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Atlanta was starting players that would've warmed benches in the D League. Cmon now, there's no comparing atl to the Ws
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2015 NBA Finals |OT| the deli is closed
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Barnes Bogut and Green aren't D-leaguers at all, they're just playing like it for whatever reason!
Where'd you get the idea that very few people have a problem with it? It's a common complaint during the NCAA tournament and playoffs and almost everyone I was around and talked to after the game complained about how the constant fouls killed the flow of the game.
Is this supposed to be bad? To me it just says the Cavs worked harder.
Bam Bam Baklava
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It's supposed to be a joke.
But it wasnt funny
Ninja Scooter
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I'm not talking about hack-a-bum type of stuff, but intentional fouling by the losing team in the closing minutes of a close game has always been around.
teruterubozu
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The Finals are about energy conservation, not laying everything on the line. Curry knows this.
See, this was funnier.
Nothing shows for me, what did it say?
Bam Bam Baklava
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Okay.
I guess my material isn't really suited for Cavs fans or whatever you happen to be.
"Harrison Barnes: "If we're going to lose, we're going to lose on our terms.""
I mean we have people suggesting the Cavs throw a game to rest deli and mozgov. Curry and GAF are ahead of the curve.
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Bam Bam Baklava
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They say the candle that burns twice as bright burns twice as fast. We're 3 games in.
apparently this: https://twitter.com/EthanJSkolnick/status/608708776951214081
still kind of a weird thing to say lol
Bam Bam Baklava
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Means twitter doesn't have enough characters to properly convey context.
Man, Lao Tzu is rolling in his grave right now.
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well okay that makes a bit more sense. But still, if the implication is that they'll play their way and not adjust then they should, i dunno, play their way already because they haven't
DoktorEvil
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Lol. Stop Tweeting during the NBA Finals.
Focus on practice, Harrison Barnes.
Focus on practice, Harrison Barnes.
SyenceLabb
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Cavs just need to focus on winning game 4 and everything else will take care of itself. Any team coming back from a 3-1 deficit has only happened 9 times going back as far as 1968, plus I don't think it has ever happened in the Finals.
Ninja Scooter
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Dat UNC education
Bam Bam Baklava
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It was a reporter quoting him.
It's a must win game for both teams for this reason Cavs can't rest easy with a 2-2 result. Like a fighter going for the first round knockout, if he doesn't get it then he could be in a lot of trouble.
hydragonwarrior
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I don't think anyone would know how to react to that. His mind was likely in stealing a ball or defending, not having it passed to him out of nowhere from the other team lol. Going straight to shot mode out of that mindset is probably hard.
I think that mode is different when he's actually on the offense and his thoughts are actually on shooting.
DoktorEvil
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Its fine. Roy Williams prolly had the team taking much needed classes like ballroom dancing and library class.
Randolph Freelander
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His career has been all downhill since he chose Carolina over Duke. Speaking of...
Okafor, slide on down to the Hornets at 9.
n0razi
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i think they are in a unique situation where their depth is so depleted it might not work
n0razi
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kind of makes you wonder how it would play out if they didnt trade wiggins... delly/wiggins/lbj/thompson/mozgov would have been a monster defensively
Ninja Scooter
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if they didn't trade Wiggins they probably wouldn't have LeBron.
Randolph Freelander
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I saw a not-so-hidden stat today that the winner of game 3 in a 1-1 series goes on to win the series 83% of the time, but in the 2015 playoffs, the losing team is 6 for 6 on taking the series. You'd think 6 for 6 would eventually have to regress towards the mean, but this depleted Cavs team might help it go 7 for 7.
Rookies suck on defense and Wiggins is no exception.
Bam Bam Baklava
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You can come up with statistics to prove anything. Forfty percent of all people know that.
Ninja Scooter
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I do find it funny that people are trashing Love as an overrated player who did nothing but put up empty stats on a crappy Wolves team, yet praise Wiggins for one year of putting up empty stats on a crappy Wolves team. If Love's game/stats didn't translate over so smoothly (and we have a much larger sample size) what makes everyone so sure a rookie Wiggins would have beasted on this team?
Damerman
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I'm sorry, i can't read what you're writing.
My only quibble with it is that Wiggins is going to be a better player eventually. I don't think he's a big upgrade over Love right now, but I've never been a fan of Love's game anyway. I thought it was crazy that they gave up a potential superstar for a guy who can score but can't defend a whole lot better than I would be able to.
Bam Bam Baklava
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It's a legitimate concern. I mean, how do you really condition yourself for the NBA finals? There's just no recreating those kinds of conditions. Warriors will be the desperate team too so it will be interesting to see their energy levels.
Ninja Scooter
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At the end of the day I honestly think that LeBron only went to Cleveland contingent on them trading Wiggins for a vet star, someone like Love. They really traded Wiggins for Love and the right to sign LeBron, which is a pretty good deal. Consider it a stupid tax for how badly that organization was run in the years after Bron left the first time around.
Every time I watched Wiggins this season he was bad defensively. Looked like he couldn't give less of a shit on that end. Was he a great defender in college or what?
MetalFearSolid
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Cavs are up 2-1 in the Finals, and we are talking players that Lebron listed in an article that aren't involved in these finals at all.
Irving and TT only ones left to contribute in the finals. Irving got hurt, leaving just Thompson.
Irving and TT only ones left to contribute in the finals. Irving got hurt, leaving just Thompson.
WesternHeretic
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Probably just exhausted on the defensive end. They go from playing 30 games a year to 82, from playing against boys to playing against men.
All the players I mentioned are former Knicks :-D
hydragonwarrior
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Talking to a few ppl, they were saying the ball was already out of Curry's hands when Lebron slipped. I'll need a replay gif...
And then someone shopping the gif into a Street Fighter kind of move.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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The Cavs are not missing a rookie with potential. Come on, now.
BronsonLee
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They have David Blatt!
Andrew Korenchkin
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Fuck Dan Gilbert. That is all.
GO LAKERS!!!!
cubicle47b
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Yeah, I'd love to know what all went down on that plane visit. Lebron had all the leverage, though, so I'm guessing the conditions were:
1. Complete control over his contract / future - being able to opt-out after a year and always stay maxed. He gets paid and has more pull in his respective organization than anyone in the league.
2. Trading for a third all-star, but probably Kevin Love specifically. Also, bringing in his boys even if all they do is keep control of the locker room and give him pep-talks (Miller, Perkins).
3. Dan Gilbert agreeing to pay whatever luxury tax he needs to to keep the talent Lebron wants. This was a big deal after Mike Miller was amnestied.
4. Guarantee of an ownership stake after Lebron retires.
5. Being actually crowned king of northern Ohio at some point after seceding from the United States.
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