Haha..You are Hillarious, but I like your optimism. Btw - Toronto has as much chance of winning NBA Title as Bangladesh of winning the cricket world cup.Wow, it's halftime and Toronto is up 49-43... If Toronto continues to play this well almost all of you will have to appologies when they win the NBA Championship.
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) as if nowitzki is unable to speak for himself! seriously the whiniest jerk i've ever seen...good that wade came up with a pretty classy response, hopefully that should be the end of it....
He can easily play shooting guard
Miami's support players are still not consistent enough and that would cost them in the playoff, if they make it.miami beats the spurs 100-85....they are at last showing some of the form that carried them to the championship last season....and the spurs look like they are really unravelling right now, they are down to fourth place in the west right now with the rockets breathing down their necks and 9 games behind the mavs....and the war of words continue between wade and the mavs, now the mouthy cuban comes to the defense of nowitzki(what a surprise!
You seem to have developed an irrational anger towards the Mavs organization, and its fans. The latter I believe is because of me. For you to make sweeping statements that "collectively they are the biggest losers in any form of sport" is childish and demeaning. Let's start with your comments about Cuban. Much like the Mavericks, you don't want to give him any credit at all. What do you personally know about him by the way, to conclude he's the worst of the "dot com" billionaires? You seem to imply that he got lucky and struck gold and doesn't deserve his success. I've met him numerous times. He's a highly intelligent and passionate person. If you follow his career from the start, you'd realize that luck had nothing to do with his success. He worked hard and has an innovative mind. One example is that he was smart enough to sell his interests before the dot com bubble burst. In regards to the Mavericks, he comes off as a buffoon because he's so passionate about the team. I don't agree with his antics, but he's the best thing that could've happened to Dallas. Before him, the Mavericks were possibly the worst franchise in all of American Pro Sports. They were a laughing stock and an embarrassment. After Cuban took over, he slowly rebuilt the team's reputation and winning tradition by making smart hires and having a great marketing plan to win back the fans. Again, shows how smart he really is. So do I prefer that Cuban stop with his antics? Sure. However, if the choice is living with Cuban's outlandish behavior but still having the passionate owner who would do anything to win, then give me Cuban any day.
Err - when did I comment on Cuban's intelligence, it is a fact he made his fortune durung the DOT COM bubble and obviously that doesn't mean that he didn't work hard for it and that he is not smart. He may be einstien and billionaire who worked hard to become what he is today but that doesn't give him the right to show his boorish attitude and his disrespect for the entire NBA organisation, Refs players from other teams because those people work as hard as (if not harder) than him. Just because they are not billionaire like him doesn't mean they they be subjected to constant barrage of stupid comments from Cuban.
No arguments there. He should've stayed out of it.
So Mavericks fans are the first and only fans to complain about officiating? No other group of fans have ever complained about that before? So much so that you claim that Mavs fans are the biggest losers and whiners in all of Pro Sports?
I'm not picking on Dravid here, but did you see his posts above complaining about refs? He's not a Mavs fans, just to enlighten you. Could it be that you perceive Mavs fans to be whiny because you are a Heats fans and hence closely followed the Finals last year. It's natural for you to observe complaints from Mavs fans because you interacted with them (via forums, work etc) on a day to day basis. Now let's look at some other examples for contrast. Do you think that Buffalo Bills fans complained and whined after the famous "Music City Miracle" play that ended their season in the playoffs? The Bills fans complained that the throw was a forward pass and they were robbed. Do you think that the Raiders fans complained after the famous "tuck rule" play against New England? They complain to this day. Let's have an NBA example. Do you think Utah Jazz fans complained after MJ made his famous game 6 jumper in 1998 Finals? They complain to this day that MJ pushed off on Byron Russell. I've been to plenty of forums where fans of different sports have ALWAYS complained about refs and how they lost this crucial game or series because of them. So please stop with the "Mavs fans are the worst about it". By the way, just so we're clear, I never blamed the refs for our loss. I always said that we chocked. However, the refs were IMO far too eager to call fouls against Wade. From the above quote, I take it that Dirk is saying that they (Mavs) had the series won but lost it due to not performing like they should. I fail to see what's so wrong about that statement. The Mavs were up 2-0 and 10 minutes away from being up 3-0. Then, as you have pointed out before, they chocked and imploded. I don't think that's insulting the Heat to say that.
TBH Dallas Mavs used to be my one of my fav. teams until they lost to Heat in the finals and started complaining about refs and wade and blah. I wouldn't have been dissapointed had Mavs beaten Heat in last years final. So he assumption that I am reacting only because I am a Heat fan is a bit incorrect. And trust me If Wade/Shaq complained about the refs after losing then my reaction would be same.
There is a difference, It is alright to complain about one particular play. And I wont mind if you complained on a particular play where the ref got it wrong and it cost you the championship.But to go on and on about how Wade gets calls after calls and how Mavs would have won if not for refs and how Mavs gave the NBA championship to Miami is really distasteful and disrespectful.
Ok I don't think we're going to convince each other and are basically running around in circles. I could give you plenty of examples of fans complaining about officiating in an entire series, as opposed to a play, but I don't think it would change your views. You think that Mavs (fans and organization) are the whiniest bunch of losers ever. I think that's ridiculous and numerous teams/fans have complained similarly in the past. Let's just agree to disagree.
.Pavlovic is starting to make a name for himself this season as well with another 21 points today.