LOL! cassell, thorpe, jet smith, big shot rob horry, hakeem the dream, and a very solid bench vs. the misfits that lequeen carried.
oh, then drexler the next year.
no, you still fail and need to stop posting. gtfo!
Compare the '94 championship team to any Cavs team when LeBron was there. Cavs are just as better at every position than them, except their respective spots, SF & PF.
How about you go suck him off some more and stop posting?
He's not the only person. LeBron is not the king, and he hasn't done shit by himself. He had adequate teams around him in CLE, better teams than Hakeem had, and still couldn't win. The only defense he can play is running down a player from behind, and is so wildly inconsistent with his jumper that he can be unreliable. Wade is the best player on that team, period.
LOL! cassell, thorpe, jet smith, big shot rob horry, hakeem the dream, and a very solid bench vs. the misfits that lequeen carried.
oh, then drexler the next year.
no, you still fail and need to stop posting. gtfo!
He's a quitter. He gave up Trying to win a title for his hometown. Just cause my opinion doesn't match up to yours doesn't mean I'm crying. I'd had much more respect for him if he stayed in Cleveland and built a championship team out of it. Don't give me the he didn't have help excuse. It's not as if they wouldn't of got a good team around him eventually. It just doesn't happen overnight.
Sorry to bust your bubble but it's the mavs year. Why you ask? Miami has no center play. Chandler and Haywood are going to send everything the heat put up back in the third row. Miami has no point guard play. They have 3 ball hogs looking for their shot while the mavs are content to make the open pass and make you pay. And last but not least Dirk Nowitzki. Need I say more?
O ye of little faith.. This is the year. Basketball is a team sport. Don't look at the names on the jersey's. Look at the teams on the court. Now tell me who is the better team and you have your NBA champion.I really hope it is the Mavs year this year. It just feels so right for them to take it all. However, I felt this way in the 05-06 year too. And we all know what happened then haha.
It's funny how the only times Mavs get to the finals, they have to play the same team (potentially).
It would be awesome if Mavs just crush the Heat in the finals (like 3-1 or 4-0) but I'm just focused on closing out the OKC series for now.
I'm already damn proud of my mavs from dispelling all the talk about them being the softies or one and done boys. Hell, after they beat portland, I felt like they were going to be unstoppable the rest of the playoffs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcRxWV_de4c&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Fixed that for ya.
Also whomever was on Rose made the defensive play. Lebron came from behind when Rose didn't see him and got the block. If Lebron would of stayed in front of Rose then also made the block then that would of been a hell of a play.
O ye of little faith.. This is the year. Basketball is a team sport. Don't look at the names on the jersey's. Look at the teams on the court. Now tell me who is the better team and you have your NBA champion.
LOL! cassell, thorpe, jet smith, big shot rob horry, hakeem the dream, and a very solid bench vs. the misfits that lequeen carried.
oh, then drexler the next year.
no, you still fail and need to stop posting. gtfo!
I can see the Bulls canning Tibs within the next three years. He just seems like he is of the Avery Johnson/Doug Collins/Scott Skiles mold. They all come in, whip a team into shape by having them play real defense, but always keep their intensity too high and wear down the players. You see a huge jump the first year, but they never make it over the hump.
I think Tibs has been downright awful in this series, not just in his personnel decisions, but mostly due to the fact that he doesn't seem to be trying to get his guys to score points. He isn't mixing it up with his offensive playcalling at all. Then to compound the problem, he keeps telling us (fans via the media) and his team that the problem is on the defensive end. The problem to him after each loss, get this, is that his guys aren't trying hard enough.
At some point down the road the players are going to stand up and say "no retard, we are playing hard, you just aren't doing anything to put us in a position to win". His tired act of blaming his guys' effort will only go so far. Until he looks in the mirror and realizes he is being severely outcoached in this series nothing will change. And I'm talking long term horizons here.
What adjustments have we seen from Tibs? Going with a more offensive threat about 190 minutes into the series. If it is taking that long for it to dawn on him that they are shutting down Lebron/Wade/Bosh about as well as they can, and they need to do a much better job to keep up the scoring pace with them.
Derrick Rose looked like someone shot his puppy in the postgame interview. Tibs needs to stop shifting the blame to their MVP and be a real man and take the criticism. Because it deserves to rest on his shoulders.
O ye of little faith.. This is the year. Basketball is a team sport. Don't look at the names on the jersey's. Look at the teams on the court. Now tell me who is the better team and you have your NBA champion.
Hardly.
I made my prediction that Mavs would win the title a looooong time ago early in the season. I even can back up my prediction with a bet I placed back in january that Mavs would win it all.
Don't forget, I'm a huge Mavs fan.
I know you're a true mavs fan. I believe you and I were the only ones talking mavs during the regular season NBA thread besides everyone else that was saying they'd choke first round. Lol.
I'll admit I thought they'd beat Portland then lose to the lakers.
not sure who to root for. dirk deserves it more than anyone..
but lebron is a fucking beast. clutch, clutch, clutch. best player in the league hands down.
Thibs is a great coach. Nothing that's happened so far is his fault.
I really, really, really, REALLY hope that Boozer is still somewhat injured and just not letting on. Because if he's not he doesn't fit Thib's style of play at all, and the Bulls have him for a while.
Hindsight is always 20/20, but can this team win a title without someone to take the pressure off of Rose?
Carmelo Anthony would be looking very good in a Bulls uni right now, and there ain't no one like him that's going to be available anytime soon. I like Noah a lot, but he's a raw energy player with almost no offensive skills. Thomas and Asik could have taken his time for now.
But what can you expect from Bulls management that turned down a trade for Kobe in his prime?
I can see the Bulls canning Tibs within the next three years. He just seems like he is of the Avery Johnson/Doug Collins/Scott Skiles mold. They all come in, whip a team into shape by having them play real defense, but always keep their intensity too high and wear down the players. You see a huge jump the first year, but they never make it over the hump.
I think Tibs has been downright awful in this series, not just in his personnel decisions, but mostly due to the fact that he doesn't seem to be trying to get his guys to score points. He isn't mixing it up with his offensive playcalling at all. Then to compound the problem, he keeps telling us (fans via the media) and his team that the problem is on the defensive end. The problem to him after each loss, get this, is that his guys aren't trying hard enough.
At some point down the road the players are going to stand up and say "no retard, we are playing hard, you just aren't doing anything to put us in a position to win". His tired act of blaming his guys' effort will only go so far. Until he looks in the mirror and realizes he is being severely outcoached in this series nothing will change. And I'm talking long term horizons here.
What adjustments have we seen from Tibs? Going with a more offensive threat about 190 minutes into the series. If it is taking that long for it to dawn on him that they are shutting down Lebron/Wade/Bosh about as well as they can, and they need to do a much better job to keep up the scoring pace with them.
Derrick Rose looked like someone shot his puppy in the postgame interview. Tibs needs to stop shifting the blame to their MVP and be a real man and take the criticism. Because it deserves to rest on his shoulders.
I can see the Bulls canning Tibs within the next three years. He just seems like he is of the Avery Johnson/Doug Collins/Scott Skiles mold. They all come in, whip a team into shape by having them play real defense, but always keep their intensity too high and wear down the players. You see a huge jump the first year, but they never make it over the hump.
I think Tibs has been downright awful in this series, not just in his personnel decisions, but mostly due to the fact that he doesn't seem to be trying to get his guys to score points. He isn't mixing it up with his offensive playcalling at all. Then to compound the problem, he keeps telling us (fans via the media) and his team that the problem is on the defensive end. The problem to him after each loss, get this, is that his guys aren't trying hard enough.
At some point down the road the players are going to stand up and say "no retard, we are playing hard, you just aren't doing anything to put us in a position to win". His tired act of blaming his guys' effort will only go so far. Until he looks in the mirror and realizes he is being severely outcoached in this series nothing will change. And I'm talking long term horizons here.
What adjustments have we seen from Tibs? Going with a more offensive threat about 190 minutes into the series. If it is taking that long for it to dawn on him that they are shutting down Lebron/Wade/Bosh about as well as they can, and they need to do a much better job to keep up the scoring pace with them.
Derrick Rose looked like someone shot his puppy in the postgame interview. Tibs needs to stop shifting the blame to their MVP and be a real man and take the criticism. Because it deserves to rest on his shoulders.
Chicago being down 3-1 is not Tibs' fault. You can't win the Kentucky Derby with a donkey.
IMO they're still a player or 2 away.
They should have gone after Chandler instead of Boozer. Boozer was always the backup to not getting Bosh, but there weren't many big men on the market that would fill in next to Noah.