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

guess it depends on who they hire as coach

ill take the western champ

thunder gonna be back in biz too

DELLEVEDOVER OWNS ILH

truly villainous

lebro and curry combined 16/57

@johnschuhmann: Curry's 26.1% was his worst eFG%...
In 36 career playoff games.
In 97 games this season.
In the 247 games in which he's taken > 15 FGA.

bad game to have that happen

Wha happened, I was eating with friends.

LEEE

i meant easy fave preseason. west faves will be split between spurs-dubs-thunder-clippers (i'd guess that order too) but cavs would be heavy faves to win the east. above might've been true regardless of past two games but i can't be the only one thinking this team is missing their second and third best players (w/ a drop off to four) and they're one shot from having gone up 2-0 on the road on a historically great regular season team.

Iverson's Sixers pushed the Lakers early in the series too (and could have made the series really interesting if Tyrone Hill wasn't an idiot).

But no, the Cavs will only be preseason title faves if the public pours a lot of dumb money in.

Kind of amazing to think that the West-East imbalance started way back then and we've never really gotten out of it.

knicks have been a complete disaster almost that entire time. what's crazy to me is when the pistons won i remember thinking 'finally' and hoping some balance was coming back and arguably it's more lopsided now, and it could get worse- this bulls era easily could've already peaked, lebron's only getting older, durant could stay in okc, brow's only gonna get better.

some east teams are bound to get better - pacers, celtics, maaaybe the bucks. but barring massive good fortune no way any of them get championship-level better, and compared to how the pelis and OKC will (probably) get better the difference is lol

This game is awesome fuiud

― Spottie, Monday, 8 June 2015 02:49 (9 hours ago) Permalink

I spent the entire night frantically texting with my dad, an Ohio native who insisted on watching the whole game even though he's recovering from ehrlichiosis & I did everything in my power to convince him to just go to sleep.

3Q was riveting, JR Smith was maddening, & any Dubs fan who complains about the officiating deserves the gulag.

Harlabob says the Cavs really got lucky by having JR foul out, dude was just not sharp last night

Anyone know what the hell is going on with Bron's shooting? He's turned into kind of a chucker (especially with no second option) but I remember him making these shots normally...

he tired

I'm already looking forward to turning off game 3 in disgust en route to a 106-73 GSW victory... maybe I can talk my boss into letting me work tuesday night

some east teams are bound to get better - pacers, celtics, maaaybe the bucks. but barring massive good fortune no way any of them get championship-level better, and compared to how the pelis and OKC will (probably) get better the difference is lol

pistons, too. trust svg!

that was a fucking amazing game

xp true the pistons will get better i just dunno if it'll be immediately next season. then again with some luck they could prob muscle out the bucks who were legitimately good in many ways but also kinda overacheived.

Orlando should improve even in spite of Skiles.

lol - http://deadspin.com/warriors-owner-couldnt-deal-with-sitting-next-to-rihann-1709794767?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

“I thought I was being friendly. She was rooting for LeBron the whole game so finally I was getting irritated and I said, ‘I’m the owner of the Warriors.’ She didn’t care, she just kept going

B-)

https://instagram.com/p/3psOLZH-Dm/?taken-by=mdollas11

bron sat for THREE MINUTES lol

the gotta hear both sides version:

-not really surprised rihanna acted at the v least like a troll, at worst a low key asshole
-that said lacob can't really expect to tell her what to do - in general, but especially not if she was just loudly rooting from bron and not like, idk, loudly cursing while his kids are right there or w/e

man grant hill was hanging w/ the wiz owner (who wore a bullets jacket: respect), you can't get salty cuz somebody didn't root for the home team

rihanna>>>>>>>>

i can't remember the last important playoff series where i felt like each coach was totally absent from the proceedings.

from blatt it's understandable if not expected especially considering how shorthanded they are but i feel like golden state has been essentially coachless this series which is not good!!

last night steph didn't move without the ball practically at all unless he was coming to get a dribble hand off on a screen (like the tying finger roll) -- it was kind of concerning how often he was just standing off on the wing motionless and like looking away from the play? i dunno.

the warriors have been entirely rhythmless this entire series against a team that is a decent defensive team at best, i don't quite understand it

yeah they need to make some adjustments, there's no reason their offense should be so choppy

Kerr's huddle talk always seems comically generic to me

all coaches huddles do imo

kerr getting outcoached otm. he made the right adjustments vs the grizz we'll see what he can do with this one. Need more livingston w curry/klay imo. i thought he shoulda gone w livingston over barbosa when klay got those 2 quick fouls

why they're letting lebron finish nearly 50% of possessions is something i still don't understand

they being the warriors

i'm strong pro-warriors in this series but i'm happy the cavs won that game simply because lebron really would've been pillaged in the media when the refs just cut him absolutely zero slack to an absolutely absurd degree at the end of regulation last night

the iggy no-call hack on the baseline on bron reminded me of game 2 of the 2012 finals when durant missed that baseline bunny at the end of the game in the same spot w/ a lebron nudge to the side that could've been called

i would agree had he not switched his pivot feet three time prior to it.

i can't remember the last important playoff series where i felt like each coach was totally absent from the proceedings.

― J0rdan S., Monday, June 8, 2015 11:58 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

both first year coaches looking exceedingly dazed on the sidelines

Anybody else hear the Ether Grant Hill dropped on Kenny Smith when he brought up Hakeem after Kenny had been gushing how he'd never seen a superstar do more with less?

haha yea that was an A+ zing

Cold as hell, that's the kind of shit that kills friendships. Didn't Payton get frozen out of TNT for that time he clowned Kenny with a stat sheet?

Man GP and C Webb were everything, they need to find a way to put those two back together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5AodJFb29o

gp too real 4 tv

Meanwhile Chuck's views on why slavery wasn't all bad are good enough for CNN

that gp and cwebb clip is so fun

Orlando should improve even in spite of Skiles.

― tsrobodo, Monday, June 8, 2015 2:31 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Short term improvement is his thing (and maybe what's called for down there)

In general I'm pro-warriors but the glowing dumb articles about the brilliance of Joe Lacob and positionless basketball make me want Mozgov and JR Smith will the cavs to victory a little.