Bill Simmons with a decent column on Heat-Pacers after Game 1

[Regular_P]

still had to go through other stacked teams

Who else had 8 or 9 Hall of Famers during that period plus a Hall of Fame coach?

 

[Jplaya2023]

If Miami doesn't win this series, it should not be held against LeBron. Nobody's played more games or minutes than him the past three seasons and even he isn't Superman. Eventually teams get worn out; that's why it's EXTREMELY rare for teams to go to four straight Finals.

The Lakers flamed out in their fourth run twice in the last 15 years, the Bulls had two years off between their three peats, the Pistons couldn't make it four straight in the early 90s either. I think the Celtics are the only team to do it and one of those runs was in the 60s.

Nah Fukk that, we gonna roast this nikka like smores on a camp fire if he don't win, just like we did kobe in 11, and others. He's the best player in the league and a back to back champion. He is by far the best player in this series. His expectations are rings and finals mvps. Everything else does not matter. He said not 2.3.4.5 whatever so i'm holding the king to his standards.

Plus the celtics did it from 84-87 and in 87 mchale was playing on a broken foot, walton was hurt, Len Bias had died and they had no bench and had to go through a much tougher ECF than the cHEAT do now.

The 90-93 bulls have a similiar run to this cheat team, the only difference being in 90 they got to game 7 of the ECF finals against detroit. No one was giving MJ a "tired" excuse in 93

 

[mastermind]

Who else had 8 or 9 Hall of Famers during that period plus a Hall of Fame coach?

fair enough, I just wanted to see how long this would go

 

[bl2k8]

fukk being tired, the last four years the Heat have had a first round bye and then faced average teams in round 2. Thats the benefit they get of playing in the East. Theres a reason the Lakers couldn't get to four straight finals in either try. They were playing above average teams every finals run.

 

[IGSaint12]

I need the Pacers to win tonight just to experience the fukkery

That fukkery

 

[Hacksaw Jim Thuggin]

that was against an inexperienced team that didn't even believe they were there. Paul George was a nobody. Lance was buried on the bench. this is a completely different team now.

breh...lebron is the best player in the world right now....if that nikka gets going it doesnt matter who is guarding him....

i still say paul george and stephenson are too inconsistent....2 weeks ago they were getting roasted in here...now nikkas narrative has completely changed...the coli never fails...

cats are way too reactionary in here...

 

[Higher Tech]

Good article, really good article, but I still sports-hate Bill Simmons

 

[SHAQAVELLI]

bill simmons columns are basically long ass ramblings about nothing

LOL exactly. I'll read them and they'll keep me entertained, but I usually come away with no real change in my feeling toward whatever he's rambling on about

 

[Shogun]

but mainly because they didn’t have anyone like West — the seen-it-all veteran who would have made those three or four we’re-screwed-if-someone-doesn’t-score-right-now jumpers, told Dwight to stop *****ing, yelled “GET YOUR HEAD INTO THE SERIES, WE F—ING NEED YOU!” at James Harden, and grabbed Chandler Parsons’s jersey in the final second of Game 6 and said calmly, “If there’s a switch and you let Lillard get a wide-open 3, I’m beating you to death.”

 

[Easy-E]

This cool and all, but;

Vogel slowly became more intense than Michael Fassbender during the last 40 minutes of Shame

This means he's seen my baby's boobies.

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On a more serious note ...

Bosh morphed into a 3-point specialist who never posts up anymore.

Spo' puts him back in the mid-range, there gonna backdoor sweep IND

 

[CrimsonTider]

 

[AkaDemiK]

 

[Walt]

simmons da gahd. As per usual.