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NBA Finals 2017 |OT| Same As It Ever Was
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WhiskerFrisker
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Get bodied Cavs.
friskykillface
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Ainge gonna end the Warriors next year
He's ready
LeBron will trade Love , etc for Crowder, Smart, Bradley, 2018 nets pick
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He's ready
LeBron will trade Love , etc for Crowder, Smart, Bradley, 2018 nets pick
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Or lapsed fans, college fans, etc that tune in once a year to check the game out and say.. nope. That's pretty much what I did. There's no entertainment value here.
Nah, it's equally stupid.
Frozenprince
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They didn't "need" KD, they had the opportunity to sign the best FA in the market since Bron, of course they should have done that, they'd be idiots if they hadn't. That's not "need" that's playing with house money.
it would end the same way.
TBH it was really the whole thing about joining a 73-9 team thing.The warriors didn't need him to go back to the finals.
detectiveconan1
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If the Warriors win the salt will be legendary. Will make the 2012 NBA Finals thread look like nothing.
They do need KD. If this was last years team with Curry/Klay playing this weak we are looking at Cavs in 6. Easily.
Peter Ian Staker
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This is far FAR worse than any other era.
The NBA has always been this. There are 2-5 teams that are competitive and everyone else is fucked. This isn't anything new. Salary cap and money sharing has kept it from being worse, but of course it still happens.
SomewhatGroovy
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What does this even mean? 29-13-11.
OfficerRaichu15
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I mean you talking about a guy who is a fan of a team that can't win a playoff game. I lose hope easily...sadly and I hope Cavs can win in Cleveland.
But they'd be stupid not to go after one of the best scorers of all time if they feasibly could. And they did. They ain't makin moves to appease to people, they tryna win
Frozenprince
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Member when Jordan would have won 9 in a row if not for his dads getting murdered? Member how the only other team to win when he left was the Rockets who had the second best player in the league?
Sure, maybe their paths to get there were harder and teams pushed them to game 7's. But ultimately that's just looking at who came in 5th or 6th and going "man we need more teams like that".
The only sport with Parity is baseball. The others have the illusion of it, Basketball doesn't even have that, and if you expect it, you're a fool.
That doesn't change the talent canyon..
LyleLanley
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Possibly, but I doubt it. It's going to be a hard sell to tell Klay and Draymond that they should keep on taking less money than they can to be the 3rd and 4th most popular guys on a team when other teams will be more than happy to max them out and make them the face of the franchise.
It also depends on what Steph does. If he cashes in this offseason, which he should, good luck telling other guys that money has diminishing returns.
Every time you bring up this trade I hate it more.
nah, tis not
Might get a Spurs x Dubs Finals, but the individual series would be more competitive.
ryutaro's mama
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Ok. That's fine. I get that you are upset.
That's a bit of hyperbole but the fact is, most successful teams generate a ton of fairweather fans. It happens with every fanbase. Where did all these die-hard Patriots fans ( brand new fans like like Sanjuro, Lyle, bread, frisky, etc.
love you guys
There were a LOT of GSW fans before and after their success. They are just a lot louder now. It's their time to shine. We had ours.
See: Above
Lonzon Ball isn't gonna do anything in terms of us competing for a championship anytime soon. We aren't even better than the 9th and 10th place teams in the league. We have to rebuild. It will take time and years.I'm ok with that, especially now with the Cavs and Warriors (and Spurs) beasting.
The last thing I would want is, a Clippers-level team, with all of my players in their prime, running into a buzzsaw every year in the playoffs, leading to endless frustration. No thanks. At least with a young Laker team, I can watch them grow over the next few years and hopefully gel into something.
Our rebuild couldn't have come at a better time.
Frozenprince
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Which is my point, you need to fundamentally alter the entire league if you want to "fix" this and even then I don't think you can.
BassForever
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Exactly, nobody can blame LeBron for this finals loss, he literally ran into a buzz saw there is maybe a handful of teams in the history of the nba that could beat this dubs team in this era. LeBron even said after the ecf "I don't want to think about the dubs it stresses me out".
I doubt the ire is on GS as an organization. Rather KD for choosing that team...
sooperkool
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They wore LeBron's ass out, he was nothing to be concerned with after the middle of the 3rd. If they lose game 3 he's going to quit just like in 2014.
Excuse me? How young are you?
How Sway
Vault Dweller 111
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I know they have KD now. But i bet he 2016 thread looks almost exactly like this one after game 2.
OfficerRaichu15
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If the warriors win I won't be salty but accept that they run the league.
GraveRobberX
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How?
If GSW is 1, San Antonio is 2, Boston 3, Cleveland 4
If the semifinals happen with these 4
So Finals could be GSW vs Spurs
Frozenprince
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He gave everything he had tonight and still lost by 30.
That's all he can do, if Kyrie isn't gonna pick him up, there's nothing left but to move on and hope his robin can get right for the home 2.
They pretty much have done that, and they still cry and complain. I wanna see Lebron take a pay cut, a big on just like durant's and then get another great teamm8. But he will never do that.
CassidyIzABeast
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Bruh the Celtics won 8 straight Finals.
Did he get injured the second half I don't remember seeing him.
LyleLanley
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That's better somehow?
Immaculate
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lmfao
Then why folks actin like GS did something wrong?
Peter Ian Staker
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Tell me how many other times did we have the same match-up in the finals 3 times in a row?
Jordan's Bulls they faced a lot of different teams in the Finals.
Celtics and Lakers in the 80s had a lot of different teams challenging them and pushing them.
Cavs and Warriors got fuck-all to compete with.
Sparkedglory
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LMAO nah fam.
Lonzo Ball isn't gonna do anything in terms of us competing for a championship anytime soon. We aren't even better than the 9th and 10th place teams in the league. We have to rebuild. It will take time and years.I'm ok with that, especially now with the Cavs and Warriors (and Spurs) beasting.
The last thing I would want is, a Clippers-level team, with all of my players in their prime, running into a buzzsaw every year in the playoffs, leading to endless frustration. No thanks. At least with a young Laker team, I can watch them grow over the next few years and hopefully gel into something.
Our rebuild couldn't have come at a better time.
I do agree that the rebuild is perfect timing. Let the Warriors have their dynasty for the next couple of years while the Lakers let their future core grow beastly.
Ball/DLO/Ingram/Randle/Zubac is gonna be fun as hell to watch next year.
does anyone actually want that tho? I know there's a shit ton of salt about the warriors right now but the NBA has always been a super star led league and personally I wouldn't have it any other way
To be fair, it's hard not to mentally check out against the Warriors.
BassForever
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The nfl with it's one and done system also leads to a variety of champions. Were that sport best of 7 the past decade truly would have been the patriots invitational.
WhiskerFrisker
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Yeah. Especially with KD coming for that ring.
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