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I like reading those in Jay Pharoah's voice, who has a phenomenal Stephen A Smith impression that usually gets cut after dress rehearsal.
The "Gone Fishin'" pic with Draymond Green kicking an octopus in the nuts (face? mouth?) was the greatest thing I've ever seen.
I think (hope) he comes back for one year, suffers another heartbreaking playoff failure, then leaves with Russ and the team implodes.
That whole shtick should be stale by now, but it keeps delivering. I still crack up when Shaq tries to put on one of those Skipper hats.
I think the Cavs can present some of the same problems, to a greater degree, that POR did on offense. Their big problem is getting gashed defensively by the high pick and shallow roll that they haven't shown signs of solving in their last five and a half meetings. If the series is played with any kind of pace, I don't see CLE winning.
That's because people are stupid and have nothing to say. Arguing that a lineup without your second and third best players, guys that are at least top 30 NBA players, is moronic.
Their best playoff lineup has been LeBron + 4 bench guys. +52 per 100 possessions in 70 minutes. That is obscene. Granted, it was against some bad teams but that is still incredibly impressive.
looked like the Thunder players thought the whistle had blown 6 seconds before Curry made the basket
I think Bogut is hesitant to go strong to the rim because he doesn't want to shoot free throws. He is robbing himself of possible and-one opportunities and settling for passive low percentage shots where he has little chance of getting the board.
The problem with defending GS is that your PGs have to be long or be able to stick with Curry. They will run their offense through the low post with Barnes/Klay/Iggy against your PG all day. I don't know how Kyrie stays on the floor defensively.
it's a weird one. when Westbrook and Durant are taking over the game because they have no other offensive options it's "hero ball". when Curry and Thompson are heaving 40 threes a game, from any position, at any time with any number of seconds on the clock it's just good basketball.
A lineup, in some cases, is more than the sum of its parts. Irving's talents are considerable, but he's not a good natural fit for Love/James. He slows down the ball movement those other two can create, and he is not a good 3 point shooter to take advantage of James driving and kicking. And he also pretty clearly needs to be hidden on defense.
I noticed that as well. It sure seemed like Durant had a hand on every player he was guarding. They showed a replay of some drives by Curry and Iguodala and Durant grabbed their arms every single time and never got called for a foul. Other OKC players got fouls called, but it sure seemed like Durant got away with a ton of contact.
That's debatable though. Yes he shot the 3 badly this year, but was .400% last year and is .450% for the past two playoff years when the offense resorts to more of this type of action. I know the point your making (he'd rather have the ball in his hands than catching off of something from LeBron), but he's shown he can knock down shots when open.
Kanter is definitely an option but blows on defense like really bad. When they involve Adams, they are way way better on offense. Luckily they forget that when it gets tight and Donovan had him on the bench at the end for reasons I'm not sure of.
Draymond vs Delly scraps will happen at some point....possibly multiple times.
Getting good shots in the flow of the offensive set does not equal ISO plays with four guys standing around watching. I believe the TNT guys talked earlier in the post season about OKC leading all post season teams in possessions without a pass. That's hero ball. Klay curling around a screen and putting up a three over a closing out defender is not hero ball. Durant continuing to chuck when his shot isn't falling is hero ball, Steph putting up deep threes when he's feeling it isn't in my book (and this does fall into the "the difference is whether or not the shot goes in).
There was a time in the NBA were jamming your forearm or elbow into the throat of a defender on a drive was considered dirty, and a foul. LeBron does this on every single drive. He clears the defender off of him with brutal forearms. I don't get why it is not both dirty and a foul. If it was considered dirty he would rule the roost as dirtiest player. Since that is off the board I am going to go with Green, though I can certainly see the love for Dellavedova, he is capable of taking a cheap shot at Curry at nearly any moment.
Green lacks the emotional control, IMO, to survive the series. I hope I am wrong. I do know this, Love's shoulder will not hold up under the same take down used last night on Stevens. If we see that move again, though, I believe that will be enough of a pattern to get him tossed, though technically it takes three data points to establish a pattern.
Adams absence was mysterious indeed. he's got a fairly decent touch around the basket, Golden State looked like children rebounding against their dad when he was out there and he's the only player (outside Westbrook) they have who isn't afraid to be physical.
while i agree that OKC looked stagnant at times with Westbrook (particularly) monopolizing the ball and taking a bad shot, Curry does plenty of that. he just happens to have an insane amount of skill and luck so those shots go down.
The other team usually has some backups on the floor then as well when they play that lineup.
