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Fast Luck posted:He contested the shot and stuck his leg out, and then decided let's stick that foot further out. So that should already be suspect as hell to anyone watching. Not going to argue that it isn't reckless because it is, but that kind of sticking your leg out to get closer during a contest something that happens in literally every NBA game. Furthermore the little hop isn't anything suspect, in fact go try Zaza's motion out right now. Hop forward in a lateral/45 degree angle and pretend your contesting someone's shot. Chances are you'll do the extra foot step by nature when stopping. In fact that's pretty much the reason Curry falls on closely contested 3 point shot attempts, cause he knows this is something defenders do.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Klay was high as gently caress. or he wasn't high enough 
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The Biggest Jerk posted:Not going to argue that it isn't reckless because it is, but that kind of sticking your leg out to get closer during a contest something that happens in literally every NBA game. Furthermore the little hop isn't anything suspect, in fact go try Zaza's motion out right now. Hop forward in a lateral/45 degree angle and pretend your contesting someone's shot. Chances are you'll do the extra foot step by nature when stopping. In fact that's pretty much the reason Curry falls on closely contested 3 point shot attempts, cause he knows this is something defenders do. Shut up
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May 15, 2017 05:21
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Reports coming in, Ian Clark turned into a living potato for the collective sins of his basketball organization
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May 15, 2017 05:23
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Reckless play is like my #2 pet peeve in pickup just behind people that don't understand hand is part of the ball. Both groups should be fired into the sun
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May 15, 2017 05:24
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https://twitter.com/E_STELO/status/863889673889894400 this musta been dirty too?
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May 15, 2017 05:30
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E2M2 posted:https://twitter.com/E_STELO/status/863889673889894400 Lol come on your better than this
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May 15, 2017 05:32
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drat some Warrior fan went through the whole game trying to find an example of that, lol Well done though, guess LMA is dirty, hope Draymond snaps his legs like twigs
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May 15, 2017 05:33
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WhyteRyce posted:Reckless play is like my #2 pet peeve in pickup just behind people that don't understand hand is part of the ball. Both groups should be fired into the sun Agreed, but there's a very fine and blurred line between reckless/playing hard/hustling. Someone could be praised for playing hard but the moment someone gets injured the label will be instantly changed to reckless (not that they're mutually exclusive though) and hppens all the time in pick-up. "Oh drat I love having that guy on my team, he always shows up" can easily turned into "poo poo that guy is out of control".
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May 15, 2017 05:34
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Does Steph Curry with his pube beard look like a black Daniel Stern in Home Alone to anyone else
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May 15, 2017 05:42
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Vichy Basketball Collaborators is superb
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May 15, 2017 05:49
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May 15, 2017 06:07
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In these trying times, to take our minds off how goddamn dirty and bitchmade the warriors are, let's revisit this fantastic video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRdYCwg4JwY
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May 15, 2017 06:14
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We can pretend the Kawhi injury was an accident but then we're left with the Warriors still getting crazy lucky with injuries against all their top competition
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May 15, 2017 06:20
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Declan MacManus posted:We can pretend the Kawhi injury was an accident but then we're left with the Warriors still getting crazy lucky with injuries against all their top competition Who knows if they even would have made it out if the first round if not for Jusuf "Big Nurk" Nurkic's injury. Lucky indeed.
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May 15, 2017 06:22
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It is funny though that without Nurkic the Blazers were basically only 3-4 games better than the Lakers and they were a playoff team with him. Maybe he should get the MVP.
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May 15, 2017 06:25
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The Zaza thing was intentional Don't try to deny it Zaza is a known shithead I feel bad for the Spurs, there is no way the Warriors win that with Kawhi in and they didn't deserve to win with him out. They played like dog poo poo and should have lost Mike Brown plays downright bonehead lineups, please God let Kerr come back
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May 15, 2017 06:54
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Ammanas posted:Mike Brown plays downright bonehead lineups, please God let Kerr come back Did you watch game 7 of the finals last year?
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May 15, 2017 07:07
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WHY WOULD YOU PLAY FESTUS EZILI IN CRITICAL MINUTES OF GAME 7 this bugs me more than losing when up 3-1
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Errant Gin Monks posted:
looks like a natural blocking motion to me bowen was kind of an oaf lol
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May 15, 2017 07:12
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i admit i would be less upset if kawhi got taken out by a flying bruce lee kick than the undercutting
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Ammanas posted:WHY WOULD YOU PLAY FESTUS EZILI IN CRITICAL MINUTES OF GAME 7 this bugs me more than losing when up 3-1 8 point lead instantly vanished. Let's not criticize lineups by Brown too much.
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I think Brown is getting a pretty bad rap. His lineups are largely the same as Kerr's regular season lineups, especially the Livingston or Clark/Thompson/Iguodala/Green/West start of 2nd lineup that everyone has been criticizing. It worked for them in the first 8 games of the playoffs, then was predictably ineffectual in this Game 1 but I don't consider it to be some unforgivable sin to roll with a lineup until it stops working. After this game is the time to switch it up so that either Durant or Curry is in at all times. Also, let's not act like Steve "Strength in Numbers" "I play Anderson Varejao in Game 7 of the NBA Finals" Kerr wouldn't have done the same thing. The Warriors' lack of pick and rolls in the first half of this game is also largely a continuation of the regular season. Warriors fans were complaining all year that they needed to run more pick and rolls and that the motion offense would struggle against great defenses who could effectively switch, manhandle off the ball and not get lost on backcuts. I've got no doubt in my mind Kerr would have rolled with the same crap gameplan that the Warriors rolled out for this Game 1. It's pretty clear that every second Gasol is in the game Curry needs to attack him in pick and roll though. Gasol might be unplayable and Aldridge has to suck it up and play center, him in with Kawhi, Simmons, Ginobili, and Green is a great defensive lineup that can somewhat effectively slow the Warriors. I still think the main problem for the Spurs is going to be offense though. Role players like Green and Mills are going to struggle against the Warriors length and athleticism, Aldridge is not going to dominate his 1v1 matchup with Green enough that the Warriors will bother to send help, and Kawhi can't do it all himself, especially with a sprained ankle.
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It sure seems that in the first half they wanted to see what part of the motion offense could work. Now that they see that they can't rely solely on it due to the Spur's defense, they're probably more willing to mix in pick n rolls.
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May 15, 2017 09:18
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The salt over the GSW win is real, haha.
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May 15, 2017 09:50
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PnR slows down the offense, gently caress fans and radio show hosts.
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May 15, 2017 09:50
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warcrimes posted:PnR slows down the offense, gently caress fans and radio show hosts. Yeah except all those 3s by Curry after Leonard went down were off of pnr
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JesusSinfulHands posted:I think Brown is getting a pretty bad rap. His lineups are largely the same as Kerr's regular season lineups, especially the Livingston or Clark/Thompson/Iguodala/Green/West start of 2nd lineup that everyone has been criticizing. It worked for them in the first 8 games of the playoffs, then was predictably ineffectual in this Game 1 but I don't consider it to be some unforgivable sin to roll with a lineup until it stops working. After this game is the time to switch it up so that either Durant or Curry is in at all times. Also, let's not act like Steve "Strength in Numbers" "I play Anderson Varejao in Game 7 of the NBA Finals" Kerr wouldn't have done the same thing. I've written so many defenses of Mike Brown that I won't do it again, but basically the only actual bad job he did was Cleveland 2.0 and every other time he was pretty much the victim of some other circumstance. The really interesting thing is that the Spurs actually were fine playing Gasol when the Warriors tried some PnR action early, like they had clearly watched so much tape of the Warriors and picked out so many of their tendencies that they were just squashing these plays. But once Kawhi went out they just stopped successfully predicting the plays and then Pau becomes a pretty big liability in the PnR.
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E2M2 posted:
I can't tell if this is a joke or not.
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verbal enema posted:That didn't work for the Celtics... Black doesn't do as much if your Boston's team.
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Bashez posted:I can't tell if this is a joke or not. homerism is a hell of a drug.
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The cavs were healthy last year . THe warriors don't always play a crippled team.
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Bashez posted:I can't tell if this is a joke or not. they did this with draymonds nut shots too, finding videos that have absolutely nothing in common with what was being talked about except the person also had legs. warriors fans are trash Femur posted:Um love concussion? yeah they flying elbowed him into the base of his skull. wasnt even a common foul somehow
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Rick posted:I've written so many defenses of Mike Brown that I won't do it again, but basically the only actual bad job he did was Cleveland 2.0 and every other time he was pretty much the victim of some other circumstance. I get the sense people already have their mind made up that Brown is a bad and incompetent coach and won't attribute anything the Warriors do well to him, while attributing bad things to him being in charge. Maybe that perception will change if the Warriors win it all while he's acting head coach. I don't quite agree with your characterization of what happened. The first four plays of this clip at the start of the 3rd was basically "go after Pau" while Kawhi was in the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buo3wN-ncoQ&t=112s
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BWV posted:Vichy Basketball Collaborators is superb It's an overhand right of a phrase that's sadly going to be lost on most of twitter.
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Can Bowen or Zaza undercut the jersey corporate logos?
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I heard by far the worst hot take about Zaza at work today. "A big lanky dude trying for a close out on a 3 is now dirty? I'm guessing if it's a black dude into another black dude it's just a basketball play, the same as when that clown punk Oubre went after Kelly O for a hard and clean screen and people thought that was justified. Draymond Green had the audacity to call Kelly O dirty, I wonder why. Green is such a joke. If this was KD and not Zaza no one would even talk about this. It's 100% race. The same way people think that punk Oubre was justified going after the other Kelly O."
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ihatepants posted:I heard by far the worst hot take about Zaza at work today. Lol Jesus Christ. I'm imagining the Venn diagram of "white supremacists" and "sincere Kelly Olynyk fans" is a circle.
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