(((( Warriors vs. Cavaliers |||| 2018 NBA Finals |||| Round 4 ))))

Cavs in 7, or GSW in 4. I’m debating with myself.

Dubs were often terrifyingly creaky and saved by a number of fireball third quarters vs rockets and the cavs are worse but I will put nothing past lebron until he is officially retired which rules out a sweep

Unless two or more of their starting five can't play, due to injury, illness or nut-hunting, GSW has this. We all know it.

warriors in 4, just try to figure out the matchups from cleves pov you cant they literally have no one to defend any of the dubs big 3, cleve cld win game 4 i guess if the dubs decide to let them

Dubs were often terrifyingly creaky and saved by a number of fireball third quarters vs rockets and the cavs are worse but I will put nothing past lebron until he is officially retired which rules out a sweep

― gritty tigger reboot (agent hibachi), Wednesday, May 30, 2018 10:00 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that was the first time theyve been tested since Durant signing. And the rockets were built to beat them, and they should/could have. The cavs without Kyrie dont instill much fear but it's possible the warriors take it easy thinking they already passed the hard test. Cavs have to take game 1 to have a chance. If they dont, then they take game 3 and that's it imo. If Iggy is back and looks normal then I think this is a sweep.

when i actually cast my vote it's hard for me as a cle homer to vote anything besides a cavs win but i'm not optimistic at all, this cavs team isn't very good.

agree w/ agent hibachi tho i don't think it will be a GSW sweep, lebron will get at least one or two games, anything beyond that will require massive efforts from the rest of the cavs and i just don't see that happening. korver and love might light up for a couple games. jr is probably gonna be shit. would be cool to see tristan out-rebound steph unlike last time lol

I think Warriors in 5 or 6.

Lebron to get first finals MVP on a losing team since Jerry West.

if he didnt get it in 2015 it's not gonna happen no matter what he does

(in a loss, of course)

i say warriors in 6 tho i think i accidentally voted cavs in 6... cavs almost won both home games last year & tho they're worse now i think the warriors just seem ragged and out of sorts, and have actual structural problems w/ igou hurt.

warriors have more players they can play in this series. i think they might even go to zaza to start who generally does a great job vs TT

dubs in 4

There hasn’t been a sweep in the finals in 11 years, although last year was close. I would think that the Cavs could win at least one game.

Famous last words.

it won't be a sweep

it might be, but dubs in 5 is probably the safest bet

I’ll go dubs in 6 to account for the lebron goes bananas game and the up 3-1 dubs don’t bother taking care of the ball and three random cavs have great games and they drop one before closing it out game

Let’s guess brons stat line averages I’m going 37-10-8

iggy out game 1

Groundhog Day finals

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/nbaplayoffpreview23646470/warriors-versus-cavaliers-biggest-mismatch-modern-finals-history

There hasn’t been a sweep in the finals in 11 years, although last year was close. I would think that the Cavs could win at least one game.

Famous last words.

― Jeff, Wednesday, May 30, 2018 2:39 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark

it was closer to being a 6 game series than a sweep actually

yeah

Close in the sense that it was 3-0.

Not the closeness of any of the games.

cavs choked away game 3, easily cldve been 2-2 going back to oakland

Then it wouldn’t have been close, it would have been far. Close is when one team is on the verge of sweeping, which the warriors were for the time between game 3 and game 4. That is my definition of close. Let’s go to the replay.

Warriors in 7 if Iggy doesn't play. If he plays everything except game one, then Warriors in 6.

The normal NBA fix--who knows who they'll suspend for a game this year!--and LeBron going beast means that there will not be a sweep.

dubs in 2

remember how the cavs had deron williiams last year taking up minutes in the finals? never seent anyone more shook in my life.

honestly i feel like maybe dubs in 1 or 0

i don't even remember who deron williams is

yeah i was hedging bc its good to be conservative abt these things but i agree dubs in 0 xp

Number of full days off for the Warriors between the last game of the West Finals and Game 1 of the NBA Finals:
-2015 = 7
-2016= 2
-2017 = 9
-2018 = 2

— Drew Shiller (@DrewShiller) May 30, 2018

that's settles it then cavs in 7

agree

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Chris Herring... thank you

there are more brave posters on ilh than all of espn

thank you for the recognition

For LeBron to win MVP the Cavs would have to take it to at least 6 games, maybe 7

The only way Lebron wins an MVP is if KD completely shits the bed, and the chances of that are vanishingly small.
It was plausible before KD arrived cause Lebron had no direct matchup in the series you could point to. Now he has to at least appear to shut down KD and be monstrouson offense.

i predict Klay will be finals mvp this time

is draymond still good

yes

damn ok

steph?

durant?

lemme just ask are all the warriors still good

only those 3

klay is good too though huh

he's okay

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-icjbwDYOBUM/WTs0-eJwcdI/AAAAAAAAUDw/R2Xml9GCtZEHzsjQi4A7Q7q9xrtuzc9uQCLcB/s1600/ImpartialElderlyJapanesebeetle.gif

heh

k love is available to play tonight

good

I’d like to see Love win MVP.

id like to see one million dollars that belongs to me haha

That is probably more likely.

this is v important reporting imo:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-kevin-durants-shoes-keep-falling-off/

needs to wear these shits

https://i.imgur.com/EBrpuz6.png

lmao otm

problem solved

important article for lags https://www.wsj.com/articles/klay-thompson-chess-magnus-carlsen-warriors-1527694936

carlsen was at a celtics playoff game this year

when u think about it chess is like ball for ur brain

― 龜, Thursday, May 31, 2018 2:25 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark

otm

not my brain

And so to achieve that featherweight feeling, Durant wears a size-18 while on the court — one full size bigger than what he wears when in casual settings.

hah this is the exact opposite of gilbert arenas wearing shoes that were too small so they wouldn't look too big on TV

Kevin Durant loses his shoes more than any player in NBA history.

citation needed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOZtzz_4-OA

do not show me this

that's both dumb and poorly done.

thinking about watching the nba finals

it's appointment viewing

From a ticket broker friend: Game 1 of the NBA Finals is going for less than face value tonite. Can barely give tix away. Series is ice cold.
Not too surprising, but still.

— Gill Alexander (@beatingthebook) May 31, 2018

wanna see some "lebron james" and some "stephen curry"

please do not show me "kevin durant"

good start to this game!

JR hunting for kneecaps and ACLs

everyone at the nba finals has died

nick young mvp i'm calling it

You mean Swaggart Percival "Nick" Young?

"it's jordan clarkson time" -jordan clarkson

Nance playing well

Clarkson tho :(

Clarkson looks like a little boy out there

kevin durant is bad now huh

lol never mind

lol ok dray

what a shot by Steph

Yea that was nuts, curry playing so well tonight

pretty good half from this lebron james guy

Dubs by 20

More like Javale McGreat.

good game so far!

Cavs kinda...weathering the storm huh?

lebron james

clarkson is bad

when was the last time James wasn't the best player in a nba finals game?

god it would be so good if the Cavs could steal this

when was the last time James wasn't the best player in a nba finals game?

this Larry obrien trophy "I'm why" nba ad is awful

heh lebron just did a steph shot

also that year vs the mavs xps

lebron's always been the best player in the finals but he's had bad individual games idk what you mean

really good game

damn this is spicy

lebron james

missed 3/4s of the game so i'm excited for the breakdowns of how the cavs have kept it close

oh my god Lebron

lemme recap first the cavs lebron james then they lebron james followed by a series of leberon james then they passed out of a lebron james into a lebbron james

^^

lol fair but more curious about the warriors side of things and how they haven't exactly lit it up

that is a mfin block

nah its a charge

block imo

yup

god damn what an amazing drive + finish

no pressure

oh my goodness

What was JR doing?

fuckin JR

JR YOU IDIOT!!!!!!!!

didn't know the score

lmao

what a bummer

i think i gave him the benefit of the doubt but i've been drinking wine for most of the night

think he mouthed 'i thought we were ahead' lmao

Clarkson would have shot it.

— Haralabos Voulgaris (@haralabob) June 1, 2018

thats our JR!!

what an incredible way to blow a finals game as a 13 point underdog

I don't ask for much but please let history remember this as "J.R.'s Boner."

— Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) June 1, 2018

God bless jr Smith

think he mouthed 'i thought we were ahead' lmao

― johnny crunch, Thursday, May 31, 2018 8:28 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he absolutely did exactly this

fyi i still hate the warriors

think I'm done with JR

i thought they were ahead too but i'm pretty baked

damn big ot for draymo

JR’s like, “No problem. I’ll hit a 9-pointer, and this ******** is all tied up again. BK

— Kamenetzky Brothers (@KamBrothers) June 1, 2018

Klay’s good

this game is incredible

Amazing

LeBron must be wondering what he needs to do to win a freaking game.

TT gonna get a game for that

I don't even know what he did?

Why did he get thrown out that was weird

he threw a weak-ass high forearm at livingston i guess b/c livingston shot the ball

Oh he threw a bow at Shaun

i have no idea why he got thrown out for that

Not an ejectable offense at all

i think it must have looked bad from whatever angle the ref was at but said ref was wayyy too trigger happy

Yup. Should be rescinded

i hope the rest of the series ppl only talk about how amazing lebron is as the warriors win every game

Draymond and perk talking trash was hilarious

I extremely identify with klay in that little trash talking exchange

I see why brothers threw TT out, but the fact that he actually missed him with the elbow makes it a little awkward

Lol xp otm

Kd giving up that rebound to jr oof. Hill looked really shook between FT one and two

So many moments in that game tbf. Great entertainment

https://scontent.fvix2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/34124932_1948778358467110_5120825121166065664_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&_nc_eui2=AeFKWWJvfS4myMBYX_FDGUmqRPn5ZWqCa9TTlijpzQoGtjuJBGMnajn6YM2zgoMHeYH0m_3hGuefG2iN_0r1SagyOd3KmkzY9k1u6jm-QRlZyQ&oh=0519302c7aabe4de8ab27f8890bb9a21&oe=5B76290A

javie is out of his mind, man

JR basically just pulled a starlord

ty lue otm, reviewing that charge was pretty suspect (even if they did make the right call in the end)

"it aint right, it aint right" tyronn lue at the podium

kinda sad imo
absolutely clueless

Well anyone on the team coulda called a timeout too so blame can be shared

lebron did seem to be calling a timeout just before JR passed it to hill, I was kind of wondering why no one was talking about it

after i say lol jr just wanted to add that its starting to drive me crazy how enthusiastically wrong van gundy and jackson get so many calls even after watching multiple replays, like that was such an obvs block on bron he just threw himself shoulder first into the play but they were convinced it was a charge, they do this every game and i dont know why

yeah it's infuriating

Their rants are annoying and yah so often offtm

that jr play tho wow lol

loved how he just immediately admitted to not knowing the score too

not knowing the score there is just incredible like how are you not thinking to yrself if he makes this were ahead its just the natural thought process for any human

its pretty funny that lebron the basketball genius has been forced to play with him for the last 4 years

——-forced—— to give him a big ass contract more like

Warriors rebounding was embarrassing tonight, again. KD played so poorly I can’t figure out what’s going on w him. His stats look fine but man idk

uhh

Ty Lue just went on the podium and said JR told him he thought they were up one and was trying to run the clock out https://t.co/PvJgu1dh9c

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) June 1, 2018

JR Smith: "I was trying to get enough to bring it out to get a shot off. I knew we were tied, I thought we were going to call timeout. If I thought we were ahead, I'd have held onto the ball and let them foul me."

— Brian Windhorst (@WindhorstESPN) June 1, 2018

What channel are the pressers on why aren’t they on nbatv?

idk not watching

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

On espn2 apparently and I’m being forced to listen to Ryan Hollins analysis between podium appearances wtffffff

New nba finals logo is a travesty btw.

Chris Paul is texting Lebron “I knew the game was tied”

— Colin Cowherd (@ColinCowherd) June 1, 2018

Lmao

tfw you tell on yourself

Tristan Thompson said he didn't think it was appropriate for Shaun Livingston to take that shot with the time & score so he contested it. Said he wasn't attempting to flagrant foul, was surprised he got a flagrant-2.

— Brian Windhorst (@WindhorstESPN) June 1, 2018

Unreal

lol @ that cowherd tweet

New nba finals logo is a travesty btw.

― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Friday, June 1, 2018 12:42 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just awful

Draymond was a liiiiiiiittle too fired up I could see another scenario where he gets goaded into doing something dumb again.

lol fair but more curious about the warriors side of things and how they haven't exactly lit it up

Lebro not having it at all in this presser

Lmao he just walked off after being asked about jr multiple times

LeBron walks off the podium after an exchange with a reporter about JR Smith, tells him to “be better tomorrow"

man these refs are fucked

lmao

#NBAFinals pic.twitter.com/A1UPKNEzRQ

— Nat (@natt0) June 1, 2018

fuckin hell cavs shoulda had that game

“We know that, in the situations, OK, we’d like to get the ball up to the basket in a tie game prior to the buzzer sounding. What we have here is a young man grabbing an offensive rebound and running very quickly in the incorrect direction. This is not ideal.” pic.twitter.com/WObIAYSE6l

— Matthew R Tynan (@Matthew_Tynan) June 1, 2018

every single front page post on deadspin is about LeBron lmao

hard to feel bad for a supernaturally gifted athlete who is gonna make a half-billion dollars and go down as the greatest to ever play but god damn I really do in this moment

We’ve all had to deal with coworkers making stupid mistakes and not being good at their job. What can you do!

I feel bad for LeBron. And him icing his knees after all these playoff games whether his team wins or loses...it's eerily reminiscent of the way Jordan was at the end of his career. Except of course the look in his eyes is one that he will never match Jordan's titles and therefore, will never be able to outright claim GOAT.

But when I start feeling bad for LeBron then I start to wonder what the hell happened between him and Kyrie.

ppl focusing on officiating dont really understand the game

Is this the real reason why Cavs lost the game? pic.twitter.com/acgtc431gY

— Kontra (@counternotions) June 1, 2018

wow

hard to feel bad for a supernaturally gifted athlete who is gonna make a half-billion dollars and go down as the greatest to ever play but god damn I really do in this moment

― frogbs, Friday, June 1, 2018 9:36 AM (three hours ago)

tough out there when you get to choose your conference, your team, your coach, and your teammates

let us pray

The officiating in the Finals always includes some very bad calls and a whole lot of inconsistency. This is normal and should be expected. The trick for the players is to shrug it off, keep their head in the game, and play as hard as they know how. The trick for the fans is, uh, it makes no difference what the fans think of the officiating.

pic.twitter.com/9CmgyUUeFc

— Jon Bois (@jon_bois) June 1, 2018

curry had some really great passes last night.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DelseqrVMAAGr8u.jpg:large

lol great phot

The internet is absolutely amazing pic.twitter.com/cvizzJnhzh

— FOST (@GeorgeFoster72) June 1, 2018

Warriors taking the “3-1” joke and making it their Finals record vs. Cleveland will go down as one of the most devastating counterpunches in internet history

— Rob Perez (@World_Wide_Wob) June 1, 2018

nice.

no love suspension or tt

Tristan Thompson avoids suspension but is fined https://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/10027406093905592325,000 for his role in altercation with Draymond Green. Huge break for Cavs.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) June 2, 2018

now dray can go nut-hunting and see if they just fine him. cuz he'd be just fine with that.

could probably get away with slamming the ball into tt's nuts, at the very least.

pretty funny the league decided to ignore the rules because ratings

yah im sure they woulda done the same if the roles were reversed ...

No fine for Lue surprised me more.

https://i.imgur.com/dJovFQs.png

what was that thread called

wait why is there no game tonight im mad

"this expression"

his face looks too small for his head in that pic

Saturday night NBA finals games would be so awesome. #staurdaynightsalright4hoistin'

^^^gets it

I vote nba goes to a medal system and we see losers of conference finals duke it out for the bronze.

i dont think the nba needs more games lol

#staurdaynightsalright4hoistin'

yes

really cant be said enough

LeBron going for 51-8-8 in Iguodala’s absence last night reminded me of what a friend says a lot.

Iggy won Finals MVP in 2015 largely for “holding” LeBron to a 36-13-9 average. We’ve never seen anything like LeBron.

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) June 1, 2018

While he watches the action, McCutchen is on his personal device, logged into a Slack channel on which he discusses impressions of the referees' performance with a group that includes the league's new senior vice president and head of referee operations, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson, and the league's five developmental advisers, all retired officials.

anyway good article http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23680154/crucial-calls-nba-refs-make-biggest-stage

The beautiful, sublime Cavs hanging in there.

Ty Lur doesn’t get enough credit for continuing to coach a team that almost literally killed him.

lebron “making the right play” when “the right play” is passing the ball out of the paint to an unguarded jeff green for a corner 3 is not the right play

lebron “making the right play” when “the right play” is passing the ball out of the paint to an unguarded jeff green for a corner 3 is not the right play

― J0rdan S., Sunday, June 3, 2018 8:53 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nickyoung.gif

why are the cavs trying to feed the ball to tristan thompson...............................................................................

Jordan Clarkson's last assist came at 6:16 left in the 4th quarter in Game 4 ... against Toronto.

Since:
113 minutes
39 points
28.5 FG%
16-56 FG
6-21 FG from 3
2 turnovers, 1 FTA
0 assists

— Tom Haberstroh (@tomhaberstroh) June 4, 2018

bron’s legs look dead

Green, Curry, Durant, Klay, McGee too good for these Cavs.

Dubs not switching so easily on lebrons first screen is proving to be worthwhile. Feels like curry has only had to guard Bron a couple times.

Cavs hanging around

Oracle is so lifeless

Yikes at that missed call

yeah Oracle seems more into booing LeBron than celebrating 3s.

there’s been like 8 moments in this quarter where it’s seemed like the cavs were gonna make a run but then the warriors score

how the fuck do three refs miss lebron fucking james getting undercut by two guys?

for a game that's technically within reach this has been dull af

david west making a 3 the possession after jeff green misses a 3 is a tidy summation of why the problem with this series

Refs are bad

i’ve kind of enjoyed this game i just wish the cavs could actually get it to 1-3 points instead of 7-10

steph is unreal

Really nice Livingston game. That lefty scoop layup in the first half was so smooth

lebron in the last 3 finals is as high a level as you can play all around 2 way basketball imo

we need gifs of those smug warriors fans.

Just google “Bay Area billionaires”

mathematically steph’s shooting is the most killer weapon in basketball but lebron is just jaw dropping for 48 mins every game

Knew that was going in.

He wants the MVP.

when steph plays like this he’s broken basketball

Currrrrrry

this is a “best team ever” type performance tho honestly “finals lebron with a team that could make an open 3 pointer” might be better

lol

bron is the goat tbh

Giving Lue an earful there

all the warriors love to do the no look between the legs backwards pass

Steph is not winning MVP when he still can’t make a layup and KD continues to play like, well, KD.

He’s shooting like 70% in the paint in the playoffs

Kd has his bounce back this game tho. Much better rebounding and effort on D.

I also think we’ll start hearing round two of Lebron should be MVP win or lose takes soon.

Holy moly, the aim on this LeBron pass is unreal. He couldn't have handed it to him in a better spot. pic.twitter.com/EFSvntJ0rb

— Cork Gaines (@CorkGaines) June 4, 2018

Did it ever happen in the NBA?

xpost

im sorry but this is disqualifying

I know LeBron is a great basketball player and all. But sitting on another man’s lap and using him as a chair is simply disrespectful pic.twitter.com/tcoyOKzcVj

— Clemquon (@TheClemReport) June 4, 2018

i cant believe we're just two games away from lebron coming to san antonio

bron shd start his own league thats just him playing one on one vs mario chalmers

I also think we’ll start hearing round two of Lebron should be MVP win or lose takes soon.

― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, June 3, 2018 10:44 PM (twenty-six minutes ago)

nah. the series has to be close for this to happen

wld be really funny if the cavs got swept and bron got the mvp cause of how rude to the rest of the cavs

i mean in last year finals he was the best player

lol watching the highlights of the 2015 finals at oracle arena, the difference between that crowd and the present one is just like gentrification.

its sad the warriors had such a great old school crowd of real basketball fans who are not billionaires before they got good

I'm glad this series is prob over because I was worried about whom I'd root for if it were close...I'd love to see the warriors lose and bron add to his GOAT resume, but then again if bron loses he might go to the rockets, so...

lebron shd not go to the rockets and kevin durant shd retire just my two cents

wow guess you hate chris paul and want him to fail

even the 2015 oakland crowd is like insanely wealthy compared to the even 6-8 years before that, it's too bad america is bad now

Just wait til they move to SF.

2007 we believe dubs round 1 vs Dallas was peak Oracle crowd. Prob peak any crowd ever

i mean in last year finals he was the best player

durant had a better finals than lebron this year

lebron’s been the best player in this series by far tho imo

He was just normal good tonight. Game one was goat material

lebron shd not go to the rockets and kevin durant shd retire just my two cents

― sprout god (lag∞n), Sunday, June 3, 2018 10:26 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa whoa kd can stay, but you're right about lebron not going to houston, feel like if he stays on I-10 for few more hours he can get the best breakfast tacos and play for an actually good organization hmm hmm

Glad to see it's settled. Bron to the Pels. Triple towers.

lmao nah b

boogie, brow, bron to spurs confirmed

This is heartbreaking! Long uncut footage of LeBron, JR Smith & George Hill after Smith's mistake in Game 1. pic.twitter.com/MplQoAkk0a

— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) June 4, 2018

about 1:40 lebron finds out they still had a timeout

gotta know the timeouts bron lol

hoops IQ three most important words:

TIME(outs) AND SCORE

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/5/31/17412198/lebron-james-finals-teammate-power-rankings

^ I found that amusing, especially the reference to Super-Soakers full of urine.

i was gonna make some Gaga Patchouli joke but nah

Mark Titus is usually amusing. Interesting guy.

i was gonna make some Gaga Patchouli joke but nah

― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, June 5, 2018 1:44 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you showed remarkable restraint

last year game 3 produced KD's dagger 3 to seal the game. who ya got tonight?

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23715205/golden-state-coach-steve-kerr-believes-there-good-chance-swingman-andre-iguodala-play-game-3-nba-finals

i think the cavs win tonight. we might finally get the rodney hood game

This has to be one of the last game for Lue as coach of the Cavs.

what a fantastic national anthem

That lebron self alley oop was dope

Yes it was wow

Cavs look energized

No matter what happens next we will have those openings minutes of game 3 to remember.

imagine how many points a game steph would score if he played james harden's game

better handle
better 3 point shot
better finisher

harden is probably the better passer and foul drawer

Dray not gonna make it through this game

yea he is revved up

that angry walk by Dray was hilarious and vmic

Lol hood welcome to the playoffs now you guard kd good luck

That lead didn’t last long

Yah kev crazy to think about curry under dantoni but then I just think hmm probably wouldn’t work well in the playoffs and Curry’s body would break down.

Dubs came back once Dray sat down.

Don’t think d West should be playing any more this season

He's bad.

These Kerr 3 non shooter lineups are just complete head scratchers

Draymond Green could punch someone and they still wouldn’t give him a second tech.

sup snrub!

Rims got a lid on both sides

Lebrons ankles are made of titanium

Splash bros 2/14 yikes

Love not hesitating.

dubs are gonna tie it up by halftime arent they

Lebrons ankles are made of titanium

I blame the lavender shoes for that ankle roll

Kdddddd

Referee home cooking worst than in the first game

get the feeling that iguodala's knee is multicolor blinking TMNT boss style underneath the sleeve

anyone knows the name of that funk disco track used right before the commercials?

Cavs still without a free throw attempt.

And yet they still won the ref battle in the 1st half!

anyone knows the name of that funk disco track used right before the commercials?

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, June 6, 2018 9:14 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that was THA GOD barry white's "you're the first, the last, my everything"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfxZRBm3EY

my annual reminder that barry white was a fucking genius who shit hits

oh man thanks!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdUMIfWO8LA

BASKETBALL IS ALMOST OVER, BUT THERE WILL ALWAYS BE BARRY WHITE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzGpjbk1kdk

CLEVELAND IS UP 5, BUT BARRY WHITE IS UP...IN HEAVEN, SINGING ALL-TIME LOVE JAMS FOR JESUS

life about to come out of this stadium

Kevin Durant is a good basketball player

just got home and catching up and omg halfway through the first and draymond is just out of this world mad

also after that lebron self-oop I was like “LeBron James”

totally fine with turning this into a barry white thread

Wow TT finish was mad nice

totally fine with turning this into a barry white thread

― k3vin k., Wednesday, June 6, 2018 9:33 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2zBvX89hV0

U GOT IT CUZ, U READY TO CRY IN THE CLUB? THIS IS THE CAVS VERY SOON BECAUSE THEY ARE LOSING THIS SUCKER QUICK.

I don't think you deserve to win the finals if you can't find a solution for McGee over multiple games.

wow Cavs actually withstood the onslaught

and Curry seems to be out? there's hope!

bison i got deep into barry white two summers ago and i v clearly remember reading your posts on barry white threads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00OfUWE7Z1g

yeah Curry's out but Durant is having an insane game

curry is on the court but he is also out

man Cavs cannot get a roll

xp to marcos
heart emojis

kinda feels like another heartbreaking loss incoming

We can only hope

there is a positive relationship between the heartbreakiness of the cavs loss and the likelihood of lebron coming to san antonio, so i pray for heartbreak, it is my deal with hoops satan

Omg

ugh fuck the warriors

total assassination by kd

warriors are bad for the nba

but lol at steph’s numbers

yea I wanna be in awe of what they're doing but then I remember that one of the best players to ever hit free agency joined a 73-9 team

congrats Spottie on championship

durant clearly cares a lot abt what people think abt him and going to the warriors didnt totally fulfill what he was looking for since he's still getting heat for hopping on a historically great team but he's not gonna leave GS so he's just stuck being a victim of his own success *tony montana pic meme*

anyway that man is cold af, what a shot

Kd too good. Pulling it out with such a bad shooting night from the slash bros is crazy

scoring 43 pts when no one else on his team scored more than 11 will heal a few scars

bron to warriors confirmed

any player in their right mind would have joined the warriors, not going to be mad at durant for that.

Gracious of KD to call Steph's one 3 "momentum-changing."

i don't have any particular feelings about kd but my god he was utterly filthy in that game; unimpeachable performance

could it just be that basketball is more prone to dynasties of the sort? once you get a really good player on your roster you are just that better than the other team, so it compounds pretty well if you have several top tier talent.

kd did the same thing last year and even when steph was trash they treated him like their second best player

That shot by KD was one of the great mercy killings of all time.

basketball has had very few dynasties (or anything resembling, for example, the patriots). i hate the warriors but I’d be surprised if they win another championship without major changes to their current roster (like losing one of their primary four).

basically they should trade steph

lol these are terrible opinions

Huh?

if you can’t handle the heat get out of the kitchen

could it just be that basketball is more prone to dynasties of the sort? once you get a really good player on your roster you are just that better than the other team, so it compounds pretty well if you have several top tier talent.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:36 PM (eight minutes ago)

yes, longer contracts and the fact that the better teams almost always win the series

really don't see why the warriors couldn't return this same roster next year and coast to another title barring injury and assuming bron doesnt go to houston

All their main guys are in their prime besides andre

they got legitimately taken to 7 by houston, i don't think "coasting" is the right word.

that's the only moment during the entire season where they got any trouble really

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfDxusMVQAAbmTE.jpg:large

uh well well well that is spurs pg of the future DEJOUNTE MURRAY sitting behind lebron james hmmm

they def looked a little out of sorts for most of the houston series xps

xp well ok but it was an important moment. they could run back the same roster but that would be dumb and i'm pretty sure they know that.

warriors are favorites unless lebron goes to SA

like i realize im becoming the qualmsey of lebron to sa, but if i cant even get my ILH disciples to listen to my teachings, i think im going to have to mod harder with daily yellow carding, thread banning, calling you by your government names, whatever it takes til yall see lebron is confirmed to SA

Also as far as dominating for several seasons teams goes i'd rather watch beautiful shots by KD and Klay than Kobe and 'mamba mentality' and all that shit. That was bad for basketball.

im 100% on the Pop LeBron buddies detective tv series bandwagon m bison.

back to the important stuff, bise are you a teddy pendergrass fan?

In absolute terms, based solely on overall hoops excellence, the Warriors over the past 4 years have been better than any comparable 4 year run by any other NBA team ever. In relative terms, considering the general level of athleticism of each era, their only competition would be the Celtics dynasty when Bill Russell was at his peak.

lol speaking of the mamba lakers, we have a new temp at my place of work and he's like 22 and has an uncle from LA or something and gave me a bunch of stuff the other day re: how the gasol-kobe lakers would have absolutely dominated the warriors and also kobe is the GOAT and lebron is not even close and i was like wow kids these days

For anyone born in the latter half of the 80s that's what you had to deal every time you discussed basketball. So through that lens warriors is not really bad. It just so happens that their dominance is set against the hero of the story.

i was born well before the end of the 80's and i feel like i've been dealing with that story since before kobe was in the league!

Lebron James has finally clawed his way past Jordan on my all time best list. Kareem was not nearly as flashy as lbj or mj, but he may still have a tiny edge over LeBron for another season or two. Longevity counts. Kobe just isn't in that conversation.

back to the important stuff, bise are you a teddy pendergrass fan?

― Heez, Wednesday, June 6, 2018 10:54 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

vast majority of the teddy p stuff ive ever heard is when he was w harold melvin and the blue notes! he's on my to do list of ppl to dig deeper.

“basketball has had very few dynasties (or anything resembling, for example, the patriots). “

The f are u talking about

im 100% on the Pop LeBron buddies detective tv series bandwagon m bison.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, June 6, 2018 10:53 PM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfD25FNV4AYpp6v.jpg:large

coming soon to abc sundays

hmm a team that has done well every single year for a long time and has 5 titles nope can't think of one nothing like the patriots here

Certainly never anything like that in the history of nba

lol had the exact same thought

at least the basketball one hasn't had the same coach and same star player for that entire run...wait

to be fair the spurs are like the lawful good to patriots chaotic evil, so finding similarities in spirit is hard despite their similarities in numbers on paper

patriots are prob neutral evil imo

deflategate, also tom brady is a life cheater

also belichek's clothes are a crime

all of these things introduce chaos is what im saying

yeah but they're classic do whatever i can to win w/ no respect for the odds types. they're not 'just watch the world burn' types. that might be, idk, pete carroll? i do not know a whole lot about football anymore!

bball chaotic evil would be, uhh, isaiah GMing the knicks?

that's because football is bad, except for the eagles, who are good

truuuuuue

Raddest NBA Championship Team from the decade of the 1970s (CE)

go participate in the thread of the month

I cannot wait to start off the year yelling at the refs like a hobo on bath salts, so when i get in the playoffs they say “oh it’s just Channing”

— Channing Frye (@Channing_Frye) June 7, 2018

I thought he was talking about Bron til I read the comments.

bron is more of a whiner than a yeller

series has been way closer than i thought itd be but the cavs have still failed to win one game oh well

lmao channing

Very cool of LeBron to drop these first 3 games to add more drama to his upcoming 4-3 series win.

some stuff happened that happened before

https://i.imgur.com/cFEZRMB.png

prerecorded finals

when time becomes a loop

few dynasties lol this is a sport where the Celtics won 11 straight the lakers won five in a decade only really interrupted by a Celtics mini dynasty the bulls won 3+3 with a little break that barely counts the spurs dominated nearly an entirely decade and now the warriors will have won 3 out of 4 and only lost the one due to a superhuman effort from the 1 or 2 player of all time

^high praise for Kyrie

Lol

ToTN alert

"Tonight will be tough," said James, who scored 33 and rolled his right ankle in the first half. "Tomorrow I'll replay some plays and some moments and things of that nature.

still mad that it's not our board description

anyone else notice lebron switching out from guarding KD pretty much the whole 4th? seemed like a few time a warrior player would just kinda run by kd and not even bother to actually screen and they would still switch anyway.

teams switch with almost no provocation these days i dont quite understand it, maybe its just for simplicities sake

yeah i don’t really get it either

feel like it makes sense if you have a super switchy team a la the dubs or even the rockets, but the cavs....

seemed like a few time a warrior player would just kinda run by kd and not even bother to actually screen and they would still switch anyway.

― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Thursday, June 7, 2018 1:49 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark

this happened in the rockets series too and i didn't get it. just like, completely perfunctory screens to trigger switches. players on both teams just like... openly going thru the motions as fi there's no choice in the matter?

I'm sure they're coached to just switch and conserve energy

cavs are definitely coached to switch everything because they're not capable of doing anything more nuanced.

the warriors did this in game 1 and it turned into curry guarding lbj on like 75% of the plays. games 2-3 dray and kd have been fighting through it and it looks pretty effortless. also kd picking up bron at 3/4 court every once in a while is smart, making him work the whole game.

haaa

"Obviously we haven't had many playmakers throughout the course of the season. We had some early on, but we made the trades..." pic.twitter.com/vHMGh4WyI3

— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) June 7, 2018

given all the advances in NBA defenses over last 10 yrs or so, it is befuddling that they'd just roll over to what the offense wants to do so often

maybe that's what the defense wants to do!

yeah I guess I'd like to hear from coaches on why it's preferable to alternatives. Gotta think there'll be a sea change on that part of defense philosophy.

few dynasties lol this is a sport where the Celtics won 11

Are you 90?

The comparison I made, the Patriots, have been the favorite to win the Super Bowl in 12 of the past 16 seasons. That’s stupid.

They've only been pre-season favorites 8 times since 2001.

https://www.betlabssports.com/blog/preseason-super-bowl-odds-accurate/

LOL, OK. Only 8.

And I’ll never apologize for my takes. I’ll take them to the grave.

haha come on buddy the pats/spurs parallels are pretty undeniable, take your lumps like a man

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23707867/klay-thompson-glue-holds-golden-state-warriors-together-nba-finals

damn I kinda love klay

klay is the good warrior this isn't new

Klay is a legend

yup

his performance in game 6 of the houston series was magical. even beyond his shooting he seemed to be lifting the collective spirits of the whole team by just being bouncy and positive. truly a dude living his best life.

yeah def he was fired up makin stuff happen

i have become a basketball accelerationist and now want the dubs to win tonight

lol same

Welcome to the fold

According to NBA.com/Stats, James has had 26 possessions with Curry as his primary defender in the first three games of the Finals, almost nine per game. These possessions have come primarily toward the end of games, when James methodically slows the offense, points at Curry’s man, and calls for a screen, at which point the Warriors’ switching defense demands Curry switch onto James. In the 26 times this has happened,James has zero points. He’s taken five shots, missing all five, and he’s never been fouled in the act of shooting. This from a player averaging 37.7 points in the Finals—but, apparently, zero against Golden State’s worst defender.

worst defender? c'mon

in their starting lineup yeah

yeah but when Curry is on him the help defence has really had his back on those plays .

that's exactly what the article points out

in their starting lineup yeah

i'll take him over mcgee lol

fair, i meant to say the hamptons 5 or w/e since their starting lineup is different every other game or so.

that's exactly what the article points out

― they call me melo gelo (Spottie)

yeah i didn't read it

lol

whatever dude whatever

i have become a basketball accelerationist and now want the dubs to win tonight

― ciderpress, Friday, June 8, 2018 2:42 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the correct stance

Otm let's get this over and seee how the landscape changes for next year

actually it is not imo

Is too

let's push it to seven games baby

When would game 7 be anyway, August?

Yeah it’s a wrap. pic.twitter.com/TQKizA9e4S

— Leon (@chanelilys) June 7, 2018

Larry Bird is not helping Steph shoot.

Jesus hopped the c train

Still going with David west for some reason

Looking forward to LeBron getting a set of Kareem goggles to protect his eyes.

Every JR/Durant mismatch has my brain playing yakety sax.

This is a dull game. No one wants to be there except Javelle.

I want the Finals MVP to go to McGee for exactly that reason.

No need to watch anymore of this. See you next year bball. Go bulls.

Time for some Quinn Cook minutes

both teams played hard

yeah fuck kd seriously

aaand the cavs have left the building

rip basketball

you can say a lot about the cavs but you can’t say they didn’t play hard until the end

i mean.....3 or 4 cavs have played hard

kevin love def played hard

yeah kevin love has def played hard

Curry going for the fmvp but not sure it’s gonna be enough. Kd great teammate for getting him going this game you could tell he was hunting him in the first Half.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrOH-KHxXg0

if kd doesn’t win the mvp he should sign elsewhere in protest

Top ten presser all time xp

they're trying to let steph run it up here but i think i'd vote for kevin

larry nance is playing hard but unfortunately he sucks

hahaha fair

talk about a dude who got exposed when he had to play meaningful ball

jvg should use this time to advocate for making dunks count for 3

Kd stunk in game one but his numbers were ok-ish. Curry stunk last game shooting it and his numbers looked bad. I think Kd gets it again. Curry shoulda got it in 2015 tho.

So they gonna sit the starters or nah

kerr is not a dick. he will sit them.

like now lol

Nice of Van Gundy to pump up Ty Lue a couple of days before Lue gets fired.

congrats warriors fans! it was a good one.

to hell with owners they did nothing fuck em

seriously. i fucking hate that shit.

Uh guys I run a karaoke night on Fridays and Saturdays and uh

Channing Frye just walked in

Let us know what he sings

Reading rumors that Bron punched a whiteboard after game 1 and played w a serious bone bruise the rest of the series

thats what brian windhorst reported on espn

Juicy

congrats spottie and all dubs fans

i was wrong about a sweep. this series was bad and underwhelming

Thanks marcos! I thought 2 of the 4 games were really good.

I can report that some kid sang “that’s life” and dedicated it to lebron and Channing was dying of laughter

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

That’s the good reporting, Clay

omg clay

warriors were +50 in 197 minutes. it seemed closer but really it wasn't

game 1 was a legit great finals game but it was all downhill from there

sadly Channing left without singing and mostly seemed deeply embarrassed when his dudes came up to do like sweet caroline and don’t stop believing etc

Also yeah worst finals since the spurs and nets snoozefest all those years ago

LeBron kept the corpse animated right up to the Finals. Then JR drove a stake through its heart.

<3 Shaun

This was Shaun Livingston in 2008. He was recovering from perhaps the worst basketball injury ever. People thought he’d never play again. He was talking about where he’d be in 10 years.

It’s been 10 years.

He’s a 3x NBA champion. pic.twitter.com/vu6kpZuHt0

— Thomas Duffy (@TJDhoops) June 9, 2018

People are struggling with why this isn’t a travel, so I’ll explain:
His left is the pivot. He jumps just about off of both feet, but it would still be legal for him to lift off the right foot into the air. Not a travel as long as he releases the ball before left foot lands. pic.twitter.com/UFZm4xDMLG

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) June 7, 2018

honestly never understood this rule

My friend saw Javelle at Whole Foods tonight. He was wearing a Gucci fanny pack.

whoa there was a game on last night who won???

We all did

just ordered one of these shirts:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dfgh0TyU0AAn9RY.jpg

Kevin Durant struggles to open bottle of champagne, gets help (video) https://t.co/bOAqO5Dw4H

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) June 13, 2018