Smack / Jun 3, 2011 / 1:23 am

Dirk And Dallas With The Comeback Of Their Lives

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Dirk Nowitzki

Dirk Nowitzki (photo. Monte Isom)

OMG. LOL. WTF. LMAO. Seriously, what did we watch? How did that happen? One minute Miami was introducing the first ever NBA Finals Dunk Contest, and the next the Mavs were canning Js all over the place, erasing a 15-point lead in the final seven minutes and grabbing the win they absolutely had to have, 95-93, after Dirk hit a layup with just three seconds left. Was this the swing game? It’s too early to say. But one thing it did do was turn this jaunt from a coronation to a series. After a 13-0 run by Miami near the beginning of the fourth, it felt like it was over. LeBron (20 points, eight rebounds, four steals) and Wade (36 points) walked back to the huddle after a D-Wade trey, smirking like they knew they were winning a championship in a week. So down 15, they fell asleep and the Mavs exploded, hitting the jump shots they couldn’t make all night. Dirk (24 points, 11 rebounds) scored nine straight points to end it for Dallas while Miami had two consecutive awful possessions that ended in ugly James’ threes. Tied up in the final seconds, Dirk somehow was left single-covered against Chris Bosh (4-for-16, 12 points), went right, spun back and got all the way to the rim, hitting the game-winner with his left (the injured side). With no timeout, all Miami could get was a floating three from Wade at nearly midcourt. Clank. Can we forget the lockout, forget the summer and just watch Dirk all day? Not only was he $ in the clutch, but he was hitting lefty layups all night, forcing himself to overcome the break. The Notorious J.V.G. joked that “There are some guys in this league today who would help him ice it” but still, what Nowitzki did was insane … Who let this kid out of the house? … You ever watch a movie that’s entertaining, but you just know exactly how it’ll end up? That was us last night. No matter how close the score was – even in the first half when the Mavs built up a nine-point lead – we never felt Dallas had a chance. How wrong were we? Early on after Jason Kidd hit a three to put Dallas up six, every Mavs’ starter had scored. They looked energized and ready to go. At the same time, Wade hit three of his first four shots and soon LeBron regained the lead for Miami. After a few transition buckets to start the second quarter, Dallas was up and shooting nearly 60 percent. The only way the Mavs will ever score enough points is if they get into transition and force some turnovers. They were doing that to start the second quarter, building up a six-point lead. Yet, they had the chance to really grab hold of the game, missing consecutive wide-open threes. Just like that, Wade jammed home a missed shot, then got a steal and dunk to re-energize the crowd. The Mavs led for much of the half, but a 9-0 Miami run sent it to the break all tied up … Keep reading to hear about Wade’s gangsta, Steve Nash the pimp and yes, Mike Bibby

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  • Sporty-j

    F&F you are messing up my strategy lol. I thought we we’re cool? I put you in my fab 5 ahead of AB and this is how you do me? Dirk needs to prove his man hood. Get down low in the post(so we can trap him) and bang like Chris Bosh. Dallas will be lucky to win another game and I don’t care if it was played in snow. Bosh is going to have a big game 3 and shake off the rust. They better hope tha Haywood is ok. Cuz Chandler will be in foul trouble. Wade is nothing to be messed with when he’s pissed and you…

  • First & Foremost

    @Those overreacting to the Heat’s celebration

    IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME, yet now it is a problem. Lebron would be a Billionaire if he leased space on his nutz. When the Thunder do the fun bunch at 1/2 court no one has a problem. They are just young and having fun. When the Raptors go wild when Derozan has a breakaway dunk, no one has a problem. You can’t tell me, you don’t cheer for your team when they go on a run and the other coach has to call a timeout. Should the fans not cheer until the final buzzer? Celebrating mid game gets the fans involved.

    Tweeting that you made it to 2nd base is premature celebration. Let me guess, you have on the rape face until you bust a nut.

  • Sporty-j

    Oh and Speaking about coaches. Why do they always take Dirk out at the 6min mark of the 1st and 3rd. Rick has been even worse than Spoelstra during the Finals until the natural disaster happened last night. His coaching decisions so far has him right up there next to Spoelstra scratching your head. That’s why I know we got this rapped in the bag. Dude will help hand us a ship. I don’t know how Dallas made it this far with him as coach. But I forgot they basicly hand a 2nd round bye and when the Thunder had to go 7 games, battle West Brook ball hog addiction, and was just plain out to young to even bye alcohol.

  • Sporty-j

    (Buy)

  • Mt. Pleasant

    Cosign Jay regarding Wade/Lebron.

    Lebrons the better athlete, and maybe the better player, but its at least debatable. Their stats are pretty close.

  • Big Island

    F&F – so DON’T tweet when I get to second base and I might get my hand down her pants? OK, I’ll give it a shot.

    I like a little bit of celebration, some of it is out of control though. If Wade hit that 3 with a minute left for the lead, then yeah, leave it up there. But up by 15 or whatever, and then doing it, you’re playing with fire with that much time left. When he dunked on Verejao that time and then turned around to step over him, it was gay. Iverson did the same thing to Lue and it was pimp because he didn’t go out of his way to do it. Football guys doing the first down thing or celebrating every tackle gets old too. Dude just ran for 8 yards on first down, chill.

    I hope SMACK doesn’t die down too bad the next couple of days. I don’t have a damn thing to do this weekend. Probably just drink in the pool.

  • LeRoy Green

    @Sporty-J

    you’re exactly right about Carlisle subbing Dirk out so early. I kept sayin to myself, how the F*CK is Dirk already going to the bench when Kidd’s old ass is still out there? Miami keeps its 3 stars in the majority of the 1st quarter, meanwhile Dirk plays 6 minutes and he already needs a breather. I understand you want him in to close out the 2nd and 4th quarter but when he leaves the game our offense is terrible. Fortunately Marion held it down during those stretches but I agree that Carlisle shouldn’t pull him so damn early.

  • Rafa23

    Did Sporty just say that Bosh bangs in the post? WOW

  • CLAW

    Dirk is gonna make it rain in big D and Terry will get his swerve back. Bosh and Bang in the Post should not be allowed in the same sentence, unless it is to show opposites.

    I’m glad AB could come up with why it was alright for Wade and Bron to act like they have just won the series (let alone the game) with 7 minutes left, that is what I needed to hear before the weekend officially begins. Yes same thing as JT doing the airplane as he’s running down court, exactly the same type of celebration. GTFOH

  • EN FUEGO

    Bosh bangs in the post?! HAHAHAHA

    The homer goggles are on!

  • CLAW

    Was also losing it in the last couple of minutes in the first half when the refs kept making calls on the Mavs, it was like they didn’t meet their first half quota and needed to jack up the fouls.

    Is it just me or in close calls there hasn’t been replays alot of the times. On fouls it seems like they are trying to protect the refs by not showing anything. It happened quite a few times during the game.

  • http://www.dimemag.com Austin Burton

    @CLAW — If you’re really gonna claim you haven’t seen dozens of NBA players celebrate in the middle of a game after a big play, you’re just lying for the sake of making a point.

  • the cynic

    Jason Terry has been trying to the choke the season away since the beginning of the playoffs. He has had 1 monster game all playoffs (a really monster one at that, lakers game 4).

  • CLAW

    Have a seen a celebration like that where the guy keeps his hand up and another comes and beats him in the chest and then the whole team gets around them and start high fiving? No I haven’t seen that DURING a game.

    I’ve seen Bird vs Dominique where Bird made crazy shot after a long distance 3 when THE HAWKS BENCH started hitting each other and laughing. That is a legendary level, having the other team celebrate like school kids.

  • http://www.dimemag.com Austin Burton

    @cynic — I wouldn’t be that harsh on Terry. He was huge in the closeout game against Portland, Games 3-4 against L.A., and Game 1 and Game 4 against OKC. And though he made some mistakes last night, Dallas isn’t in position to win that game without JT’s contribution.

  • the cynic

    Jason Terry is the old man version of JR Smith. He makes it rain when things are going well, but shows his true colors in a pinch. I used to really like Terry when he first came into the league, but over the years i’ve seen his game for what it is, a front running gunner. Terry has been making the same boneheaded blunders throughout the playoffs, but everyone finally took notice at the end of last nights game

  • the cynic

    Terry should change his nickname from “the jet” to “WTF!?!”

  • http://www.gofukurselves.idiots.org Chicagorilla

    @F&F,

    Nah Dirk shouldnt post up because he’s weak in the post. thats why he’s soft.

    Wade wouldnt post up a 7ft chandler, but he would post up 5’9 JJ Barea, and if he didnt id assume he was being soft on that particular play. Because any other time he’ll bang a smaller dude in the post, create the double team and either score, get the foul, or find an open teammate off the double team.

    Dallas’s roster, with Kiidd, Marion, and Chandler have allowed Dirk to be a perimeter player because they have 3 of the best rebounders at their positions playing with Dirk. Great GM move and great coaching.

    Still, doesnt change his soft ass game. But mentally, he looks 10x’s tougher than he was before. Maybe its the confidence in knowing he has the refs on his side….lol, but lets not start that.

    Oh and as for your analogy, why the fluck would i be cooking in the oven? That sh!t is soft in itself!!! I got women who do that for me

    On the celebrating….
    @Austin, you seriously ain’t comparing a “shrug” from Mike after a 35pt 6-6 3pt FG in the first half, to Lebron doing combo shots to Wades chest Just after Wade finished posing in front of the opposing teams bench? Not to mention Lebron and Bosh’s excessive screaming and flexing after every dunk!!!

    Dude thats not even in the same ballpark as a damn “shrug”. You really reaching on that one. You need to just admit that it was too over the top and “hollywood as hell” as J. Noah would say.

    To Lebrons credit, i saw the “More than a game” documentry, he’s been acting this way since 7th grade. But IMO, thats the problem, its the same behavior and emotion of a 7th grader.
    I would never want my team to get that emotionally high during a game, because that opens the door for them to be equally emotionally low.

    Honestly, they look like an undisciplined AAU squad, that is playing against a really good high school squad. The AAU squad has the talent for sure, but the HS team runs their sets to perfection and have an unquestioned leader. Either team could win, but i’ll take the HS team in most cases.

  • LakeShow84

    OOOOOOO ok so now we’re saying Dirk is PHYSICALLY soft..

    Im sure he’ll take that knowing that he COULDNT BE ON THE COURT if he was “physically” soft..

    But i will agree and say dudes mental toughness has grown leaps and bounds..

  • http://www.dimemag.com Austin Burton

    @CLAW — “Have a seen a celebration like that where the guy keeps his hand up and another comes and beats him in the chest and then the whole team gets around them and start high fiving? No I haven’t seen that DURING a game.”

    Ever heard of Mario Elie? Seven seconds left, DURING a game, Kiss of Death.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnIy_NhcDFg

  • http://www.dimemag.com Austin Burton

    @Chicagorilla — Do we really need to make a list of NBA players who scream and flex after every dunk, whether it’s the 1st quarter or overtime? Tyson Chandler and Kenyon Martin immediately come to mind. Nobody seems to have a problem with them, but Bosh is somehow worse?

    Wade and LeBron’s act last night was more “hollywood” than MJ’s shrug, but at the same time, MJ also shrugged at the announcers. Meaning he was literally playing to the media with that one.

    I know it’s fashionable to nit-pick the Heat for everything they do on the court and off, but sometimes it just makes you seem petty.

  • CLAW

    7 seconds compared to 7 minutes, still losing me!

  • the cynic

    doesn’t everyone trash K-Mart for screaming and acting like a retard?

  • LakeShow84

    And the celebration shit really wasnt TOO MUCH of a stretch for any team..

    It was a close game ALL GAME.. MIA goes up 15 (!) points in the with SIX minutes left and even the announcers said the game was blown open..

    MIA had every right to get juiced.. I think a lot of teams get hyped like that.. Even though i imagine Kobe would hit it and just make his piranha face on his way to taking a seat for the timeout lol

    In a sense u have to act like youve been there before.. and Wade has.. thats why he wasnt trying to get down like the game was over lol

  • http://www.dimemag.com Austin Burton

    @CLAW — Now you’re just flailing. You said you hadn’t seen that type of celebration DURING a game, and now you’re arguing semantics over exactly how much time is left on the clock to make it appropriate. “During” a game is any time before the clock is on all zeroes, can we agree on that?

  • the cynic

    all this ridicules talk about celebrating is making me realize how much I’m going to miss the Tim Duncan era

  • Sporty-j

    Since you crybabies always crying about the Heat celebrations because of you’re personal vendettas against the Heat. Plzz don’t watch our championship celebration next week. I thought that only females, babies, and only FLAW and his Q.Q.-pie whine this much. Not half of Dimemag readers.

  • CLAW

    That was the shot that won the flippin game and the series and you are comparing that to 7 minutes left in game 2??????????????????????

    WTF!

  • http://www.dimemag.com Austin Burton

    Elie’s shot gave Houston a three-point lead with 7 seconds left, while Wade’s shot gave Miami a 15-point lead with 7 minutes left. Either way, by your own definition it’s a premature celebration because the door was still open for the tables to turn. Am I wrong?

  • CLAW

    Terrible example, you can try to prove a point but just proves how ridiculous your argument is.

    Check out this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rto2_oYVs0I&feature=related

    Go to the 4:12 mark and 5:00 mark and look at the Hawk bench and this is IN atlanta

  • CLAW

    Damn it, in New Orleans not Atlanta. They had put the game at a neutral site.

  • http://www.dimemag.com Austin Burton

    @CLAW — OK, how about the John Starks dunk over Chicago? That was early in the series I believe, with 1 minute left on the clock. Chest-pounding celebration with teammates ensued. Is that “during” the game enough for you?

  • http://www.dimemag.com Austin Burton

    My argument is that NBA players have been celebrating big plays mid-game for decades. Are you going to argue against it?

  • JAY

    Heat blow, no one likes lebitch. Different story than 06, lebitch joins team, I had to sell my heat jersey cuz of him and what he stand for. Let’s go Mavs

  • Sporty-j

    CLAW to Q.Q. conversation!

    CLAW: Hey girl! I’m just calling to see if watching the game. Lebron is all out here flexing trying to show his muscles. You can tell after that coach called timeout. That he went to the bench to rub baby oil on his body because he was not sweating before that timeout.

    CLAW: Yeah I know pumpkin! Don’t sweet Lebron. He always acted like he was all that since H.S. up her in Ohio. One time I tried to give him a high 5 at he scored a T.D. in a high school football game. And he left me hanging. Called me a f%$cking faggit like Kobe did that ref. Just because I was the only male cheerleader at our school and was the leader of the gay club at our school. He did me just like he and Wade did lil-Wayne.

    Q.Q.: Ohh girl I did not know you was the leader of the gay club at you’re school. What was the name of it.

    CLAW: The Akron Hammer undercover boys.

    Q.Q.: Girl forreal? Minds was the Coaco Magic SUPERMEN. Dwight Howard is my Idol. I hope he does not leave us or else I will blame Lebron and demand an apology from AB. Plus I don’t want to change the name of my balls. Or have that Championship trophy tattoo removed if he leaves. Hell our drought might last longer than Clevelands drought if he leaves.

    CLAW: I just hope he does not join Miami because they are Hollywood as hell.

    Q.Q.: Well girl let me go because the Heat are about to play. I have nothing else to do since we got
    eliminated by the Hawks.

    FLAW: Hell we did not even make the playoffs in Cleveland or Phoenix. So I’m going to go and watch the Heatles to. Bye Pumpkin… SMH

  • Sporty-j

    (Sweat)

  • Big Island

    @AB – I see the point you are trying to make, but your examples are terrible. Absolutely terrible. I’ve said this before, you make your points and explain them well. Whether or not people agree with you, you still make an argument to support your points. There is a time to celebrate a shot, or play, depending on the how big the moment is. From everything I can tell, you are an intelligent guy, well spoken (assuming that from your writing) but you know the difference between a big dunk (which everyone celebrates, regardless of the time), a 3 to win a fucking series after you’ve come back from 3-1, and what Wade did. Come on now.

    I used to play with a guy in a league out here, and we were playing some dudes he went to school with, all D1 guys. Anyway, my buddy was celebrating an alley oop he threw, repeat, he THREW THE PASS and walked off like he was the man. The guy he was guarding dropped 60 on us. He still talked about the pass. We lost by 2. Back to Wade, celebrating a play is one thing, but of all of the shots, in all of the places to do it, that was bad. If the Heat won, he’s being cocky or whatever. They lost, he looks like an ass. And then falls on the ground like he was poked in the eye after launching a 28 foot 3 off of one leg at the buzzer. He deserves the shit he’s catching from everyone.

  • http://www.dimemag.com Austin Burton

    @Big Island — Elie and Starks aren’t the greatest examples, but considering CLAW only said he hadn’t seen celebrations “during a game,” they fit his criteria. But really, for 5 years I watched multiple NBA games every single night. I’ve seen TONS of guys celebrate momentum-swinging, seeming-dagger, punctuation plays from the first quarter on through overtime. My point is don’t act like Wade was doing anything out of the ordinary for an NBA game.

  • Sporty-j

    AB why do you argue with these dudes. They only come to Dimemag to vent there frustrations towards Lebron nowadays and blame him for everything that goes wrong into days world. When a player makes a big or nice play. The majority of the time they will celebrate. When Scottie Pipen dunked on Ewing. No body complained. When Jordan hit that game winner against Utah. Nobody complianed that he kept his hand up. When Jordan jumped around holding up his 6 fingers for the amount of rings he won. Or said act like you been there. Or don’t hug Pippen because you just finally beat the Pistons. But if Wade and Lebron even high 5 each other. Or let out a yell after a nice dunk. People start folding there arms across there breast and legs across each other. We are sitting here argueing about celebration for the most Hated team in NBA history. That’s like argueing about practice lol. Let these chumps have there day…

  • Big Island

    AB – Well said. I guess what I was trying to say is that I agree with what you are saying in this instance, but your examples were bad. Also, Wade deserves the crap people will talk about him since he does those things. Not just him, but all of the players who step over a guy, jump on a scorers table and say “this is my house”, and leave their hand up that long after hitting a shot deserve to get pee’d on.

    Sporty – Your examples are worse than AB’s were. I hated what Pippen did, but honestly it’s because I loved Ewing. He could’ve helped him up and bought him dinner (which he should have) and I’d still hate it. Jordan left his hand up after hitting the game winning shot FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP, and held up 6 fingers after WINNING HIS SIXTH CHAMPIONSHIP. They celebrated beating the Pistons who had beat them for years. This is the first year of the Miami dream team. Who did all of the hoopla/parade/winning not one, not two, not three, not four… They haven’t struggled for anything, they haven’t won the chip. When they do, flip the fuck out. Dance naked. Leave your hand lifted for a year. Until they do, people will hate them, and people will probably still hate them (I will), but you can end the discussion with 2011 Champions. Celtics won, people hated them. Lakers won, people hated them. Dallas wins, people will hate. Miami? People will hate. You’ll live.

    Wait, isn’t it late out where you live? Shouldn’t you be out clubbing and not monitoring “chumps” that are “argueing” about practice. FYI – When a red line pops up under what you’re typing, it usually means you have spelled that word incorrectly. Can’t help with grammar though. Sorry.

  • Sporty-j

    I don’t party every night to be honest. I was going to go to the movies to see X-men and play video games at Dave and Busters with my girl. But after last night I just wasn’t in the mode. I let her have her ladies night out tonight. Hell I don’t even want any pu$$y right now to be honest. Just waiting for Sunday.

  • QQ

    @ AB:

    I’ll probably talk about balls and dicks in the evening, but I COULD talk about pussies and breasts in the morning.

    You on the other hand… will STILL be a Lebron nut rider (and an OBLIVIOUS one at that) when you wake up in the morning.

    And you seem kinda surprised that we call you an apologist?

    ‘I only defend Lebron ALL the time, even the ones he himself admitted that is wrong. And I’m an apologist now? THE NERVE OF THESE PEOPLE!’.

  • Big Island

    LOL!! Now I just feel bad!

    Well if it makes you feel better, I now hope the series goes 7 and Dallas wins on a fluke shot so you can hold your head up high. I can read you a bedtime story if you think it’ll help. Or I’ll just have a couple of beers in your honor.

    Once upon a time, there was a shooting guard, we’ll call him Wayne Dade. He plays on a team with his best friend in the whoooole world Brelon James. Well they are VERY good players who decided to take part in a “welcome party” where they promised that they would win multiple titles. People who like other teams didn’t like these promises, so they stopped liking Brelon and Wayne, and started making fun of them. You can see that this would make Brelon and Wayne feel sad, so after a game that they lost, they cried. Now their very gentle coach, Spill, said that they should not worry about what people thought of them and to try their best. Their team is in the Finals.

  • Sporty-j

    Lmaol!!!

  • Big Island

    Unfortunately, they are playing the Mavs, and they are led by an evil German man named Dirk (couldn’t make up a name cooler than Dirk, come on…). The fans who like other teams decided that they would rather cheer for the evil German because if you try to stop him, he shoots you in the face, with either hand, from far away or right up close. Well Wayne and Brelon beat the evil German in the first game. And they were well on their way to winning the second game, but Wayne decided that he was going to rub it in and celebrated a little to long after a basket. Well that made the evil German angry, (start reading like a nursery rhyme here) so he shot at them from near, he shot at them from far, he even shot left handed, and unleashed an evil “AARRRHH!” So now Wayne and Brelon have to lay in the bed they made, and fight another day, and hopefully the evil German won’t get to have his say. But if he does, and they lose, just call up Wayne and say, “I still love you guys, we’ll win next time. I love you, Sporty-J”.

    Sleep tight buddy.

  • Krayzie

    I think Wade holding his follow through on the 3 isn’t that bad at all, we all have hit a shot that feels perfect once it leaves your hand and you hold that follow through for just a bit longer than normal cuz it just feels that good.

    My problem is with LeBron coming up to Wade and pounding his chest and being his hype man, even Wade couldn’t hold a straight face as LeBron is acting like a fool. LeBron was being Don King to Mike Tyson (Wade)!

    So don’t be mad at Wade, BE MAD at LeBron……Wade is a gamer, LeBron isn’t!!!

  • Sporty-j

    lmaol that is to funny!!!

  • LeRoy Green

    Is it just me or in close calls there hasn’t been replays alot of the times. On fouls it seems like they are trying to protect the refs by not showing anything. It happened quite a few times during the game.

    ^^^^^^

    NO you are not the only one who noticed that! I remember at least 4 or 5 times where a WEAK foul was called on Dallas and for some reason a replay was never shown. I swear I said the EXACT same thing as I was watching the game. Coincidence??
    I was wondering if anybody else caught that SMH

  • JAY

    For the record I apparently have an imposter here… I didn’t post #134. How flaterring…
    The regulars here know how I post. That shit ain’t me.

  • Krayzie

    @148

    The play where LeBron drove and got Chandler his 5th foul when it looked like he just went straight up, the side replay froze for a few seconds then went back to live action….its happened a few times before where they freeze out the side replay on questionable calls….I’m glad others noticed this too.

    SUSPECT!

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