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2017 NBA FINALS THREAD. PART III
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Loading up that Slander canon. Extendos on that ***. Graaaah grahhhh
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It's time. TYBG
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SQUAD!
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Do what?
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Wait. I'm not a Bron fan but curry ruined basketball. You have these kids from 8 years old, only shooting 3s. AAU players only shoot 3s.
So many players nowadays only want to shoot 3s. Which is good if you are very proficient at it but to just practice your game and run in transistion, shooting 3s when you have multiple open lanes? What.
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I was going to post that video but Robert Parker didn't tell a lie other than the part about kids wanting to play like him. All these lil ****** do is shoot 3s like Burry now. But as far as the competitiveness, he's on point 100%.
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I'm cheering for KD. I'm cheering for Golden State. I'm also tired of coming in, not first. I'm going to cheer for a Winner for once.KD has lost to a Lebron led team in the finals before. Also:
This finals ain't about to change anything
LFG KD, GSW..let's get this Chip
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Kevin Durant's destiny is to lose to LeBron. He is to LeBron what Malone was to Jordan.
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how do you figure that? he lost to him once.you talkin like he's been washed by bron for a decade now lol
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Shouldn't we blame KG and Ray then?
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No them dudes was older and past their prime. We've seen old dudes ring chase before (Barkley, Payton, Malone). Bron did it twice in his prime. Now KD BA took it to another level.
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They went to assemble a super team, even though they only won once, they qualify. As a Warrior fan, I appreciate KD and I know he'll carry the team to few wins. I wonder what it'd be like if he went to Wash. or talked Westbrook into playing his style of offense. But alas, I cannot complain as a Warrior as he made our team almost unbeatable when firing on all cylinders.
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I'm from NY and I'm rooting for the Warriors to win, but I think the Cavs will win in 6.
Not sure how this became an east coast vs west coast thing.
Something tells me Klay will go missing this Finals again, and someone from the Cavs like JR or Deron will have big games. Cavs are just deeper than the Warriors at this point. For the Warriors to win, not only does the starting 5 have to play at an extremely high level, but players from the bench will have to as well. I don't see it happening.
The way the Cavs offense runs, they allow their bench guys to get more open looks. You don't see that happening for GS too often, unless David West passes the ball with precision and they get open layups. Guys like Frye and Korver will have to be asleep on their assignments. Plus, Lebron is playing 40+ minutes. He will keep that B team to pace the entire game.
Not sure how this became an east coast vs west coast thing.
Something tells me Klay will go missing this Finals again, and someone from the Cavs like JR or Deron will have big games. Cavs are just deeper than the Warriors at this point. For the Warriors to win, not only does the starting 5 have to play at an extremely high level, but players from the bench will have to as well. I don't see it happening.
The way the Cavs offense runs, they allow their bench guys to get more open looks. You don't see that happening for GS too often, unless David West passes the ball with precision and they get open layups. Guys like Frye and Korver will have to be asleep on their assignments. Plus, Lebron is playing 40+ minutes. He will keep that B team to pace the entire game.
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LeBron coming back to sign
These clickbait LeBron hater commentators be trying way too hard these days.
The NBA was ruined by:
1. Lack of quality big men
2. Volume chucking high FGA-low FG% perimeter superstar players of the early to mid 2000s
3. Massive shift to the 3-point shot
4. Durant's signing this offseason, the full effects of which are yet to be seen
He can try and try and try to equate Durant's signing to LeBron's in 2010, but it won't become any more true.
What Durant did isn't the equivalent of what LeBron did in 2010. It would've been the equivalent of LeBron joining those championship Celtics in 2008. Except if KG, Pierce and Allen were all 3-4 years younger.
On the flip side, an equivalent of LeBron's move in 2010 would've been Durant joining the Washington Wizards this offseason, not the 73 win Warriors. Except it doesn't make any sense to compare them leaving to begin with because LeBron left because he couldn't win with Mo Williams as his #2 man. Durant left because he couldn't win with Russell Westbrook. Durant's cowardly move simply has no equal in the history of the league.
And his argument about people wanting to play like Michael Jordan as proof of his greatness is funny considering that probably even more people tried to imitate Allen Iverson than Michael Jordan on the playgrounds.
These clickbait LeBron hater commentators be trying way too hard these days.
The NBA was ruined by:
1. Lack of quality big men
2. Volume chucking high FGA-low FG% perimeter superstar players of the early to mid 2000s
3. Massive shift to the 3-point shot
4. Durant's signing this offseason, the full effects of which are yet to be seen
He can try and try and try to equate Durant's signing to LeBron's in 2010, but it won't become any more true.
What Durant did isn't the equivalent of what LeBron did in 2010. It would've been the equivalent of LeBron joining those championship Celtics in 2008. Except if KG, Pierce and Allen were all 3-4 years younger.
On the flip side, an equivalent of LeBron's move in 2010 would've been Durant joining the Washington Wizards this offseason, not the 73 win Warriors. Except it doesn't make any sense to compare them leaving to begin with because LeBron left because he couldn't win with Mo Williams as his #2 man. Durant left because he couldn't win with Russell Westbrook. Durant's cowardly move simply has no equal in the history of the league.
And his argument about people wanting to play like Michael Jordan as proof of his greatness is funny considering that probably even more people tried to imitate Allen Iverson than Michael Jordan on the playgrounds.
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i see your point, and you aren't the only one who says the cavs are deeper. but keep in mind there are a bunch of lebron fans on NT that would like you to believe that Lebron is the GOAT yet somehow the underdog coming into the finals.
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wizards? come on blud
john wall =/= dwade
beal+otto porter+gortat+morris =/= bosh
dwade had already won a championship, still in his prime, and coming off the highest scoring season of his career, while bosh was the best center in the eastern conference at the time.
**** aint even close to equal
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Nah everyone is going to show up this Finals. The difference is Lebron and Kyrie will turn Super Saiyan.
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"And his argument about more people wanting to play like Michael Jordan as proof of his greatness is funny considering that probably more people tried to imitate Allen Iverson than Michael Jordan on the playgrounds"
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For the Cavs to win, Kyrie and LeBron will have to have 2-3 games of them scoring 40+
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Love gotta show up too.
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Everyone is going to show up. Nobody is going to lay an egg. LeBron James and Kyrie Irving will just perform levels above the rest.
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The likelihood everyone plays their games in an NBA Finals isn't probably. Usually the reason 2 players score 40 is because the rest of the team is struggling. If everyone shows up, then you have what they call a sweep.
Someone is going to go cold on both teams. For the Cavs, they can afford if Kyrie goes cold, because that would mean Love is on. But if someone like Curry goes cold, then the GSW are in deep trouble, because it's not likely Klay will somewhat fill the void.
For Clev, if Lebron goes cold they have other guys to lift them. It's happened before. Especially this postseason. I'm not sure if the GSW can still win if Curry goes cold. He's basically the engine that runs the Warriors. Having Curry go cold also shrinks the floor for GS as well. Clev has given up a ton of open 3's this postseason, and teams like the Raptors and the Celtics have missed on those 3's in large parts.
I'm not sure if the GSW will get those same open looks if Curry goes cold.
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You don't think them actually guarding their position will tire them out and slow down their offense?
Kyrie will be guarding Curry or Klay
Lebron has to guard KD
Love guarding Draymond
All the other matchups they really only had 1 scoring threat to deal with
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Wade won a championship in 2006.
Wade was on a Heat team that had the worst record in the league in 2008.
^Now which one of the two years above - 2006 or 2008 was closer to the year LeBron came to the Heat - 2010?
And for the record, Wade was not coming off the highest season of his career. That season was two seasons before LeBron came, and not the previous season.
As for Bosh, he put up empty numbers on a 1st round/lottery team where a player that half of this forum never heard of averaged 20 points and 6 assists one season.
LeBron's #2 guy the season before he left: 15.8 points, 3.0 rebounds and 5.3 assists
Durant's #2 guy the season before he left: 23.5 points, 7.8 rebounds and 10.4 assists
However you want to twist and turn it, the main difference is that LeBron went away from a trash supporting cast in an attempt to create a super team. Durant left a supporting cast that had a borderline top 5 player in the league in order to join a team that was a super team to begin with. This is why LeBron's move is comparable to teams like the 2008 Celtics and the 1997 Rockets and several other examples seen every few years. Whereas Durant's move is on another level of ********ness that literally has no parallel in the entire history of the league.
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