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

Australia could have a good national team this year ingles/thrillz/delly/boguts/exum/baynes

simmons

Oh yah

omg just realized were getting THE CENTER MATCHUP FROM DOWN UNDER

― lag∞n, Friday, May 13, 2016 12:57 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

plus it's aussie (bogut) vs. kiwi (adams) and those nationalities have weird beef, it's gonna be vicious

And both are masters of dirty little tricks. They may both foul out in the first half of every game

Thunder with Adams and Kanter on the floor: +27 in 66 minutes

Halal bros.

http://i.imgur.com/Cwbm9Zp.png

https://twitter.com/royceyoung/status/730792081417850880

ha

Kevin Pelton ‏@kpelton 42s42 seconds ago
Spurs-Thunder was the first time ever that a team with a point differential better than plus-10 lost a series to a team outside that group.

Kevin Pelton ‏@kpelton 22s23 seconds ago
Previously, the only team with a double-digit differential not to win a title was the 1971-72 Bucks (+11.2), who lost to the Lakers (+12.3).

Crazy

Pretty crazy they didn't try the twin towers look more during the reg season. Maybe Donovan is a genius!

he at the very least had the good sense to be desperate

maybe one of Donovan's assistant coaches sussed it out and sold it to his boss. we prob won't find out.

harder to roast kanter when theres a huge longhair clogging the lane

kanter should get very limited minutes in the gsw series, just because you beat one team one way doesnt mean you try to beat every team that way

cavs had great success w twin towers last year

they didn't have enes 'bad defender' kanter as one of their towers though

personally i think the halal bros beatdown was less some masterplanning by billy donovan and more something he ran into as he shuffled his lineups around but def credit to him for realizing it was actually working and not just defaulting back to ibaka

ya but their success was prob more due to rebounding than otherwise bad d xp

yeah i just dont know how well 'get all the rebounds' works vs a team that makes a lot more of their shots than the spurs

gsw also a better rebounding team than the spurs iirc

cleve did so much better than they shldve with its def worth a look with an actually talented team, of course that all ended when the dubs went small but theres no guarantee thatll work every time

thunder def need to release their perimeter guys extremely quickly on every shot and prob any of their bigs thatre north of the ft line too

i feel like they cld deal w the disadvantages of going big in the halfcourt but obvs if they cant get back on D enough to bother the gs break its hopeless

adams and kanter arent slow

kanter's not slow he just sucks at defending pick and rolls

he a very bad defender for sure dont get me wrong but he just might be their best... chance

he so good on offense/ rebounding its nuts

hed put up huge allstar numbers on a team that needed scoring and didnt care if he defended

anyway they can always put iblocka in there if ness

i def think the thunder are capable of winning this series but billy donovan does not inspire confidence

id say its a p big longshot, hoping a couple warriors stars arent completely at full health is prob their best bet

the warriors must be stopped

after that steph 17pt overtime i gave up

if westbrook plays good tho of course anything is possible a light def seemed to go off after he had that alltime terrible game three second half

the warriors must be stopped

I'd be happy enough to see them top off an historically great season with a championship, but loathe to see them become an unstoppable dynasty, bcz dynasties are boring. the dubs need a nemesis. not sure the cavs are up to filling that position.

Come the finals the Dubs will be so exhausted the Cavs will roll all over them.

it's their year

they got the momentum baby

Come the finals the Dubs will be so exhausted the Cavs will roll all over them.

Oh so like last year then.

kanter has been a much improved defender in the playoffs imo

Come the finals the Dubs will be so exhausted the Cavs will roll all over them.
--Mr. Snrub

not sure I agree 100 percent on your police work there irv

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Pretty crazy they didn't try the twin towers look more during the reg season. Maybe Donovan is a genius!

― Spottie, Friday, May 13, 2016 2:38 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

i wonder how much analytics influences college basketball, are there enough games in the season to build up datasets on yr players?

demar n goran both shredding

Ugh, did not enjoy watching the Raps circle the drain in the fourth quarter

Feel like the raps would get swept by the cavs but the heat could squeak out a couple wins

how has that series not been humanely euthanized already

that was a fun game. it was almost like a pickup game. dragic had any open lane to the rim that he wanted.

this prob says more about the raptors than anything but justise winslow started at center tonight in a playoff game and has also been checking their entire backcourt all series