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

xp lagoon

First year coach beats second year coach to head 2 finals where he will face half year coach

fire all the coaches

lebron coaches all teams

https://twitter.com/DragonflyJonez/status/487977292191105024

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@warriorsworld Warriors were 68-7 when NYT published Golden State owner Joe Lacob's "Light Years Ahead" interview. Will fall to 14-7

nice

It's like someone designed OKC to expose Golden State for being the team all their critics thought they were
--Dominique

barkley's fingerprints all over this, I want justice

― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes)

thing is even though adams has been p. vital, okc are beating gsw just as much with ibaka at small ball center

ESPN "BPI" now has okc at 53% to win the title

Poor raptors still have the worst chance at 7%! (feels m/l accurate)

Thing is I can envision the Warriors taking three in a row to win the series, this is the first time they've lost back to back games all year, but not the team we've seen the last two games against this peak Russ n KD, also

it's crazy how the thunder became the best team in the NBA once rwb started passing

― 龜, Tuesday, May 24, 2016 11:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Otm and

okc played up to their talent m/l

― lag∞n, Tuesday, May 24, 2016 11:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also otm

The double big lineups with Adams and kanter have been a nice twist but I think the Barkley class commentators are gonna focus on it too much, Adams has just been straight ballin when he's not getting his balls kicked in, but I think the real key thing has been KD playing top notch defense and just getting his freak wingspan all up in the midst of the open court actions gsw usually thrives on

I missed the game where bucks beat the dubs but maybe Giannis presented the same problem? Are nimble seven foot small forwards the Warriors kryptonite?

Also curry is totally hurt

Poor raptors still have the worst chance at 7%! (feels m/l accurate)

― gis for westbrook shark jump (agent hibachi), Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:03 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea it does. cavs flakiness in full effect past two games though, they are a great team that is still capable of losing pretty much any game. home court will be nice tonight though

i think dubs will get one more game prob

pretty hard to see them losing game 5 at oracle, but after that they're just gonna have to find their groove again. it's totally doable, it'll just depend on whether curry can regain his form

thing is even though adams has been p. vital, okc are beating gsw just as much with ibaka at small ball center

― micah, Wednesday, May 25, 2016 1:18 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah that ibaka center lineup has been their best this series by far, westbrook told donovan to yank kanter last night (according to a twitter lip reader) and he did lol, kanter only played 9 mins and ibaka played quite a bit more than adams, the thing is even when okc goes small they are still big and strong and crazily athletic, dubs lineup of death works cause of extreme skill but okc is just brutish when theyre out there running and gunning, and then the dubs are having a hard time running on them cause theyre so fast

its crazy to say i know but kinda think gs might benefit from going big and trying to grind this one out, theyre prob a better halfcourt team than okc

it's worth a shot, okc was by far the better uptempo/transition team last night.

leave westbrook open from 3 see how it goes

curry looked like he was forcing it even from the corner, i don't think he has his range, i think that elbow bruise is hurting him more than he lets on

whatever happens i just hope we don't get into hack-a-roberson/hack-a-ezeli exchanges

yeah steph doesnt seem right, makes sense considering that his knee and elbow are hurting, p key body parts for basketball, his usual shooting fluidity is absent

all those roberson rainbow fts that barely hit front rim were pretty brutal and hilarious lmao how tf does that happen

he clearly had zero explosion last night. even aside from the shooting he just wasn't finishing at the rim.

and then you can tell it was starting to effect how he saw the floor. that one play at the end of the first half where he dribbled in front of adams like 55 times but didn't know whether to blow by him or do a stepback and then he ended up just getting his shot blocked was pretty indicative how entirely screwed up he is.

yeah having his shot blocked by adams twice when ordinarily he wldve just waltzed by him is def telling

stephs jump shot mechanics are def a bit off from the knee injury you can kinda see it

he's also just playing worse in general though too. he's worn out.

westbrook has been turning off the lights at home every night the past several months and staring at this gif imo

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/o9p9bsbzkkej4nj3sra7.GIF

lmao

seems v plausible xp

tbf i stare at that gif every night too

been staring at it for the last 12 hours with tears streaming down my face

hah cld def see stephmania being extremely motivating for russ

Last two games for Draymond: 2-for-16, 10 TO, 5 assists, and near-ejection.

think he threw the ball directly into KDs hand at least 5 times last night

should switch to soccer obv

think he threw the ball directly into KDs hand at least 5 times last night

― Spottie, Wednesday, May 25, 2016 4:18 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

the players have def been doing some boneheaded stuff on the court in the last 2 games but it felt like a bunch of those turnovers need to be remedied by the coaching staff devising some new sets and w/e to get them some open looks cuz it doesn't seem like they can just run their normal stuff and win out

Cavs got this

Remember when slapping the backboard was an automatic tech and the players just wore the refs down

This is pretty gross

I have not seen a single cavs game this season where Love played well and they didn't have a blowout win

seems like it might be good for the league to have a close game or two

nice to see the cavs have figured shit out again

Playing at home does a body good

nice to see the raps get hammered

idk I am pumped about a cavs-okc finals I think it's gonna be a good series, i always felt like it was the most competitive matchup but I never thought it was going to happen

the home swings have been so drastic for the east finals that i still think the raps take their final home game and force it to 7, despite looking like deep-fried garbage last night

(also kinda think warriors aren't dead yet)

saw some tweet that was like "raptors gonna win game 6 in toronto then in game 7 cavs win by 75 pts"

sounds about right lol