Official 2013-14 NBA Thread

[playmaker88]

Oh, I didnt say it was funny.

 

[S2J]

I gotta disagree with you. I don't think any of the Miami championship teams were good teams. I think they were teams who had the best player in the league, a couple other superstars, and some decent role players. They weren't bad teams, but Lebron's greatness is a lot of what made them good.

To me, the fact that MIA won two championships is proof that Lebron could have won in Cleveland. That's just how weak the East is. He could have given them a chance to improve. They already went to the Finals once. They only needed a couple more pieces to be perennial championship contenders especially after Boston fell off.

Ngga...You just described 90% of championship teams in the history of the league lol smh tha fuk? SA THIS YEAR (not previous years, bc they were led by 3 HOFs!) and Dallas a few years ago were exceptions, not the rule.

 

[playmaker88]

Im saying though and better teams get beat all the time.

 

[S2J]

I'm convinced the dudes from Mike n Mike don't know shyt about basketball. .. smh...

Lol....u just noticibg that

They are football experts

They both said some stupid shyt that even a casual fan should sth at..

(Skinny mike) "if it comes down 2 picking a good team and a great player I would pick the great player to win" then turns around and says " this is not a discredit 2 lebron he just didn't have any help" when history shows in the nba you NEED a good team to win championships... why you think lebron left cleavland... or A . I don't have a ring.. ect..

(Big mike) "I picked the heat to win... but if I was betting money I would have chose the spurs"... so yo picked the team you knew was gonna lose just because you didn't bet money? Smh...

I gotta disagree with you. I don't think any of the Miami championship teams were good teams. I think they were teams who had the best player in the league, a couple other superstars, and some decent role players. They weren't bad teams, but Lebron's greatness is a lot of what made them good.

To me, the fact that MIA won two championships is proof that Lebron could have won in Cleveland. That's just how weak the East is. He could have given them a chance to improve. They already went to the Finals once. They only needed a couple more pieces to be perennial championship contenders especially after Boston fell off.

There is a place for this paragraph.

What's funny about it? The heat ain't that great of a team. They got Lebron, had a good Wade for a while, and play in a conference that has had no more than 2 good teams at any one time for the past 5 years. They pretty much get a free ride to the Finals every year. And out of those rides, they lost to Dallas, legitimately beat OKC, got a gimme from SA, and then got embarrassed by San Antonio. How can you characterize their two Finals losses? vs DAL: Lebron hadn't settled into his role, so his team was incapable of adjusting and they lost. vs SA2: Lebron played decently and no one else contributed much of anything. Which one of those characterizes how a good team responds?

There's no such thing. Last i checked you have to win 4 games, not 1. Look man...we gotta address this double standard. Everything the Heat does cant be just held to a different standard. When i was younger i held that "the Lakers got lucky" shyt for a while (Portland blowing that lead, Horry's shot vs Sac), but after w a while u gotta let it go. Lol History has no room for personal bias. A ring is a ring is a ring. There are no asterisks!

So the Heat lost, period. Got curb stomped. But you cant go back and diminish the titles they did win. If your logic was correct they'd get blown out vs the superior West every year. Truth is Miami, imo, would have beat or atleast went 7 with any team but SA. SA was just that much better than everybody.

 

[blackrain]

I'm convinced the dudes from Mike n Mike don't know shyt about basketball. .. smh...

Lol....u just noticibg that

They are football experts

They both said some stupid shyt that even a casual fan should sth at..

(Skinny mike) "if it comes down 2 picking a good team and a great player I would pick the great player to win" then turns around and says " this is not a discredit 2 lebron he just didn't have any help" when history shows in the nba you NEED a good team to win championships... why you think lebron left cleavland... or A . I don't have a ring.. ect..

(Big mike) "I picked the heat to win... but if I was betting money I would have chose the spurs"... so yo picked the team you knew was gonna lose just because you didn't bet money? Smh...

I gotta disagree with you. I don't think any of the Miami championship teams were good teams. I think they were teams who had the best player in the league, a couple other superstars, and some decent role players. They weren't bad teams, but Lebron's greatness is a lot of what made them good.

To me, the fact that MIA won two championships is proof that Lebron could have won in Cleveland. That's just how weak the East is. He could have given them a chance to improve. They already went to the Finals once. They only needed a couple more pieces to be perennial championship contenders especially after Boston fell off.

There is a place for this paragraph.

What's funny about it? The heat ain't that great of a team. They got Lebron, had a good Wade for a while, and play in a conference that has had no more than 2 good teams at any one time for the past 5 years. They pretty much get a free ride to the Finals every year. And out of those rides, they lost to Dallas, legitimately beat OKC, got a gimme from SA, and then got embarrassed by San Antonio. How can you characterize their two Finals losses? vs DAL: Lebron hadn't settled into his role, so his team was incapable of adjusting and they lost. vs SA2: Lebron played decently and no one else contributed much of anything. Which one of those characterizes how a good team responds?

There's no such thing. Last i checked you have to win 4 games, not 1. Look man...we gotta address this double standard. Everything the Heat does cant be just held to a different standard. When i was younger i held that "the Lakers got lucky" shyt for a while (Portland blowing that lead, Horry's shot vs Sac), but after w a while u gotta let it go. Lol History has no room for personal bias. A ring is a ring is a ring. There are no asterisks!

So the Heat lost, period. Got curb stomped. But you cant go back and diminish the titles they did win. If your logic was correct they'd get blown out vs the superior West every year. Truth is Miami, imo, would have beat or atleast went 7 with any team but SA. SA was just that much better than everybody.

That shit makes Miami haters, aka angry Bulls, Knicks, Jordan and Kobe stans, feel better and if the legacies theyre guarding in MJ and Kobe are more protected to diminish anything associated with LeBron. I said it last night some already going so hard to discredit Miami they're shitting on SA and what they accomplished not just last night but over the past 15 years in general. It boosts their own legends of Jordan and Kobe up to say LeBron lost to an inferior team when in reality Kobe lost to the Spurs too and there's no way to say for sure had Jordan played through those 2 years if he would've gotten the Bulls past Hakeem's Rockets.

 

[KneeGro_DuperMan]

You can say the same thing about the Lakers. They werent that good of a team. Two beasts surrounded by gabbage dominating, then a great team (2004 Pistons) was the last thing Shaq & Kobe saw together.

 

[playmaker88]

You know what ,when I think about it Miami's first year was their best in terms of cohesion amongst THE BIG 3 that newness was an asset to some degree because everyone had a share in the glory so to speak while wade and bosh sacrificed they played alot more free than they have these last few years and were a hell of a lot less predictable

 

[Knock_Twice]

Miami just didn't have a good team...The East was weak, like someone stated, "if" they were in the WEST, no way they would have made it past the second round...but "if"

 

[KingFreeman]

 

[bigmackrapper]

 

[Max.]

 

[S2J]

You know what when I think about it Miami's first year was their best in terms of cohesion amongst the big that newness was an asset to some degree because everyone had a share in the glory so to speak while wade and bosh sacrificed they played alot more free than they have these last few years and were a hell of a lot less predictable

Bruh...Yall are tryin too hard. 'Ya know...i...i think the team that lost was better than the repeat champs.'

Or yall just have shitty memories. Fyi, this was year 1's suporting cast:

Joel Anthony

Carlos Arroyo-retired the next year

Mike Bibby -retired the next year

Mario Chalmers

Erick Dampier-retired the next year

Udonis Haslem

Eddie House-retired the next year

Juwan Howard-retired the next year

Zydrunas Ilgauskas-retired the next year

James Jones

Jamaal Magloire-retired the next year

Mike Miller-hurt the whole year

Dexter Pittman

 

[RAPH]

'But, but, but, what about Kwahi'??

Fuk a Kwahi Leonard. He goiin up against a top 10 DOA player and nggas askin whats wrong?!?! R people serious?

Lebron can walk out and eliminate 80% of his opposing matchups just off athleticsm alone. It takes WORK to get buckets on Lebron.

@ bolded would addresses Kwahi

Should have hit him with this gif too lol... ether.

 

[KneeGro_DuperMan]

They playing Soccer with Lebron's head in Texas. Word to Timmy & Dirk

 

[R.D.]

When your core is LeBron, Wade, and Bosh, you don't get to have the "we don't have enough" excuse

 

[playmaker88]

You know what when I think about it Miami's first year was their best in terms of cohesion amongst the big that newness was an asset to some degree because everyone had a share in the glory so to speak while wade and bosh sacrificed they played alot more free than they have these last few years and were a hell of a lot less predictable

Bruh...Yall are tryin too hard. 'Ya know...i...i think the team that lost was better than the repeat champs.'

Or yall just have shitty memories. Fyi, this was year 1's suporting cast:

Joel Anthony

Carlos Arroyo-retired the next year

Mike Bibby -retired the next year

Mario Chalmers

Erick Dampier-retired the next year

Udonis Haslemi

Eddie House-retired the next year

Juwan Howard-retired the next year

Zydrunas Ilgauskas-retired the next year

James Jones

Jamaal Magloire-retired the next year

Mike Miller-hurt the whole year

Dexter Pittman

Amongst the big 3.... I clearly said this

 

[S2J]

You know what when I think about it Miami's first year was their best in terms of cohesion amongst the big that newness was an asset to some degree because everyone had a share in the glory so to speak while wade and bosh sacrificed they played alot more free than they have these last few years and were a hell of a lot less predictable

Bruh...Yall are tryin too hard. 'Ya know...i...i think the team that lost was better than the repeat champs.'

Or yall just have shitty memories. Fyi, this was year 1's suporting cast:

Joel Anthony

Carlos Arroyo-retired the next year

Mike Bibby -retired the next year

Mario Chalmers

Erick Dampier-retired the next year

Udonis Haslemi

Eddie House-retired the next year

Juwan Howard-retired the next year

Zydrunas Ilgauskas-retired the next year

James Jones

Jamaal Magloire-retired the next year

Mike Miller-hurt the whole year

Dexter Pittman

Amongst the big 3.... I clearly said this

Oh you def didnt 'clearly ' say anything Lol the sentence made no sense. And u said 'everyone shared in the glory.'

Even if ur just talking the big 3 i still disgree. There was still no consensus #1 on the team, and the whole year was 'who' gonna take the shot'...wade didnt get into his groove of scoring off cuts and moving w/out the basketball, etc.

 

[playmaker88]

Reading comprehension ... i made a mistake and didnt type the word 3.. the rest of the sentence was more than a context clue

FIXED

 

[south4life]

The shit they said about Mutumbo was funny as hell, nigga does sound like Cookie Monster

 

[ocelot]

Leonard's dope but nah I'm taking PG over him at the moment. They don't need him to get 20-25 a night like the Pacers do, Kawhi's defense is through the roof tho

The Pacers doesn't need PG to take 20-25 shots either... dude had many 6-24 fg games this season...