theignoramus
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Im taking Portland to win the series. The Clippers dont have the mental toughness to get by without CP and Blake has poor leadership skills. I feel bad for Paul Pierce.
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Im taking Portland to win the series. The Clippers dont have the mental toughness to get by without CP and Blake has poor leadership skills. I feel bad for Paul Pierce.
nah i definitely believe it. he's been playing with a banged up elbow since january, they even drained it a couple of times.
theignoramus
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They dont even run an offense most of their games and they are poorly coached. Theyll be out in 6 games. You cant win more than that playing the way they do against a cohesive and talented and well coached unit like SA. LMA and Kawhi ensure they can absorb whatever scoring bursts OKC goes on and answer it on the offensive end. (the way LMA has changed the way this SA team matches up with teams like OKC cant be overstated)
KazenY2J
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Kawhi
Kawhi can casually walk into pull up 3 pointers? Or does he need 3 different screens and 4 passes?
friskykillface
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Why can't we say Kawhi?
They both even out
Now it's Westbrook X Ibaka vs Aldridge X Duncan X Parker X Ginobili
This thunder team is a struggle
MetalFearSolid
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As a Raptors fan, I wanna see Paul Pierce play because "that is why they brought me here" right Paul?
Just 2 more games till you retire.
Tomorrow, Raps better take care of business against the Pacers something tells me they won't.
Actually the Clips were surprisingly good when Paul was out and Griffin was playing a point forward. Unfortunately a hobbled Griffin isn't going to get it done.
Exactly. And Crabbe has been struggling badly so far too so this was really needed for his confidence.
CP3's hand injury, man. Clips might lose this series.
Does it matter? SA wins with defense and a strong bench
Does it matter? SA wins with defense and a strong bench
Atomic Playboy
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It's a good thing basketball is always played 1 on 1. That's why Allen Iverson won all those titles.
MetalFearSolid
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Either way they have Cameron Payne's reactions. It is Westbrook's fuel.
theignoramus
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Like he can overwhelm SA himself. They wont lose their shit if he and Westbrook average 75ppg between them for the series, its OKC's bum ass role players who are gunna get shut down and shut down hard.
You bite your tongue regarding my boy AI! Can't you make a Marbury joke instead?
I think he gave Gerald and Lillard whatever his affliction was. Lillard funked out of it but Gerald was shooting through new gravity tonight. Shit was ugly.
I really don't see the Spurs losing another game until WCF should they meet a healthy Warriors team, barring any freak injuries to the Spurs' main squad. They are just so good right now, and probably the best the team has ever been in their history.
I'll give OKC one game max. This is gonna be Spurs in 5.
I'll give OKC one game max. This is gonna be Spurs in 5.
TheSadRanger
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pfffttt Ginobili will beat OKC with one nut and use his leftover other nut to boost the Spurs power levels DBZ style like a senzu bean.
Yes he can, he's one of the best 3 pts shooters in the league.
Now it's true, he doesn't take as many walk into a pull up 3 as Durant, but that's because The Spurs actually have an offensive system while OKC run a "let's give it to Durant/Westbrook and see what happens" style offence.
But he is capable of making them if need be.
p.s.
I'm not saying he's as good as an offensive player as Durant. He isn't.
panthapanda
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I was considering going to the Hawks game but I don't want to be let down and jinx the team since every game I've been to have been L's. I hope we win D:
Magic actually did that because Mo was no longer in their plans but they genuinely liked the guy and wanted to send him to a good situation:
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/15316064/trail-blazers-streamline-fly-renovations
Blazers vs Warriors will be a massacre. Kerr will just force constant switches with Lillard, forcing him to guard bigger guys like Livingston, Klay, Barnes, Draymond. He'll either be in foul trouble or just get destroyed in the post. You can't play Dame and CJ against that lineup because they're both too small. They'd get bodied. Even sans Curry.
MetalFearSolid
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Kevin Durant about to play his last series with Okc.
Wonder where he will end up taking his talents to?
Wonder where he will end up taking his talents to?
UncleMeat
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His solar-powered-bald-spot superpowers do concern me some....
I wish the Spurs would be as overconfident and dismissive as their fans, but of course they won't be. Spurs in 7, Patty Mills flop count over/under: 56.
MetalFearSolid
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Spurs have to be in Lebron's head by now.
Dude must really hate that team.
About to cost him 3 rings.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Luckily the Spurs are waiting to destroy him one more time so he has nothing to worry about.
darkwing-buck
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Agreed, although with these injuries this will probably be his best shot at winning a ring in cleveland.
Bam Bam Baklava
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He was always going to face either Spurs, OKC, or Warriors and have no home court against any of them. So unless all three collapse nothing changes for him.
UncleMeat
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Cavs have a better record than OKC I believe. Also, it would be a very Thunder thing to do to somehow miraculously get out of the west only to lose the finals to LeBron again.
MetalFearSolid
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Spurs winning a title is just boring for the NBA. I said it.
Again the way they play basketball is exciting and outstanding but them winning another title isn't appealing at all.
Again the way they play basketball is exciting and outstanding but them winning another title isn't appealing at all.
Tell me he did not say that. What an idiot.
nogoodnamesleft
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MetalFearSolid
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He is not retiring even if they win! Dude has a year left on contract will probably play it out.
The last thing I want to see is the Spurs finally winning back 2 back titles. Fuck that.
Read this too. Goodwill is a ringmaker in exactly zero sports. I do like the Magic though so good luck and I REALLY like how you 'send off' your players.
He can hit a walk up 3 with a dude in front of him. He doesn't do it as often as KD does since the Spurs move the ball around a lot more, but he picks his spots.
Atomic Playboy
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I was watching the game with my buddy, and he made the morbid, but perhaps accurate, assessment that Gerald Henderson's ass was the Blazers MVP when it broke CP3's hand. So from the shitty "any means necessary" perspective, Gerald Henderson did pretty good. But from an actual basketball standpoint, yeah, that was a bad game for Gerald. The Clippers' defense is overplaying the guards and forcing the Blazers overmatched frontcourt to beat them; if Henderson can't hit open midrange shots, they'll let him shoot all night.
I entirely agree. Yet I see them going down to Lebron if they knocked off SA and a weakened GSW haha. Either from the moment being too big, Lebrons mental edge, or experience. Just see OKC as the perennial dangerous but falls short team
he didn't it was taken out of context. if you just read twitter headlines then yeah he said it. if you actually read articles, naw.
UnObtainium17
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Your boy Dirk can only do so much on a team that got Deron and JJas a starter and a Felton as a backup..
Edit darn only dirk reached double digit scoring for the mavs.
That's........................wait for it................THE TRUTH
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