Entries from Austinist tagged with 'nbafinals'
June 20, 2005
Robert Horry has done the truly amazing once again. No, we are not talking about his unbelievable second half/overtime performance of last night. It is much greater than that. The Fresh Prince of the NBA has somehow made us feel that the last 12 years are all happening simultaneously. Every June we turn on the NBA Playoffs and see Big Shot Bob doing the unthinkable, yet somehow expected, extricating his teams from the jaws......
Continue Reading "Robert Horry Does Not Play Golf"June 15, 2005
The Detroit Pistons beat the San Antonio Spurs last night, 96-79, in Game 3 of the 2005 NBA Finals, and no one could be happier than the sportswriters and broadcasters of America, who finally get to talk about the Pistons with a straight face. Did you know that if you sneak up on Rip Hamilton when he’s not wearing that mask and give him a firm tap on the nose, his face will disintegrate......
Continue Reading "1-Up for Billups"June 13, 2005
The 2005 NBA Finals are going to get pretty tedious if the the Pistons don't figure out how to shoot.......
Continue Reading "And They Call the Spurs Boring"June 10, 2005
About six minutes into the first game of the 2005 NBA Finals, the Detroit Pistons had the Spurs looking like a bunch of clowns--unfunny clowns, at that. How the Pistons managed to go from trouncing (at that point, they led 17-4) to being trounced (the Spurs won, 84-69) is an unsolved mystery, although it might have something to do with Manu Ginobili, who went from a dismal opening (four points by halftime) to a......
Continue Reading "Destroyed Pistons"June 8, 2005
It is often said that defending a championship is one of the hardest things to do in professional sports. Therefore, we give proper kudos to the Detroit Pistons for returning to the NBA Finals, after a gutsy run through the Eastern Conference Playoffs. The Pistons had to slug thru several difficult series under constant media speculation about the fate of their wanderlust-suffering coach. They are professionals (except when Rasheed Wallace loses his mind, God......
Continue Reading "NBA Finals Preview and Prediction"