Are you posting from some alternate reality or something? The Heat are the most hated team in the NBA by far. Hardly anyone likes them. Comments on my Facebook feed about the finals are about 10-1 in favor of the Spurs. The country is clearly rooting for the Spurs.
WHO says the Heat have no weaknesses? Their lack of post players is noted by
everyone.
Yeah sure the Pacers "exposed" Miami. Just like the Celtics exposed them last year before they won the championship. Just like the Hawks exposed the Celtics in the first round in 2008 before the Celtics won the championship. Just like the Nets exposed the Pistons in 2004 before the Pistons won the championship. I didn't know taking a team to 7 games was "exposing" them.
Get over it Raptors/Cavs fans. Life's not fair.
Wade is injured, Bosh never was that good. No one watched Bosh play in Toronto, they just saw his stats and all-star votes and assumed he was a great player when he was really just an undersized jump shooting power forward putting up good numbers on bad teams.
Yeah, they should have stayed on their original teams and joined the Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, Grant Hill, Chris Webber, Andrian Dantley, George Gervin, Dominique Wilkins, Reggie Miller, Patrick Ewing, Elgin Baylor group of players. Being known as one of the greatest players to never win a championship is such a great legacy.
The league is watered down because there are several good players on one team?
Did the league become watered down when Parish, McHale, Bird, Johnson, Ainge were on the same team? Or when Kareem, Magic, Worthy, Cooper, and McAdoo? Or Moses Malone, Julius Erving, Andrew Toney, Maurice Cheeks, and Bobby Jones? Yeah let's pretend like teams with multiple stars are a recent invention.
1. MVPs are a regular season award. What you do in the playoffs has
absolutely nothing to do with the MVP award.
2. Lebron had a pretty damn good 4th quarter last night.
3. Tony Parker is a hell of a player.
It's too late?
Jordan at 28 years old: 1 championship
Lebron at 28 years old: 1 championship
I bet it was too late for Jordan in 1990 too.
Last year they only won because of terrible calls and flopping? Blaming the refs is a lame excuse. Did the refs out rebound OKC or was that Miami? Did the refs make Harden miss a bunch of shots and free throws? Did the refs make Westbrook jack up a bunch of bad shots early in the shot clock? Did the refs make Ibaka play like crap?
Flopping? Last year's Thunder was the worst flopping team I've
ever seen in my life. Harden, Durant, and Fisher are
master floppers. They actually made a
rule change because of Durant's move where he sweeps the ball down low and then flings his arms up and into the defender's arms. It's no longer a shooting foul and the rule is informally referred to as "the Durant rule."
Kobe Bryant had a good year and put up very good numbers for a 34-year old, but it's not the MVOP (Most Valuable Old Player) award. You don't get extra consideration/pity for being past your prime.
Carmelo Anthony? Please. All he does is score in isolation and rebound. He plays no defense and doesn't make his teammates any better.
James Harden? That's so absurd I'm not even going to comment.
Kobe has flopped a
hell of a lot in his career. MJ and Magic not as much, because flopping wasn't as much a part of the game back then. Divac was one of the pioneers that brought flopping to the NBA back then.
I hate flopping as much as the next guy, but if it's effective, why not? It's up to the league and the officials to prevent players from flopping because as long as it works, players are going to do it. You talk about players not being competitive, then complain about them flopping? You can't have it both ways.
You know who else flop a lot? Tony Parker and Manu Ginoboli. More players in the NBA flop than don't. Quit pretending Lebron is the only one who does it, or even that he's one of the worst floppers in the league because he's not even close. Your top MVP candidate James Harden is
far worse than Lebron.
More whining about the refs.
Funny how the refs are always out to get whichever team someone is rooting for.
People see whatever they want to see. Opposing fans can watch the same game and both think the refs favored the other team.
Lebron had some bad calls go against him last night too. For example, when Joey Crawford called an offensive foul on him for setting a completely stationary and legal pick on Tony Parker and Tony Parker ran into him and flopped backwards. Funny how these calls are never mentioned