2016 NBA Finals — Warriors vs Cavaliers

pr cool rondo retweeted you

i hope i retweeted the right one

yeah thx dan

feel like the phrasing gives me some plausible deniability

its okay we've already established that klay love and clay are all basically the same person

in a epistemological, ontological sense u cld say they have already been traded for each other

also metaphysical

warriors destroying the cavs via taking what theyre given http://www.si.com/nba/2016/06/06/warriors-stephen-curry-klay-thompson-steve-kerr-cavaliers-nba-finals-lebron-james

def remember thinking "well i guess we'll see" when smart people spent the entire season saying the cavs matched up terribly w/ the dubs but i guess it was true!

lue has coached a bad series tho

headline on espn "Cavs still have hope of winning NBA Finals?"

lol @ "?"

feel like its not so much a match up issue as its the dubs r just much better

Yeah Cavs are the 4th best team in the league, that's p much it

of course but the cavs are giving the warriors way less trouble than i.e. the blazers, they're basically on a level w/ the rockets in terms of how easy the dubs are dispatching them & no one would say the cavs and rockets are equals so obv there's some match up prob

i guess the more interesting question is if the cavs brain trust aka lebron can a. identify the problem b. figure out how to fix it my guesses are maybe and no

i mean via roster moves in the offseason

Kyrie for CP3 trade will go out there.

Love for Melo probably not str8 up but a three way deal.

Bron wants the banana boat

dubs supporting cast is so good that they can severely punish any team that tires to shut down steph & klay. this has been demonstrated all season. okc got closer than anyone has to matching the dubs, but they didn't overweight their defense like the cavs have

yeah still kinda mystifying that cavs went from going up 2-1 via clampdown defense + lebron train to like, dubs scrimmage chum

lack of blatt defensive schemes?

lol i mean its prob just the dubs having jumped lightyears ahead but i certainly dont think tyronn lue is helping

the cavs should be playing the same strategy as the blazers which was basically to run up and down w/ the warriors and bomb as many threes as them. it's prob suicidal but at least introduces variance and the cavs can really shoot it. right now they're playing this bizarre mix of the warriors pace but w/o shooting threes w/ them it makes no sense.

feel like its not so much a match up issue as its the dubs r just much better

― lag∞n, Monday, June 6, 2016 2:50 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, this is a 65-70 win team vs a 55-60 win team the difference is fairly large

also let's not forget that for whatever style the cavs were playing last year the dubs basically had that 2-2.5 game choke-y hiccup moment under the bright lights that was not going to happen this year

it's really bizarre to see the team that was breaking 3 point playoff records in the 2nd round shoot so terribly. and no the hawks defense does not explain the difference.

though the hawks offense might explain it.

yeah the warriors were kinda shook for the first few games to start last year. Think they thought it would come easy but they've learned and now are better. cavs are playing like they haven't realized whats going on yet, still asleep at the wheel from the rest of the offs. Not at one point in this series have I felt like the Cavs have figured anything out. Even when they took the lead early or got back within striking distance it wasn't really cos of anything they were doing, its just either the warriors turning it over or missing open shots.

blazers are v young with young legs and they can run all day long. they have a lot of odd pieces coming off the bench with particular talents that stotts can use to make strategic adjustments. the blazers also have stotts, not lue, so there's that, too.

steph didnt play in the blazers series hello!

many xp jordan

also let's not forget that for whatever style the cavs were playing last year the dubs basically had that 2-2.5 game choke-y hiccup moment under the bright lights that was not going to happen this year

― J0rdan S., Monday, June 6, 2016 3:05 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah the dubs got their game choke moments over early with the thunder

steph didn't play

except to score 17 points in overtime!

i find it really sad that richard jefferson is getting regular minutes in the 2016 playoffs.

basically the only genuine steph moment in the whole series xp

by the eye test he seems to be playing really well! xp

i know he is doing fine Ive just not been a fan of him since he was on the warriors

basically the only genuine steph moment in the whole series xp

― lag∞n, Monday, June 6, 2016 12:27 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also 2nd Q of okc game 2. game 7 too

thats a diff series man!!!

oh i read that as "whole playoffs"

Remember when Chris Paul and Blake Griffin got hurt at the Dubs didn't have to play them lol

that was a weird night

so does anyone wanna revise their prediction to a sweep? i still think this goes to 6; they split the next two games in cleveland, lebron scores some ridic numbers in game 5 and the warriors demolish them in game 6. i guess if love is really injured maybe 5?

i think cavs get game 3 and thats it. same as I thought b4 the series started

i predicted the sweep and i am holding fast

i am revising my prediction to a sweep

There is no glimmer of anything that is working for the cavs right now

this type of thing is really fascinating to me
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=15633764
seems like a p sweet gig

xp well, yes. shumpert and JR are all but invisible, thompson isn't proving more than more than just being a big body, Love looks like a defensive liability, kyrie can't find his game... but lebron is still lebron and my inclination is to give them one more game than I would otherwise by virtue of his muscle and will.
by which i don't mean to suggest that i LIKE lebron; i've kept the last games of both prior year finals just because it's fun to watch sad lebron.
i also wouldn't write off the cavs willingness to get much more physical, like desperation let's-take-this-guy-out physical, as long as the refs aren't calling contact fouls near the basket. right before they pulled steph in the fourth quarter (and kerr left him in longer than I'd prefer), there were two back-to-back take down fouls on him that did not bode well.

i predicted dubs in three. silver is going to step in after game 3 to stop the pain