2011 NBA Finals Thread

[Miami Shmeat]

The City of Dallas just Declared today national Lebron James day. Everyone gets to leave work 12 minutes early.

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[Silky Smooth]

It gives me a lot more confidence that if the Cavs build a really good team of winners that we can win a ring. Superstars don't win championships, winners win championships. Dallas is a team of winners who knew how to get the job done when it needed to get done. It rests my mind knowing the Cavs can build a great team that doesnt need to have 2 superstars and 1 all star and still have a shot at a ring.

 

[Vlad]

 

[MattyFos.]

From HoopsHype

Spencer Hawes' Twitter: Congrats dallas. Congrats cleveland.

 

[Born 'N' Raised]

#6 sounds like such an ass. The Cavs organization did such a great job hiding his personality while he was here...

I've been back and forth on this one lately. Was he really that good at saying the right things and putting on a show during his time here? Were we all really that thoroughly duped for the first few years? Or is the reality that he was corrupted at some point in his career here so that he is no longer the same man that we drafted? I just don't know anymore. One thing I am more confident in... I don't think he threw the Boston series anymore. It appears he really did just fail. He really is that mentally weak and unable to perform when the pressure is on.

 

[Born 'N' Raised]

It's an odd feeling when a team that you don't even like can restore your faith in the NBA but that is what has happened. Since Lebrons "Decision" I have been soured by the NBA and resigned to the fact that players that choose the easy way out would attain the desired result. This has restored my faith in the game entirely and it's a good feeling.

The NBA. Where "WTF just happened" happens.

 

[czvo]

I've been back and forth on this one lately. Was he really that good at saying the right things and putting on a show during his time here? Were we all really that thoroughly duped for the first few years? Or is the reality that he was corrupted at some point in his career here so that he is no longer the same man that we drafted? I just don't know anymore. One thing I am more confident in... I don't think he threw the Boston series anymore. It appears he really did just fail. He really is that mentally weak and unable to perform when the pressure is on.

Does that mean almost everyone here owes Windy an apology?

 

[Rich]

Does that mean almost everyone here owes Windy an apology?

Yea I do. I said I was wrong after like game 4.

At this point in his career, I don't see how LBJ wins a title until he gets much older and becomes willing to accept a number 2 role. Sort of like KG.

It really is sad to see as a fan of the sport. I mean, after last summer, I said he would never be Jordan. But now, he will never be a top 5, if not top 10 player. A guy who was gifted so much ahtletic ability, and yet never managed to A. develop his game beyond what he learned growing up and B. has the mental toughness of an 11 year-old girl is never going to come close to recognizing his full potential.

Still can't play w/o the ball. At all. Not even a little. Rick Barry was right.

Still can't play with his back to the basket.

8 years in, and these two things are still problems 1 and 2 of his offensive game. And I'm not sure if he's made any real strides in either department. When his athletic ability is gone, will he just vanish into thin air? I mean, how is this guy going to be effective at 33? It's impossible to see right now. So, so sad. Such talent going to waste.

 

[CavsFaninNJ]

Amen

As I said in another thread, if it wasn't for his "im super rich" (more or less) answer about people who are happy to see him lose, I would actually feel a little sorry for him.

It IS a huge waste of talent. He can't play without the ball.

What he is BEST at is doing what he did in Cleveland. Having the ball all the time and feeding 1 dimensional role players that live off the space he creates. If the cavs role players were a ltitle better, or if he had a #2 that knew how to play off the ball a little better, that would be his best shot at a title.

I bet his old teammates are happy to see him not get it done, there, either.

 

[Splitz]

I wonder what Lebron would have developed into if he had been linked up at some point in his career with a Jason Kidd type or even a Chris Paul in the future. Guys that command respect but play the game the right way and know how to hit a guy in his spots. Of course, that would require Lebron to develop a spot to speak of but I just would be curious to see what his development as a player would have looked like if we had managed to grab Jason Kidd at some point in the last several seasons. Does a guy like that get Lebron to play effectively off the ball or is he really only effective with the ball in his hands. Regardless, his lack of a post game is unforgivable at this point. He should have been big man camp bound the last several off-seasons but he'd rather channel his inner perimeter dweller.

 

[jetovermiami]

An article from Dec2010: HAHAHAHAHAHA! Wade's gotta be giggling underneath his breath...

D-Wade: ‘I hear from LeBron that I’m the Worst Finisher in the League’
According to the Three Amigos down in South Beach, tough love is what’s helping the team to gel, with the end-result being wins. From the Miami Herald: “It’s in the locker room where LeBron James can tell Dwyane Wade, with impunity, that he’s the worst finisher in the league and can’t even make a layup. It’s there where a collection of stars is becoming a constellation of cohesion. It’s in the locker room — and for the next seven days, aboard an airplane to the West — where the Heat is becoming a team. The Heat (13-8) has won four consecutive games since its players-only meeting in Dallas eight days ago. It took a series of setbacks — four losses in five games — to move this team forward. In Dallas, players opened up, reached out and didn’t hold back. Not even Wade, the team’s co-captain, was immune to criticism. ‘I think we all looked at each other and we [held] each other accountable for our games,’ Wade said. ‘I hear from LeBron all the time now that I’m the worst finisher in the league now because I can’t make a layup sometimes. But it helps me out because now I want to prove him wrong. We just stay on each other and I think that meeting kind of helped us going forward to let everyone know, ‘It’s fine, I can take it,’ and we’ve been doing it.’”

 

[Tornicade]

translation "dallas spanked us in a way no other team had and it was very frustrating so frustrating we hope we would never have to play them in the finals and making fun of each other kept our minds off how inadequate that regular season game made us feel

 

[Spencer Hawes]

I just want to add that Mike Bibby lost I think about $5 million to go ring chasing. <----------- HAHAHAHAHAHAH

 

[Tornicade]

I just want to add that Mike Bibby lost I think about $5 million to go ring chasing. <----------- HAHAHAHAHAHAH

not to mention not only removed fromt he starting lineup but from the entire rotation when it mattered

 

[HEAT]

I find it HILARIOUS that Cavs fans HATE LEBRON So much. HE's from OHio for Gods sake.