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

I know I know, of course they're not gonna give the MVP to a member of the losing team. I'm just grumpy.

Also leeee will need to photoshop a sixth finger onto that gif of Kerr with his rings in the snow

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

I had almost two months and that's what I came up with. :\

Could've been better if this went to a game 7 I guess.

bron shoulda had mvp for sure though i'm not sure his performance was up to jerry west when he won it despite being on the losing team. though obv lebron was more valuable or whatever. i thought bron might be able to overcome the 'how valuable can he be if they lost huh tell me that' thing in their being no clear candidate from the dubs but the iggy narrative took off. it's funny, jvg was on lowe's podcast and this came up and lowe asked him 'well you're a member of the media, do you get to vote on this?' and jvg was adamant that he's not a member of the media, that the media just gives their opinion while he calls it like he sees it.

i'm sure this has been pointed out everywhere but something nice about the dubs winning it on tupac's birthday, feel like it should be an official oakland holiday now

We are the champions of the world

ummm wow.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHrLoYpUYAAlpg9.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1vf4jiU.jpg

feel like bron is a singularly conflicted character

cuteness prevails https://instagram.com/p/4BGjsSxh_2

so happy right now still can't believe this happened.

awesome that they gave mvp to iggs. what a series that dude had. wonder how many hockey assists curry had in the finals.

C/p from ball don't lie:

It was the 83rd win of the season for the Warriors — a league-leading 67-15 during the regular season, 16-5 during the playoffs — which is the third-highest regular- and postseason win total in NBA history, behind only the 1995-96 and 1996-97 Chicago Bulls ... a pair of teams that just so happened to employ a sharpshooting reserve guard named Steve Kerr.

really happy for you, Spottie :)

thanks!

i don't want to go to bed

http://espn.go.com/nba/notebook/_/page/nba1415/2014-15-nba-champion

what do yall think about blatt? already seeing calls that he should be fired, kinda bullshit imo, he took the team as far as they could go given the circumstances

he seems fine. i mostly feel like a team w/ this version of lebron could more or less be coachless.

he didn't seem out of his league in the finals but that prob says more about kerr

The offensive black hole of Delly, Smith and Shumpert plus the injuries to Irving and Love means all offense has to be run through Lebron, I can't see anything Blatt could've done to fix that. It's ugly and boring obv.

yea i was kind of grateful that dubs did this in 6.... i was getting pretty tired of seeing the delly/smith/shumpert desperation, was very ugly to watch

Zach Lowe ‏@ZachLowe_NBA 11h11 hours ago
Jump-shooting team

i was obv bummed when the Cavs didn't pull out the Game 1 win, but looking at how the Cavs played the last three games we might've been looking at an epic collapse (going up 3-0 and losing 4-3), couldn't bear to watch that

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/harrison-barnes-says-warriors--championship-champagne-was-his-first-alcoholic-drink-160336480.html

does anyone here subscribe to synergy? matt?

Don't think you can anymore

Speaking of stats
Tom Haberstroh ✔@tomhaberstroh
Without LeBron James on the floor this series.
JR Smith 0/9 FG
Delly 0/7 FG
J. Jones 0/3 FG
Shumpert 0/2 FG
Total 0/21 FG
7:18 AM - 17 Jun 2015

crazy

thought lebron's presser was full of so much shade throwing.

he was basically like "congrats to the warriors for being healthy"

that stat line is insane
lebron is just so good at being an asshole. he's an all time player but the black hat fits so well.

kinda felt like same old cavs in the finals until you realized they could have had kyrie and love instead of a bunch of stiffs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=16&v=ceq7Vk-_B-M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceq7Vk-_B-M

lol, it must take so little for them to get drunk following that kind of athletic activity

yea such a bummer about love and kyrie, not saying it definitely would've been a cavs win but it would've been a better series for sure, I was just like so envious of the dubs for the simple fact that they had other players besides their leader who could, like, make shots

I mean imagine that right, I just got so used to these endless delly and shumpert bricks

I was just like so envious of the dubs for the simple fact that they had other players besides their leader who could, like, make shots

Yeah, it wasn't all just Iguodala out there.

kinda crazy that narrative for last two championship teams has included rest as major factor

http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2015/story/_/id/13098001/golden-state-warriors-show-rest-best

interesting article but tbf the suggestions in there about whether cavs should have rested lebron for game 4 are pretty ludicrous at that late stage in the finals -- could you imagine the complete shitstorm that would've fell on blatt if he benched lebron for a fucking finals game?

that said the points about regular rest and constant health inventories throughout the season are well-taken

http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/psl_finder.cgi?request=1&match=single&type=totals&per_minute_base=36&per_poss_base=100&lg_id=NBA&is_playoffs=Y&year_min=&year_max=&franch_id=&season_start=1&season_end=-1&age_min=0&age_max=99&height_min=0&height_max=99&shoot_hand=&birth_country_is=Y&birth_country=&birth_state=&college_id=&draft_year=&is_active=&debut_yr_nba_start=&debut_yr_nba_end=&debut_yr_aba_start=&debut_yr_aba_end=&is_hof=&is_as=&as_comp=gt&as_val=&award=&pos_is_g=Y&pos_is_gf=Y&pos_is_f=Y&pos_is_fg=Y&pos_is_fc=Y&pos_is_c=Y&pos_is_cf=Y&qual=&c1stat=pts&c1comp=gt&c1val=594&c2stat=&c2comp=gt&c2val=&c3stat=&c3comp=gt&c3val=&c4stat=&c4comp=gt&c4val=&c5stat=&c5comp=gt&c6mult=1.0&c6stat=&order_by=efg_pct

NBA players who are under 30, have been an all star, and have won a championship:

Rajon Rondo
Steph Curry
Klay Thompson

https://twitter.com/hbarnes/status/611221770809516032/video/1

vs
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHq3VbgWgAA8kdC.png

https://twitter.com/SherwoodStrauss/status/611033884537552896

this picture of a woman climbing a traffic/lightpost to get a warriors jersey at the celebration is just fucking frightening; video exists somewhere
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHrVMz6UAAEbWkZ.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHuIpyNWIAAw44V.png

they also avoided comets and MRSA and polar bear attacks, i think its important to consider all extant hypothetical threats when evaluating the dubs win