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Lol I don't think you've ever watched a golden state game if you call them one dimensional, not only are they the best offensive team in league, they are best defensive and have a top 5 bench

Choke

The stage is set. Rematch.

OKC completes the choke job.

Hope the cavs bring the Atlanta team

We will have to agree to disagree because I think they suck when curry/thompson sucks. That isnt a complete team.

I am glad to have gs, so we can beat them and put the naysayers to rest.

I swear I wonder if you are actually a Cavs fan... In every thread since I've been on this board, you constantly try to point out the Cavs' weaknesses and champion everything teams like GS do. It's pretty exhausting and you've been wrong far more than you've been right. You really have no better basketball acumen than anyone else here. Posting more does not equate to advanced knowledge....

Well I really don't care what you think nor do I care for you to try to tell me how to be a fan. I point out what I see and it's my opinion. And I'm actually right more times than not. Most think the cavs are just going to roll over GS make me laugh. I said the cavs have a chance of they step up on defense and we can steal home court. But I watch enough to see how the matchups between the two teams favor golden state. I'm a cavs fan for sure, but I'm basketball fan foremost. I can look at them objectively.

I think it's lead's defense mechanism.

He's right. GS is awesome. But so is Cleveland.

Let the best team win.

Durant should've never disrespected the based god. The Lil B curse is real.

It's not a defense mechanism at all, it's my observations at the time. And your second statement is true and I've said that, cavs are a great team, but golden state is a historically great team. They have a bigger margin for error than we do. Either way, I'm excited for Thursday

Like that dumbass rapper last year wanting lebron and co to pay respect to using his cooking gesture.. Lol

They won 73 games.

So when their two best players are not playing well, they aren't as good as when their two best players are playing well. Shocker.

The difference is, when our best two shooters arent shootimg well, we have a supporting cast to pick up the slack..

Like Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala, and friends?

If the Cavs aren't making threes, then this series is over quick and it's not close.

Sorry, but those guys suck and dont add much other than flagrant fouls.

Hilarious.

Iguodala was the Finals MVP last year and Green is a triple double machine.

Well I will make some time to laugh at you when we win.

I never said the Cavs were going to lose.

You said a 73 win team was two players.

Contradict yourself much?

Not sure where I said the Cavs are going to lose. I said if they don't make threes [like they did in the Atlanta series], they lose.

The NBA regular season matters?

When you win 73 games it does.

Backpeddeling doesnt help. I like you, so I will stop. For now.

I'd say on their quest to cap the 73 win with a title, it's well fitting that it's us that's get the chance to make that dream crumble.

There is a blueprint.. but only 2 or 3 teams have the talent to pull it off.. just like there was a blueprint to beating the Colts with Peyton.. but only the Patriots seemed to be able to pull it off consistently.

You're a GS fan so I'm not surprised by your responses. I know you'll say you're just a basketball fan, but we all know you're a GS fan. There's no shame in that.

The 73 games thing is historically great and something that should not be dismissed. I also think that in no other sport does it matter more that you are peaking at the right time than the NBA. I think the Cavs are playing like the 73 win team while the Warriors are playing like a 55 win team. Green has become a JAG on his own team. I was for sure it was going to take some dumb team giving him big dollars before we saw that one come to fruition. Curry looks tentative and unsure at times more so than at any point last season or this past regular season. Kerr, Curry, and Green need to get Thompson a really, really nice, expensive gift. He's the only one that displayed the will to just get it done. They are in the Finals because of him. Color me impressed. I'm not impressed by the shooting. I was impressed that he wasn't going down until he had no more bullets in his gun. No hesitation, no tentativeness. That has nothing to do with anything Kerr did. That was just sheer will. Those guys owe Thompson a lot.

But I didn't just watch a 73 win team the last 7 games. Pick a year, pick an era and that could have been any really solid, great regular season team but nothing historic. I think the Cavs are peaking at the right time. I think the Cavs are relishing the chance for revenge. And the Cavs have LeBron - the ultimate x-factor in today's NBA. He makes every team a contender. He gives every team a greater than 0% chance.

The Cavs may not win, but I just don't see any reason to put the odds at anything less than 50/50. I think this is a coin toss series.

I haven't watched a lot of basketball this year, and I'm a very pessimistic Cleveland fan so I'm not gettig my hopes up but if both Golden State and Cavs play to their mean I think we win. With the floor spacing we have now with Love and Frye on the court instead of just Thompson and Mozgov, James is going to have a much easier time getting to the paint than last year.

Of course all bets are off if Curry and Thompson start raining 3's from half court like they seemed to do the last two game against OKC, but the Cavs would have pushed the lead in both of those games in OKS's place and it would have been a much longer row to hoe for GS to come back.

I can't bring myself to hope that we win but if we don't it's because we failed to hit our shots when they were open, we have the talent to compete and beat this GS team.