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MARINO1384 said:
33% from beyond the arc? That isn't very good. Upper 30s would be good, but not lower 30s.
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33% from beyond the arc? That isn't very good. Upper 30s would be good, but not lower 30s.
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RobFins2005 said:
Gotcha..
Yeah..I agree..then...The heat still has a better bullpen.
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Section126 said:
amen!
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in all seriousness, I pick the Heat, as I think they're deeper, but it all depends on Shaq. Shaq starting/Zo coming off the bench...gives you more fouls to give, meaning you can be more aggressive, but if Shaq avoids foul trouble, it guarantees you have quality in the Center position for all 48 minutes when either of the two are out there. Plus when both are one the floor at the same time, good luck getting a shot up.
Section126 said:
How is that ignorant? The truth is ignorant? I never put him down you don't have to get all on my back and call me names like you always do. What i said is true. He can not put up huge numbers consistently. Yes he's going to get his points in rebounds but his days of 30 points, 15 rebounds consistently are over. He might put up a game like that but he won't do it for a whole series that's for sure.
RobFins2005 said:
It's decent but it's not like he's taking that many shots he only took 188 shots from 3
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Maybe a slight homerism but i think the Heat in 6 or 7, i think the last 2 games where we FINALLY had our full compliment of our starting line-up, and FINALLY deciding to play defense Miami woke up and started playing to their abilities unlike most of the regular season, the Nets will be tough and it would not shock me to see them win the series but im still going Heat to win the series
MARINO1384 said:
Do you realize that 75% or more of Wade's three pointers attempted this past season were half/full court shots at the end of a quarter? :rolleyes2
Every post you make, you seem to reach longer than Tayshaun Prince's arms.
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MARINO1384 said:
Quick question.
What has been SHAQ's highest FG% numbers?
More importantly..WHEN?
Look at his numbers per minute..they are as good now as they ever have been.
Against Chicago..when the refs didn't sit him on the bench...he dominated. THAT IS A FACT.
and if he plays at least 36 minutes per game vs. the Nets..he will average 26 and 14...EASY. Those are dominating numbers.
Shaq is only old when the refs sit him with phoney fouls.
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Sorry, just being objective here, but I don't see this bumbling Heat team beating the Nets....
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Nets say goodbye to Johnson, but Wade's coming next
BY MITCH LAWRENCE
New York Daily News
INDIANAPOLIS - Having survived Anthony Johnson - which have to be the strangest four words to ever begin a column about the NBA playoffs - the Nets now get to put their shaky perimeter defense up against Dwyane Wade.
Wade owned the Nets last spring, when Miami swept Vince Carter and Jason Kidd right into summer vacation. He flew by them and over them and blew past them on the baseline. When all was said and done, he got the Heat to the second round as Shaquille O'Neal limped around on a bad thigh in all four games.
Now it's a year later, and the Nets' chief defensive weakness again has been exposed. This time by a career backup guard who had the series of his life, outplaying a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
With the Nets trying to close out a first-round series that shouldn't have been this close, Johnson shot like an old Pacer guard, Reggie Miller. But even making 16 of 23 shots and hitting for a career-high 40 points weren't enough as the Nets squeaked by the depleted Pacers, 96-90, on Thursday night.
The former Nets reserve, who dominated Jason Kidd for the better part of six games, called his night "bittersweet." The only thing that ruined it was that he didn't deliver a win and get the Pacers back to the Meadowlands for Game 7 on Saturday.
"I had never scored as many as 30 points in any type of organized game before tonight," Johnson said. "I just stepped up and tried to carry the team."
At least he tried. Johnson was game, but he had little help from Jermaine O'Neal, who again did not rise to the occasion in the playoffs, or the Pacers' usual array of backups, thrust into starting roles. Again, they were without Peja Stojakovic, Jeff Foster and Jamaal Tinsley - three starters. In the four games they were without Stojakovic, their only other proven playoff scorer besides O'Neal, they were 0-4. For the series, Stojakovic didn't even make one three-pointer.
Johnson's stellar play and the Pacers' war of attrition was the story of this series. The first was shocking. The second was not. Indiana has been playing shorthanded for the better part of two years. That they got this far is a testament to Rick Carlisle's coaching, although there are people around the team who think Carlisle might be the first to go in a summer-long house-cleaning.
If this was his swan song, Carlisle was as resourceful as ever. In the morning shootaround, he called on a member of his video department to get on the floor so that his team could practice five-on-five.
From the start Thursday night, Carlisle had the benefit of having the best player on the floor. The Nets have the Big Three. But Johnson was every bit as good as Miller on his best night. He went at, and right by, Kidd time and again. That told you more about Kidd's slippage from the ranks of the elite than anything else.
Johnson didn't mind taking matters into his own hands although he did admit, "Sometimes, when you put your neck on the line, it gets chopped off."
For the series, he outscored Kidd, 120-48. That's no misprint. But if he can do that, just imagine what Wade will do. To refresh your memory, he twice went for more than 30 points against the Nets in the 2005 playoffs, averaging 26 ppg and shooting a blistering 58 percent. Defense will have to carry the Nets. That is their blueprint, even when Vince Carter is at his best, scoring. But who is going to guard Wade?
It can't be Kidd, who never looked older than he did in this series. He had his best moments in the third quarter last night, when he gave the Nets a 12-minute show from back when he was dominating postseason games in 2002 and 2003. After getting outscored by Johnson 19-0 in the first half, Kidd came out and hit two big three-pointers to start a Nets surge. He mixed in two big assists to Richard Jefferson. He chased down loose balls to give the Nets extra possessions.
But he never could stop Johnson, who went for 15 in the fourth quarter and pulled the Pacers to within two with a three-pointer with 56 seconds left.
"After Game 5, I saw him going out to the bus and he told me he's going for 40," Kidd said. "We both kind of laughed."
There is no laughter in the Nets' headquarters today. Anthony Johnson humiliated them for six games.
Now they get Dwyane Wade.
BY MITCH LAWRENCE
New York Daily News
INDIANAPOLIS - Having survived Anthony Johnson - which have to be the strangest four words to ever begin a column about the NBA playoffs - the Nets now get to put their shaky perimeter defense up against Dwyane Wade.
Wade owned the Nets last spring, when Miami swept Vince Carter and Jason Kidd right into summer vacation. He flew by them and over them and blew past them on the baseline. When all was said and done, he got the Heat to the second round as Shaquille O'Neal limped around on a bad thigh in all four games.
Now it's a year later, and the Nets' chief defensive weakness again has been exposed. This time by a career backup guard who had the series of his life, outplaying a first-ballot Hall of Famer.
With the Nets trying to close out a first-round series that shouldn't have been this close, Johnson shot like an old Pacer guard, Reggie Miller. But even making 16 of 23 shots and hitting for a career-high 40 points weren't enough as the Nets squeaked by the depleted Pacers, 96-90, on Thursday night.
The former Nets reserve, who dominated Jason Kidd for the better part of six games, called his night "bittersweet." The only thing that ruined it was that he didn't deliver a win and get the Pacers back to the Meadowlands for Game 7 on Saturday.
"I had never scored as many as 30 points in any type of organized game before tonight," Johnson said. "I just stepped up and tried to carry the team."
At least he tried. Johnson was game, but he had little help from Jermaine O'Neal, who again did not rise to the occasion in the playoffs, or the Pacers' usual array of backups, thrust into starting roles. Again, they were without Peja Stojakovic, Jeff Foster and Jamaal Tinsley - three starters. In the four games they were without Stojakovic, their only other proven playoff scorer besides O'Neal, they were 0-4. For the series, Stojakovic didn't even make one three-pointer.
Johnson's stellar play and the Pacers' war of attrition was the story of this series. The first was shocking. The second was not. Indiana has been playing shorthanded for the better part of two years. That they got this far is a testament to Rick Carlisle's coaching, although there are people around the team who think Carlisle might be the first to go in a summer-long house-cleaning.
If this was his swan song, Carlisle was as resourceful as ever. In the morning shootaround, he called on a member of his video department to get on the floor so that his team could practice five-on-five.
From the start Thursday night, Carlisle had the benefit of having the best player on the floor. The Nets have the Big Three. But Johnson was every bit as good as Miller on his best night. He went at, and right by, Kidd time and again. That told you more about Kidd's slippage from the ranks of the elite than anything else.
Johnson didn't mind taking matters into his own hands although he did admit, "Sometimes, when you put your neck on the line, it gets chopped off."
For the series, he outscored Kidd, 120-48. That's no misprint. But if he can do that, just imagine what Wade will do. To refresh your memory, he twice went for more than 30 points against the Nets in the 2005 playoffs, averaging 26 ppg and shooting a blistering 58 percent. Defense will have to carry the Nets. That is their blueprint, even when Vince Carter is at his best, scoring. But who is going to guard Wade?
It can't be Kidd, who never looked older than he did in this series. He had his best moments in the third quarter last night, when he gave the Nets a 12-minute show from back when he was dominating postseason games in 2002 and 2003. After getting outscored by Johnson 19-0 in the first half, Kidd came out and hit two big three-pointers to start a Nets surge. He mixed in two big assists to Richard Jefferson. He chased down loose balls to give the Nets extra possessions.
But he never could stop Johnson, who went for 15 in the fourth quarter and pulled the Pacers to within two with a three-pointer with 56 seconds left.
"After Game 5, I saw him going out to the bus and he told me he's going for 40," Kidd said. "We both kind of laughed."
There is no laughter in the Nets' headquarters today. Anthony Johnson humiliated them for six games.
Now they get Dwyane Wade.
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Section126 said:
Wade will outscore kidd no doubt but I doubt its that bad of a massacre
Vince Carters been very hot so far in the playoffs so the heat should be worried about that...not just the nets about wade
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Buddwalk said:
You doubt that it would be that bad a massacre in scoring difference between Wade and Kidd? Are you suggesting that Anthony Johnson is better than Wade?
The article isn't about Wade..
The article is about Anthony Johnson and what he did to the nets. What will J-Will do?
I would like to remind people that the Bulls had the #1 defense in the NBA..the heat shot a very high FG% and put up over 110 points in 3 out of the 6 games against that defense.
Section126 said:Predictions?
Everybody knows what I think of this series..so I won't bother..
But everybody else..go ahead.
I'm guessing you are thinking Heat in 3 assuming they will beat the Nets so bad the 1st 3 games that the Nets will quit thus no need for a Game 4?
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