No AC: shoud the game have been postponed?

[dancing2thabeet]

I have a solution, game 7 in AAA.

[Eddie20]

Spurs 2003 championship- Dirk gets hurt in the WCF series
Spurs 2007 chanpionship- The heavily favored mavs run into terrible matchup and get eliminated which clears the way for the spurs who still needed Diaw and Amare suspended
Spurs 2013 WCF champs- Westbrook out for playoffs which clears the way for them into the Finals
Spurs 2014 WCF and Finals- Ibaka misses the first two games and Lebron cramps up in game 1.

Why is this spurs team so lucky?

Heat 2011 ECF - Rondo playing with dislocated elbow, Shaq & Daniels out (Heat win series in 5)
Heat 2012 Champs - Green & Bradley out (Heat win series in 7)
Heat 2013 Champs - Rose out (Heat win series in 5)
Heat 2014 ECF - Lopez out (Heat win series in 5)

I mean you have to put things in perspective. The Heat has been relatively healthy throughout their entire 4 year run, save for Bosh missing a couple of games in 2012 with the abdominal strain.

In 2000, Duncan missed the entire playoffs with an injury after being league MVP that year. In addition, perhaps not injury related, but the Spurs did have to matchup against the Shaq/Kobe Lakers during the majority of Duncan's career. The Heat has never had to face an opponent as good as those Lakers during their run. If it wasn't for those teams canceling each other out, just how many titles would the Spurs or Lakers have won?

Relativel healthy? Did you miss the knee issues Wade had in the 2012 and 2013 postseason? He had surgery on his knee in 2012 and several bone bruises in 2013 that caused him to receive OssaTron treatment among other things. He has lingering knee problems due to a removed meniscus which caused him to miss 28 games this year in the regular season. I think we've had to overcome enough adversity to win titles.
And I don't know if you've noticed this, but we pretty much are the Lakers of that generation and we're facing the Spurs for the second year in a row now and it could've been three years if they hadn't given away their 2-0 lead in 2012.

Players have lingering issues all the time, but the fact remains that Wade played. When is the last time a significant player, say starter or rotational player, was out for the season? Now the Bulls and Celtics are the poster children for bad injury luck. Take the Celtics for example...

2008 - No injuries...Won Title
2009 - KG (knee)...lose in 7 during the ECSF to the eventual EC champion Magic
2010 - No injuries (until Perkins tears his knee in Game 6 of the finals)...lose in 7 to the Lakers
2011 - Rondo (dislocated elbow), Shaq (achilles), Daniels (spine)...lose in 5 to Heat during ECSF
2012 - Bradley (shoulders), Green (heart) , Wilcox (heart)...lose in 7 to the Heat during ECF
2013 - Rondo (knee), Sullinger (back), Barbosa (knee)...lose in 6 to NY in 1st rd

Now that's bad luck. All of those players, to varying degrees, were significant losses. All except one, Rondo in 2011 with the dislocated elbow, were lost for the season.

[DWadeno3]

Players have lingering issues all the time, but the fact remains that Wade played. When is the last time a significant player, say starter or rotational player, was out for the season? Now the Bulls and Celtics are the poster children for bad injury luck. Take the Celtics for example...

2008 - No injuries...Won Title
2009 - KG (knee)...lose in 7 during the ECSF to the eventual EC champion Magic
2010 - No injuries (until Perkins tears his knee in Game 6 of the finals)...lose in 7 to the Lakers
2011 - Rondo (dislocated elbow), Shaq (achilles), Daniels (spine)...lose in 5 to Heat during ECSF
2012 - Bradley (shoulders), Green (heart) , Wilcox (heart)...lose in 7 to the Heat during ECF
2013 - Rondo (knee), Sullinger (back), Barbosa (knee)...lose in 6 to NY in 1st rd

Now that's bad luck. All of those players, to varying degrees, were significant losses. All except one, Rondo in 2011 with the dislocated elbow, were lost for the season.

This wasn't a lingering issue like everybody has it, Wade had serious damage to his knee and required severe treatment and knee drainage to even be able to play. Don't downplay this s*** to feed your agenda.

And all the players you listed are nowhere near Wade's level save for KG in '09 and to a lesser degree Rondo. Hell nobody save for those two is even near the level of Bosh and he missed several games in 2012 and we still beat the Pacers and Celtics.

[Eddie20]

Players have lingering issues all the time, but the fact remains that Wade played. When is the last time a significant player, say starter or rotational player, was out for the season? Now the Bulls and Celtics are the poster children for bad injury luck. Take the Celtics for example...

2008 - No injuries...Won Title
2009 - KG (knee)...lose in 7 during the ECSF to the eventual EC champion Magic
2010 - No injuries (until Perkins tears his knee in Game 6 of the finals)...lose in 7 to the Lakers
2011 - Rondo (dislocated elbow), Shaq (achilles), Daniels (spine)...lose in 5 to Heat during ECSF
2012 - Bradley (shoulders), Green (heart) , Wilcox (heart)...lose in 7 to the Heat during ECF
2013 - Rondo (knee), Sullinger (back), Barbosa (knee)...lose in 6 to NY in 1st rd

Now that's bad luck. All of those players, to varying degrees, were significant losses. All except one, Rondo in 2011 with the dislocated elbow, were lost for the season.

This wasn't a lingering issue like everybody has it, Wade had serious damage to his knee and required severe treatment and knee drainage to even be able to play. Don't downplay this s*** to feed your agenda.

And all the players you listed are nowhere near Wade's level save for KG in '09 and to a lesser degree Rondo. Hell nobody save for those two is even near the level of Bosh and he missed several games in 2012 and we still beat the Pacers and Celtics.

It's not feeding an agenda, it's simply being objective. Did Wade play? Do players play through injury issues all the time? If you bring up players having treatment and/or surgery should we also mention that Deron Williams just had double ankle surgery? If Wade, or another key player, were to be suddenly ruled out for the rest of the playoffs, then you can gripe about injury luck. Until then, there really isn't anything to complain about as it relates to the Spurs unparalleled "good fortune".

[DWadeno3]

It's not feeding an agenda, it's simply being objective. Did Wade play? Do players play through injury issues all the time? If you bring up players having treatment and/or surgery should we also mention that Deron Williams just had double ankle surgery? If Wade, or another key player, were to be suddenly ruled out for the rest of the playoffs, then you can gripe about injury luck. Until then, there really isn't anything to complain about as it relates to the Spurs unparalleled "good fortune".

Claiming that playing through injury A is the same as injury B is not being objective, it's being ignorant. In some games he was so f***ed, he hurt us more than he helped us. So just claiming because he played it's more fortune than not playing at all is nonsense.
I'm not the one to say we've been less fortunate injury wise, but you're trying to spin it the other way around, which is false as well.

[cb1]

All these trolls vanish after a win. That's the great thing about the playoffs. I've lost count of the number of times we lose a playoff or finals game and all of a sudden you have posters from other teams feeling the need to give their "2 cents" and pretend to engage in objective dialogue with the posters here

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[kyphi]

Why didn't the Heat procure fans for their players? - seems they have enough suits sitting behind them to do the legwork finding some. Seriously, they should have thought about that beforehand.

[homecourtloss]

A lot of you guys are missing the larger impact this had on the game. Because of our lack of depth and defense style most of our player were totally gassed in the 4th quarter. Our defense was what got us the lead and our defense is what we couldn't sustain because our player were ready to pass out. Bosh, Wade, bird man, all looked horribly fatigued down the stretch.

Just watch us getting down the court on turnovers. Plays where we would usually fly up the court and easily finish, turned into slow jogs and pull outs. It is completely unacceptable for a professional franchise to screw up this badly in an NBA finals game. The only reason there is not more outrage is because the fans got what they wanted and the Heat lost.

People don't care how we lose. Any way will do, as long as they can say we suck and we are overrated.

Excellent point here. There were plenty of easy basket opportunities off of turnovers that we (usually Lebron) turns into layups, dunks, or FTs, but were instead jogs up the court because the team didn't have the energy. Combine that with he no calls at the rim, the BS goaltending call, and we could have been up 15+ easily in the 4th.

[Sedale Threatt]

They're just **** lucky

Oh, the irony...

[HIF]

"It was the same for both teams" I get it but it wasn't the same for each player and in the end it could have been dangerous. Game should have been suspended for repairs - just like the Golf and England soccer match this weekend.