2012 Finals !!

[Rich]

I'm going to remain ever optimistic and say the THunder will still win. It just seems that they are good enough and talented enough to pull it out. I know they are making dumb mistakes, but that ends at some point. And Harden CANT continue to be this bad. I mean if he shows up even in the slightest this series looks way different.

EDIT: Well, I guess I just don't want to believe HArden can continue to be this bad. I was buying into the whole Harden as a great player thing and possibly worth max money. I want him to be as good as people thought he was and as I was starting to think he was.

 

[mhi]

No way OKC can compete, their coach is just not putting them in 'winning' situations.

 

[locopro]

I'm going to remain ever optimistic and say the THunder will still win. It just seems that they are good enough and talented enough to pull it out. I know they are making dumb mistakes, but that ends at some point. And Harden CANT continue to be this bad. I mean if he shows up even in the slightest this series looks way different.

I doubt it, unfortunately it seems the Heat are the better team, and if they end it in only 5 games it will be hard to argue with people otherwise.

 

[jay_em]

Yea, no one has ever seen LeBron fake an injury before. Ever. It's never happened once before. Not once.

This guy, man.

Im sure he has, but weve NEVER SEEN HIM SIT OUT A LARGE PORTION OF A CLOSE NBA FINALS GAME......

c'mon it makes no feaking sense ....outside of residual decision anger....

 

[Heights]

I wouldn't be nearly as worked up over the Heat's potential series win if it wasn't for Gilbert's guarantee about winning a ring before LeBron. Wish he would have worded the phrase as "the Cavs will win more championships than the self-titled former king (or whatever he called him there)", because honestly, the franchise is probably in a better place now for a long-term championship run than they would have been even with Lebron.

Instead, he set up the city and organization to be the butt of many jokes and target of the media, and that kinda sucks.

I still have faith in OKC though pulling the miraculous comeback.

 

[Rich]

I wouldn't be nearly as worked up over the Heat's potential series win if it wasn't for Gilbert's guarantee about winning a ring before LeBron. Wish he would have worded the phrase as "the Cavs will win more championships than the self-titled former king (or whatever he called him there)", because honestly, the franchise is probably in a better place now for a long-term championship run than they would have been even with Lebron.

Instead, he set up the city and organization to be the butt of many jokes and target of the media, and that kinda sucks.

I still have faith in OKC though pulling the miraculous comeback.

Didn't realize we still worried about this.

 

[adanchristian]

No way OKC can compete, their coach is just not putting them in 'winning' situations.

I've been saying that since game 2. Scott Brooks has made a lot of weird choices with rotations and defensive assignments.
And Perkins has no business playing in these finals, he's useless. The problem is that OKC is thin on frontcourt players: Perks, Collison and Ibaka are the only guys that play near the basket. All the rest are perimeter players.

 

[Triumph36]

No way OKC can compete, their coach is just not putting them in 'winning' situations.

my dream is for them to let brooks go and throw a bunch of money at svg. then a re-match in the finals when they'll be more experienced and actually have a good coach allowing them to crush mia

I still have faith in OKC though pulling the miraculous comeback.

obv lebron tore his acl and will miss the rest of the series opening up okc's window for the comeback

I've been saying that since game 2. Scott Brooks has made a lot of weird choices with rotations and defensive assignments.
And Perkins has no business playing in these finals, he's useless. The problem is that OKC is thin on frontcourt players: Perks, Collison and Ibaka are the only guys that play near the basket. All the rest are perimeter players.

yes but being thin up front is fine so long as collision and ibaka stay out of foul trouble.

going small is a good thing for okc.

 

[randymoss1881]

look if okc takes game 5, the heat will have all the pressure in the world. okc would be favored in game 6 at home (stern will be salavating at a game 7) and if we go to 7 james will crash like he did tonight. lets hope westbrook can get to the line more than2 times, he need to attack the basket more. oh wait

 

[The Oi]

Harden sucking is OKC's second biggest problem after youth and inexperience. Brooks's rotations are a distant third.

 

[Heights]

Didn't realize we still worried about this.

I don't know about you, but it is something I think about, and I'm sure many others too. Wish I didn't, but it is what it is. I care about the image of my city, and hate that it is almost always being seen negatively.

 

[adanchristian]

Oh, almost forgot the refs. OKC gets no calls on drives. Ever.

Westbrooks attacked the rim all night and shot 3(!!!) free-throws, and 2 were on a jumpshot.
Wade got away with a lot of contact in that Harden steal and fast-break that he missed.
It's disgusting.

 

[billmac91]

Third quarter was criminal. This game is called by imcompetent people and it ruins the fun.

 

[Walter White]

Like I said, and others, LeBron minutes was eventually gonna catch up with him. Alot of those guys actually have been playing 40+ minutes because it is such a small rotations. But got to give them credit for leaving everything out on the line and pushing it and giving all they have. Last year they seemed to think they could coast and win and it didn't work.

 

[Walter White]

Harden sucking is OKC's second biggest problem after youth and inexperience. Brooks's rotations are a distant third.

Ibaka hasn't played that well either. I think the biggest problem is Thunder can't match up very well at all. Its not Brooks rotations necessarily, but it isn't his fault they can't match up. Who thought Heats role players would play that well though.