Spurs vs Pistons
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Carlos Brown
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GO HEAT!!!!!!!!!! :jump:
Carlos Brown
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Dam!! I was dreaming again? :sleeping:
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The last three games were worth the entire series. Somehow, I knew that the Spurs would show their resiliency, and pull away in the fourth.
Just one thing...I disagree about the MVP. Duncan is a great player no doubt, but with MANU GINOBILI, the Spurs don't win the first two games. Duncan played his best game of The Finals last night.
Nevertheless, kudos to the two best teams in the league, and congrats to the San Antonio Spurs!
Just one thing...I disagree about the MVP. Duncan is a great player no doubt, but with MANU GINOBILI, the Spurs don't win the first two games. Duncan played his best game of The Finals last night.
Nevertheless, kudos to the two best teams in the league, and congrats to the San Antonio Spurs!
cat daddy
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Actually without Robert Horry the Spurs don't win that game in Detroit Sunday night.
That's what's great about this Spurs team. Not one guy carries the whole team. The team is built around Tim, but all of the guys step it up when it is required. The same can be said for the Pistons.
FAB5
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Yeah, there definitely should've been co-mvps. If Manu doesn't get shut down in games 3 and 4 he would've been a lock. Even all the key plays Horry made deserves some consideration. The great things is these guys will never whine about it...this is a TEAM. :nod2: :nod: :nod2: :nod: :nod2:
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cat daddy said:
That's a GIVEN about Sunday's game! :tup:
But Ginobili put the team on his back in those first two in San Antonio to go up 2-0. But, I think we all appreciate the same thing about this group of guys...THEY ARE A TEAM! No egos, none looking for camera time, no off-the-court drama...just a great team! That goes for Detroit as well. TWO quality teams who play TEAM ball!!
Panther88
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Yep. :nod: Boo'd him both times he was announced. :emlaugh: I wonder what their issue ~snicker~ was? lol
I really wish there could've been co-co-co-co-co MVPs for the series. Each one of those 5 guys (Duncan, Ginobili, Horry, Parker, and I count Barry for hitting clutch 3s/2s when required) stepped it up when the others were on lock! :tup: Truly a great display in "team" effort. :tup:
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JaguarNation99
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Blackbear said:
This series was unique because really nobody played MVP-caliber basketball for the entire series, the only person that came close was Chauney Billups,a and he wasn't a big factor last night. Duncan finally stepped up in the 2nd half of game 7, but only after the Pistons got in foul trouble, not to mention he stuggled in crunch time in games 5 and 6. Ginobili played over his head for 5 straight quarters before crashing back down to Earth when the series when to Detroit. It's hard to make an MVP case for someone who was so up and down. Many players stepped up for the Spurs throughout the series, Horry was huge off the bench as he always is.
northern tiger
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Tim Duncan got his money!!!!
No. Quality of play causes the scores to be low. You can look at in any way that you want to but these guys in the NBA have less skill than ever. And when I mention skill I'm talking about passing the ball, protecting the ball, setting decent screens, executing plays and, yes, shooting the ball. Instead of seeing that, we see guys overdribbling, turning the ball over and not being able to hit the side of a barn.UAPB '97 said:
I dont think anyone would argue that while the present day Pistons defense is good, its not as good a defense as the Bad Boys of the 80s were. Like the 80s Pistons defense they challenge every shot but they aren't nearly as intimidating as the physical Bad Boys of the 80s (Just ask Magic and Kareem, Bird and McHale, MJ and Scottie, and Kearsey and Drexler). But even as good as they were, they didnt hold their opponents to 60 and 70 point games like the present day Pistons are doing. And why is that? It's because those players back then played skill ball. You werent gonna steal the ball from these players, you weren't gonna see them throwing bad passes, they executed solid screens and, yes, they could shoot the rock.
Like I said before though, thank goodness for college and high school basketball because the NBA stinks.
cat daddy
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If one of those run and gun teams played just a little defense maybe they would have made it to the finals. The Spurs showed in the conference finals that they can run with the Suns. They also played enough defense to screw up the Suns shooting and kept them from getting the easy buckets.
MACHIAVELLI
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Blackbear
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JaguarNation99 said:
But yet it was given to Duncan who had a lot more downs than ups. Ginobili had two great games when Duncan was going 3-11 at the free throw line....and it was Duncan AND Ginobili that fueled the comeback in the 3rd and 4th qtrs of game 7.
I still say that Ginobili was a better candidate for MVP of this series than Duncan...but it is a matter of opinion.
The important thing is that they beat the Pistons.
Been away from pc. Ithought there would be an entire thread about this.Blackbear said:But yet it was given to Duncan who had a lot more downs than ups. Ginobili had two great games when Duncan was going 3-11 at the free throw line....and it was Duncan AND Ginobili that fueled the comeback in the 3rd and 4th qtrs of game 7.
I still say that Ginobili was a better candidate for MVP of this series than Duncan...but it is a matter of opinion.
The important thing is that they beat the Pistons.
Tim Duncan was not the MVP!!!! Robert Horry was.
Right or wrong??? BTW who did Horry play with before LA. I know it was a Dallas team. My son-n-law says it was Chicago.
G-Man75
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I agree Duncan should not have gotten the MVP. I thought Manu should have gotten it. Although Horry kept them alive in some games, I can't think of a non-starter that has received the finals MVP. Don't think that has or will ever happen. That would be a slap in the face to the starting lineups. Horry was in Houston (2titles) before he went to LA (3 titles).UAPB-LIONS-AM&N said: