BALLET IS LIFE - spurs vs heat, NBA finals 2013 thread

heat in 6 seems like the safe pick right?

i'll go out on a limb and say heat in 5

i say spurs in 6. what's vegas saying?

i just don't see who on the spurs is guarding lebron -- danny green is too short and i don't think kawai has nearly the strength

duncan is also a decent match up for bosh and the heat should be able to go back to playing small

i could see parker taking two games on his own though, so smarter money is prob heat in 6

the spurs will do it w team d and kawai is just as strong as pg

kawhi still makes me think lil bow wow snuck onto a basketball court

Spurs in 6

(just trying to get J0rdan's attention for Mets-Marlins this wkend)

Like the contrasting ballet stylez here. Not sure if Bron will go down like a dying supernova, or if Spurs will overplay the olds too much early in the series and run out of gas first. Really looking forward to the first game, when Heat will spend the 1st half adjusting to a team that can embarrass them w/ passing.

Fuck the Heat, Spurs in 6.

Spurs in 5, just for fun

playoffs are so boring this year overall

lol classic thread title

eff you the warriors made the playoffs best playoffs ever imo

heat in 6 is the hot pick no doubt.

Spurs in 6. Fuck the Heat.

the spurs will do it w team d and kawai is just as strong as pg

― Heez, Tuesday, June 4, 2013 11:50 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

pg couldn't guard lebron

but then again no one can guard lebron

lol is this thread named after my ballet life

there was classic typo where someone typed ballet instead of baller, cant remember the context tho

yeah having "someone who can guard lebron" is kind of a red herring in debates and maybe even detrimental to the team itself, no one actually stops lebron, and if you put someone out there for that purpose that player either

1) sucks at offense in the first place (tony allen, early thabo) so it's a wash, or
2) wears themselves out so much that they don't have enough left for their own offense (KD, PG)

lol yes hibachi

heh then on topic I have to miss game 1 bc out of town for ballet activities and will be watching on dvr friday but spurs in 7

The no one can stop LBJ thing can be just as easily flipped to no one can stop Tony Parker, ESPECIALLY no one on the Heat

it's not really about an individual player "stopping" LeBron so much as a defensive system forcing him out of his comfort zones afaict

this is true

but also not being able to stop lebron james has graver consequences than not being able to stop tony parker

yeah system defense is always gonna work better to stop a great player than an individual i think

also not just "stops" but making them take bad shots

i mean there's no system or person that can stop lebron, it's sort of a moot discussion

he's too talented/smart

yeah I mean I'm just talking damage control, reducing his percentages a little

Stopping wade and bosh seems to be the key

yes also/and least keeping the heat off the three point line

idg thread title

Stopping = hoping they continue to suck most of the time

fuckin dvr cut off the last five minutes of gsw-nugs grr

― joe smith avatar (agent hibachi), Saturday, April 27, 2013 10:45 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hibachi what kind of ballet life do you lead that you can never watch games live?

― brony james (k3vin k.), Saturday, April 27, 2013 10:58 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha ok

live or die

The no one can stop LBJ thing can be just as easily flipped to no one can stop Tony Parker, ESPECIALLY no one on the Heat

― why pee on the beat (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, June 4, 2013 2:13 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lebron?

anyway spurs in 6

i'll say Spurs in 7!

Can he guard TP one on one?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/61d3a41852bbe1a794ae8003b51ee03e/tumblr_mnvchuGL6B1rfimo0o1_500.jpg

Can he guard TP one on one?

― Poster The Sheeple (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, June 4, 2013 4:50 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he guarded the hell out of derrick rose

i have heat in 4, lol spurs

yellow card me m bise IDGAF

Ha oh yeah I forgot about the MVP GOAT Rose.

the question in this series as i see it is can the spurs force the heat to go big

of course if wade n bosh arent healthy and cant play better its academic and the spurs will win easy

cause they are a much better team than indy

wade's health is one thing, but unless bosh's ankle is way more fucked than we think it is, he should be fine

duncan and splitter aren't exactly going to punish him physically

the question in this series as i see it is can the spurs force the heat to go big

― lag∞n, Tuesday, June 4, 2013 5:03 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah, see i think this is the spurs problem. their lineup is much better small to me (parker-green-manu-kawhi-duncan) than big, but i don't know if you wanna play small with the heat

then again, i don't think it's impossible that the spurs could go small vs the heat and just outshoot them. parker/green/manu/kawhi should be a better shooting trio than any four the heat can come up with.

i don't think the heat are that scared of having to guard splitter or diaw. i wouldn't be surprised if diaw barely sees the floor in this series cuz he's an obvious player for the heat to hide someone on, and there's no way that guy is gonna wanna chase battier around screens

as for that ECSF obviously lebron laid an egg in game 6, and while game 7 was not his best game, he had like 17 rebounds and 10 assists and also held paul pierce to 4/13 shooting. what makes lebron transcendent is that even when he has an off game offensively he still dominates in other ways

I don't recall him being horrible that game, but ugh 9 TOs cannot happen in a closeout game. But what really sticks out in my mind is his (and his team's) bizarre behavior right near the end. I've never seen an NBA team outright quit w/time left on the clock, not even in a relatively meaningless game January. I was flabbergasted.
Likewise he had a pretty decent lil game in game 6 in 2011 Finals, but for discussion of "greatest ever" that performance in a closeout Finals game at home is very underwhelming.

He's had some growing pains for sure.

But now he's something else

Blurring the line between basketball player and basketball god

Maybe someday he'll progress to the ultimate level of being able to score on Boris Diaw, fingers crossed

Who is thicke now, my friend?

y so serious

Not serious. Just a string of terrible thicke family puns I'm workin on.

so if Heat don't get wild rebound, LeBron doesn't then hit a 3, then they don't get another wild rebound, and doesn't Ray hit a 3...LeBron ends up with one less ring in his career. Say he would wind up with 5 instead of 6. Since per Lord Jord we can't judge a player's career by 15 possessions let alone 2, doesn't it seem wrong to tally up accomplishments which can be swayed so easily by a possession here or there?

I'm glad Tracy McGrady didn't get a cheap ring.

so if Heat don't get wild rebound, LeBron doesn't then hit a 3, then they don't get another wild rebound, and doesn't Ray hit a 3...LeBron ends up with one less ring in his career. Say he would wind up with 5 instead of 6. Since per Lord Jord we can't judge a player's career by 15 possessions let alone 2, doesn't it seem wrong to tally up accomplishments which can be swayed so easily by a possession here or there?

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, June 22, 2013 3:04 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well you're putting a lot of stock into what you admit are events based in a large part on good fortune, so think about that a minute

I am? I'm not one who judges a players *gag* legacy mainly on number of rings. I'm arguing against putting a lot of stock in these events, so think about that for a minute.

wasn't that entire post about counting rings? i don't care about counting rings. jordan doesn't either i don't think

doesn't it seem wrong to tally up accomplishments which can be swayed so easily by a possession here or there?

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, June 22, 2013 3:04 AM (52 minutes ago)

yes

So you initially disagreed with me reflexively. Understandable.

no i just misunderstood your question, i thought you were pro-ring counting

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/66331/why-the-heats-big-three-are-champions-and-the-nbas-star-system-works

has lowe been using pop culture references since before joining grantland? i want him to stop

anyway good article

so if Heat don't get wild rebound, LeBron doesn't then hit a 3, then they don't get another wild rebound, and doesn't Ray hit a 3...LeBron ends up with one less ring in his career. Say he would wind up with 5 instead of 6. Since per Lord Jord we can't judge a player's career by 15 possessions let alone 2, doesn't it seem wrong to tally up accomplishments which can be swayed so easily by a possession here or there?

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, June 22, 2013 3:04 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hay if the ping pong ball bounces slightly more to the right, Lebron James might be in his tenth year with the Denver Nuggets

we can dream!

More than 1,000 fans welcome Spurs home

http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/22/27/77/4816867/3/rawImage.jpg

how a fanbase should be

I don't recall him being horrible that game, but ugh 9 TOs cannot happen in a closeout game. But what really sticks out in my mind is his (and his team's) bizarre behavior right near the end. I've never seen an NBA team outright quit w/time left on the clock, not even in a relatively meaningless game January. I was flabbergasted.
Likewise he had a pretty decent lil game in game 6 in 2011 Finals, but for discussion of "greatest ever" that performance in a closeout Finals game at home is very underwhelming.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, June 22, 2013 1:26 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kobe vs phx game 7 in 2006? 2007? (I forget) was the mist blatant quit I've ever seen, playoffs or not

I'm still not sure what to make of the lebron "cavs jersey begone" game but he definitely quit by the end, I don't think his TEAM quit but they were confused and shell shocked for sure

i checked the scores briefly every night, pretty disappointed the spurs didnt win

that means a lot to me lagoose cram

http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/sports/2013-06-23/44b3e51d-d59d-4336-9f24-dbc3f3a0f9b4_LeBron_webgame7.gif

like a thousand daggers

Sorry bro :(

thats p trippy

i'm freakin out

that's kind of amazing

i like how several lebrons just sorta casper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQkyxNNNefg

ha I lold many a time

those are always a lot of fun

<3 lebatard

the greatest thing is gonna be when the heat inevitably lose and he does the reverse rant

http://i.imgur.com/D2omZ73.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Wa0g4is.jpg

haha

Wow even more surprising is that he is fully embracing his hairline there, like full on highlighting it.

mind clouded by championship, sweatband lost to history

aphex james presents trophylicker

https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/350350656760057856

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@KingJames i want your balls on my mouth let me deep throat em

easy there, Diana Fenty

The Pistons didn't "shut him down", no, but they did cause him to play at a much lower level than usual. Albeit, one that was still higher than 95% of the league, but prevented him from taking over games as he usually did, and with his team a bit more limited talent-wise than they would be a few years later, that was often enough to knock them back.

His Bulls lost to the Pistons THREE YEARS IN A ROW in the ECF

1990 ECFs: 32ppg 7rpg 6apg 2spg 45%FG

gm7 http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/199006030DET.html

hey remember that argument everybody got tired of back in June and moved on from?

i dont even remember

classic revive

i'm gonna remove my bookmark from this thread and pretend that danny grainer and neanderthal continue posting in this thread and this thread only until the end of time

cool