It seems like Bosh should have a better hook shot with both hands.
Bibby has no issue with chucking up contested three-pointers. The reason the Mavs have even managed to be tied at 11 is because of the difference in three-point shooting by each team's point guards.
“Bosh has been a terror on the boards.” -Mike Breen -> You don't hear Bosh called a “terror” very often.
Spolestra looks like a chipmunk with a goatee.
Kidd plays like an old man the way he anticipates the ball being exposed and taking swings at it then actually making contact with it without fouling.
Stojackovic is so pale it is creepy. Is Serbia near Transylvannia?
That was a great move by Terry on James. One of those fake crossovers. Too bad he missed the dunk. I thought he threw it down live. That said, after watching the play from the camera on top of the backboard, I don't know that he would have made it even if he hadn't been fouled. Looked like his trajectory was headed wide.
Barea should have flopped when James gave him a forearm shiver. Would have been The Brawn's fourth foul.
It feels like whoever hits their threes is going to win this game.* Also, the ability to rebound all those misses will be big.
The Heat are flying around on defence to get out on the shooters.
It's tough to throw it off Barea when you are falling out of bounds because his legs are such a small target. It's like when managers throw a midget into the batter's box to screw a pitcher's ability to hit the strike zone.
Oh no, Tim Allen is back. He looks very similar. I bet he got work done.
Nowitzki runs awkwardly like his body is already half-broken down. Cuban must have the best doctors physiotherapists on retainer just for Dirk.
Wade jumps to pass all the time. But it is awesome the way he can spin to shield his man while he catches the ball.
It's good to see that Kidd finally found his outside shot in his old age. It must have been in one of the crags on his face. Seriously, though, his face looks more beat up than his wife's.
How come they advertise Sprite a lot using basketball, but never Coke?
Mavs went on a 7-0 run when Bosh went out.
Chandler was put on this earth to finish alley-oops and Kidd has some skill in throwing them.
You shouldn't really showboat very much when you are 6'10” and you block a 5'8” guy.
Man, how can the shorter Kidd with the shorter vertical block Wade? His defense is bizarrely effective.
Miami is going after Stojakovic as they should.
Wade walks weird, too. It's hard to tell if it is more because swagger or injuries though.
You would think that Blake Griffin would have a clause in his insurance contract that would void his coverage if he played with tigers.
“As pro basketball players, we have a duty to be heroes.” -LeBron James in an NBA Cares commercial.
“We have accepted the villain role.” -LeBron James in his pre-NBA Finals press conference.
Dallas makes a lot of floaty passes that seem like they have a small margin for error; if they are slightly off then they are either going to fly high out of bounds or come up short and be stolen.
Being short allows players to split double-teams much more easily their dribble is so low. Vince Carter will achieve the same effect when splitting double-teams by bending over and dribbling very low. It's great, I don't know why more players don't do it.
Whoa, Juwan Howard is the first Fab 5 player to be in an NBA Finals?
Mark Jackson loves Dirk's patience because Dirk's first two dribbles were not intended to move the ball around the court in any way, just to read the defence. And that's why Mark Jackson was a boring basketball player.
Is it a sign of bad defence when an alley-oop pass is directed to an open player streaking to the hoop and another offensive player with good position next to the hoop tips it before it gets there? I think so.
Haywood doesn't even try to jump when he is finishing around the hoop with people covering him. I think he tries to sneak it up sometimes before the defenders notice what he is doing.
Bosh is too hesitant to be a strong defensive player. It is the flip side of the coin that makes him hold the ball for five seconds while he faces up his man on offence.
Spolestra has Wade, James, Bosh, Miller, and Haslem in with over 9 minutes left in the 4th quarter. Will he make any more substitutions for the rest of the game?
Now Haslem is dropping his elbow jumper. Haslem & Miller hitting their shots means game over for the Heat.
I think the association has such a big gap between the conference finals and the NBA finals to give the players time to heal and be fresh so that the product is better.
When is the last time Bosh went around somebody? He used to blow by people all the time in Toronto, but now most of his offence is finishing well around the hoop off of plays set up others and hitting outside shots. I suppose free throws are still the other big component of his offensive game, as was the case in Toronto.
'Cowboys & Aliens:' It's beautiful people starring in 'The Bourne Identity: Western/Sci-Fi Edition'. The literalness of the title 'Cowboys & Aliens' remind me of 'Hobo with a Shotgun'. I don't trust movies with literal titles can carry their momentum for two hours.
Just now James was defending Kidd, Haslem was on Nowitzki, and Miller was on Chandler. That can't all be on purpose, can it?
James has a “the great rapport with referees”. Too bad basketball fans hate him.
How does Wade keep on getting these great blocks at the end of games? Where are they the rest of the game? I don't really mind, but what explains this phenomenon?
LeBron James is the greatest of all-time! Just ask Scottie Pippen! Dunk-force! Such a smart play to take the lane to the basket when the other team was not expecting it.
Late whistle on the Haslem foul on Dirk. But Haslem gave him that lane to the basket. All Dirk had to do was spin. Haslem must have expected a double-team to be coming from the other side.
What would a team of five Jason Kidd's play like? I suppose it wouldn't look too different than standard NBA offences. A good entry pass into the post followed by forcing the defence to collapse with some quasi-threatening movement towards the basket then lots of no-look passes around the perimeter until someone takes a three and hits it at an average rate.
It feels like the three-point shooting has improved in each quarter of this game. No more butterflies, maybe?
Heat fourth quarter scoring in the playoffs must be tough to fit on a bar graph with the scoring for other quarters.
That last Wade to James alley-oop was less than classy but entirely nasty. It's the non-verbal equivalent of asking for a hard foul in the next game. It's probably good for the Heat that Chandler got a huge dunk on the next trip down to wash some of that bitter taste from the Mav's palate.
Why are both teams' stars still playing with a 10+ point lead and 11 seconds left?
*: It turns out that Miami went 11-24 (45.8%) while Dallas went 9-22 (40.9%).
Post-game analysis: Miami won because they out-rebounded Dallas 16-6 on the offensive boards which was the primary reason why they got up 13 more shots than Dallas. Other than that, things were quite even.
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