NBA Finals: Cleveland Cavs VS Golden State Warriors

[SoCalWizFan]

Cowherd made what I thought was an excellent point this morning. The problem that the Cavs have is that the Warriors literally came out of nowhere.

This Cavs team was built to beat the Spurs and OKC. When Lebron left Miami, those are the teams that virtually everyone thought would be ruling the West. The Warriors were a good, interesting team, but no one saw them going 170-34 over the past 2 seasons as they have.

In fact, when the Cavs were being built, the Warriors FO was divided almost down the middle about whether they should trade Curry and keep Monta Ellis and/or trade Klay for Kevin Love.

Obviously, they made the right choices and have gone on a historic run.

The Wizards could have drafted most of the Warriors

LOL. If only the Wizards had that foresight. See the link - they could have had most of the star players on the Warriors roster if they had some more smarts (the selections made instead of Curry and Thompson were just plain atrocious). Fortunately they have made somewhat better choices in the more recent past. Still how Ernie Grunfeld still has a job is beyond me.

No doubt other teams missed out on many of the star players on the Warriors roster. It is a combination of great decision making & just plain luck for the Warriors. Nice to see someone putting together a team in this manner.

 

[tlance]

The Wizards could have drafted most of the Warriors

LOL. If only the Wizards had that foresight. See the link - they could have had most of the star players on the Warriors roster if they had some more smarts (the selections made instead of Curry and Thompson were just plain atrocious). Fortunately they have made somewhat better choices in the more recent past. Still how Ernie Grunfeld still has a job is beyond me.

No doubt other teams missed out on many of the star players on the Warriors roster. It is a combination of great decision making & just plain luck for the Warriors. Nice to see someone putting together a team in this manner.

This is really funny.

Grunfeld is doing better than they did in the 90s and 00s though. Some of the decisions in those eras were ridiculously bad.

 

[Pattersonca65]

The Wizards could have drafted most of the Warriors

LOL. If only the Wizards had that foresight. See the link - they could have had most of the star players on the Warriors roster if they had some more smarts (the selections made instead of Curry and Thompson were just plain atrocious). Fortunately they have made somewhat better choices in the more recent past. Still how Ernie Grunfeld still has a job is beyond me.

No doubt other teams missed out on many of the star players on the Warriors roster. It is a combination of great decision making & just plain luck for the Warriors. Nice to see someone putting together a team in this manner.

LOL, when I saw this. I have been a Warrior fan since the 77-78 season. I have experienced a life time of poor drafting/free agent decisions made the Warriors since that time. Nice to finally have a FO that made some good decisions. I wondered over the years whether that would ever happen.

 

[bksballer89]

 

[Heatles84]

LOL, when I saw this. I have been a Warrior fan since the 77-78 season. I have experienced a life time of poor drafting/free agent decisions made the Warriors since that time. Nice to finally have a FO that made some good decisions. I wondered over the years whether that would ever happen.

Yeah. Suffice it to say, Warriors can have just as much of a claim than Cleveland fans that they deserve this. For a while, the Warriors were as much of a running joke than the Clippers (sorry @Mecca).

 

[Mecca of the “B” Team]

Did you guys see this?

Although most of this is probably true, it's such a Bitch move to gossip, throw a dude under the bus, but hide your identity.

Ps. We have a spot open in Lob City for you Bron.

Agent X: Locker-room tensions unraveling LeBron's Cavaliers - Sportsnet.ca

 

[Heatles84]

Impossible. @WiggyRuss has told me constantly that Lebron has never had this much offensive help and that this is what he wanted - Irving to take over games.

 

[Heatles84]

Did you guys see this?

Although most of this is probably true, it's such a Bitch move to gossip, throw a dude under the bus, but hide your identity.

Ps. We have a spot open in Lob City for you Bron.

Agent X: Locker-room tensions unraveling LeBron's Cavaliers - Sportsnet.ca

Oh, but the Cavs had such great locker room chemistry. It's not like any of us were telling Wiggy that everything was fine then given the cream puffs they were going through. *gasp*

 

[Mecca of the “B” Team]

Just to kill time

#hidinginacave

 

[Mecca of the “B” Team]

Yeah. Suffice it to say, Warriors can have just as much of a claim than Cleveland fans that they deserve this. For a while, the Warriors were as much of a running joke than the Clippers (sorry @Mecca).

 

[bksballer89]

Impossible. @WiggyRuss has told me constantly that Lebron has never had this much offensive help and that this is what he wanted - Irving to take over games.

Best thing about Wade and sometimes Bosh is that anytime in a tough road situation where Miami were in a must win situation, he showed up. Perfect example of this is game 4 of the 2013 NBA finals, down 2-1 on the road in San Antonio. What does Wade do? Only drop 32, 6, 6, & 4 on 56% shooting in a huge Heat win to steal HCA back. In game 7, who else showed up in that game when Bosh had 0 points? D-Wade with 23 and 10.

Go back to the year before, Down 2-1 to Indiana without CB. What does Wade do? 30, 9, and 6. Fast forward to game 6 of that same series to avoid a possible game 7. Wade went for 41 and 10 in a Heat win.

I don't think Lebron trust Kyrie or Love to perform big time in a huge must win game on the road.

 

[Black Adam]

Did you guys see this?

Although most of this is probably true, it's such a Bitch move to gossip, throw a dude under the bus, but hide your identity.

Ps. We have a spot open in Lob City for you Bron.

Agent X: Locker-room tensions unraveling LeBron's Cavaliers - Sportsnet.ca

hell, this SHOULDN'T surprise a single soul...

 

[Heatles84]

Best thing about Wade and sometimes Bosh is that anytime in a tough road situation where Miami were in a must win situation, he showed up. Perfect example of this is game 4 of the 2013 NBA finals, down 2-1 on the road in San Antonio. What does Wade do? Only drop 32, 6, 6, & 4 on 56% shooting in a huge Heat win to steal HCA back. In game 7, who else showed up in that game when Bosh had 0 points? D-Wade with 23 and 10.

Go back to the year before, Down 2-1 to Indiana without CB. What does Wade do? 30, 9, and 6. Fast forward to game 6 of that same series to avoid a possible game 7. Wade went for 41 and 10 in a Heat win.

I don't think Lebron trust Kyrie or Love to perform big time in a huge must win game on the road.

Dude. That Pacers series in 2012 was ridiculous. Probably the most dominant that Wade and Lebron were as a tandem. Those two just demolished the Pacers when Bosh went down with the abdominal strain.

 

[bksballer89]

Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were supposed to make the Cavaliers better. They haven’t.

 

[Mecca of the “B” Team]

hell, this SHOULDN'T surprise a single soul...

Oh, it doesn't...lol

We already knew he was passive aggressive.

But, this article is probably fabricated by some bored guy, not a real agent.

 

[Black Adam]

Oh, it doesn't...lol

We already knew he was passive aggressive.

But, this article is probably fabricated by some bored guy, not a real agent.

that part's probably true. still, this guy CAN'T be easy to work with...

(in before some clown retorts "neither was Kobe...")

 

[Mecca of the “B” Team]

Anybody else getting concerned about our Mens Olympic Basketball Team?

Dudes are dropping, and dropping out, like flies.

 

[Black Adam]

Anybody else getting concerned about our Mens Olympic Basketball Team?

Dudes are dropping, and dropping out, like flies.

yeah, lotta folks at first loved the glory of representing our country in the Olympics, but now some are seeing that it puts mileage on their bodies and shortens their careers. thing I think most consider is they only have so many years to make their millions...least that's what I think...

 

[bksballer89]

Anybody else getting concerned about our Mens Olympic Basketball Team?

Dudes are dropping, and dropping out, like flies.

We good

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love were supposed to make the Cavaliers better. They haven’t.

Wouldn't it be fair to say that how the Cavs perform the next 2 game could totally reshape their roster?

I felt losing would be the end of either Love or Kyrie
If this continues I could see both.