game 3 done and i still hate "toine"

Well, with the Larry O'brien in their hands, the Dallas Mavericks collectively choked. Nobody could hit a shot at the end... especially Dirk Dirkster. Not only could he not buy a bucket, but on the last shot of the game, he was the inbounder... The inbounder??? I thought for sure we'd see him roll out for a last second fade-away 3 pointer. Instead, there was an ally-oop attempt. Which, due to the fact the game ended with out a shot attempt on that play, was a bad call. I know. I know. They were trying to catch the Heat off guard... Well, they didn't.

The Heat win comes despite the amazing effort of Antoine Walker to completely sabotage his team. I don't care what anyone says, that chump is horrible. Countless times he put up just stupid shots. He took 17 ... made 6... and ended the game with 12 points. That is unbelievably inefficient. 2 turnovers and 1 assist... again bad bad bad bad bad...

Dirk??? Um, yeah... you were pretty clutch last night... well except for completely disappearing while the Miami Heat came back to steal the game. This is your team, and all they needed was a bucket or two from you in the last 2 minutes (actually 1 free throw)... and you couldn't provide it... For all the credit you get, you must take much of the blame. Well, it should be noted that Stack might have well not even laced them up last night... someone who, along with Dirk, gets a lot of credit for their success and so deserves a lot of blame as well. With that said I believe Dirk does put the blame on himself... and I expect him to rebound in the next game, and perhaps put his team one win away from the wearing the crown of champions.

Hey, have to bring this up because Stoney and Wojo are discussing it as I write... Dwane Wade's "injuries" are getting out of hand... The only time that knee injury affected him, was when he didn't have to do anything... Then he was limping and grimacing all over the place... But, on that final play he nearly jumped out of the gym to block the ally oop... how badly hurt was his knee if he was still able to do that??? It wasn't... It is just bull crap. I play with people like this in pick up games... Guys who bang knees and go down like they are shot... Roll around on the ground for 2 minutes... then they get up and are fine... Hey either you are so hurt you can't play... or you can play... I hate this little girl stuff... If you watched Wade, he was completely and utterly not bothered by the knee when he would drive... and put down incredible dunks... then all of the sudden he's limping on the way back down the court??? Absolute crap. I was really getting annoyed by all of that yesterday, and I'm happy I'm not the only one who felt that way... Not to say that Wade's heroics weren't spectacular... They just weren't more spectacular because of his "injury"... End of story...

Oh, while we are on the subject of stupid "hype"... What about the "credit cards" or whatever the hell it was that Pat Riley was blubbering about in the pre game... "15 strong"... Everyone gets this card, and they know they are in it together... blah blah blah... Seriously... where is the genius of this guy... Antoine Walker nearly cost Miami the game yesterday with an abundance of horrible, yet typical, bad shots and other bad plays. A guy Riley brought in... Luckily, Dwane Wade took over in the fourth... and Miami wins... What did Riley have to do with that??? Some stupid card??? That is his genius?... Does that crap really work at the professional level...??? Stupid little league gimicks... Did Miami go out for ice cream after the game??? Jesus... Seriously... When Riley was talking about it, you could tell he took it more seriously than a heart attack... I couldn't believe it... Even my girlfriend thought it was retarded...

And on top of that... Did anyone catch the "Dwane Wade recieved an email from a friend, and blah blah blah blah blah.... gotta pull your troops together... i love you so hard.... blah blah blah... and that friend was............ Lebron James...." AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who Cares????? Who frikkin Cares...????????? I swear to god, I muted the game for about 15 minutes after that lovely, but completely unecessary tid bit of info... For the love of god... This is sports... can we please get back to that a little. It already takes 13 hours to play a 48 minute long game.... just stop with all this little side drama crap...

Ah well, at least the game was close at the end. I want Dallas to win, but I would not have been happy with a sweep...

~Bladdy
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