2013 NBA Finals Preview

by Dante R Maddox

Point Guards: Mario Chalmers vs. Tony Parker While Miami€™s Mario Chalmers has proven to be an integral part of the Heat€™s offense, he will have his hands full with Tony Parker who, despite being a perennial MVP candidate, is a highly underrated guard in the NBA. Parker is a devastating blend of floor control and offensive explosion; most defenders are rendered helpless against him. There is already talk of LeBron James taking a share of the defensive duties when it comes to Parker, but it seems very likely that the Heat will let Chalmers and his backups have a crack at slowing the speedy point guard down. While he€™s good at attacking the passing lanes, Parker won€™t have an overwhelming advantage when it comes to direct on ball defense against Chalmers whose offensive duties are mitigated by James who handles the ball at the start of many of Miami€™s offensive sets. Chalmers hangs is hat on spreading the floor with an impressive 3 point threat, having to keep him off the three point line will keep Parker out of the passing lanes. He also helps Wade and James attack the basket at will in the same manner. If he has good shooting performances in these games it will give Miami a crucial advantage.

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Dante R Maddox got started in writing about pop culture in 2007. He developed his conversational style majoring in English and minoring in speech communication, his desire to write as if he were speaking to the reader face to face was the bane of many professors. An odd blend of geek cred and regular fella chic', you're just as likely to end up talking about baseball or politics as you are about comic books and movies (just don't mention Tucker Carlson, you are addressing the man who will go to jail for assault in the future after all). He wrote a book called The Lineage of Durge that's available on Amazon for a small amount of money, he's writing a second while acting as Editor-in-Stuff over at Saga Online Press, there is a graphic novel expansion of his book series also in the works as well as continued development of his cheesecannon, one day Canada...one day (Seriously, a piece of ham, you slice it up and now it's bacon?!?!? I say thee nay!!!)