Spurs vs Heat - The official 2013 NBA Championship thread!

[illmatic99]

#Iaintgotnoworries

That's going on a t-shirt.

 

[RoyToy]

I don't think Miami even makes it back next year.

 

[OregonHuskerMan]

HATERS GONNA HATE

HEAT GONNA WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS

 

[PapaG]

HATERS GONNA HATE

HEAT GONNA WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS

I agree. It's LeBron's league, and we're all just watching it.

Wade had a 20/10 game tonight, too. Bosh needs to be replaced.

 

[Pinwheel1]

I agree. It's LeBron's league, and we're all just watching it.

Wade had a 20/10 game tonight, too. Bosh needs to be replaced.

The funny part is he was one free throw away from being roasted for choking. Not that he did mind you, but he would have been ridiculed by a lot of idiots. He looked absolutely shell shocked when the Heat were down by 5. He bricked the first 3 pt attempt and he missed it so badly he got another chance. And the rest is history. A missed rebound and a missed free throw and his ass was saved.

 

[illmatic99]

HAHAA Dwyane and Battier both drunk as shit right now

 

[Drttimmy]

Both teams reminded me why I don't like them.

I kept reading to find something I agreed with, and here it is. Also, judging from Ginobli and Bosh's performances, you don't need need three stars to win a championship in today's NBA. There's a little more hope for the Blazers.

 

[PapaG]

How about Kawhi Leonard? The next Shawn Marion? Sure seems like it.

 

[MickZagger]

I can't believe it took the Heat and supposedly the best player in the game 7 games to finish off a washed up Spurs team. Duncan was winning titles before Lebron was in high school.

 

[MickZagger]

I don't think Miami even makes it back next year.

I agree. They had to sneak past the Pacers in 7 and then had to comeback and win the Finals in 7 against a team chalk full of has-beens.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I don't think Miami even makes it back next year.

Yup. Just like they weren't supposed to win this year. And they weren't going to win last year. And LeBron chokes at the end of games.

missing anything?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

HAHAA Dwyane and Battier both drunk as shit right now

To be fair, this is only the second time Battier's consumed alcohol.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I agree. It's LeBron's league, and we're all just watching it.

Wade had a 20/10 game tonight, too. Bosh needs to be replaced.

Heat sign Oden over the summer and the dominance continues! :MARIS61:

LeBron's performance was legendary tonight.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

The way I see it, LeBron has about 10 more years in the league...he has to win 3 championships in those 10 years to overtake Kobe...based on regular season and finals MVP, he's already there but if he matches or exceed's Kobe's rings, all those laker fans will have to find something new to cry about. lol. I think he can do it, and if he does, the butthurt from L*ker fans will. be. awesome.

 

[huevonkiller]

The way I see it, LeBron has about 10 more years in the league...he has to win 3 championships in those 10 years to overtake Kobe...based on regular season and finals MVP, he's already there but if he matches or exceed's Kobe's rings, all those laker fans will have to find something new to cry about. lol. I think he can do it, and if he does, the butthurt from L*ker fans will. be. awesome.

Oh awesome, I somewhat agree.

LeBron already has more win shares in the playoffs than all of Kobe's career, though. I think LeBron is already better career-wise.

 

[huevonkiller]

Heat sign Oden over the summer and the dominance continues! :MARIS61:

LeBron's performance was legendary tonight.

Nah I would say Birdman fills that role nicely, he was basically the second or third best player on our team according to the advanced stats.

The Heat need a new floor spacer at the 4.

 

[crandc]

Of all the teams in the playoffs, the Heat were my second least liked (after Lakers of course). Sigh. After Game 6 all I could think of was the 1986 Red Sox throwing away the trophy - and losing officially in Game 7. Uncharacteristic loss of composure for the Spurs down the stretch of both games.

Oh well, back to baseball.

 

[BBert]

The way I see it, LeBron has about 10 more years in the league...he has to win 3 championships in those 10 years to overtake Kobe...based on regular season and finals MVP, he's already there but if he matches or exceed's Kobe's rings, all those laker fans will have to find something new to cry about. lol. I think he can do it, and if he does, the butthurt from L*ker fans will. be. awesome.

Unless he gets like three of those rings playing for the Lakers.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Manu was a turnover machine!

 

[Denny Crane]

Manu was a turnover machine!

Really? I thought he was the best player on the Heat last night.

 

[BBert]

It was sad to see the Spurs fall apart like that at the end. And still without amazing shooting nights from Lebron and Battier, the Spurs win.

The good news is the Blazers top 4 players compare very favorably with the Spurs top 4, and the Spurs made it to the finals.

Let the optimism begin!

(Kingspeed: that's your que. )

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Obviously the moral of the story is: "Come at the King, you best not miss."

 

[mook]

If James showed a little more faith in his three point shooting, this series wouldn't have been nearly as close. In the last 3 games he could take an open three whenever he wanted, but his confidence in it was shaken. LeBron is superior to Kobe in virtually every way except this. You back off Kobe and concede wide open threes, and he'll take that shot every single time no matter how he's been shooting them, and the law of averages is such that he'll eventually kill you with it over 7 games.

 

[handiman]

Really? I thought he was the best player on the Heat last night.

He made inexplicably bad decisions every time the Spurs got a 1-game lead in the series, then turned the end of game 7 into a microcosm of a thrown series after starting the game fairly well.

 

[illmatic99]

If James showed a little more faith in his three point shooting, this series wouldn't have been nearly as close. In the last 3 games he could take an open three whenever he wanted, but his confidence in it was shaken. LeBron is superior to Kobe in virtually every way except this. You back off Kobe and concede wide open threes, and he'll take that shot every single time no matter how he's been shooting them, and the law of averages is such that he'll eventually kill you with it over 7 games.

Yup. Lebron looked like he was a bit scared of missing until the last game. Not a good trait for a top scorer, but it's good to have restraint and not chuck too much like Kobe and Melo.

 

[mook]

Yup. Lebron looked like he was a bit scared of missing until the last game. Not a good trait for a top scorer, but it's good to have restraint and not chuck too much like Kobe and Melo.

Yeah, LeBron doesn't really take bad shots, which is to his credit. But he doesn't take all the *good* shots.

 

[huevonkiller]

I'm amazed LeBron even had energy at all after 11 playoff win shares in two years, and an Olympic run.

I was very worried about his health. I hope he avoids a basketball for a couple of months.

Wade and Bosh looked broken down too, that's why the series was close.

 

[Boise Blazer]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-b...tml?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

After LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and the rest of the world champion Miami Heat — including owner Micky Arison, team president Pat Riley and head coach Erik Spoelstra — cut loose at the Miami nightclub Story following their Game 7 win over the San Antonio Spurs, there was no question that the back-to-back-championship celebration would be a big, loud, colorful, bottle-popping spectacle. The only real question was whether the victors would top the $200,000 bar tab they rolled up at LIV in June 2012 after beating the Oklahoma City Thunder for their first NBA championship.
The answer, it seems, is no. According to ESPN.com's Darren Rovell, the team only managed to ring up a paltry $100,000 in champagne cost. (File this under "acting like you've been there before," I guess.)
While still obviously staggeringly high, the halved bar tab is sort of surprising considering, for the second straight year, the owner of the club hosting the party ensured that the Heat didn't actually have to pay for their drinks. More from Rovell:
[Club owner] David Grutman [...] said the players ordered 100 bottles of Dom Perignon and three 3-liter bottles of champagne. Grutman said the club sells the standard 750-milliliter bottles of Dom Perignon for $850 each and the club sells 3-liter bottles, called Jeroboams, for $5,000.
"I'm not going to charge the Heat," Grutman said of the $100,000 value of comped alcohol.

 

[Run BJM]

I'm amazed LeBron even had energy at all after 11 playoff win shares in two years, and an Olympic run.

I was very worried about his health. I hope he avoids a basketball for a couple of months.

Wade and Bosh looked broken down too, that's why the series was close.

Speaking of broken down, if Ginobili hadn't fallen off so hard this year the Spurs would have mopped up in this series.

 

[Drttimmy]

If James showed a little more faith in his three point shooting, this series wouldn't have been nearly as close. In the last 3 games he could take an open three whenever he wanted, but his confidence in it was shaken. LeBron is superior to Kobe in virtually every way except this. You back off Kobe and concede wide open threes, and he'll take that shot every single time no matter how he's been shooting them, and the law of averages is such that he'll eventually kill you with it over 7 games.

For all his triple doubles and ultimately coming out victorious, the lasting impression I have from James this series is the missing stone cold killer instinct in his make-up. Yes, he made some big shots, but the shots that leave the lasting impression are the missed ones or the ones he chose not to take because of the tiny imprint of doubt that rattles around in the back recesses of his brain that really reveals itself when things aren't going well. He has the confidence of a proud stallion when his teammates are hitting shots and the crowd is into the game, but the same confidence is zapped when they aren't. I don't think it's something he can change, it's just a part of his human make-up. Few people and players have it, and it looks like it will be the asterisk on his legacy once he's done and retired.