Eruditor:


Yes with suspensions and injuries that you don’t wanna hear but will easily point it at any GSW fan when it favors you.

But when Jazz had to play them without Rubio it was not luck for them? I don’t even want to bring Cavs into this because you would take a hike if I start.

Alls I wanna know is, how Steph played games 6 and 7 without a single free throw in games that refs helped GSW in or how Rockets somehow have huge leads in games 6&7 (without CP3) and still lost, when the only games they won with him had us tied at half time?

Lol! A player kicked a player in the nuts three times in the WCF and then slapped another once again in the gonads in the finals and he got suspended, that's not luck that's stupidity. And where was this player in game 6 and 7, that's not luck, that's choking!

Rubio is not Chris Paul. If they got a break you lot got a major break and again not the first time.

Why don't you go ahead and bring up the Cavs. Include all the misfortune the Cavs suffered all through the season and even in the ECF too.

I'm not talking about refs here. Yes they blew some crucial calls but unlike you I don't dwell on refs especially with the brick job Houston did. Not surprised at all curry got few free throws seeing as he only drives to the hole when the lane is clear.

BarthramLestat:


Lol! A player kicked a player in the nuts three times in the WCF and then slapped another once again in the gonads in the finals and he got suspended, that's not luck that's stupidity. And where was this player in game 6 and 7, that's not luck, that's choking!

Rubio is not Chris Paul. If they got a break you lot got a major break and again not the first time.

Why don't you go ahead and bring up the Cavs. Include all the misfortune the Cavs suffered all through the season and even in the ECF too.

I'm not talking about refs here. Yes they blew some crucial calls but unlike you I don't dwell on refs especially with the brick job Houston did. Not surprised at all curry got few free throws seeing as he only drives to the hole when the lane is clear.

Did Lebron not step over him? Did Lebron not whine to the front office about Green calling him a bitch? Did the NBA not make a revisionist decision to suspend Green even when they had not done that before nor again after that time?

You ask me about game 6 and 7 but game 6 was in your home so regardless of anything we let it pass. Draymond led all scorers and then some in game 7 (forgot?). So Draymond was a huge miss in game 5 at Warriors ground don’t sleep.

Rubio is not CP3 but Jazz needed him to beat OKC and he would have been good for at least 1 more win for Jazz which would have hastened CP3s hamstring. See how woulda coulda shouldas work?

Cavs did not suffer any misfortunes el negro. You assembled a roster, it failed. You assembled another and you 7-gamed your way past a bunch of 20 year olds without their 2 best players. That is serendipity at its prime.

Love got hurt but your man is the best in the game, surely Love’s absence would not be an excuse for beating 20 year olds?

I do call out refs but you were here when I never called them out even when GSW were down 17 and 15 in both games. That is because I know when Refs are deciding a game and when they are not. I am happy you are towing that honorable path which is the reason I am still engaging you here.

As for Wardell jnr, maybe a player decides to use free lanes to the hoop because when he wades his way through bodies, they never call it. Meanwhile, some others push off defenders or hand-lock them and get all the calls.

Imagine Rockets of all teams complaining about calls and moving screens. That is like Lebron complaining about other people traveling.

Eruditor:


Did Lebron not step over him? Did Lebron not whine to the front office about Green calling him a bitch? Did the NBA not make a revisionist decision to suspend Green even when they had not done that before nor again after that time?

You ask me about game 6 and 7 but game 6 was in your home so regardless of anything we let it pass. Draymond led all scorers and then some in game 7 (forgot?). So Draymond was a huge miss in game 5 at Warriors ground don’t sleep.

Rubio is not CP3 but Jazz needed him to beat OKC and he would have been good for at least 1 more win for Jazz which would have hastened CP3s hamstring. See how woulda coulda shouldas work?

Cavs did not suffer any misfortunes el negro. You assembled a roster, it failed. You assembled another and you 7-gamed your way past a bunch of 20 year olds without their 2 best players. That is serendipity at its prime.

Love got hurt but your man is the best in the game, surely Love’s absence would not be an excuse for beating 20 year olds?

I do call out refs but you were here when I never called them out even when GSW were down 17 and 15 in both games. That is because I know when Refs are deciding a game and when they are not. I am happy you are towing that honorable path which is the reason I am still engaging you here.

As for Wardell jnr, maybe a player decides to use free lanes to the hoop because when he wades his way through bodies, they never call it. Meanwhile, some others push off defenders or hand-lock them and get all the calls.

Imagine Rockets of all teams complaining about calls and moving screens. That is like Lebron complaining about other people traveling.

When did stepping over a player become a foul in basketball? That means he should slap him in the nuts? LeBron didn't even say what draymond called him he just said there are things you don't say to a proud family man like him and the report was that he called him a b-tch. Imagine these bums getting cocky, klay saying he got his feelings hurt, LOL! Guess what? Draymond proved the ultimate b-tch and blew a 3-1 lead. After which he called for help because he bit more than he could chew.

Draymond did what he did in game 7 what's to say that wouldn't have been the same case in game 5. Mind you all through the latter part of this series Kevin love also got hurt but that's not an issue because he'd been playoff Kevin love for the most of it.

Your Rubio analogy still doesn't change the fact that this is the third major injury break your team is catching. It's just bare facts, not the warriors doing of course but it is the fact nonetheless.

Let me see. Your second best player requests a trade, you trade him to your rivals. His replacement out for half the season, the team becomes alarmingly awful with various team meetings and scuffles. You trade six players on deadline day for six more who after a good start immediately become worse with some writing you off in the playoffs. During the period, your head coach falls ill for a few weeks. Go into the playoffs and the team turns into brick layers who can't get an open shot to fall. Go into the ECF against a well coached team with a starting five of four top 5 NBA drafted players and the best coach in the league. Same team that eliminates the bucks and Philly. 3-2 down your second best player goes down with a concussion.

But yeah the Cavs didn't have any misfortune.

Then why are you surprised he doesn't get free throws? LeBron doesn't get calls at the start of some games, do you know what he does? He keeps attacking until the refs start blowing their whistle, of course wardell is too much of a fettuccine to do that.

In a crucial game 7 with some of the blatantly bad calls the refs made I would understand their frustration but like I said, when you break the bricking record they broke it negates any argument you have. Some say the refs took the momentum from them and I say that's still their fault.

I don't even know why we are revisiting all of this. Fact of the matter is the warriors tend to get injury breaks at crucial times, period.

BarthramLestat:


When did stepping over a player become a foul in basketball? That means he should slap him in the nuts? LeBron didn't even say what draymond called him he just said there are things you don't say to a proud family man like him and the report was that he called him a b-tch. Imagine these bums getting cocky, klay saying he got his feelings hurt, LOL! Guess what? Draymond proved the ultimate b-tch and blew a 3-1 lead. After which he called for help because he bit more than he could chew.

Draymond did what he did in game 7 what's to say that wouldn't have been the same case in game 5. Mind you all through the latter part of this series Kevin love also got hurt but that's not an issue because he'd been playoff Kevin love for the most of it.

Your Rubio analogy still doesn't change the fact that this is the third major injury break your team is catching. It's just bare facts, not the warriors doing of course but it is the fact nonetheless.

Let me see. Your second best player requests a trade, you trade him to your rivals. His replacement out for half the season, the team becomes alarmingly awful with various team meetings and scuffles. You trade six players on deadline day for six more who after a good start immediately become worse with some writing you off in the playoffs. During the period, your head coach falls ill for a few weeks. Go into the playoffs and the team turns into brick layers who can't get an open shot to fall. Go into the ECF against a well coached team with a starting five of four top 5 NBA drafted players and the best coach in the league. Same team that eliminates the bucks and Philly. 3-2 down your second best player goes down with a concussion.

But yeah the Cavs didn't have any misfortune.

Then why are you surprised he doesn't get free throws? LeBron doesn't get calls at the start of some games, do you know what he does? He keeps attacking until the refs start blowing their whistle, of course wardell is too much of a fettuccine to do that.

In a crucial game 7 with some of the blatantly bad calls the refs made I would understand their frustration but like I said, when you break the bricking record they broke it negates any argument you have. Some say the refs took the momentum from them and I say that's still their fault.

I don't even know why we are revisiting all of this. Fact of the matter is the warriors tend to get injury breaks at crucial times, period.

Stepping over a player who is seated on the court is a foul. It is induced to rile said player and the instigator should be issued a foul, technical to the opposing team and possession back to them. Green, in rage attempted to strike Lebron’s schlong but he pulled away. Videos show it. Then the NBA claim they are taking his WCF gaffe into account and suspend him from an elimination game on his home court. Okay.

As per your roster, not too sure I care about the details. The fact remains that telling me the team missed shots as an example of things they went through does not cut the mustard. Teams miss some of their shots in lossed games. Your team had vets and Celts did not. Coach or not, same coach lost 4-1 to you guys just last season with a more experienced roster. But you somehow want to squeeze this against all odds narrative for the Cavs. Nah. Won’t work.

I am unfettered that he [Stephen] gets no calls. He is too. I am only presenting it as proof that the refs made mistakes on both ends. A fact nobody wants to concede. All that momentum bafflegab is exactly what it is...bafflegab. They stretched their lead to 15 after the missed call. They got extra possessions from rebounds some of which were fouls. Harden handlocked Bell on that moving screen to bait the refs into thinking Bell was moving him. I could go on and on.

They got beat by almost 100 (92 to be exact) in our 4 wins. They were held to under 100 in 5 games out of 7 (regular season they had 4/82). Apart from game 2 were they won by 22, games 4 & 5 they led by 1 and 2 pts before free throws made it 3 & 4. They led by double digits in 2 halves but expended their energy and could not compete when it mattered. CP3 or no CP3 we deserved to beat them. But surely, his going down in game 5 made the job easier.

Eruditor:


Stepping over a player who is seated on the court is a foul. It is induced to rile said player and the instigator should be issued a foul, technical to the opposing team and possession back to them. Green, in rage attempted to strike Lebron’s schlong but he pulled away. Videos show it. Then the NBA claim they are taking his WCF gaffe into account and suspend him from an elimination game on his home court. Okay.

As per your roster, not too sure I care about the details. The fact remains that telling me the team missed shots as an example of things they went through does not cut the mustard. Teams miss some of their shots in lossed games. Your team had vets and Celts did not. Coach or not, same coach lost 4-1 to you guys just last season with a more experienced roster. But you somehow want to squeeze this against all odds narrative for the Cavs. Nah. Won’t work.

I am unfettered that he [Stephen] gets no calls. He is too. I am only presenting it as proof that the refs made mistakes on both ends. A fact nobody wants to concede. All that momentum bafflegab is exactly what it is...bafflegab. They stretched their lead to 15 after the missed call. They got extra possessions from rebounds some of which were fouls. Harden handlocked Bell on that moving screen to bait the refs into thinking Bell was moving him. I could go on and on.

They got beat by almost 100 (92 to be exact) in our 4 wins. They were held to under 100 in 5 games out of 7 (regular season they had 4/82). Apart from game 2 were they won by 22, games 4 & 5 they led by 1 and 2 pts before free throws made it 3 & 4. They led by double digits in 2 halves but expended their energy and could not compete when it mattered. CP3 or no CP3 we deserved to beat them. But surely, his going down in game 5 made the job easier.

Foul or not he slapped him in the gonads or at least attempted to and given his past transgressions he deserved to get suspended.

I'm talking about how players turned into useless wretches for important stretches of the season. Like buying damaged goods.

You just accepted him not getting fouls is in part to the nature of his drives and his game.

LOL again I don't know what this jibber jabber is about. Chris Paul went down, he's their second best player.
I doubt their second half meltdowns would have happened twice under his watch. You lot caught a break. Period. Like I said, I'm not faulting you for it but it's a fact.

LeBron joins the 76ers.

PG joins the 76ers.

Kawhi is traded to the 76ers for Fultz + Saric + Corvington + Picks.

Starting Five of: Simmons Paul George Kawhi LeBron and Embiid.

Beat that Golden state.

Mark me, this is going to happen this year. King James has faced obstacles like this before and he will make this warrior team irrelevant before he retires just like he did the Celtics.

I realize there's no spacing and it's going to look like 20th century basketball but screw it! They'll figure it out!

etidy:
Let's not kid ourselves this series was only close because the warriors choked in game 4 and 5. They lost a 10 point lead and scored abt 15 points in the fourth quarter of game 4. With iguodala in the line up I think this series would have ended in 5 especially with his stellar defense on harden and chris Paul holding them to 1 / 41 when defending them in isolation.

Another perspective that's bee overlooked is that although Curry was physically fit, he hasn't played much with the Hampton 5 this year and this showed in their execution in tight games. The better team ultimately won.


Cavs vs warriors depend on the cavs defense and winning the offensive rebounding battle to get second looks, if they are average in both, the series maybe over quickly.

This is the most sensible analysis I have seen concerning Warriors vs Rockets, better than the one made by those who work for TNT and ESPN

ipledge10:
This is the most sensible analysis I have seen concerning Warriors vs Rockets, better than the one made by those who work for TNT and ESPN

"Choked" has now become analysis

ipledge10:
This is my assumption. They split oracle. Rockets win 5 and Warriors win 6 and 7 or Warriors in 5

This was my prediction after game 2. I want to make another prediction for the nba final. I f Cleveland win a game, warriors do it out of respect for Lebron or they want to make money for the organization and NBA

ipledge10:
This was my prediction after game 2. I want to make another prediction for the nba final. I f Cleveland win a game, warriors do it out of respect for Lebron or they want to make money for the organization and NBA

Complacency will be the greatest issue but we don’t have to watch the type of basketball Rockets play so that is fine.

I don’t know how to rate Cavs yet because they were only good on their ground. It was pure heroics and off-shooting that made them win that game 7.

Going by what I have seen of the Cavs, their greatest chance is game 3. But stranger things have happened.

I am going 4-1 Warriors (1 being game 3).

They don't know

Ewuro4:


Fleury is a wizzard. Dude has been impenetrable since Pittsburg days. Wonder what Vegas dropped to pluck him? really wanted Capitals to win, Ovy really worked hard for it. Oh well, Good game btw

I'm a Penguins fan and I'm low key sad we lost Fleury. The Golden Knights are an expansion team and were allowed to select an unprotected player from every team in the league..

It's a pity Ovechkin might be facing a team of destiny

Live by the trey you die by the trey, I'm quite surprised the Rockets kept jacking 3 after 3 after 3..

At what point do these guys realize 'ok maybe we need to move a little closer to the rim' I think the Rockets need to realize volume simply can't make up for lack of ability and should have tried a different offense.

Good to see Steph eventually awoke from his slumber after the half. KD usually does enough to keep the Warriors afloat. He kept the Warriors alive till Steph showed up in the 4th

The Warriors need to do much better vs Cleveland. They can't afford to half assss this series like they did against the Rockets at very ill opportune times. Can also see the Cavs try to turn games to another low scoring iso palooza as that's really their only shot at winning games in this series

LMAO This is officially my favorite video of all time! I'm shutting out all the negativity and trusting Brons plan.

Believeland.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71_3jGtO2WQ

Decale:




Harden has no right to be salty abeg. He too was building a super team...

Where's the Superteam Harden was building?

If CP3 likes, let him recruit Bron. He'll start walking on crutches the first game of playoffs leaving Bron and Harden to be fighting for first option...

LeBron and Harden alone with the supporting cast not enough?

Eruditor:


Overwhelming personnel. Lol

Curry and Klay should be traded.
Draymond is overrated.

smh. With you, no be today

A40:
I'm a Penguins fan and I'm low key sad we lost Fleury. The Golden Knights are an expansion team and were allowed to select an unprotected player from every team in the league..

It's a pity Ovechkin might be facing a team of destiny

Fleury was an asset to the team, I kinda wondered how GN could get him just like that, so he was a free agent? I didn’t know that. Ovy will never win again, it’s over. So You’re so right about his destiny

Ewuro4:


Fleury was an asset to the team, I kinda wondered how GN could get him just like that, so he was a free agent? I didn’t know that. Ovy will never win again, it’s over. So You’re so right about his destiny

The league gave each team a certain number of players in their roster to make available for the Golden Knights to choose. Fleury's cap hold kinda made it impossible to not include him in that list.

Loool from your lips to God's ears! Ovechkin and that thug Tom Wilson are losing these finals

What a shot by neal to give Vegas the lead. The puck is lifted into the neutral zone by Vegas and it caught the caps unawares.

Vegas move the puck very fast. I expect the Caps to respond.

Eller with the tally! This game is war!

And just like I predicted, the Caps respond during the 4 on 4 play.

Eller scores to tie the game.

Holtby has to do a better job of not allowing the puck to bounce off him when he makes saves.

There we go OVYYYYYYYY!!!!

He scores from his favorite spot on the ice (left side of the end zone)

Orpik makes it 3-1 for the Caps..

What a save from Holtby

Ovy and the Caps split the series as they escape Vegas with the W.

Pls guys where can I stream the match tonight! Anyone pls�

Cavs in 4 you'd be a fool to believe me

#SurgicalSummer

Kevin Love cleared to compete so no excuses this time hopefully

Warriors in 6. My heart says 5 though

Roland17:
What a save from Holtby

Holtby might have just won them the series with that save. Still I don't see VGK not picking at least one game in DC. This should be a long series