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At what point did you give up?

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Re: At what point did you give up? 

Post#41 » by nickforthreee » Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:19 am

Every single person in the world thought it was over when parker hit the 2 pointer after that crazy three. and then the 2 LeBron turnovers. Comebacks like this just don't happen. it takes everything to go right for a team, and somehow everything did.

also once LeBron missed the last three I expected to see the clock run out and the buzzer go off but when I saw bosh get the rebound and ray back pedaling to the line I knew bosh would kick it to him and right when it left his hands I knew it was money you could just tell. epic.
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Re: At what point did you give up? 

Post#42 » by weouthere » Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:52 am

Lebrons second turnover
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Re: At what point did you give up? 

Post#43 » by Wayne Wu » Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:22 am

Mine is a special one.
I live in Taiwan(an island country besides China; where Jeremy Lin's parents from). The game time is in morning when I need to work, I already skip three work day mornings during the Finals, and not dare to skip the G6 one, since I believe it will be a G7, so I reserve the skip to G7(And hopefully I got it). Due to this, I only can watch replay at night, during the day time I need to avoid all the news, messages, believe me, it is hard.

When I watch it at night, I found the channel cut a lot of period in first half, and I started to think that, is it because there is a time limitation(normally a basketball game is two and a half hours), and there is a celebration and FMVP award ceremony so the channel need to cut some time of the game? Then it comes to third quarter, when the Heat is under more than ten, I totally confirmed that what I thought is right, we are done.

Into the fourth quarter, LeBron's strong series performance, and the epic Miller-one-shoe-shot bring my hope a little back, but I still thought they cut the game time for Champion celebration.

Then it comes to the final minutes, when the TV show time(2:30) is only 20 minutes remained, and the game still couple minutes remained, I was thinking that it may not have enough time for Champion celebration, and thinking it may be an OT. BBuuttt, we are down by 5 and there was only half minute. How can we got into OT. I was sooo confused and freaking nervous..

Then, you know, thank god, I was right. We got into OT and bring it to G7.

I think I will watch G7 live, even if I will got fired.

My English might not be very good, but since I learned and read a lot from this board, I want to share an experience overseas from Asia.
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Re: At what point did you give up? 

Post#44 » by CommonSensei » Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:55 pm

When LeBron missed the 3 to tie on the last possession. I seriously had a hunch that we were going to pull this one through when Kawhi was just about to shoot his first free throw, but I didn't expect it to be in that fashion.
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Re: At what point did you give up? 

Post#45 » by kyphi » Thu Jun 20, 2013 8:51 pm

I started brushing my teeth for bed but left the tv on, thank goodness
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Re: At what point did you give up? 

Post#46 » by Heat3 » Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:10 pm

I had a friggin' meeting at midnight (with someone in a different timezone). Thought the game would be over by then and had to watch OT with the TV on mute :lol:

I didn't really give up...but those last 20 secs were brutal and earlier in the 4th the Spurs were still getting ticky tack stuff called in their favor. Wasn't feeling good about that, but I had faith in the players that if they let them play they could make it a contest.

I was at game 3 in 2006. Didn't give up then. Will never give up again, especially with this team. This is like the Marino era Dolphins. No matter how down they were in the 4th I always believed they could come back. They had it in them to do it. This team has it as well.
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Re: At what point did you give up? 

Post#47 » by kyphi » Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:00 pm

Wayne Wu wrote:Mine is a special one.
I live in Taiwan(an island country besides China; where Jeremy Lin's parents from). The game time is in morning when I need to work, I already skip three work day mornings during the Finals, and not dare to skip the G6 one, since I believe it will be a G7, so I reserve the skip to G7(And hopefully I got it). Due to this, I only can watch replay at night, during the day time I need to avoid all the news, messages, believe me, it is hard.

When I watch it at night, I found the channel cut a lot of period in first half, and I started to think that, is it because there is a time limitation(normally a basketball game is two and a half hours), and there is a celebration and FMVP award ceremony so the channel need to cut some time of the game? Then it comes to third quarter, when the Heat is under more than ten, I totally confirmed that what I thought is right, we are done.

Into the fourth quarter, LeBron's strong series performance, and the epic Miller-one-shoe-shot bring my hope a little back, but I still thought they cut the game time for Champion celebration.

Then it comes to the final minutes, when the TV show time(2:30) is only 20 minutes remained, and the game still couple minutes remained, I was thinking that it may not have enough time for Champion celebration, and thinking it may be an OT. BBuuttt, we are down by 5 and there was only half minute. How can we got into OT. I was sooo confused and freaking nervous..

Then, you know, thank god, I was right. We got into OT and bring it to G7.

I think I will watch G7 live, even if I will got fired.

My English might not be very good, but since I learned and read a lot from this board, I want to share an experience overseas from Asia.


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Re: At what point did you give up? 

Post#48 » by Pure_Basketball » Sun Jun 23, 2013 4:50 pm

Man, I had given up and we ended up winning the title. Ray Allen's shot will forever be remembered as one of the, if not the biggest shot in history and we were all witnesses.
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Re: At what point did you give up? 

Post#49 » by BIRDMAN BIRDMAN » Sun Jun 23, 2013 5:19 pm

Usually whenever I get p****d while watching a Heat game, I immediately turn it off - not as a sign of being a terrible fan, but more so of me worrying about myself of getting a heart attack all of a sudden or so (real talk, I don't think I can handle shouting every second because I'm sure that takes off 10 years of my life every time I do) but during this moment, I will remember it forever. That day, something just told me that something special was gonna come and I should watch til the buzzer sounds without shouting - just watching it calmly, relaxed, chilling and not giving a **** whatever happens, and what do you know...........next thing Ray Ray hits the biggest shot of HEAT history to cap off a miracle. The last time that I could recall of me having that feeling was the Knicks-Heat this is my house game. Such a surreal experience as a sports fan.
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Re: At what point did you give up? 

Post#50 » by WD » Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:40 pm

azz tightened up, but never gave up... remember sitting on the floor in my HEAT ROOM ignoring my texts, tweets, sportsboards, saying to myself....."how much time we have, jut need a quick score"

THEN THE IMPOSSIBLE HAPPENED.....had to adjust my thermostat cause it was hotter than a mofo in my house...
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Re: At what point did you give up? 

Post#51 » by dolphinatik » Sun Jun 23, 2013 6:45 pm

after losing game 5 I accepted the possibility that we might lose the series.
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Re: At what point did you give up? 

Post#52 » by SlowPaced » Sun Jun 23, 2013 10:38 pm

Definitely not in the 3rd but after Bron's second turnover. I thought it was over.
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Re: At what point did you give up? 

Post#53 » by Mourning_Would » Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:29 am

When I saw that look in Lebron's eye after the timeout when he turned the ball over. He looked like he was going back to the cave
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