NBA 2015-2016

Thunders should be ashamed of themselves. The Arsenal of the NBA.

Curry showed why he is the first unanimous MVP in the history of the league.

I think that Warriors will defend their title now.
 
ZDwyr said:
I think OKC were a more difficult match-up for GSW than the Cavs. I am predicting the Warriors in 5. Maybe 6 if they have a bad shooting game.

My opinion has gradually changed throughout these playoffs. But Golden State seemed to be back to their shooting best the last few games.
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This finals will be an interesting one. Much has been made of the absences of Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love from last year's series but I'm not sure (yet) if having them back will hurt or help Cleveland. Last year they bullied the Warriors, out-muscled them, essentially beat them up on defense and then let Lebron carry the load on the offensive end. This year they appear to be set up much more like the Dubs themselves. They have become a team of 3 pt. bombers. The thing is, I'm not sure you can out shoot Golden State especially over seven games.
 
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Revan said:
Thunders should be ashamed of themselves. The Arsenal of the NBA.

Curry showed why he is the first unanimous MVP in the history of the league.

I think that Warriors will defend their title now.
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Slightly unfair. While they did choke they did it to arguably the best team of all time.
 
Thunder took the Warriors to 7 games and knocked out the 65-win Spurs. Even though they blew a 3-1 lead that's nothing to be ashamed of. No one thought they'd get this far.
 
entropy said:
KD is almost useless under pressure.
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It's weird because he never used to be. But he had a poor playoffs no doubt. Shot the 3 under 30% I think. Plus the turnovers. Not really sure what happened to him.
 
crimsonife said:
Thunder took the Warriors to 7 games and knocked out the 65-win Spurs. Even though they blew a 3-1 lead that's nothing to be ashamed of. No one thought they'd get this far.
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Doesn't matter what anyone thought.

They have 2 of the best 5 players in the league, they were up 3-1 and no only that but blew double digit leads in consecutive games.

That's without going into the final 6 minutes of game 6

13 possessions - 14 passes!!!!

6 turnovers in the final 3 minutes

That's a choke job, no matter how to slice it.


 
From yahoo sports.

"Despite trailing by as many as 13 points in the first half, the Warriors surged past the Thunder after intermission and held off a late Oklahoma City charge for a 96-88 win that completed their comeback from a 3-1 series deficit, earned them a 4-3 win in the Western Conference finals, and sent them on to the NBA Finals for a highly anticipated rematch with LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. That series will begin Thursday night at Oracle Arena.

When Game 1 gets going, through, it remains to be seen whether Green will be in a Golden State uniform. The NBA reportedly plans to review the latest Green/Adams incident. If the league's disciplinarians determine that Green's hook of Adams' arm constituted unnecessary and/or excessive contact, Green could receive a retroactive flagrant foul. Given the rap sheet he's racked up through the first three rounds of the postseason, that would be a very costly bit of after-the-fact justice for the Warriors forward."
 
entropy said:
He was useless during the 3rd quarter. Which is when Klay and Curry did most of the damage.
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That is true but none of the Thunder exactly covered themselves with glory during the period. I would argue when the pressure was really on with time winding down in the 4th quarter and OKC down by 11, Durant by his lonesome almost made it a game again with that 7-0 run. He shot 53% from the field last night with 27 pts to lead the Thunder. I'm not going to deny that there weren't times (game 6 stands out) when the pressure got to him during this series I just don't think, for the most part, game 7 (which really is the game when the pressure is at its zenith) was one of those times.

Now Westbrook on the other hand..........................
 
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If Golden state hit their shots, i dont see the cavs stopping them, GS in 6.

Lebron is going to have to play out of his mind.
 
Oh man I finally watched the rest of game 7, jeez KD and Russ will never live this down. I don't care if it's Warriors, you gotta close out a series when up 3-1, embarrassing.
 
Not remotely embarrassing, get a grip. They lost a 3-1 lead to a GOAT contending team who had another level to step up to close that series out, the Thunder were playing at that level to get to 3-1 and to beat out the Spurs so that's a lot of time to sustain your top level, and further to prove that point, they were still third favourites for the title at 3-1 for a lot of bookmakers and pundits.

Warriors can't afford to lose to the Cavs, they are chasing history in the sport, the Cavs are chasing a first title(again!).....somethings gotta give, and the Warriors have come through time and time again this season in those moments(@Spurs to break THEIR history making undefeated home record while cementing the 73-9, 3-1 against the OKC down being the biggies)

Bulls 96 may still be better for some, but the Dubs have an unreal season with genuine moments in it, Bulls just stomped their way to the title. Legit only concern they had all year was when Peyton defended like a god in the finals and Seattle picked back to back wins at home...
 
Zen said:
Not remotely embarrassing, get a grip. They lost a 3-1 lead to a GOAT contending team who had another level to step up to close that series out, the Thunder were playing at that level to get to 3-1 and to beat out the Spurs so that's a lot of time to sustain your top level, and further to prove that point, they were still third favourites for the title at 3-1 for a lot of bookmakers and pundits.
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Sure they played at an insane level when they annihilated Warriors twice, but they didn't need to be THAT good to win at least one of the last 3 games, especially considering their late lead at home. KD especially didn't step up in the last 2 games.
 
okLaptop1 said:
Sure they played at an insane level when they annihilated Warriors twice, but they didn't need to be THAT good to win at least one of the last 3 games, especially considering their late lead at home. KD especially didn't step up in the last 2 games.
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Game 6 I'll give you, but if 27 points on 53% shooting isn't stepping up in game 7, I don't know what is. Especially when the whole world and his brother (and his brother's brother for that matter) has been telling you to share the ball.

Westbrook now....... (no laughing at the back there Mr. Curry).
 
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Bit of a mad question....as I didn't watch game 7, but these two stats KD(-4 in 44 minutes) and Russ(-14 in 45 minutes) tell me that Curry(+18 in 40....far higher than anyone else) decided to torch Russell when KD left the court for some odd reason?
 
Apparently Varejao is getting a ring no matter who wins because he played for the Cavs the first half of the season. This is great:lol:
 
charlton66 said:
Game 6 I'll give you, but if 27 points on 53% shooting isn't stepping up in game 7, I don't know what is. Especially when the whole world and his brother (and his brother's brother for that matter) has been telling you to share the ball.

Westbrook now....... (no laughing at the back there Mr. Curry).
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27 isn't bad, but 27 in game 7 when you're one of the best offensive players in the world isn't good enough. That one performance against Spurs last series was what he should have produced at least once out of the final 3 games. I'm holding KD up to a higher standard here. Russ too, but we already agree on that one.
 
Not sure that's it, both had low shot counts given the whole starting 5 had 10+ shots, and even Walters 9.....up until game 7only Ibaka had even got into double figures a few times prior.

GSW pretty much forced that, by sharing the shots more, it should of made the shots they did take more efficient, KD was, Russ wasn't.

Still, theres only so much a two man show can do against a deep team, their win over the Spurs was pretty miraculous even with Pop refusing to bench Tim.
 
Zen said:
Not sure that's it, both had low shot counts given the whole starting 5 had 10+ shots, and even Walters 9.....up until game 7only Ibaka had even got into double figures a few times prior.
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This was primarily because the media were going off on OKC after game 6 for regressing to their so called "hero ball" ways of earlier in the season. That's why I was OK with Kevin Durant's performance in game 7. Shooting 53% (10-19) and scoring 27 pts is a pretty good night when you're trying to share the ball. Shooting 33% (7-21) when you're the point guard and are supposedly trying to get away from being a ball hog is not. The whole starting 5 had 10+ shots as you point out, but it also true that 3 out of the other 4 starters shot at a higher clip than Russell Westbrook.

Stop laughing Steph. It's rude!
 
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After LeBron was flopping like a mad seal in our series I wanted GS to win the finals, but when he hugely praised our fans I've gone back to wanting him to win another ring (and boast that the raps lost to the Champs).

Yes I'm fickle like that.

Either way it should be a great series.
 
MrMarcello said:
Kinda want LBJ to win a championship for Cleveland but not at the expense of GS's claim as the GTOAT never-ending argument.
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With the east the way it is Lebron will be back in the finals for the next 5 years. Cleveland will have plenty more opportunities. This is a special year for the Dubs.
 


New Game of Zones episode. "Signed AF. Who could that be?":lol:
 
Breakdown of where and when the Splash Bros hit their 3 pointers.

Don't forget to take into account they sit out a lot of 4th quarters, so numbers are skewed.

Steph in crunch time....WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Curry is the epitome of that Double Dribble video game saying "he's heating up" and "he's on fire" as the game progresses (this postseason).

Thompson is fairly consistent throughout.
 
With most expecting this to be closer given LeBron has his friends about this time....I'm kinda thinking 4-1 Warriors with a random throwaway loss. Don't care either way.
 
Zen said:
With most expecting this to be closer given LeBron has his friends about this time....I'm kinda thinking 4-1 Warriors with a random throwaway loss. Don't care either way.
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I think the question is, will Irving and Love help Lebron more on the offensive end than they hurt on the defensive end? Based on regular season, the answer was no. Will be interesting to see how it works out.
 
Can someone explain Curry to be? How can you be such a great player but be anonymous to the casual viewer at age 23-24? That's not normal for the NBA is it, a player being that good without everybody knowing who he was in high school?
 
Snow said:
Can someone explain Curry to be? How can you be such a great player but be anonymous to the casual viewer at age 23-24? That's not normal for the NBA is it, a player being that good without everybody knowing who he was in high school?
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Mark Jackson.

Steph was actually a pretty good college player at mid major Davidson although he did get turned down by his dad's alma mata Virginia Tech. In the pros, however, his problem was that Mark Jackson could not coach offense. Steph should thank Steve Kerr every day that his career took off.
 
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