i have something to say about the offs THE 2016 NBA PLAYOFFS

the boy who cried wolf etc etc

dray doesnt seem like hes doing it strategically tho he just seems mad lol

I guess I'm one of those ppl who believes that u should do your best to only punch up and so there comes a problem in sports when you're so clearly the best in the world, any sort of display or show-offy gesture feels like punching down, so it's always gonna feel a little gross to observers maybe. many xps

It's very weird feeling for a sports town that just won its first title in any sport since 1989.

yea xp agree w/ that clay, that shit used to bug me about lebron but now since he's kind of the underdog superstar on an elite but underdog team i dig it

yeah it was super annoying in miami

i guess i don't find the warriors lovable, they're just a ruthlessly efficient basketball team and it's more fun for me to root for the challenge of stopping them. human cheat codes are still cheat codes

i feel the same way about the spurs for the most part

feels like anytime i watch the clips, an announcer does the whole "these teams don't like each" other thing... maybe it's just that everybody hates the clips???

maybe lovable was the wrong word, more like so amazing that i have to laugh just watching the games and highlights. i wish them no ill, though i guess i look forward to them being upset by someone (doubtful it'll happen this year.)

oh yeah def xp

lol tru

they have bad blood with the grizz, dubs, blazers, mavs & rox iirc

I guess I'm one of those ppl who believes that u should do your best to only punch up and so there comes a problem in sports when you're so clearly the best in the world, any sort of display or show-offy gesture feels like punching down, so it's always gonna feel a little gross to observers maybe. many xps

― Clay, Monday, April 18, 2016 3:47 PM (10 minutes ago)

literally no one cares except salty ass haters and charles barkley

the trash talking is cool, the flexing is cool, them playing fun basketball is cool

draymond yelling ANND OOONE after every bucket was my least fav thing for a bit (mainly cos it was something that Boozer would do) but now I find it funny how automatic it is

there is literally no situation in which flexing is cool, its not offensive just profoundly lame

the flexing is childish even when done ironically. but superstar athletes all tend to be a bit childish. or more than a bit.

flexing is corny

dray thinking hes the hottest shit on the planet is extremely for sure man

ILHaters more like it

nothing is more baller than celebrating a shot going in before it does tho

except when it doesnt go in

also like everyone was all THEY ARE RUNNING BACK BEFORE THE SHOT GOES IN but this is actually normal getting back on D basketball behavior

i mean more of curry doing a 360 in front of the opposing bench

http://i.imgur.com/3RmQgIa.gif

i am doing normal basketball things while also raising my hands in the air THIS IS SO NUTS OMG MUST SHARE ONLINE

carne beat me to it

well u either look like a goat or the GOAT. no in-between

dray needs to finesse his trash talk and preening, those "trash talk 101" vids were just embarassing

the best thing abt the swaggy shot is he actually waited to see if it went in

https://twitter.com/EManu907/status/721846232365203456

I flex every time I submit a post to this board i didn't realize that wasn't cool

oh thats cool def goes w/o saying

I ain't got to flex, boy I got it, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

walked in 400 3s in my pocket

i think something else i consider when rooting for or against a team is the answer to the question does this city really NEED them to win like will they really appreciate it? i admit it is a very corny thing to do and every city has at least some die-hard loyal fans who would appreciate winning. but like when lebron went to miami i remember thinking "the fuck do you people care about winning an nba championship??? you are miami!!" it is part of the reason i find it fun to hate the lakers and why i have no problem rooting against golden state, like what does san francisco/bay area need a championship for? it also why i find it hard to hate a team like detroit even though i want the cavs to wipe them out this first round. it is also why i like the spurs, even though they have already won so many championships i just know that in san antonio they really appreciate that team

"like what does san francisco/bay area need a championship for?"

oakland tho, very different. also different sport you know? almost like me rooting against the Cavs cos of Ohio State

dubs have an extremely good hardcore fanbase that suffered through a lot of not great basketball and i salute their sucess

yea true

also in addition to it being very corny it is also based on like a one half of a cursory thought about a given cities' basketball fans so idk

never 4get http://grantland.com/features/how-annoy-fan-base-60-easy-steps/

dubs having the association w oakland while being named "golden state" and experiencing a region wide bandwagon wave and planning on moving to sf is an interesting study in identity

yea will be interesting when they move to sf

pretty sad about it tbh

the bay is kinda funny for the strength of its intra regional grudges, like ppl dont even acknowledge that sf is obvs the city at the center of the metro region lol

like even brooklyn or cambridge partisans arent gonna deny the primacy of manhattan and boston

if the dubs dont ditch golden state and put the city back on their jerseys upon moving contract them imo

the bay warriors
the city warriors

like u cant claim the whole state theres 4 other teams

official name the bay warriors, have the city on the home jerseys, ditch the copperplate IMHO FREE BRAND CONSULTATION

tho obvs theres some tension between the city and the bay but let it tense i say