NBA Playoffs 2016-17 G/V: The Playoffs Are A Band Metaphor Now

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boop the snoot: Jun 3, 2016

Ghost Dog posted:

curry is a distant third behind draymond in importance

You know who isn't important to the Warriors?

Steve Kerr :smug:

# ? Jun 1, 2017 18:49

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# ? May 30, 2024 23:21

Michael Corleone: Mar 30, 2011; by VideoGames

Jota posted:

if the warriors were real men they would let the cavs go up 3-0 to try to upstage last year's comeback

I was going to make a joke, but really I need to know before the series starts: Is Green a tough guy or a fake tough guy?

# ? Jun 1, 2017 18:59

Ammanas: Jul 17, 2005; Voltes V: "Laser swooooooooord!"

TBeats posted:

You know who isn't important to the Warriors?

Steve Kerr

i am genuinely curious if steve kerr would play matt barnes as many minutes as brown has/will

# ? Jun 1, 2017 19:01

Lockback: Sep 3, 2006; All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.

Ammanas posted:

i am genuinely curious if steve kerr would play matt barnes as many minutes as brown has/will

Matt Barnes getting a ring would finally give a Warriors ring to someone from the "We Believe" team, so I am down with him getting minutes.

# ? Jun 1, 2017 19:07

Ammanas: Jul 17, 2005; Voltes V: "Laser swooooooooord!"

Matt Barnes getting a ring is my #1 beef with the warriors winning, mega-gently caress-that-dude

# ? Jun 1, 2017 19:08

Spite: Jul 27, 2001; Small chance of that...

Ammanas posted:

i am genuinely curious if steve kerr would play matt barnes as many minutes as brown has/will

Kerr would play him 15 min in a closeout game even if he was terrible.

Kerr's a great coach with two glaring weaknesses: he wants to play everyone on the roster every game and he's really adverse to running 50 pick and rolls at the opponent's weakest defender.

# ? Jun 1, 2017 19:10

Ammanas: Jul 17, 2005; Voltes V: "Laser swooooooooord!"

At some point this series, the Warriors will be up 12 and Matt Barnes will enter the game. He will earn 2 fouls and after 2.5 minutes of game clock, will leave the game with the Warriors down 3.

edit: he will also have inexplicably taken 4 shots, going 0/4

# ? Jun 1, 2017 19:12

Punkin Spunkin: Jan 1, 2010

TBeats posted:

gently caress Klay I'm high right now go Cavs

TBeats posted:

gently caress Klay I'm high right now go Cavs

TBeats posted:

gently caress Klay I'm high right now go Cavs

I'll go dab 4 dab with that sleepy eyed motherfucker any day

# ? Jun 1, 2017 19:24

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib7YcAUWBBM

# ? Jun 1, 2017 19:26

IcePhoenix: Sep 18, 2005; Take me to your Shida

Dexo posted:

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib7YcAUWBBM

Incredible

# ? Jun 1, 2017 19:44

aBagorn: Aug 26, 2004

Dexo posted:

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib7YcAUWBBM

VERTICALITY!

# ? Jun 1, 2017 19:48

Jack's Flow: Jun 6, 2003; Life, friends, is boring

Dexo posted:

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib7YcAUWBBM

Perfect.

# ? Jun 1, 2017 19:50

Paul Zuvella: Dec 7, 2011

I'm waiting on baited breath for Crazy Ted's GDT Thread :swoon:

e: Also the new Game of Zones loving owns.

ee: VERTICALITY

Paul Zuvella fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Jun 1, 2017

# ? Jun 1, 2017 19:52

Dejan Bimble: Mar 24, 2008; we're all black friends; Plaster Town Cop

EvanTH posted:

whoa clutch Leprechaun In Mobile reference, subtle and well done

Who else seen David Robinson score 70 on a leprechaun, say yedaaah

# ? Jun 1, 2017 20:00

Mr. Mambold: Feb 13, 2011; Aha. Nice post.

Dexo posted:

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib7YcAUWBBM

hahaha

# ? Jun 1, 2017 20:01

predicto: Jul 22, 2004; THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Brolander posted:

holy poo poo you found (or made) that in 4 minutes

i am in awe

# ? Jun 1, 2017 20:01

Cool Buff Man: Jul 30, 2006; bitch

predicto posted:

holy poo poo you found (or made) that in 4 minutes

i am in awe

It does not take very long to type "Glen Davis lips gif" into google, be more creative with your searches and your life will change

# ? Jun 1, 2017 20:08

predicto: Jul 22, 2004; THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Cool Buff Man posted:

It does not take very long to type "Glen Davis lips gif" into google, be more creative with your searches and your life will change

I guess my problem is I didn't remember that clip even existed until I saw it again

Now it is reburned into my scarred mind and it will take another 5 years to forget it again.

# ? Jun 1, 2017 20:19

Cool Buff Man: Jul 30, 2006; bitch

predicto posted:

I guess my problem is I didn't remember that clip even existed until I saw it again

Now it is reburned into my scarred mind and it will take another 5 years to forget it again.

Big Baby Davis is a sexual maven.

This is entertaining http://hoopshype.com/2017/06/01/ricky-davis-on-the-big3-coaching-aspirations-lebrons-rookie-year-triple-double-incident-and-more/

Ice Cube is responsible for the triple double incident

quote:

RD: They did blow it out of proportion a bit, but I admit I was young and I was selfish. I was just doing my own thing. I didn�t realize what the consequences would be. I was just trying to get my first triple-double, like Ice Cube in �It Was a Good Day.� I would always listen to Ice Cube and I wanted to get a triple-double too.

# ? Jun 1, 2017 20:22

EvanTH: Apr 24, 2004; i like to express my inner pain by being really boring on the phone
or just when i'm kickin it
that's me though
i'm kind of oddddddd

I gave a strong pre-playoffs prediction that someone would get frustrated with IT and give him the Bynum Barea but instead we got a knocked-out tooth and some kinda inverted contrapositive formulation of the event

Was I right? Tough call, but in the end I'd have to say Yes, 1000%

# ? Jun 1, 2017 20:37

Cool Buff Man: Jul 30, 2006; bitch

He's so tiny

# ? Jun 1, 2017 20:39

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

EvanTH posted:

Never have hope.

Hope only leads to you unironically thinking Rajon Rondo is the savior of your team.

# ? Jun 1, 2017 20:42

boop the snoot: Jun 3, 2016

EvanTH posted:

I gave a strong pre-playoffs prediction that someone would get frustrated with IT and give him the Bynum Barea but instead we got a knocked-out tooth and some kinda inverted contrapositive formulation of the event

Was I right? Tough call, but in the end I'd have to say Yes, 1000%

Lebron is still so far away from the basket in this picture.

# ? Jun 1, 2017 20:44

BoonyPC: Feb 19, 2007

Dexo posted:

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib7YcAUWBBM

drat, best one yet

# ? Jun 1, 2017 20:45

Noctone: Oct 25, 2005; XO til we overdose..

EvanTH posted:

I gave a strong pre-playoffs prediction that someone would get frustrated with IT and give him the Bynum Barea but instead we got a knocked-out tooth and some kinda inverted contrapositive formulation of the event

Was I right? Tough call, but in the end I'd have to say Yes, 1000%

is there a demotivational poster meme of this yet because if not there should be

# ? Jun 1, 2017 20:45

tanglewood1420: Oct 28, 2010; The importance of this mission cannot be overemphasized

Ghost Dog posted:

curry is a distant third behind draymond in importance

Uh no.

Curry is the entire foundation for their style of play. They play the way they do on offense precisely because they have Steph Curry. Have people forgotten already just how mindbendingly incredible his 2015-16 season was? It was literally one of the five greatest offensive seasons of all time. This year he started slow as they obviously were featuring KD more to get him acclimatised to the offence, but down the stretch he was back to somewhere near his best. In the playoffs he's been really great, .675 TS%, .287 WS/48 (third behind Lebron and Kawhi - yes, ahead of Durant and Draymond), 11.3 BPM (third behind Westbrook and CP3). If the Warriors are going to win Curry is going to have to have a really good series.

You could say that KD or Draymond are more important than Curry in this series and it's an argument, but to say he's a 'distant third' is just silly.

# ? Jun 1, 2017 21:22

morestuff: Aug 2, 2008; You can't stop what's coming

https://twitter.com/RidicUpside/status/870374824845168640

I don't love the Grizzly head but more Sounds-related stuff is cool

# ? Jun 1, 2017 21:25

Redgrendel2001: Sep 1, 2006; you literally think a person saying their NBA team of choice being better than the fucking 76ers is a 'schtick'

a literal thing you think.

https://twitter.com/BobCooney76/status/870378290548273153

# ? Jun 1, 2017 21:36

Zogo: Jul 29, 2003

Michael Corleone posted:

I was going to make a joke, but really I need to know before the series starts: Is Green a tough guy or a fake tough guy?

They're almost all fake tough guys. Very few of these guys would go into a ring and do hand-to-hand combat.

Fast Luck posted:

But I'm not totally sure where that big offensive edge comes from. Career points per 100 Hakeem is at 30.3, with a five season peak of 34.3 @ .521 eFG; Robinson career 31.3 with a five season peak of 36.6 @ .517 eFG. That seems basically equivalent to me and Hakeem had a moderately longer career with 6000 more points and 3000 more rebounds.

Robinson has a TS% a full 3% higher than Hakeem. 3% doesn't sound like much but over the course of two careers that's a big margin.

Their overall WS totals are pretty close when including the playoffs because Hakeem played much longer.

code:

WS	Player
196.2 	David Robinson
185.4   Hakeem Olajuwon

Libertine posted:

George's game will also be fortunate to age anywhere near as well as Reggie's did.

It doesn't get mentioned enough how far ahead Reggie was in style of play.

# ? Jun 1, 2017 21:44

Zogo: Jul 29, 2003

Day 17 of no NBA basketball. It finally starts tonight.

If the Cavaliers lose again and LBJ is without a doubt the #1 player again I hope he finally gets that losing MVP award.

Lockback posted:

For me, I give Hakeem an edge for carrying that 94 team full of not much to a championship. Overall, I am more comfortable putting them both together as insane centers in an era of insane centers and calling them the same tier.

Otis Thorpe is very underrated.

# ? Jun 1, 2017 21:49