Do you loose some respect for Spurs 4 using Hack a Shaq.

[Rust In Peace]

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The Suns are a gimmick offense now? Where you guys just don't give up with the potshots do you?

Yes, it's a gimmick. The Suns offense made Nash look better than he actually is. Overhyped and overrated. Want more proof?

Suns were 11-20 against the top 8 in the WC.
Suns were 20-25 against .500 teams.

That just shows that Phoenix padded their record with wins against lottery teams. Spurs were just weeding out a team of pretenders.

[og15]

Nope, I didn't lose any at all. If he can't make over 50% of his FT's, that is his fault. Take him off the court then (of course I know they can't just do that). But if Shaq hadn't shot 44% FG in the series, and 2-8 FG in the elimination game, he would've made up for all his missed FT's by hitting FG's.

[VicG]

I lost respect for Popovich in a big way. Not for the Hack-a-Shaq as a strategy, but for using it in the THIRD quarter, and using it when the Spurs were AHEAD. I thought that was ridiculous and wasn't something you'd expect a championship team to do. I hope the Hornets knock them off something fierce.

[UDRIH14]

any of you guys losing any sleep over this besides sunfans and spurs haters?

[maradro]

I mean, as another example of a similar-effect rule (just 180 degree twist) : No one is complaining about getting Free Throws on non-shooting fouls the last 2 minutes, right ? So what if it weren

[Yadadimean]

Phil Jackson brought this up and after thinking I have to agree. I think using the hack a Shaq makes me think less of Greg Popovich and the Spurs. The idea that a world championship team used the hack a Shaq to advance to the second round makes me really wonder how confident they were in there ability to win that series without. I don't think they win game 1 or game 5 without using it.

You play to win the game. If exploiting the other team's weakness is how you win, then that's what you do.

[GreenWithEnvy]

thats ok. the basketball gods are repaying/going to repay the spurs this series. Paul has summoned the power of God this post season.