****2012 NBA FINALS DISCUSSION THREAD****

[bigeastbumrush]

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Does someone have to be blamed every time a team loses?

Dude...no one is blaming one person.

To answer your question...Yes. It's sports.

[jeebs9]

I'll re watch the game in the morning. Night gentleman. Another great game. A bit sloppy. But good plays all around.

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[ProfessaPackMan]

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Yeah they do...it's just popular to defend him b/c so many media are all over him.

Oh so that's why people defend him.

Learn something new everyday on here.

[DukeC]

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There's a LOT of guys in the league that are better shooters than Durant. He's probably the best scorer in the league. That doesn't make him the best shooter.

Eh. I don't really think there is anyone with a better mid-range game in the NBA right now. Maybe Kobe or Melo, but that's because Melo likes to settle for that shot rather than being actually good at it and Kobe because he certainly can't shoot 3's anymore.

Yes, I consider being able to shoot from mid-range a part of being a great shooter. If you can't shoot from mid-range you're nothing other than a specialist and you can be run off the 3 point line fairly often, if not everytime, unless you get an off-ball screen.

If you can shoot from mid-range that means the defense has to pick their poison, especially with someone as tall and as long (No homo) as Durant. Do they close out hard, giving him enough space for a two dribble pullup? Or do they close out with less urgency, but still enough room to get a clean look off?

That's what is so scary about Durant. If you don't contest hard he'll simply shoot over you. If you contest too hard he'll get just enough room to shoot a relatively wide open mid-range jumper, where he hardly ever misses.

[Jasong7777]

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As bad as they played, the Thunder were still only a 3 away from tying the game late. I expect Durant to go off in game 4. I mean, I guess he's going to try to.

[XFactah416]

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Does someone have to be blamed every time a team loses?

Yes, not only in sports but in life in general, people need a scapegoat.

I think the media has gotten to Russell Westbrook and Scott Brooks though. They need Russell to play aggressive and tonight he didn't play as aggressive as he was in the other games.

[bigeastbumrush]

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Wonderwoman flirting with Barkley and Shaq on NBA TV.

Hilarious.

[Checmate101]

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Dude Bosh gets the game ball for me...

[The 24th Letter]

Dude...no one is blaming one person.

To answer your question...Yes. It's sports.

Oh, maybe I completely misread the last 3 pages on Russell Westbrook then

[King_B_Mack]

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But why put yourself in that position he was hacking and **** before the foul call. The Heat were gonna run clock and all he had to is sag off until the last 10 of the shot clock and then play tough but he out there hacking and **** at the half court line. Mental mistake.

Hacking? If that was hacking we'd never get through a game cause that's on every play. He even cleanly knocked the ball away at one point. Maybe he shouldn't have put himself in that position, but that doesn't suddenly excuse the ref for being a *******.

Naah, it's time for refs and the League to start punishing these floppers by calling blocking fouls.

If they did that all the time? Sure, go right ahead, but don't suddenly decide it's time to punish floppers in the fourth friggin quarter of the Finals with about 17 seconds left. Especially when they were quite a few flops on both teams that they could've been dealing out punishments for earlier.

[BleacherBum2310]

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Okay. Whaaa? are you thinking?

Derek Fisher: 28 minutes. Serge Ibaka: 22 minutes

[DukeC]

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People really don't remember why Brooks sat Russ after that stretch of plays he had?

Dudes are really acting like they can't remember Westbrook jacking up a quick shot, doing the shot clock cheese from 2k, then 3 straight turnovers (Threw the ball away twice, then had a charge drawn on him)?

Are dudes memories that bad?

The moment Durant steppedd off the court Westbrook tried to take over...but made it worse. That's why he was taken out.

Harden couldn't make anything though, so that's the lasting impression people had I guess.

[JODYE]

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Hacking? If that was hacking we'd never get through a game cause that's on every play. He even cleanly knocked the ball away at one point. Maybe he shouldn't have put himself in that position, but that doesn't suddenly excuse the ref for being a *******.

Don't even get me started on the officiating in this series.

I don't know what's worse at this point, Boxing or the NBA.

[inkcil]

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Hacking? If that was hacking we'd never get through a game cause that's on every play. He even cleanly knocked the ball away at one point. Maybe he shouldn't have put himself in that position, but that doesn't suddenly excuse the ref for being a *******.



If they did that all the time? Sure, go right ahead, but don't suddenly decide it's time to punish floppers in the fourth friggin quarter of the Finals with about 17 seconds left. Especially when they were quite a few flops on both teams that they could've been dealing out punishments for earlier.

I agree with that...it's not fair to pick and choose when to punish the floppers. Either let them flop or punish them for it the whole game (it's too much to ask refs to be consistent for more than one game in a row).

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Harden's play shouldn't have been a foul but it was stupid at the same time

That was a no call...

Oh and OKC if they would've hit those FTs would be in a much better position tonight