₦airaland Forum

steady986:
Dude, I begged you to get your own TV show or something Please, let that ref complaining poo end with the conference finals. This is the Finals man, you wouldn't want to remember it as one where the refs helped your team get swept, you should remember it as the Finals that categorically marked the end of the GS dynasty.

benji93:
We need one of KD and DDemarcus, Pascal seemed to haven no job to do on the defensive end

birdman:
have you noticed that every time you lose in this playoffs, you blame the refs. warriors fans, una try o

benji93:
Let's see how it goes in the 2nd game

KarnThornheart:
.

benji93:
They are puttting unnecessary pressure on the guy. It's like if he does not win FMVP, he wont make heaven

benji93:
Ofcourse they won't talk about it. It would be Curry couldn't get it done.

SmooshCHN:
I just need Drake to say something stupid.

Hardetayour:
The Warriors were out of rhythm. Wasn't expecting a win this first game but the second game

We move.

simonjassy:
eruditor,i do know the difference between half life and instability.
well,i wouldn't want to push this farther.i believe sometime in the future the truth of doping in football will come up.
by the way,have a nice day.

simonjassy:
even by your extrapolation,how do you explain the fact that the traces magically spiked to 6x the 2ng limit in 2 weeks.
by the way what is the half life of nandrolone?.
why was pep's first defense thrown out the window.
i remember his second defense being thrown out as well.
why change your defense multiple times if you had nothing to hide.
this is evident by the vast difference between all pep's 3 defenses.
as for the fuentes case,if the evidence was inadmissible,why did the judge let him name the cyclists but not the other sportstars.
you said the system's was hacked.

did the police also obtain the bloodbags in an illegal raid,without proper authorization?
eruditor,your input will be welcome.

simonjassy:
If those reports saying they found traces of nandrolone in pep after the piacenza game are true,don't you think the traces here meant it was below the natural thresh hold.do you think WADA would have had a case if they charged him over "traces".dont you think,pep may have thought they couldn't find "nought" and was emboldened?.Eruditor, you said earlier that there is nothing like "unstable urine",that the indian chap conjured it up,but that exactly was pep's defence which he used to reverse the former decision.
away from pep,why did the judge not let dr eufeumiano fuentes name the identities of the other sportstars he treated in the infamous "operation puerco(can't remember the actual name",when the dr himself said only a few are cyclists.
why did the judge order that the bags of blood be destroyed,when they would have provided solid evidence or at least helped WADA's pursuit.
do you in all sincerity,think something isn't amiss?

Khanben:
32 shots is not damn near 40.

steady986:
I can't believe that somebody can come on here and say LeBron averaged 35 points on 40 shots in a series. How does that sound? Pesin go smoke weed finish come dey talk rubbish for this tread. You think say we dey wear pampas for here?

Khanben:
Lebron never averaged 40 shots per game in that series

steady986:
Look, anytime I start an argument with you, my IQ seems to be reducing. You mean you have the guts to come here and lie to all the basketball heads here that LeBron averaged 40 shots per game? You're a disgrace to this thread. For your info, LeBron averaged 27 shots per game. Why am I even wasting my time with you? You don't deserve any respect for spitting this trash.

steady986:
You people should just stop with this Iggy finals MVP talk, its annoying. LeBron averaged. 35.8 points, 13.3 rebounds and 8.8 assists in that series. He scored 40 or more mounts 3 times. He recorded a triple double 2 times and just missed out on a third in game 6 where he got 32 points, 19 rebounds and 9 assists. So unless your Iggy got the award for dancing shoki on the court, don't come here and tell me he shut down LeBron. That MVP award was the most undeserved award in Finals history. Take that to the bank.

steady986:
I guess you should read properly before commenting. Did I ever mention KD being doubled?

You must be a clown. Since when has PJ Tucker been a better defender than Chris Paul?. You must be watching bball with your buttocks. CP3 is a 9 time all defensive teamer. 7 in first team and 2 in 2nd team. Don't talk that trash.

Was KD with the Warriors in 2014?

You've just been talking trash throughout your write up. I'm very sure that Dame is a better defender than Seth and CJ. You're high this afternoon, I won't blame you.

benji93:
Stop wasting your time on these guys. The ultimate strength of the Raptors in the Bucks series was their length, but that will do them a disservice against GSW. In fact, i predict Kawhi will not have an excellent series, given that Iguodala moves well, and can match him strength for strength.My only fear is the amount of minutes Iguodala can play. I honestly don't know who Kawhi is going to guard without steroids, outside KD. Even with KD i doubt it? Not too long ago he dropped 50+ on him. The Raptors won the Bucks series, largely because of the naievity of the Bucks team, more so Giannis. You cannot have an easier day than having to defend a superstar with no jumpshot.

Khanben:
Is Iguodala's man to man defense better than Jimmy Butler's/giannis/brogdon/Middleton. Cause the Klaw just schooled these guys in the last two series.

benji93:
But you seem to have forgotten Iguodala's Defence, Kawhi has to be dominant on both ends of the court for them to stand a chance.

steady986:
No one ever seems to successfully guard him because when it comes to matchups, the best defenders are always thrown to KD, then Klay, before thinking about Curry. Look at Pat Beverley on KD when normally he should be guarding Curry. And against Portland, Dame didn't guard Curry, instead Seth and CJ took turns in guarding him. I don't see Kawhi guarding Curry this time around though, I think Lowry would guard him. And I believe he'll do a better job on him than his previous defenders. Curry won't be shut down by any means, but he'll be contained better.

tallskinnyperv:
so kd is better than andre iguodala in defence lol..are u sure u watch bball at all

etidy:
I don't know how someone will look at this series and say the warriors are the favorites. The raptors defense is legit, who on the warriors can stop kawhi? Only KD and he's injured at the moment. If KD comes back early, I see a warriors win but otherwise, it's a raptors win.

Kawhi, Lowry and Danny Green are all legit wing defenders. They will make life difficult for curry and klay.

Regardless of who wins this series will change the legacy of kawhi and curry.

If curry wins, he automatically joins the top 10 all time player and number 2 point guard ever behind only magic.

If kawhi wins, he becomes undoubtedly the best player in the league. 2 final MVPs, 2 Dpoy, 2 nba titles and he's not even 30 yet! He can win a couple of regular season MVP and we are looking at the second coming of MJ.

If the warriors lose and the curry has a shitty series which is very likely with kawhi on him +several double teams. He would be seen as the star player that keeps choking in the finals.

Khanben:
Not saying the raptors will win, but you seem to have forgotten that kawhi's spurs was beating GSW by 20pts before Zaza's curse struck. Kawhi's defense is just extraordinary(one of the things Nick has said recently that I agree with is that there is elite defense and above that is what kawhi can do). Imagine a scenario where they put him a Draymond from full court especially when Green is initiating the offense. The amount of steals/turnovers kawhi can force in this scenario can hurt GSW.

CuteRedd:
same thing they said about Chris Paul last year and we all knew how that turned out

ipledge10:
Why is “Warriors in 4” trending right now? I’m lowkry upset, but those tweets are funny.

etidy:
If Toronto makes the finals, I don't see the warriors winning without Durant.

Kawhi, danny Green and siakam will take turns to make life hell for curry and klay.
Draymond green needs to have a monster series to get the other guys involved in the offence.
And then the warriors will lack a consistent scoring threat from inside which makes matters worse for them.
However, two big factors play into the warriors favour
1) Experience
2) Toronto's unique ability to choke

With championship experience and heart the warriors will makes this a series but matchup wise Toronto has the edge.

Roland17:
In 2007, there was finally some light at the end of the tunnel for Guardiola. After two failed appeals a shred of hope remained when Guardiola’s close friend, personal assistant and formal water polo great Manuel Estiarte (below left, still Guardiola’s right-hand man at Manchester City) discovered changes in the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) guidelines which he thought could exonerate Guardiola.

In 2005, WADA had found that a phenomenon called “unstable urine” in samples could lead to positive tests for low levels of nandrolone. In very rare cases nandrolone could be found in samples not because of external administration but as a result of a chemical reaction that “may occur in a vial containing urine.”

WADA instructed all accredited labs to perform “stability tests” on urine samples with nandrolone concentration from 2 to 10ng/ml moving forward. Guardiola’s values were at the high end of this scale (12ng/ml for NE). Those samples that were deemed “unstable” would not constitute an adverse analytic finding for nandrolone.

Then-WADA Director General David Howman stood by the efficacy of the previous testing for nandrolone and said the chances of urine becoming unstable were “very rare”. The chances were between 1 out of 1,000 and 1 out of 10,000 positive tests for nandrolone.

Guardiola was cleared by the Brescia Court of Appeals. This was not because his samples were deemed “unstable” but because it could have been possible that his four samples had been “unstable”. Guardiola was absolved of all blame because of “the impossibility to now perform stability tests on the samples taken” in 2001.

Stability tests must be carried out within five weeks of the collection of a sample. In 2007, no sample even remained to be re-tested.

Excerpts from

http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2017/04/25/sharapova-guardiola-doping-darkness-and-light-250401/

Roland17:
@Eruditor. please pay special attention to specific details regarding Pep's doping test. This an honest work of investigative journalism.

http://theunapologists.com/break-silence-doping-football

Manchester City are running away with the league, playing breathtaking football and running their opponents ragged. Pep Guardiola has been credited – rightly so – for his innovative tactics and high-pressing defensive style (another in-vogue aspect of playing the beautiful game), despite question marks around the legality and fairness of his methods

Whilst playing in Italy, Guardiola himself was found to have steroids in his system. Mitigating evidence meant that – after a few appeals and serving a ban – Guardiola was cleared of misuse of illegal, performance enhancing drugs, despite tests showing over six times the legal limit of the steroid Nandrolone in his system. He has always protested his innocence, using multiple defences to claim his innocence throughout the lengthy appeal process

“Unstable urine” – an effect that meant nandrolone would appear in urine as a result of a chemical reaction – was used as a final argument, despite the chances of this happening being between 1/1000 and 1/10000. Stability tests were supposed to have been taken within 5 weeks of the initial sample, but at this stage it was too late. Guardiola, like many important people before him, got off on a technicality.

In 2010, UEFA fined his Barcelona team for not providing details of player whereabouts; an innocuous issue most of the time, but given the rumours around Pep and his all-dominating team, something with the potential to turn rather serious

Manchester City were fined for a similar breach of anti-doping rules last year.

2013 saw Pep move to Bayern Munich for three years, where his team suffered from a number of injuries and failed to win the Champions League.

Guardiola is under immense pressure, having spent more on defence than some countries.