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1989 · #61 (**permalink**) 05-28-2006, 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by professor

The unnecessary playoff loss is not in my view new to this year's squad.

Okay, that's fair. Everybody has off-days, even in the playoffs. But until this year, they never occurred frequently enough to get on my nerves.

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Originally Posted by professor

And i guess, finally, that i don't need them to bring consistent effort to maintain my support. i've said lots of times that it's part of what endears them to me. their inconsistency makes them feel a lot more like me; as, i'd like to think, does their reliability when the chips are down (even or especially because the holes they climb out of are self-dug).

Hey, that's cool. I can respect that.

I guess our definitions of "when the chips are down" are somewhat different is all. I certainly don't expect them to go 82-0 in the regular season -- I take off work early if there's not much going on -- but as soon as the playoffs start is when I expect them to go into "maximum" mode.

Darth Tater · #62 (**permalink**) 05-28-2006, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Zoso

After watching this game and thinking about Micro's comments about McDyess (how horrible he's been lately) in the chat room tonight, leaves me with three thoughts.

...Looking back, maybe it really was a mistake trading Arroyo (his defensive deficiencies aside). He and McDyess had developed such great chemistry running that pick and roll, especially against Miami. How valuable of a weapon would that be coming off our bench right now as opposed to what we have as an alternative?

...It's just a hunch or maybe more of a prediction. But my gut tells me that Joe D. is not going to re-sign Ben Wallace next year. Maybe there's a sign-and-trade in the future. Who knows? But, something tells me that Ben Wallace will not be on this team next year.

...How long is it going to take until Flip Saunders gets it through his head to take Ben Wallace out of the game at the end when he sees Pat Riley going to the Hack-a-Ben? I mean, it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. It really is becoming painfully obvious that this head coach is completely incapable of making adjustments. Even the simplest ones as removing a player from the most obvious situations.

All interesting and good points Zoso. We'll see what happens with Ben.

Total bummer about tonight.

Reve · #63 (**permalink**) 05-28-2006, 01:42 AM

I can handle losing but I hate bad attitudes. Rasheed and Ben should just grow up.

jammertime · #64 (**permalink**) 05-28-2006, 01:58 AM

Is it to late for us to take Wade instead of Darko with our pick??

I haven't read every line of the CBA yet, but can't we use a do over or something?

The Low · #65 (**permalink**) 05-28-2006, 02:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Reve

I can handle losing but I hate bad attitudes. Rasheed and Ben should just grow up.

What specifically are you talking about?

lapiston · #66 (**permalink**) 05-28-2006, 02:59 AM

The Heat beat us fairly easily which has me very worried. I know we got to within a point but we never stopped their attack and you knew that our offense would fold at any time. We scored 83 points--that is 7 straight low scoring games. Teams seem to know how to stop our offense.

Flip's adjustments on offense were to make everyone pass some to Ben down low. Not that good an idea. He should have anticipated the hack a Ben. Wade is torching us. Other teams do much better with him.

Unless we have another gear, we could be in trouble. We don't have a quick guard off the bench to capitalize on their slowness. We can't run on them to break them down.

I would use Davis and Cato early to take fouls on Shaq and force them into using Wade early. On offense, Tay should bring the ball down as he is a mismatch in the open floor for them.

adonis · #67 (**permalink**) 05-28-2006, 05:23 AM

I am not worried at all. All we need is one game on the road. it is even better to have game 4 than having game 3 for one simple reason: get the momentum home.

Why am i not worried?

We played bad, we were in the game for about 3 and half quarters.
CB's confidence is BACK. this will make a difference.
we were very close dispite the fact that Prince had 3 points.

I can list 10 more reasons. You heard my words, Game 4 is ours.

adonis · #68 (**permalink**) 05-28-2006, 05:25 AM

There is no place for wade on this team. i wouldn't trade neither Rip nor CB for him. so too late to ask this question. Unless he wants to start from the Bench

TWOTIMESRALPHI · #69 (**permalink**) 05-28-2006, 05:58 AM

what a loss.
- Wade missed only 5 shots, that's awesome- he was unstoppable for us.
- Ben was useless, we can't afford having im in the game in the crucial moments- how freaky is that!??!?! If the game should be close, every team can play hackaben and we'll lose. This ain't funny, this makes me more worried than anything else
- Tayshaun may be fatigued, it was just a question of time
I don't want the team to lose this series against fat Shaq and his Minime (how is that written?)

Darth Tater · #70 (**permalink**) 05-28-2006, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by jammertime

Is it to late for us to take Wade instead of Darko with our pick??

Coincidentally, in Rob Parkers column today, he wrote that D. Wade may not automatically sign with the Heat. I'm a big Wade fan. He's the enemy during this series, but if things continue as they are...

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