2016 NBA Finals — Warriors vs Cavaliers

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

feel like the cavs cld win game 3 just cause the dubs dont seem to be trying very hard and if the the bounces arent going their was theyll just be all whatever

cavs best chance would involve basketball adopting football rules and having different units on offense and defense.

yeah if curry is on the court at the same time as james jones and dahhntay jones then Kerr should be fired immediately xps

I said dubs in 5 but am leaning towards a sweep. shame that the raps turned up and the option of cavs sweeping the east and getting swept eludes us.

ya that wldve been tite af

i don't see how this isn't over in 5. honestly wonder if the warriors might let the cavs win one so they can celebrate at home.

That would be kind.

I think everyone would be happier if dubs finished this at home

draymond sitting in a darkened corner, sharpening the spike on the toe of his brand new HyperRevs, looking into the camera pitilessly, saying "i think everyone would be happier if dubs finished this at home... don't you?"

in the background, you can faintly hear falsetto chants of "jones barbecue and foot massage, jones barbecue and foot massage"

dubs equipment manager seems like a really cool guy

Doesn't seem like a sweet gig to me, it looks really hard!

http://67.media.tumblr.com/463eefea4e5423670aab3d5839eace3d/tumblr_n707u2vdlb1rgx7ico1_400.gif

happy 15 year anniversary, coach lue

post-game interview with lue was not good, I felt bad for him

lowe on klay http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/16007209/there-fuels-klay-thompson-more-losing-people-underestimating-skills

Even bullish executives didn't see this coming in 2011 -- a perceived lack of respect that still rankles Thompson. He came across as quiet, disinterested, lacking a hunger to broaden both his game and his life horizons. During his rookie season, the Warriors assigned him a book report on "Play Their Hearts Out," George Dohrmann's outstanding peek inside West Coast AAU basketball -- an attempt to coax Thompson out of his comfort zone, and "expand his mind beyond basketball," Lacob said.

Draft experts wondered if he was too slow to defend at a high level. "I'd read reports, and they'd say, 'His defense needs work, he's not quick, he can't stay in front of anybody,'" Thompson said. "And I'd be like, 'Are these guys even watching me play?'"

The intel on Thompson was so jumbled, the Spurs needed two private workouts before deciding to attempt trading up to get him. After one workout, Chip Engelland, the Spurs' shooting guru, told the front office something that made their hair stand on end, officials remember: Thompson's competitive nature reminded him of Manu Ginobili.

"There's something deep in there," Engelland recalled. "He has that chip. When you see it, you know it."

Thompson says heated competition with his athlete brothers, Mychel and Trayce, made losing at anything -- basketball, pingpong, whatever -- a searing, unpalatable personal failure. And he has always been a worker. Lacob once asked Thompson what he did for fun. Thompson simply responded, "I like to shoot." Lacob explained that he meant what Thompson did off the floor. Thompson shrugged and repeated himself: "I like to shoot."

the "i like to shoot" anecdote is priceless

lol

kawhi-esque

ah man the spurs almost traded up for him that just....

altho losing out on him is what probably allowed them to get kawhi, so

ya same draft

its ok im over it already

its cool u dont really need both of those guys or anything that wldnt be insanely unstoppable

i mean what im saying is i dont think the spurs would be able to trade for both anywayyyyy

ya i know i was saying the same thing, except what if they cldve?

i mean i guess if u wanna trade one of the big 3 that seems reasonable

hey btw the finals are happening and the warriors are winning it

hmm never heard of em tbh

im surprised, bay area billionaires are v fond of them they have even made some apps for them

oh im more of a rocky mountains billionaire tbh

nuggets will win the nba playoffs

do ppl even watch sporst in colorado now that they can smoke weed legally 420/7?

BREAKING: Dankver Nugs owner disbanding team, losing was "harshing his buzz"

Colorado Rapids selling all soccer balls for hacky sacks, going to sit out the next couple of seasons to find themselves

in colorado the main sports are climbing on rocks (for some reason? seems dangerous?) riding bikes and getting mad lifted

no joke my horrible fuckshit brother in law literally moved my wife's sister out to colorado to climb rocks

ya by my informal count ~50% of colorado residents relocated from texas to climb rocks and toke artisanal weed

i only know the southwestern part of colorado where my uncle lives but its good

he doesnt even smoke weed! literally just to climb rocks

he shd... .... .... smoke rocks, lol

we have very good friends in crestone there is a lot of rock climbing and toking happening there