OKC is about 2 start a 3 game winning streak 2 win the Finals. (if Harden shows up 2 play that is)

I haven´t really followed basketball since the days of Larry Bird, Dr.J and Magic Johnson.

I would love to try to get into it but I think it´s a totally different world, and a totally different game in this day and age.

Ballers these days seem to have less class than the great Dr.J or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

I miss those days.

I kept thinking Miami and James would choke but they haven't yet, so I don't think they will. They've made a believer out of me.

I think Miami is going to win the series.

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RodeoSchro said:

I kept thinking Miami and James would choke but they haven't yet, so I don't think they will. They've made a believer out of me.

I think Miami is going to win the series.

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2 night?

Graycap23 said:

RodeoSchro said:

I kept thinking Miami and James would choke but they haven't yet, so I don't think they will. They've made a believer out of me.

I think Miami is going to win the series.

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2 night?

Could be, since it's at Miami.

RodeoSchro said:

Graycap23 said:

2 night?

Could be, since it's at Miami.

I love the commitment.

If OKC wins the finals. This Heat team will be the biggest bust ever.

But OKC blown it. So...

Graycap23 said:

OKC is about 2 start a 3 game winning streak 2 win the Finals. (if Harden shows up 2 play that is)

I hope your right? It's hard to beat a team that has a great player along with a bunch of Refs that must be Heat fans. Anytime somebody gets even close to touching Lebron.... they blow the whistle. Not to mention Lebron travels all of the time. Westbrook has been gettin hammered everytime he drives to the hole....and very rarely is the whistle blown. Not to mention Battier doing his best Vladi Divac impression by always flopping on the flooring trying to draw charges. I see another referee scandal on the horizon.....

jaimestarr79 said:

Graycap23 said:

OKC is about 2 start a 3 game winning streak 2 win the Finals. (if Harden shows up 2 play that is)

I hope your right? It's hard to beat a team that has a great player along with a bunch of Refs that must be Heat fans. Anytime somebody gets even close to touching Lebron.... they blow the whistle. Not to mention Lebron travels all of the time. Westbrook has been gettin hammered everytime he drives to the hole....and very rarely is the whistle blown. Not to mention Battier doing his best Vladi Divac impression by always flopping on the flooring trying to draw charges. I see another referee scandal on the horizon.....

I don't ever recall seeing the refs be this uneven in a Finals series.

KoolEaze said:

Graycap23 said:

jaimestarr79 said:

I hope your right? It's hard to beat a team that has a great player along with a bunch of Refs that must be Heat fans. Anytime somebody gets even close to touching Lebron.... they blow the whistle. Not to mention Lebron travels all of the time. Westbrook has been gettin hammered everytime he drives to the hole....and very rarely is the whistle blown. Not to mention Battier doing his best Vladi Divac impression by always flopping on the flooring trying to draw charges. I see another referee scandal on the horizon.....

I don't ever recall seeing the refs be this uneven in a Finals series.

Sure about that?

I personally will not be able 2b much of a sports fan any longer if the heat do win.... it will prove that money is what wins championships above anything else. You get a rich team to grab up all these superstars while having teams like the bobcats with record breaking losing seasons it shows somethings not right. I like to watch sports that is about competition and heart. The NBA and NASCAR were the only two sports i found to really seem thrilling lately and both have been shown to be money controlled just like the yankees in MLB.

^ Look at the history of the NBA it's always been a superstar-driven league - the Showtime Lakers, Bird's Celtics, Dr. J & Malone's Sixers, Jordan & Pippen's Bulls, Wilt's Lakers, the ShaqKobe Lakers, etc. What Miami did is nothing new - you need at least two superstars to have a chance at winning. As for the Bobcats, blame their woes on the inept front office.

I am SO tired of the hate for Lebron James. All he did was exercise his right as an American citizen to choose where he wants to work. Being a Knick fan, I detest the Heat(not because of Lebron), but I hope they finish this to silence the haters.

Graycap23 said:

OKC is about 2 start a 3 game winning streak 2 win the Finals. (if Harden shows up 2 play that is)

It's nice to dream, but this series is rigged for Miami to win it....it's obvious as day. I want OKC to win too, but it's over tonight

Timmy84 said:

Graycap23 said:

I don't ever recall seeing the refs be this uneven in a Finals series.

Sure about that?

When would u say they were this bad 4 an entire series?

Graycap23 said:

Timmy84 said:

Sure about that?

When would u say they were this bad 4 an entire series?

I've seen some questionable calls in the past...

Timmy84 said:

Graycap23 said:

When would u say they were this bad 4 an entire series?

I've seen some questionable calls in the past...

Slanted toward 1 team 4 an entire series?

ixtafter7493 said:

Timmy84 said:

Graycap23 said:

When would u say they were this bad 4 an entire series?

I've seen some questionable calls in the past...

Ahh....That last Laker title against Detroit was bogus.

Graycap23 said:

Timmy84 said:

I've seen some questionable calls in the past...

Slanted toward 1 team 4 an entire series?

Lemme ask you a question though...

For every team that ever got slighted because of so-called "rigged interference", what has been the response from the offensive team? Like during the final stretch?

What is more important? That refs fucked up a team's dreams or did that team not get over that hump to at least give the other team more competition?

Shit's much deeper than rigged referees and there's been a lot of refs in the past accused of rigging it for the other team so it ain't like this has become too big of an ordeal to deal with.

You yourself said that the OKC boys were at fault for their last loss. Let's not mention Cerebus said that dude was missing important free throws and making bad plays. Ref rigging is not a good excuse. It's quite a lopsided view in how one views how a game goes because of bad calls.

Timmy84 said:

Graycap23 said:

Slanted toward 1 team 4 an entire series?

Lemme ask you a question though...

For every team that ever got slighted because of so-called "rigged interference", what has been the response from the offensive team? Like during the final stretch?

What is more important? That refs fucked up a team's dreams or did that team not get over that hump to at least give the other team more competition?

Shit's much deeper than rigged referees and there's been a lot of refs in the past accused of rigging it for the other team so it ain't like this has become too big of an ordeal to deal with.

You yourself said that the OKC boys were at fault for their last loss. Let's not mention Cerebus said that dude was missing important free throws and making bad plays. Ref rigging is not a good excuse. It's quite a lopsided view in how one views how a game goes because of bad calls.

At the end of the day, players have 2 execute in these games. Refs or no refs the players have 2 do their jobs and OKC has not. The ONLY game I recall where the ref really screwed a team was the Bulls in 1994 when the ref called a foul on Pippen at the end of the game against the scrub from Carolina. One of the worst calls of all time.

Graycap23 said:

Timmy84 said:

Lemme ask you a question though...

For every team that ever got slighted because of so-called "rigged interference", what has been the response from the offensive team? Like during the final stretch?

What is more important? That refs fucked up a team's dreams or did that team not get over that hump to at least give the other team more competition?

Shit's much deeper than rigged referees and there's been a lot of refs in the past accused of rigging it for the other team so it ain't like this has become too big of an ordeal to deal with.

You yourself said that the OKC boys were at fault for their last loss. Let's not mention Cerebus said that dude was missing important free throws and making bad plays. Ref rigging is not a good excuse. It's quite a lopsided view in how one views how a game goes because of bad calls.

At the end of the day, players have 2 execute in these games. Refs or no refs the players have 2 do their jobs and OKC has not. The ONLY game I recall where the ref really screwed a team was the Bulls in 1994 when the ref called a foul on Pippen at the end of the game against the scrub from Carolina. One of the worst calls of all time.

See what I mean? If you can't continue to do your part in helping your team, it's hopeless then. But yeah that was one fucked up game in '94...

Timmy84 said:

Graycap23 said:

At the end of the day, players have 2 execute in these games. Refs or no refs the players have 2 do their jobs and OKC has not. The ONLY game I recall where the ref really screwed a team was the Bulls in 1994 when the ref called a foul on Pippen at the end of the game against the scrub from Carolina. One of the worst calls of all time.

See what I mean? If you can't continue to do your part in helping your team, it's hopeless then. But yeah that was one fucked up game in '94...

True but if a game is 5 points or less and refs jacked u on 3 possessions.........that is the game.

Graycap23 said:

Timmy84 said:

See what I mean? If you can't continue to do your part in helping your team, it's hopeless then. But yeah that was one fucked up game in '94...

True but if a game is 5 points or less and refs jacked u on 3 possessions.........that is the game.

Unless the ref purposely calls you for out of bounds or something, then... OKC just gotta dominate 100%. Don't lead first half and then lose steam the second. Then ref rigging won't be much of a problem.

I would love for the Thunder to win. But Miami won't blow it.

Timmy84 said:

Graycap23 said:

True but if a game is 5 points or less and refs jacked u on 3 possessions.........that is the game.

Unless the ref purposely calls you for out of bounds or something, then... OKC just gotta dominate 100%. Don't lead first half and then lose steam the second. Then ref rigging won't be much of a problem.

100% is hard 2 do. Maybe Miami is just the better team.

Graycap23 said:

Timmy84 said:

Unless the ref purposely calls you for out of bounds or something, then... OKC just gotta dominate 100%. Don't lead first half and then lose steam the second. Then ref rigging won't be much of a problem.

100% is hard 2 do. Maybe Miami is just the better team.

Hey ain't that where that saying "go hard or go home" come in handy?

Timmy84 said:

Graycap23 said:

100% is hard 2 do. Maybe Miami is just the better team.

Hey ain't that where that saying "go hard or go home" come in handy?

4 sho.