Official 2013-2014 NBA Playoffs Thread

[bunnyfubbles]

no surprise there, as i mentioned earlier, its a bunch of assholes selling their soul for a ring, its not regular basketball. it's everything but, what a team sport stands for. They compare cry baby james to big name players, but people forget none of them deserted their team and joined a bunch of ring whores, their victory does not mean anything.

 

[Miramonti]

Westbrook's the best one in the series tho

I love Splitter's faux windup. Must be a successful graduate from the Carlos Boozer school of defense.

 

[smackababy]

Shaq won a lot of championships with the Magic. And Clyde Drexler cleaned up with the Blazers. Wilt Chamberlain; boy did that guy ever suck after he left the Warriors. Of course Oscar Robertson did so much with the Royals. And I'm glad Lew Alcindor won that championship with the Bucks; much more meaningful than the five rings Kareem Abdul Jabbar won with the Lakers. John Stockton, that guy's pretty thrilled about spending his entire career with one team and winning <look up championships later> rings with the team that drafted him. Ditto Elgin Baylor. Or maybe you could just look at the top 50 players list as voted on in 1996 and see that 44% of the best players ever didn't win a championship with the team that drafted them. You know, cause only losers chase rings. Except the ones who win them.

This entire argument has been stated many times. Lebron haters don't get it. Nearly every team trades for players to win championships. Bird? Yep. Magic? Yep. Jordan? Yep. Pippen was drafted by the Supersonics, not the Bulls.

 

[tynopik]

This entire argument has been stated many times. Lebron haters don't get it. Nearly every team trades for players to win championships. Bird? Yep. Magic? Yep. Jordan? Yep. Pippen was drafted by the Supersonics, not the Bulls.

There were no trades for LeBron or Bosch or Wade

 

[smackababy]

There were no trades for LeBron or Bosch or Wade

Trades, free agents, whatever. It doesn't matter. The fact is, very few successful teams in NBA history have only drafted / developed their own talent.

 

[DesiPower]

To all those who took time to respond to my post, thanks you, but Heat sucks, they will suck, they are just a disgrace to NBA, screw all their records and comparisons to real NBA players...

 

[dougp]

There were no trades for LeBron or Bosch or Wade

Very few people remember what free agency was like - that's why all moves were made via trade instead of free agency.

 

[lupi]

More like just as with the other leagues, free agency is a rather recent concept.

And this series should be more difficult for the spurs as I doubt the heat will make ginobili look like he's 12 years younger.

 

[tynopik]

Trades, free agents, whatever. It doesn't matter. The fact is, very few successful teams in NBA history have only drafted / developed their own talent.

you don't understand the issue

 

[Miramonti]

This thread is incomplete without a gif of leonard blocking westbrook.

 

[smackababy]

you don't understand the issue

The only issue is that the Heat signify what has always been in the NBA, regardless of what you morons choose to believe.

The NBA has always been about power teams that dominate the decade. The Heat are simply this decades power team.

The 60's had the Celtics. Literally, from 1959-169 two teams won NBA championships, and it was the 76ers that won ONE.

The 70's actually had quite a few teams winning championships, and the NBA was at it's lowest point.

The 80's saw the Lakers / Celtics, and the Pistons steal a few at the end.

90's was the Bulls and the Rockets.

00's were Lakers and Spurs.

 

[manly]

<sarcasm />
DesiPower comes from the Donald T. Sterling school of management: a team should own its drafted players like chattel for perpetuity.

 

[tynopik]

The only issue is that the Heat signify what has always been in the NBA, regardless of what you morons choose to believe.

The NBA has always been about power teams that dominate the decade. The Heat are simply this decades power team.

Again, you don't get it. It has nothing do with the Heat being a 'power team'.

 

[DesiPower]

This thread is incomplete without a gif of leonard blocking westbrook.

It was not a block, but more like dismembering Wezz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y1O3pq0KyXQ#t=14

 

[smackababy]

Hope this works..

It didn't!

 

[dougp]

More like just as with the other leagues, free agency is a rather recent concept.

And this series should be more difficult for the spurs as I doubt the heat will make ginobili look like he's 12 years younger.

Do the Heat have any competent perimeter defenders besides LBJ now? Then, you have to decide who to put him on.

 

[Miramonti]

It was not a block, but more like dismembering Wezz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y1O3pq0KyXQ#t=14

You rock, thread complete. :thumbsup:

One of the alltime nba great strips, period. Closeout game, OT winding down, prevents a lead change, one motion block/rip/steal, no foul. Instant classic.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

This is a pretty interesting breakdown of some of the plays ran by the heat in game 6.

http://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/2716a8/10_interesting_miami_heat_plays_from_game_6_plus/

 

[DesiPower]

This is a pretty interesting breakdown of some of the plays ran by the heat in game 6.

http://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/2716a8/10_interesting_miami_heat_plays_from_game_6_plus/

:thumbsup:

heat circle jerkers strike back in 10... 9... 8... 7...

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

please tell your wife to make me some of her special naani.

 

[HendrixFan]

There were no trades for LeBron or Bosch or Wade

Wade was drafted by the Heat, and Lebron and Bosh were sign and trades. So you are off the mark.

 

[tynopik]

Wade was drafted by the Heat, and Lebron and Bosh were sign and trades. So you are off the mark.

technically yes, congratulations

practically sign-and-trade was a pure cap maneuver that happened to allow them to get a little back, but they had no discretion over the players leaving or where they went

 

[HendrixFan]

technically yes, congratulations

practically sign-and-trade was a pure cap maneuver that happened to allow them to get a little back, but they had no discretion over the players leaving or where they went

They have discretion. It involves running a team well, building a winner, making smart decisions, and having respect for the players who play the game. If Cleveland hadn't blown a crap ton of money on suspect players or gotten a real coach Lebron might have stuck around.

Getting a low character guy like Delonte West didn't help, especially when you account for the fact that Lebron was known to be close to his HS teammates.

The open letter Dan Gilbert penned the day after Lebron left tells you everything you need to know about how the organization is run from the top down. The team's performance the year following Lebron's departure tells you how bad they were and how much he had to drag them up the court. The subsequent years have shown no vision, no direction, no goal and no progress despite a slew of high draft picks.

You'd be have to be stupid to stick around that cesspool. I doubt many people in this world would turn down a job offer in Miami coming from Cleveland, in any profession. Combine that tidbit with the staggering difference in care and execution between the two teams made it an easy choice and the right choice for Lebron.

 

[QueBert]

There were no trades for LeBron or Bosch or Wade

Say what you want about the Heat but my cordless Bosch impact driver's bad ass

 

[Blackjack200]

The open letter Dan Gilbert penned the day after Lebron left tells you everything you need to know about how the organization is run from the top down.

"I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE THAT THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS WILL WIN AN NBA CHAMPIONSHIP BEFORE THE SELF-TITLED FORMER ‘KING’ WINS ONE"

You can take it to the bank.

Last I heard, Dan Gilbert guarantees are no longer negotiable financial instruments.