EC - Round 1 - Miami (2) v. New York (7)
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TyFreak Evans
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Knicks are overly overrated. Heat win easily. Knicks will be allowed to get a freebie. Not even sure they have enough talent to win that one to be honest...
kingsnation
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Oh my gosh, Lebron is the worst flopper ever. How in the freak can that screen by Tyson Chandler be a freaking flagrant???? Oh my gosh, Lebron is such a baby. They almost called it a flagrant 2!?!! WOW. UGH.
If the Heat end up winning the title, I will be sick. Freaking Lebron. The NBA's reigning Queen.
JVG is grilling Lebron and rightfully so.
If the Heat end up winning the title, I will be sick. Freaking Lebron. The NBA's reigning Queen.
JVG is grilling Lebron and rightfully so.
UK_King
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I've watched both games and the refs have made it clear that when Lebron goes to the hoop, it will be a foul. Irrespective of contact.
The sad thing for me is seeing these weak calls, with minimal contact or a nice contest and commentators like Reggie Miller saying "good call there." It's just sad.
That said the Knicks are in hole for a reason, their offense is horrible, it's all give the ball to Melo and get out of his way.
The sad thing for me is seeing these weak calls, with minimal contact or a nice contest and commentators like Reggie Miller saying "good call there." It's just sad.
That said the Knicks are in hole for a reason, their offense is horrible, it's all give the ball to Melo and get out of his way.
jalfa
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I kind of zoned out/switched to Indiana/Orland in the 4th. did Amar'e ever get any plays run for him? can't recall more than five before that. could be another reason he was frustrated, he used to be the man just two years ago (and once averaged 40 in a playoff series, unfathomable, huh?).
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Padrino
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i share your distaste for miami, but i wanted to see new york swept in this series. they had no chance of winning even with a completely healthy squad, so they're just another team attempting to compose a superstar-loaded roster who i'm quite content to see fail. melo/amare was never a natural fit. it was a forced attempt at beginning a "big three," and it was clearly motivated by trend rather than good basketball sense. such poor management should be rewarded with twelve straight playoff losses, and truthfully, miami's road to the finals was already handed to them on a silver platter the minute derrick rose's knee gave out. that said, i'm hoping for an OKC/miami finals in which kevin durant comes up big and lebron james slinks away from the ultimate spotlight yet again. such a victory could very easily spell the end of the theoretical "superteam."
I don't disagree with your feelings about the Knicks. In my hierarchy of teams I hate, however, the Knicks don't make the first or second tier. First tier, for once and always, belongs to the LA Lakers. The second tier belongs to Miami and the other team from LA. The best the Knicks can do is third tier.
And for the record, I would be absolutely delighted if Kevin Durant and the Thunder could put an end to Miami's dreams.
And for the record, I would be absolutely delighted if Kevin Durant and the Thunder could put an end to Miami's dreams.
Padrino
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for me, it goes lakers, knicks, heat. don't really "hate" any other team, and of those three, miami is, of course, the new "hate" on the block. but new york's been suckin' up my ire for years now. i just hate the "biggest stage in the world" attraction of the knicks, despite the fact that they're consistently a ****ty team. i hate how their fans believe every free agent should desperately desire to become a new york knick. i hate how every star player nearing free agency feels that its necessary to gush that they would love to play for the knicks when they're interviewed by the new york media. and i hate how star players who actually do want to play for the knicks would rather sign for a perennial loser just to be in new york than sign with any franchise better equipped to win. i tend to hate all new york franchises for this reason. that's why it gives me SO much joy that they've been SO terrible for SO long. for all the new york bluster, they're really not that storied of a franchise, as far as nba history is concerned. and i was SO elated when lebron decided to sign with miami, and i doing so, spurned the knicks, their fans, and the new york media, who had been salivating at lebron's every waking move for years leading up to his free agency. it became easy to hate miami shortly thereafter, but it was even easier for me to laugh at the knicks misfortune. instead, they ended up with two pieces that could NEVER effectively fit together: all $100 million of amare stoudemire, who is basically david lee without steve nash and mike d'antoni around to make him look better, and carmelo anthony, the most overrated scorer since allen iverson, who also manages to be even more one-dimensional than iverson ever was...
I agree with all this. I just feel "meh" about the Knicks. Agreed on the Lakers and Heat.
hoopsfan
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est.1999
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This is golddddd.
kingsnation
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I don't want the Heat to win at all but what's probably irking the Knicks the most is that both Amare and Melo tried to duplicate what MIA is doing. Amare and Melo both probably figured they could do what Lebron/Wade/Bosh have done and lure D12 or CP3 to NY. However, their team is just a mess and that's the cold hard truth that they're facing right now. The Heat are Cinderella, The Knicks are the Ugly Step Sister.
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