Spurs Win!

Spurs win game 7. Hmm...I'm happy, but not deliriously happy (like last year, when the Pistons took down the Lakers). It just seemed too pat. Redemption stories everywhere. Take Game 5: 'Sheed blows the game. Maybe Larry begged Stern to let 'Sheed take over Game 6, so as not to destroy 'Sheed's psyche?

Then Games 5&6: Duncan chokes. Game 7: The Redemption of Timmah! Game over.

Gotta get rid of my tinfoil hat. *sigh*

Next year: figuring out how to get either the Lakers or Yao to the Championship game. Or maybe getting Yao to the Lakers? Heh. Stern will just love that...

Game 7!

Yup, called it.

Close game...going to the road team. Almost laughable, how the script went:

Game 1: Close, but home team pulls away in the end
Game 2: Blowout early, home team wins
Game 3: Close, but home team pulls away in the end
Game 4: Blowout early, home team wins
Game 5: Close game, road team wins
Game 6: Close game, road team wins

Now it's for all the marbles...Game 7.

I don't think the NBA fixes the games, it just makes it "easier" for one team to win by having certain...conditions. It's up to the other team to take advantage of that. Spurs nearly blew the script in Game 5; however, if the Spurs had lost that, I'd bet anything that they would've won Game 6.

And you wonder why 'Sheed had WWE-style belts made?

Who wins? My gut says Pistons. *sigh*

"This is how your heart breaks": the NBA Finals

Wow, Will Smith did it again.

Geez.

You think they would've learned to cover Horry by now.

Spurs should've won in regulation, but Timmy flubbed it. He's hating himself right now; kinda like when he flubbed that game in Seattle (guarded by freakin' Potapenko! Potapenko!). Horry bailed them out, though.

I'd like to think I coined "Big-Shot Rob (Bob?)", since I used it way back when he killed the Kings with that last second shot (of course, millions of journalists probably had the same brainwave at the same time). I never liked the Lakers (gimme Larry Legend any day), but I always respected Horry.

Oh, and there was still time on the clock when 'Sheed called that timeout, but they chose to ignore it. So the Spurs actually should've won it three times: Timmy's flubbed free throws, Timmy's missed follow-up, and a technical from 'Sheed.

So, what happens Game 6? Well, depends if you believe the conspiracy theorists...

(a) if you do, then there's a Game 7. Essentially they're all just following a script: blowouts in the each of the first two games at home, followed by a close Game 5, then another close Game 6
(b) It's over.

Me? I call Game 7! In reality, there's only ONE game that matters--the other 6 are just scripted. Game 7, they just let them play.