Official Playoffs Thread

[NyCeEvO]

Have to take umbrage with someone saying this is Cleveland all over again. 4 straight NBA Finals, 2 chips. The Spurs are WINNING this series more than the Heat are losing it. It's not Miami's right to the title. The Spurs are taking it.

This year specifically, it wasn't good. LeBron really did put on a 1-man show against the Spurs in these Finals...and his team got CRUSHED. Wade looks like he should retire, Bosh is inconsistent and misused, and all of Miami's role players were garbage.

That kind of is how it was in Cleveland when they lost...LeBron would go off, but nobody else would step up.

Leading up to the Finals, the supporting cast played well enough to at least put up a fight. It didn't become Cleveland until this series.

At the same time, what team could've put up a better fight against the level the Spurs played at in this Finals?

It seemed like all of the players peaked in the system at the Finals because I've never seen SAS play the way they did in these Finals. I'm pretty sure every other team would've lost 4-1 or 4-0 if the Spurs played the same way.

When every win in the NBA Finals is +15 against the 2-time defending champs, I think more attention should be paid to the Spurs winning than Miami losing. (But since LBJ is on Miami, that's what everyone is going to focus on.)

[MrDollarBills]

Reporter: "You said you can't see yourself leaving Miami. Do you still feel that way?"

LeBron: "I don't know....I don't know about my future."

Oh boy. Anyone ready for the Decision Part 2?

He'll most likely opt in for one more year to see if they can do it next year. Either that or opt out in hopes of Carmelo going to Miami. I still can't see so much money being sacrificed on the part of Wade/Bosh/LeBron in order to bring him in there. There will be more suitors next year and the following year which is why he has an opt out clause this year, next year and the year after to decide when it's best to opt out.

He would be a fool to opt in. Wade and Bosh both need to take an 8-9 million dollar paycut and they need to bring in Carmelo. Otherwise they are finished.

And it's a sad state of affairs to see how they got their asses beaten from pillar to post like that and we got stomped by them in 5 games. That's an indictment on the East as a whole.

The Nets need to really step it up on all fronts. I would like for us to continue to develop Kidd's system because I think that in time it become a formula for some great basketball, but we've got to get Williams and Lopez the hell out of here.

[jeff1624]

To think, Lebron could be 1-4 in the Finals if San Antonio hadn't choked in game 6 last year. That would have been an amazing stat. (Just for the record, I'm not knocking Lebron. Obviously he wasn't the reason they lost.)