NBA Discussion Thread

They don't need any adjustments, the officiating just needs to not be shitty. I find it funny how "all of the sudden" warriors are struggling when probably any team in the western playoffs would beat this Cavs team. They need to reward the team for staying healthy, its not their fault. They need to stop punishing them. Seriously 12 FT's this game? It's laughable how one sided the officiating is. NBA should be ashamed.

Officials need to reward the team for staying healthy? wtf

1-sided officiating? Such a biased statement just like everybody else that complains about officiating. There's been plenty of calls Cavs fans could complain about, they had a whole discussion on espn of the calls that were missed where Lebron was fouled. Both sides have gotten away with travels, fouls, etc. as is typical in any nba game. It is so difficult to officiate this level of basketball with as much contact as there is going around that there really isnt any need to keep pulling out these conspiracy theories.

At some point u just have to admit that Green and Barnes are stinking it up from the field missing wide open shots, and Curry and Thompson have been inconsistent. The Cavs defense has been pretty decent and they do enough to get by. Officiating isn't the reason.

Reward was probably a bad word to use, but I just mean they should call things both ways. not give calls to the Cavs, or lack of calls. Cavaliers have been over aggressive and the calls are at least 2:1 ratio if not worse in the Cavs favor. Not sure how that's even possible without them rigging the games to draw out the series. It's whatever now, the warriors will win out. 

 

He probably says that because the Cavs have won something like 70-80% of the mins played these finals, Thoroughly toying with the warriors, who only come back in 4th quarters due to the Cavs running a 7 man rotation.

Serious question, you actually been watching these games. The Warriors are getting embarrassed by an undrafted Australian.

i guess im disabled too because i still think it's absurd to say the nba is rigging games. i dont mean to be harsh because i know you're just defending your guys, but c'mon, all of the warriors starters have under-performed this series and that's why they're losing. The pace is slow, and the Cavs are leaving Green and Barnes wide open because they have been abysmal from the field. All of the emphasis has been on double-teaming Steph and it has worked out great thus far. 

I still think the Warriors are the better team, but sometimes the best team doesn't win the game when... idk, maybe it's just that They Dont Play Well! 

You do realize Tim Donaghy  admitted to rigging games, more or less right? Betting on a team that he was officiating for so he could get some money. Maybe I'm more aware of these kind of games because this wasn't the first time the Warriors have been on the shit end of the stick when it comes to these types of games. When the Lakers played the Warriors and Kobe tore his Achilles. I think the Lakers shot almost 60 FT's or something crazy. I'm too lazy to look it up. But it was basically a race for the 8th seed between the Jazz and the Lakers. Obviously the league want's a team like the Lakers to be in the playoffs over the Jazz for revenue purposes. The games integrity has always been in question. You can believe what you want to believe I guess, I'm done talking about it now.

r u high, tristan thompson is getting a max contract and mozgov has been an elite rim protector all series who has shown scoring potential

warriors won this series on adjustments and depth, which is funny cause according to Rhis the warriors didn't make many adjustments 

 

In what world do you think Tristan Thompson is getting a max contract?

Also, I get that you want to give the Warriors as much credit as possible. I really do. Kerr made his adjustments and all that and it was all well and good but he was coaching around someone who literally couldn't make adjustments in return to counteract anything. The Cavs were only suiting up 7 men for the entirety of the series minus game 1 before Kyrie went down. You can't make meaningful adjustments when you only have 2 guys coming off the bench. The Warriors played a great series, but a gigantic part of the Warriors winning so dominantly the past 3 games is because they simply outlasted the Cavs. Cleveland was exhausted. I'm 100% sure the series would been much different had Love and Kyrie been available. Not to say the Cavs would have won but It would have been way more competitive. 

Also also, don't try to act like a team of  Knicks cast offs, Tristan Thompson (who is really not that great) Mozgov, and Lebron is "talented." They put up a fight simply because Lebron is the best player in the game. 

Emphasizing JR Smith their 2nd best shooter 

not even just mike miller, but whatever happened to shawn marion? the guy was starting at one point during the early part of the year. i realize both of these guys r old geezers that are pretty much running on empty, but i feel like u could get some solid inspirational plays out of them if u just play them 5-10 mpg. Blatt's playing time decisions were questionable to say the least. I can understand giving JR a lot of minutes when u know he can have serious potential to go off unlike any other role player they have, but Shumpert is not a guy u can give a lot of minutes to. he's just not effective starting anyways; he needs to be an energy guy off the bench. 

Once Kyrie went down, i think JR should have been inserted into the starting lineup. They pretty much play Lebron full time anyways, and their only real chance in the series was to try to turn JR back to the Denver Nuggets JR, just like how the Warriors turned the clock back on Iguadola. That starting lineup needed more scoring punch to fill Kyrie's absence and take more of the load off Lebron, while bringing shooters off the bench to accomodate Lebron's increased involvment through the end of the game. Lebron simply looked too fatigued to make the necessary plays he needed to make in the 4th quarters of the series. If they would have made a concerted effort to get JR going early in the series by inserting him into the starting lineup and giving him early touches, i think they would have had more of a chance. Everyone gets on the Cavs for their iso ball, but it was truly their best chance to slow the warriors and muck up the game as much as possible. And it might've actually worked had they shot the ball better. A confident JR would've freed up all sorts of opportunities.

Regardless, i'm still really salty that i didn't get to see the series pan out with a healthy Kyrie. It would have legitimized the Warriors' championship much more for me had they beaten a Cavs team with their healthy PG, as obviously no one on the Cavs was able to efficiently replace his production at all.