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...We can't let Toronto take game 5 at home. It's really a must-win for us. The Raptors have the momentum, they're playing with house money, and our shots aren't falling. I'll be tossing and turning all night thinking about the possible doomsday scenario of losing games 5 & 6. Ugh. As bad as yesterday was, we probably still should/could have won the game. It must be tough for Lue setting the rotations without knowing who will be hot or cold going into tomorrow. I already responded to one post in this thread, but I keep hearing the league will influence the conference winners. They'll try their best to get the Warriors in the Finals, but live with the Thunder because of Durant and Westbrook. However, they'll hang themselves if the Raptors advance. The word is that they'll do just about anything to get Lebron in the Finals. I'd like to believe that, but I have my doubts.
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Toronto will be desperate too. You don't want to be the road team in a game 7.
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Toronto will be desperate too. You don't want to be the road team in a game 7. Hope you're right. Happy birthday by the way.
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Toronto will be desperate too. You don't want to be the road team in a game 7. Hope you're right. Happy birthday by the way. Yea, happy birthday! GSW are a creepin' back.
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This game looks remarkably like last nights game.. GSW couldn't make a thing, OKC built a big lead... GSW found some mojo and started to creep back in.. let's see if that holds true and OKC holds on for the W.
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This game looks remarkably like last nights game.. GSW couldn't make a thing, OKC built a big lead... GSW found some mojo and started to creep back in.. let's see if that holds true and OKC holds on for the W. I hope they do.
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Thank all of you for the well wishes! Definitely one of my better years.
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The team that OKC is dismantling won 73 games.
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Green isn't playing with intensity because he knows he can't afford another tech/flagrant.
The reality is that if green is off his game, the entire team is out of sync.
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The team that OKC is dismantling won 73 games. I feel like this puts the final nail in the coffin in regards to importance of regular season.
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OKC is PUMPED!
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Wow, okc only has to win one more game to knock out gsw. That win at gsw was huge.
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Wow. I guess anything can happen.
But this series is probably over.
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Curry sucks.
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Curry sucks.
GS should trade him to the Cavs if you ask me. So we can have another ball handler with suspect D?
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Curry sucks.
GS should trade him to the Cavs if you ask me. So we can have another ball handler with suspect D? But that many 3's being added to our arsenal?
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Hypothetically, that would be amazing. It would be unfair to the league.
That was more a shot about Kyrie than it was curry.
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Hypothetically, that would be amazing. It would be unfair to the league.
That was more a shot about Kyrie than it was curry. I get it now, but I don't care about being unfair to the league. Remember those Orlando teams that would kill us in the ECF's every year? Darn near everybody on that team had a long range shot.
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The team that OKC is dismantling won 73 games. I feel like this puts the final nail in the coffin in regards to importance of regular season. yes and no If you break NBA champions down by seed, you get: 1 seed: 50 champions 2 seed: 10 champions 3 seed: 7 champions 4 seed: 1 champion 6 seed: 1 champion 5, 7, 8 seeds: 0 champions There have been 19 teams (including this year's Warriors and Spurs) that have won 65+ games in an 82 game season. 14 went on to win the title. What OKC is doing right now is completely unprecedented. But then again, it's hard to separate the reality that it's usually the best or one of the best teams getting a 1 seed, and winning 65+ games in a season is unusually good. How much the (usually) easier path through the playoffs and home court advantage matters is up for debate. I would say that the regular season has mattered a whole lot more in the West than the East in recent memory. Lebron's teams have just been so much better than any other team that it really hasn't mattered much what teams the Heat/Cavs have played and possibly getting a game 7 home game in one particular series hasn't either because very few series have gone that far (Heat vs Pacers is the only one I can remember?)
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So I had a thought about the Thunder vs Spurs that also kind of applies vs the Warriors.
The Thunder matched up really well vs the Spurs. The Spurs built their team around small ball without really going small. They let Splitter and Baynes walk (I'm not saying those were mistakes btw-- I think that had to be done to sign Aldridge). They signed Marjanovic but he really didn't play big minutes. They are really built to compete with the Warriors but ended up losing a round early.
The Thunder are a big team with Adams and Ibaka up front, Kanter off the bench. Westbrook and Durant play big for their positions. Even Roberson is a big shooting guard and he is playing more lately. They are playing really well right now, don't get me wrong, but they just match up really well vs both teams. They are playing really tough defense especially on Curry/Thompson/Green, get more boards, and are just generally the more physical team. They hustle more too.. one of my favorite plays last night was Westbrook diving for a loose ball. You don't see superstars doing that too often.
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... I keep hearing the league will influence the conference winners. I certainly trust (and hope) this is not true. I would expect that the league would want the biggest TV markets possible, but I simply fail to believe that they would actually try to "influence" game outcomes. If this was accurate, then the NBA becomes nothing better than the WWE and should be called "entertainment" rather than sport...
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I have a bad feeling about tonight ... Last time we had this situation, we had beaten up Boston in the first two games, went out to Boston and lost the next two. We came home and Lebron mailed it in while the crowd sat there horrified. And a few days after that, Lebron couldn't wait to pull off his Cavs jersey.
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So I had a thought about the Thunder vs Spurs that also kind of applies vs the Warriors.
The Thunder matched up really well vs the Spurs. The Spurs built their team around small ball without really going small. They let Splitter and Baynes walk (I'm not saying those were mistakes btw-- I think that had to be done to sign Aldridge). They signed Marjanovic but he really didn't play big minutes. They are really built to compete with the Warriors but ended up losing a round early.
The Thunder are a big team with Adams and Ibaka up front, Kanter off the bench. Westbrook and Durant play big for their positions. Even Roberson is a big shooting guard and he is playing more lately. They are playing really well right now, don't get me wrong, but they just match up really well vs both teams. They are playing really tough defense especially on Curry/Thompson/Green, get more boards, and are just generally the more physical team. They hustle more too.. one of my favorite plays last night was Westbrook diving for a loose ball. You don't see superstars doing that too often. The funny thing is, we heard all season long how "small ball" has taken over the league. That the Big-Man is going the way of the Dodo bird and we were ushering in a new era of basketball. But then here in the playoffs, you've got Big-Men team beating up on the small-ball teams.
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So I had a thought about the Thunder vs Spurs that also kind of applies vs the Warriors.
The Thunder matched up really well vs the Spurs. The Spurs built their team around small ball without really going small. They let Splitter and Baynes walk (I'm not saying those were mistakes btw-- I think that had to be done to sign Aldridge). They signed Marjanovic but he really didn't play big minutes. They are really built to compete with the Warriors but ended up losing a round early.
The Thunder are a big team with Adams and Ibaka up front, Kanter off the bench. Westbrook and Durant play big for their positions. Even Roberson is a big shooting guard and he is playing more lately. They are playing really well right now, don't get me wrong, but they just match up really well vs both teams. They are playing really tough defense especially on Curry/Thompson/Green, get more boards, and are just generally the more physical team. They hustle more too.. one of my favorite plays last night was Westbrook diving for a loose ball. You don't see superstars doing that too often. The funny thing is, we heard all season long how "small ball" has taken over the league. That the Big-Man is going the way of the Dodo bird and we were ushering in a new era of basketball. But then here in the playoffs, you've got Big-Men team beating up on the small-ball teams. Well okc is a unique team. They play much bigger because of their length and Durante and Westbrooks versatility. Just like Donovan's Florida teams, their bigs have the ability to switch and contain guards. It's quite an oddity and the perfect answer for GS
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So I had a thought about the Thunder vs Spurs that also kind of applies vs the Warriors.
The Thunder matched up really well vs the Spurs. The Spurs built their team around small ball without really going small. They let Splitter and Baynes walk (I'm not saying those were mistakes btw-- I think that had to be done to sign Aldridge). They signed Marjanovic but he really didn't play big minutes. They are really built to compete with the Warriors but ended up losing a round early. The Spurs are a big team. They played Duncan and Aldridge together a bunch throughout the season with Kawhi and Danny Green on the wings. In the playoffs they played Aldridge and Diaw or West. They sometimes played Kawhi at the four, but those times were rare. They built a team that was big. They did this because the rest of the league was going small, not just the Warriors.
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So I had a thought about the Thunder vs Spurs that also kind of applies vs the Warriors.
The Thunder matched up really well vs the Spurs. The Spurs built their team around small ball without really going small. They let Splitter and Baynes walk (I'm not saying those were mistakes btw-- I think that had to be done to sign Aldridge). They signed Marjanovic but he really didn't play big minutes. They are really built to compete with the Warriors but ended up losing a round early.
The Thunder are a big team with Adams and Ibaka up front, Kanter off the bench. Westbrook and Durant play big for their positions. Even Roberson is a big shooting guard and he is playing more lately. They are playing really well right now, don't get me wrong, but they just match up really well vs both teams. They are playing really tough defense especially on Curry/Thompson/Green, get more boards, and are just generally the more physical team. They hustle more too.. one of my favorite plays last night was Westbrook diving for a loose ball. You don't see superstars doing that too often. The funny thing is, we heard all season long how "small ball" has taken over the league. That the Big-Man is going the way of the Dodo bird and we were ushering in a new era of basketball. But then here in the playoffs, you've got Big-Men team beating up on the small-ball teams. Well okc is a unique team. They play much bigger because of their length and Durante and Westbrooks versatility. Just like Donovan's Florida teams, their bigs have the ability to switch and contain guards. It's quite an oddity and the perfect answer for GS There were a few times last night where adams ended up on Curry because of a switch, and completely shut him down, even blocked his shot, i was like damn...i could never see one of our bigs doing that..and funny thing is, you don't look at Adams and think he'd be that agile,
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I have a bad feeling about tonight ... Last time we had this situation, we had beaten up Boston in the first two games, went out to Boston and lost the next two. We came home and Lebron mailed it in while the crowd sat there horrified. And a few days after that, Lebron couldn't wait to pull off his Cavs jersey. I understand your concern as tonight is a game 5 also, but THAT game 5 is an afterthought right now because he came back. If he wants to bury it completely he needs to bring a Trophy home or give every last ounce he has in the effort or it will never be completely forgotten.
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I have a bad feeling about tonight ... Last time we had this situation, we had beaten up Boston in the first two games, went out to Boston and lost the next two. We came home and Lebron mailed it in while the crowd sat there horrified. And a few days after that, Lebron couldn't wait to pull off his Cavs jersey. That was a different situation, especially considering what happened w/Delonte West. I think the Cavs win tonight.
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... I keep hearing the league will influence the conference winners. I certainly trust (and hope) this is not true. I would expect that the league would want the biggest TV markets possible, but I simply fail to believe that they would actually try to "influence" game outcomes. If this was accurate, then the NBA becomes nothing better than the WWE and should be called "entertainment" rather than sport... It makes little sense, actually. The only reason the league would care about ratings is in terms of future TV rights negotiations. They've already locked up and sold the TV rights for these games, and I'm willing to be that they were smart enough to get max dollar regardless of how many games a series goes. On the networks are likely to care about things reaching a Game 6 or 7.... or who is in the games.
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Actually that series went back to Boston 1-1, then the Cavs handed the Celtics their worst home playoff loss in franchise history. It fell apart from there.
Oh and Bovada has the Cavs as the favorite to win the title at this moment. Home court is obviously huge and they would have that over a potential okc opponent. So there's that.
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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/joakim-noah-reportedly-hates-bulls-182800470.htmlThis is crazy. Noah will probably bounce this offseason, or get traded before the deadline. Man the Bulls really had a chance to be something, but swear Rose and Noah are made of glass. So many injuries.
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Not from the bench. Coach, do not be three stupid again tonight. Bore into the paint a bunch. Stick with it and sit a few down wsho are killing us. We cooperated nicely with them and the Raps get credit. We drive, don't finish, pass it out, miss the three.
Finish. Draw fouls.
If say about half of the missed shots were shooting fouls or two's, we would have been in better shape. Somebody would sit. LBJ has to go indoors, and somebody needs stops on D. Our lane was like a turnstile. It was an effort to be ashamed of.
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James averages 32 points, 8.6 rebounds and 6.8 assist in game 5 of a series.
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You're dead to me. Until the series is over, that is.
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You're dead to me. Until the series is over, that is. GO CAVS!!!!  Am I still alive to you?
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Hopefully our $82 Million rebounding machine doesn't get outdone by the $3 Million rebound machine tonight.
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Todays game is huge. I know people will say its a 3 game series right now, so a loss doesn't eliminate us, but to me it does. A loss today will kill any hopes I have or have had for a chance at a championship.
Love has to be aggressive and drive the ball inside. He also needs to post up. He needs to set that tone, or he will become regulated to launching threes.
Kyrie has got to be aggressive on Defense. Toronto's backcourt cannot dominate the way they have the last 2 games.
TT needs to play smarter than Biyombo. Not only more aggressive, but smarter.
LeBron has to take over. His outside shot scares the crap out of me, but Toronto needs to know he is not afraid to take it when they leave 4 feet between him and the defender. They will do that all night and just pack the lane, making us a predominately outside shooting team. We lose if that happens.
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