2015 NBA Finals Thread (Golden State Warriors vs Cleveland Cavs)

[PolarBear]

Cavs role players continuing to play lights out.

Warriors gotta go big with Speights. They were killing them with him on the court.

 

[Scoot26]

Rebounding is the Warriors problem..

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[RoseMVP1]

D Rose can't get a call cause he "initiates the contact" but lebron can shove his elbows and shoulders into people and gets calls constantly

 

[RoseMVP1]

I can only imagine how annoying Rodman was to watch as an opposing teams fan. Tristian Thompson pisses me off

 

[RoseMVP1]

Barbosa really needs to gtfo.

 

[Scoot26]

Overtime it is. Curry had it at the end it would seem.

 

[Scoot26]

Warriors dominating OT, Irving hurt enough to have to leave the game.

 

[2323]

Did anyone see that "push off" by Irving when he got hurt. It was almost identical to what people like to ***** about on the Bryan Russell play, except the GS player wasn't nearly as out of position as Russell. Which pretty much proves, as I've long contended, that Russell was out of position because he overplayed the drive.

 

[clonetrooper264]

Warriors with that lockdown D in OT. Would've shut them out if Lebron didn't pad the numbers with the bunny at the end. That's nuts.

 

[PolarBear]

Cavs tried to play ISO basketball all game. That's not going to cut it. Lebron isn't a cerebral scorer, he has holes in his jump shot and he has this dumb ass thing in his brain that tells him to settle for it even though he can get to the rim whenever he wants. Saw that tonight.

GS is playing Lebron like everybody else should have. Let Lebron try and beat you on his own. If he wants to play that Iso ball, let him. He might drop 40 points but he isn't hurting you with his passing ability which is his best asset.

 

[Scoot26]

Warriors with that lockdown D in OT. Would've shut them out if Lebron didn't pad the numbers with the bunny at the end. That's nuts.

Golden State guarded the perimeter all night, which Cleveland counters with LeBron ISO, which worked well until the 4th quarter I'd say.

 

[Scoot26]

Cavs tried to play ISO basketball all game. That's not going to cut it. Lebron isn't a cerebral scorer, he has holes in his jump shot and he has this dumb ass thing in his brain that tells him to settle for it even though he can get to the rim whenever he wants. Saw that tonight.

GS is playing Lebron like everybody else should have. Let Lebron try and beat you on his own. If he wants to play that Iso ball, let him. He might drop 40 points but he isn't hurting you with his passing ability which is his best asset.

I'd argue LeBron's ISO worked for 3.5 quarters... Thing is while he's a beast he is human and at times his shot will stop falling and some fatigue will start to happen.

 

[clonetrooper264]

I'd argue LeBron's ISO worked for 3.5 quarters... Thing is while he's a beast he is human and at times his shot will stop falling and some fatigue will start to happen.

You know Lebron is tired when he takes a pull up 3 over Steph Curry with a new shot clock

 

[PolarBear]

I'd argue LeBron's ISO worked for 3.5 quarters... Thing is while he's a beast he is human and at times his shot will stop falling and some fatigue will start to happen.

It did work but you saw what happened late in the game and we have seen Lebron's jump shot fail him all playoffs. If they keep playing like that, GS is gonna bounce them early.

 

[Scoot26]

It did work but you saw what happened late in the game and we have seen Lebron's jump shot fail him all playoffs. If they keep playing like that, GS is gonna bounce them early.

If we're going to talk talent of the two teams, GS should bounce them early.

GS is playing the perfect defense of them. And if Cleveland is now going to lose Irving, it actually should be a quick series.

 

[clonetrooper264]

If we're going to talk talent of the two teams, GS should bounce them early.

GS is playing the perfect defense of them. And if Cleveland is now going to lose Irving, it actually should be a quick series.

And good riddance

 

[FirstTimer]

Rebounding is the Warriors problem..

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Bogut was awful last night. The Warriors would be better served to play Ezili or hell even dust off David Lee.

I'd argue LeBron's ISO worked for 3.5 quarters... Thing is while he's a beast he is human and at times his shot will stop falling and some fatigue will start to happen.

Sure the ISO's worked but watching the game last night reminded me of the Bulls-Sun Finals in 92-93 and Charles Barkley.

Barkley put up insane numbers during that Finals (27-13-5) but the Bulls made him work insanely hard for his points and dared the rest of the Suns to beat them. The Bulls had enough bodies to keep throwing at Barkley that even by Game 5 and Game 6 he was pretty worn down.

Even prior to the Kyrie injury the Cavs weren't going to win that game in OT and it was a really bad sign that the Warriors has "off" games by guys like Thompson and a slow start by Curry and a hero ball game by James and they weren't going to win. This series might be over in 4 or 5 now with Irving out.

 

[Scoot26]

Bogut was awful last night. The Warriors would be better served to play Ezili or hell even dust off David Lee.



Sure the ISO's worked but watching the game last night reminded me of the Bulls-Sun Finals in 92-93 and Charles Barkley.

Barkley put up insane numbers during that Finals (27-13-5) but the Bulls made him work insanely hard for his points and dared the rest of the Suns to beat them. The Bulls had enough bodies to keep throwing at Barkley that even by Game 5 and Game 6 he was pretty worn down.

Even prior to the Kyrie injury the Cavs weren't going to win that game in OT and it was a really bad sign that the Warriors has "off" games by guys like Thompson and a slow start by Curry and a hero ball game by James and they weren't going to win. This series might be over in 4 or 5 now with Irving out.

I expected the start by the Warriors. Young team, rookie HC, first Finals, no veterans who had been there before... So what happened I wasn't shocked by. I wouldn't had been shocked if Cleveland won Game 1 either.. But GS forced OT and then dominated that OT.

Agree that this series will be over in 4 or 5.

 

[KrossOva]

GS is playing Lebron like everybody else should have. Let Lebron try and beat you on his own. If he wants to play that Iso ball, let him. He might drop 40 points but he isn't hurting you with his passing ability which is his best asset.

I was saying the exact same thing in the our series to anyone that would listen.

 

[Ares]

So who won the basketballing last evening?