THE GLAZED DONUT FACE-OFF -- spurs! heat! it's the NBA finals 2014, where little fatasses happen

The Spurs look like a better constructed team with pieces that function very smoothly together. The Heat are more of an unpredictable makeshift team full of talented pieces that don't quite blend sometimes - although last season they had those 29 (or thereabouts) consecutive wins, so they are obviously capable of putting together a long run of outstanding play. That ensures it goes 6 or 7. No one's getting swept or humiliated.

To my mind, what could stop the Spurs would be injuries, or several of the Heat's role players like Allen, Battier, Birdman and Cole playing way above their heads for most of the series. I'm betting against that.

Spurs in 6 or 7.

In 1984, the Celtics and Lakers did battle in that year's NBA Finals. The Celtics were 62-20 during the regular season while the Lakers were 54-28. The NBA welcomed a new commissioner in David Stern, replacing Larry O'Brien on April 1, 1984. The Finals that season was also the last time the Finals used the 2-2-1-1-1 format before going to the 2-3-2 format in 1985.

In 2014, the Spurs and Heat will do battle in this year's NBA Finals. The Spurs were 62-20 during the regular season and the Heat were 54-28. The NBA welcomed a new commissioner in Adam Silver on February 1, replacing David Stern. This Finals will be, for the first time since 1984, using the 2-2-1-1-1 format.

And Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy!

forgot we're going 2-2-1-1-1 from now on, that's great.

this poll is a cop out

i don't feel comfortable in this prediction but i'm going heat in 6

my reasoning

- the heat have been eviscerating good defenses the entire playoffs
- the heat's rotation is more settled than it normally is
- tony parker is hurt
- the heat have lebron james

spurs in 6, revenge for last year my estimate

spurs in 7

i just feel like predicting whether a series is going to go 6 or 7 is a meaningless distinction and basically comes down to luck. the question is whether the heat will win easily or in a tight series or the spurs will win easily or in a tight series

Last year I took the Spurs in 7 and a fat lot of good that did me.

- the heat have been eviscerating good defenses the entire playoffs

I'm not entirely sure the bobcats or nets or pacers count as great defenses this spring. Decent-to-good maybe, but the latter two weren't nearly as fresh as Miami going into their respective series and who even knows with Indy. They definitely had huge defensive lapses all series long.

but none of those teams had an offense remotely as solid as San Antonio's.

pacers & bobcats were top 6 defenses (brooklyn sucked) and the heat's o rating over the playoffs would've led the nba in the regular season

the offense has been on fire

I also have a thing where like Miami won as exactly as many games as Houston and Portland, while playing about half their schedule against absolutely dire opposition. they could have been the sixth seed in the west. How badly would okc have trashed the pacers in a series? I think pretty badly. Miami got it to look competitive. Idk, it's hard to tell b/c the east/west thing might be fool's gold, too. xp

the heat also openly don't try in the regular season and play like 1/4 of the year w/o one of their best players

that's fair, actually.

yeah, the whole "sit creaky-ass Wade" strat this year really did make a difference

to counter tho SA hadn't played a single player more than 14 minutes in a game this entire year.

the series is basically a toss up imo i just think the heat will win and if they do probably at home

iirc wade's game started to deteriorate in the ECF last year and he was basically awful for much of the finals minus a few spurts? i forget

I remember manu was completely awful throughout the finals last year but don't rc wade much

xp it was even before then, I think. Wade's played much better this post-season

yeah manu was just so, so bad

he seems to be better too

This somehow makes Riverside sound exotic

https://espngrantland.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/mapfixed1152.png

Agree that this is a tossup. It was a tossup last year and both teams are basically the same with minor offsetting improvements/regressions across the board.

i think this will be a right series but if one team is going to blow the other one out, it's gonna be the spurs. if that makes sense

makes sense but idk, both teams have blowout potential i think. not like the spurs have been playing perfectly, they got lit by okc a couple times. and TP isn't right so...

what's up with Parker? Sore ankles right? He's got another couple days of rest, might be fine by Thursday.

probably but who knows, ankles can be weird

If Steph Curry can get apparently right, Parker can.

As a Mavericks fan I hope the finals somehow end in a draw and everybody agrees that nobody won

spurs in five

spurs

i think the spurs will win this series

a friend sent me footage of a recent vampire weekend show in houston where someone was waving a spurs flag around, likely annoying everyone around them. behavior like that will curse your team, so heat in 6 or 7.

Important query to m bison: in your most intimate moments, do you call Manu "Obi-Wan"?

ca. 05, my brother wore a bootleg obiwan ginobili shirt

manu is just manu in my house

u named your kid manu tho right

nope
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Ben_-_Jorge_Ben_Album.jpg

hah dope

btw spurs are winning bc fucking tim duncan said so

Sometimes grandpa says things and everyone ignores him

threadbanned
anyone else wanna throw stones at the throne? yall forget that ILH is my personal fiefdom?

haha

spurs, 6

yeah leaning towards spurs in 6 i'd like to see game one before making a call but that's cheating now isn't it

can someone explain the thread title to me

http://extramustard.si.com/2014/01/01/carmelo-anthony-glazed-donut-face-meme/

also popovich callee patty mills a "little fatass"

this thread title is as close as melo will ever get to the finals

they are totally going to be player-coaching some team in a french league at age 45 just for laughs

https://s3.yimg.com/sr/img/1/5bb4749b-9d4e-3e7d-a107-e85951c0b782

beaut

howd they do that big ass flash

Wow! That belongs in 100 classic photos i think.

Are the shadows photoshopped on?

It's under editorial photos in getty, so probably not

yeah you can see the light on their bodies uniforms etc someone set off a huge flash

I could getty archive all day man

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/billy-crystal-and-janice-crystal-attend-an-nba-playoff-game-news-photo/488111951

how would they have been able to do that in the middle of the game without blinding everyone in the arena?

what im wondering

i know ive seen this effect before just not w a full court shot

Seems that Ray Allen would be the only person on court to be blinded?

there were these cool photos from a recent season that were super high contrast done w a flash like someone dunking and u see the players but the background is totally black but i cant find them

I'm really curious how they got that effect. The court floors are completely lit up all over during the game, so like kevin mentioned, how could you produce a giant flash strong enough to make those shadows and not completely disrupt the arena?

illuminati flash bulbs

i miss when the spurs were destroying the heat every night they shd keep doing it

when's the dang draft i'm bored already

OTM petition to rename the Spurs the Harlem Globetrotters and the Heat the Washington General

http://i.imgur.com/ZM5ymYk.png

here u go i got u a present

good plan thanks!

https://vine.co/v/MTWT30HQ51u

lol

http://i.imgur.com/aRcX08d.png

You got something to explain buddy

lmao @ pop

lol guess u guys found my secret acct for spreading my pop fan vines and pop fanfiction

http://i.imgur.com/ZM5ymYk.png

here u go i got u a present

― Clay, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

Be The Ainge You Want To See In The World

niice

haha

lol

The onion is always great with the Tim Duncan news

http://www.theonion.com/articles/tim-duncan-busy-at-san-antonio-zoning-office-plann,36301/

haw!

hahahaha

Be The Ainge You Want To See In The World

Would be a great fantasy name if it weren't so long.

bumping this for historical hoops research purposes

still have the last game of the spurs/heat playoffs on the tivo for occasional lolwatching

I SAW IT TOO I WASNT SURE IF IT WAS MY BODY DRUGS PLAYING MIND TRICKS
--smooth hymnal (m bison)

basically kawhi says fuck you
--smooth hymnal (m bison)

IVE NEVER DONE DRUGS BUT I FEEL LIKE DRUGS ARE IN MY BODY RN
--smooth hymnal (m bison)

this joy is wonderful to see

wish I'd be on ilx for this dang

*been. goddam phone

just read this whole thing it was good recommended

i was rly funny itt, my favorite team should win the championship more

this thread title is as close as melo will ever get to the finals

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 3, 2014 6:45 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol'd at this

still one of the worst thread titles in the history of ILH

smh it was a great thread title

fuck a melo reference in a nba finals thread title

still one of the worst thread titles in the history of ILH

― 龜, Wednesday, June 3, 2015 1:06 PM

ha im generally not a fan of the ilx rambling jokey thread title style altogether but the glazed donut face off cracks me up for some reason idk to each his own

glazed donut face off is hilarious

i'll say my peace and i'll never mention it again - seemed really non sequitur to take a throwaway melo quote and use that as a title for a finals thread that melo was nowhere near. trying to save it with a connection to pop just idk ok i'm done

glazed donut face off is just funny by itself, i had been wanting to use that for a while. plus there's the connection with the patty/pop quote