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UlrikVandram:
LOL! So? Why should that matter when he's a bum like you. Only you admitted he's dumber.

And I'm yet to see where I called iguodala the dirtiest player in the league. Another instance him being insincere so his credibility is tarnished in my eyes. He's probably a victim of the same fallacy that only home commentators cover games or you got that from him.

They maybe TNT commentators or GSW commentators but no way in he'll they are celtics commentators. Fact!

There's no argument here. I'm teaching a class.

You are right. I am wrong. The commentary was done by GSW commentators. You are a master who is always right. You are not a bum or a bumbling oaf who more than ever justifies his genius IQ.

And in case you are wondering - I am definitely being sarcastic.

UlrikVandram:
Ooh yeah you guys definitely got screwed on that.

LeBron hanging on to the rim after dunking was a T. Jefferson tripped KD. But that's how it goes, sometimes it favours you and other times it doesnt.

But you lot need to stop it with the victim mentality every time you lose.

It is not every time. I am gracious in deserved Ls and barely even blame the teams. My grouse is directed at the NBA.

Ofcourse I know bad calls go either ways. I have never complained about game 7 of 2016 NBA finals. But I complained about games 5 & 6.

aliondo:
oh it doesnt make sense now...Whether we won or lost,he should have been suspended..Its still a bad ref call...

Because of you,i will start looking out for bad ref calls..

Your argument would have made sense if his presence gave us an advantage. It did not and it was one of those toss ups. Iggy or Ezeli blocked KD in that game which was called for goal tending but replays showed it was not. Imagine me trying to claim that that play alone made GSW lose.

So understand the whole narrative. OKC should have won yesterday. They were clearly better. Lakers and Denver whooped GSW as well last season with all players fit. I can take Ls to sub 500 teams.

But when over the whole season of 18 games thus far, many games are marred by flagrantly bad calls some of which helped the opposing- beneficiaries win, I would complain. OKC does not fall under that category for now because they would have won otherwise.

UlrikVandram:
Dude! You were wrong. There's no way celtics commentators will complain about calls going their way. Multiple commentary teams cover a game regardless whether it is nationally televised or not. Accept it gloriously and move on! Jeez!

This is what happens when you bleed hate. Watch the game then speak. It's the Celtics commentators out here but lemme keep quiet before you remind us how Iggy is the dirtiest player in the league.

SmooshCHN watched his own game in China or so.

I am in Nigeria (at this point) and I watched same.

Argue with your mirror.

aliondo:
So you really want me to start digging up stats?

Let me even give you an example..

Remember the Green and Adams incident,where he kicked Adams in the groin twice and he was fined and not suspended..Almost everyone complained that he should have been suspended and not fined and remember because the refs didn't see it,so he could not be given an automatic ejection cos that was a flagrant 2 foul..

Should i now start saying if Green got the ejection and maybe got suspended,we would have won the tie...You and i know the effect of Green suspension on the Warriors team which you later saw the Cavs vs Gsw finals..

I cared less cos of the quality i had in my team in Russ and K.D...Instead i complained about Russ stupid turnovers and K.D's inability to get shots..

The only thing that got me annoyed was when Green kept insisting it was not intentional..

I respect what you are trying to do but this does not make sense for one reason; The game that Draymond was not suspended for, we still lost.

Also, notice I never said GSW were poorly ref'd in that game as well. Took the back to back Ls on your ground and prayed my team would recover which we did.

So I don't complain about all GSW losses.

I complained when we lost to Cavs by 1 because on the last play Richard Jefferson or whatever his face is fouled KD clearly and the refs did not call it.

UlrikVandram:
Copying monikers? Whose monikers?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zd62MxKXp8

Would you say an NBA finals game 7 is a nationally televised game? How many american commentaries did you hear?

You're back tracking, you said the game was exclusivly covered by celtic commentators which i objected to and now youre saying available to virtually all? What the hell does that mean?

I am back-tracking that you can bring one link - just one with GSW commentators doing play by play commentary on that game? Not any game? But that game?

I am back-tracking about that game being televised by TNT and every other streams basically restreaming what they got from them?

I am back-tracking about Celtic commentators making the argument about some questionable calls?

I don't understand.

aliondo:
So you really want me to start digging up stats?

I mean, just even go to OKC reddit or fan-based columns and bring the evidence that even OKC can make a case about being hard done by.

I need to see anything that proves any team can make the same argument I am making for GSW.

Take note that this is not me saying without the refs GSW would have won -no. Instead I said OKC should have won, but the refs did not need to be as bad.

Or can you guess why they would still need to be bad on a day GSW are not up to it and OKC are playing out of their skin?

UlrikVandram:
Oooo shots fired. Even smooch? Damn! So what you're saying is he's Stu pid?

LMAO. Stop it, you're embarrassing yourself. Multiple commentary teams cover every game, that's why you can have different commentaries on the same highlight.

I have been wrong before. When I am I gloriously accept it. In this case I am not. Like I said, you're making a fool of yourself and your mates know it. Just shut up and save what's left of your dignity.

You are the one who is glaringly cretinous and you are almost copying monikers begging for validation.

Do you know what a nationally-televised game is in the NBA?

You have been wrong before? No, try almost all the time. Even when I started by slyly showing you that the commentaries available to virtually all and sundry were by Celt commentators (away from TNT nationally televising the game) and you are still waffling and prating about multiple channels.

If you could sound anymore stoopid..you'd have been Ersan.

Oops!

aliondo:
Trust me..if i check the stats..i will see but i hardly focus on that when i watch games.

I rather focus on our turnovers,poor offense and defense....

So you have no evidence?

Case dismissed.

UlrikVandram:
LOL! Doubling down on his stupidity, the clueless one keeps digging himself into a hole. NBA games are broadcasted through multiple channels each with unique commentators. For instance, whenever I stream im sure to get the link with Cavs commentators fred mcleod and Austin carr, if I don't I change until i find the right one.

Stop saying things you don't know. Swallow your L peacefully.

Boy, your incorrigibility is nauseating.

Broadcast through multiple channels my foot. As if TNT did not have exclusive rights to the presentation and then Celtics home commentators the play by play commentary on all the available streams. Abi, how ireedemably daft do you have to be to forget that even SmooshCHN corrected you on the day when you mouthed off hot garbage like you are known for.

UlrikVandram:
Major L

Actually small fry. Both teams have commentating teams depending on which channel you're watching on. So go and swallow that L. Lmao. Pride in ignorance.

And why are you coming at me? I'm obviously on your side. or am I not doing the typical larrior whiny b itch persona right?

That was a televised game you do realize? Which both teams have commentating teams on home games? Want to stake your life savings on it?

And then he said pride in ignorance. You are pathetic.

UlrikVandram:
Nah man. There's a conspiracy in the NBA. Didn't you notice how a foul was called when KD and Draymond played drum with kyrie getting to the rim in the Celtics game? The commentators even complained because GSW commentators are very unbiased. The NBA is obviously rigged for money or ratings or both.

I know you can't see past your nose but I am pretty sure someone told you that the Celts vs GSW game was not being analyzed or presented by GSW commentators. In such games, the home team's commentators do so.

Now find out which team was ahome in that game.

You learnt something today. You are welcome.

aliondo:
Bro..this season,the highest points we have lost by is 7points and that was just one game (against the pelicans)..we mostly lose games by 2,3 or highest 4 points.

I could have easily said if not for one or two bad ref calls,we would have won these games but i focus on our negatives instead (i.e our inability to close) and forget about any refs decisions cos come playoffs,when you win..nobody remembers or talks about refs decisions that went against you.

But btw,this game was a blowout...

How many of your Ls are coming due to 45-22 FTs, 38-19 FTs? I am talking games in which your FG%, 3PT% are way better than the other team but they beat you simply because they went to the line more for fouls nobody can see?

If you can show me games were WestBrook fouled out for getting 4 ticky tacky fouls to add to 2 genuine ones, or where you squander 17 point leads to 13 FTs in one quarter maybe I can listen to you.

Abi are you talking about another under 500 OKC? The one we have seen this season have just about gotten what they played for including yesterday.

Telling us you won by a blowout is laughably consolatory because I have said times without number that OKC FULLY deserved their win but did not need the gaffes by the refs. Your response should really be that OKC did not con the refs into making those calls and I would have agreed and blamed the NBA - which I have been doing, not blaming individual teams.

Nobody remembers when you win inspite of bad refs? That is not true. Ask KDs mum why she kept saying "they tried to take it from them but they wouldn't have it" when GSW miraculously beat Cavs in game 3 of last season's playoffs. That game like the game 4 was diabolically ref'd but some how GSW found a way to win.

We still remember it till date despite winning that championship.

aliondo:
So the refs are always against the Warriors?..Hmmm..this is a new one...

Bro..your team,GSW is the best team in the NBA..You should worry more about their performances and care less about the refs..If everyone wants to talk about refs,am sure we all have games where refs decisions go against our teams..

I don't feel robbed except when the calls against us are glaring..when its glaring,its not even me that calls out the refs..other fans do so..

It is not a new one. In the past, Curry used to get the short end of the stick but players like KD, Draymond got their foul calls as and when due. This season even that has changed.

Secondly, toss ups have gone against GSW. I mean calls like when unsure, blow against GSW. Even commentators have noticed it. The commentators for the Celts game for example.

Thirdly, the type of fouls they call on GSW. Jesus, this is the worst of it. Someone on Reddit made a joke after the Celts game by putting a JPEG of Kyrie's face and said "if you looked at this picture, Kyrie just got fouled". I mean all the Celts' comeback runs in that game were helped by unnecessary free throws and I said so. There were a lot of phantom fouls on Kyrie and Tatum. In fact, GSW led 88-84 with a little over a minute to go and guess how they lost? With 8 FTs. Final FT count was 38 to 19.

I know someone might say "they were not attacking the rim enough in that game". That was the half assed anal-lysis (pun intended) but if you looked closely, Jaylen was fouling players left and right and center and they called it great defense. But any decent defence on the other end, foul! I could go on and on.

I would not worry about refs and my team at the same time. I am not even worried about my team. We lost to Cavs by 1 in Dec. On here, the talk was "Cavs now own the Warriors" "Curry is playing possum". We bashed them by 26 and handed them a gentleman's sweep in the finals. Verdict; Warriors are hurting the league.

I mean, we beat SAS with all their starters, down by 25, at their home ground. Then first game of the playoffs we are down by 23 and Kawhi goes down then we win. And even on here people argued that we would have lost had he stayed on. Like, literally, to them the regular season game did not matter - until someone beats Warriors at their home ground - then it is fire and brimstone.

We are 13-5. We need 10 more losses to not achieve 67wins. When we get those Ls, remind me to worry. Till then, let me complain about the incompetent refereeing that has been going on. Because we are that one team that has suffered it the most this season. If you know another team, present them so we can fact-check.

See how people celebrated Celts losing yesterday. Same people who pretended to feel for them when Hayward got injured. I said it before; people celebrate you when you are working towards something then hate you as soon as you have it. That is the GSW story.

aliondo:
Yeah..agree with that...then why calling out the refs?

Truth be told,i always criticise my team (especially westbrook) when they don't play well..

I don' really call out the refs cos lets face it..sometimes,refs calls could either go in favour or against your team but when my team does well (especially westbrook),i will also be quick to give them the ups..

You don't need to like it but the refs were bad yesterday and over the course of the whole season heavily lopsided against the Warriors. I can count the only genuinely ref'd games that resulted in Ls. Rockets and Pistons and funny enough both games were at Oracle.

Sure, in a game bad calls can go either ways and be balanced, but when it is as flagrant as it has been this season, guy forget it. It is as if GSW have to win games inspite of the atrocity.

Even in wins I came here to complain; the Brooklyn Nets game, the game at the Pelicans. So it is not strange that I would still voice out my complaints in a loss. I did so against the Celts, Memphis and now OKC but the latter is the only game I said the opposition FULLY deserved their win.

Even some non-Warriors fans said it yesterday - that the refs did not need to be helping the Thunders who were already playing well and were good for their W. So don't get rubbed the wrong way or better still, don't feel some type of way if rubbed.

Aliondo?

Eruditor:
Congrats to OKC, inspite of the bad refereeing they fully deserved their W.

aliondo:
Oh now..its bad refereeing because we won...

Truth be told.we played better..I myself didn't believe it..

Please read well. Thanks.

Congrats to OKC, inspite of the bad refereeing they fully deserved their W.

I don't know why regular season games don't matter until the warriors lose.

I could not care less if I tried. I just need 67wins come May and for halfwits to stop telling us we hurt the parity in the NBA.

I remember when we lost to Washington, Bulls and Heats in the space of 4 games (only beating Knicks in a close game) and people said we were not going to finish top seeds. Then we went on that 17 game run without KD and started hurting the league. LOL. Good times.

Let WestBrook enjoy his rare inconsequential W. we got whooped by Denver last season as well. Atleast they won't say he does not have help.

Shouts to Kyrie and the Celts for the run. They have already proven their mettle without Gordon, can only imagine how good they would be next season with him.

SmooshCHN, notice how regular season games matter when Cavs win?

Decale:
Lolz.

But this one looks more realistic than Harden/D'antoni or Brad/Kyrie or Van Gundy/Tobias

LOL.

I was genuinely asking if Kerr and Curry did not get it in 2014/15.

birdman:
has coach of the year and mvp ever come from the same team before? this might be the season

Curry and Steve Kerr?

While Brad Stevens' work is outstanding so far, even his most vociferous supporters have fallen into taking the hindsight-bias that may plague Kerr for the rest of his career - This position that he inherited all-stars - which in reality, is simply not true.

Curry, Klay, Draymond were not all stars. Draymond was not even a starter. The only All-stars were David Lee and Iggy who were, but not really integral to Kerr's success. If only Kerr had won 50 games his first season, 55 his next, 60 after before getting to 67 and 73 he would have been respected.

His mistake was taking a team that could barely mop up 50 wins and transforming them into 67 wins and a ring in his first season. Then the narrative became that he played injured teams. Following year on the back of his 73 wins, that is when he became an average Joe with all star players who squandered a 3-1 lead. Nobody could make the excuse that his all star team missed the MVP and later on, their main center (away from the diabolical refereeing).

Like I said, nobody hates you when you are working towards a goal so expect the praises for Brad to pile up. Then let them get pummelled as top seeds to say, Cavs, or even better, let them win something, and watch the narrative change soon.

UlrikVandram:
His trajectory is similar to that of pop. He won't be disrespected like that.

Pop got his reputation in hindsight. He coached Spurs to 20 wins when David Robinson went down injured and their bad fortune helped him draft Duncan who (with DRob) helped revamp the franchise.

SmooshCHN:
One week and suddenly the East is as competitive as the West? The Celtics are wowing everybody and now we got to say "the East". Lol..
Well, I'm convinced the Earth is flat now..


And OKC lost? Hahahahaha

It fits the narrative for the season. Until it is June again and then GSW will be hurting parity in the league.

I feel for Celtic's Brad Stevens because very soon he would get a short end of the stick like Kerr does. Very soon when these young cats grow people would say Brad is only good because he uses All star players in Kyrie, Horford, Tatum and Brown. Just wait for it.

Let the Warriors win not distract you from the fact that The Nets shot 40FTs to GSWs 23; That ticky tacky fouls were called on Steph (again) and that the same fouls called on him never get called when it is done against him.

2nd time in the space of 3 games that a team will use FTs to make come backs.

NBA, I hail!

Wenger was right in taking Lacazette off.

He was atrocious with his decision making and scuffled some attacks.

Ramsey too was criminal in his play going forward. He compensates with his hard work.

CAN'T CRUISE AGAINST CONTENDERS

The Warriors, supremely confident, will go through stretches of a game where they simply lose interest or focus. There is a growing belief within the league that they will allow comebacks.

That belief is based in fact, at least as it pertains to the league's better teams. The Warriors led the Pistons by 14 and lost by eight, led the Grizzlies by five and lost by 10, led the Rockets by 17 and lost by one.

Nuggets coach Michael Malone reminded his players of that on Nov 4 in Denver. They wiped out an early 13-point deficit to go up by 2. It didn't last, but . . .

Now this. The Warriors can look say they should have won all four of their losses. Quality opponents can look back and believe the Warriors are lack killer instinct.

They had it during 2017 playoffs. Maybe they're waiting for the REAL season.

STEVE KERR SOMETIMES HAS TOO MUCH FAITH

The coach believes in his team, as well he should, for it has rewarded him with three consecutive appearances in the NBA Finals and two championships.

That said, there was no emphatic response to the Warriors giving back 12 points of a 17-point lead in the first half and all of a 17-point lead in the third quarter.

Kerr called a timeout at the 3:17 mark of the second quarter, after Boston whittled a 44-27 Warriors lead down to 45-34. There was no timeout over the remainder of the half, which ended with the Warriors leading 47-42.

Another timeout was called with 3:46 left in the third quarter, after the Celtics shrunk the 17-point lead to 10, 66-56. Out of the timeout, Boston went on a 12-0 run, taking a 68-66 lead with 53.8 seconds remaining in the quarter.

The game was arrhythmic. The officials seemed overmatched. Kerr, believing in his players and anticipating a close game down the stretch, wanted to save his timeouts. He used them all, but one timeout during a 19-0 run seems sparse

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/five-lessons-warriors-learned-boston-072920841.html

cc SmooshCHN

SmooshCHN:
We got beat.. I don't even care about the calls. Steve Kerr's ego got the best of him tonight and I hope his assistants let him know this.. Should've called a time out when they went 10-0, should've put KD in. Just stubborn for no fúcking reason.. Curry and Klay should've told us they were donating supplies to our new stadium with all that brick there were throwing.

Kyrie and his boys are rolling strong. I give it to them.

Ego sometimes is fuelled by anger. Never forget. 36FTs to 19. Tatum got 3FTs for an attempted 3. It was phantom. Kyrie got a +1 for a phantom foul by Klay. Then Curry gets fouled on his penultimate 3 and ref unlooks.

Sometimes, coaches let bad runs happen to infuriate themselves and later their players. We meet again in January at the Bay. Till then let them enjoy.

ipledge10:
and it’s funny as they are drawing so much foul. I think Celtic will win this game

Kudos to them. They just about deserved the W. Questionable free throws here and there but Curry shot poorly.

ipledge10:
and He got it....Celtic playing crazy defense

Yes, they are.

That three should free him up a bit.

Stubborn Kerr.

KD should have come back in.

Made this game alot harder than it should have.

We need 1 three from Curry to help his confidence. Playing crap today.

SmooshCHN:
Watch the game Bruh!! Don't just type nonsense.. Even the commentators are mentioning it..

I barely respond to stoopid posts.

SmooshCHN:
Steve Kerr is stubborn.. How do you go 12-0 run without calling a time out?

Because he is angry.