2013 NBA playoff thread

[Gemini Dolly]

Besides Game 5, Manu has been a liability with his poor ball handling and turnovers.


Bosh gets criticized big time, and a lot of it is his own doing, but he came up big tonight with his shot blocking and rebounding. Those things get overlooked sometimes.


The Heat are going to be on a high for Game 7. The energy is going to be intense. Spurs must counter after such a heartbreaking loss.

Parker is going to have to do this for Timmy. He promised.

 

[StylisticS]

This is a devastating defeat.

It's extremely similar to Game 6 of the 2011 World Series, where the Rangers were just one strike away from defeating the Cardinals in the World Series. They then blew a 2-run lead and lost.


As a Spurs and Rangers fan, I think I see history repeating itself, and it's awful.

It reminded me of game 6 of the World Series as well. I was telling people in the bar how similar this was.

 

[Lonestar94]

This is so painful, I haven't felt this way in my entire life outside of relatives dying. It's more painful than any girl heartbreak I've ever had. I think you guys know that I love the spurs about as much as anyone can love a team, I'm not a bandwagon fan, I truly care about them. And I honestly don't know at this moment if I can continue to watch the nba in general anymore. It's not because I'm jumping the bandwagon, but I just don't want to feel this way. This is more painful than .4 or Manu fouling dirk in 06. We might have won the title those years, but who knows, injuries, other teams beating us, etc. But this was literally it. We had the title and just let it slip away.

We aren't like the lakers or the celtics, just destined to have great teams all the time. We aren't New York, Chicago, or even Dallas, where we can build a championship caliber team through free agency. This isn't baseball, Hispanic players that would be attracted to SA don't exist in this sport. We got lucky to have the iceman, he was the reason the NBA took us, and we didn't go the way of the Kentucky colonels or Virginia squires. We got lucky to win the lottery the year David Robinson was in it. And we got extremely lucky to get a era defining talent like Tim Duncan to become such a successful franchise.

I don't know what the future holds for us, 20 years from now the spurs could be a forgotten former championship team. 40 years from now people might not know about us, like people don't know the Milwaukee bucks used to be dominant and won a title, or the Rochester Royals (kings). We might be the team rumored to be moving to whatever the version of Seattle is in 2053.

I feel so bad for Timmy, wasted a great game, only to see his team choke it away in the end, even with lebron trying to choke it back with his turnovers. Tonight at least made me decide I don't want my kids to be as interested in sports as I am, it's too cruel. I'd rather they be into other things that won't kick them in the stomach so much. Thanks for letting me vent so I could move on from this. I won't be watching game 7 because I know what's going to happen, and you guys can flame me if you want, I prob won't see it anyway.

Cya thursday.

I felt the same way after the Commander game but I was back after a week..

 

[Kristen82]

Besides Game 5, Manu has been a liability with his poor ball handling and turnovers.

I wonder if he's going to retire if the Spurs lose.

 

[punchnjudy]

This is a devastating defeat.

It's extremely similar to Game 6 of the 2011 World Series, where the Rangers were just one strike away from defeating the Cardinals in the World Series. They then blew a 2-run lead and lost.


As a Spurs and Rangers fan, I think I see history repeating itself, and it's awful.

Yup. I was thinking about that game during the 4th quarter. And, of course, the way it ended was very similar.

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

The Spurs got a career game from Duncan. Everything went their way until the last 30 seconds. An argument could even be made the officiating was more in their favor. The Heat just never gave up. No matter how tough things were they just kept at it.

All the talk from Magic and others after the game about the Spurs choking was way overblown. They didnt choke. They had a lot of pressure on them. The Heat just kept coming and never gave up.

Foul shots are part of the game just like rebounds. Nobody makes 100% of their foul shots. Nobody. You cant count on rebounds, because it depends on how the ball bounces. And the ball bounced the Spurs way most of the game.

The Spurs didnt choke anymore than Miami did. If Miami had lost they would be getting the choker label. The Spurs never should have had the lead again with a minute to go. Everything went their way for them to go up by 5.

 

[zrinkill]

Spurs played hard but Miami just played great the last few minutes.

No excuses.

 

[Joe Realist]

Spurs lost the title last night. Heat win by close to 20 Thursday night.

 

[DejectedFan1996]

I expect this type of heartbreaking loss from my Cowboys...but not my Spurs.

The only reason I'm not upset is because I'm a huge Lebron fan, and if there was any team I'd want beating my Spurs, its definitely the Heat.

On that note, I'm wearing my Duncan jersey for the first time all season tomorrow. I hope Pop is letting his players listen to everyone in the media stating we will get destroyed by 20 tomorrow and we come out charged up. Duncan won't have another game like that, but neither will Parker. Danny Green will at least have more than 3 points tomorrow.

 

[WV Cowboy]

Not being a big NBA fan, this may be a hollow claim, but I say this about sports in general, not just the NBA.

Last night's game was one of the most entertaining, exciting, intense, competitive battles that I have seen in a long time. Especially late.

From Duncan (love the guy) being a one man wrecking crew early, to Parker (don't care for him) and his late game heroics, to the little things that Bosh did at the end, (rebound and pass to Allen and the block) to Lebron just being Lebron throughout the 4th qtr. and OT.

Parker actually single-handedly won the game for the Spurs with his great '3', a steal, and another bucket, .. but it slipped away.

This game was fantastic, .. gut-wrenching both ways.

The Heat forcing overtime was a truly amazing, competitive accomplishment. It didn't look like they had a chance with less than :30 left.

But both teams made huge plays down the stretch.

It was way past my bed time, but I could not turn it off.

Great Great competition with 'never-say-die' competitors.

(And that was after watching UCLA slip past NC St. 2-1 in the CWS. What a great night in sports!)

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

I think it's fair to say that the Spurs chocked last night. They missed two Free Throws down the stretch, they gave up two Offensive Boards late and they did not play good defense on the perimeter. I know they were tired but they will be more tired tonight and last night, they had the win. Spurs were up by 10 going into the 4th qtr and headed to the line. They were up by 5 with 28 seconds left. Yeah, they chocked. No other way to really say in IMO.

Now, having said that, the referring at the end of that game was more then just a little suspect. You can't just let somebody foul like that on the game shot. That was just terrible officiating IMO.

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

I think it's fair to say that the Spurs chocked last night. They missed two Free Throws down the stretch, they gave up two Offensive Boards late and they did not play good defense on the perimeter. I know they were tired but they will be more tired tonight and last night, they had the win. Spurs were up by 10 going into the 4th qtr and headed to the line. They were up by 5 with 28 seconds left. Yeah, they chocked. No other way to really say in IMO.

Now, having said that, the referring at the end of that game was more then just a little suspect. You can't just let somebody foul like that on the game shot. That was just terrible officiating IMO.

Are you talking about the Ginobili play where he was out of control and traveled with about 5, 6 or 7 steps - that no call?

 

[WV Cowboy]

The officiating was equal to, and as good at the end, as it was throughout the game.

Both ways.

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

The officiating was equal to, and as good at the end, as it was throughout the game.

Both ways.

Prob leaned a lil more in the Spurs favor IMO.

 

[Thatkidbob]

Are you talking about the Ginobili play where he was out of control and traveled with about 5, 6 or 7 steps - that no call?

I think he's referring to Green's 3 attempt (normally if you collide with a shooter mid shot attempt its a foul), but I'll leave that to him to clear up.

On Manu's attempt he was clearly hacked... multiple times. He travelled because he couldn't get his hands up to attempt a shot... Heat defenders were draped all over him.

While I question the 2 no-calls, the Spurs clearly lost this game. Had they made a foul shot (or 2 or 3) that they missed down the stretch, or came up with a rebound, they would have won.

 

[Future]

Prob leaned a lil more in the Spurs favor IMO.

Only until the last minute, and there were a handful of calls that were missed that favored the Heat.

I thought the officiating was pretty even, they let them play. The biggest difference was that the Heat whined about it every time they didn't get a call. LeBron has got to be the biggest pansy in sports. 6' 9", 270 or whatever, bulls into the lane, and cries because there is body contact.

I hope he tears every ligament in his knee and never scores another bucket.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Are you talking about the Ginobili play where he was out of control and traveled with about 5, 6 or 7 steps - that no call?

No. I'm talking about the block at the end of the game on Danny Green by Bosh. That was a foul and it should have been called but it was not.

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

No. I'm talking about the block at the end of the game on Danny Green by Bosh. That was a foul and it should have been called but it was not.

Looked like Bosh got ball. No ref is gonna call that a foul in that spot when he got that much ball.

http://sports-kings.com/watch-does-chris-bosh-cleanly-block-danny-greens-shot/

 

[DejectedFan1996]

Looked like Bosh got ball. No ref is gonna call that a foul in that spot when he got that much ball.

http://sports-kings.com/watch-does-chris-bosh-cleanly-block-danny-greens-shot/

Shooters are allowed to land remember? Those are the fouls Chalmers and Ray Allen have been getting all series. Inconsistent for them to not call it there, but the refs want to go home so its no biggie.

Also, no one is talking about the foul on Parker at the end of regulation by Bron Bron. And Bron is my favorite player.

Pop will need to start Manu again to get his confidence going but his overall minutes will have to be limited especially if he starts committing turnovers like in game 6.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Looked like Bosh got ball. No ref is gonna call that a foul in that spot when he got that much ball.

http://sports-kings.com/watch-does-chris-bosh-cleanly-block-danny-greens-shot/

He did not get all ball. He clearly made contact with him with his hips/legs/chest. He could not have made the block without making contact with the body so you can't say that it's a good block because if he does it without fouling, he probably can't make the block at all.

I don't buy the whole no ref is going to call that. That's why they are there. You don't want to decide a series on a foul. You want to let the players decide the series, I get that but what happened on that play is that by not making an obvious call, the officials have already decided the series. If you make that call, the right call, what you are doing is forcing the Spurs to make three Free Throws in order to simply tie it up. Then, you have another OT period for the game to be decided. That's what would have been the right thing to do. What happened last night is exactly what you didn't want to have happen and that is have officials decide the outcome.