We’re not going to have much time for any sort of drawn out preview for the NBA Finals.
We’ve read too many position-by-position match-ups, team comparisons, Spurs-in-whatever predictions, etc to know we aren’t able to add anything new to the conversation.
Hopefully, that’s not what you come here for anyway.
For the duration of the Finals, due to film work Friday-Tuesday, travel to CLE Wednesday-Sunday, and assorted other business (& busy-ness), we’ll be stripped bare. Down to raw emotions only. Several jokes about France will surely flow, but other than that, it’s bare-bones.
Less is more in this case, and we truly believe that.
Here it is.
They can do it.
But it has to be in 6 games.
We believe.
We also would’ve chosen to do that a little differently. That commercial has tearing-up potential, but it needs a different tune.
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Tayshaun! Way to put a body on him!
Dickie V says “CAVS IN SEVEN BAYBEE! LeBRON IS AWESOME!”
I say Six. Baybee.
The French disagree, but they don’t even take showers, so pay no mind.
Witness: A Bandwagon rejuvenated
I love wagons.
I’ll drive!
You’re drunk, give me the keys
Duck and Cover!
THESE COLORS DON’T RUN!!!!!!!!
GO CAVS!
USA! USA! USA!
Remember that time LeBron was good
Yesssss the dead puppy speech. Fantastic.
Not even dead puppy speeches yield 25% shooting with 6 turnovers.
WITNESS.
Because every player has a great game all the time. Feruw who are you? Are you a depressed Detroit fan on a Cavs blog poking fun at how ANOTHER team from ANOTHER city beat the Cavs? Kinda sad.
Game 1 – nerves. Not worried.
i’ll double down on that, mr. the cavalier.
the spurs are tough. but you could see the cavs loosen up at some point near the end of the third quarter. and because this is san antonio, who doesn’t ever take their boot off your neck if they can help it, i think it augers pretty well.
well enough? i don’t know.
well enough to make me feel ok about tonight? you bet.
ps: i’m beginning to think (instead of believe) that gibson just might be the truth. damn, that’s a nice thought.
He’ll be starting next year no doubt – he’s a hard worker, too – expect him to be even better.
I must admit I am pretty satisfied just to be in the Finals. This is a learning series that they could win if everything went perfectly.
Hey Feruw – Go get your shine box.
That was rough, but there were a few bright spots. More Daniel Gibson please. More Sasha Pavolic please. Fewer missed layups.
That give-and-go to put the Spurs back up by 10 after LeBron missed that three was as beautiful as it was lightening quick.
The xenophobic in me thinks nobody outside of SA likes the Spurs because they have so few Americans on their team. Just a theory.
Probably true. I dislike Euros and Duncan.
It is shocking the Spurs are a better shooting team than the Cavs are. Shocking! Because really, the Cavs were right in there except for all those times the Spurs made shots. If they hadn’t made so many shots, the outcome would have been very different, as well as the final score. That would have been different also, like less. Not that they scored a lot- oh no! They did not. But there would be even less of that.
It’s all good, just clean it up a little like Tim Duncan says. LeBron seemed tight- I think if he’d hit a couple of those jumpers early it would have helped. No worries. Cavs in Six!
SP, I’m just another one of the knowledgeable NBA fans that’s already sick of the gigantic yank fest surrounding a player that doesn’t deserve the spectacle he’s getting. Flash didn’t get this kind of treatment last year and he was a better player and teammate than the Duchess of Cuyahoga.
Was anyone else watching in the LA area? I was watching on DirecTV. As ESPN was broadcasting the first 5 minutes the picture was perfect. When I had to switch over to ABC/7 nearly every player had a shadow figure, then in the second half little purple dots kept showing up on the screen. It was a nightmare (upon a nightmare).
P.S.
I’m begining to think that what I’m wearing has no affect on the game.
I went to Marquette. I loved Flash before he was Flash and before you’d ever heard of him. I still love him. Flash couldn’t hold LeBron’s jock.
Say whatever you want Brain, but Wade wasn’t the one that was almost cut from team USA last summer. As TrueHoop referenced the SI article today about how LeBron only made the team because he was a big name, and definitely not because of his talent or his complete lack of ambition.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/jack_mccallum/06/05/nba.finals0611/1.html
Oh c’mon- LeBron would let him hold it. They’re BFF.
Feruw, you’ve convinced me. LeBron’s not very good and I should stop rooting for him.
And BS, you crave attention and come here to be contrarian and get it. Hope it’s floating your boat.
Go Cavs!
Well, LBJ’s been putting up numbers that only Oscar Robertson put up in the playoffs. Everybody knows that guy was a total shit bag. He lacked ambition! That’s the stat nobody ever mentions about Oscar Robertson, the Ambition Quotient. He ranks only slightly above Darius Miles in AQ.
Again with USA Basketball standard.
Don’t they want 1-10 Tayshaun?
who cares about USA Basketball? they’re not going to win the gold, so who cares who you put out there?
If it really matters, they should force the winner of the NBA Finals to play in the olympics every year to back up the adjective “world champions” that goes ahead of the team name for the whole next season.
and to TVBrain’s response to Tayshaun’s D on this highlight. Why should Tayshaun go up to contest a dunk when he’s under the backboard and LeBron is already in the air?
This isn’t NBA Live 07, you can’t block that shot in real life from under the basket.
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