OT: NBA Finals Game 6 overtime open thread
I mean I need to talk about this with somebody...
if a player commits a foul, that player has settled it on the court by making a bad play...
He's on the roster, no?
Heat fans sound like major tools when they do it. Something about the NBA atmosphere and that song just don't work together for me.
was that all ball?
Thanks Joey-good work as always
Manu Ginobli is trash. He single handedly cost the spurs this game
I agree, but 8 TOs and 9 points (almost a double double :P)
None of what you said makes my statement untrue. Sure he had a good game 5. The only good game he has had of the entire playoffs. This, however, was game 6.
He constantly drove out of control (when doesn't he) and realized too late he was in trouble then threw a lazy high arching pass to the center of the floor that was either stolen or put a teammate in a difficult position. This happened numerous times down the stretch and it killed the Spurs.
Also for further evidence that he was terrible. His +/- was -21 by far the worst in the game.
Make your freethrows and never leave it in the hands of the officials.
Lol. NEWS FLASH: There is bad officiating in ALL sports/games. And people complain about them in every thread associated with said sport/game. I happen to think that while the game, passion, competitiveness can't compare to March, the officiating is much better in the NBA. While there may be a few times where you find yourself saying, "THAT was a foul." they tend to let a lot more of the physical play go. There is/was nothing worse than watching touchy call after touchy call in our games this year, only to be even more infuriated when they let some blatant foul go. Consistency is the main thing I look for, and watching ALL of the NBA playoffs, I can honeslty say, the NBA is more consistent with their calls.
But that was a foul on Allen on Manu's last drive, and a foul on Bosh on Green's last 3 attempt.
That being said, I don't really care which team wins, I'm just glad for an incredible game and a Game 7 coming up.
on manu in a more logical world.
Ray Allen had already committed the foul by that point. The second Manu broke toward the rim Allen basically hugged him and prevented him from dribbling which is what caused the "travel."
you're probably right, i just saw those three, giant, awkward steps and my blood boiled. but what you're saying makes a lot of sense.
you mean 4 right?
I'd put it all on Miami. unfortunately i have something much more valuable on spurs. fuqqq
I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but between the NHL and the NBA, it's hard to say which one could be actually manipulating the games to force all of these game 7's.
Spurs end of game offense was awful. Referees choked on their whistles at the end of the game.
on the last play of the game, you are allowed to body-check a 3-point shooter off the court and it isn't a foul. Convenient.
That being said, all the Spurs had to do was hit their free-throws in regulation and the game was over.
did the people here saying the refs gave it to miami even watch the game? or are you just truly dedicated heat-haters?
Seriously - the Heat got beyond srewed on calls for 3 quarters. Granted, the refs made up for it later . . . but with perfect officiating, the Heat might have won that by 6 or 8 in regulation.
One of the greatest games in NBA history.
I can't see how the Spurs bounce back from this, emotionally, or physcially.
Duncan looked absolutely shot in the 4th quarter and OT. He played 44 minutes. Parker also looked drained, Manu looks like a fork needs to be stuck in him, and now they have only 1 day off.
It's going to be tough. I think Duncan had one more great Finals performance in him, and that was it.
I thought the officiating through 3 quarters probably favored the Spurs. But not by as much as crybaby James wanted you to think it did.
The 3rd quarter was a complete joke, in favor of San Antonio. Of course, they fixed it after that
I've hated LeBron ever since he gotten into the league...one of those pure "haterade" hates--I'm a Lakers fan and more or less a Kobe fan, and I reveled in LeBron's failures. But now that my more juvenile feelings have subsided, I want to like LeBron and have LeBron be better than MJ, if only to say I was there when the greatest player in the history of basketball took over.
But I've never seen such a dominating player disappear for such long stretches. For better or worse MJ, Kobe, Bird, Magic, Wilt would have asserted themselves in every part of the Finals. LeBron is one of the most complicated players--he does everything, but sometimes he does nothing. It's crazy to me.
People just need to stop hating on Lebron and realize that what he can do is unique and may never be done again in your lifetime. If u can't enjoy what he can do than you just don't like basketball.
People remember MJ with rose colored glasses. The man was great, but he was also human. He had bad games, missed shots, etc. just like every other player. Its the same way as when we think of Charles Woodson, we probably don't remember a single completion against him. Or in a few years, we won't think of all the times Trey Burke missed those step back jumpers, we'll just remember the huge ones he hit.
Point being, when his career is done, people will only remember the times when Lebron looked like he could do whatever he wanted out there to dominate a basketball game, and not the times when he couldn't knock down an open 15 foot jumper for three quarters of a finals game.
what blasphemy is this? Charles Woodson never had a pass completed against him, never missed a tackle and only returned one punt in his career (which he took for a touchdown).
you have your history and I have mine.
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was certainly not perfect but he always impacted the game when he was in, usually in a positive way, every so often in a negative way, but he never just hid out and let long portions of the game go by without asserting his influnece. I think the issue that people have with Lebron at times is that there are stretches when he is content to be just another player. He is not "letting the game come to him" or any other such applicable phrase, he is simply idling. I do see that with him.