2016 NBA Finals — Warriors vs Cavaliers

yea prob not

I think ideally my idea is that love retires after game six to go work doing maybe fish guide tourism stuff in Alaska or Maine or whatever

the ezili thing is maddening.

nervous af about game 6

ezili hasn't looked very good imo, also he has some nagging injury i think?

had surgery during the season. he's not looked great but he hasn't looked bad (or at least as bad as the alternatives) and really it's hard to tell when he only gets to play about 90 seconds at a time.

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/LFqIrirrRhMPNoTV23JXog--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9NjUwO2g9MzYw/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/video.woven.com/6cd5a59e64af67b4f15ed460bcfd4f7f

only got blocked once all season on a three pointer (by the stifle tower) and has been blocked like 8 times since coming back from his injury

― moistest hoist (Spottie), Tuesday, June 14, 2016 5:09 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah i wonder if it'll come out he had one of those ligament or tendon tears that doctors clear you to play through

wld not be surprised

sam esfandiari ‏@samesfandiari 5m5 minutes ago
Jesus. Here's a stat: the last basket which wasn't scored or assisted by Lebron or Kyrie: Shumpert with 5:27 left in the SECOND quarter

once, yes. i don't think it's happening again.

luckily there are infinite ways to win or lose basketball games in fact if you watch them the same thing usually doesnt happen two games in a row and yet its not uncommon for teams to win two games in a row

science

We decided to reach out to Dr. Lillian Glass—a renowned human behavior and body language expert, author, and PhD—to find out what she can tell us about the relationship between LeBron James and Kevin Love based on several recent interactions between the two star Eastern Conference Champs.

On the video of Kevin Love getting yelled at by LeBron James in Game 5.

“LeBron is yelling here; it seems so uncharacteristic. He’s just so disgusted with the whole thing. The look in Kevin Love’s eye is like fear. It’s like fear. And he’s trying to make up and LeBron is just completely disgusted with him. He can’t even look at him! When [LeBron's] head is cocked to the side that is severe anger. I thought he was talking to somebody else. He’s not even looking at [Love], he looks like he’s talking to the referee. He can’t even look at him. He can’t even look at him in the eye. So there’s some real conflict there between the two. He’s not relating to LeBron, that’s for sure. There’s a problem there. A serious problem.”

On LeBron James stepping around Kevin Love last November:

“Okay this is a game—yeah, that’s not acceptable. He stepped over him! He basically steps over him! LeBron is walking with one foot in front of the other and then he looks back at him briefly. He’s obviously turned off by him. He’s disgusted.”

On their handshake before a 116-78 Game 5 playoff victory against the Raptors in May:

“You know what’s interesting? Right at the end, as soon as it’s over they don’t look at each other. They look away. So that routine may be for show—they don’t retain that connection with each other. They seem to be in sync when they’re doing the handshake, but not so much afterwards. Usually there’d be some sort of acknowledgement.

“I don’t know if [LeBron’s] so crazy about that guy. Here’s another thing—LeBron James doesn’t smile. The other guys are smiling when they do it with him, that handshake. LeBron is kind of breathing and looking away. He’s looking down, he’s not connecting with him. He may be going through the motions but he’s not connecting with him.”

On LeBron James' comments about Kevin Love after the same Game 5:

“His face changes color. When he talks about Love he’s got a fake smile. His face gets all red and pink—he’s blushing when he’s talking about him. There’s some passive-aggression going on there.”

On these photos, taken during this year's Eastern Conference Finals:

“We look at him and we see Kevin’s wrong, once again. [LeBron’s] showing hostile behavior to him. And that never really happens on a team. And you see Love’s right arm holding himself. He’s pulling up on his pants for comfort. Holding onto himself literally. LeBron faces him with his face but not with his body in their confrontations, which shows the level of anger.

“Love puts his hands out to talk to LeBron and he’s very stiff and nervous around him, and LeBron has a very aggressive position where he’s taking up more room and showing, you know, he’s obviously in charge. It’s more of an aggressive position. Whereas number 0—is that his number? Zero? That’s not a very lucky number, is it? This is a clashing moment. Having his hand out, it says a lot.”

http://i.imgur.com/6tCJ0JA.jpg

In his diary in an entry headed Nice 22 January 1892, Munch described his inspiration for the image:

One evening I was walking along a path, the city was on one side and the fjord below. I felt tired and ill. I stopped and looked out over the fjord—the sun was setting, and the clouds turning blood red. I sensed a scream passing through nature; it seemed to me that I heard the scream. I painted this picture, painted the clouds as actual blood. The color shrieked. This became The Scream.

story checks out

lillian glass giving advanced stats i see

man i used 'things of that nature' like 3 times today during a presentation. f u bron

Lmao

haha

Noticed he was also dropping "#keys" a ton

NBA on ESPN ‏@ESPNNBA 2m2 minutes ago
We are very excited to have Craig Sager joining our broadcast team for Game 6 of the #NBAFinals. http://es.pn/1UzfFzr

that's cool but i hope it doesn't mean he's gonna die soon :-(

yeah... :(

seems likely it means there's an understanding that this is gonna be his last postseason

Oh man

Marc Stein ‏@ESPNSteinLine
As @daldridgetnt reported earlier, Bogut will NOT require surgery. But the multiple bone bruises suffered will keep him out 6-to-8 weeks.

weird that injury looked like tendon/ligament damage for sure but its bone bruises

expect to see a lot of the death squad

NBA had any kind of heart, they should have cavs and dubs wear jerseys in paisley and pinstripes to honor sages

yeah thats good news all things considered

forks otm

man I'm gonna get all emotional when he does his sideline interviews

cavs exploiting curry injury on both sides of the ball http://www.si.com/nba/2016/06/15/stephen-curry-defense-cavaliers-warriors-nba-finals

tho i did see coach nick say only 3 of kyries makes were v steph in the last game so who knows

yeah i thought that they played good D on Kyrie for most the game. got a couple open ones but for the most part everything was challenged. Still can't believe he stayed hot that long, lebro finally cooled off in the 4th but Kyrie just kept on nailing everything

this is good D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4p0ZZpNT7o

ya bron was spent as hell in the 4th

When will people learn not to rile up Lebron. Just praise him as the king and move on

― moistest hoist (Spottie), Monday, June 13, 2016 9:20 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

10:45 AM - 15 Jun 2016
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Draymond Green on LeBron James: "Great player."

ahhh much better guys, muuuuch better

haha

http://i.imgur.com/A0vlQDz.jpg

^ eloquent

def feelin a gs blowout tonight maybe of a stretches a persistent middling lead to an insurmountable one midway through the 4 variety, but wld like to see otherwise for entertainment purposes

Almost hope Warriors lose this game because I won't be able to watch it.

leee man u r fired

I said almost!

although I'm not gonna be able to watch til like 2-3 hours after the game starts. putting my phone in the sock drawer.

sry leee u really tied our hands on this one

I'M A LOCKDOWN DEFENDER.

will have to watch this in a hotel lobby or a sports bar because tonight I'm sharing a hotel room with my wife and two kids who go to bed at 7

No but for real I have a tech rehearsal tonight that is mandatory and it's like "Throw another championship on the pile Dubs" so nbd.

i'm presuming a 15 point golden state win that doesn't fully coalesce until the 4th
i know bogut wasn't putting in major minutes but i'm concerned as to how they start the game without him and where those fouls go.

everyone's had three days of rest, except draymond has had even more. magic 8 ball says "signs point to dubs'.