2018 NBA Playoffs Thread

Who will win The Finals


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agreed . Best pf in the east and a top 15 player but not a superstar. Klay and Dray aren't superstars either.

Except that there were several Chris Boshes in the league and there is nobody remotely like Draymond. Draymond is by far better to have as the #3 guy than having Bosh as a #3 guy.
 
This has been the case for the last 4 years. He is what he is at this point. It works against 28 NBA teams, is it really THAT bad that ONE team is immune to it? Nah

not entirely true, they were way OD on isos yesterday

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Except that there were several Chris Boshes in the league and there is nobody remotely like Draymond. Draymond is by far better to have as the #3 guy than having Bosh as a #3 guy.
Different roles.

The #1 and #2 (Pre-KD) on GSW best assets were SHOOTING
The #1 and #2 on MIA were making plays with the ball in hand. Slashing, Ball Stoppers.

So I would say Both Bosh and Draymond's #3 roles were VERY complimentary to what the 1st/2nd options were doing.

Different.
 
Bosh was an underrated team defender in his prime

Those Miami Heat teams were hard to beat in the post with Bosh and Joel Anthony patrolling the post
 
So because he's 'loud' it's more impactful? There are also TWO sides of the floor which y'all conveniently forget.

Facts. Not only that....KD & Steph can, and have done EXACTLY what Bron is doing right now.

Put up video game stats on a team where your production is highly counted on for gems to win. Harden is doing the exact same thing right now. KD & Steph don't need to. But they are more than capable if you gave them an insane usage.

Who was the 4th best player on the 2010-2012 Heat?

Bibby?
Haslem?
House?
Chalmers?
Battier?

No doubt the teams were very good but they weren't close to as deep as the Durant-era Warriors. Similar situations, but different.

Mike Miller, Udonis Haslem, Shane Battier. Very quality “others”.
 
Except that there were several Chris Boshes in the league and there is nobody remotely like Draymond. Draymond is by far better to have as the #3 guy than having Bosh as a #3 guy.
Ehhh lol People already forgetting how good Bosh was

He was playing with two guys who like to control the ball. Let Bosh play as a floor spacing 5 in todays league where passing and spacing is at a premium
 
Morey came out and said that this team was built to beat GSW at their own game...that’s false. Gsw offense isn’t predicated on one man dribbling and “creating” for himself/teammates. There’s a lot more movement off-ball, which I wouldn’t say is the case for houston. As soon as luc, ariza and gordon weren’t hitting last nite houston moved away from anything away from the ball and it came down to harden/cp. Of course you wouldnt change your offensive scheme this late in the season but why play an entire season running an offense that would become predictable and easy for golden state to stop in a seven game series this late into the playoffs? If bron/kyrie couldnt do it, im not confident harden and cp would be able to.

I will say that the warriors have the luxury of having 4 dudes who can facilitate (steph, kd, draymond, iggy) but the same could nearly be said about the rockets between harden, cp, and gordon. Only thing is, gordon has been relegated to being a streaky shooter. Houston could create more offense if they let gordon share the ball handling load while harden and cp3 worked off screens from capela and ariza. sure he turned it over a lot last nite but how much of it has to do with him playing outside of what he’s become used to in houston?

And i bring up klay because you harp on the “houston big three” outplayed steph/klay/dray story. Yet Outside of harden, statistically no one on houston “outplayed” klay.

did morey really say that? i feel like hes misquoted entirely. he talked about being obsessed with beating them. , in terms of what they can do to have a shot. not they were built to, or have assembled a squad that will

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all that practicing aint gon mean **** with the weak *** defense that old guy is playing. that's not how boston is gonna play him. He should be trying to create game time situations. Like getting double teamed and pushed and pulled and prodded. Dude makes one step against that old man and he's at the rim. K.
 
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