Comments on: The Optimism of Realizing that the Heat Bucked Many Long-Term Trends While Winning Game 4

By: little B

little B — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:42:05 +0000

@Havoc
Just was able to get back online and see the rests of the posts. I don’t like Joe’s post either. Calling people thugs and things like that are completely unneeded. Actually that word drove me nuts for years because first of all the Pacer’s were a bunch of Thugs 5 years ago, literally. Tinsley, Jackson, Artest, Harrison, Daniels, Williams…But then people continued to call them thugs even when the Pacers had Foster, Murphy, Dunleavy, Granger and Deaner for a couple years, drove me crazy. Lebron and James aren’t thugs at all. Thugs care about themselves more than their teams. Tinsley and Artest are perfect examples (involved in shooting and one well we know what he has done). Not where Joe was coming from on that but James and Wade are pretty clean cut guys. Granger, James, and Wade may act like their tough but they only care about winning and wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize their team from that.

I apologize to Soppe for the conversation of his articles being about this and not about his article at all.

By: Joe B

Joe B — Tue, 22 May 2012 02:07:54 +0000

Great post. It is unlikely that both James and Wade will put up equal numbers, while it is more likely that the Pacers will put up better numbers. The amount of 3s taken in the first quarter, for me, spelled imminent doom–they abandoned the post early, which would have given them a 15+ advantage going into the 2nd half.

By: Havoc

Havoc — Tue, 22 May 2012 01:34:34 +0000

@littleB
You criticized @Money’s comments regarding the heat but failed to say anything about @Joe? Is it because he’s a pacer fan? You can’t with a straight face say he is not as immature as @Money for trying to demean Heat players by calling them thugs. @Joe – If anyone is a thug in this series its Danny Granger with his all of a sudden tough guy act getting in peoples faces. This is a surprising trend to me because I’ve followed Granger’s career a fair bit. If anyone has noticed, both Wade and James walk away whenever Granger run’s up to them becuase its obvious he just wants to get one of them tossed to make it a much easier series. In all honesty, this thing wouldn’t be as close if Bosh were available. It would have been 3-1 going to MIA for game 5. Then again if’s don’t matter in this game. Its a very entertaining 2 v 3 matchup and that’s all us as fans can hope for.

By: NoLookPass

NoLookPass — Mon, 21 May 2012 23:24:55 +0000

What people should be scared of is this……

2-of-19 for Shane Battier
2-of-12 for James Jones
4-of-12 for Mike Miller

One of these 3 guys are going to go off for 10+ at some point this series.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:38:40 +0000

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By: By the Numbers: Some Surprising Series Stats | Eight Points, Nine Seconds

By the Numbers: Some Surprising Series Stats | Eight Points, Nine Seconds — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:36:20 +0000

[...] There are a lot of obvious things that anyone who has been watching the series will have noticed: Lebron and Wade did crazy things in Game 4, both teams’ defenses have put on the clamps, the shooting is down, Danny Granger will let [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:57:23 +0000

Both of them are going to be exhausted, and Thugs (Wade) is still injured (unless that was just an excuse for the Heat and after the win, there was no injury). The Pacers were not prepared for Thugs to play like this after the two previous games… however, there is no excuse for LeBum’s field day. All I can say is, these two will be exhausted when (there potentially if there is a game 7), have 3 games in 5 days-and at least over 120 minutes each.

All of that said, it always looks nice on paper, as did their odds for game 3 until they played.

By: little B

little B — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:45:40 +0000

@Soppe,
I like the article and I think you’re right. Pacers were in the whole game besides Record numbers from Wade and James. Just as long as the Pacers dont let them keep putting up Record numbers, they should win this series.

By: little B

little B — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:40:46 +0000

I really don’t like to make fun of people who are not as smart as others because not all people got equal advantages in life, but when you come on and try to call someone out for something and laugh at their posts, you deserve what’s coming. Please tell me your in high school or younger. Even if you are a teenager, please copy and paste your post in word first then correct all of your countless mistakes and repost it so we can even understand your arguement. “Bashing” comments are just dumb and ignorant. No need to come on here ranting and raving. Post your thoughts and try to act like an adult. I feel sorry for any smart Heat fan out there that has to read comments that this fan posts all the time. Makes your fan and city look sad. 6 down 10 to go…keep that thinking in mind and you will be back to 16 to go before you know it.

By: little B

little B — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:37:22 +0000

Wow, thanks for that post Money, got me out of that slump I was in since yesterday afternoon. Haha. Bet the Miami fan support is proud of this comment.