Barry was much better for SF in the post-season:

1997 32 SFG NL NLDS FLA L 3 13 12 0 3 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 .250 .231 .417 .647 5 0 0 0 1 0

2000 35 SFG NL NLDS NYM L 4 20 17 2 3 1 1 0 1 1 0 3 4 .176 .300 .353 .653 6 0 0 0 0 1

2002 37 SFG NL NLDS ATL W 5 22 17 5 5 0 0 3 4 0 1 4 1 .294 .409 .824 1.233 14 0 0 0 1 3
2002 37 SFG NL NLCS STL W 5 22 11 5 3 0 1 1 6 0 0 10 2 .273 .591 .727 1.318 8 0 0 0 1 3
2002 37 SFG NL WS ANA L 7 30 17 8 8 2 0 4 6 0 0 13 3 .471 .700 1.294 1.994 22 0 0 0 0 7
2003 38 SFG NL NLDS FLA L 4 18 9 3 2 1 0 0 2 1 0 8 0 .222 .556 .333 .889 3 0 0 0 1 6

And don't blame him for 2002- he SMOKED the ball in the WS.

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I know this, your ability to think concisely, your ability to make good judgments is much easier on Thursday night than during the heat of the game. -Bill Walsh

It was a foul but i'm not shocked it wasn't called. You could also argue Durant should have fouled out on the Battier charge/blocking call

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clearly a foul imo

LeBron is the most over-rated athlete I've ever seen in my 43 years.

I tell these young kids who are into basketball that I supervise that there is absolutely no comparison to the stars of yesteryear with this chump.

Bird
Magic
Cooper
Worthy
The Microwave
McHale
DJ

And the list goes on. Guys who competed to the whistle and won when it counted. That shit was EXCITING.

Winners win and raise their game and their teammate's game when the money is one the line.

He just shits the bed and has since he entered the league.

I can't stand seeing the guy actually. If he doesn't give a shit about the sport, why in the hell should I?

Still shots are never what you want to look at. They never tell the story.

Look at it in real time.



You want a foul called on that? Give me a friggin' break!

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I know this, your ability to think concisely, your ability to make good judgments is much easier on Thursday night than during the heat of the game. -Bill Walsh

If it's the 1st quarter that call is made but it's irrelevant. OKC never should have fell behind 18-2 in the 1st quarter at home

Yes, true, a bit better, but not enough to carry the Giants to the win. They had to wait until Buster Posey came along.

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I've never gotten any indication that LeBron doesn't give a shit about basketball. Hell he got an inferior Cavalier team to the finals and lost to a better Spurs team. Last year he shit the bed but I think he's been more successful than not. He had to have done something right to have won 3 MVP's. Of that list if I were starting a team, besides Magic and Bird(Who even though were the alpha's had teams that were stacked) I'd take LeBron over all of them.

You are ignorant if you think "The Decision" is the only reason people find LeBron James a douche. The kid has a rap sheet longer than a Cotchery thread of bitchass comments and actions. He is a punk and the decision simply magnified that for the nation.

Some reasons People Dislike Lebron:

Constant whining despite getting the majority of the calls.
Demonstrating poor sportsmanship (see not shaking hands with the Magic)
Pettiness (having Nike confiscate video of then-high schooler Jordan Crawford dunking on him)
Self-centeredness (read about the story of his absurd birthday party that was immediately taken off the internet).
The Decision
The Crab Dribble
Not one, not two, not three...
People hate me because I am black.

The list goes on. Fuck him. I hope he breaks a leg and never plays another game of basketball in his life.

Yes, it was a foul. The whole reason why you pull up there is because you have the guy reaching in. You know if you miss the shot, the worst case scenario is you go to the line. Refs fucked up.

Battier's leg was moving just as contact was happening. He was not set. Announcers, specifically the play-by-play guy made a big deal out of it. He was wrong.

See Bobby Bonilla, Pittsburgh Pirates 90,91

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