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NBA Playoffs |OT| AKA Derrick Rose's family time
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CreeperBlocks
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Is Jonas starting or is he going to be starting on the bench?
Pretty sure he'll be off the bench. Doubt he's 100% yet but good enough to go and give Biz a breather if need be.
CreeperBlocks
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Harden + Westbrook = Very aggressive players that try to draw contact or draw a lot of contact naturally and get to the line.
Durant = Incredibly long player that also plays aggressive and is hard not to foul and draws a lot of contact.
It's no surprise that they got and continue to get a lot of calls. Harden averaged 6 FT attempts per game during the Finals season run with the Thunder. He's averaged 10.2 FT attempts in 2 different seasons with Houston over his time there.
Pretty much. I think I'm too depressed to watch.
Liquidsnake
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If Raps win tonight, that would be something. Im pulling for you CA.
unknownstranger
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He hasn't been able to guard Waiters or Roberson either. Waiters has been easily driving by him and Roberson is constantly moving and losing him. Most of Roberson's shots were easy layups because he lost his man.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
i don't know anything about basketball, but isn't chasing after a relatively meaningless record like winning the most regular season games rather silly? maybe the warriors in general are just running out of steam, and would have been better off if they had taken it easy before the play-offs.
I kind of hope the finals ends up OKC vs Toronto just to spite the rigged officiating in the Cavs/Raps series and the bullshit no suspension flagrant 2 in the OKC/GSW series. Let the NBA eat the lowest rated finals in a decade for their obvious attempt to massage a Warriors Cavs finals again.
Problem was that another team was right on their ass for most of the season as far as having the #1 seed. There were maybe 2-3 games where they could have actually rested without risk.
darkwing-buck
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Still cracks me up when people still chant, "USA", when playing the raps even though the majority of the players on that team are american XD
friskykillface
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How Kerr hasn't made the switch blows my mind, know your players strengths on defense, hell have Klay guard him since Klay guards Roberson?
Believe in Biyombo
Hot take:
After that Spurs blowout loss KD told the locker room he's going back to his home planet if they don't win the title this year
CassidyIzABeast
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Michael Lee ✔ ‎@MrMichaelLee
The 72-win Bulls beat a team from Seattle to claim an NBA title. A team from Seattle is one win away from eliminating the 73-win Warriors.
The 72-win Bulls beat a team from Seattle to claim an NBA title. A team from Seattle is one win away from eliminating the 73-win Warriors.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
i don't know how nba works, but isn't oklahoma city thunder from, uh, oklahoma?
They moved there from Seattle. Kevin Durant started his career on the Seattle Supersonics.
Okc was originally in Seattle and the team moved. The tweet is a bit of a reach though anyway lol
I'm still in shock that Dwight Howard picked the Thunder to win the series with three logical reasons a couple of weeks back on the TNT postgame show.
all I'm getting from this is that the Sonics need to be back
You can have a back ended sweep but they split the first two games the wrong way. Would still be pretty embarrassing though.
As good as a help defender he's been in his career I always thought he knew a bit about the game. I mean he single handedly made that magic team of terrible defenders into a top 5 defensive team.
Kerr is getting worked in this series. It's crazy that Donovan might go through Carlisle, Pop, and Kerr in consecutive series. That's the two best coaches in the league and the reigning Coach of the Year! After last series, when OKC went huge against SA, everyone thought we'd see them punish GS with Adams and Kanter together. But now they've dropped Kanter and gone fast and small. Donovan isn't winning by following a formula; he's shifting his gameplan based on his opponent and making the other team look silly.
The first five-game sweep since the '04 Finals!
The ripple effect from Dwights great night on TNT continues.
CreeperBlocks
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Casey said Jonas has no limitations with his ankle
BlackGhost
Banned
Big game tonight. Would like to see Love playing aggressive like he did earlier in the Playoffs, and for Thompson to do opposite of whatever he's doing.
Let's do this Kave!
Let's do this Kave!
valkillmore
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OK Raptors try and make it a heartbreaking loss and not a blowout. Not expecting them to win tonight but also didn't expect them to take the last two.
CassidyIzABeast
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Feel like the Cavs are going to run them out the building
sf2fanatic
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Who says no that Lebron won't put up 50 tonight?
eBay Huckster
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Let's Go Kaves
CassidyIzABeast
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JR Swisher is due for a fuckball game.
OpinionatedCyborg
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it's been a much more interesting series, though. okc-gsw has been tedious outside of the nut shots.
darkwing-buck
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Have a feeling Lebron will go into game 6 Boston Celtics mode.
BlackGhost
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Rebounds! :")
BlackGhost
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Thompson showing up early, must have seen my post.
MetalFearSolid
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Caroll what a stupid play.
Seems like Lowry needs to piss.
Seems like Lowry needs to piss.
CassidyIzABeast
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Kyrie wanted Lebron to set a screen for him and Lebron was like wait what?
MetalFearSolid
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Grab a fucking rebound.
MetalFearSolid
Banned
Casey get Scola out of there you stupid fool.
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