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snielz · Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 165 Location: Buenos Aires

Also contributing to the dynasty trends in basketball is the star-system that the NBA thrives on. Basically, you sign or draft a Garnett, Shaquille, or LeBron, then try to surround him with the right pieces. Usually, when he is in that 7 or 8 year prime, if you have the right pieces around him (usually including another all-star), you can make a run at a title every year. It is the case with every one of those team except the pistons. Everyone of them had at least one player is one of the top five players in the world in their prime. The superstar system is much more justifiable in basketball because only five guys play at a time and usually only 7 or 8 see much action in the course of a game. Of course, the soft cap means you can sign Amare Stoudamire for 20 million a season and hope he develops into the one player who carries you. As a side note, I love it when teams like the Knicks make that one player a shoot-first point guard like Stephon Marbury and then proceed to languish in mediocrity for the next five years while Marbury hoists twenty-five shots a game and cashes his fat checks.

By the way, the spurs game was on in average bars last night. As Guille said, watching the Finals here will be no problem. And how about Manu last night. Ohh, Manu. And while Manu gets the girl (that is, all the press) Tim Duncan once again turns in the quietest 24 and 17 ever while battling the Wallace Brothers (who have made even the Diesel look human 2 years running)

ElNota · Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 123 Location: Buenos Aires

Why the knock on Marbury? I mean he's overpaid, but I think the Knicks problem is Allan Houston's and Penny Hardaway's contracts more than Marbury (who gets plenty of dimes, incidentally, for a so-called shoot first player - I admit he's not "the answer", but hes a good guy to have on your team). Their other problem is that they have no legit big man... they should have held onto Marcus Camby who is tearing it up in Denver.

But yes, thats true, of course. The five man lineup makes the NBA more prone for dynasties. Magic, Isiah, Jordan, Hakeem, Duncan & Robinson, Shaq and Kobe, and then Larry Brown and the rest of the Pistons (hard to pick one player from that lineup) stayed around and led to the repeats/threepeats/multiple championships.

The Suns SHOULD sign Stoudamire to a long term deal for crazy money. They would be crazy not to... this kid is only 22 years old and averaged 30 pts on 53% fgp, 79% ftp, 10 boards, 2 blocks... in his first trip to the playoffs. sickening.

Veritas_Aequitas · Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 88 Location: Jalisco, Mexico

Since this is for all intensive purposes the definitive sports thread of the Argentine forum, I just wanted to mention that Arturo Gatti is fighting Floyd Mayweather later on this month in the strongest division in the sport. Can one watch championship prize fights in Argentina for free? That is one thing I really miss about Brazil.

Regards,
VA

snielz · Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 165 Location: Buenos Aires

Carlos...you seem to be in the know about the fights here. PM Carlos if you can.

I for one have no idea and haven�t seen any fights on tv�s in bars, though I haven�t been looking.

ElNota · Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 123 Location: Buenos Aires

Looks like Tyson is done. I still say that Tyson-Holyfield I was the best heavyweight fight that I have ever seen live. Holyfield was a 20-1 underdog and came back to win by TKO in the 11th round. As you Brits would say... it was brilliant!

vivaBarca · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 6:33 pm Post subject: Tyson

vivaBarca · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject:

I'd like to make an amendment to my previous post...what I meant is, is it possible to find a place to watch NORTH American sports...Please excuse my indiscretion!

snielz · Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 165 Location: Buenos Aires

I have a hard time believing anyone would want to watch the ravens. Who is going to be the quarterback this year?

vivaBarca · Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:31 pm Post subject:

ElNota · Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 123 Location: Buenos Aires

ElNota · Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 123 Location: Buenos Aires

vivaBarca · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 1:29 am Post subject:

Haha, watch out for Ray-Ray indeed. If he doesn't kill you with his tackles, then his dance moves will do the trick. I'd like to see him go up against the Diesel in a dance off....

It's a damn shame what happened to Cal this year...I mean, the Holiday Bowl, c'mon now! One of my good friends goes to Cal and I was looking forward to playing you guys in the Rose Bowl, but instead we wound up losing to UT in a heartbreaker (I went to Mich). Better than last year though!

ElNota · Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 123 Location: Buenos Aires

Horry does it again! And where was Duncan tonight?

snielz · Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 165 Location: Buenos Aires

Well-played. Nice response to my backhanding of the Ravens. They have a lot going for them and are a perennially good team (very tough in today�s NFL when a team doesn�t make the playoffs one year and makes it to the superbowl the next) even if they are boring and horribly inefficient on offense. Boller may turn out to be good, but right now he is less than mediocre- he is atrocious. With that running game and defense, if he could just throw for 150 a game and not turn it over we would be talking about the Ravens and not the Patriots as a dynasty. Ray can dance but what that move TO pulled last year? Totally embarrassed Ray, I thought. I expected Lewis to explode TO�s head on the next series but the eagles handed it to them. Cal was ripped off this year, big time college football suck sometimes. (I give you a hard time about the Ravens but I pull for the Dolphins who couldn�t beat the Ravens practice squad right now, so have some pity)

Yeah, WTF on Ray Lewis being the best-looking? If I was going to go out on a limb and proclaim someone as the best-looking in the NFL, Lewis wouldn�t be in my mind.

Does anyone remember when Ray Lewis was being interviewed by some show and he takes the camera crew in to his living room- sized closet and says "Deez is my minks" pointing to his mink fur coats. I rank this quote up there with Tyson�s "Bolivian" quote for all-time unintentional comedy.

Every once in a while, someone does something so brilliant that it is burned in to the collective memory of mankind for time immemorial. This is Robert Horry last night. I mean, the three pointers are almost pass� at this point. You expect them from Big Shot as they go through the rim without even moving the net. But the dunk? WTF! Where did that come from? I kept waiting for him to pass or shoot a pull-up. No one takes it in to the paint that hard when it is patrolled by the Wallace Boys. It blew my mind. I nearly jumped up and ran through the apartment like a scalded dog. When he made the game winner, the bigger surprise was that he wasn�t triple teamed. As a side note, I was watching the game in an apartment with an argentine family. I am friends with the guy and his mother and sister were watching too. It was the first game that had ever sat down and really watched. At the end of the game, they were so nervous they had their heads buried in their hands because they were so in to it. They are now fans. My work here is done.

ElNota · Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 123 Location: Buenos Aires

Big shot Rob can only come through and make the difference in one game... then its up to Duncan. So far, he has his head up his a** and is getting manhandled by the Wallace boys. Duncan just isn't a big time player in the clutch. Although he has one more game to prove me and all his other critics wrong.

I'm not homophobic and if it comes up in a normal discussion I admit when I think a man is attractive. But for it to come up in a sports thread? I think so and so is the greatest... and hes cute too. Shocked

That's pretty gay. I will say this... if I could come back in my next life with another man's body, I would definitely consider his near the top of the list... with LBJ a close second.