(((( Warriors vs. Cavaliers |||| 2018 NBA Finals |||| Round 4 ))))

Cavs in 7, or GSW in 4. I’m debating with myself.

Dubs were often terrifyingly creaky and saved by a number of fireball third quarters vs rockets and the cavs are worse but I will put nothing past lebron until he is officially retired which rules out a sweep

Unless two or more of their starting five can't play, due to injury, illness or nut-hunting, GSW has this. We all know it.

warriors in 4, just try to figure out the matchups from cleves pov you cant they literally have no one to defend any of the dubs big 3, cleve cld win game 4 i guess if the dubs decide to let them

Dubs were often terrifyingly creaky and saved by a number of fireball third quarters vs rockets and the cavs are worse but I will put nothing past lebron until he is officially retired which rules out a sweep

― gritty tigger reboot (agent hibachi), Wednesday, May 30, 2018 10:00 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that was the first time theyve been tested since Durant signing. And the rockets were built to beat them, and they should/could have. The cavs without Kyrie dont instill much fear but it's possible the warriors take it easy thinking they already passed the hard test. Cavs have to take game 1 to have a chance. If they dont, then they take game 3 and that's it imo. If Iggy is back and looks normal then I think this is a sweep.

when i actually cast my vote it's hard for me as a cle homer to vote anything besides a cavs win but i'm not optimistic at all, this cavs team isn't very good.

agree w/ agent hibachi tho i don't think it will be a GSW sweep, lebron will get at least one or two games, anything beyond that will require massive efforts from the rest of the cavs and i just don't see that happening. korver and love might light up for a couple games. jr is probably gonna be shit. would be cool to see tristan out-rebound steph unlike last time lol

I think Warriors in 5 or 6.

Lebron to get first finals MVP on a losing team since Jerry West.

if he didnt get it in 2015 it's not gonna happen no matter what he does

(in a loss, of course)

i say warriors in 6 tho i think i accidentally voted cavs in 6... cavs almost won both home games last year & tho they're worse now i think the warriors just seem ragged and out of sorts, and have actual structural problems w/ igou hurt.

warriors have more players they can play in this series. i think they might even go to zaza to start who generally does a great job vs TT

dubs in 4

There hasn’t been a sweep in the finals in 11 years, although last year was close. I would think that the Cavs could win at least one game.

Famous last words.

it won't be a sweep

it might be, but dubs in 5 is probably the safest bet

I’ll go dubs in 6 to account for the lebron goes bananas game and the up 3-1 dubs don’t bother taking care of the ball and three random cavs have great games and they drop one before closing it out game

Let’s guess brons stat line averages I’m going 37-10-8

iggy out game 1

Groundhog Day finals

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/nbaplayoffpreview23646470/warriors-versus-cavaliers-biggest-mismatch-modern-finals-history

There hasn’t been a sweep in the finals in 11 years, although last year was close. I would think that the Cavs could win at least one game.

Famous last words.

― Jeff, Wednesday, May 30, 2018 2:39 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark

it was closer to being a 6 game series than a sweep actually

yeah

Close in the sense that it was 3-0.

Not the closeness of any of the games.

cavs choked away game 3, easily cldve been 2-2 going back to oakland

Then it wouldn’t have been close, it would have been far. Close is when one team is on the verge of sweeping, which the warriors were for the time between game 3 and game 4. That is my definition of close. Let’s go to the replay.

Warriors in 7 if Iggy doesn't play. If he plays everything except game one, then Warriors in 6.

The normal NBA fix--who knows who they'll suspend for a game this year!--and LeBron going beast means that there will not be a sweep.

dubs in 2

remember how the cavs had deron williiams last year taking up minutes in the finals? never seent anyone more shook in my life.

honestly i feel like maybe dubs in 1 or 0

i don't even remember who deron williams is

yeah i was hedging bc its good to be conservative abt these things but i agree dubs in 0 xp

Number of full days off for the Warriors between the last game of the West Finals and Game 1 of the NBA Finals:
-2015 = 7
-2016= 2
-2017 = 9
-2018 = 2

— Drew Shiller (@DrewShiller) May 30, 2018

that's settles it then cavs in 7

agree

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Chris Herring... thank you

there are more brave posters on ilh than all of espn

thank you for the recognition

For LeBron to win MVP the Cavs would have to take it to at least 6 games, maybe 7

The only way Lebron wins an MVP is if KD completely shits the bed, and the chances of that are vanishingly small.
It was plausible before KD arrived cause Lebron had no direct matchup in the series you could point to. Now he has to at least appear to shut down KD and be monstrouson offense.

i predict Klay will be finals mvp this time

is draymond still good

yes

damn ok

steph?

durant?

Time for some Quinn Cook minutes

both teams played hard

yeah fuck kd seriously

aaand the cavs have left the building

rip basketball

you can say a lot about the cavs but you can’t say they didn’t play hard until the end

i mean.....3 or 4 cavs have played hard

kevin love def played hard

yeah kevin love has def played hard

Curry going for the fmvp but not sure it’s gonna be enough. Kd great teammate for getting him going this game you could tell he was hunting him in the first Half.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrOH-KHxXg0

if kd doesn’t win the mvp he should sign elsewhere in protest

Top ten presser all time xp

they're trying to let steph run it up here but i think i'd vote for kevin

larry nance is playing hard but unfortunately he sucks

hahaha fair

talk about a dude who got exposed when he had to play meaningful ball

jvg should use this time to advocate for making dunks count for 3

Kd stunk in game one but his numbers were ok-ish. Curry stunk last game shooting it and his numbers looked bad. I think Kd gets it again. Curry shoulda got it in 2015 tho.

So they gonna sit the starters or nah

kerr is not a dick. he will sit them.

like now lol

Nice of Van Gundy to pump up Ty Lue a couple of days before Lue gets fired.

congrats warriors fans! it was a good one.

to hell with owners they did nothing fuck em

seriously. i fucking hate that shit.

Uh guys I run a karaoke night on Fridays and Saturdays and uh

Channing Frye just walked in

Let us know what he sings

Reading rumors that Bron punched a whiteboard after game 1 and played w a serious bone bruise the rest of the series

thats what brian windhorst reported on espn

Juicy

congrats spottie and all dubs fans

i was wrong about a sweep. this series was bad and underwhelming

Thanks marcos! I thought 2 of the 4 games were really good.

I can report that some kid sang “that’s life” and dedicated it to lebron and Channing was dying of laughter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUzUwtlXiDM

That’s the good reporting, Clay

omg clay

warriors were +50 in 197 minutes. it seemed closer but really it wasn't

game 1 was a legit great finals game but it was all downhill from there

sadly Channing left without singing and mostly seemed deeply embarrassed when his dudes came up to do like sweet caroline and don’t stop believing etc

Also yeah worst finals since the spurs and nets snoozefest all those years ago

LeBron kept the corpse animated right up to the Finals. Then JR drove a stake through its heart.

<3 Shaun

This was Shaun Livingston in 2008. He was recovering from perhaps the worst basketball injury ever. People thought he’d never play again. He was talking about where he’d be in 10 years.

It’s been 10 years.

He’s a 3x NBA champion. pic.twitter.com/vu6kpZuHt0

— Thomas Duffy (@TJDhoops) June 9, 2018

People are struggling with why this isn’t a travel, so I’ll explain:
His left is the pivot. He jumps just about off of both feet, but it would still be legal for him to lift off the right foot into the air. Not a travel as long as he releases the ball before left foot lands. pic.twitter.com/UFZm4xDMLG

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) June 7, 2018

honestly never understood this rule

My friend saw Javelle at Whole Foods tonight. He was wearing a Gucci fanny pack.

whoa there was a game on last night who won???

We all did

just ordered one of these shirts:
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Kevin Durant struggles to open bottle of champagne, gets help (video) https://t.co/bOAqO5Dw4H

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) June 13, 2018