Next game is a must win for the Cavs--show some life, but the way the Warriors were hitting threes there late in the game, doesn't look good.
It's pretty simple....GS is better.
This is nothing like last year. Durant changes everything, including ensuring Curry doesn't have to try to do too much. Curry is playing the best ball of his career, and if Thompson is out of his dlump it's likely lights out.
Anybteam playing Cleveland in either game 1 or 2 gets their asses kicked. They were playing at an incredibly high level. James attacking, Love draining shots, in game 1 Irving was money in the lane time after time after time. GS simply pummels you into submission. They didn't play perfectly, and both were blowouts.
GS weathered the storm then put them to bed in the second half. This thing is over. 4-0, go Bucks in 2017-18!
Too many weapons that's for sure. Cleveland looks overmatched on both ends of the court.
Somehow though I just have this sneaking suspicion that the league will find a way to keep this series close. Old habits die hard and a 6 or 7 game series would draw monster ratings for what (to this point) has been an uneventful playoff year for the NBA.
Thompson on fire- Cavs trying to hammer Curry to start the game here.
Wow... James goes out, Warriors go on a 10-0 run to finish the 1st quarter. NBA record 8 made threes in the first q.
<edit- 9 threes>
I am WORE OUT after that first half & all I did was drink a couple beers.
My god what a furious pace!
Wait.
There's a game on?
Was watching the Brewers.
The Cavs cannot keep this pace up can they? I'm watching these two teams absolutely attack each other, but just like games 1 and 2, all the slugging Cleveland is doing to stay in the game (or in this case, actually lead) and they're up 5 after 3. James and Irving look completely spent. You have to give them credit... not leaving any doubt about their resolve.
Lebron gets away with the off arm push a LOT...
You just noticed this?
Told the wife to expect all calls going Cleveland way the rest of the game.
KLAY!!! WOWWWWWWW!!!!!
They're out of gas... Irving and James are both on fumes out there. It's all ISO ball right now...
Nothing but props to James and Irving. The effort is insane.
Oh wow... ice cold.
OMG! What a ****ing game!
THEY WANT 16-0!!!!
WOWWWWWWW!
11-0 run finishes the game- just like games 1 and 2, just took longer. The Cavs threw evething they had for 45 minutes. What an effort by Cleveland, but this Warriors team will not be denied.
Cleveland A+++++ shot.
They're done. I expect a double digit blowout on Friday but we'll see.
Man....FINALLY a great basketball game that we all wanted to see.
Great job by Cleveland to not roll over. Seriously. Big props to Cleveland.
If GS stays focused, they'll lock this thing up Saturday. Cleveland spent the reserves tonight. They have nothing left to give in this series.
1-2-3 Cancun!!!
The most feared five-man lineup in the NBA. Golden Stateâs âDeath Lineupâ of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Andre Iguodala, Kevin Durant, and Draymond Green strikes fear into the heart of opposing coaches.
The Warriors won the first two games in blowouts barely using the rotation, just 4.5 total minutes in two games.
But down with 6:30 left in a tight game, Kerr put in Green and unleashed the fully armed and operational Death Lineup.
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LeBron is the best player on the planet. He's AVERAGING a triple double in the Finals. LeBron is 55% and almost 39% FG % from the floor and 3pt line respectively. Kyrie is averaging 27 points per game in the finals. Cleveland is actually playing a spirited brand of defense which is very unlike Cleveland. Cleveland has thrown everything they have at Golden State. And they don't have a damned chance.
Last night Cleveland would have beaten pretty much any team in the NBA over the past 10 years. They played a damned near perfect game. Didn't matter. Cleveland was 12-1 coming into this series. They have played GREAT the first three games of these finals. And they are going to be swept.
The 2018 NBA finals have been cancelled. No need.
A committee is forming to determine if there is a need for the 2019 and 2020's.
Injuries are a possibility, but I hear ya
Gillooly?
Durant drilling by that 3 in Lebron's face with the game on the line tells the whole story of this series. The best player in the world with a sidekick playing at an elite level and a third option who is playing some of his best ball STILL can't defeat this team.
Part of the fun of the next few years will be toppling this juggernaut. And here's how it's going to happen- Lebron will be a Laker. Not next year- but in 2018-19. His new sidekick will be Paul George, and the young group of D Russell and Ingram will be the challenger. Irving will be a Spur, and the West will be unthinkably good at the top.
And the East will be Milwaukee and Boston, and maybe Philly (again).
You really think Lavar Ball is going to quietly sit back and let LeBron get in the way of the Chosen One in LA?!?!
ChilliJon posted:You really think Lavar Ball is going to quietly sit back and let LeBron get in the way of the Chosen One in LA?!?!
As a "chosen one in training"? I think so. Lebron will be 34 by then. I think he's going to leave Cleveland, if for no other reason than my belief that he despises Cleveland ownership. I don't think he feels he owes that ownership group anything.
The whole trip back to Cleveland was to unstain his legacy. That mission has been accomplished. But the new juggernaut has risen, and you can bet he's eyeing the door knowing that Cleveland has albatrosses on their payroll and they'll never be able win another championship playing 45 minutes and 2 on 5. The Cavs can own the east, but they won't have a chance after this.
So where to go? LA. He can get plugged into the entertainment business and invest, he can play with a talented young team while his boss is Magic... Cleveland compared to that?
Lebron can play until he's 40+, but he won't sit in the EC and watch other rising teams overtake the aging Cavs roster.
that's what I think, anyway...
LeBron going to LAL would cement my ultimate hatred of both him and the most frontrunning team in professional sports history.
But it's also likely and predictable. It's why I can't totally respect the guy.
Durant is getting killed for basically doing a LeBron part II. The super teams suck for the league but Bron is the architect of that bull**** so I will always have disdain for the guy much like Bonds and McGuire. They didn't have to do it but they did anyway.
I have run into a couple of articles touting Lebron as the greatest of all time.
I just do not see it. No way. Appreciating that he has had a couple game winning shots (I remember one was from long range to win a playoff game), he just does not shine enough in the crucial moments of big games. He even sometimes looks to not want to be the guy taking the big shot.
Just no way. No way in hell.
Big Shot Bob is the best big moment player ever.....
Speaking of the Lakers, LeBron, and Ball. I strongly urge everyone to spend 8 minutes and listen to Lavar Ball's interview with ESPN. A teaser. LaVar on life advice to his sons.
"I told them, âIf youâre going to be disrespectful to your mom, I want you to be all the time.â So, excuse my language right here, but if you want to say, âGood morning, bitch, thatâs fine with me. Iâm not going to say nothing. If you want to call your mom a bitch, thatâs fine. But donât get sick, when your stomach is hurting and you want me to care for you because you know I ainât. âĶ Sheâll clean up the throw-up, the sât, whatever. Sheâll take care of what you want. âĶ So donât wait until you need something, or you need her to make you something, and now you want to be nice to her"
I think I know the point he wanted to make or tried to make. I think. But **** me is that the worst possible way I've ever heard anyone say "be respectful to others"
Full interview here.
I wouldn't draft Lonzo Ball. Ever. In any round. LaVar is ****ing crazy insane.
That's why I am begging the Lakers to draft that ****o
It's a twisted version of Johnny Football but just as messed up
The LAL deserve that guy please make it happen
By the way he's not that great of a player. If he thinks he's Jason Kidd or Magic he's on ****ing drugs.
He ain't half the passer of Kidd nor is he half the playmaker of Magic
The kid seems OK but pops is a ****ing douchebag so good luck Alonzo you are completely ****ed
Klay Thompson literally STANDING in 1 spot for 2 seconds & it's a blocking foul.
Could the NBA be any more obvious.