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NBA Finals: Spurs vs. Heat

Who gunna win this ****?

  • Spurs

    Votes: 28 73.7%

  • Heat

    Votes: 10 26.3%
  • Total voters
    38
Eenie-Meenie said:
Spurs got homered at the end. Two fouls on Ginobili and Green, and two no calls. The one on Ginobili was blatant.
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Manu had 8 turnovers.

Spurs couldn't secure 2 key rebounds.

Miami kept fighting, locked down the Spurs in the 4th, came back when they were dead inside of 1 minute, and beat them up in the overtime.

I hate the Heat more than anything in this world. But they seized the moment when the Spurs choked it away.

The officiating wasn't that bad. Besides, there's no guarantee the Spurs were going to hit FTs anyway. You saw how they were bricking them at the end of the 4th.
 
Should Poppovich be fired for benching his starters and squandering a lead both before and after that timeout? What was he thinking? And why the hell did he call a timeout while Miller had only one shoe? What an idiot.
 
Honestly it is hard for the Spurs to blame the refs when they had at least 3 distinct chances to win it that they honestly should have done (Leonard FT, two rebounds that lead to threes). Besides, the refs were being very non-callish with respect to LeBron throughout the whole game, and in crunch time, a rare occurrence (even if the non-calls were not fouls, they are still usually called). They were given a timeout they did not have while the refs checked Ray Allen's three (of course Parker could not pull off the miracle). Spurs and Pop can only blame themselves.
 
It has been forever since the Spurs were in such a high profile series...

To me, it reminds me of those old Lakers battles with them.

The Spurs would outplay them and outplay them.

But in the end... Kobe and Shaq were just too much...

Tonight, the Spurs had it. Then... a few missteps... And Lebron happened.

Anyone want to see a sick box score? Look at the Heat's. They were ripe for the upset... But then... Lebron happened. His statline is sick.
 
I don't feel at all like they lost because "LeBron happened". I think "LeBron happened" and that gave the Spurs a chance to be up by 4 with about twenty or so seconds left in the game. Ray Allen happened. Manu Ginobli happened. LeBron's stats were huge I guess and he did make one big three but man he is lucky that they won this game in spite of some of the stuff he did down the stretch.
 
Pop and Manu lost that game for the Spurs. I was stunned to see Pop's Corbinesque strategy at the end of regulation but watching Manu throw the ball away numerous times and bricking a big free throw warmed my heart. I'm no Heat fan, but if the Spurs are gonna lose, I hope it's because Ginobili is out there playing like he has. If I can't root against Kobe, Manu is a fine substitute. This hater's gotta hate.
 
Before we crucify Manu and Pop lets admit that Heat got unbelievably lucky. Two lucky bounces on horrible missed 3 pointers. Two missed free throws by Spurs at the end which would made all this talk irrelevant. Manu or Kawhi make one and it is over. To me biggest blunder was Manu driving and trying to score with 20 seconds left. You are up 4 points, run into corner and dribble up some time, you will get fouled anyway but 3-4 more seconds could have been crucial there. On the other hand Parker run into that fast break as well instead of just settling down and killing some time.
Man that was brutal to watch....I have my doubts that Spurs will recover from this.
 
AKMVP said:
Before we crucify Manu and Pop lets admit that Heat got unbelievably lucky. Two lucky bounces on horrible missed 3 pointers. Two missed free throws by Spurs at the end which would made all this talk irrelevant. Manu or Kawhi make one and it is over. To me biggest blunder was Manu driving and trying to score with 20 seconds left. You are up 4 points, run into corner and dribble up some time, you will get fouled anyway but 3-4 more seconds could have been crucial there. On the other hand Parker run into that fast break as well instead of just settling down and killing some time.
Man that was brutal to watch....I have my doubts that Spurs will recover from this.
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You want to admit the Heat got lucky and then proceed to point out both Pop and Ginobili's gaffes. Okay. The Heat got lucky because Pop took Duncan out of the game when his length could possibly have helped secure one of those crucial rebounds and the Heat got lucky because Ginobili played one of the worst games ever, made a bonehead decision to try to score and then missed a critical free throw. Yes, Leonard also missed a big free throw, but I think Ginobili's miss after not dribbling around was a bigger miscue. I'm calling a Heat win in Game 7 and it won't be close. This was the NBA equivalent of Mookie Wilson hitting a grounder through Bill Buckner's legs. San Antonio doesn't recover from that. I hope I'm wrong.
 
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