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Gazza M

Kurtz wrote:
The Raptors do need a good GM though. They've sucked forever.

I hope Miami wins the series with the pacers because A. I'm a Lebron fan and love watching him play.
B. Spurs-Miami would be an awesome series.

Think Spurs would beat Miami though. They're like the Barcelona of the NBA. Great coach.

miami in 6 imo. when the big 3 all perform to their level, no other team in the league can cope. the pacers had the tools to trouble miami, but were like deer in the headlights in game 7 when miami stepped their game up. miamis athleticism on defense can nullify the spurs ball movement and screen rolls

Kurtz

Spurs-Miami is a tasty series. If the big 3 come to play I agree with you Gazza, but as we saw with the Pacers series that is not guaranteed. If Miami played like in Game 7 the series should have gone 5 games tops. Wonder why spoelstra didn't try trapping/double teaming earlier.

Gazza M

popovich is already a legend, but if he topples miami he'll have a case for being in the phil jackson/red auerbach/pat riley tier of coaches, for what he's done with relatively small market ball club.

plenty of epic flopping to look forward to from the likes of parker, ginobli, wade and lebron

Rex

Find myself watching AFL, Australian Football League. Real intense sport! Some fine athletes there as well.

Burnwinter

Wait until you catch your first speccy in real time Rex:

Timbob

Is Brian O'driscoll Ireland's greatest ever sportsman?

asajoseph

Who's the competition - Robbie Keane?

y va marquer

Timothy wrote:
Is Brian O'driscoll Ireland's greatest ever sportsman?

Nope.
Henry Shefflin is.

Armor

I'd say O Driscoll myself. He'll probably be passed out by McIlroy though.

asajoseph

Liam Brady? Sonia O'Sullivan? Padraig Harrington? George Best? Sean Kelly?

He's got to be up there...

Tony Montana

Why is O'Driscoll so go good and where does he play?

asajoseph

Centre.

Why is he so good? Combination of brilliant ball-skills, intelligent running superb reading of the game.

One of the greats, for sure.

lorddulaarsenal

Don't think Ireland has ever produced an elite sportsman

Armor

Whats your definition of elite?

asajoseph

They've had a few. But not many.

y va marquer

I think you have to consider that for an age the most played popular sports in Ireland have been Gaelic Football and Hurling.
Over the years there have been some absolutely outstanding, elite sportsmen who have played both.
Wouldn't expect anyone who's not familiar with the games or culture to get that though, which is fair enough.
Right now some of the best hurlers and footballers in Cork are giving it up to play rugby 🙁.

Tony Montana

Is Association Football your favourite sport or the Gaelic version (or hurling)?

y va marquer

Football (as played by Arsenal 🙂) is easily my favourite sport, then hurling.

Timbob

I bet Chamakh would make a good hurler.

Can he wear a snood and mittens in winter though? Or would it be frowned upon?

y va marquer

Not in a million years 🙂, you need skill, accuracy and speed, he's ill equipped on all fronts.

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