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Post by BellevueBuckeye on May 25, 2017 22:09:00 GMT -5
(1) Golden State Warriors vs. (2) Cleveland Cavaliers
Game 1 – Thu. June 1: Cleveland at Golden State, 9 p.m., ABC/R Game 2 – Sun. June 4: Cleveland at Golden State, 8 p.m., ABC/R Game 3 – Wed. June 7: Golden State at Cleveland, 9 p.m., ABC/R Game 4 – Fri. June 9: Golden State at Cleveland, 9 p.m., ABC/R Game 5 * Mon. June 12: Cleveland at Golden State, 9 p.m., ABC/R Game 6 * Thu. June 15: Golden State at Cleveland, 9 p.m., ABC/R Game 7 * Sun. June 18: Cleveland at Golden State, 8 p.m., ABC/R
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Post by 4 on May 26, 2017 2:16:18 GMT -5
Bring it home cavs. It will be tough. But the task is at hand.
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Post by tommygunn on May 26, 2017 6:53:48 GMT -5
If they play like they did last night, you will see 7 games of some very good NBA basketball. Going to be extremely tough.
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Post by 4 on Jun 2, 2017 7:53:40 GMT -5
TT has to rebound. Williams, Korver, JR have to do WAY more. Limit turnovers and play some defense. Short series if play transition defense like last night.
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Post by galion on Jun 2, 2017 12:52:44 GMT -5
The only team that can beat Golden State is Golden State. The talent disparity is just too much. LBJ is literally going to have to put on a cape and walk on water to beat this team.
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Post by 4 on Jun 2, 2017 18:54:47 GMT -5
73 Win team + KD. I can agree.
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Post by CEOSouth on Jun 3, 2017 10:36:09 GMT -5
Well, giving up some many 2nd chance points and points in the paint as well as an overwhelming amount of turnovers and the lack of turnovers by Golden State, I think we can hang our hat on the fact we didn't get beat by 50. That's a positive....I think.
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Post by DrTorch on Jun 3, 2017 21:46:17 GMT -5
if GS loses this series it will be the biggest choke job in sports history
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Post by tommygunn on Jun 4, 2017 20:44:46 GMT -5
The addition of KD is just too much for Cleveland this round. This is GS to lose. I could see them sweeping Cleveland or only losing one game.
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Post by CEOSouth on Jun 5, 2017 10:01:24 GMT -5
Not to be that guy, but both of those games in GS were not officiated in CLEs favor by a long shot.
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Post by Whittaker on Jun 5, 2017 22:35:29 GMT -5
Lebron & Love playing well...really well. Even with Durant playing well Lebron is better. Love is outplaying Green, Kyrie struggling with Curry, and after that we are completely outmatched. Like Torch & Galion said, Golden State must do some choking for us to have a realistic chance.
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Post by cbus on Jun 6, 2017 17:26:59 GMT -5
Our bench has been bad and JR only has 23 3's in the playoffs this year. Last year he had 65. But it was also looking bad last year after 2 games.
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Post by ScarletFever on Jun 7, 2017 23:14:55 GMT -5
Cavs played lights out 3.75 quarters but if you let off gas vs GSW at all it's a 10-0 run.
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Post by sportsjock on Jun 8, 2017 4:41:11 GMT -5
Stick a fork in em'.
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Post by Rambo McClain on Jun 9, 2017 10:01:50 GMT -5
Cavs either quit and lose by 40+ tonight or they play like they did last game and get the W, play all 48 minutes this time instead of 45 minutes. I don't see anything in between happening.
If the Cavs get the W they will head back to GS down 3-1. Just like last year. I hope the Cavs are mentally all there tonight and get the W.
Kevin Durant blew a 3-1 lead in the WC Finals last year and then ran to a 73 win team Steph Curry blew a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals last year then begged the #2 player in the world to join him
Send this back to GS down 3-1 and see if these 2 snowflakes fold again.
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Post by baldref on Jun 9, 2017 14:18:33 GMT -5
warriors will win big tonight and no one in the nba will touch them for the next 3-4 seasons. they will attract top free agents, just like the cavs did, and will keep on rolling. meanwhile, back in the land, even with lbj, kyrie and love, there's not enough on the horizon to help out. it was nice though, to see a Cleveland sports major championship in my lifetime. now my tombstone can read lived a life without a world series championship or super bowl title from Cleveland teams. one out of three is better than nothing!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2017 7:48:34 GMT -5
warriors will win big tonight and no one in the nba will touch them for the next 3-4 seasons. they will attract top free agents, just like the cavs did, and will keep on rolling. meanwhile, back in the land, even with lbj, kyrie and love, there's not enough on the horizon to help out. it was nice though, to see a Cleveland sports major championship in my lifetime. now my tombstone can read lived a life without a world series championship or super bowl title from Cleveland teams. one out of three is better than nothing! The team won big but it wasn't the Warriors. I don't see a 3-4 season dominance either. With contracts expiring it could fall apart this summer. And for the NBA I hope it does. Teams consistently sweeping in the playoffs is not good.
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Post by BellevueBuckeye on Jun 10, 2017 7:54:49 GMT -5
Well, just glad the Cavs avoided the sweep.
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Post by Rambo McClain on Jun 10, 2017 9:23:19 GMT -5
If Kevin Durant wasn't on GS then the Cavs would take games 5, 6 and 7 again. If Kevin Durant wasn't on GS the Cavs would have won Game 3 and it would be 2-2 right now.
A 73-9 team adds the #2 player in the World. Hopefully all the Cavs roll players show up strong again and the Cavs bring this back to CLE. The first quarter will be huge in game 5. GS will want to come out and score 50 (pull a reversal of what the Cavs did to them) so the Cavs need to be down no more than 5 pts at the end of 1 if they want to have a shot at the end.
Are the refs going to be atrocious? Are the refs going to give the Warriors homer calls? Are the refs going to let GS players punch Cavs players in the nuts again? Are the refs going to call flagrant fouls on Cavs players for touching a Warriors head and not on Green for tomahawking down on a Cavs players head again? Are the refs going to give Mike Brown a T this time after Green picks up his 2nd to keep Green in the game? Are the refs going to T up another Cavs player for being on the receiving end of a punch to the nuts.
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Post by CEOSouth on Jun 10, 2017 11:46:03 GMT -5
Regardless of which side you were rooting for last night, the officiating was terrible. Again.
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Post by BellevueBuckeye on Jun 13, 2017 6:26:35 GMT -5
In just 4 trips the Cavs have now been a part of a 4, 5, 6 and 7 game NBA Finals.
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Post by Rambo McClain on Jun 13, 2017 8:08:33 GMT -5
millennials like to take the easy way out and join super teams so they don't have to work hard to get to the top.
Lebron ran from Cleveland to join up with proven winner Wade. Durant ran from OKC to a 73 win team that had a NBA Title 2 years prior.
Durant played HS at Oak Hill Academy and Montrose Christian. Power house private schools that destroy 'do it the hard way' public schools Lebron played HS at Akron SVSM. Power house private school that destroys 'do it the hard way' public schools.
Lebron and Durant have spent their lifetimes creating Super Teams to get easy wins over teams that 'do it the hard way'
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2017 8:27:30 GMT -5
millennials like to take the easy way out and join super teams so they don't have to work hard to get to the top. Lebron ran from Cleveland to join up with proven winner Wade. Durant ran from OKC to a 73 win team that had a NBA Title 2 years prior. Durant played HS at Oak Hill Academy and Montrose Christian. Power house private schools that destroy 'do it the hard way' public schools Lebron played HS at Akron SVSM. Power house private school that destroys 'do it the hard way' public schools. Lebron and Durant have spent their lifetimes creating Super Teams to get easy wins over teams that 'do it the hard way' You're comparing high school squads with the NBA? That pretty much discredits your notion. Also Magic played with Worthy and Kareem. Bird played with McHale and Parrish. Jordan played with Pippen and Rodman. Kobe and Shaq were on the same team. KG, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce played together. Basically all teams that win the title are super teams
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Post by Rambo McClain on Jun 13, 2017 9:00:21 GMT -5
Huh??? KD joined a 73-9 team.
Name 1 other superstar that joined a 60+ win team, let alone a 73-9 team. KD (millennial) is the only superstar to run to a 73 win team. It's what they teach these millennials in HS, take the easy way out and form a super team like you did at Oak Hill.
Kevin Durant joined a 73 win Golden State team Shaquille O'Neal joined a 53 win LA Lakers team Charles Barkley joined a 48 win Houston team LeBron James joined a 47 win Miami team LeBron James joined a 33 win Cleveland team
And so what Magic played with Worthy and Kareem? Magic was drafted by the Lakers. Worthy was drafted by the Lakers. Kareem was traded to the Lakers. They didn't leave their team and join up with a 73 win Lakers team just to get an easy NBA Title.
Kevin Durant also played with Russell Westbrook and James Harden in OKC and lost in the NBA Finals. It was tough. He remembered his HS days of the ease of winning at Oak Hill Academy and decided to do the same thing he did in HS and join a super team (73 win team) so he could get the easy Title. He's the only player to ever do that, every other player to join a team in FA had to believe that 'they' could be the piece to put that team over the top. Durant joined a 73 win team, all he had to do is not screw up like Harrison Barnes did in the Finals.
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Post by CEOSouth on Jun 13, 2017 9:46:01 GMT -5
KD- Finals MVP Westbrook-Probably NBA MVP Harden-Probably NBA MVP Runner Up
Must feel real nice being an OKC fan right now.
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Post by Whittaker on Jun 13, 2017 9:57:23 GMT -5
The curse from Seattle?
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Post by CEOSouth on Jun 13, 2017 10:01:55 GMT -5
Ha. Possibly.
Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb, 2 1sts and a 2nd for James Harden set it all in motion.
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Post by CEOSouth on Jun 13, 2017 10:38:45 GMT -5
It gets even more comical when you consider that the reason OKC traded Harden was so they could keep Kendrick Perkins.....who could stop Dwight Howard.
If they get rid of Perkins, they could have kept Harden, Westbrook and Durant.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2017 11:17:50 GMT -5
Durant is walking this path alone. I cannot remember a top 5 NBA player ever joining the best team in the league. He sold his competitive spirits to get a ring as many older stars try to do. But his career is still peaking.
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Post by NorCal on Jun 15, 2017 18:19:59 GMT -5
The Warriors are picking up the entire tab for today's parade.
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