for bringing back basketball... it is very likely that if miami loses, there will be many excuses and the leading one will be some excuse for lebron, some injury or malady that kept him from being the greatest player of all time... really, just accept that was michael and let it go... six championships, no losses, and when needed, michael would score 60 points if that was the only way to win... let lebron four championships against better competition than lebron has ever seen, then let him retire to play another sport for two years, then let's see him come back and win two more championships without skipping a beat... without ezcuses or whining or pleading to the refs for foul calls... then start the comparisons... anyway, the best thing about the 2014 nba championships is the referees let the teams play for the first time in many championship series and that allowed everyone to play...
the primary difference in the 2014 championship series is the referees are calling it more fairly and letting the teams actually play the game... and that allowed proof that a great team, a group of players who play team basketball well, can beat any street-player superstars... and it is not as astounding team performance as some announcers want to claim, it's not 76% shooting every game, they are averaging 52% shooting for the series... 52% is not the greatest shooting, but the team defense against the street ballers have shut down the street ballers... the street ballers do not have the skill or stamina to keep up with a team playing great team ball...
at least for a few days, basketball is a team sport again, as it should be, as it always was until recent years when the nba seemed to want to crown kings and raise individual plays over executing the games of basketball well... keep the individual plays for the dunk contests, let the great team sport come back to what it was meant to be, a great team executing passes and plays that dazzle the opponents and true basketball fans who understand the game...
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