Chris Marlowe's New Blog Entry entitled The NBA Finals...Postmortem on altitude.tv

Here is Chris Marlowe's New Blog Entry entitled The NBA Finals...Postmortem on altitude.tv:

Dallas Coach Rick Carlisle said that Dirk Nowitzki is a top ten player of all time. He’s not, but he’s pretty damn good!

How good? Better than Karl Malone, Kevin McHale, Bob McAdoo, and Elvin Hayes. But not as good as Larry Bird.

Doesn’t it seem like only yesterday (2009) that Kenyon Martin was hammering Dirk out of bounds and the Nuggets were cruising to an easy playoff win over Dallas?

By the way, I heard that K-Mart tweeted his old New Jersey pal Jason Kidd congratulations after the game 6 clincher.

As an aside, I called some of Jason Kidd’s college games at Cal. He was a man amongst boys then. He was picked 2nd overall in the 1994 NBA Draft. Remember who was the number one selection? Give yourself a cookie if you said Glenn “Big Dog” Robinson”.

After 3 games, Dallas was down 2-1 and LeBron James was doing a great job covering guard Jason Terry in 4th quarters. The “Jet” was asked about it…remember what he said? “Lets see if LeBron can do it for all 7 games!” Turns out he couldn’t.

As a matter of fact, I believe that James covering Terry in 4th quarters was one big reason LBJ couldn’t deliver late. He was too tired.

By the way, don’t “hate” LeBron James. Hate is too strong of a word. Dislike him, be sick of him, find him objectionable, disapprove of him, detest, loathe, abhor, can’t stomach…all good. But hate? No. Save that emotion for ruthless dictators, lying politicians, and no good parents.

The unsung hero of the 2011 NBA Finals? How about Mavs center Tyson Chandler. All he did was rebound, play defense, dunk lobs and gave Dallas a ferocious interior presence it never had before.

After the series was over it was easy to point out the most glaring weakness of the Miami Heat this season. They didn’t have a first rate point guard!

Just imagine Steve Nash on that team. How great would they be?

Finally, the Mavs win gives hope to all the “teams” out there looking for an NBA Title.

And somewhere in the universe David Hasselhoff is still singing.