View Full Version : Game 6: Pistons @ Heat (Fri 6/2, 8p ET, ESPN) - Keep Hope Alive!!
In Game 5, we finally saw glimpses of our beloved Pistons. Gritty and frenetic defense, coupled with timely offense. It wasn't pretty and it could have been better, but a win's a win. We left it all on the floor and came out as victors.
Well, it's time to do it again.
Our backs are still against the wall and now Miami's feeling the heat. They don't want to come back to Detroit for a Game 7. They know that their best chance at ending the series is Game 6. Expect American Airlines Arena to be a hostile war zone. The refs will be ready to call fouls for breathing on Wade. Shrek's off-arm will be in full effect. Flexo is practicing poses as I type this message.
Let's see more hard traps on Wade:
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060601/capt.7e0a14b80a1f4097a63da1dd736d3fc1.heat_pistons _basketball_dtp134.jpg
...more OWNAGE by Ben...
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/sp/getty/oly_full.getty-57562026ae049heat_pistons.jpg
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/sp/getty/oly_full.getty-57562026jg008_heat_pistons.jpg
...more of Tayshaun's funky self...
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/sp/getty/oly_full.getty-57562026jg015_heat_pistons.jpg
...more of Lindsey being pesky Lindsey...
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/sp/getty/oly_full.getty-57562026mw042_miami_heat_v_.jpg
The only way we're winning this game is by doing it together
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060601/capt.42db85af05a843a6a5dcafd45bc8aeee.heat_pistons _basketball_dtp131.jpg
Let's do this.
Black Dynamite 06-01-2006, 01:33 AM i'll hold all my bitter statements in about the heat. I just want us to keep improving the gameplan so that all the retarded variables in the heats favor are irrelevent. Tayshaun, this is your chance to prove your worth. you may not get better at the pace some here want, but IMO he's always getting better. we need you to get kentucky wildcat hot. and speaking of hot, damnit guys run billups on penetration to set up sheed with some easy open jumpers. if he can get those, his shot may come back regardless of the ankle.
Uncle Mxy 06-01-2006, 06:14 AM Now would be a good time for Tony Delk to get 50-point-game Kentucky Wildcat hot too.
Cross 06-01-2006, 08:16 AM We win if Miami makes 6-20 free throws and if Tay and Delk combine for over 50:)
Miami has the momentum at home but we will step it up and rape the shit out of them.
Go Pistons
Glenn 06-01-2006, 08:28 AM We all ride together. Wait, that's not us.
Um, if it ain't rough, it ain't right?
We'll need a nearly perfect game to win "5 on 8" in game 6.
I'm so fully invested in this team I want to say that we'll find a way to get it done, but with all the bullshit going on internally, I just keep thinking that we're going to fall short. If we do, it'll be devastating.
Since it worked so well last time, I'm staying with the negative vibe:
There's absolutely NO way the Pistons win at Miami. Did you see all those clean blocks the Pistons had last night? They'll be fouls now. Miami will be in the bonus in record pace, and they'll shoot 50+ FTs. Joe Crawford was the ref last night, and he's the only ref that gives the Pistons a fair shake. I don't know who the ref will be Friday night, but I'm betting that it'll be Danny Crawford. If that's the case, it'll be 5 on 9 (since DC counts as two crooked refs).
It will take a Herculean effort to beat Miami at home Friday night. They might as well spot the Heat 30 points right now, because the Pistons will have to win by that margin to steal a 2 point victory.
Piston foul-outs Friday night:
Chauncey
Sheed (in the 3rd, plus a tech)
Rip
You'd like for the teams to decide this series, but sorry, that's not the NBA. The refs decide.
Glenn 06-01-2006, 08:59 AM I'm pretty sure that Ken Mauer or Steve Javie are going to be there. If we somehow get to game 7, expect Bavetta to reappear.
Hermy 06-01-2006, 09:53 AM We need Violet Palmer.
Anthony 06-01-2006, 10:57 AM This is ours to lose now. They've beat 5 on 8 numerous times, its ours to lose. The preasure is on the heat.
MOLA1 06-01-2006, 11:03 AM Had to edit your post Glenn. We will have none of that bad Karma.
The fate of WTFDetroit.com is in the palm of your hands Pistons.
Do this shit for the website. Godspeed. 105-87, unleash the alpacas
fuck a wade and I hope all the Heat fans in the building get flat tires.
Black Dynamite 06-01-2006, 11:37 AM glenn you got a link on that Wade quote?
Glenn 06-01-2006, 11:41 AM glenn you got a link on that Wade quote?
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060601/SPORTS03/606010430/1051
Anthony 06-01-2006, 11:43 AM Yeah, bitch made and Detroit dont go well together to begin with.
Glenn 06-01-2006, 11:46 AM He was born in Chicago, so you can probably guess what team he favors and why he doesn't like the Pistons.
I know that there were some guys here that said that they were Wade fans before this series started (maybe earlier in the year), I'm wondering if that is still true. I don't know how it could be if you are a Pistons fan.
I mean, the guy is incredible, but I'd like to stomp on his throat a few hundred times.
Anthony 06-01-2006, 11:47 AM Ah I see. But I still stand by my statement
"I never wanted to be a Piston," Wade said. "There was never nothing there. I grew up not liking the Pistons."
we've got something you don't have in Miami, BIATCH.
NBA Championship banners.
Suck it.
Black Dynamite 06-01-2006, 11:58 AM thanks Glenn. I see everyone takes us not drafting them to heart. He wanted to play here until we said fuck him is my guess. just like melo. Tayshaun please keep improving into a dominant player. I'd love to see him taking advantage of these soft ass nba rules more often going to the hole next year.
Glenn 06-01-2006, 12:04 PM By the way, y'all are welcome.
I removed my Tayshaun avatar/sig shrine just in time.
I put the jinx on him something rotten.
Where's BigggChris, btw?
Tay's been setting career highs left and right.
Anthony 06-01-2006, 12:06 PM We all love you glenn, except for uncle cliffy..........[smilie=anxious.gif]
Tahoe 06-01-2006, 12:51 PM I love that posterization of Shaq by Ben. That one HAS to be a poster some day.
MOLA1 06-01-2006, 02:22 PM http://img274.imageshack.us/img274/7837/ben2zq.jpg
Anthony 06-01-2006, 02:47 PM LMAO @ SNAQ FOR THINKING THAT WAS A FOUL!
He was owned.
I got a good feeling about Sheed in this game. I'm feeling a 20pt game from him.
Tahoe 06-02-2006, 12:35 AM We don't need divine inter fucking vention or however you spell it, we need a road win.
We can do this peeps
Glenn 06-02-2006, 08:01 AM The Heat are only a 4.5 point favorite in Game 6 as of this morning.
I would have guessed at least 6, possibly 8.
Glenn 06-02-2006, 09:41 AM You know what I'd love to see?
Let's start Cato tonight.
Have him foul Shaq hard the first 6 times he tries to shoot the ball, right out of the gate.
Don't you think that would fuck with their heads?
Maybe we could even get them to lose their cool and pick up some techs.
Black Dynamite 06-02-2006, 09:49 AM You know what I'd love to see?
Let's start Cato tonight.
Have him foul Shaq hard the first 6 times he tries to shoot the ball, right out of the gate.
Don't you think that would fuck with their heads?
Maybe we could even get them to lose their cool and pick up some techs.
that would be no different than Zo coming out and trying to start a fight on every possession where theres contact. so i feel no remorse in unleashing early hack a shaq. of course sheed is shooting at about shaq's percentage from the FT line.:o
Wade would have 145 FTs in that game.
Glenn 06-02-2006, 09:52 AM Of course it puts them in the bonus about 2 minutes into the game, but I'm not going to let that ruin this thought for me.
Are there any realistic curve balls that we could throw at them?
The big lineup?
darkobetterthanmelo 06-02-2006, 10:02 AM This is the game that everyone realises "SO THATS WHY CATO IS ON THE ROSTER." End of the 3rd quarter Cato and Davis will initiate the no lay up rule. When Wade comes into the paint he must get sent to the floor.
Glenn 06-02-2006, 10:08 AM Like most "superstars", Wade usually is sitting at the end of the 3rd to maximize his rest for the 4th.
But I like where you are going with this. Do you have plans tonight? Can you catch a plain to Miami? Do you have a decent suit?
Hermy 06-02-2006, 10:25 AM I like the idea of a big lineup, especially while they have toine and Wade in. Play Cato on Shaq with Ben on Haslem and Sheed gets fatty #2. This gives Tay a chance to:
1. Take a turn defending Wade, somehthing he hasn't seen much of this series. Tougher to get those bank-jumpers off with a long arm above you
2. Post him up and make him work on D. With the other 3 bigs in the game we'll have a tough time spreading the floor properly, but we will be tough on the glass if the Heat get out of position to double. Gotta get back on D.
Anthony 06-02-2006, 10:52 AM I think as long as we stay home and recover on their 3pt shooters we win this game. Shaq and Wade are going to get theirs. We have to hold Ms. Haslem, that fat chucker, and the mouth.
BubblesTheLion 06-02-2006, 12:46 PM Dwade has the flu, well that's just special because that crybaby mother fucker makes ME sick. While we're on vomit... Shaq learned you can't throw that bulllllllimia up in the NO FLY ZONE. That Turkey got stuffed. Metro is grounding all flights from Miami bitches are going to have to crawl back to the D. Zo acting all hard while he gets Tbagged by Tay, probally going to start shit in this game. Get his entire family cut up in the process. Don't fuck around with the D , Murdah Capital, we put the Kiser to shame , Sosay whatever Zo, but you better be ready for an ass kicking.
These mothers fuckers are as BIG as we let them be, and no bigger. We say Jump, and they piss themself. We step on nuts and grunts get put on the shelves. Only way they are going to win this game is if they get the Refs help from 47 free throw shots again.
The Heat are damn lucky to be up 3-2, should be the other way around.
But that's alright. We wanted to finish this series in the D. IN front of the best fans in the world. Not that Ku Klux Convention you call White Heat.
Extra trip to Miami , fuck your women, and piss in your face.(bienvenido a miami) We're going gangbang Minny Mouse on a fucking Disney Network you bitchmade sissy fucks.
Sheed's limping cause he carries a Machete in his sock, and when he signs your ass with that sharpie your ass is cut, just ask the bleeding Z, he never saw it coming, split his dome like a melon.
They aren't playing to win, they playing to survive.
Be victorious or let no man come back alive.
Anthony 06-02-2006, 12:49 PM AND WITH THAT:
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Glenn 06-02-2006, 12:50 PM Holy shit, Bubbles has done it again.
MOLA1 06-02-2006, 12:52 PM Dwade has the flu, well that's just special because that crybaby mother fucker makes ME sick. While we're on vomit... Shaq learned you can't throw that bulllllllimia up in the NO FLY ZONE. That Turkey got stuffed. Metro is grounding all flights from Miami bitches are going to have to crawl back to the D. Zo acting all hard while he gets Tbagged by Tay, probally going to start shit in this game. Get his entire family cut up in the process. Don't fuck around with the D , Murdah Capital, we put the Kiser to shame , Sosay whatever Zo, but you better be ready for an ass kicking.
These mothers fuckers are as BIG as we let them be, and no bigger. We say Jump, and they piss themself. We step on nuts and grunts get put on the shelves. Only way they are going to win this game is if they get the Refs help from 47 free throw shots again.
The Heat are damn lucky to be up 3-2, should be the other way around.
But that's alright. We wanted to finish this series in the D. IN front of the best fans in the world. Not that Ku Klux Convention you call White Heat.
Extra trip to Miami , fuck your women, and piss in your face.(bienvenido a miami) We're going gangbang Minny Mouse on a fucking Disney Network you bitchmade sissy fucks.
Sheed's limping cause he carries a Machete in his sock, and when he signs your ass with that sharpie your ass is cut, just ask the bleeding Z, he never saw it coming, split his dome like a melon.
They aren't playing to win, they playing to survive.
Be victorious or let no man come back alive.
I love this fuckin guy!
Glenn 06-02-2006, 12:55 PM How fucking transparent is this guy?
He's from Chicago, he's got a big game but the flu bug sneaks up at the last minute. Sound familiar?
You unoriginal fuck, DWYane.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs2006/news/story?id=2467803
Wade misses practice with flu-like symptoms
Associated Press
MIAMI -- Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade missed the team's morning shootaround practice with what the team said were flu-like symptoms, marking the second straight year his health has been a major factor entering Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals. (Now I'm going to puke --GD)
Miami coach Pat Riley said Wade was being treated and did not divulge any other specifics -- but insisted his leading scorer would be ready for Friday night's sixth game of the East finals against Detroit, a series the Heat led 3-2.
"He's going to be fine. He'll be here tonight, yeah," Riley said. "It's just something that came on. He's going to be fine. ... He's being very well taken care of."
No Heat players were made available for comment after the workout. The Pistons did not hold practice Friday morning.
Last season, Wade missed the sixth game of the Miami-Detroit East title series because of a rib injury from Game 5. With Wade sidelined, the Pistons won Game 6 by 25 points; he played, but was clearly laboring, in Miami's Game 7 loss at home to end that series.
"There ain't no Plan B. There's not any Plan B," Riley said.
Wade is averaging a team-best 29.2 points on 66 percent shooting in the first five games against the Pistons. For the playoffs, Wade is averaging 27 points for Miami -- which could advance to the NBA finals for the first time Friday by beating the Pistons.
"If the guy misses, you're not going to replace him," Riley said. "But the point is, he's going to be there tonight."
Anthony 06-02-2006, 12:58 PM Wow, you know, i'm ill right now.
Sheed has been on a bad ankle since game 3 of the Cavs series, and although its mentioned, we never use it as an excuse. Wade gets the flu, and already everything is going to be affected and changed. Fuck all that noise.
Pharaoh 06-02-2006, 01:11 PM LMMFAO
The minute it gets tight and the pressure is on they bring in the excuses.
And this is what the new NBA is gonna be all about?
Fuck that bullshit - make these pussy motherfuckers play Maxipad Football.
Basketball is man to man, hand to hand. Deal with it.
Uncle Mxy 06-02-2006, 02:42 PM Dwy-anne Wade suffers from pussy-like symptoms.
I believe this is referred to as "refs, please go extra-easy on calling anything against me because I'm sick" syndrome.
my bullshit meter went through the roof.
we're not going to hear the end of Wade's heroic *barf* efforts.
Glenn 06-02-2006, 04:52 PM I almost gave this it's own thread.
I wondered what had happened to my sweet Krista Latham.
Bitch up and got married.
She should have gone with Krista Latham-Jahnke, KLJ has a nice ring to it.
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060602/SPORTS03/606020410/1051
Outcome will shape Pistons' legacy
BY KRISTA JAHNKE
FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER
June 2, 2006
The item the Pistons must cross off their to-do list tonight would have seemed a simple enough task for this team three weeks ago.
Win a Game 6, on the road, in a do-or-die situation. For so long, the Pistons relished these challenges. They won those games.
Tonight's result will go a long way in answering a question that has bubbled to the surface since then. Just what, if anything, has changed?
If the Pistons win tonight in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals against a Miami team that has dominated them for most of this series, if they force a winner-take-all Game 7 at the Palace on Sunday, then a lot of perceptions from the past two weeks become obsolete.
This team's legacy is not yet written. Tonight will go a long way in determining just what kind of tone its story deserves.
"We feel good," Pistons coach Flip Saunders told reporters in Miami, "not just because we got the win, but because we feel we're starting to play how we played for most of the season. That's how we're going to have to play (tonight) in order to have a chance to beat Miami."
Granted, the team must continue to build on its play in Game 5 if it wants to make tonight interesting. The Pistons won Wednesday, 91-78, but their play did not magically transform back to where it was throughout the 64-win regular season.
While two players -- Tayshaun Prince and Antonio McDyess -- got into a good offensive groove, the rest of the Pistons remained ineffective on offense.
Prince scored 29 points, a career playoff high, and shot 11 for 17. McDyess was a godsend off the bench with 12 points on perfect shooting, including eight points in the fourth quarter.
Now, the goal tonight is to extend that to other key offensive contributors like Chauncey Billups and Rasheed Wallace, who were a combined 6 for 23 from the floor Wednesday. Wallace is still playing with a sprained right ankle.
"We still had a couple guys we haven't gotten going," Saunders said, "and that's going to be our main focus going down to Miami on Friday."
There were also defensive shifts in the right direction in Game 5. The biggest change came in the amount of energy exerted on that end. And it wasn't energy focused solely on the Heat's two dominating players, Shaquille O'Neal and Dwyane Wade, although some additional trapping of Wade limited him to a series-low 23 points.
But the Pistons used their zone and their trapping game, as well as an active, traditional help defense, to spread their attention across the floor to all of the Heat's role players. That distribution of focus caused the overall defensive intensity to swell.
"I think we were paying so much attention to Shaq or D. Wade and not leaving those guys," Pistons point guard Lindsey Hunter said of previous games. "But you saw (Wednesday) where Ben left them and went and made an unbelievable block on somebody else. We were helping and recovering. We were just playing pretty much high-school rules. You help and you recover, that's what you do."
But mostly, energy on Wednesday won the Pistons another chance to play.
They'll want to remember what that felt like -- the calmness they experienced before the game that led into a fury of intensity during it. That's the formula that the Pistons refer to when they speak of playing well with their "backs against the wall."
"It's very similar, I think, to Game 6 we had in Cleveland," Saunders said. "I think there was a calmness with me, and I think a calmness with our players, and I think we knew what was at hand, what we had to do. I told the players I felt comfortable because I felt the players were focused."
They must return to that state of mind tonight. The American Airlines Arena will be raucous. The Heat will be determined not to miss the chance to end this series on its home floor.
If the Pistons want to live to see a Game 7 on their home floor, they must trump those emotions with grit of their own.
"Right now we're approaching every game like a tournament," Ben Wallace said. "You lose and you go home. That's how we try and take it, just one game at a time, one possession at a time, try to get one stop at a time and execute on the offensive end. ... That's how we're going to approach every game from here on out."
They just hope "here on out" is more than a one-game affair.
Nice pic of Flip with the article as well:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/GlennDanzig/flip.jpg
Anthony 06-02-2006, 05:23 PM We're going to win
Just thought i'd mention it.
I'm sick of laying in bed at night after a Piston's game feeling like crap.
It's Heat fan's turn to lay awake at night wondering what could have been.
Let those white-t-shirt-wearing-asshats go home tonight and realize they blew their chance to make it to the Finals for the second straight year.
Let them throw their Wade jerseys in the corner of the room and cry to sleep.
Let Dan LeBetard join Snaq and Fatoine at Old Country Buffet and drown their sorrows at the dessert section.
Let's take a collective dump in that stupid-ass bowl that Pat Riley put in their locker room.
Let the Miami champagne they have ready for tonight go warm and stale.
Let's give the Palace faithful one more game to cheer their heads off.
Let's Do This.
Glenn 06-02-2006, 07:45 PM Good lord this is sickening.
"We still haven't seen Wade, we are told HE WILL PLAY!!!"
Fuck a John Saunders
Joe Asberry 06-02-2006, 07:55 PM Lets do this !
Lets go Pistons !!!
shags 06-02-2006, 07:55 PM Just want a realistic chance to win with 5 minutes to go.
And I refuse to believe Dwyane Wade is sick.
H1Man 06-02-2006, 10:05 PM This has gotta be the worst playoff performance ever by any team in history.
Cross 06-02-2006, 10:05 PM Mo evans enters the game for Sheed...WTF?
Shaq is so fucking bullshit tonight.
We are shooting worse than antoine walker out there and Jwill was like 6-6.
fuck
Darth Thanatos 06-02-2006, 10:15 PM Now you can all whine about the Pistons losing instead of the refs, Wade, and the analysts.
-NoQuarter- 06-02-2006, 10:15 PM Glad I didn't waste my time watching this game. I was never a big Denver Nuggets fan anyways...
Kstat 06-02-2006, 10:26 PM Not much you can do about missed layups....
Kstat 06-02-2006, 10:28 PM If Jason WIlliams goes 10/10, its just not your night.
Kstat 06-02-2006, 10:31 PM The fact we royally sucked in this series will be hammered home in the finals when Miami gets blown ut in 4 by dallas....
Miami played NO defense in this game. We simply missed every open shot we had.
Gecko 06-02-2006, 10:37 PM Truth be told, I am really glad this is over. As a season ticket holder there is very little to feel proud of. The team was a complete embarassment to themselves, their owner and their fan base ever since the 2nd game of the Mil series. Let the finger pointing and back biting begin! Heartless punks. I'll reconsider renewing my tix next year.
BubblesTheLion 06-02-2006, 10:42 PM Blow his gutless team up.
You can call me a reactionary or whatever. These faggots don't have any hunger. I rather have a team full of guys like Jason Maxiel , Hunters, and whatevers.
I rahter watch a bad team suck with heart then a good team not give a fuck and lose.
Anthony 06-02-2006, 10:43 PM Go Tigers.
Anyways, no1 is beating Dallas.
And it was a great run Ben Wallace. I'm going to miss you. Although, our owner has a great person for a coach now, so it makes up for it.
Kstat 06-02-2006, 10:44 PM Some people are just disloyal....
Go root for the Heat, bandwagoners.
Suggesting changes is one thing, but to say this current group has been shameful is just low-class.
Anthony 06-02-2006, 10:44 PM You better not be talking about me, you dumb fuck. Just because I cant stand our coach, dosnt mean i'm disloyal.
BubblesTheLion 06-02-2006, 10:45 PM Some people are just disloyal....
Go root for the Heat, bandwagoners.
Suggesting changes is one thing, but to say this currint group has been sahmeful is just low-class.
To thine own self be true.
If these Pistons can't , get guys who can.
-NoQuarter- 06-02-2006, 11:05 PM Some people are just disloyal....
Go root for the Heat, bandwagoners.
Suggesting changes is one thing, but to say this current group has been sahmeful is just low-class.
You're the biggest asswipe, piece of shit, excuse for a fan on here. I don't know which of the Pistons cured your dad's cancer with his tears, but you need a fuckin reality check.
Why I am a fan of the Pistons.
1. I'm from Detroit.
2. I've LOVED their hard work ethic and commitment to defense since the mid 80's.
3. They play as a unit, not a group of individuals.
4. They play with pride and hunger.
5. They're a team of egoless hardworkers.
Since only reason number one still applies, I find it hard to root for them anymore.
If you think this has anything to do with winning or being an elite team, you're a bigger moron than I even belived possible. This team was taken to 7 games by a young and untested team with about 50% of the talent the Pistons have. Then they were completely embarassed and destroyed by a team they should have beat if they had decided to exemplify at least 3 of the reasons I listed above. I like hard workers. I like people with heart. I love the Pistons. This was not the Pistons I loved.
So if you still can take pride in a team that underachieved and bitched about all along the way, then that's fine by me. But if you have the brass to sit behind a computer screen and tell me that I'm not a Pistons fan, or that I'm a bandwagoner, then you can take a head first leap off the Palace rafters.
I BLEED red and blue, motherfucker. And today, I'm bleeding alot.
Anthony 06-02-2006, 11:08 PM Man, we're all bleeding.
But maybe this is a good thing. I think they took for granted that they were getting back to the finals. Hopefully they come back next year hungry.
metr0man 06-02-2006, 11:09 PM NOW can we all agree that being an all-jumpshooting team with little to NO scoring presence down low is a bad thing?
This nightmare scenario, where we spend all game shooting (and bricking) jumpers, then look like fools when we try to play inside, is what i was afraid of during all those mid-season chatroom squabbles. convinced myself it wouldn't happen because "they been there before" or whatever other cliched garbage i bought into.
championship teams play inside out. Even the triangle offense with Jordan possibly the GOAT at 2-guard played inside out.
Oh btw there was this one wtf-detroiter who kept dismissing the 'all jumpers' last in points in the paint criticism in almost every chat.
Anthony 06-02-2006, 11:11 PM I'm sorry, but that jump shot thing is your coach. And thats the last i'm going to say on this topic. We all know how I feel about Flip. He might be a wnderfull person, but he's a bad coach when it matters.
H1Man 06-02-2006, 11:14 PM I BLEED red and blue, motherfucker. And today, I'm bleeding alot.
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Kstat 06-02-2006, 11:33 PM If you only love them when they win and throw them under a bus every time they lose, that's bullshit.
Sorry, but it is.
64 wins and an ECF appearance is nothing to be ashamed of. No, it wasnt what we expected, but shit happens. Some people here have gotten pretty fucking spoiled.
BIG BEN'S FRO 06-02-2006, 11:36 PM KStat, I think we are upset that our team is now built around a flawed concept. Flip's offense has proven throughout his career that it works great in the regular season but fails in the playoffs. A low post presence, not a part time one like Sheed, is an absolute MUST.
-NoQuarter- 06-02-2006, 11:37 PM If you only love them when they win and throw them under a bus every time they lose, that's bullshit.
Sorry, but it is.
64 wins and an ECF appearance is nothing to be ashamed of. No, it wasnt what we expected, but shit happens. Some people here have gotten pretty fucking spoiled.
And this reminds me why I should never waste my time with you. You're a goddamn moron.
Kstat 06-02-2006, 11:39 PM KStat, I think we are upset that our team is now built around a flawed concept. Flip's offense has proven throughout his career that it works great in the regular season but fails in the playoffs. A low post presence, not a part time one like Sheed, is an absolute MUST.
...and if we go through next season with nothing changed, then that's different.
But I'm sorry, I'm not going to cry like a little girl over a season %95 in the teams in the NBA would KILL for.
Anthony 06-02-2006, 11:39 PM If you only love them when they win and throw them under a bus every time they lose, that's bullshit.
Sorry, but it is.
64 wins and an ECF appearance is nothing to be ashamed of. No, it wasnt what we expected, but shit happens. Some people here have gotten pretty fucking spoiled.
Its called expectations, buddy. If they go though the regular season winning games, and looking unbeatable, and they cant make it back to the NBA finals, we have a right to be pissed off and demand more. I dont know where you're getting your logic from. A ECF was great 3 years ago. We're much better than that.
Kstat 06-02-2006, 11:40 PM If you only love them when they win and throw them under a bus every time they lose, that's bullshit.
Sorry, but it is.
64 wins and an ECF appearance is nothing to be ashamed of. No, it wasnt what we expected, but shit happens. Some people here have gotten pretty fucking spoiled.
And this reminds me why I should never waste my time with you. You're a goddamn moron.
As always, your brilliant debating skills dwarf me. I admit defeat to your superior wit.
Kstat 06-02-2006, 11:41 PM If you only love them when they win and throw them under a bus every time they lose, that's bullshit.
Sorry, but it is.
64 wins and an ECF appearance is nothing to be ashamed of. No, it wasnt what we expected, but shit happens. Some people here have gotten pretty fucking spoiled.
Its called expectations, buddy. If they go though the regular season winning games, and looking unbeatable, and they cant make it back to the NBA finals, we have a right to be pissed off and demand more. I dont know where you're getting your logic from. A ECF was great 3 years ago. We're much better than that.
Maybe they should go back to the teal years and win 40 games a year and get bounced in round 1.
Maybe then expectations wouldnt get so offended.
Anthony 06-02-2006, 11:43 PM OH shut the fuck up. I'm sorry we cant all be as slappy as you about this team. They just crushed our heats with their shitty selfish play. We have a right to be pissed off.
But thats ok, you can be happy with our losing year.
I'm sure fans of all great teams are happy when they dont win a championship
Kstat 06-02-2006, 11:51 PM OH shut the fuck up. I'm sorry we cant all be as slappy as you about this team. They just crushed our heats with their shitty selfish play. We have a right to be pissed off.
But thats ok, you can be happy with our losing year.
I'm sure fans of all great teams are happy when they dont win a championship
Who said I was happy?
Big difference between being disappointed and declaring war on the team for failing to get to the finals once in 3 years....
Anthony 06-02-2006, 11:55 PM Whos declaring war? Because some of us see the need for change? No1 is pulling a GWB here.
When your team comes out and says "Anything but a world title is a losing year, and a disappointment" and then you dont go and win a title, we as fans have a right to be pissed off. We have a right to vent anger. I still have no idea where you are coming from.
Walker did the fucking shimmy... AHHHHHHHHH!!!
Anthony 06-03-2006, 12:09 AM Thats the same as someone pissing on the grave of a man they just killed.
wigglesrewind 06-03-2006, 01:36 AM everyone is dissappointed with the outcome of our playoffs this season. for a team that greatly improved its offensive scoring through out the season they certainly struggled in the playoffs when it counted. you dont make it to the finals shooting 30 or 40%. is change necessary? maybe. is it flip's fault we're done? maybe. one thing we should recognize is that the heat are a good club, we beat them in 7 last year, but this year they added jason williams, antoine walker and gary payton to their roster. they are a solid club and we needed to play our best ball to win and 40% just doesnt get it. whether its coaching or fatigue or whatever the reason it just didnt happen. its over now. lets all drink till the hurting stops and next thursday we can all be dirk nowitzski fans for a week or 2.
Renaissance 06-06-2006, 06:14 PM So I take it Miami won eh? Damn........
So I take it Miami won eh? Damn........
are you from out of the country? or did you just wake up from a coma? :D
Glenn 06-07-2006, 09:46 AM So I take it Miami won eh? Damn........
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