NBA Playoffs Conference Finals Game Thread
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When you combine the views, it looks like George touched it last. Pacers fans won't be happy.
edit: wow. Honestly, I changed my mind a few times while watching the replays. But the angle from directly perpendicular to the sideline (which they only showed once) looked like Miami ball.
edit: wow. Honestly, I changed my mind a few times while watching the replays. But the angle from directly perpendicular to the sideline (which they only showed once) looked like Miami ball.
Nomar813 said:
I think what you mean is that every year a seemingly cooked Heat player comes out of nowhere to make a ton of 3s, but guys like Lewis and Mike Miller and Battier and James Jones all have long histories as 3 point shooters. Lewis specifically has the 8th most makes alltime:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/fg3_career.html
It's hard to believe that George outscored LeBron 37 to 7 in Indiana and Miami still somehow had a chance to win at the end. They could use Birdman back, certainly.
Although Indy is probably still toast in Miami, this game was very important, since the OKC/SA series is going at least six games, in Miami won this game they would have a long rest to reach their finals opponent, who would have been just off a competitive series. Now, things are going to be a little more even, regardless with what happens.
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Mark Jackson is still so fucking stupid, he says a handful of things that are just factually wrong every game. His pattern is that if he doesn't know something (quite often), he doesn't stop talking but instead essentially guesses using conventional wisdom, which maybe worked before the Internet existed but does not work now. One example from tonight was when early on they were discussing LeBron's virtually never fouling out of games, and Jackson said something like "he just knows how to play with five fouls". Well, um, no, he virtually never gets even three fouls, the point is that he gets called for fouls extremely rarely, at least before tonight.
Maybe that seems nitpicky, but if your job is a basketball announcer, it seems like that is something you should know, about THE BEST PLAYER IN THE GAME. There are a handful of examples every game, that is just one I remembered.
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Mark Jackson is still so fucking stupid, he says a handful of things that are just factually wrong every game. His pattern is that if he doesn't know something (quite often), he doesn't stop talking but instead essentially guesses using conventional wisdom, which maybe worked before the Internet existed but does not work now. One example from tonight was when early on they were discussing LeBron's virtually never fouling out of games, and Jackson said something like "he just knows how to play with five fouls". Well, um, no, he virtually never gets even three fouls, the point is that he gets called for fouls extremely rarely, at least before tonight.
Maybe that seems nitpicky, but if your job is a basketball announcer, it seems like that is something you should know, about THE BEST PLAYER IN THE GAME. There are a handful of examples every game, that is just one I remembered.
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How are you a NBA coach and a national TV announcer and don't know this? It is certainly not news to anyone paying even a tiny bit of attention to the league in recent years, it certainly isn't a brand new trend:
"During a rather prolific period last season, James once went 250 consecutive minutes without being called for a foul. During a two-week stretch in 2009, he was called for a total of three fouls in nine games, including five consecutive games without drawing a whistle. A full week of NBA basketball without a single foul.
In seven of his 11 seasons, James has averaged fewer than two fouls per game, including this season, when he settled at 1.6, slightly up from his 1.4 last season. In his 153-game playoff career, he's averaged about 2.3 fouls a game."
http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2014/story/_/id/10999402/lebron-foul-night-ends-loss
"During a rather prolific period last season, James once went 250 consecutive minutes without being called for a foul. During a two-week stretch in 2009, he was called for a total of three fouls in nine games, including five consecutive games without drawing a whistle. A full week of NBA basketball without a single foul.
In seven of his 11 seasons, James has averaged fewer than two fouls per game, including this season, when he settled at 1.6, slightly up from his 1.4 last season. In his 153-game playoff career, he's averaged about 2.3 fouls a game."
http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2014/story/_/id/10999402/lebron-foul-night-ends-loss
Funny but Jackson caught my eye with other asinine comments as well. One example.....as Bosh is putting the ball on the floor 25-feet from the basket with LESS than 1 second on the shot clock and George(?) barrels into him for the foul sending Bosh to the line, Jackson responds "Those are the type of fouls a coach doesn't mind." then goes on defending George's poor positioning, poor awareness, and poor decision making given the situation. What?!?!?!?!??jon abbey said:
Yeah. He didn't cover himself with glory there either.HomeRunBaker said:
That said, I rarely notice these things with Breen's signature announcing style of calling games with a mouthful of nuts overwhelming all else.
Jackson played big minutes in the first 3 games.....I wanna say he was close to 40 in Game 3. He didn't get burn last game because he was sucking and their other rotations were working.BigSoxFan said:
This doesn't feel like any adjustments have been made as much as these teams just play way better at home. A Game 7 should be epic.
mpx42 said:
Huh? SA made huge adjustments tonight, going away from the two big man Duncan/Splitter lineup for the first time all playoffs. Bonner wasn't the answer, but Diaw was incredible. Also they switched the defensive matchups, Leonard onto Westbrook (Parker previously), Green onto Durant (Leonard previously), Parker onto Jackson (Green previously).
The obvious countermove for OKC, which SA would pretty much have no answer for, is to bench Perkins in favor of Butler or Lamb, and put Ibaka on Duncan.
Also Green is a good defender, but Durant needs to try to take over if those are the defensive matchups.
Also Green is a good defender, but Durant needs to try to take over if those are the defensive matchups.
Why does Bird care about Lance Stephenson blowing in lebron's ear? Like somehow that's off limits?
I find it kinda funny. Things like that make me like the game more rather than less.
I find it kinda funny. Things like that make me like the game more rather than less.
Scola and Hibbert are playing like absolute garbage. Heat are getting anything and everything they want inside.
Did you know that Battier is a good guy?
Indiana, how about playing like you aren't on a 2 second tape delay?
Indiana, how about playing like you aren't on a 2 second tape delay?
Lance Stephenson, as hard as he plays, probably cost himself some money this series. I know that he was competing and all that but his antics were pretty bad.
It's so hard to judge, Indiana was probably the 10th or 11th best team in the league going into the playoffs, with the top 9 all out West (the 8 playoff teams and Phoenix). I would favor the Spurs over Miami (especially with home court) and would say Miami/Oklahoma City is about a tossup at this point (again OKC has home court). If OKC can push that series to 7 tonight, that obviously helps MIA.
bball831 said:
I guess Brooks figured he'd better play his best five guys and worry about matchups later. What an incredibly gutsy move (if it works).
