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

we're halfway through the finals

this is it baby the final game

durant's scary

12-1 in turnovers.

yeesh, this thing will be lucky to go 6

yeah. dubs may just have too much firepower.

i have been informed that there will be at least three more games

Durant is doing a little lebron impression, barreling down the lane and finding open shooters

Well, we'll always have that first quarter

brutal

warriors D is suffocating

game 1s are frequently misleading but this doesn't feel super encouraging for the cavs. less "the cavs didn't play great" and more "if KD and steph play this well they probably have no chance"

or "if draymond or klay has a big game they're even more screwed"

klay...seems broken

i've never considered durant the single best player in the world but this game could trick me

its a trick

play the game of "switch lebron and KD, what would happen" and it would be this bad and maybe worse

bron looked tired tonight

i really hope this isn't going to be a blowout.

cavs have some srs work to do on defensive strategy before game 2

they really need to dominate the glass to have a shot

yeah what the heck happened to tristan tonight

Crazy that Love got 21 rebounds and dubs still seemed to be dominating the boards.

welp basketball is bad now

the one thing the cavs should know from the last two finals is that they can't play at GSW's pace, especially in oakland. obv we saw tonight what up tempo fastbreak games will look like. they have to play slow and in the half court which maybe suits them anyway since bron and kyrie are the best 1 on 1 players in this series.

turned this off a few minutes into the third

kept hoping it would become competitive but nope. ah well, we'll see how game 2 goes

klay...seems broken

― k3vin k., Thursday, June 1, 2017 11:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he played great D though

kd negates a huge portion of the cavs halfcourt advantage on both sides of the ball

kyrie, lebron, steph, and durant are all roughly equals at isos

the pace thing is probably true but it's really just a function of turnovers. easier said than done of course

i do not think this series is going to be competitive, sorry. i know it's in everyone's best interest to look for ways it can somehow happen but the two teams just aren't close

Warriors aren't gonna win the turnover battle or get rebounds like that again.

38-8-8 w 0 TOs is an insane line

cancel the nba

usually when a team has 3 of the 4 best players in a series and blows the other team out in game 1, it's a bad sign for the other team

maybe the nba should consider rule changes to prevent the winners of the last 3 mvps awards to not be on the same team idk

They smoked em game 1 and 2 last year too. I'm not getting my hopes up.

nba should consider rule changes to prevent the winners of the last 3 mvps awards to not be on the same team

But what do you do if all the last three mvp winners are the same player?

Klay Thompson contested 10 shots Thursday. The Cavs went 1-of-12 when he was the primary defender. He was a plus player despite scoring 6.

— Dieter Kurtenbach (@dkurtenbach) June 2, 2017

What happened to Tristan tonight?

the warriors, iirc

But what do you do if all the last three mvp winners are the same player?

― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, June 1, 2017 11:25 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that plural 'winners' is doing a lot of favors for me

Steph was outshined a bit but

Steph Curry had 28 points, 10 assists, 6 boards and 3 steals in 34 minutes. He was a game-high +20. He shot 50% from field and 54.5% from 3.

— Alex Kennedy (@AlexKennedyNBA) June 2, 2017

They smoked em game 1 and 2 last year too. I'm not getting my hopes up.

― fo, fo, fo, fo (Spottie), Friday, June 2, 2017 12:21 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark

yeah i remember everybody making the same predix / hand-wringing after games 1 and 2 last year

bron looked tired tonight

― lag∞n, Friday, 2 June 2017 1:19 PM

yeah this was weird

forgot to juice

i still think the games in cleveland will be very competitive at worst, and i could see the cavs winning both. but them winning in oakland seems like a really tall task.

the cavs did win the one game b/w these two teams in cleveland this year

also the reffing was pretty generous towards the warriors last night, which will prob regress back the other way naturally

20 turnovers was ..... bad

if cavs want to win i suggest they don't do that again lol

warriors missed a ton of open shots too