NBA Championship: Mavs vs. Heat (merged)

#51
#51
Mavs gotta keep the underdog mentality. It's going to be an exciting finish.
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#52
#52
The_Orange_Pearl said:
Kidd did a good job on Kobe. Plus, I expect Chandler and Haywood to lay the wood when Rose barrels into the paint. They are far more physical than the Heat and Hawks. I don't recall a single hard foul from Atlanta. The Pacers were able to hang close just about every game by being physical with Rose and they aren't even good. Mavs have twice the talent the Pacers do and twice the shooters. Pacers were one of the worst jump shooting teams in the NBA. They might have been last in 3 point percentage. I just think the west is head and shoulders above the East. Like I said, I think the 8th seed Griz would have made a run at the 1 seed in the East.

You have to keep in mind that the 8th seed(Pacers) in the East had a losing record and they also had the 2nd best record in the Central behind the Bulls. Not exactly a hard route to the easy route in the playoffs.

I won't go as far as saying the Bulls or Heat couldn't win the championship but I would go as far as saying the Mavs just swept a more talented team than both of them. Personally, I'd take Bynum, Gasol and Odom over Noah, Boozer and Gibson as far as bigs go. Mavs just swept them. I know Rose and Deng are really good as well but so is Kobe. I just don't see how the Bulls are any better than the Lakers and the Lakers got swept by the Mavs.

Time will tell but I think the Thunder is the biggest obstacle in the Mavs way. And they just came off a 7 game series + 4 overtimes. Mavs might pull another sweep.
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Exactamundo. I honestly think that every playoff team in the west, save New Orleans and maybe Portland could have won the east bracket from any seed this season.
 
#53
#53
Deng played better offensively then I could have imagined. His D was very good too. He is the X factor for the Bulls in this series.
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#68
#68
LeBron took over the game late.

Huge win for the Heat, it was a must win for them.

If they can get that type of performance from Haslam, they are going to be very tough to beat.

At some point in the series Miller/Bibby/Chalmers are gonna have to hit a few shots.
 
#69
#69
The Bulls turned out to be not as good as advertised, but they are still a fairly complete team and I don't think the Heat will get the kind of consistent supporting play they need to win a best of 7.
 
#70
#70
milohimself said:
The Bulls turned out to be not as good as advertised, but they are still a fairly complete team and I don't think the Heat will get the kind of consistent supporting play they need to win a best of 7.
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In a defensive series like this one is going to be, the Heat only need to score about 90.

They need about 15 points form the bench, I think they can get that.
 
#71
#71
GahLee said:
LeBron took over the game late.

Huge win for the Heat, it was a must win for them.

If they can get that type of performance from Haslam, they are going to be very tough to beat.

At some point in the series Miller/Bibby/Chalmers are gonna have to hit a few shots.
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Haslem is solid and they missed him all year. Besides Jones, he's their only quality role player.

Heat lost by 20 in the first cause Wade and Lebron were cold. I think people got ahead of themselves in this series thinking the Bulls were going to have it easy. Wade and Lebron simultaneously playing poorly is not likely to happen too often. Derrick Rose shooting 7 for 23 is likely to happen again. I like the Heat to win this series.
 
#72
#72
nbakerld said:
Haslem is solid and they missed him all year. Besides Jones, he's their only quality role player.

Heat lost by 20 in the first cause Wade and Lebron were cold. I think people got ahead of themselves in this series thinking the Bulls were going to have it easy. Wade and Lebron simultaneously playing poorly is not likely to happen too often. Derrick Rose shooting 7 for 23 is likely to happen again. I like the Heat to win this series.
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You're the stat guy and I was wondering what Joel Anthony's efficiency rating is?

It can not be good. At all.
 
#73
#73
Kingston Vol said:
You're the stat guy and I was wondering what Joel Anthony's efficiency rating is?

It can not be good. At all.
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It's horrible. According to Wins Produced, overall this year Joel Anthony produced -1.3 wins (in other words he cost them nearly a game and a half). Anthony's ranked 435th of 453 players. The Heat didn't really have any good role players until they got Haslem back.

Bargnani is last in the league with -7.0 wins produced, doubling the 2nd to last guy Milicic* with -3.4, if you are wondering.

*This possibly makes Darko the worst pick of all time. They could have gone with Wade who is in the top 10 of wins produced nearly every year (#5 this year with 18.9, #7 last year with 17.8).

http://www.wagesofwins.com/AllPlayersRank2010-11.html
 
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#74
#74
Why Rose needs to pass the ball more:

In Booze's last 3 semi-healthy seasons he scored a lot and efficiently with a pass-first PG setting him up.

19.5 ppg at .599 (TS%)
21.1 ppg at .581
20.9 ppg at .588

Those 3 years D-Will averaged 9.3, 10.5, and 10.5 apg and never took more than an average of 15 shots per game. This year with Rose, Boozer did:

17.5 ppg at .542

With Rose getting 7.7 apg and 19.7 FGA per game. Now in the playoffs Rose is shooting 23 times per game (shooting a below average .519) and getting 8 apg, while Boozer is floundering even more: 11.6 ppg and shooting .489

In my honest opinion, if Rose would become more of a pass-first guard, the Bulls would easily be the closest thing to unstoppable the league has this year. Rose has 6 teammates that shoot above league average (Booze, Deng, Noah, Bogans, Korver, and Asik). With 7 total players that shoot above league average, and a defense that's first in the league in terms of FG% allowed, the Bulls should be more dominant. You don't need a go-to-guy. You've got a lot of people that can score decently and you play great D, kind of like the Pistons in '04.
 
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