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2012 Finals !!

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Who wins the Finals?

  • OKC in 4

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • OKC in 5

    Votes: 15 13.0%

  • OKC in 6

    Votes: 71 61.7%

  • OKC in 7

    Votes: 8 7.0%

  • Other team in 4

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Other team in 5

    Votes: 2 1.7%

  • Other team in 6

    Votes: 10 8.7%

  • Other team in 7

    Votes: 5 4.3%

  • I don't care either way.

    Votes: 2 1.7%
  • Total voters
    115
  • Poll closed .
metalman213 said:
Honestly, I see the NBA heading the other way. Kevin Love, Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose, etc. have all stayed on their respective teams (and have the personality that makes me think they wont leave) and are the future of the NBA given how young they are.
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One of these is not like the others. K-Love is not even a make-the-playoffs caliber player right now after 4 seasons in the league, even with an at least adequate supporting cast like Barea/Rubio/Beasley/DWilliams (and before you say "but look at how hard the Western Conference is!!" the playoff teams in each conference had virtually identical records this year, and yet I doubt he would've made it even if Rubio stayed healthy.) Even so, he continues to threaten to leave if the team doesn't shape up.

As for the others, Derrick Rose hasn't led his team to a championship appearance and may never be the same again (and even if he stayed healthy, Chicago didn't seem to match up as well against Miami as Boston did.) I am not ready to write off Durant yet, though.
 
It's been real, Fellas. I'm off to do something less painful than this exercise - like burn off my nut-hairs with a lighter. After dousing them with lighter fluid.
 
Pioneer10 said:
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Hardest I laughed in awhile. Hilarious. Plus its a fresh prince episode which makes it funnier.
 
theonejoeyd said:
Spurs would have beat the Heat.
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I thought so, too, and I even answered in the negative in the "are the two best teams in the league playing in the finals" ESPN question before the series started.

I am not ready to write off OKC yet, though.
 
HlmgrnsPhilsphy said:
One of these is not like the others. K-Love is not even a make-the-playoffs caliber player right now after 4 seasons in the league, even with an at least adequate supporting cast like Barea/Rubio/Beasley/DWilliams (and before you say "but look at how hard the Western Conference is!!" the playoff teams in each conference had virtually identical records this year, and yet I doubt he would've made it even if Rubio stayed healthy.) Even so, he continues to threaten to leave if the team doesn't shape up.

As for the others, Derrick Rose hasn't led his team to a championship appearance and may never be the same again (and even if he stayed healthy, Chicago didn't seem to match up as well against Miami as Boston did.) I am not ready to write off Durant yet, though.
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It doesnt matter if they make the playoffs, or even the championship. The point is they have been loyal so far. Hopefully like Kyrie will be when hes a free agent.

But it is early in their careers. They just seem to have really good attitudes.
 
theonejoeyd said:
Spurs would have beat the Heat.
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They would had a WAY better chance since they are 'smaller' and play more to the Heat's weakness (3-point defense).

Pop would have made some moves but then again he kinda ran out of ideas in the OKC series as his guys were just too slow defensively.

SJax would have won Finals MVP btw.
 
brownindian said:
Yet another sad day in the history of Cleveland Sports is going to happen.
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I have never been a fan of the "list of players who have won right after they left Cleveland."

Many of the names are completely incidental, are of players who had a minimal role on those championship teams, and it has nothing to do with Cleveland being somehow "championship-proof" (i.e. WTF does putting Bernie Kosar, who did in fact have "diminishing skills," on the list mean?)
 
metalman213 said:
It doesnt matter if they make the playoffs, or even the championship. The point is they have been loyal so far. Hopefully like Kyrie will be when hes a free agent.

But it is early in their careers. They just seem to have really good attitudes.
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My point is the merely very good players are loyal...but the championship-caliber players seem to be the colluders.
 
HlmgrnsPhilsphy said:
My point is the merely very good players are loyal...but the championship-caliber players seem to be the colluders.
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Lebron never won a championship in cleveland, neither did Bosh in Toronto.

You dont think that if Rose, Love, and Durant joined together they would be a championship team?
 
metalman213 said:
Lebron never won a championship in cleveland, neither did Bosh in Toronto.

You dont think that if Rose, Love, and Durant joined together they would be a championship team?
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Durant < LeBron (even if not by much)
Rose/Wade = push (we'll assume that Wade's age and Rose's probable diminished skills coming back cancel out, in addition to the fact that Rose has never proven himself the same degree of playoff leader/closer)
Love <<< Bosh, especially on defense

Then you have the supporting cast. Keep in mind that virtually any market other than Miami or LAL requires paying comparable players much more than in those markets.
 
I think the funniest thing is OKC is still in this, if they come back and win the series I'll lol.
 
Probably mentioned before but the Heat were up 2-1 last year as well.. Dallas ended up winning 3 straight to close out and win the championship. Still, I don't think it's fair to compare this Thunder team to Dallas '11 and Heat '11 to Heat '12.
 
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