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EnigmaticEnigma:
damn, James is balling!!

Dude is really an all time GREAT, no doubt about that.

As long as those are 3pt shots I’d take it. It will drop to the mean soon.

Hardetayour:
JaVale MeGee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Giving us minutes and a presence in the rebounding department.

Yes. That thing called rebounds too. We should be doing it.

I think we are still adjusting to the zero ball movement of the Rockets so we are playing like we expect same from Cavs who are surprisingly moving the ball. LeBron is trying to force the D to collapse or let him make his 2 so I think we need to double him when he channels into the paint and put bodies on the consistent shooters. I would rather someone else than JR or Love have looks in such an instance so their offense will stagnate.

3rd Q dubs. Let us go. KD I expect you to stilllead all scorers in this game.

Hardetayour:
Draymond should just go and stand inside ice chamber to cool off.

KD is not here tonight but we're still tied on points going into the half. I'll take this any day.

I pray defence on LeBron would be better as the game goes on.

Is that not the same type of injury Iggy has but Klay is back and Iggy isn't. I'm not understanding

Not the same injury. Iggy clashed knees with James Harden. What they thought was a contusion led to swellings in that area and resulted in some chaffing of the bone. But they kept him out not to worsen it.

If anyone cares to listen, KD is 3-10 or so.

Be very afraid.

Nick Young has missed 2 open 3s but I am writing it down to nerves.

56-56 after some ice cold offense.

LeFlop

LeBum.

Not my GOAT.

Slight foul and he is holding his face as if he was gobsmacked.

BarthramLestat:
Cavs are shooting 60. You lot are shooting 65. Go figure.

56

ipledge10:
I don’t understand why Durant prefers shooting when the time is running down. Cavs have no fowl to give, why not drive to the paint? I still see sweep tho, cos Gsw not playing serious defense right now

Calm down far. Your blood needn’t be hot.

There is a reason I don’t like him running our offense. He loses the ball when pressed and can be easily stripped when he bounces it because he is tall. But he is easily fouled as well.

As for the shots, he was trying to go off. Trying to get into rhythm. You don’t win games by forcing things. We are an experienced team.

No need to expend energy all over when it is not needed. We would play smothering D progressively as the quarters go by.

What you should be happy about is Cavs need to shoot 60% plus to be one ahead.

As long as he walked and was not helped out. He would be fine. If he was helped out that would have meant his left knee had issues.

Why did Klay’s bucket not count?

Killrhymz:
Cavs in 4
you'd be a fool to believe me

This cracks me up so bad.

Draymond after game 5 (Remixed though).

ipledge10:
This was my prediction after game 2. I want to make another prediction for the nba final. I f Cleveland win a game, warriors do it out of respect for Lebron or they want to make money for the organization and NBA

Complacency will be the greatest issue but we don’t have to watch the type of basketball Rockets play so that is fine.

I don’t know how to rate Cavs yet because they were only good on their ground. It was pure heroics and off-shooting that made them win that game 7.

Going by what I have seen of the Cavs, their greatest chance is game 3. But stranger things have happened.

I am going 4-1 Warriors (1 being game 3).

BarthramLestat:
When did stepping over a player become a foul in basketball? That means he should slap him in the nuts? LeBron didn't even say what draymond called him he just said there are things you don't say to a proud family man like him and the report was that he called him a b-tch. Imagine these bums getting cocky, klay saying he got his feelings hurt, LOL! Guess what? Draymond proved the ultimate b-tch and blew a 3-1 lead. After which he called for help because he bit more than he could chew.

Draymond did what he did in game 7 what's to say that wouldn't have been the same case in game 5. Mind you all through the latter part of this series Kevin love also got hurt but that's not an issue because he'd been playoff Kevin love for the most of it.

Your Rubio analogy still doesn't change the fact that this is the third major injury break your team is catching. It's just bare facts, not the warriors doing of course but it is the fact nonetheless.

Let me see. Your second best player requests a trade, you trade him to your rivals. His replacement out for half the season, the team becomes alarmingly awful with various team meetings and scuffles. You trade six players on deadline day for six more who after a good start immediately become worse with some writing you off in the playoffs. During the period, your head coach falls ill for a few weeks. Go into the playoffs and the team turns into brick layers who can't get an open shot to fall. Go into the ECF against a well coached team with a starting five of four top 5 NBA drafted players and the best coach in the league. Same team that eliminates the bucks and Philly. 3-2 down your second best player goes down with a concussion.

But yeah the Cavs didn't have any misfortune.

Then why are you surprised he doesn't get free throws? LeBron doesn't get calls at the start of some games, do you know what he does? He keeps attacking until the refs start blowing their whistle, of course wardell is too much of a fettuccine to do that.

In a crucial game 7 with some of the blatantly bad calls the refs made I would understand their frustration but like I said, when you break the bricking record they broke it negates any argument you have. Some say the refs took the momentum from them and I say that's still their fault.

I don't even know why we are revisiting all of this. Fact of the matter is the warriors tend to get injury breaks at crucial times, period.

Stepping over a player who is seated on the court is a foul. It is induced to rile said player and the instigator should be issued a foul, technical to the opposing team and possession back to them. Green, in rage attempted to strike Lebron’s schlong but he pulled away. Videos show it. Then the NBA claim they are taking his WCF gaffe into account and suspend him from an elimination game on his home court. Okay.

As per your roster, not too sure I care about the details. The fact remains that telling me the team missed shots as an example of things they went through does not cut the mustard. Teams miss some of their shots in lossed games. Your team had vets and Celts did not. Coach or not, same coach lost 4-1 to you guys just last season with a more experienced roster. But you somehow want to squeeze this against all odds narrative for the Cavs. Nah. Won’t work.

I am unfettered that he [Stephen] gets no calls. He is too. I am only presenting it as proof that the refs made mistakes on both ends. A fact nobody wants to concede. All that momentum bafflegab is exactly what it is...bafflegab. They stretched their lead to 15 after the missed call. They got extra possessions from rebounds some of which were fouls. Harden handlocked Bell on that moving screen to bait the refs into thinking Bell was moving him. I could go on and on.

They got beat by almost 100 (92 to be exact) in our 4 wins. They were held to under 100 in 5 games out of 7 (regular season they had 4/82). Apart from game 2 were they won by 22, games 4 & 5 they led by 1 and 2 pts before free throws made it 3 & 4. They led by double digits in 2 halves but expended their energy and could not compete when it mattered. CP3 or no CP3 we deserved to beat them. But surely, his going down in game 5 made the job easier.

BarthramLestat:
Lol! A player kicked a player in the nuts three times in the WCF and then slapped another once again in the gonads in the finals and he got suspended, that's not luck that's stupidity. And where was this player in game 6 and 7, that's not luck, that's choking!

Rubio is not Chris Paul. If they got a break you lot got a major break and again not the first time.

Why don't you go ahead and bring up the Cavs. Include all the misfortune the Cavs suffered all through the season and even in the ECF too.

I'm not talking about refs here. Yes they blew some crucial calls but unlike you I don't dwell on refs especially with the brick job Houston did. Not surprised at all curry got few free throws seeing as he only drives to the hole when the lane is clear.

Did Lebron not step over him? Did Lebron not whine to the front office about Green calling him a bitch? Did the NBA not make a revisionist decision to suspend Green even when they had not done that before nor again after that time?

You ask me about game 6 and 7 but game 6 was in your home so regardless of anything we let it pass. Draymond led all scorers and then some in game 7 (forgot?). So Draymond was a huge miss in game 5 at Warriors ground don’t sleep.

Rubio is not CP3 but Jazz needed him to beat OKC and he would have been good for at least 1 more win for Jazz which would have hastened CP3s hamstring. See how woulda coulda shouldas work?

Cavs did not suffer any misfortunes el negro. You assembled a roster, it failed. You assembled another and you 7-gamed your way past a bunch of 20 year olds without their 2 best players. That is serendipity at its prime.

Love got hurt but your man is the best in the game, surely Love’s absence would not be an excuse for beating 20 year olds?

I do call out refs but you were here when I never called them out even when GSW were down 17 and 15 in both games. That is because I know when Refs are deciding a game and when they are not. I am happy you are towing that honorable path which is the reason I am still engaging you here.

As for Wardell jnr, maybe a player decides to use free lanes to the hoop because when he wades his way through bodies, they never call it. Meanwhile, some others push off defenders or hand-lock them and get all the calls.

Imagine Rockets of all teams complaining about calls and moving screens. That is like Lebron complaining about other people traveling.

BarthramLestat:
1 Rockets aren't warriors

2 3-1 down and still won

How does all of that drivel you posted change the fact that Chris Paul got injured and it's not the first major injury break you got during a playoff series?

Yes with suspensions and injuries that you don’t wanna hear but will easily point it at any GSW fan when it favors you.

But when Jazz had to play them without Rubio it was not luck for them? I don’t even want to bring Cavs into this because you would take a hike if I start.

Alls I wanna know is, how Steph played games 6 and 7 without a single free throw in games that refs helped GSW in or how Rockets somehow have huge leads in games 6&7 (without CP3) and still lost, when the only games they won with him had us tied at half time?

Hardetayour:
Those missed dunks by Bell made me shout and it's midnight here.

Looney has to stay on. They have to sign him up and release Zaza abeg.

My name is Eruditor and I endorse this post.

ipledge10:
Im just looking at the stats...10 assists, 9 rebound 4 steal... That’s crazy game 7

But...but...he was the worst player all series.

Manutd19:
Harden is salty and rightfully so. Easy for the warriors to mount a comeback in any game due to the overwhelming personnel at their disposal. I don't like their attitude towards the game but they can do it.

CP should drag LeBron to Houston for a final showdown next season and let's see if the warriors will keep playing lazy in first half

Overwhelming personnel. Lol

Curry and Klay should be traded.
Draymond is overrated.

etidy:
Let's not kid ourselves this series was only close because the warriors choked in game 4 and 5. They lost a 10 point lead and scored abt 15 points in the fourth quarter of game 4. With iguodala in the line up I think this series would have ended in 5 especially with his stellar defense on harden and chris Paul holding them to 1 / 41 when defending them in isolation.

Another perspective that's bee overlooked is that although Curry was physically fit, he hasn't played much with the Hampton 5 this year and this showed in their execution in tight games. The better team ultimately won.


Cavs vs warriors depend on the cavs defense and winning the offensive rebounding battle to get second looks, if they are average in both, the series maybe over quickly.

Games we lost by 3 and 4. Lol.

Rockets beat GSW 22, 3 and 4 = 29
GSW beat Rockets 13, 41 (CP3 playing) and 29 before game 7 =83

The difference is 54 in 3 games. LOL

I just read somethings and laugh.

BarthramLestat:
2015 finals. Kevin Love and then Kyrie with Cavs in the driver seat.

2017 WCF Kawhi while the Spurs were beating the brakes off of them.

2018 WCF CP3 while they were getting their butt handed to them.

No fault of their own of course but anyone who tries to claim that luck isn't also a factor for this team must be mentally challenged.

Lifted from YouTube. How original.

When Kawhi went down and Spurs still blitz Rockets by 37 Injury did not factor.

Or when Kyrie and Love were playing and the Cavs were still down 3-1

Or when we’re losing by 3 or 4 pts by missing shots in the 4th nobody attributes that to us missing shots or the fact that Rockets got 12+ free throws per game than GSW.

Nobody remembers we shot ass from the FTs.

Nobody remembers that we won by 13, 41, 29 before yesterday.

Nobody recalls that Klay got 3fouls in 4mins in the first Q.

They spoke about 4pt plays forHarden? Cool. Rockets were still up by 15 after the missed call. Harden still got 2 useless pairs of 3pt freethrows in game 6 that showed nobody touched him.

Curry? Curry was hit on every possession that he went to the paint yesterday. Please, read me, EVERY POSSESSION that he went for a 2.

Guess how many free throws he had? 0

Looney missed a dunk. Draymond missed a dunk. Both were fouled on each of those possessions.

Moving screens? Rockets used that all series long to force the switch. They moved Curry on all screens to force him to Harden.

Hand checking by Harden and CP3? My God Harden used his elbow at least 3 times yesterday that was uncalled.

Rockets lost because they missed 27 3s?

How about 3 wide open 3s that Curry hits closing his eyes? He missed those too. That is 9pts. What about some easy deuces that KD missed together with free throws? That won’t keep the game close?

Klay bricked even 2 wide open 3s. That is not an extra 6 pts?

I need chips with the salt you are brewing here.

Hardetayour:
I'm happy for Swaggy P. He needs the ring to complete his swag.

He gave us minutes and 3s. Played solid D.

Bell disappointed me a little but he is a rookie so he is forgiven.

God bless Looney. What a find.

SmooshCHN:
Now the narrative has changed.. KD is hurting parity and we have 4 all stars.. Sounds familiar.

I was waiting for it.

ipledge10:
i was mad when that guy said curry choked this series, curry changed the momentum

I just said no need to post again.

Some of the things we have to read here.

Hardetayour:
Curry was a rebound from making a triple double

Choker Curry?

Averaging 28ppg in game 7s Curry?

Carried his team on his back in the 3rd Q Curry?

Worst player of the series by MILES.

Only the 2 (first option) scorers on both teams out scored him all series.

If I laugh any harder I might crack a rib.

SmooshCHN:
Same!!! Much respect to CP3 as well. Maybe it would have been different.. They pushed us..

Fam.

They pushed us.

I was calm simply because I knew if it was down to the wire we would not make the same game 4&5 mistakes.

I have nothing but respect for the Rockets. MDA too is a great coach who does not get enough credit. We got lucky with CP3 going down but they got lucky in game 4. At the end of the day, I am just grateful we won.

donlittle25:
me I was just mad at Durant sha. Das all

You are a real one.

It was understandable but I knew we were moving the ball so I could not blame KD today.

SmooshCHN:
Eruditor dey sleep?

No Bro. I got tired of reminding you guys who we are so I stopped posting. The moment I saw people blaming Curry, that became my cue to just stop posting.

donlittle25:
Too often he goes misses in tight playoff series.

Formerly I thought it was just Russell not running the point well and being selfish but maybe just maybe that’s just KD.

I refuse to believe that anyways and hope I am just being over the top. Hope he shows up in the other half. If not his offense, his defense

KD is a top 2 talent any time and day.

I am least worried about him. I don’t just want unnecessary ISOs. We have played as bad as we can. We have been punched.

Now we will react.

ipledge10:
Lets see how it goes. The 11 points difference is around where I want it. Rockets are hustling for ball, I see adjustments toward end of 2nd quarter.

They out hustled us. They are home. They are fighting. They were going to fight. I am disappointed at our effort but I am focusing on the positives.

We are down 11.