||| WARRIORS ||| CAVALIERS ||| NBA ||| FINALS ||| 2017 ||| PART ||| 3 |||

if he wins hell be at 85% goat

http://www.sbnation.com/2017/5/30/15707478/lebron-james-defense-strategy-cavaliers-warriors-nba-finals-2017

538 saying it's 90/10

― frogbs, Tuesday, May 30, 2017 7:13 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cavs in 6

by the final two minutes of game 7

http://i.imgur.com/Xvk9049.png

lmao

i think if you're the cavs you just have to let draymond hoist, there's no route to victory if everyone's making outside shots and he's the most likely to go cold

yep

last year steph was hurt and dray missed an elimination game, bron was great but i'm not sure it proved much other than that he's great

I just want a nice competitive series which is what would have def occurred vs the Spurs if the desperate warriors hadn't on purpose taken out kawhi

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

12 dubs votes, 8 cavs votes, considerably closer than i'd have thought

sounds abt right for a site full of dummies homers and contrarians

more importantly, this means ilh thinks javale will get himself a ring.

congratulations to matt

Hm weird I set this poll to end tomorrow

lebron's already in your head bro

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

good video! i may understand only half of it, but definitely the kind of basketball nerdity i find interesting

also shows the more subtle stuff Draymond is doing defensively

yeah wow that's great stuff

dray is an extremely special defender but contrary to what that guy says i have to believe that stuff is in the scheme. still, like he says, GS can do it better than any other team because dray is just that versatile and good

these are the kinds of little things that don't show up in the box score but add so much value to the team. our understanding of defense is so elementary because we can't easily quantify things like how often a guy switches to a higher-percentage defensive play compared to the average defender. shows up in plus-minus stats tho

they ought to take two weeks off between the semis and finals, like the super bowl, really build the buzz

But I don't want year round NBA.

the triple switch shd be called the double switch

seems like there shd be a counter in there while theyre doing that extra switch if the team moves fast enough

these schemes contradict the conventional wisdom about the warriors switchablilty, here theyre putting a lot of effort into getting back into conventional size on size matchups after the initial switch

if you switch 5 times on a single possession you unlock turbo mode

death mode

these schemes contradict the conventional wisdom about the warriors switchablilty, here theyre putting a lot of effort into getting back into conventional size on size matchups after the initial switch

― lag∞n, Wednesday, May 31, 2017 10:15 AM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is a good point, they do a ton of switching but not because they don't care about matchups or think their guys can all guard 1-4. and draymond may be able to guard 1-5 but more of his value may come from knowing the correct secondary switch, which seems like a really hard thing to consistently get right.

yeah this makes their switch heavy scheme seem more based on skill than natural ability

http://www.tmz.com/2017/05/31/lebron-james-home-vandalized-with-n-word-graffiti-hate-crime/

ugh

gross

fuck that shit

awful

Lowe predix dubs in 6
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/19500294/zach-lowe-2017-nba-finals-preview-prediction-golden-state-warriors-vs-cleveland-cavaliers

despite the predicition lowe's piece has me amped up for a good series

yeah well balanced hope its good

how do you all think mike brown will fare v. lue? does it matter?

it doesnt matter too much, kerr is heavily involved. where brown may actually be a difference is hes already said he will fall back to basic PnR and mismatch ball when necessary (when things get bogged down), something kerr has shown reluctance to do.

http://www.tmz.com/2017/05/31/lebron-james-home-vandalized-with-n-word-graffiti-hate-crime/

ugh

― 龜, Wednesday, May 31, 2017 12:15 PM (two hours ago

:( :( :( :( :(

http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/columnists/full/lowe_zach.png&w=160&h=160&scale=crop

seriously what is wrong with his hair

it's trying to escape his head

LeBron James is the best player. Kevin Love is playing perhaps the best basketball of his Cleveland tenure, and when he produces like this, the talent gap between Cleveland's Big Three and Golden State's three best players -- Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green -- isn't insurmountable.

another one on our side in the great debate

lol

i can't begrudge him for the hair line, most of us have/will have thinning hair, it's the asymmetry that is bad, that part on his left side sticks out a little too much. but whatever he is very good at writing/speaking about basketball

re kerr

Mike Brown says Steve Kerr hasn't yet told him whether he's coaching Game 1

— Tim Kawakami (@timkawakami) May 31, 2017

lowe does the come-over is my main issue. balding/thinning happens no biggy. if he is gonna go full wild hair then he should just really go for it. it cant seem to decide.

also i've been trying to think of who kevin love reminds me of for so long and it just occured to me that it is pryzbelewski from the wire!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/The_Wire_Prez.jpg