<Just forget it>
If everything is on the right track in NBA Playoff (unless crazy things like Tim Duncan is killed, Parker’s wife is kidnapped etc.), we will see Pistons facing San Antonio in the Finals… yea… San Antonio versus Pistons again. Exactly the record-breaking low ratings for NBA finals which appeared 2 years ago. NBA fans are not Chinese investors. They know what to pick and watch. Who doesn’t want to watch Golden States versus Phoenix?
How can the world let history to repeat? I propose next year as long as they enter playoff, the Pistons and Spurs will face each other in the first round. Just kick one of them out of the picture.
Anyway, Spurs vs Pistons will provide us all of the following (WOOO~~ what a comprehensive list) :
- Final score 51 vs 50 for three games, or two teams combined scores less than 100 (Don Nelson will be shaking his head… What da heck are these guys playing? where is the three point line? where are my 3s? where is my Baron Davis?) The other games are settled at, say 70 to 70 something.
- Each game with at least 40 free throw attempts
- A combined 30 times shot-clock violation each game (that’s 12 mins, or a quarter)
- TNT instead broadcasting the 94/95 Finals featuring New York Knicks vs Houston Rockets (Harper for THREE~~~~~~~~ YES!)
- People won’t talk about NBA anymore. WE just forget about the playoff until Duncan is officially retired.
You know what? Tim Duncan is probably the most boring sportsman in the world. WE just hate him and the Spurs. If Spurs go to the Finals, regardless which team is the Eastern Champion, I will just pretend as if Golden States or Phoenix wins the champions.
I could still vividly recall when i first visited Japan back to 1999 (so-called Graduate Traveling or whatsoever), the finals were Spurs versus the Knicks (in that year, the Knicks had Camby, Kurt Thomas, Alan Houston, the retired L. Sprewell). I simply couldn’t tolerate the pace (if there is any at all) that the Spurs played. All they want to do is take away all fun you possibly have from basketball, and then make you give up yourself. Tim Duncan remains so Tim Duncan, without any emotional ups and downs on his face, even when they won the CHAMPIONSHIP! We once kidded among friends that even jerking off, Tim will have the same emotional representation.
So….
Instead of sticking to Spurs versus Pistons, here are couple of solutions that NBA commissioner David Stern can offer :
- The Spurs and Pistons play the first and third quarter; the Suns and Warriors play the second and fourth.
- Cut the 12-min 4-quarter Game to 5-min 2-quarter game. In another way round, cut the best-of-7 series into best-of-1 series. In any case, it doesn’t really matter whether you watch 7 or 1 game. It’s just boredom after boredom.
- Flip Saunders and Greg Popovich play on court, featuring Joe Dumars and David Robinson.
- Replay the 2004/05 Finals. Players go to Los Vegas for strip show.
- Open trade market without any salary cap or luxury tax.
The last is funny… I bet spurs will not change its lineup except getting a better defensive centre (e.g. Camby or Ben Wallace). So if you were the Pistons, who will you get in to win over spurs? Okay… replace R. Wallace with Garnett (he can shoot 3, he can defense, he can pose, he can do everything Rasheed can without getting the technicals.). Replace Webber with Yao (Yao cannot defense – just look at the Jazz-Houston match up with Boozer, But with Garnett taking Duncan, its ok that Yao is taking Camby or Wallace defensively and do his jobs at the offensive end). Replace Prince with Marion (though i prefer the injury-free L. Odom more). No need to change the backcourt (Bullips – Hamilton match is doing fairly).
But at the end, Spurs will win at all.
We are doomed to the Spurs vs Pistons series…
So, forget about the Finals.
