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Parity > Dynasty

If this message board was around in the 1980s, be honest- how many of you would have complained about Magic and Bird making so many NBA Finals and crying for the lack of new blood?

Not many. Bird and Magic were the NBA's top players whose rivalry began in college. White vs Black. East vs West. That was great television. The problem with the East now is there are no Pistons waiting in the wings to take down the Celtics, and there are no Bulls waiting in the wings to take down the Pistons.

What are you talking about?

Also, while dynasties may be boring, their much better than watching :censored:ty basketball.

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Parity > Dynasty

If this message board was around in the 1980s, be honest- how many of you would have complained about Magic and Bird making so many NBA Finals and crying for the lack of new blood?

Not many. Bird and Magic were the NBA's top players whose rivalry began in college. White vs Black. East vs West. That was great television. The problem with the East now is there are no Pistons waiting in the wings to take down the Celtics, and there are no Bulls waiting in the wings to take down the Pistons.

You forgot the Sixers, who gave them fits in the first half of the 80s.

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Parity > Dynasty

If this message board was around in the 1980s, be honest- how many of you would have complained about Magic and Bird making so many NBA Finals and crying for the lack of new blood?

Not many. Bird and Magic were the NBA's top players whose rivalry began in college. White vs Black. East vs West. That was great television. The problem with the East now is there are no Pistons waiting in the wings to take down the Celtics, and there are no Bulls waiting in the wings to take down the Pistons.

You forgot the Sixers, who gave them fits in the first half of the 80s.

Also, the Rockets were waiting in the wings in the mid-80's to take the Lakers down. They beat them in 1986. However, Sampson's injury and drug abuse prevented them from reaching their potential.

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Parity > Dynasty

If this message board was around in the 1980s, be honest- how many of you would have complained about Magic and Bird making so many NBA Finals and crying for the lack of new blood?

Nobody. Because we're not idiots. Parity is more boring than anything.

8 Finals in the 1980s for the Lakers would have driven this board nuts. "I'M SICK OF MAGIC I'M SICK OF KAREEM" yet nobody ever said that back then.

I'm not a Pacer fan, but I just wanted some sense of new blood. How many damn times do we have to see in June the talking heads find new ways to worship LeBore?

The only one here complaining about dynasties is you, so I don't know why you've suddenly decided that we would all be shrieking like infants if this forum existed for the 80s Lakers dynasty. The fact that you keep speaking for all of us and saying "LeBore" makes me think you're either impaired or 11 years old.

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Parity > Dynasty

If this message board was around in the 1980s, be honest- how many of you would have complained about Magic and Bird making so many NBA Finals and crying for the lack of new blood?

Not many. Bird and Magic were the NBA's top players whose rivalry began in college. White vs Black. East vs West. That was great television. The problem with the East now is there are no Pistons waiting in the wings to take down the Celtics, and there are no Bulls waiting in the wings to take down the Pistons.

You forgot the Sixers, who gave them fits in the first half of the 80s.

Also, the Rockets were waiting in the wings in the mid-80's to take the Lakers down. They beat them in 1986. However, Sampson's injury and drug abuse prevented them from reaching their potential.

Sampson (with his drug/injury issues or the fact that he was 7'4" and he wished he was 6'6") were not the problem. Even in 1986, their backcourt was old, spare, both, or were the ones who introduced Ralph to drugs (Lucas and Reid) then got even older the next few years. Getting Sleepy Floyd helped get younger, but it was already over. For years, they kept throwing out Allen Levell and Pervis Short with major minutes...again Allen Levell!

Plus, they got hoodwinked in thinking Walter Berry had any NBA talent.

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Is anybody else bothered how LeBron drove into the lane but passed the ball instead of trying to get fouled? He is one of few superstars in sports to shy away from a big moment occasionally and its annoying.

No.

1- No other basketball player has been more conditioned to make the correct play. The spacing on that play was to pass the ball to Bosh for the most efficient shot in basketball...the corner 3.

2- I guess you forgot that with two consecutive NBA titles, Jordan did this (or were not born when this occurred).

3- LeBron was not going to get a foul called to tie the game, period.

IND struggled to get to 90 while LeBron only played 24 minutes.

They are so inefficient and they traded for Even Turner, who has played three minutes this series...3!

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Is anybody else bothered how LeBron drove into the lane but passed the ball instead of trying to get fouled? He is one of few superstars in sports to shy away from a big moment occasionally and its annoying.

What's actually annoying is that fans have been conditioned to expect all pretenses of actual basketball to be thrown out in favor of heroball with an arbitrary amount of time left in the game and get legitimately mad when a superstar doesn't play that way. Once again, I blame the league's marketing for this.

Additionally, LeBron was not getting a call there. He wasn't getting any calls all night and was in ticky-tack foul trouble instead - why would that have suddenly changed on the last possession?

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Parity > Dynasty

If this message board was around in the 1980s, be honest- how many of you would have complained about Magic and Bird making so many NBA Finals and crying for the lack of new blood?

Not many. Bird and Magic were the NBA's top players whose rivalry began in college. White vs Black. East vs West. That was great television. The problem with the East now is there are no Pistons waiting in the wings to take down the Celtics, and there are no Bulls waiting in the wings to take down the Pistons.

You forgot the Sixers, who gave them fits in the first half of the 80s.

Also, the Rockets were waiting in the wings in the mid-80's to take the Lakers down. They beat them in 1986. However, Sampson's injury and drug abuse prevented them from reaching their potential.

Sampson (with his drug/injury issues or the fact that he was 7'4" and he wished he was 6'6") were not the problem. Even in 1986, their backcourt was old, spare, both, or were the ones who introduced Ralph to drugs (Lucas and Reid) then got even older the next few years. Getting Sleepy Floyd helped get younger, but it was already over. For years, they kept throwing out Allen Levell and Pervis Short with major minutes...again Allen Levell!

Plus, they got hoodwinked in thinking Walter Berry had any NBA talent.

I didn't say that Ralph was on drugs, but that the backcourt was on drugs.

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These Spurs are a hothouse flower. It is so staggering how they look at home and on the road. This is shades of the '08 Celtics in a way.

Save for game 3 at Portland, they haven't been aces outside their building. (even the game 4 at Dallas was moreso an escape than an impressive showing).

They're damn near invincible at home (even though Dallas somehow beat them by 20), but on the road..... the previous Spurs championship teams were a much better road team arguably than home.

The 4 championship Spurs teams clinched 9 of their series on the road (and only 3 series at home until '07). If you include last year, closed out LA/GSW/Memphis on the road.

Those teams were reliable outside of their building. Hell, even 2012's first two rounds, they sealed the deal at Utah/LAC.

They have to show me something on Saturday- if it goes 7, even with homecourt, you don't want to roll the dice there.

Game 7 Is Russian Roulette. The Spurs can't just depend on homecourt going forward. Potentially a dangerous precedent.

And potentially going forward, they can't just depend on taking care of business at home. Miami/Indy are capable of stealing a road game (see game 4 last June).

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No.

1- No other basketball player has been more conditioned to make the correct play. The spacing on that play was to pass the ball to Bosh for the most efficient shot in basketball...the corner 3.

2- I guess you forgot that with two consecutive NBA titles,

(or were not born when this occurred).

3- LeBron was not going to get a foul called to tie the game, period.

What's actually annoying is that fans have been conditioned to expect all pretenses of actual basketball to be thrown out in favor of heroball with an arbitrary amount of time left in the game and get legitimately mad when a superstar doesn't play that way. Once again, I blame the league's marketing for this.

Additionally, LeBron was not getting a call there. He wasn't getting any calls all night and was in ticky-tack foul trouble instead - why would that have suddenly changed on the last possession?

Couldn't agree more. I feel like it's the same type of person person prone to buying into sports-talk cliches and played out narratives that often complains that NBA players have no fundamentals, don't play defense and don't pass...all while hating Lebron because his game doesn't devolve into heroball in the 4th quarter.

That was a great drive and kick by Lebron and incredibly makeable shot from bosh that would probably go in more often than not. Definitely a better chance of scoring from that than betting on the off chance that he was gonna get a favorable call for the first time all night and then make both free throws.

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The NBA Eastern Conference- where there is no joy outside of South Beach. The 2010 Celtics' Finals run seems like another lifetime ago.

GET. HELP.

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