i have something to say about the offs THE 2016 NBA PLAYOFFS

what i wld like to say is: the atlanta hawks are sure to go down in ignominious defeat!

dubs > rockets 5
spurs > griz 4
thunder > mavs 4
blazers > clips 7
cavs > pistons 5
raptors > pacers 5
hornets > heat 6
celtics > hawks 1

hornets will win the nba playoffs

effectively a 100% chance

this is the cavs year!

...to get pooped on

dubs > rockets 4
spurs > griz 4
thunder > mavs 5
clips > blazers 5
cavs > pistons 6
raps > pacers 5
hornets > heat 6
hawks > celtics 0, boston forfeits, brad stevens returns to coaching hs bball - "the rest of the league had clearly figured me out" when reached for comment attempting to buy cigarettes w/o id

warriors in 5
spurs in 4
clips in 5
thunder in 4
cavs in 5
raptors in 6
heat in 7
hawks in 6

went all chalk, though 3-6 in the east are all close

ya feel like obvs home court means something but if all the teams are tied u cant really say theres a true favorite

generally 4-5 is a tossup anyway

dubs 5
spurs 4
thunder 5
clips 6
cavs 4
raptors 5
hornets 7
hawks 7

spurs got a cakewalk in the first

historical cakewalk def

there was some series a few years ago that had like a 20pt margin cant remember

very refreshing to see eight reasonably good teams coming out of the east

tru

yeah man east could be fun

imo east has 6-7 good teams (depending on how you feel about the pacers) and the west has 5-6 good teams (depending on how you feel about the mavs). but the west has 4 of the 5 best teams

dubs in 5 - I think there will be a slight letdown after the big push to 73 wins
spurs in 4 - they'll be motivated by the extra rest they'd get after a sweep
thunder in 6 - mavs will dig deep for two close wins, but it won't matter
clips in 7 - blazers match up well, but not with chris paul
cavs in 5 - cavs have too many flaws to sweep it
raptors in 5 - raps could sweep, but why bother?
hornets in 6 - they have been rising fast
celtics in 7 - they will unswoon in time to advance

further, I predict that nearly half of these predictions will be inaccurate

you could make a case for all sweeps in the west

cavs in 6
raptors in 4
hornets in 5
hawks in 5

dubs in 4
spurs in 4
thunder in 5
clippers in 6

cavs in 6
raptors in 5
hornets in 6
celtics in 7

dubs in 4
spurs in 4
thunder in 5
blazers in 7

celtics could not deal with millsap+horford during the regular season and i'm not sure what they do to fix that in the offs

i'm worried about one thing they may do to fix it in the offseason

horford will def be on the celtics next year, along with kevin durant

yes

durant-horford-m gasol (prob impossible due to salary considerations or w/e)

yeah i'm not sure how they're gonna manage all that after they offer evan turner a max deal, maybe they'll find a way

scamming robbery fraud maybe

btw r non celtics fans aware of the phenomenon of evan turner being a hilarious weirdo w a very strange voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO3U4uhfnrU

damn he kinda sounds like meatwad

there's a hint of meatwad to his voice

lol XP

lmao

lmao I've never heard his voice wtf is that. follow his twitter tho, seems like a funny guy

no idea what a meatwad is but listening to clips on youtube and that is v otm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Foe0P-1XsQ

haahaa

http://www.thepostgame.com/dish/201604/100-percent-rockets-fans-think-team-will-lose-warriors

can you really rule out the possibility of evan turner actually being a sentient chunk of unidentified meat

i love people who have no idea that what they're saying is funny

love that dude held on to the dream of the golden birthday for nearly twenty years

like he's gonna roll into chuck e cheese all 'MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE'

i had never heard of that thing and i got sad for a second that i am a good few years past 28

PREDIX

west
>gsw in 5
>lac in 6
>sas in 5
>okc in 4

east
>cle in 6
>atl in 5
>tor in 7
>cha in 6

first round looks like it will be a snooze but if everything goes chalk the second round is gonna be insane

tho i'd like to see boston beat the hawks

hawks do love a good choke

as do boston fwiw

neither of them wld be choking its a close matchup they even have the same record

afaict the entire eastern conference has the same record

they all feasted in the knicks, nets and sixers

I was hoping this thread would be titled "73 is never the answer...but sometimes it is"

hold onto that shit & use it for the finals thread

good countertroll stuff from alex siquig https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/the-haters-guide-to-the-haters-guide-to-the-nba-playoffs

dubs > rockets 4 good riddance
spurs > griz 4
thunder > mavs 5 dirk prob good for one good dirking session
clips > blazers 6
cavs > pistons 6 this series will lead the round in eyerolls and cryptic post game shots at teammates
raps > pacers 7 prove it raps
hornets > heat 7
celtics > Hawks 6 Isaiah 4 presidetn

I could 100% see a Blazers upset tho, not likely but wouldn't be the craziest thing in the world, cp3 prob just not going out like that in the first round though (he prefers round 2)

decent reading material while you're waiting for the offs
http://www.sbnation.com/2016/4/15/11349662/nba-playoffs-2016-best-plays-players

xp i guess you're hoping for one good dirk-off

decent reading material while you're waiting for the offs
http://www.sbnation.com/2016/4/15/11349662/nba-playoffs-2016-best-plays-players

24 is kind of obvious but still tickles my brain.

the math def does not agree with that strategy

Also I haven't seen IT2 in action before and just wow.

oh man he is so awesome

OK I'm officially a fan of his now if the Warriors can't I wouldn't mind the Celtics.

its crazy how a tiny insanely quick player can play so under control

where do u find the stats re wide open/guarded/etc shooting %s

i think nba.com has those?

eye test is all u need goon

lol tru

xp ya i thought so too but i cldnt find them

oh idk then. bkref doesn't have anything requiring player tracking data

they're def on nba.com/stats though their website is a nightmare. i think you have to go to the "shooting" tab or something iirc

i went to the shooting tab!

i mean http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/201939/stats/shooting/

ah its under the tracking tab ffs

http://stats.nba.com/player/#!/201939/tracking/shots/

its a shame that nba site isnt a better experience. the info is there! just so hard to get around

anyway i was right defend the layup not steph the best he shot from three in any sort of guarding situation was 49% aka 1.5 pps which is less than 2, which is not even mentioning the fact that in the video they use to illustrate this point the defenders dont even have to make that choice cause they have a 4-3 advantage, im extremely upset

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

also imo seeing as every team is an underdog to gs even if steph and the layup were roughly equal u wld want to roll w the variance of the three

yeah that was just really poor defense/communication nothing more

shdve found a 2-1 gs break for the video at least but still wldve been VERY WRONG

nice statistical analysis, lag••n :)

thank u i do it all 4 u the posters of il hoops

dubs > rockets 4 boring
spurs > griz 4 boring
thunder > mavs 4 boring
clips > blazers 7 un boring
pistons > cavs 8 dude bro
raps > pacers 4 boring
hornets > heat 5 boring
hawks > celtics 5 lol mad danny ainge

when the celtics win furious locals will force u to worship larry bird and robert parish at the the bunker hill monument

My wife is from Boston and I'm from Atlanta. If she gave a shit about basketball this could really tear us apart

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

mod predix

bestern cashference
dubs 4
spurs 4
okc 6
lac 6

leastern trashference
cavs 5
tor 6
heats 7
hawks 6

1.5 hours

28 minutes!

i have something to say about the offs

it's good

hmm gonna have to agree

your opinions are challenging but correct

It has been suggested on this thread that the first round will be preponderantly boring. I disagree. If you are bored it is because you do not care, not because the playoffs are boring. If you are not yelling about the lousy officiating, then you should not be watching, imo.

this game is a mess lmao

demarre carroll's hair is crazy

jonas v amped to clean the glass

it's not a raptors playoff game until you see drake looking anxious at courtside

jonas is beasting

its tuff for me cause i want to root for the raptors but against drake

why the heck is paul george sitting for 6 minutes to start the 2Q

cause hes bad

lowry's awful playoff performances continue

this series might end up being case in point about why having the best player is the most important factor in playoff series

PG13 has been incredible

hes destroying them

tho im sure the raptors wld be more than happy for the pacers to stand around and watch pg work for the rest of the series

raptors just make their layups theyd be ahead rn

absolutely brutal game from lowry in all aspects

terrible

wow rip raps

pacers have some gamers with some real playoff experience

Looking like the Hawks really screwed themselves when they lost the last game to the wiz. Could be facing the raps or pacers rather than the cavs in the second round. And YES they will be playing in the second rnd

the raptors are not actually this bad and the pacers aren't actually that good cmon this is ridiculous now

Looking like the Hawks really screwed themselves when they lost the last game to the wiz. Could be facing the raps or pacers rather than the cavs in the second round. And YES they will be playing in the second rnd

― Heez, Saturday, April 16, 2016 3:14 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

screwed the celtics too

indeed it did

pacers def have more talent than their record wld suggest they prob shd be up w the celtics et al 4 way tie

raptors also play stylistically in a way thats a lil too easy to stop too much iso, derozen is drawing dead going straight at pg but the raps can and shd still win this series imo

drawing dead, going straight: the demarr derozen story

lol

I will say that coaching wise vogel is def better than dwane casey but shit SVG is 9,000 miles ahead of tyronn lue and that prob won't be the decider in cavs pistons

Pat bev <3

well this should be a short series

Super cool beas in the playoffs wow

i want to watch the warriors bathe in the rockets' blood

Beverley is in the main line of a long tradition of players who are constantly grabbing you and shoving you off balance with every part of their body that if the officials called every foul he made, he'd foul out in 30 seconds of playing time, but he has established his "style" of play over many seasons, so he gets away with murder and gets called a great defender.

Lol that pre game dap between curry and bev

curry's reaction was great

Classic

"This eff'n guy"

pat bev is so corny

He is but also he is the only player on the rockets that cares

That Kobe ad was pretty funny.

Yah def

Needed raja bell tho

who gives dwight the max

Probs the Celtics

That d by Livingston was awesome

Curry.

Layup was crazy

curry doin some thangs

Rockets all kinda pissed off

rockets are a fucking disgrace. if he's still got a job, he's gotta blow the whole thing sky high imo, harden included.

fucked up idea #1 harden/durant trade

*morey's gotta blow it up, i mean

Curry ankle :|

Take the rest of the game off, Steph.

*series

Harden 4 fouls 4 points first half smh

Warriors wtf are you doing. Curry back the locker room

warriors without curry <<<<<

This is gross

warriors should consider resting curry the whole series to bring the level of play up from everyone else

I'm on board

What just happened to abc?

sage steele is giving a play by play lol

Wow what a mess

warriors broke abc

lolllll

good showing for playoff mo speights

Speights owning Dwight yup

surely after this series no one would be dumb enough to max out dwight surely
*time warps to july 1, 2016*
"sacramento kings sign dwight howard to record 14-year, $1.3 billion contract"

dray will legit get in fights with all the rockets this series

Wow they're calling a tech on dray on that!?

Dude was at 17% FT last year!

hah steph just walking back to the lockers like "lol I'm gonna get a perc for my ankle, shaun and mo just take like 60 shots some will go in"

what if the refs are sick of james harden and never call a foul for him again

what if james harden takes 0 free throws this offs

God that would be the best

Esp if they were just like sorry mr kardashian adjacent no fouls for u show up in shape next fall see ya

so glad pat bev was around so the "you just gotta rough steph up!!" thing stopped before it even got started this year

olynyk lol

jesus christ on a stick these atlanta fan shirts are blinding

welcome to the future

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good lord what an utterly miserable half

for boston....

They look drunk

how r they only down 17

that's a lot to be down in 1 half

if avery bradley had actually gotten packed at the rim by korver they would have had to call the game

J0rdan S.
Posted: April 16, 2016 at 6:14:50 PM
that's a lot to be down in 1 half

thx jord

plz tell me that farmersonly.com ad was national

having to listen to jon berry while yr team is getting housed is brutal

is this a good celtics team

when theyre turning the other team over theyre good otherwise not that much

weird that in the last two celtics game they have played basically as bad as humanly possible in the first halves

ya its not the best system

Brad put new batteries in IT2 and meatwad at the half

THE ANCHORMAN

Milsap v jelly o, not all that fair honestly

THE ANCHORMAN

jelly k!

lol @ dweeby pjpants going 'not on my watch' in this simplisafe ad

mike scott invented emojis

avery bradley is wonderful

oh shit i jinxed him

yeah that guy's a baller

oh god

rip

Oh no

they shouldnt miss bradley too much if smart can step up

lol

hope he's alright obv

what happened to meatwad's goggles?

i like when ppl try to convince the refs to look at the scoreboard replay

ruh roh

hell of a game from teague

i dunno no bradley means a lot more evan turner

korver ofer

why foul there?

brainfart

boston's ATO plays are so fucking good

what a funky game

phew

feel like this one is going 7

holy shit if that went in

*vomits nervously* fuckin hell if that went in

but it sho didn't good job hawkbirds

wold have just been extra pain for celts fans

thought it was weird that bud even had anyone in the backcourt on that play

http://i.imgur.com/6NpX5CT.jpg

dammit

naturally this happens after I half-drunkenly buy a playoff t shirt

mavs look good...

yeah i mean the mavs are not a good team

this dallas okc series might end up impossible to watch lol xps

top 3 seeds in the west are all gonna win ugly

like i a) can't stand okc's "offense" and b) the mavs are cooked, pretty much a recipe for tuning out

mavs really miss chandler parsons, he was easily their best player for those couple months once his minute ban was lifted

parsons is gonna be an interesting case this offseason

see if he gets overpaid twice lol

there's gonna be so much money flying around that he probably will

i am resigned to the idea that basically every player will get a max contract this summer

still blows my mind that harrison turned down 16 m per

like the projections i've heard for allen crabbe this summer is in the $9-10 mil range, which seems absolutely inane but here we are

who the fuck why are spongebob characters getting paid in the nba today

exactly

Marc Stein ‏@ESPNSteinLine 14m14 minutes ago

Texas is being flat-out messed with today. #wow

pfft, thats not even the good part of the state

yeah tomorrow will be a diff story obv

imo ppl should mess with east and north texas as much as possible, it could use some good messing

btw did anyone see at the beginning of the second half of atl-bos when the camera was on the commentators someone held up a standard 8x11 piece of paper on which they had written "isaiah thomas still uses google maps" wth

clue

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

uh, sick burn, if you're really into cartography

bradley prob unlikely to return the entire series, so Cs relying on marcus smart (hmm) and i guess rozier (massive gulp) to fill that 2 spot

in unrelated news, go pistons

yeah we are all rooting for cleveland to struggle/drama right?

Minus a few cavs ilh'ers

not even cavs hate/messy bitch drama reasons for me (although that stuff is undeniably fun) - just have really enjoyed Detroit this year & wouldn't mind seeing them at least make it fun and competitive

if there is not immense robbery and fraud during this series I will be massively disappointed

also I'd like to see Drummond eat klove's lunch

don't see how pistons can score enough to take this more than 5. even 5 may be a stretch tho bron may check out in one of those road games assuming they get up 2-0.

cavs offense <<<<

not even cavs hate/messy bitch drama reasons for me (although that stuff is undeniably fun) - just have really enjoyed Detroit this year & wouldn't mind seeing them at least make it fun and competitive

you almost make me feel bad for dumping on your celtics all year

in all fairness you may not have known I was president of the KCP fan club

Markieff came to play for sure

Marcus :)

KCP shot 30% from 3 this year

Marcus :)

― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, April 17, 2016 4:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha whoops, still confused as to which one went where

pistons shooting 1 million percent from three and are up by 5 points

they're getting good looks tho, SVG is doing a good job

gonna code a messy bitch app that notifies u when lebron initiates the high stakes drama

well that lead evaporated quickly

hanging on

some serious drama potential here

smdh

dammmit

drummond is a black hole in the pick and roll

bron needs to put the headband back on i don't want to spend all spring thinking about his hairline

woo

pistons may get a game or two but no more than that

This game is unreasonably fun

they do seem hungry though

yea good game! xp

svg is pure fire

yeah love that the pistons are playing like they belong here / think they can win

if there is not immense robbery and fraud during this series I will be massively disappointed

hi!

wow reggie jackson's an idiot

lebron with a really clever post move i don't think i've ever seen before

yea that was neat

det needs a quick 3

man as good as reggie jackson was in the first 44 minutes, he was really bad in the last 4

^ otm

Go Cavs!!!! Kevin Love with 28!!! Andrew Wiggins who? THIS IS OUR YEAR!!!!!!!

love playing at the 5 for the whole 4th quarter was interesting

Yes. They beat the 8 seeded team, at home. This is a certain harbinger of a ring.

counterpoint: the team that set a record for wins, it is their year

i've had my moment

al jefferson-frank kaminsky feels like a... defensively problematic frontcourt

Shaq just had constructive criticism for Hassan Whiteside what is going on

So when's Houston/Warriors game 1?

never, the warriors forfeited the series after steph's ankles exploded

Sigh, only a matter of time.

al jefferson-frank kaminsky feels like a... defensively problematic frontcourt

― J0rdan S., Sunday, April 17, 2016 6:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ground and bound

man as good as reggie jackson was in the first 44 minutes, he was really bad in the last 4

― k3vin k., Sunday, April 17, 2016 5:31 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah at about the one or two minute mark he angrily waved off a pick from baynes and basically got himself tied up in the corner as his reward, not exactly Chris Paul level maestro work there yet

Heat were lights out and the horneys looked hella shook

Everyone otm re r Jackson. Seems like a head case

I believe in Jamychal Green

Xavier Munford for roy

shake things up a bit awards are too predictable this yr

yeahhhhh I'm watching dodgers-giants till the bear slaughter is over this is just mean man

manu blocking a shot and duncan diving for loose balls

Timmy hit a running left handed "layup" off the wrong foot earlier. Idk

Grizz have no right being in the playoffs.

Boban just dream shaked someone

these budweiser ads aimed at millenials make me violent

not entirely sure that's their target audience? you mean the like, "this is BEER not a MICROBREW" ones right

Clips pdx needs to save this opening weekend

bos-atl was good!

all but the last few minutes of the Cleveland game was exciting bc u knew someone was gonna fuck it up

Just mean someone needs to win that isn't expected to win

DJ airballs first free throw

were the pacers expected to win?

xp to sloth

i mean its not targeted to hipster millenials, but believe or not there are a bunch of square ass 20-somethings looking to get a buzz when they watch sports

Against the raptors? Yes xp

Blakes acne looks bad hmmm

xp to sloth

i mean its not targeted to hipster millenials, but believe or not there are a bunch of square ass 20-somethings looking to get a buzz when they watch sports
--6 god none the richer (m bison)

lol of course just always thought they seemed more aimed at 'murica fuck yeah 35-and-up trump voter types

then again, what would they even pitch to the bernie crowd - ballast point and PBR?

dame has fumbled away 3 or 4 possessions now :/

clips with the good gameplan of making the only two dudes on portland who can create a shot pass the ball immediately

blake looks pretty juicy

the LA juice at work

and the stotts doc beef continues with dueling hack-a

the coaches should have to shoot free throws if you hack back and forth enough times

cj mccollum's offensive game is like post-peak athleticism dwyane wade but with the ability to shoot 3s. very fun to watch.

Yah otm very herky jerky but under control

Mchale and Marv are good

clips think they have something w paul v dame in the post

kinda a cool play where they rolled that into a blake pnr

jamal crawford is a person who cannot guard cj mccollum

Ha just remembered that game where doc wouldn't let CJ play due to a clerical error

Classic CP

portlands needs a juiceman to handle blake, all the frontcourt guys are half his size

i nominate mason plumlee for temporary juice duty

he who controls the juice controls the universe

redick looks fantastic

All year really

Blazers offense is stuck

Leaving aminu wide open all game

roughly recalling suddenly that blake was m/l the second best guy in the playoffs last year

clippers D doing the thing i've been wondering why teams didn't just do all year -- essentially pack the perimeter, switch switch switch, and force the blazers bigs (who absolutely cannot create offense) to do some scoring. if teams would have done this routinely (and no every team has the personnel for it tbf) i doubt portland wins 30 games.

Teams are lazy in the reg season

true

also suggest ban ricky gervais from american tv this is a national disaster

Brutal weekend for the western conf

more like the cistern conference amirite

naw, the top three teams in the league are in the western conference. wait a bit until the wcf & ecf & finals and it will become more apparent that the wc still rules, just not with the same depth it has had lately.

xp damnn

This series is the only one that has a chance in the west. Blazers have some figuring out to do tho. See what coach of the year stotts is made of

Stotts dragging it out hahahaahahha

lol at this chris kaman beef hack-a stuff

Blazers need this

Light a fire

This is gonna take 25 more minutes

yeah i got shit to do here folks

Wow cp again diving at CJs legs with the ball

i suppose in some ways its a sign of respect

Kawhi DPOY

deserved

yeah that clip of him denying lance (then lance throwing a fit) from last night is all time
https://twitter.com/SLAMonline/status/721868325773553664

draymond second, whiteside a distant third.

kawhi and dray were really the only choices

just like last year

its weird theres no dominant shot blocking big man right now

whiteside? or do you mean dominant in all aspects?

Lmao lance in that clip I hadn't seen that

whiteside can def be scored on inside but when he's on the floor you'll see a lot of guys get near the basket, pump once and then pass the ball back out

ya whiteside obvs a great shot blocker but not actually a great defender, wheres that rim protector guards are scared to even go near theres usually a couple of those guys around

hes a bad one on one defender but yeah every time i watch i see guards just keep dribbling around rather than try anything, dude def has a major effect on the interior

whiteside's problem is more mental... i.e. yesterday he overplayed a pnr handoff and tyler zeller drove right past him for a dunk. but if he's in front of the rim he's usually a real deterrent, and he is good at baiting smaller players into trying layups just so he can block them. low post scorers who can put footwork on him or shoot hook shots over/around him can neutralize him tho.

yeah spottie otm

thankfully there aren't that many low post scorers in the nba anymore either

i was loving old man big Al vs whiteside. hornets will probably be going to that a lot more for the series to get HW in foul trouble

or to get buckets

whiteside is a must watch player imo, eyes are glued to him when he's in

was listening to lowe and coach thorpe previewing all the series this morning and although thorpe is wrong all the time he made a point about how whiteside gets off his feet too easily when guarding big solid dudes and it's actually the non-leaper types has he has trouble with. that may be right but i do think he's just a bad one-on-one defender, jelly k is not a big solid dude but he just cut at whiteside from various angles and hassan wanted no part of it.

gobert is probably the closest to an all-around good defender shot-blocking dude

otm, maybe bogut but he doesnt play many minutes

ya tru re gobert forgot abt him

yeah rudy gobert is the best rim protector i have seen this year

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgVwDeOUYAINK7l.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/93jCLJU.png

only potentially competitive series goes to nbatv

heh understandable tho

yeah more of a flaw in the whole concept of the first round that most of the cool teams/players will win easily

what if only 4 teams made the playoffs like baseball

cn see why someone thought it was a good idea to limit it to 5 games

btw cp kinda destroyed dame last night huh

watching the clips leaving aminu completely fn wide open was pretty brutal, they didnt even close out

yeah cp3 is gonna do whatever he wants against the blazers

aminu hit so many 3s vs the celtics when they tried that

chris paul will also lead the clippers to victory over the golden state warriors

rip blaze rip dubs rip league rip life

chuck believes that to be true xp

charlotte/miami also getting the NBATV treatment on weds

lol chuck is such a clown man that guy hates the warriors guts it's so funny and petty

someones got to do it really

funny how kenny is just like smh dude SEVENTY THREE AND NINE and then chuck is like yeah but they are inconsistent...

i mean

shrillary tintin ‏@theshrillest 14h14 hours ago
the Warriors are owned by a venture capitalist, play flashy, arrogant basketball, and are led by two rich kids and a walking mouth.

*coach is a rich kid too

ppl on twitter always overplay the warriors hatred they are beloved, the haters are just loud

feel like there arent any dubs haters like besides chuck its kinda crazy

chuck is doing it now cos he wins either way. they win he can get on his knees and grab headlines, they lose and he can be like see i was the only one who knows anything

either that or hes looking forward to someone making him another custom tee

feel like there arent any dubs haters like besides chuck its kinda crazy

And anyone who played at least 15 years ago.

hah true

it's not that crazy that people love the warriors considering they play the most aesthetically pleasing basketball of all time

Klay barely counts as a rich kid man his conservative ass dad had him on an allowance as of like two years ago

the dubs must be stopped

i dont dislike them though other than dray's messy screens

I just watched the nba 73 wins mixtape thing and got pretty damn pumped on flashy arrogant basketball

Half the thing was curry just murking fools with BALLHANDLING

he wins either way

yeah. and the spurs give him a puncher's chance of the warriors not even winning their conference.

it's not that crazy that people love the warriors considering they play the most aesthetically pleasing basketball of all time

― J0rdan S., Monday, April 18, 2016 2:45 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah theyre awesome and liking them is obvs right and good and maybe even the fact that theyre hot doggin and no ones giving them grief about it is a sign of the weakening of bs sports moral panic tho to some extent theyre prob just sheltered from that by stephs squeaky clean image

warriors are great and lovable but maybe there's also the sense that these guys are homegrown fun-loving dudes and not a team assembled for a specific grim mission that cannot fail. that's a large part of why the spurs are likable too and why the series between these two teams (fingers crossed) will be such a blast.

warriors play great basketball obv, if i wasn't a cavs fan i would prob enjoy them a lot more, but since i am, i don't really have any problem hating a flashy team led by two rich kids owned by a silicon valley venture capitalist

also i think curry's mouthguard tic is gross and reprehensible and he would be 100x greater if he did not chew on it every second

i don't really have any problem hating a flashy team led by two rich kids owned by a silicon valley venture capitalist

this is in jest btw really they are just my home team's main rival

http://4.kicksonfire.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dcf06579345306b6b4903eed975ca567.gif?6ce6a3

spurs are easy to love though imo

rondo storing his mouth guard inside his jersey is still the gold standard for grossness

It's annoying to see prom kings like Steph and Draymond mouthing off, but they've earned the right, I think. I don't think anyone would complain if they toned it down a bit.

you mean complaining about calls?

shit talking is really an ok and normal part of basketball imo but flexing on the other hand is actually extremely lame

http://i.imgur.com/X2VP87g.jpg

http://blazers.topbuzz.com/trailblazer-pics/d/2900-3/Greg+Oden+flexes+his+muscles+during+Media+Day+2008.jpg

The flexing is definitely terrible.

Draymond works the refs too much. It looks lame when you're up 20 and complaining/lying about calls.

The Warriors don't flop very much. True/False

true

ya over complaining to refs is p tedious the league cracking down on that a few years ago was a v good move, dray complains at superstar levels def which is why he leads the league in Ts lol

refs to dray: u realize ur not lebron right

theyve had a few but they are not chronic floppers. draymond prides himself on that (heard him talk about it in interviews)

curry falls down a lot after threes if someone is close but tbf i think thats to make sure he doesnt roll his ankles

dray's complaining to the refs is very lame

for sure. he has some very annoying tendencies. my fav thing about KG was he basically never really complained about calls, would get a bad call but just ignore the ref and huddle the team together or something.

complaining is prob effective to some extent but u have to pick yr spots and superstars and coaches are allowed a lot more leeway than everyone else

the boy who cried wolf etc etc

dray doesnt seem like hes doing it strategically tho he just seems mad lol

I guess I'm one of those ppl who believes that u should do your best to only punch up and so there comes a problem in sports when you're so clearly the best in the world, any sort of display or show-offy gesture feels like punching down, so it's always gonna feel a little gross to observers maybe. many xps

It's very weird feeling for a sports town that just won its first title in any sport since 1989.

yea xp agree w/ that clay, that shit used to bug me about lebron but now since he's kind of the underdog superstar on an elite but underdog team i dig it

yeah it was super annoying in miami

i guess i don't find the warriors lovable, they're just a ruthlessly efficient basketball team and it's more fun for me to root for the challenge of stopping them. human cheat codes are still cheat codes

i feel the same way about the spurs for the most part

feels like anytime i watch the clips, an announcer does the whole "these teams don't like each" other thing... maybe it's just that everybody hates the clips???

maybe lovable was the wrong word, more like so amazing that i have to laugh just watching the games and highlights. i wish them no ill, though i guess i look forward to them being upset by someone (doubtful it'll happen this year.)

oh yeah def xp

lol tru

they have bad blood with the grizz, dubs, blazers, mavs & rox iirc

I guess I'm one of those ppl who believes that u should do your best to only punch up and so there comes a problem in sports when you're so clearly the best in the world, any sort of display or show-offy gesture feels like punching down, so it's always gonna feel a little gross to observers maybe. many xps

― Clay, Monday, April 18, 2016 3:47 PM (10 minutes ago)

literally no one cares except salty ass haters and charles barkley

the trash talking is cool, the flexing is cool, them playing fun basketball is cool

draymond yelling ANND OOONE after every bucket was my least fav thing for a bit (mainly cos it was something that Boozer would do) but now I find it funny how automatic it is

there is literally no situation in which flexing is cool, its not offensive just profoundly lame

the flexing is childish even when done ironically. but superstar athletes all tend to be a bit childish. or more than a bit.

flexing is corny

dray thinking hes the hottest shit on the planet is extremely for sure man

ILHaters more like it

nothing is more baller than celebrating a shot going in before it does tho

except when it doesnt go in

also like everyone was all THEY ARE RUNNING BACK BEFORE THE SHOT GOES IN but this is actually normal getting back on D basketball behavior

i mean more of curry doing a 360 in front of the opposing bench

http://i.imgur.com/3RmQgIa.gif

i am doing normal basketball things while also raising my hands in the air THIS IS SO NUTS OMG MUST SHARE ONLINE

carne beat me to it

well u either look like a goat or the GOAT. no in-between

dray needs to finesse his trash talk and preening, those "trash talk 101" vids were just embarassing

the best thing abt the swaggy shot is he actually waited to see if it went in

https://twitter.com/EManu907/status/721846232365203456

I flex every time I submit a post to this board i didn't realize that wasn't cool

oh thats cool def goes w/o saying

I ain't got to flex, boy I got it, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

walked in 400 3s in my pocket

i think something else i consider when rooting for or against a team is the answer to the question does this city really NEED them to win like will they really appreciate it? i admit it is a very corny thing to do and every city has at least some die-hard loyal fans who would appreciate winning. but like when lebron went to miami i remember thinking "the fuck do you people care about winning an nba championship??? you are miami!!" it is part of the reason i find it fun to hate the lakers and why i have no problem rooting against golden state, like what does san francisco/bay area need a championship for? it also why i find it hard to hate a team like detroit even though i want the cavs to wipe them out this first round. it is also why i like the spurs, even though they have already won so many championships i just know that in san antonio they really appreciate that team

"like what does san francisco/bay area need a championship for?"

oakland tho, very different. also different sport you know? almost like me rooting against the Cavs cos of Ohio State

dubs have an extremely good hardcore fanbase that suffered through a lot of not great basketball and i salute their sucess

yea true

also in addition to it being very corny it is also based on like a one half of a cursory thought about a given cities' basketball fans so idk

never 4get http://grantland.com/features/how-annoy-fan-base-60-easy-steps/

dubs having the association w oakland while being named "golden state" and experiencing a region wide bandwagon wave and planning on moving to sf is an interesting study in identity

yea will be interesting when they move to sf

pretty sad about it tbh

the bay is kinda funny for the strength of its intra regional grudges, like ppl dont even acknowledge that sf is obvs the city at the center of the metro region lol

like even brooklyn or cambridge partisans arent gonna deny the primacy of manhattan and boston

if the dubs dont ditch golden state and put the city back on their jerseys upon moving contract them imo

the bay warriors
the city warriors

like u cant claim the whole state theres 4 other teams

official name the bay warriors, have the city on the home jerseys, ditch the copperplate IMHO FREE BRAND CONSULTATION

tho obvs theres some tension between the city and the bay but let it tense i say

yea will be interesting when they move to sf

In a way it's already happened. There are so many VC/tech types at games now. The crowds are different than the crowds five or ten years ago, at a lot of them are not Raiders/Athletics fans. Five years ago you didn't hear much talk about basketball in San Francisco or the peninsula.

it'll be stupid when they move to sf, fuck sf

the saturation coverage of steph curry does get tedious, like ok cool yes he did a crossover and hit a three, he does that most games, why can't we admire kemba walker for a day? tho curry has stimulated a ton of new interest in the nba and i now have a whole cadre of friends/acquaintances who never used to watch bball but now excitedly tune in to the dubs

the bay is kinda funny for the strength of its intra regional grudges, like ppl dont even acknowledge that sf is obvs the city at the center of the metro region lol

It's not even the biggest city by population in the Bay Area.

i anticipated this spurious argument and wld like to submit into evidence "brooklyn has more ppl than manhattan"

the saturation coverage of steph curry does get tedious, like ok cool yes he did a crossover and hit a three, he does that most games, why can't we admire kemba walker for a day? tho curry has stimulated a ton of new interest in the nba and i now have a whole cadre of friends/acquaintances who never used to watch bball but now excitedly tune in to the dubs

― micah, Monday, April 18, 2016 5:45 PM (25 minutes ago)

because kemba walker is doing things that about 100 other point guards in NBA history have done while steph is doing things no player has done before. if you want coverage of local stars, read local papers and websites

thanks for the tip m8

fun fact: magic johnson got more press than buck williams back in the day

there's so much fucking basketball content nowadays

i know so much about kemba walker and i've barely watched him play this year

lol

The Unbreakable Kemba Walker.

who's the most unknown star? like my dad doesn't follow hoops and knows who boogie cousins is, that's not the case in 1988. who's the buck williams or mitch richmond or whoever of today?

the guy with the highest value-to-name recognition ratio is probably millsap!

kyle lowry?

i follow basketball and wasn't aware of quite how good his stats were until very recently

lowry's a solid pick too but he played for the knicks so i'd bet more people probably know him than millsap

kyle lowry did not play for the knicks

wait yes he did *looks up*

huh wait who am i thinking of lol

not that i necessarily disagree w/ you tho i don't think any casual fan knows one more than the other

who was the dude the knicks got for like half a season a few years ago

lowry seems plausible though he's gotten voted into ththe all star game. "a hawk" is plausible though man are we really as obscure as the nets were in the 80s or the kings were pre-webber?

are you talking about bargnani

lowry was gonna go to the knicks http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/dolan-blocks-knicks-deal-raptors-lowry-article-1.1546553

tfw trade rumors become real memories

lowery and milsap good picks, favors emergent

lol no

maybe lowry was rumored to be close to being traded to NY a few years ago or something

xp yep

kevin is such a messy bitch that he rewrites players' careers

love the trade drama

jj red dick on his podcast was talking about the trade deadline w/ lowry iirc about that near trade and trade deadline in general, that podcast is genuinely interesting w/ the right guest, dudes are definitely more open and casual.

draymond was fun on simmons podcast also, dude reminded me ALOT of barkley

According to several reports, the Knicks were prepared to trade Raymond Felton and Metta World Peace plus Iman Shumpert or Tim Hardaway Jr. or a 2018 first-round pick. The Raptors preferred the first-round pick, but Dolan — who negotiated the Carmelo Anthony trade with Raptors GM Masai Ujiri when Ujiri was with the Denver Nuggets — got cold feet about trading a future asset. That could open the door for the Brooklyn Nets to acquire Lowry instead.

hah of course dolan vetos a home run trade

huh wait who am i thinking of lol

― k3vin k., Monday, April 18, 2016 3:34 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

u r talking about fat raymond felton maybe?

knicks will never be good as long as dolan owns the team, irrefutable fact

lol xp

truuuu

_the bay is kinda funny for the strength of its intra regional grudges, like ppl dont even acknowledge that sf is obvs the city at the center of the metro region lol_

Santa Clara 49ers lol

raymond felton always is booed in Portland. it's the least we can do.

hah

becoming a jonas fan

hes good

looks exactly like a dude i play pickup ball with. told him about it and he had no clue who i was talking about of course

myles turner man

kinda loving the toronto broadcast team

ya jack armstrongs my fav

every team shd just get gritty old school coaches w accents for their color commentators imo

Worst skill to fame ratio might be Gordon Hayward? Except maybe when he almost beat duke in college but I bet most casuals would assume he just disappeared after college

goon otm re color commentators- tommy point

:]

jonas w ~20/10 at the half

man the raptors controlled that first half and are only up by 5

lowry and derozan combines 3-18 so far wtffffffff

indy D doing a number on them gonna have to figure out how to take advantage of that attention

theyve both had some good looks tho

they're jordan spieth'ing all over the court

yeah feel like its one of those situations where when youre going against such good D that even when u get a good look youre out of rhythm and shook

agree mostly but the track record says otherwise

Which Jonas are we talking about again?

http://img2-1.timeinc.net/people/i/2013/news/131111/jonas-brothers-600.jpg

the fourth jobro

http://i.imgur.com/plt8bhP.png

i made a gif for you guys, might be handy during the finals

https://media.giphy.com/media/QeNiX0vAo4epq/giphy.gif

lol yess i love that clip

Bless

derozan pooped another game, maybe if the raps can hold this 19 pt lead for the remaining 4 mins and at least prevent the sweep he will stop playing so shook

5/18 after 5/19 in game 1

Maybe his house is haunted or something

well at least the raps can't get swept again

dwill visibly hobbling, mavs down only 6 for the moment but looks like it's about to go off the rails

devin harris just boxed kanter out yess

this is heroic stuff from the mavs

yeah, so many "who the fuck is that" dudes on this team but they are tryina steal one

im not feeling this year's okc team at all

like durant is leaving, right?

curry's sitting tonight

sit him for this series imo

salah mejri mvp of this game

westbrook...

this game should could as two losses for OKC

Rayray has 11 boards

xp this is apparently the most shots Durant has missed in a playoff game

raymond felton putting up 21 and 11 boards and slashing to the rim for the go ahead basket with 30 seconds left triggers the double loss rule

it's got to be in the bylaws somewhere

wow durant just doesn't have his shot tonight huh

or that

kd whats up lol

live by the felton die by the felton

oh my god that's an impossibly brutal loss

oh wait he didn't get it off

a brutal loss for okc

Omggggg

no good!

justice

felton wanted no part of those fts, yeesh

hahah that last one was like yakety sax wacky free throw shooting

lol in spite of felton's apocalyptical choke

live by the felton die by the felton

still applies with equal force. two missed free throws with the game on the line.

felton missing two and giving okc like 4 shots at the basket idk man both teams get a loss imo

omg i saw the ball in adams' hand when the lights went off im like wow all these okc fans are fixing to be crestfallen tonight

felton wanted no part of those fts, yeesh

― call all destroyer, Monday, April 18, 2016 10:40 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol ya look his face when he was shooting was insane

this felt like a fuckin college game. wacky finish, missed ft's, scores in the 80s, billy donovan, okc is a small city, all the weed smoke in the air

xxp lmao for real

but then okc loses on back2back westbrook n kd missed layups ha

durant was 7/33 :O~

im not feeling this year's okc team at all

― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Monday, April 18, 2016 10:10 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbrr i haven't been feeling them for about 4 years

that footage of waiters just lying on the court and barely standing up while the final play goes down is soooooo dion in a nutshell

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgX2wDAUYAAxdma.jpg

hello darkness my old friend

hahah that last one was like yakety sax wacky free throw shooting

lol

OKC's 15th loss when leading in the 4th quarter this season

good job good effort

so not watching the stephless warriors sloppily beat the rockets by 6

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O0J5XkHBRGA/maxresdefault.jpg

just want to have it here for posterity that i tried to sign up for a shadow bovada account with my girlfriend's address so i could put 300 bucks on the rockets money line +340 but my bank wouldn't approve the deposit

sitting your best player in the playoffs is the ultimate sign of disrespect if the rockets don't win tonight the series should end

willing to take yr action kev for a small fee

https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/722255464390660096

lol i swear sometimes NBA players try to come as close as they can without getting a backcourt with some of these passes in semi-transition

the dumbest thing is still the thunder hiring a college coach to come in and revamp an nba offense in the testy contract year of one of the greatest basketball players ever

a slap in the face to kd

lol did you guys see the thing where the wizards were looking at scott brooks to try to lure KD

a tale of ingenious organizations

wizards FO sure seems to have it together xp

well good thing i didn't make that bet

k love using chocolate milk as a workout drink? no wonder he's trash

backed by "science"

from bovine university no doubt

srsrly apologizing in advance abt this guys but choco milk is actually a good post workout drink

draymond is a nightmare matchup for harden when he switches onto him

no it isnt, it is a child's post-playdate drink, children do not workout because there is nothing to workout, they have many years to work in the future, plz stop forcing the toil of work onto children

xp

sry children have to work otherwise its communism, choco milk = freedom drink

harden probably needs to play the rest of the game for them to have a shot

sry children have to work otherwise its communism, choco milk = freedom drink

― lag∞n, Monday, April 18, 2016 10:17 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

god, fuck u dude, im sick of this bullshit

lmao i cant even pretend to mad at you lagoon

bless u

wow they took harden out with 3 fouls why

unfair to play harden while stephs out

harden w 4 from the field and 9 from the line in this first half, and draymond just fouled him for 3 smh at this game

Dwight is ready for summer

Hardens defensive highlights from the first half were incredible

Lol that lob from harden to howard

Looking like #playoffbarnes is dead

We might see an ISO defense lowlight reel of harden from tonight's game

The rockets really should have just tanked to keep their pick

Shaq already did at halftime but there's more to add to it since of course xp

Man Dwight got pppppwned this game

this rockets team might be my most hated team (non-cultural bias division) in NBA history. I just can't stand a single thing about them.

they make me laugh, they have that going for them

For me it's hard to hate a team that's so apathetic. Clips much more hateable imo

Jeff Zillgitt ‏@JeffZillgitt 17 minutes ago
NBA sixth man of the year voting, top five:
Jamal Crawford, 341 points
Andre Iguodala, 288
Enes Kanter, 182
Will Barton, 158
Evan Turner, 46

just......lol

meatwad got robbed

wtf

did they mix up some of the ballots from 2012

its very important to have a replacement level player as your 6th man if you want to win big im glad the voters have shown us the light

it's a basic numbers based award, i get that, but even using basic shit, j-crossover averaged 14-2-2 with at least a turnover a game. per 36 he was 19-3-3 with 2 turnovers, which still ain't that great considering how one-dimensional he is

lol he's -0.3 by VORP

yeah he basically only has PPG and he scored them inefficiently too (.400 FG%, .340 from 3). barton has the same PPG with 3x the rebounds/assists and better defense

ban the 6th man award

need a 7th man award

give it to jelly k

in other stupidity-related news:

Jon Krawczynski @APkrawczynski
AP Source: The Timberwolves will interview former Warriors coach and ESPN analyst Mark Jackson for the coaching job

Wow iggy got robbed

i could see that one working actually

Hard to imagine KG getting along with Jackson.

hire kg

did anyone post this already? bizarre

https://twitter.com/royceyoung/status/722215906869248000

twolves should have plenty of options, that's an attractive team to be part of going forward

I would love to see KG coach for real

Plus there'd always be the chance of him in a suit clapping and woofing at the opposing coach

did anyone post this already? bizarre

https://twitter.com/royceyoung/status/722215906869248000

― Better Pau Gasol (Spottie), Tuesday, April 19, 2016 12:12 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

extremely odd

i just saw a gif of #hardendefense from the 2014 playoffs, someone passes a ball right past him and he sort of turns and paws gently at it like he's sitting on a couch, trying to pet a dog running past, but he doesn't really want to lean too far forward because it's so comfortable where he's at. then it leads to a basket and he just literally scratches his head like, "huh weird." i find it difficult to believe he's that uncoachable that he can't learn effort (if not effectiveness.)

ha yea saw that last night xp

westbrook just like gtfo the way

here was shaqs harden d first half highlights, right after he said harden has zero leadership skills
https://twitter.com/Shaqtin_A_Fool/status/722280014180454400

another view of that one on one d vs barnes haha
https://twitter.com/Gregzy/status/722258148887814144

this was the best tho, rockets had kinda cut into the lead a bit then this
https://twitter.com/World_Wide_Wob/status/722289863463149568