2016 NBA Finals — Warriors vs Cavaliers

i take the long way around instead of climbing the rocks which is called hiking and is very good

hiking is fine i mean a nice nature walk who cld have a problem with that

I wish JR Smith would go climb some rocks right about now. If he doesn't start hoisting soon I may go mad.

yeah the cavs just need to get to hoisting not sure what they are waiting for hoisting wins shampionships

otm gotta hoist

he should hoist rocks like rocky the iv, the man who hoisted rocks on his opponents to defeat communism

he should heed the example of rocky the iii who did not hoist rocks and instead got mr. t'd (technnical fouls)

yea more hoisting needs to happen, finishing around the rim on sloppy lay-ups is just not happening

just read the lowe klay piece and i forgot this fact completely:

Thompson holds a semi-tongue-in-cheek grudge against the Kings for daring to draft another shooter, Jimmer Fredette, over him

.......lol

start delly and mozgov and sit love and kyrie

― Spottie, Tuesday, June 7, 2016 12:29 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seems like delly for sure needs more minutes, but i don't think you can realistically not start kyrie. superstar egos and all that

lue shd be like 'i didnt get murked by allen iverson to live thru this shit' and then show everyone the stigmata scars on his hands

yeah was just tongue in cheek xp since thats who they HAD to start last year and would have beat the dubs if they were healthy etc etc would be funny to have to revert to that

whats the status on love anyway? concussion or no?

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/kevin-love-cavaliers-injured-game-3-warriors

Still going through protocol no update

he got clocked i don't see how he plays tomorrow

i liked this piece https://theringer.com/kevin-love-cleveland-cavaliers-trade-247956d0fcde#.mejew3x2e

that said i'm sort of over the whole wiggins/love thing bcuz andrew wiggins isn't actually that good and if he was on the cavs bricking threes in the finals all we would be talking about is how the cavs should have traded him for a player like kevin love who could help them win now

otm

his timeline just didn't mesh with lebron's. it was a good move

bring on the banana boat

the thing with keeping wiggins tho is they woulda had money to get more depth

their problem right now isn't depth... they have more players than they can play (i.e. channing frye). it's that the players aren't good enough.

w/o love you start getting into an entire alternate history but basically i don't think andrew wiggins was worth keeping for the cavs. maybe kevin love wasn't the right fish to lure in but nobody knew that at the time.

yeah it was the right move at the time.

unlikely they cldve got anyone better, maybe a combo of quality roles players cldve worked out tho who knows

im much more interested in attempts to decode how good kevin love actually is. it's fascinating!

he's clearly amazingly talented as an offensive player but i wonder if he peaked in those two seasons in minny

ya agree re the mysteries of love, seems unlikely hell ever recapture his minny peak but its also v obvious that hes not being given the opportunity to succeed in cleve, feel like he cld still put up big numbers in the right situation but his defensive limitations and positional inflexibility are still problematic

not hard to imagine him regaining 95% of his MIN form in the right situation

yeah the only reason im skeptical is just cause those numbers were so nuts in the first place

ya agree re the mysteries of love

We don't need Zach Lowe, we need Pablo Neruda.

lol

i've come to think that love is one of the least versatile players on the planet, like if you give him run to do the 4-5 things he's really good at he'll get numbers but he's so hopeless at everything other than those 4-5 things and i don't think he's really interested in getting better at them.

sounds abt right

basically he plays like he was programmed to run the a.i. of a 90s basketball videogame

i was going thru teams trying to find one that fit the love criteria and theres not much out there since a lot of the 5s he might pair well with are on the FA or trade market

maybe denver but they're a year or 2 too early to be making big moves

celtics w amir johnson, great perimeter D, the assets to trade makes a lot of sense

is amir signed for next year that works if so

ya hes got one more

i've come to think that love is one of the least versatile players on the planet, like if you give him run to do the 4-5 things he's really good at he'll get numbers but he's so hopeless at everything other than those 4-5 things and i don't think he's really interested in getting better at them.

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, June 7, 2016 2:28 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

kevin love = nick young

ive been on board w/ love to celtics for a while i think if there's any coach that can set up a narrow player to succeed its brad

nick young is only good at like 1 thing tho

im on record as declaring love to celtics destiny so theres no point in fighting it

ugh

love is prob worth the #3 straight up given the scuttlebutt re: many players below 1 and 2 in this draft, he's def not worth #3 plus actual players imo

maybe some second rounders too if only so ainge doesn't have to draft-and-stash five separate euroballers due to roster crowding issues

the only problem w the deal is it wld need a third team involved cause i dont think cleve is interested in draft picks

with love the cavs bought high and will be reluctant to sell low. the celtics would be buying low on love, so it makes great sense to buy in, if love gets offered. but this is verging on offseason stuff, not finals.