Bougaloo Speaks on this…
Writing by shinda on Wednesday, 21 of June , 2006
As the TV was turned on at 9:10, and Jason Terry was being interviewed, the quote “Who do you believe in?” is still resonating in my mind. Not because it was one of Tupac’s songs or one of the amazing lines in Thug Luv, however it was because of the meaning that it brought for the Miami Heat.The Basketball Gods.
When the Heat were down by 13 with 6:37 left in game three of the NBA Finals, no one thought they would win. No One. However, there was no way that I was about to turn off the Tube with that much time still left in the game. Throughout the next 20 minutes of that Tuesday, so many miraculous things happened that suggested that God’s hand was at work for the Miami Heat.
- With 2:12 to go in the third quarter Josh Howard scored his 20th and 21st points. The mavs were 25-0 when Howard scored 20+ points.
- Down by 5, Shaq gets fouled on a Dunk attempt and has to go to the line with 1:37 left. Shooting 6-22 for the series prior, he cans both of them.
- Gary Payton, who has been killed by JT and Harris hits the eventual most –crucial-jumper of his life to put the heat up by two
- Dirk Nowitizki, a 94% free throw shooter misses one of his free throws with 3 seconds remaining
- After the missed free throw, Jerry Stackhouse has the opportunity to grab the offensive rebound, only to see Dwyane Wade come from the rafters and snatch the ball from Jerry’s outstretched arms. .
Some may argue luck or coincidence, however as V said it best “I, like God, do not play with dice, and do not believe in coincidence”. There was something more to those sequences, there was a calling, a Jor-El moment with Clark, a moment of truth, a moment where the ball ends up in the hands of Robert Horry with clock winding down, or better described as: DESTINY
From that moment on, every Dallas fan and player were pleading lucky break of sequences, but not the Heat, their post game quotes were as follows:
“I’m a true believer,” Riley said
“We’re a team with faith in one another.” Gary Payton said,
“The basketball gods were good to us.” Pat Riley said
“We’re a very strong-willed team, we all believe in each other when we’re down and out, we always feel we can come back and individually believing in God and believing that He will give you the strength to do go out there and do it.” Dwyane Wade said.
When Dirk Nowitzki was asked the question by a reporter pertaining to Riley’s statement about the Basketball gods, Dirk’s answer is what sealed the deal for the Mavs,
“I don’t believe in that stuff”
Then “Who Do you believe in”?
With Shaq playing completely sub-par, Walker taking the second most shots on the team and everyone but Haslem getting killed on the Defensive end, how did the Heat win the NBA championship?
Besides the greatest MVP performance by Dwyane Wade, besides the Lock down Defense of Udonis “Uber Heart” Haslem, to the contrary to those speeches prepared by Pat Riley, Wade described it best when he was handed the MVP of the Finals:
“First I would like to thank God”
For this championship was pre-ordained by God himself. It was put to a halt last year because the Heat didn’t want it. Shaq was out of shape, Wade too young and oft injured, Damon Jones played no defense, Stan couldn’t get his guys going. The look on the heat player faces as the pistons celebrated on their home court is what brought us to these finals. The fire, the will, the attitude.
Wade signing a deal with Gatorade, getting phone calls from Michael Jordan, phone calls from the ‘chosen one.’
Shaq losing 30 pounds, squashing the beef with Kobe.
Walker, Posey, J-Will and Payton sitting way in the back of the bus.
Haslem playing with a bum shoulder and giving 150%
Zo…well What can I say to all the haters who did not want him to get a ring? 8 points, 6 boards, 5 blocks in 14 minutes…
It was the Gary Payton lefty scoop lay-up, the D-Wade 35 ppg, the 21-25 Ft’s, it was the 10-0, 13-2, 13-0 runs that they went on. It was the published reports of the Heat being the Unworthy opponent, the mapping of the Parade route in Dallas. It was the summation of precedent accounts that brought the victory to the Heat.
So this championship is dedicated to the following people:
- People Who doubted the Heat
- People who said Shaq was washed up
- People who pushed Shaq out of LA
- People who jumped ship after game 2 (Yeah you know Doctor G)
- People who accused Riley of overthrowing Stan
- People who hated on Zo, GP and Walker
- People who thought the Heat would get swept.
- People who thought Lebron was better than Wade
- People who think that Shaq is not the greatest Centre to play the game
- Last and not least. People who don’t believe in the Basketball Gods.
Now as I sign off with my best impersonation of a Scoop Jackson Article, let me make a few bold statements:
- Shaq is the Greatest Centre ever
- Riley is the best Coach ever
- Wade will be the best player to play this game… In the words of Shaq “Wade is the best ever”
- Zo is all Heart, stop hating now
- Haslem is a Tru-Warrior
- GP leaves with the hardware
It was Destiny, the Heat is God’s Team and it was my Team
D-WADE MVP
WHO DO YOU BELIEVE IN?
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survey says..one more for the good guys from 
Made Wednesday, 21 of June , 2006 at 2:15 pm
Leave it up to this blog not to mention the refereeing in this series. Screw Wade, the refs are making him into a legend. Any person watching this farce of a series with no team or player bias could see it. If you couldn’t see it, than I suggest you get a hd big screen tv such as myself becuz its even more crystal clear. He is a wicked player, but not 25 free throws in a game wicked.
I really dont want to quote Simon Cowell, but man that was ABSOLUTELY HORRENDOUS. It shouldnt even go down as an official nba final..the refs literally decide who they want to send to the line more often and in this case they must have been influenced by Pro Miami propoganda blogs such as this one.
I know I will get ripped for this..its like going onto tapoban and starting a girls in the punj debate. But it has to be said. And if you werent crinching after seeing Alonzo hoist up that title, than you aint no raptor fan.
So did Dallas get screwed? HELLLS YA. And even though chuck swirsky pisses me off once in a while he agrees with me so those doubting my sanity should talk to him aswell.
But in the end who cares. We wake up next morning and go to work/school. It is those Edm and Dallas fans who suffer.
And 6 months of that wrestling on demand channel finally paid off after I got to hear Scott Hull come back from rehab to a bigger ovation than sting.. and say: “So you guys here to see DUBYA C DUBYA? (crowd booes) or you her to see N.W.0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (crowd screams in unison with Scott Hull) Well kev..survey says..1 more for the good guys.
And the irony is..just like Dallas Scott Hull ended up ******** Nash on that ppv, to break up the outsiders.
‘wain wain wain wain wain wian’
Bunch of cry babies
Refs dont win games, players win games…
the bottom line is the heat D was too good and Dallas choked.
They had ample opprotunity to win, but they didnt
wade got all his calls going to the rim……
dallas didnt goto tthe rim and wanted fouls on jump shots..
come on man…u need to drive to get a foul
In the end though it doenst matter what I think or what oyu think..
zo, gp, shaq, wade, posey, udonis, j-will, antwawn, andersonx2, kapono, dorrel wright, simien, and riley all got them rings
HEAT NBA CHAMPS 2006
BRRRUAAAHHHHHH
D Wade > LeBron from
Made Wednesday, 21 of June , 2006 at 4:27 pm
Stop crying. Dwayne Wade is making a legend out of himself. He drives to the basket, jumps at people and hes so quick that they always out of position, so he gets the fouls. I have even more respect for him because of that. Pure out smarting these other cats. 25 free throws in one game. He isn’t a 25 free throw player, your right. Thats not even an arguement. That was a special night, and records are meant to be broken.
This is a superstars league, it isn’t Wades fault he gets the benefit of the doubt calls. He is a basketball God. Bosh started getting calls his way last year and it will continue this year. We’ll see if half you mans are going to complain about that too. My guess is no. Dwayne Wade Zindabad.
Stop yer belly achin’.
Gagan Singh from
Made Wednesday, 21 of June , 2006 at 5:13 pm
Man all u guys hating for no reason, i agree the mavs got screwed in game 5 but they had game 6 to make up for it but instead they blew two double digit leads, they jus didnt want it. Mourning was having seizures on the court he wanted that **** (although i still say he didnt deserve it), GP makin clutch plays, he wanted it, Shaq bein calm n cool in the double teams n wade was jus on fire, bringing his team back every time, he wanted it. And now in tru Gagan Singh fashion let me take this all back to Kobe, Wade did in 6 games wat kobe did in 87 (2 game suspension). HOLLLAAA!
survey says...one more for the good guys from
Made Wednesday, 21 of June , 2006 at 6:30 pm
First of all I am the only one ‘hating’ and like I said i did not expect much back on my statements. The truth never does get such support. And second, my offer to smack u into last week is still on the table. So you can see that Wade not only gets calls but is a flopper. The amount of times i seen this guy flop, go to the dressing room and come back. Must have been puttin on that magic soccer spray.
I cant remember which game it was in the playoffs, but Wade got ‘elbowed’ in the face and was on the ground longer than Vince. Went to the back for a QUARTER. And low and behold, replay showed he did not get touched.
Phantom fouls, by a phantom legend.
Gagan Singh from
Made Wednesday, 21 of June , 2006 at 8:19 pm
yo take it from someone whos been there done that. You done wanna go there.
D Wade > LeBron from
Made Wednesday, 21 of June , 2006 at 9:47 pm
“Phantom fouls, by a phantom legend.”
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. You just said he makes phantom fouls, when your whole arguement is that he gets the foul calls. You just wanted to use the word phantom.
And show us video evidence of him “not getting touched” and going to the back for a quarter.
Fall down 7 times, get up 8. D Wade sh!ts on Steve Nash.
My D**k > Everybody and Everything from
Made Thursday, 22 of June , 2006 at 12:15 am
Man, everyone ***** on Steve Nash but only Ricky Davis n Kobe have busted on his face! And unless your name is Wince Carter you can fall down infinity number of times and get up an infinity number + 1 times. Now obviously that doesn’t make sense but you get the point.
And yes I do believe he wanted to use the word Phantom.
Now that everyone has taken a sip of that Haterade, better yet, drank the entire bottle, let me just say one thing.
Miami Heat NBA Champs 2006….
BRUAAAAAAAAH
Gurpreet Singh from
Made Thursday, 22 of June , 2006 at 7:50 am
ok lets get back to the world cup …new day new things
survey says one more for the good guys from
Made Thursday, 22 of June , 2006 at 10:19 am
*phantom fouls, on a phantom legend
Khabba Tatta > Both of yours from
Made Thursday, 22 of June , 2006 at 12:13 pm
Yo so umm Miami won. Thas all.
Stop hating look at my name thas all.
I got nuff Haterade to hate but im gonna save that for some more important ****.
survey says one more for the good guys from
Made Thursday, 22 of June , 2006 at 12:26 pm
Theres always a day or two of hating. So stop hating on the haters, give us a day atleast.
Ranjit Sion from
Made Thursday, 22 of June , 2006 at 2:12 pm
tsk tsk, you promote the worshipp of Basketball ‘Gods’ tsk tsk, bipran ki reet tsk tsk, what would Guru Ji say……….
Paneet Singh from
Made Thursday, 22 of June , 2006 at 2:42 pm
This championship was the one Gary Payton deserved after so long. It wasn’t his fault one of the Basketball Gods sent him to play in the Finals against Jordan. Love this one Glove, you deserved it. ‘Zo and Emplyee #8 deserved this one too. Shaq just has another one to add to his collection… but he deserved all of them. Wade is experiencing the same thing Kobe did. (In come the hate comments after that sentence). But it’s true man. They received the grace of one of the nicer Basketball Gods and got to play with a group of veterans that demand a double team. Well… they just got to play with Shaq. So before all of you guys start yelling at me through typing (even though you don’t know who I am). Let me make one more contreversial comment. Shaq is TIED for the greatest Center ever with Wilt. (I’m pretty sure Scoop Jackson wrote something about that too) And Riley is TIED for greatest coach ever with Zen-master Jackson and Red Auerbach. That’s the end of my novel.
BIG C/Baby C from 
Made Thursday, 22 of June , 2006 at 5:46 pm
It was great series which encompassed a storyline that can only be found on daytime television. The big brother and little brother relationship, the allegations of the finals being rigged, the system a la david stern, the villain mark cuban, and a guy that you want to hate but cant do so in avery johnson.
Two years removed from College, and already an NBA champion, many players spend their whole career without achieving this feat. Did we ever think that he would become a player he is today. In just three short seasons, this individual has attained an NBA ring. He even beat out his former teammate in winning a ring in Lebron James, kudos to Jason Kapono.
I’ve heard of Pat Riley’s motivational techniques well before this season started in his autobiography. The master motivator, a man that indulges in karma. I wonder what speech he delivered to Stan Van Gundy when he forced him out, im sure Riley made Van Gundy rehearse his speech, and at the last second told him to throw in “I need to spend time with my children.” You have Shaq & D-Wade and all of a sudden you remember your kids. Please.. Last time I checked when children hit their teen years, as a parent you are running away from your kids, just so that you dont have to put up with their shannanigans. Must admire Riley for his motivational, propagandanal skills.
Gary Payton celebrating without his partner in crime from the 90’s. How could he step up to the podium and at least not give a shout out to the Reign man himself, Shawn Kemp. Utter show of disrespect. If i was Kemp, out of contempt and rage, I would go impregnate another woman and blame GP.
Antoine Walker, every team has one, no not a clutch scorer, not a rebounder, not a defensive presence, and not even a take one for the team type of persona. I truly think that he is ***. Especially being clean shaven, he has fairy and pansy written all over his face.
J-Will is the man, so I aint gonna say nothing, but damn dude, bring back some of that white chocolate flavour you once had.
Shaq is Shaq, hes dominant, commands respect and really dont give a F##k. Plus his wife was looking fly, Shauna O’Neal holla at cha boy.
Shandon Anderson looks like he is revitalizing the black panther movement with that goatee, put on some leather, and hes ur modern day Shaft.
D-Wade, everyone has said their piece about this guy. To prove his skill, I want to see another championship.
Finally do u think Kobe was jumping for joy, but last i heard he was in Colorado for therapy, in that case I do think he was jumping for joy, unrelated to basketball that is.
thadoggpound from
Made Friday, 23 of June , 2006 at 10:56 am
BIG C..
no thoughts on Haslem? …tisk tisk..
BIG C/Baby C from
Made Friday, 23 of June , 2006 at 11:01 am
Udonis Haslem, the big U, Ulysses like persona..the true MVP does the little things, hits the occasional jumper and is viscious, he would be compared to Toronto Khalsa’s latest acquisition Jaspreet Singh aka JAZZ. But Big C and Baby Shaq are still the number one and two options respectively. Gotta give the ball to your bigs..
Shinda ya gotta post up police tourney thoughts..so I can give my take on the team which they call Toronto Khalsa
ahhahahah bus bus Big C
bohuth ho chukya
STOP GENOCIDE EVENT IS TOMOMORW 2:30 REXDALE GURDWARA
option # what??? from
Made Saturday, 24 of June , 2006 at 10:52 pm
Baby Shaq is without a doubt #1 option, but C, you being option #2. NAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I dun beliebe it. I’m sure I can name 2 guards who call themselves the #2 options. Damn C, you’ve falled down to #4, only ahead of the man you call JAZZ!
option # what??? from
Made Saturday, 24 of June , 2006 at 10:52 pm
correction in my grammer: …Damn C, you’ve fallen dwn to option #4…
Paneet Singh from
Made Sunday, 25 of June , 2006 at 10:06 pm
Now that I’ve mentioned Scoop Jackson, I may as well mention the biggest milestone of the greatest basketball mag on earth. Anyone picked up a copy of SLAM 100? Well, first I better ask, Anyone read SLAM??? Dude, wickedest, kraziest, sickest thing I have ever read. Well, out of a magazine anyway. Oh, and P(h)at Riley is pretty krazy man. Right after he coached the Lakers to the ‘chip in ‘87 do you know what he said to his players right after the final game? He said, “I guarantee we will repeat as champions next year.” GUARANTEE! DUUUUUDEEE. that’s just nuts.
(The Lakers won the next year for you who don’t know or didn’t catch on).
