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the exact purpose of the move is to get the defender to bite so i'd say it had an effect on the play!

the only effect it had on the play was bron defended it accordingly leading to a layup for steph LOL

as i detailed upthread its a good fake but its important to not actually do the thing youre faking

lol yes

i like the part where steph got away with a dd and roasted lebron

kyrie had a really blatant carry last night i stood up and yelled CARRY AHHHH and my kids were scared of me for a second.

lol classic dad moment

the fake works whether or not he puts his hand on the ball, he does it all the time

yup

also JR was almost the MVP

I'm not saying JR Smith was trying to hurt Kevin Durant, but what is this exactly? pic.twitter.com/g4FEYvALFz

— Drew Shiller (@DrewShiller) June 5, 2017

here was when i had my dad moment

the carry is dead. pic.twitter.com/QhdPyx4EJf

— From The WaterCooler (@FTWaterCooler) June 5, 2017

that's the one where he plants his foot under KD on the 3 right? i was surprised to see twitter not going nuts about that

yup

the fake works whether or not he puts his hand on the ball, he does it all the time

― J0rdan S., Monday, June 5, 2017 3:27 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one way is a fake, the other is not, feel like i shdnt have to explain this, also youre positing an unprovable counterfactual, and saying something insanely stupid

the little flair JR puts on his leg was bowen-esque. way more blatant than zaza's

that kyrie carry is ok because also other times when he does not carry he continues to dribble the ball

zaza got kawhis back leg on a second hop lol jfc whats up w u ppl today

thats basically what happened on that play i linked, just got lucky he didnt roll

if you watch the video jr does a third hop

its a shitty play by jr def but not worse than zazas which took an extra hop to specifically target kawhis injured rear leg

iirc you coudl see JR mouth to lebron on the sidelines later "damn dude sorry, i almost got him, shoulda added an extra hop"

more importantly zaza has been >>> Tristan so far in this series. dont expect that to hold in cle but hes been weirdly absent so far.

not really the sort of job u shd send jr to do

tru

frankly im surprised more people didn't complain when JR was on the bench and threw the banana peel right in front of KD on the break

ha

more importantly zaza has been >>> Tristan so far in this series. dont expect that to hold in cle but hes been weirdly absent so far.

― fo, fo, fo, fo (Spottie), Monday, June 5, 2017 3:42 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

zaza playing 13mins last night is more the problem, theres no one for tristan to guard, putting him on dray and and having him sag back into the paint has some appeal theoretically but it hasnt worked so far

btw dray has been in foul trouble both games and it hasnt really mattered cause the dubs r just scoring so many points, doesnt seem like he affecting the series that much defensively anyway, kinda a weird first couple games in a the warriors are breaking basketball sort of way

yeah love outplayed him last night, the foul trouble is hurting him for sure. he hit those early threes tho and that opened everything up.

cavs are def in full do not even bother to guard dray mode, he cld prob hit 10 3s and they wldnt change that, not like they have many options

i feel infinite in my brain power to be able to decide when a minor rules violation in basketball mattered or didn't

i am ready to predict the outcome of the 2017 nba playoffs

smh jordan

i mean it was a cool play, he got away with it, but it was clearly a DD and it was the difference between perfect defense and a bucket. what is the point of rules even then

i feel confident bron wldve continued to shut him down without the violation

its too bad we cant have access to infinite universes instead we only have this one in which steph double dribbled

there is no point to rules even, abolish the nba

it's the finals; let the players play /hockey

btw ive rewatched the play from a number of angles at different speeds and in the interest of balance i will say fouls cldve been called on bron at least twice but... the double dribble was def not imperceptible particularly not up close from brons angle as it impeded the path of the ball

feel like bron already left his feet before it happened

nope

http://i.imgur.com/ueCwap0.png

his jump is a total reaction to the double, his left foot in that pic is on the way down, then he jumps

that's his second step towards steph - his weight is already shifted

lol thought u said he left his feet, your honor this witness is totally unreliable

sustained

here is the video enjoy neither second step nor left his feet is true

Here is another angle of Steph Curry doing Bron dirty...pic.twitter.com/98qWiOadnx

— The Shadow League (@ShadowLeagueTSL) June 5, 2017

what is a fact is steph had both hands on the ball and bron reacted in a way completely appropriately to that fact

alternative ILH facts

what that video shows is lebron getting owned lmao

i cld prob own lebron if i were allowed to double dribble (i cld not)