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NickRoweFillea posted:That chuckle after he heard that Klay called him weak was and still is bone-chilling FYI he still hasn't lost in the playoffs since that chuckle
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Ghost Dog posted:also the all ball handlers all passing team was pretty good at not getting bothered by the traps The Heat traps were tough even for teams like that. You had LeBron and Bosh trapping up front and Wade roaming the passing lanes. Then Wade got old and you could pass around LeBron with impunity.
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May 21, 2017 03:47
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Spacebump posted:Shane Battier turning into a pumpkin was also a big deal. Yeah, him being able to guard/foul opposing 4s and hit corner threes was key to that lethal small ball lineup. But again, those guys were at the end of their career. It wasn't that surprising that Battier sucked or Miller had no more fluke games left in him
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WhyteRyce posted:Yeah, him being able to guard/foul opposing 4s and hit corner threes was key to that lethal small ball lineup. But again, those guys were at the end of their career. It wasn't that surprising that Battier sucked or Miller had no more fluke games left in him loving hell you reminded me that Mike Miller hitting shoeless threes helped cost the Spurs a title
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May 21, 2017 03:53
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Remember when Mike Miller did nothing all year and then came in and single handily sunk the Pacers in an elimination game He was basically a 3pt playoff camel
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May 21, 2017 03:55
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The only good thing to come out of the game tonight https://streamable.com/rw6mv
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May 21, 2017 04:43
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Bashez posted:I feel like the odds of Kawhi playing in game 4 have to be near 0. Hard to imagine the point if he isn't 100%
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May 21, 2017 04:47
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This series proves that Kawhi is the real MVP. Look at the Spurs in his absence.
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May 21, 2017 04:52
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Will Pop get fined for doing a DNP-Rest in the playoffs????
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illcendiary posted:loving hell you reminded me that Mike Miller hitting shoeless threes helped cost the Spurs a title They amnestied him for tax relief right after that series too. Riley is a cold man and the tax man comes after all teams.
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I remember when Miller teased joining LeBron in Cleveland and I was confused why people were making it any kind of a deal
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I'm not gonna call the Warriors cowards because it's' not really their fault they're lucky but a Spurs team sans Kawhi AND Parker can't be that much better than the Celtics, surely?
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Rick posted:If the NBA was a wrestling promotion then it's been poorly booked since the last Lakers title, because the Lakers and Knicks are the money workers and aren't involved in the main event, which means they've left a lot of money on the table, and booking to make money is the actual point of wrestling booking. Wow that's like saying Vince McMahon was a better promoter than Paul Heyman It's soulless. There's more to life than money, Rick! edit: In case this reference does not make sense Heyman was the owner/promoter for Extreme Championship Wrestling. In the financial sense, it was a failure and it went bankrupt. In the entertainment sense, it was one of the greatest promotions anyone had ever seen and it was hugely influential. The Attitude era in WWE was almost entirely lifting and PG-13ing some of the more entertaining bits of ECW. Check out some of the old PPVs they're fantastic. EvanTH fucked around with this message at 05:51 on May 21, 2017 |
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May 21, 2017 05:31
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May 21, 2017 05:41
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Getting enough distance from the Lebron-Heat era is making me miss it.
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Welp this is happening, two 12-0 teams. Way to go rest of NBA, y'all suck rear end.
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May 21, 2017 05:46
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Can we move the Jazz to the East? I'd love to see them play a bunch of those teams.
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Spite posted:Can we move the Jazz to the East? I'd love to see them play a bunch of those teams. This but Memphis. It's simple geography folks
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Spite posted:Can we move the Jazz to the East? I'd love to see them play a bunch of those teams. Well, part of the Jazz will be moving east anyway
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Getting enough distance from the Lebron-Heat era is making me miss it. If you were in Cleveland it sucked because you had a Ohio sized chip on your shoulder about the whole thing. I'm happy LeBron got some rings though and I think it was the right move for him in hindsight. He needed to get away from Cleveland, have his own life, and grow up. He did exactly that. A good move.
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I haven't posted my favorite dunk from the last few seasons in a while so I'll redo that Remember when Russ played so hard he got a dent in his face?  then missed no time and came back masked and did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axfuXEBa-Bo Takes the inbound with all 5 Sixers in front of him then fires up the jets
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Spite posted:Can we move the Jazz to the East? I'd love to see them play a bunch of those teams. the east playoff teams the cavs have played are about on par with the injured west teams the warriors played. probably better. so really you want the warriors to move to the east so they get some actual competition
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NickRoweFillea posted:This but Memphis. It's simple geography folks It should be Minnesota tbh, they get way screwed by geography and are more natural rivals with the other teams in the Midwest. At least Memphis is close to the other southwest teams 
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Tae posted:NBA isn't going to move anything until the cowboys are out of the NFC east, I feel So never 
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Partially torn patellar tendon for David Lee, btw
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3780548&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=55 from here on is some of the best the NBA and SAS has to offer and i hope something this year gets even halfway close to the tension of the fourth quarter of game 7 last year.
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illcendiary posted:Partially torn patellar tendon for David Lee, btw Hits keep on coming. Dubs luckiest team.
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https://twitter.com/samesfandiari/status/866165932028067840illcendiary posted:The end of that game was so crazy with the score basically being stuck on 89-89 for like 5 minutes of game time it seemed like Yea I was making GBS threads bricks and my dad was talking poo poo to me at the end after they lost. I was shook as hell. E2M2 fucked around with this message at 06:44 on May 21, 2017 |
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SamuraiFoochs posted:I'm not gonna call the Warriors cowards because it's' not really their fault they're lucky but a Spurs team sans Kawhi AND Parker can't be that much better than the Celtics, surely? I don't watch all that many Spurs games, but it feels to me like they're never actually weak. Every lineup they play is at a minimum pretty good: they defend well, they run the offense well, they shoot well, etc. They can be outmatched, but they're almost never embarrassed. And then you mix in Parker and especially Kawhi and suddenly a lot of their lineups are great and they can keep pace with anyone and just roast them if someone else has an especially good game. The Celtics, meanwhile, have a lot of weaknesses, to the point where, honestly, I would flip it around and say that their strengths are mostly in consistently tearing up bad perimeter and fast-break defense. Sadly, the Cavs don't give up many fast breaks, and they play very good defense all around, so...
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TBeats posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3780548&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=55 Proud 
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rjmccall posted:I don't watch all that many Spurs games, but it feels to me like they're never actually weak. Every lineup they play is at a minimum pretty good: they defend well, they run the offense well, they shoot well, etc. They can be outmatched, but they're almost never embarrassed. And then you mix in Parker and especially Kawhi and suddenly a lot of their lineups are great and they can keep pace with anyone and just roast them if someone else has an especially good game. dude Spurs blew 25 point lead, lost by 36, 18. they bad.
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TBeats posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3780548&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=55 What a thrill ride that game was, how fortunate we are to have witnessed it
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Ghost Dog posted:the cavs are one of the worst defensive teams in the league Yup. 22nd in the league in Drtng by the end of the season. 15th in terms of Opp Fast Break Points Allowed. Basically went out of their way to prove that coasting in the regular season exists, as if it weren't immediately apparent to folks that have eyes.
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Ghost Dog posted:the cavs are one of the worst defensive teams in the league Or they just realize the regular season means nothing and didn't kill themselves on that end for an extra few wins.
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Niwrad posted:Or they just realize the regular season means nothing and didn't kill themselves on that end for an extra few wins. i dont think they are secretly the defensive juggernaut that guy claimed, despite the fact that they were clearly not trying.
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Ghost Dog posted:i dont think they are secretly the defensive juggernaut that guy claimed, despite the fact that they were clearly not trying. Yeah, I guess that's true too. LeBron coasts, but the rest of the team is kinda not very good defensively. Cavs players with career 0 or lower DBPM: Kyrie Irving Channing Fry Kyle Korver Kevin Love Richard Jefferson James Jones Kay Felder JR Smith Deron Williams Derrick Williams Dahntay Jones (that's everyone except Shumpert, Thompson and LeBron. Also Tavares but I'm not sure if he's actually on the team) You probably need good defenders to have a good defense. Also a coach might help.
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