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

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

every unwatchable toronto series going 7 games wld be primo

+they win the chip

the part of me that lives for chaos would be totally fine with that

barf tor finals would so boring

biyombo isnt boring. but everyone else on there is p much

lowery is cool, jonas is cool

yeah they cool but kinda lifeless, jonas showed some fire earlier in the offs tho yeah.

i kinda like corey joseph too a little. has some sweet jerky jerky moves i can dig

also just feel kinda bad for the way bron/cavs torment cleveland they shd form a mob and drive all pro sports teams out of the city imo

it's overdramatized tbh, did you see that "believeland" espn thing

lol no that title is funny tho

was that good? got it on the DVR

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it was okay, there was some cool old footage especially from various browns eras, the ernest byner interview about "the fumble" was legit emotional and moving, but overall i think it overemphasized the drama, surely there are many cleveland sports fans whose well-being depends on this shit and as a result they are miserable but most aren't really like that. also it weirdly glossed over a lot of that actual sports details that could've made it more interesting -- like they showed jordan's famous shot over craig ehlo but that whole section would've been way better if they also talked about how good that cavs team was that year, who was on it, why they were a favored team, and why it was so crazy and unexpected that jordan came in and won that game, starting the ascendency of his career, etc. instead they just went straight to "jordan made this shot over ehlo ohhh the misery, poor poor cleveland"

this response while containing some extremely corny lines matched how i think most of the people i know in cleveland felt about it http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/05/believeland_good_story_not_the.html