THEE OFFICIAL 2019-2020 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD: VICTORY LAP

[MVP]

Not even a pandemic can stop the fantasy photoshops.

SOON. After we beat up this year (lawd willing if the season comes byke) Freak coming to the good guys.

 

[B Sox]

LeBron's Cavs were always going to be fighting an uphill battle against the KD Warriors because of their severe disadvantage defensively. Other than Underdog, basically everyone that GSW put on the court was a capable-to-good defender. Same couldn't be said about the Cavs.

Cavs were an all-time great offensive team, but so was GS, and they had the defense on top of that.

 

[addict4sneakers]

LeBron's Cavs were always going to be fighting an uphill battle against the KD Warriors because of their severe disadvantage defensively. Other than Underdog, basically everyone that GSW put on the court was a capable-to-good defender.

Must be two stephs

 

[B Sox]

Must be two stephs

Imagine talking about the 2018 Finals.

Happen to have any of his defensive metrics from 2016?

 

[B Sox]

We got robbed seeing Kyrie vs Underdog only twice out of the 4 series.

 

[HOU$TON]

More than any other defender he faces in the NBA, Harden sees Curry as a pathway to points. Even though Harden averages 48 points per 100 possessions, that number fluctuates a ton depending on the defender, according to Second Spectrum data. Thompson holds Harden to 20 fewer points when he is the primary defender. But against Curry, Harden surges. In the 2018 playoffs, Harden poured in 58 points per 100 possessions against Curry, and a disproportionate amount of those points came from the free throw line.


“THATS WHAT WE WANT!”

 

[D StaXX]

Dolan got the Rona? I guess I'm late.

 

[Zo gif]

Dolan got the Rona? I guess I'm late.

all those European women he smashes

 

[MVP]

We got robbed seeing Kyrie vs Underdog only twice out of the 4 series.

Myrie was cooking that boy with natural gas

 

[whitemamba27]

I’m putting the 2015-2016 Cavs team up against any team in NBA history.

16-17 team was even better

 

[MVP]

16-17 team was even better

Yep. I'm pretty sure no KD they win b2b.

 

[HIM]

Wait wait wait. What arr y’all talkint about. Steph curry is an ELITE defender and I can show you a 15 second video to prove it

 

[shogun]

There’s probably never been a basketball player that when he’s on fire, lights it up like Klay. Dude goes into god mode with his shot. Wish Kerr didn’t take him out of that game that he went crazy. Could’ve dropped 70-80 points if he continued playing like that.

 

[firstclass]

Yep. I'm pretty sure no KD they win b2b.

No KD 2017 finals woulda been

 

[dmbrhs]

Klay isn’t a 3 and D player to me. No way

Because calling him a 3-and-D player is an insult to how great he is.

 

[dmbrhs]

There’s probably never been a basketball player that when he’s on fire, lights it up like Klay. Dude goes into god mode with his shot. Wish Kerr didn’t take him out of that game that he went crazy. Could’ve dropped 70-80 points if he continued playing like that.

I hate that. Let a guy go for history. 70 is a magical number in the NBA. You should at least let a guy go for it. And, Klay lights it up in the flow of the game. Booker's 70-point game was a farce (as entertaining as it was).

 

[darthska]

I’m putting the 2015-2016 Cavs team up against any team in NBA history.

Basically Lebby, Love, Kyrie, & Tristan vs. Steph, Klay, Dray, & Finals MVP Iggy.

Only MAIN difference the next year was the addition of KD. That's HUGE, but the Cavs got WAXED.

How can you reason that you would take that team against any Finals team in history when all it took was them adding one of the greatest players of all time to get waxed 1 year later? Any team in history but they got killed exactly 1 Finals later.

Ooooorrrr... are you calling that next year's Dubs team the GOAT?

 

[dmbrhs]

Basically Lebby, Love, Kyrie, & Tristan vs. Steph, Klay, Dray, & Finals MVP Iggy.

Only MAIN difference the next year was tnr addition of KD. That's HUGE, but the Cavs got WAXED.

How can you reason that you would take that team against any Finals team in history when all it took was them adding one of the greatest players of all time to get waxed 1 year later? Any team in history but they got killed exactly 1 Finals later.

Ooooorrrr... are you calling that next year's Dubs team the GOAT?

For real. Post-merger, the best teams (in chronological order): '83 Sixers, '86 Celtics, '92 Bulls (underrated, btw), '96 Bulls, '97 Bulls, '01 Lakers (factoring in how they closed the season and 15-1 playoff record), '17 Warriors. That Cavs team ain't beating any of them. The 2016 Cavs needed a Draymond suspension to win.

 

[MVP]

For real. Post-merger, the best teams (in chronological order): '83 Sixers, '86 Celtics, '92 Bulls (underrated, btw), '96 Bulls, '97 Bulls, '01 Lakers (factoring in how they closed the season and 15-1 playoff record), '17 Warriors. That Cavs team ain't beating any of them. The 2016 Cavs needed a Draymond suspension to win.

'87 Lakers in that elite tier too. 65 wins. 15-3 in the playoffs beat the Celtics that returned almost everybody from '86.

 

[Bert.]

2003 pistons..

 

[dmbrhs]

'87 Lakers in that elite tier too. 65 wins. 15-3 in the playoffs beat the Celtics that returned almost everybody from '86.

Whoops, forgot them.

 

[friscostylez]

Good example of why being great on the court doesn’t mean you know $h!* about basketball

Or good example of how the older generation will always think more highly of theirs than the current

 

[Sonny Corinthos]

 

[wavycrocket]

Revenge tour complete with this shot



34 & 10. Close out. Dagger

 

[had pants]