Mac,
Look I said Popovich sucked and is completely responsible for blowing the series. However...
I don't think everything is a fix either. How do you
fix something without the players being in on it? YOu can
shave a few points but SA still had 98.6% chance of winning. Not to mention...prob
tens of millions more from the public on Miami then SA anyway. Every numnut kid on here was
Miami ML every game.
Who is Pop helping?
I don't think everything is a fix either but we have proof on many occasions people fixing games in sports, especially basketball. How do you fix a game without the players being in on it? Well it's already been proven that games have been fixed by players, coaches, refs, front office. You only need 1 person for a fix and you only need to shave a few points too. Whoever is in on the fix don't give a dam who the public is on (unless it's the books). All they care about is fixing the game for their purposes (which could be hundreds of reasons).
For the 10,000 I'll post this. Wouldn't the
NBA and Stern benefit from NY/Miami in the eastern finals? Knicks in the finals brings prob 3x the viewers Indy/Miami had. Nobody gives a shit about the Pacers...we don't even care in Indy til the playoffs. THe Knicks were right there gm6...ready to take it back to NY for gm 7 and Indy got 46 free throws to 18. THE REFS LITERALLY ADVANCED INDY OVER MUCH MUCH MUCH HIGHER RATINGS w/the knicks.
I never said the NBA or Stern were in on it? I have no idea who, what or why someone would benefit from fixing. Which is why it's so hard to prove.
I don't know why Pop did what he did...other than he's obviously
a stubborn MFer. Green got him to
gm 7 & Ginobili got him several rings so
he rode them out. For whatever reason...he didn't believe in Diaw that much. I don't get it but I watch
Dusty Baker most every day for 6 months for 5 years now and he does shit over and over that rarely works and never figures it out.
Yes, Pops is stubborn but not this much. When a guy is sucking up the joint, he has been known to yank them very quick and move on (even his big 3). Green didn't get them to game 7, Green probably lost them game 6. Ginobli didn't get them anywhere. Okay, I'll give you that he wanted to "Ride them out", so to speak. Then explain why he would bench Parker and Duncan at the same time? Why wouldn't he "Ride them out" too? It doesn't make sense, it defies logic. Also, why would he ride Green out as he went 0 for 15, then when he made his only basket in 1.5 games, he immediately benches him? Come on...
and I have thought on more than 1 occasion that Dusty Baker was on the take too. We may never find out but he's been suspect at times as well. Although, a lot of his shit just seem to be bad luck. Just not this dam blatant like Pops.
Any law enforcement looks for motive in a crime....this one has none. The crime doesn't even make it any sense. If Duncan and the other key guys aren't in it then
how is anyone sure it will happen? How can anyone have confidence to place big money on something that wishy washy. I'm betting millions so Popovich can give us a 1.4% chance to hit a -300 bet....lmao.
I will quote your own words... "Look I said Popovich sucked and is completely responsible for blowing the series." Looks like Popovich was worth a lot higher percentage??
It's usually the things that make no sense, defies logic, zero motives that are the hardest to prove but easiest to carry out. Why do people do what they do? I don't know but I know Pops has never ever done this craziness before. I cannot logically explain it due to him being incompetent. A fix is much more plausible to me.
Maybe Nike was in on it??? They did have a Lebron shoe already made a couple weeks ago that had 2x NBA champ on it.