Final score: Miami 88, Dallas 86
I promised myself I wouldn’t get carried away with Dallas’ game 2 victory, but I still let myself fall for the trap that is the expectations game. Here’s the weird thing about this game: everyone, myself included, thought that Dallas was going to win the game, or so it seemed. Pundits and the like were saying it could go either way, but come game-time, watching the game, it seemed like every fan in the arena was just utterly convinced that no matter what, Dallas was going to pull out a victory. It was truly the unspoken secret that everyone, for some reason, thought that Dallas was going to win. Thus when Dirk’s shot bounced off the rim, the crowd seemed completely stunned as if they didn’t know how to react. It wasn’t a crowd like the one in Miami, stunned by what had transpired, it was a crowd that literally was trying to make sense of something that seemed outside their scope of understanding. Continue reading →