The 2010-11 playoffs were the best games of any sport I'd ever seen. And I remember watching the Cowboys win 3 championships before I was 10.
Watching prime Dirk was like watching the most awkward and uncoordinated gazelle just dipping on his predator. There was nothing anyone could do. You threw a double at him, he's spinning away from the double and throwing up a one legger that splashes. If you foul him, he shoots 40 something free throws without missing. You play him 1on 1 with a big, he's putting the ball on the floor and finishing at the rim. You play a shorter defender on him to keep him away from the basket, he backs them into the sweet spot and turns around again.
In the finals he won with a fever over 102, and hit the game winner with a left handed finger roll where his left ring finger was broken.
If we're just talking WATCHABLE, there was nothing like it I'd seen.
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