Sadly for AMD, he was right except for the number... 6970, not 6870.
Lately, NV has shown an impressive competitive killer instinct. NV just seems to *want* it more, chasing after loose balls, providing no easy layups, moving the ball, and finding the open look. They may have spent the first half of this game way behind--actually most of the team didn't even show up during the first quarter, allowing AMD to amass a huge lead--but NV's small forward, number 460, has been lighting it up since halftime. Now, deep into the fourth quarter, they subbed out that overpaid lout number 480 and brought in the rookie center, 580, to pound the boards and clean up broken plays and deter easy layups and dunks. AMD has been forced to double-team 580 with numbers 59 and 70, but that's a losing proposition in the long haul. I'm also not a fan of double-teams.
Sure, team NV's coach is a jerk (see, e.g., his "whoop ass" comments against Intel), but he's an effective jerk that makes AMD look leaderless by comparison.
AMD has been on my bad side ever since they wussed out on pricing, just like I had anticipated. Sure, AMD was willing to go over the salary cap a little bit to sign numbers 6850 and 6870, but NV matched that by resigning numbers 460 and 470 to keep themselves competitive at those positions. Did AMD keep up the pressure? No. Apparently they are just happy to tie, even though their current squad is frittering away its lead. We've been hearing trade rumors all summer and fall about AMD bringing in help in the form of those rookies from the Cayman Islands, but they haven't showed up yet. It serves them right if they lose at the end of the fourth quarter.