2015 nba finals: golden state warriors of oakland versus the cleveland cavaliers of cleveland

glazed donut ass face

it's still fairly mind boggling how thoroughly the heat got hit with a fucking freight train in those finals after basically coasting through the 'offs, only the two pauls of the east ever smacked them down during that time

and obv game 1 was mostly lost due to crampgate but 3 through 5 daaaaaamn

jordan not looking too prescient in that thread! lol

this thread title is as close as melo will ever get to the finals

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 3, 2014 9:45 AM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think this will hold up

almost definitely yea

playing a game in a sauna is innovative

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, June 5, 2014 11:00 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

forgot abt the broken ac!

i do wonder what would the series would have been like had the heat won game 1. oh well.

spurs wldve won in 6

i respect the cavs in five voters more than the dubs in six voters at least they stand for something

maybe it'll turn out they stand for being correct instead of wrong. only time will tell.

u shd prob just wait and see

why isn't it thursday this sucks

my work schedule lines up very nicely with the finals schedule, the basketball gods smile down on me

Bless

I think I voted gsw in 6 because it just seems like the most statistically likely outcome but I forgot to post my pick so I'm not sure. I know I think Lebron will straight up win one game with a berserk stat line but then...I can't figure how they win another game so I guess I should have voted gsw in 5!

I remembered the broken ac game the other day and the firestorm of media dumbness that followed

Dubs 5 dont remember if i actually voted so here's my vote thx

that said i dont care who wins. my great grandpa played ball on a team in some shithole cleveland area berg in the 20s as like a 6' center so i feel like i have a spiritual connect to the cavs but ultimately i just want a decent series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGQID66agH4

my ability to forgive steph for being the biggest dork in the world is limitless

wow

Steph is pure

Steph was born Akron IIRC.

ha what him and bron thats crazy

steph's 27, he seems so much younger

http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2015/story/_/id/12993098/nba-35-year-war-3-pointer

honestly a little surprised pop hates the 3 so much

omg the nba wld be so terrible w/o the three, every game wld be like 86-82

well played at the pace it's currently played at, yes. back in the 80s they used to push the ball every possession so it was watchable

in the 80s they had the 3pt shot

yeah but it was rarely used

relatively speaking

it mattered tho obvs not nearly to the extent that it does now, anyway the league has changed so much since then, if u took away the three from todays nba it wld look nothing like the pre 3pt shot nba

midrange j wld prob be the most important shot in the game

yeah and my point was that this is mainly due to the slow pace of play of the current NBA! xp

anyway i didn't know about pitino's history as an early 3-point evangelist, good article

naw the slow pace is an effect of the changes not a cause, defense is just like one million times better m/l to break it down

i mean u cld run the ball up and down the court but if the defense is still getting back and clogging up the lane its not gonna change anything

Under Popovich, the Spurs have taken 1,000 more corner 3s than any other franchise since the NBA began tracking the shot in 1997 (9,282) and they are the only team to convert over 40 percent of them over that time.

"Today, there's too much emphasis on the 3-point shot," says Riley, the Heat president. "Erik [Spoelstra] and I talk about this all the time, because my style of basketball is '3 yards and a cloud of dust.' That's how I was raised. That's how I was coached. I'm not really part of this craziness. Just layups and 3s. The whole midrange is dying. This is all borne out of what people call analytics."

if riley didn't have the good fortune of being the GM of a franchise in a destination city, he'd be out of the league by now

tbf it hasnt stopped riley from hiring coaches who use the three/analytics, i mean that rant is m/l what pop said too

tho of course rileys true inexcusable regressiveness is his hatered for forign players

being old-school in another sport would mean actively working against something like the three, being old-school in basketball means grumbling and accepting it.

if riley didn't have the good fortune of being the GM of a franchise in a destination city, he'd be out of the league by now

― k3vin k., Wednesday, June 3, 2015 1:04 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is not exactly "fortune"

I think I voted gsw in 6 because it just seems like the most statistically likely outcome

Yeah. When a team wins a series 4-2, it means they won twice as many games as the other team, so it isn't like this is some crazy hedging to think it might happen.

sixth game is on the road for gs something worth considering

i mean u cn have a very close six game series and u cn have a not that close six game series, if ur thinking this series is a blowout better of voting for one of the true blowout scenarios, voting for six is basically saying i think it will be at least a lil close

i don't think the warriors are going to have a particularly hard time winning in cleveland

its just a factor is alls im saying

they clinched in the grindhouse

omg i know its possible to clinch on the road its just somewhat less likely

reasonable course of action:

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