Nice half-time story. i'm a sap.

i want a commentator to point out that that kid was an unrepentant gunner in a blowout, but i like that story too.

the refs are giving this game away, this is disgusting.

i shut it off...it gets old.

got interesting again.

i know.

Dirk SUCKED ASS tonight. I love how the Mavs only shit the bed in games against the Heat and Suns, but decided to show up with their maximum effort in every game against the Spurs. Yeah, I REALLY FUCKING LOVE THAT!!!

Ya think???

nobody on dallas really hit much today, in no small part (in my opinion) because miami couldn't commit a foul anywhere near the basket on defense. pretty much everyone and their momma called this series as Dallas in 6, and i'm thinking that that's still how it has to go down.

Um. Are you quoting yourself?

The Mavs still may be able to pull their heads out of their asses in time to win this in 7, but there is NO FUCKING WAY they win it in 6 at this point. Not a chance in hell. They had their chance, before they spit the bit in the 4th quarter of Game 3. Biggest throat malfunction Dallas has seen since Oswald's first shot.

Brilliantly deduced, Doc. Who said those enormous med school loans weren't worth it?

you clowns might wanna order your Heat jerseys now.

mavs in 6.

I'm going to order a Rony Seikaly throwback jersey, but have it embroidered with the name "MEAT" on the back, because we all remember Seikaly as the most prodigiously endowed member of the Porky's gang.

Or was that Vinny Testaverde?

go ahead and order 2. i'll pm you my address.

Major momentum swtich; looks like heat in 6.

Thats not gay at all.

Why does every game have to start at 9 p.m. EST ? And why does every game have to be played when there's work the next day? Screw the West Coast. Damn, I got no sleep this week. I'm going to bed. Someone wake me up on Sunday. Go Heat !!!!!

Stackhouse suspended.. it's over.

If ever an opportunity was presented to the Heat, this is it. Without Stackhouse, the Mavericks would have had only six bench points in Game 4 and practically none otherwise in the series.

After years of being the shorthanded team in the playoffs, perhaps 18 years of bad karma finally is turning.

If the Heat can't beat a Stackhouse-less Mavericks team at home in Sunday's Game 5, then it has no right thinking it can win the series' final two games in Dallas.

Like Stackhouse is that important. Plus he hasn't played particularly well. Daniels will get more minutes....no big deal.

True, but the Mav beat down in gm. 4 and now a major suspension could often spell a momentum shift most teams don't recover from.

That's not to say any shift is guaranteed, so now I guess we'll see what Dallas is really made of.

I agree too DHR. I didn't say Dallas was going to lose or they can't win without him. But it's still a plus to have their deep bench reduced by one, especially if that one is Stackhouse.

If the Heat does win the series, the momentum shift was the last 6 minutes of game 3.

I see this going the full 7 games.

As a mavs fan, I will miss stackhouse.