable from a chemistry/confidence standpoint and he's rarely around for the last few outs. Riley realized it last year, Van Gundy never did, and that's the single biggest reason why they're better off with Riley. Nathanial S. Butler/Getty Images "Stan? No, I don't know where Stan is these days." (On a scale of 1 to 10, how bitter is Van Gundy right now? A 38? Remember, they probably would have won LAST year if Wade didn't get hurt in the Detroit series. If you were Van Gundy, wouldn't you at least start an "I hate Riley" blog under an assumed name? And imagine if Miami wins the whole thing? Will Van Gundy crash the trophy presentation like Jack Ruby? Can't wait to see how this plays out.) • Put me in the "Avery Johnson has been too wound up" camp. As well as the "Nowitzki looks like he's hit the wall," "Maybe ABC should stop reminding everyone in Milwaukee that they could have had Dirk Nowitzki, it's becoming cruel" and "Maybe Mark Cuban shouldn't have gone on 'Letterman' after Game 3 and made it seem like the series was still in the bag" camps. • Like any other Celtic fan who watched him stink up the joint in the 2005 playoffs, I've been fascinated by Gary Payton's mini-renaissance -- not that he's good again, but how he figured out that he is NOT good and adjusted accordingly. Last season in Boston, GP was trying to beat guys off the dribble, posting people up down low, demanding to cover the other team's best scorer and sulking if he didn't get the ball. It was like watching Jason Alexander order people around on the set of some crappy sitcom ("Don't you realize who I am? I'm Jason Alexander!") and failing to realize that his time had come and gone. Now he's desperate enough for a ring that he willingly took a backseat to Wade all season -- with the exception of one "Don't you do that to me, I'm Gary Payton!" blowup in the Chicago series -- personified by a resigned GP flipping the ball to Wade in crunch-time, then trudging up the court to stand in his spot near the corner, almost like a ballboy getting back into position between serves at Wimbledon. When they needed him in the Finals, he dusted off the cobwebs and delivered two of the biggest plays of the series: An off-balance jumper that beat the shot clock and eventually won Game 3, and an old-school GP lefty banker for a one-point lead in the final 30 seconds of overtime on Sunday. The second one was funny because he was reacting to the chest bumps and high fives with one of those, "See, you guys forgot, I used to be pretty good!" looks on his face. Still, I can't be the only one who's mildly distressed by Payton's reincarnation as a middling supporting player, someone who can barely handle the likes of Jason Terry and surprises us when he makes a good play. Should you really feel surprised when GARY PAYTON makes a good play? This was one of the 10 best point guards of all time! I should feel shocked that he made his patented lefty scoop shot in traffic to help save a crucial game? Really? Things have fallen to that point? What would be the equivalent in another sport? Something like Greg Maddux pitching as a set-up man for the Yankees in 2009, then receiving congrats in the dugout because he extricated himself from a seventh-inning jam in the World Series? Marshall Faulk getting some helmet slaps after returning a kickoff to midfield in a Chiefs-Colts playoff game? Springsteen getting a standing O at MSG after a rocking solo in his new gig as the harmonica player for Death Cab for Cutie? Does anyone else find it to be a little depressing? I'm a big proponent of the whole "We should never tell athletes when to retire" argument -- after all, it's their career, not ours, and most over-competitive people have trouble figuring out when to call it quits. (This is why we keep allowing my Uncle Bob to play in the annual Simmons Family Softball Game.) You can't blame GP for hanging on, even though he hasn't been good in four years. He's also been getting crunch-time minutes for a team that needs one more victory for a championship, so it's not like he's has been the 1989 version of Kareem or anything. At the same time, maybe the story shouldn't have been GP's two big shots to help Miami sweep at home, but that we were surprised he made them in the first place.[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BengalsCat Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 WOOT... HEAT TOOOK IT ALL LAST NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Bunghole| Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 [quote name='whodey319' post='284814' date='Jun 21 2006, 06:15 AM']so true. Theres a good story on espn.com about why its so bad too. Also, Shaq needs to retire he is a liability out there, did he even score 50 for the whole finals?[/quote] Great article! Pretty much sums up my apathy towards the NBA quite nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jza10304 Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 [quote name='Bunghole' post='284860' date='Jun 21 2006, 09:28 AM']Great article! Pretty much sums up my apathy towards the NBA quite nicely.[/quote] Drunk off of Haterade are we???? GO HEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BlackJesus Posted June 21, 2006 Report Share Posted June 21, 2006 [b]No one ever said that teamwork was necessary in basketball ..... No one cries about teamwork in Tennis ..... hell just view this series as Dwyane Wade vs 5 other people ... [color="#CC0000"][center]And Flash Won [/b][/center][/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.