NBA: *** NBA Playoffs Thread V2.0 ***

[uro cy]

IMO, the reason people hate the Heat is not because of Lebron or The Decision, it's because their body language throughout the game just reeks of everything you hate in people. They beg, they whine, they tattletale, they fake injuries, they show no respect for authority, they roll around in pain and then prance the moment they get the ball.

Personally, I would be embarrassed to call myself a heat fan.

 

[Clark]

These refs are done for the playoffs after fouling out lebron

How about being done because of their crappy officiating?

 

[xboxfever]

Personally, I would be embarrassed to call myself a heat fan.

Unless I grew up in Florida or a Miami fan. The band wagoners however, I agree with you.

 

[cyclonez7]

No consistency with the calls. That same screen has been used all game on both sides.

 

[Jordanj6502]

Refs nailed that difficult call. Credit to them.

Gutsy call, giving credit to officials. Everyone knows they are always wrong.

 

[xboxfever]

2-2. Win the next two Pacers!

 

[Jordanj6502]

No consistency with the calls. That same screen has been used all game on both sides.

Where LeBron fouled out? That was a really tough call. Foul by rule, but not called a foul during the rest of this game. Probably should have let it go.

 

[ianoconnor]

http://deadspin.com/lebron-flop-510222176

 

[Jordanj6502]

These refs are done for the playoffs after fouling out lebron

How about being done because of their crappy officiating?

Nope, that would be admitting that officiating isn't perfect, and therefore Stern isn't perfect by extension, and Stern can't allow that... or something like that.

 

[Tre4ISU]

IMO, the reason people hate the Heat is not because of Lebron or The Decision, it's because their body language throughout the game just reeks of everything you hate in people. They beg, they whine, they tattletale, they fake injuries, they show no respect for authority, they roll around in pain and then prance the moment they get the ball.

I think your wrong. The other stuff may be validation but people wouldn't like the Heat no matter what. The Heat just give them reason. Every NBA team has the same thing going on. It's almost like Tiger Woods......well except he won to gain the attention first.

 

[Clark]

http://deadspin.com/lebron-flop-510222176

Are they doing a flop competition?

 

[uro cy]

http://deadspin.com/lebron-flop-510222176

This is a guy who calls flopping a "legitimate strategy" but says he doesn't flop himself. Lebron is the best player in the nba today.... but continues to embarrass himself with this crap.

 

[Doc]

I'm falling in love with this Indiana team, but I kind of feel they were just really lucky as an organization. The development of George and Hibbert has been incredible, and the moves for Stephenson,Hill, and West were good, but damn...I feel like an organization that can put together a starting 5 that can beat Miami straight up like this should be able to put a bench together.

 

[Tre4ISU]

Where LeBron fouled out? That was a really tough call. Foul by rule, but not called a foul during the rest of this game. Probably should have let it go.

I agree. Definitly a foul but it's never called.

 

[CycloneErik]

Are they doing a flop competition?

I don't think so. Clearly, there was some sort of sudden explosion, and they're just taking reasonable precautions to protect themselves.

 

[CyBroncos]

http://deadspin.com/lebron-flop-510222176

UGH LeBron is such a b**ch. I guess I'm just used to growing up with tough as nails stars like Jordan, Bird, Isiah, Barkley, etc. LeBron would have been ate alive from a toughness standpoint in the NBA of the 80's and early to mid 90's

 

[uro cy]

UGH LeBron is such a b**ch. I guess I'm just used to growing up with tough as nails stars like Jordan, Bird, Isiah, Barkley, etc. LeBron would have been ate alive from a toughness standpoint in the NBA of the 80's and early to mid 90's

I was never a fan of the "bad boy" pistons... but they would destroy lebron.

 

[HFCS]

If this were a "crazy eyes" competition Roy Hibbert would be the one justifiably predicting an 8peat. LMAO at his post game interviews, any sane person would run from those crazy eyes.

 

[CyBroncos]

I was never a fan of the "bad boy" pistons... but they would destroy lebron.

The first time LeBron or D-Wade flopped or was incessantly whining to the refs, the next time down the floor they would have got clotheslined. D-Wade is so soft he wouldn't have lasted 3 games in a series with the Bad Boys

 

[Doc]

I think your wrong. The other stuff may be validation but people wouldn't like the Heat no matter what. The Heat just give them reason. Every NBA team has the same thing going on. It's almost like Tiger Woods......well except he won to gain the attention first.

I have always and still love Tiger.

I think I get what you're saying, but I also think the Heat are worse than most NBA teams at the qualities I listed. I'm not going to accept an argument that other NBA teams are just as bad, because I can't see anybody making a legitimate argument that other NBA teams in the playoffs *****, moan, and react like the Heat do. Chalmers was the biggest ****** on that Kansas team, and he's tame compared to Wade, Bosh, and LeBron. These guys are embarrassing. Watch them compared to Ray Allen and Battier. Emotion is good, but it can exacerbate the bad as well as the good, and when these guys let emotion take hold, it's usually bad.