Official 2017-2018 NBA Playoffs thread!

[Al Bundy]

We'll see if the Warriors recover from the end of the season stretch of stinkers.

[Rudy tossed tigger's salad]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

You aren’t on even Clay’s level with that, let alone Skip’s. Poor effort.

Sorry. NBA is like my 4th favorite sport. I'm incompetent. But i'm still not sure this is the rule.

[banecat]

Originally Posted by Rudy tossed tigger's salad

Sorry. NBA is like my 4th favorite sport. I'm incompetent

What three do you like more than the NBA?

[Rudy tossed tigger's salad]

Originally Posted by banecat

What three do you like more than the NBA?

College/International wrestling, NFL, MLB. Maybe 3rd. Sometimes I like it more than MLB

[Best22]

Originally Posted by Rudy tossed tigger's salad

The highest IQ player in the history of the league needs to call timeout when JR's back is turned away from the basket while 5 feet behind the 3-point line. No excuses. Still would have had 1.5 seconds left. LeBron was three feet from the ref.

He tried, the refs "didn't see him"

[Rudy tossed tigger's salad]

Originally Posted by Best22

He tried, the refs "didn't see him"

didnt try very hard.

[-King-]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

Who the hell did Lebron give up or give away in Cleveland who was super valuable?

Kyrie being a stupid bitch doesn't count.

Why doesn't that count?
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[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by Cave Johnson

Houston plays a ton of iso.

Wasn't a criticism of the approach even though I don't love it. It's about the players in the system. As long as one player is holding the ball for 15 seconds, another volume shooter who creates off the dribble isn't. Kyrie and Lebron could never seem to get along in terms of splitting that workload. Understandably. They both thrive off of lots of iso touches

[-King-]

Originally Posted by O.city

Kyrie would have definitely helped the celts score but they were so good and cohesive defensively, I don’t know that he’d have really been that much better.

They’ll be a force in a year or two but as long as golden state has what it has, no one is beating them.

Unless lebron goes to Houston

They were a top 3 defensive team when Kyrie was playing too. They would have been just fine defensively with Kyrie healthy and a lot better offensively. That last god awful stretch in game 7 would have been completely different with a scorer of Kyrie's caliber.
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[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by -King-

Why doesn't that count?
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You really believe that Lebron is the one who made Kyrie leave? What the **** was Lebron doing? Making fun of his tiny dick in the shower?

Kyrie himself said he wanted his own legacy and didn't want to be known as the next Pippen (in so many words). Lebron already gave him a goddamn ring and was apparently poised to stick around for his entire career. What could Lebron possibly have done to make life so miserable for Kyrie that he wants to just leave the situation entirely?

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

You really believe that Lebron is the one who made Kyrie leave? What the **** was Lebron doing? Making fun of his tiny dick in the shower?

Kyrie himself said he wanted his own legacy and didn't want to be known as the next Pippen (in so many words). Lebron already gave him a goddamn ring and was apparently poised to stick around for his entire career. What could Lebron possibly have done to make life so miserable for Kyrie that he wants to just leave the situation entirely?

Lebron probably had some hand in it. Though kyrie is probably far more responsible. Didn't help that Lebron was publicly floating comments about trying to trade him. But quite possible the damage was already done by kyrie and his foot was out the door before Lebron made that comment.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by -King-

They were a top 3 defensive team when Kyrie was playing too. They would have been just fine defensively with Kyrie healthy and a lot better offensively. That last god awful stretch in game 7 would have been completely different with a scorer of Kyrie's caliber.
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With Kyrie and Hayward plus lots of offseason ammo, and with Philly having tons to work with, I don't think it's at all a foregone conclusion that the east will be a cakewalk next year if Lebron stays in Cleveland. Boston and Philly are probably an offseason away from being really good (assuming the Philly front office isn't a time bomb)

[-King-]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

You really believe that Lebron is the one who made Kyrie leave? What the **** was Lebron doing? Making fun of his tiny dick in the shower?

Kyrie himself said he wanted his own legacy and didn't want to be known as the next Pippen (in so many words). Lebron already gave him a goddamn ring and was apparently poised to stick around for his entire career. What could Lebron possibly have done to make life so miserable for Kyrie that he wants to just leave the situation entirely?

Everything about the Cavs is controlled by LeBron. From the players to the coach. On top of that, the successes of the team are are because of LeBron while the rest of the team bears all the failure. Also when players start playing bad, LeBron gets on social media to put out little passive aggressive messages to them. Remember him tweeting "Either fit in or fit out" to Kevin?

That's not exactly the best work environment LeBron has created.
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[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by Best22

He tried, the refs "didn't see him"

You mean the ref that was CLEARLY looking at the ball/action and CLEARLY not looking at Bron didn't see Bron's ONE quick timeout motion? Must be a conspiracy!!




See 4:40 to 4:50 mark.

[chiefzilla1501]

Originally Posted by -King-

Everything about the Cavs is controlled by LeBron. From the players to the coach. On top of that, the successes of the team are are because of LeBron while the rest of the team bears all the failure. Also when players start playing bad, LeBron gets on social media to put out little passive aggressive messages to them. Remember him tweeting "Either fit in or fit out" to Kevin?

That's not exactly the best work environment LeBron has created.
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Working with Lebron has to feel bipolar. One hand, you're incredibly grateful to have him. Other hand, he is incredibly difficult to work with. Mj was that way too, but Mj could also go with the flow and for Mj it was always strictly business (didn't need the extracurricular perks). This time around in Cleveland he had insane leverage with the way he structured his short term contracts

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by -King-

Everything about the Cavs is controlled by LeBron. From the players to the coach. On top of that, the successes of the team are are because of LeBron while the rest of the team bears all the failure. Also when players start playing bad, LeBron gets on social media to put out little passive aggressive messages to them. Remember him tweeting "Either fit in or fit out" to Kevin?

That's not exactly the best work environment LeBron has created.
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It's not Lebron's fault that Kyrie wanted to leave. That's what was reported by Brian Windhorst (or whatever his name is from ESPN).

You can go ahead and say, "Yeah, I don't believe that at all," but that was what was put out by the media when Kyrie requested the trade.

That one is NOT on Lebron.