even with an extra days rest only playing 6.5 guys is pretty hard to pull off, they just get tired over the course of the game, especially when youre playing that insane swarming D houston was (at least in the first half lol)
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
the dantoni suns teams never played enough guys either
― the bhagwanadook (symsymsym), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
Hard when they’re suspended for standing up
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
otm
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
i think we did see how the warriors die in this series which is via the deterioration of their supporting cast, its pretty much inevitable theyre forced to overpay to bring back aging guys like iggy and livingston and then fill out the roster with late draft picks over the hill ring chasers and whatever small exemption theyre eligible for, they ran out a ton of guys in this series that basically didnt have to be guarded, the rockets had a real good shot to win before cp3 went down and wldve had an even better one if they had one more live body out there say a healthy and locked in mbah a moute, which is why i think a healthy deep celtics team with tons of young legs has such a good chance to win it all next year, they have the roster to play the kind of D houston was for a whole series while still getting buckets
just started wondering why shouldnt lebron go to the celtics then i remembered oh yeah kyries there lol
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
The Celtics were lucky to have so much hoops talent and maturity attached to such young legs. Now they have recent deep playoff experience to go with that. It bodes well for them.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
bron going to the celtics just to annoy kyrie wld be his crowning bitch achievement
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
we did see how the warriors die in this series which is via the deterioration of their supporting cast
seems likely to me. that was the biggest challenge for the Big 3 Heat, too.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
TNT’s 2018 NBA WCF Game 7 (Warriors/Rockets) delivered cable television’s second highest-rated NBA game telecast of all time and the highest rating for an NBA game this year across all of television (cable and broadcast), based on a 10.3 metered market rating— TurnerSportsPR (@TurnerSportsPR) May 29, 2018
good stuff, i wonder how having two game 7 conference finals will impact revenue this year + revenue sharing, cap etc.
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
i suppose two game 7 conference finals will be balanced out by a 4 game finals sweep that nobody will watch lol
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, May 29, 2018 1:10 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah the league really set it up so you can get a super team but you cant keep it
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
even more so now with the super punitive repeater luxury tax
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
― 龜, Tuesday, May 29, 2018 12:56 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark
"You put my mother on the floor, and if she were in a Boston Celtics uniform, I'd break her face." -- LeBron James, in an interview with me six years ago.— Lee Jenkins (@SI_LeeJenkins) May 28, 2018
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
heh
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
the god move by the warriors wld be to trade dray and klay for like 5 rotation players
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, May 29, 2018 1:14 PM (thirty-four seconds ago) Bookmark
i think more accurate would be to say you can set up a super team and then you *have* to keep it, since you can go over the cap to re-sign your own players. the warriors couldn't have really replaced guys like igou & livingston with better players for whatever they could've spent
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
funny how the 15-16 warriors seem good for the game in retrospect now
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
that team was pure and lovable then dray had to freak out and call kd from the losing locker room cause he cldnt help but kick guys in the nuts smh
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
anyway i still think the warriors almost secured their own demise by allocating their meager leftover resources towards bigs instead of wings. the rockets having gerald green almost singlehandedly swung the series
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
i'm glad to be no longer watching harrison barnes honestly
i think more accurate would be to say you can set up a super team and then you *have* to keep it
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, May 29, 2018 1:16 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you can get a super team and then you have to keep it except its not as super anymore (unless lebron just leaves)
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
warriors have no resources to patch up leaks in the ship which is how it should be when you have that roster imo
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
harrison barnes played his role admirably, he was a troop
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
i have decided that the only team level stats i respect are pace, defensive rating, and 3PT attempt rate
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
Kevin Durant - 死神 "God of Death"From a famous pic of Durant as the Grim ReaperNow refers to his killer instinct late in games, especially since he joined the WarriorsLike in English, the Chinese call game-winning shots "daggers" and refer to this as "killing" the game pic.twitter.com/5r46XRSvfE— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) May 29, 2018
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, May 29, 2018 10:19 AM (forty-three seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm. dont think they make this mistake again next year. having 8 diff big guys who might or might not make a minor difference in different possible (but not probable) playoff matchups was just dumb. i think they roll w jordan bell and damian jones next year and then a couple vets / ring chasers. david west was their 5th best player for a fair chunk of the reg season but unplayable in the final four. swaggy and casspi really didnt work out at all and the iggy / mccaw injuries killed their small ball rotations.
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
to clarify, pace should be as high as possible but you can 'shoot the moon' by having the lowest pace in the league
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
i thought KDs post game presser was really heartfelt, he was an open book. basically admitted to being shooketh by, once again, letting the outside noise eat up his brain space.
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
i will be creating a new stat to reflect this
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
dubs got absolutely killed on the boards by capela and tucker lol
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
i mean, why stack bigs when you're not gonna use em
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
tucker played his ass off. total baller.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
xps they did but in the end only lost the rebounding battle by 2. draymond was perfect in the 3rd q. boxed out like a mad man.
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
tucker is that dude that every team wants on their team. he was their draymond as far as being the heart of the team. tuck's effort never wained. always loved him since the suns.
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, May 29, 2018 1:30 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark
probably what happened was KD used one of his alts to let off a bunch of steam on insta right before the game, which got his head in the right place
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
hopefully! but it woulda had to have been at halftime cos he was extreme trash in the first half
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
btw i looked up the scheduling stuff looks like this years playoffs started at roughly the same time as last year's playoffs so there goes my scheduling theory. d'antoni should still play more than 6.5 guys tho
― 龜, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DeXd996V0AAE8XU.jpg
wonder if this was when durant was making crybaby face at someone?
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
curry attacking the basket this series was very beautiful to watch.
This is interesting. Per @nbastats ...Curry's 81 drives was 3rd among all players in Conference Finals, behind Harden (144), LeBron (108). Despite getting just 2 FTAs off those drives, he scored the 3rd-most points off drives because he shot 61.7 percent on them.— Marcus Thompson (@ThompsonScribe) May 29, 2018
The Houston Rockets have died. pic.twitter.com/5k7IzeXoYL— perfect angel dan (@dannyteardrop) May 29, 2018
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
some of steph’s finishes at the rim in that series were nearly impossible
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 May 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
he has to be second behind kyrie among small guys who consistently use the rim as a shield and spin the ball off glass in crazy ways
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 29 May 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
ya his drives are rad
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
interesting how he toned down his crazy off the dribble 3pt game after losing to bron in the finals re our convo on harden taking all those stepbacks
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, May 29, 2018 3:17 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he reminds me a little of MJ actually
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 29 May 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
jordan did so many reverses feel like this is a forgotten aspect of his game
― sprout god (lag∞n), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
kinda cant wait for the 10 hour jordan doc. hope it reminds people of his all around game and not just the shrug game, the flu game, the b russell push off and the pass to kerr.
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
re curry better shot selection: tis nice being able to defer to durant on the 3-4 of those he would've had to hoist up every game. might take a hit on his highlight reel but it's a more sound level of basketball. his all around game is so rounded at this point. an all time great at the peak of his powers. his rebounding in the playoffs has gone relatively unnoticed.
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
yeah he took that one stepback 3 with Ryan Anderson on him in 3rd qtr and I was like whoa he's really feeling it, whereas couple years ago he was doing that on the reg
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link