Mavericks vs Spurs

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I just got back from game 6 and at first I thought mavericks were gonna win :( but they messed it all up in the 4th quarter..

Anyone else watch it?

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Originally posted by blink
I just got back from game 6 and at first I thought mavericks were gonna win :( but they messed it all up in the 4th quarter..

Anyone else watch it?

Yeah, the last I saw was in the 3rd quater when Dallas was owning SA, but I wasn't expecting the Spurs to come back.

Got lucky as usual I guess.

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I knew better.

SA's track record for demolishing 4Q deficits are about as common as their record for losing 4Q leads. I feel better with SA slightly behind starting the 4th than I do with SA leading.

Luck?
Luck is playing a fragmenting/injured Portland to a 7 game victory.
Luck is playing an injured Sacramento, to another 7 game victory.

Skill is defeating a 100% PHX in 6 games(would have been 5 but this is a very young team)
Skill is defeating a 99.99% LA(c'mon Fox is just a foul/hack man, Horry did as well or better in Fox's position, Willis' suspension kept him out of more games than George's ankle did) in 6 games(should have been a sweep, but this is a young team)

And that should be a sobering thought for every team in the NBA.
SA is a very young team. SA made horrible mistakes all year.
Innumerable turnovers, and failure to convert; yet the talent contained in the team was more often than not able to compensate for such mistakes.
In the fullness of time this team will gel into a basketball monster.
Duncan, Parker, Rose, Ginobili, Jackson, and Bowen aren't going anywhere.
They are the foundation for the Spurs future.
These ugly turnovers and missed conversions are typical mistakes for inexperienced teammates(you know how it is when you have a newbie on your team for Tribes or Unreal in CTF or Team Deathmatch, so don't act like you have no idea of that which I speak). But similarly, once you have a coherent team all on the same mental frequency, the effects upon lesser foes are devastating. You saw flashes of that in the stomps SA doled out all year.
The future looks bright.

Luck? You think this is luck, just wait till next year, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Dallas never owned SA, gimmie a break. If the Mavs had SA down by 25+, then maybe they could stave off a Spurs rally. Otherwise, it's plain ignorance of the sport or wishful thinking to assume otherwise.

I feel Pop was giving Nelly to much latitude in his match-ups and substitutions.

To win this series, the Mavs would have to have won 3 in a row against SA.
That just isn't going to happen.
Not by PHX
or LA
or even SAC.

SA clocked these clowns on their own courts, not just win at their arenas, BUT ELIMINATION

hahahahahaha

The only 'luck' involved at all is that SA has been lucky so far in not getting injuries to their pivotal players.
And that is totally divine providence.
The only reason PHX beat SA in the 2000 semi-finals was because....Tim had an injury.
Injuries too are a part of game.
On any given day, a team can either live or die by them.

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Bah, no reason to bring in PHX, they royaly suck.


Sorry to bust your bubble, but SA *was* getting owned. They were getting used and abused.

They definitely get credit for being able to come back, but it was an ugly game at that.

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How can one own that which it can not hold?

That's like even entertaining the idea that Foreman was owning Ali right up to the point in which Ali KO'ed them.
Heck Ali rarely got a 1st or 2nd round knockout, but he was never owned.


likewise.....
The inverse is that SA 'owned' Dallas in games 1 & 5 right up until they lost the lead.
Ahh the difference between seeing things as an adult, as opposed to a yute.
An adult knows it ain't yours till it's in the bank, garage, or your bed.

It ain't over till it's over. Then they who possess victory will be plain for all too see.

Again, the truth you refuse to see is that SA had numerous prominent victories being established, only to give them away by mistake after mistake.

Only a fool would expect his enemy to continue making such mistakes year after year.

As I pointed out, this is this Spur's teams' FIRST year.
When these mistakes get cleaned up, it's going to be awesome.

By your own meter, SA has 'owned' far more teams more often than not.
And those victory's went to the stat bank.
Not the wouldda, couldda, shouldda.

And PHX was brought up because they were in the 1st round.
Van Exel said he would study the PHX series to see if he could repeat Marbury's performance.
He sure did, he lost in 6 games, studied a bit too hard?