Game Thread: Warriors @ Cavs 8 PM EST TNT

[bksballer89]

Lebron is back to this excuse

 

[Heatles84]

Lebron is back to this excuse

Yep. Lebron left that championship mentality in Miami apparently.

Irving can make that excuse, he's 23 years old. What about Love, Shumper, Verajo, JR Smith, Richard Jefferson, etc...? Those boys are the same damn age as the Warriors if not older.

I hate Urban Meyer with a passion, I really do. But one of the quotes he made about excuses was amazingly accurate, and I'm paraphrasing here - "Everyone has excuses. But the minute I start using excuses, it gives my team the right to use them as well."

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

Lebron is back to this excuse

Fuck LeBron

Heat were too old
Cavs are too young.

Just be a man and say the Warriors are just a better team, but hopefully we'll improve as the season progresses.

He wasn't calling Kyrie too young a couple weeks ago when he said he was talented enough to be league MVP.
Curry didn't say shit, his actions on the court said it all.

 

[OutlawImmortal]

Yep. Lebron left that championship mentality in Miami apparently.

Irving can make that excuse, he's 23 years old. What about Love, Shumper, Verajo, JR Smith, Richard Jefferson, etc...? Those boys are the same damn age as the Warriors if not older.

I hate Urban Meyer with a passion, I really do. But one of the quotes he made about excuses was amazingly accurate, and I'm paraphrasing here - "Everyone has excuses. But the minute I start using excuses, it gives my team the right to use them as well."

I was told that LeBron doesn't make excuses.

 

[cowboys5xsbs]

Golden State is going to roll everyone in the playoffs

 

[Hambombs]

This was a statement game. Steph and Draymond are unbelievable. Knew that 3 pt underdog golden state was fishy looked like easy money lol

 

[msgkings322]

curry is by far better then lbj. LBJ on the decline but still better then most.

Not by far, no, but the torch has been passed and there is no case to made for anything else

 

[msgkings322]

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Best show on TV and it's really not close

 

[wildturkey]

Tuned into a game tonight, not sure what was going on. All I saw was a Warriors shootaround. Did the Cavs ever show up? I looked online to see if their bus got stuck in traffic or something, but there's nothing

 

[Black Adam]

Tuned into a game tonight, not sure what was going on. All I saw was a Warriors shootaround. Did the Cavs ever show up? I looked online to see if their bus got stuck in traffic or something, but there's nothing

Cavs basically got steamrolled. end of story...

 

[WiggyRuss]

very good article by Jason LLoyd- who I think is by far the best Cavs reporter- and does his "Final Thoughts" column after every game

Warriors 132, Cavs 98; Jason Lloyd's 35 thoughts on the most miserable night of the season

Kyrie at least owned it- Lebron looks like he tried to play it off....we shall see what happens.

 

[bksballer89]

Interesting view from Dave McMenamin which very well be true when you think about it.

If anything, it was Curry who looked like he was disrespected by James recently suggesting that Irving was on his level, sharing the title as the best point guard in the game. Not only did Curry overwhelmingly settle that debate, if you could even call it one, by outscoring Irving 35-8, but he also scored as many points in the first quarter (16) as James did for the game, creating more supporting evidence for those who contend Curry already has wrestled “best player in the world” status away from The King.

 

[WiggyRuss]

Interesting view from Dave McMenamin which very well be true when you think about it.

If anything, it was Curry who looked like he was disrespected by James recently suggesting that Irving was on his level, sharing the title as the best point guard in the game. Not only did Curry overwhelmingly settle that debate, if you could even call it one, by outscoring Irving 35-8, but he also scored as many points in the first quarter (16) as James did for the game, creating more supporting evidence for those who contend Curry already has wrestled “best player in the world” status away from The King.

go into the article i posted and see the vine of Love playing defense on one possession. Its hilarious.

 

[bksballer89]

go into the article i posted and see the vine of Love playing defense on one possession. Its hilarious.

I posted it on this thread. That was unreal. I would have immediately sat his ass down

 

[gordontrue]

Lebron is back to this excuse

He also said...

"Thinking about June is ridiculous. We only can focus on today, and for us to have any sense of entitlement about June is absurd to me. The only thing that matters is today."

"Tonight was an example of how far we need to go to get to a championship level"

"It's never as bad and it's never as good as it may seem when you're going through it," James said. "Obviously, you want to play well and especially on a stage like this versus the defending champions. But for me as a leader of this ball club over the last six or seven years, I've always been even-keeled about wins and losses, especially at this juncture of the season."

"Against the top teams you want to play well, and we haven’t done that," James said. "We’re 0-3 versus the top two teams in the West. We’re 0-1 against the Bulls so far. We’ve got to play better basketball.

 

[bksballer89]

He also said...

"Thinking about June is ridiculous. We only can focus on today, and for us to have any sense of entitlement about June is absurd to me. The only thing that matters is today."

"Tonight was an example of how far we need to go to get to a championship level"

"It's never as bad and it's never as good as it may seem when you're going through it," James said. "Obviously, you want to play well and especially on a stage like this versus the defending champions. But for me as a leader of this ball club over the last six or seven years, I've always been even-keeled about wins and losses, especially at this juncture of the season."

"Against the top teams you want to play well, and we haven’t done that," James said. "We’re 0-3 versus the top two teams in the West. We’re 0-1 against the Bulls so far. We’ve got to play better basketball.

That's great and all but he really needs to stop saying they haven't had a lot of time together and they're a young team.

1) They're not that young outside of Kyrie and Tristan. Everyone else in their rotation is 25 or over.

2) The whole they haven't a lot of time together is garbage. They been together for about a year and a half now. This is not a team who just came together 3 months ago

 

[tabascojet]

Cavaliers unhappy with Stephen Curry's champagne comment, report says
this effort s how queen James and the cavs respond when "disrespected" ??

 

[gordontrue]

That's great and all but he really needs to stop saying they haven't had a lot of time together and they're a young team.

1) They're not that young outside of Kyrie and Tristan. Everyone else in their rotation is 25 or over.

2) The whole they haven't a lot of time together is garbage. They been together for about a year and a half now. This is not a team who just came together 3 months ago

Just providing some context to a very out-of-context tweet.

LeBron has always been a build-up-confidence when the team sucks and tear-them-apart when they're doing good type of a leader. You aren't going to get a whole lot of "man we really suck this is the end of the world" when they lose. And you're probably going to get some statements that - when isolated from the rest of his comments - look like excuses. The thing is he gave the Warriors credit... he took accountability for the bad play. He said they should be a lot better.

His comment that they haven't had a ton of time together isn't wrong. I don't think LeBron, Kyrie, and Love have played a season's worth of games together yet.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Probably the best game GS has played as a team ever, but the Cavs looked awful from the start. Why would they act they were pumped to play and just be careless with the ball and no gameplan. The thing most holding the Cavs back is not have a really good to great head coach, that is what is holding Lebron back.
But the bottomline is if the Cavs want to win a championship they have to play more like a team, offensively and defensively. They have a long way to go, this current squad has only recently been together but Blatt needs to step his shit up. Whatever he is doing isn't working, and if he doesn't he won't be there next season.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Fuck LeBron

Heat were too old
Cavs are too young.

Just be a man and say the Warriors are just a better team, but hopefully we'll improve as the season progresses.

He wasn't calling Kyrie too young a couple weeks ago when he said he was talented enough to be league MVP.
Curry didn't say shit, his actions on the court said it all.

Well Curry did have that champagne comment but the fact is the season has a long way to go. The current healthy squad for the Cavs is just starting to get together, they will need to play better as a whole, especially defensively. Irving and Love need to play better on both sides of the court, it was kind of pitiful actually watching them play. The fact is the Warriors and the Spurs are better right now. Now we will see what the Cavs can do from this point on.