NBA fines Erik Spoelstra $25,000 for Criticizing Officiating

“The league does not have a problem with hard fouls on our two main guys,” Spoelstra said. “In nine games now, there’s been over a dozen hard fouls to the face, some of the tomahawk variety, some have drawn blood. They don’t have a problem with it so we don’t have a problem with it. We’ll focus on what we can control.”

http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2012/story/_/id/7972985/2012-nba-playoffs-miami-heat-erik-spoelstra-fined-25000-criticizing-officials

tastycakes:
Totally happy with the Woody signing, especially if those terms mentioned by Stephen A are correct.

The front office has shown some stubbornness with maintaining stability in the front office and on the bench when guys are signed up for long term deals.3 years is totally reasonable, and it coincides with the tenure of our best players.If it doesn’t work, maybe we have a front office that will understand that blowing up the whole thing and *actually* rebuilding through draft AND free agency will be the way to go?

That’s going to be really hard if they blow it up after the 2015 season and suck in 15/16 since Denver can swap 2016 first round picks with us if they choose. how perfect would that be if the don’t resign any of the 3 players after the 14/15 season, suck eggs in 15/16 and win the lottery and mr walmart says ,”thank you very much mr melo….. we’ll take that pick!”

Mr. Bill was no pussy. Jordan had apparently told some teammates to freeze Cartwright out. Mr. Bill told him that if he ever tried that, he would never play basketball again.

BigBlueAL:
Just looked up the 1983 and 1984 Knicks since I was too young to remember them and what stood out to me was the 1983 Knicks were 3rd in defensive efficiency and the 1984 Knicks were 1st!!Also Cartwright really was a pretty damn good player back then too.

They had some excellent defenders- Ray Williams and Truck Robinson were both very good man defenders and having Marvin (the Human Eraser!) Webster coming off of the bench helped too.

d-mar:
My favorite Bernard moment was after he lit up the Pistons in the 1st round of the 1984 playoffs, and Cornbread Maxwell was quoted as saying “That bitch ain’t getting 40 on me” before the Celtics series. He proceeded to score 43 in game 4 and 44 in game 6.

I think the only other time I can think of where a single player carried a bunch of scrubs that far was maybe LeBron with the Cavs, but his supporting cast was probably better than Bernard’s.

Eric Snow just smiled somewhere.

I think the only other time I can think of where a single player carried a bunch of scrubs that far was maybe LeBron with the Cavs, but his supporting cast was probably better than Bernard’s.

nicos: But that includes a lot of post-injury Bernard who was never really the same guy.As I said in a previous thread, Bernard had a huge advantage over Melo because the illegal defense rules made it much more difficult to double the post- no zone so everybody had to stay within a couple of steps of their man and couldn’t leave to double until the catch.You could always spread the floor because no matter how poor your shooters were they had to be guarded.Post-up threes like Bernard, Aguirre, and Dantley would have really had to adjust their game to be successful now.That said, there’s no question Bernard was a top ten player in his last two years as a Knick- I don’t think you can say the same for Melo.And Bernard’s playoff run in ’84 is the best I’ve ever seen from anyone in a Knick’s uniform (and as good a pure scoring performance as I’ve seen from anyone outside of Jordan) so Melo’s got his work cut out for him if he wants to mentioned in the same breath as Bernard.

Aguirre did at least have some semblance of a 3pt shot. I only remember him as a Piston though and of course I hate him now since he is close to Isiah and was an asst coach for him with the Knicks lol

TelegraphedPass: I SAID I MANU GINOBILI EUROSTEPPED THE SUBJECT!!

Nah, but it isn’t really fair, considering the injuries Bernard came back from. He was still productive, but not the same player and his WS48 said that he was just about average. I don’t believe in boiling down player production to one number anyways. I only said it because Owen mentioned Melo’s WS48 in the last thread and I was trolling a tad.

You shouldve used LeBron’s crab dribble!! lol