timschochet's thread - Ranking hemorrhoids (3 Viewers)

[sports_fan]

I still think the Warriors sweep

 

[stbugs]

Cavs needed that one, that was the worst game Golden State has played all year, unlikely they'll be that bad again. Curry was awful all game, I would have been trying to get Thompson that last shot instead.

What about game 1? They looked good in OT, but got really lucky to get there. They should be down 0-2.

 

[Jayrod]

How is it even possible that two different people on Earth think the refs favored the Cavs in that game?

Check the posters. They are trolling.

 

[Mark Davis]

Role players generally play better at home than on the road. If that is the case, GS could be in trouble. I think they split the next 2 as well and the winner of Game 5 takes it.

Agreed about game 5, I'd be surprised if the Cavs take both in Cleveland.

Isn't it still 2-3-2 format for Finals?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

How is it even possible that two different people on Earth think the refs favored the Cavs in that game?

Some of us are students of the game.

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

How is it even possible that two different people on Earth think the refs favored the Cavs in that game?

the takes, they are a scorching.

Holding up some post game s'mores to this thread. Marshmallows getting nice and brown, chocolate melting just a touch. Thanks, HotSportsTakes!

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Cavs have to be pretty spent.

 

[NutterButter]

Role players generally play better at home than on the road. If that is the case, GS could be in trouble. I think they split the next 2 as well and the winner of Game 5 takes it.

Agreed about game 5, I'd be surprised if the Cavs take both in Cleveland.

Isn't it still 2-3-2 format for Finals?

No. Thank god.

 

[Britney Spears]

If Love leaves (and even if he doesn't, especially if they don't win a title w him) how bad does this Wiggins trade end up all time?

It's high on the list.

Higher than Olden Polynice for Scottie Pippen?

: |

"Ouch"

Ps how much are you enjoying this OKC schadenfreude?

Oh, we're just getting started there.

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Role players generally play better at home than on the road. If that is the case, GS could be in trouble. I think they split the next 2 as well and the winner of Game 5 takes it.

Agreed about game 5, I'd be surprised if the Cavs take both in Cleveland.

Isn't it still 2-3-2 format for Finals?

Switched to 2-2-1-1-1 last year.

 

[tommyGunZ]

#23 is the greatest player who ever laced'm up.

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

I still think the Warriors sweep

Me too. They are so much better than the Cavs that they are bound to get two wins from one of the games in Cleveland.

 

[NutterButter]

#23 is the greatest player who ever laced'm up.

Safe play

 

[GoBirds]

#23 is the greatest player who ever laced'm up.

See what ya did there

 

[Leviathan]

At least it's relatively easy to leave the parking lot and escape via 80. That part of Oakland is a ####hole.

 

[Mark Davis]

Role players generally play better at home than on the road. If that is the case, GS could be in trouble. I think they split the next 2 as well and the winner of Game 5 takes it.

Agreed about game 5, I'd be surprised if the Cavs take both in Cleveland.

Isn't it still 2-3-2 format for Finals?

Switched to 2-2-1-1-1 last year.

Like the 2-2-1-1-1 format much better.

 

[stbugs]

How is it even possible that two different people on Earth think the refs favored the Cavs in that game?

Pretty sure that was fishing. The refs were awful and really tried to give the game to the Warriors. I thought they had a couple bad calls against the Cavs in game 1, but not nearly as bad as tonight. Some of those calls were just plain bad to a point where you have to wonder if they intentionally ignored them.

 

[Ghost Rider]

I take back my "Golden St. would have won anyway" comment. With a healthy Irving and Love, the Cavs probably would have won this in 6. Cavs are missing both, yet are tied 1-1. Unreal.

 

[stbugs]

Cavs have to be pretty spent.

Yeah, but isn't there another 8 day delay before game 3? I think if we get to game 7 it is in August.

 

[NutterButter]

Blatt looks like he's going to fall asleep at the presser. How the hell is this guy a coach in the NBA?

 

[NutterButter]

I take back my "Golden St. would have won anyway" comment. With a healthy Irving and Love, the Cavs probably would have won this in 6. Cavs are missing both, yet are tied 1-1. Unreal.

Jordan still would've won 8 in a row.

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Role players generally play better at home than on the road. If that is the case, GS could be in trouble. I think they split the next 2 as well and the winner of Game 5 takes it.

Agreed about game 5, I'd be surprised if the Cavs take both in Cleveland.

Isn't it still 2-3-2 format for Finals?

Switched to 2-2-1-1-1 last year.

Like the 2-2-1-1-1 format much better.

Much overdue switch. Now that every team has their own pimped-out plane, travel isn't the bear it used to be. The extra night off after Game 4 to accommodate ABC helps, too.

 

[Britney Spears]

I think the Bulls PROBABLY get 8 straight if MJ never retires.

Love Lebron, but he isn't as good as MJ, and really not even sure what he could do to approach/pass MJ. Not really a knock to be called "almost as good as MJ".

How can you not think otherwise. 3 in a row followed by 3 in a row after the retirement where not one series even reached 7 games. I wouldn't go so far as to say he would've won more if he hadn't retired for a 2nd time, but that first retirement was right when they were just dominating the league.

He lost in the 2nd round when he came back from retirement. Why is this fact just ignored?

Sorry, i thought it was the next round. Not sure what you're getting at though. He only played in 17 regular season games that years; clearly there was going to be some rust with so few games to work with.

Jordan's 1995 postseason numbers are in line with his career numbers. The rust was shaken off. The team wasn't good enough. They lost Horace Grant in free agency and didn't really replace him.And Grant was a goner even if Jordan hadn't taken the baseball sabbatical. He waned to get paid, he wasn't in Jordan's inner circle, the Magic showed up at his house with a dump truck full of money.

The Bulls were very, VERY lucky Rodman suddenly became available after the 1995 season, and that no one else was willing to give up a player better than Wil Perdue for him.

Totally agree. People are really discounting how great Grant & Rodman were during those runs. We're talking about multiple all-star/all-defensive type talents. People talk like it was just MJ & Scottie.

Both very good players. Great? Probably stretching it a bit. Grant made one all-star game although he was probably on the precipice a bunch of years. Rodman made 2 with Detroit and although a great rebounder and a great defender (more so pre-Bulls), an absolute liability on the offensive end; You'd have a hard time finding a starting player on a championship caliber team that had a more limited set of offensive skills than him.

You can hide a bad offensive player when they are in the low post, it is much tougher when they are wing players. You can't just leave him down open down low the way the Warriors let Tony Allen run around and daring him to shoot from the outside.

Here is a list of guys that were starters and just as bad on offense or close to it as Rodman when they won titles

Ben Wallace

Udonis Haslem x 2

Tyson Chandler

Kendrick Perkins

Fabricio Oberto/Fransico Elson

Jason Williams

That is going back to around 2000

Ben Wallace is a good one. Haslem could hit an open jumper. The rest of those guys could at least score on an offensive rebound or take an oop or a dish for a throw down. The total of rodman's game was get a board and kick it back out.

LOL @ total of his game. He was the DPOY twice!

 

[GoBirds]

If LBJ pulls this series out with this sorry squad for his hometown when asked if this means more than the others he has to openly admit it does right?

 

[Ghost Rider]

I take back my "Golden St. would have won anyway" comment. With a healthy Irving and Love, the Cavs probably would have won this in 6. Cavs are missing both, yet are tied 1-1. Unreal.

Jordan still would've won 8 in a row.

Jordan never won an NBA finals game without his 2nd (Pippen) AND 3rd best players (Grant or Rodman).

 

[NutterButter]

I think the Bulls PROBABLY get 8 straight if MJ never retires.

Love Lebron, but he isn't as good as MJ, and really not even sure what he could do to approach/pass MJ. Not really a knock to be called "almost as good as MJ".

How can you not think otherwise. 3 in a row followed by 3 in a row after the retirement where not one series even reached 7 games. I wouldn't go so far as to say he would've won more if he hadn't retired for a 2nd time, but that first retirement was right when they were just dominating the league.

He lost in the 2nd round when he came back from retirement. Why is this fact just ignored?

Sorry, i thought it was the next round. Not sure what you're getting at though. He only played in 17 regular season games that years; clearly there was going to be some rust with so few games to work with.

Jordan's 1995 postseason numbers are in line with his career numbers. The rust was shaken off. The team wasn't good enough. They lost Horace Grant in free agency and didn't really replace him.And Grant was a goner even if Jordan hadn't taken the baseball sabbatical. He waned to get paid, he wasn't in Jordan's inner circle, the Magic showed up at his house with a dump truck full of money.

The Bulls were very, VERY lucky Rodman suddenly became available after the 1995 season, and that no one else was willing to give up a player better than Wil Perdue for him.

Totally agree. People are really discounting how great Grant & Rodman were during those runs. We're talking about multiple all-star/all-defensive type talents. People talk like it was just MJ & Scottie.

Both very good players. Great? Probably stretching it a bit. Grant made one all-star game although he was probably on the precipice a bunch of years. Rodman made 2 with Detroit and although a great rebounder and a great defender (more so pre-Bulls), an absolute liability on the offensive end; You'd have a hard time finding a starting player on a championship caliber team that had a more limited set of offensive skills than him.

You can hide a bad offensive player when they are in the low post, it is much tougher when they are wing players. You can't just leave him down open down low the way the Warriors let Tony Allen run around and daring him to shoot from the outside.

Here is a list of guys that were starters and just as bad on offense or close to it as Rodman when they won titles

Ben Wallace

Udonis Haslem x 2

Tyson Chandler

Kendrick Perkins

Fabricio Oberto/Fransico Elson

Jason Williams

That is going back to around 2000

Ben Wallace is a good one. Haslem could hit an open jumper. The rest of those guys could at least score on an offensive rebound or take an oop or a dish for a throw down. The total of rodman's game was get a board and kick it back out.

LOL @ total of his game. He was the DPOY twice!

We're talking offensively here ace. This exchange was about Rodman being the worst starting offensive player ever on a championship calibre team.

 

[sports_fan]

Blatt looks like he's going to fall asleep at the presser. How the hell is this guy a coach in the NBA?

Seems that people either think Blatt is a genius or an idiot. With no middle ground.

 

[sports_fan]

If LBJ pulls this series out with this sorry squad for his hometown when asked if this means more than the others he has to openly admit it does right?

He doesn't have to do anything

 

[Willie Neslon]

LeBron only active player to ever get hair transplants?

Rick Barry

Man, his is horrible. You'd think with all his money he'd call Bono or Brady's guy.

 

[SoBeDad]

How is it even possible that two different people on Earth think the refs favored the Cavs in that game?

Pretty sure that was fishing. The refs were awful and really tried to give the game to the Warriors. I thought they had a couple bad calls against the Cavs in game 1, but not nearly as bad as tonight. Some of those calls were just plain bad to a point where you have to wonder if they intentionally ignored them.

Bad non-calls at the end, but the Cavs had 40 FTs. And no travelling calls.

 

[ShamrockPride]

Blatt looks like he's going to fall asleep at the presser. How the hell is this guy a coach in the NBA?

Dude says the most generic things when they mic him up during TO's. Like I'm convinced 75% of people here in FFA could say more motivating things.

 

[trader jake]

If LBJ pulls this series out with this sorry squad for his hometown when asked if this means more than the others he has to openly admit it does right?

Wouldn't the surprise be if he didn't feel it was the most meaningful? A Cavs title this year, with this squad, would be an all-timer.

 

[NutterButter]

Blatt looks like he's going to fall asleep at the presser. How the hell is this guy a coach in the NBA?

Seems that people either think Blatt is a genius or an idiot. With no middle ground.

Maybe he's one of those idiot savants. His interviews are painful.

 

[NutterButter]

Blatt looks like he's going to fall asleep at the presser. How the hell is this guy a coach in the NBA?

Dude says the most generic things when they mic him up during TO's. Like I'm convinced 75% of people here in FFA could say more motivating things.

and

 

[Ghost Rider]

I've been down on Blatt, but he has to get a little credit for the Cavs playing as well as they have so far in this series, especially defensively, right?

 

[CurlyNight]

Cavs have to be pretty spent.

Yeah, but isn't there another 8 day delay before game 3? I think if we get to game 7 it is in August.

Game 3 is Tues..

 

[sports_fan]

LeBron only active player to ever get hair transplants?

Rick Barry

Carlos Boozer

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

SAS and Wilbon on SportsCenter right now. Are they going to have a jock-sniffing contest?

 

[Britney Spears]

Lebron elbowing Iggy in the groin is a foul on Iggy. Huh.

LeBron is the king of that garbage. He's been hard for me to watch for years, you even breath on the guy and it is a foul. Jordan might have averaged 50+ a night with those "rules".

I don't think you have really watched LeBron...he probably gets hit on his drives more than anyone without a call.

Happened just a little while ago. Because of his size and fighting through it, he does not always get the call.

And don't give me the Jordan stuff...best ever...but he got every single call.

Jordan/refs from the mid 90s would have had about 4500 free throws tonight if he was in LeBrons shoes.

 

[GoBirds]

If LBJ pulls this series out with this sorry squad for his hometown when asked if this means more than the others he has to openly admit it does right?

Wouldn't the surprise be if he didn't feel it was the most meaningful? A Cavs title this year, with this squad, would be an all-timer.

This would be so amazing I think he avoids saying all the right things....they all are special blah .....Hard not to pull for Cleveland here.

 

[ShamrockPride]

I've been down on Blatt, but he has to get a little credit for the Cavs playing as well as they have so far in this series, especially defensively, right?

Wrong. Everyone knows Bron is the coach here.

 

[NutterButter]

I've been down on Blatt, but he has to get a little credit for the Cavs playing as well as they have so far in this series, especially defensively, right?

Absolutely no excuse for not playing Mozgov for the entire 4th and OT. Just heard that Cavs didn't score a point in the paint after the 3rd quarter. Geez, I wonder why. He's the 2nd best player on the Cavs. You have to get him out there to help Lebron out on offense.

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Lebron elbowing Iggy in the groin is a foul on Iggy. Huh.

LeBron is the king of that garbage. He's been hard for me to watch for years, you even breath on the guy and it is a foul. Jordan might have averaged 50+ a night with those "rules".

I don't think you have really watched LeBron...he probably gets hit on his drives more than anyone without a call.

Happened just a little while ago. Because of his size and fighting through it, he does not always get the call.

And don't give me the Jordan stuff...best ever...but he got every single call.

Jordan/refs from the mid 90s would have had about 4500 free throws tonight if he was in LeBrons shoes.

On that last play of regulation, they would have waited to see if the shot went in, and then called a shooting foul on the defense after seeing the shot rim out.Or... called the foul on Iguodala, but wait to blow the whistle until the shot went up to call a "continuation" shooting foul.

 

[Willie Neslon]

LeBron only active player to ever get hair transplants?

Rick Barry

Carlos Boozer

Somebody did that with a pen.

 

[NutterButter]

Lebron elbowing Iggy in the groin is a foul on Iggy. Huh.

LeBron is the king of that garbage. He's been hard for me to watch for years, you even breath on the guy and it is a foul. Jordan might have averaged 50+ a night with those "rules".

I don't think you have really watched LeBron...he probably gets hit on his drives more than anyone without a call.

Happened just a little while ago. Because of his size and fighting through it, he does not always get the call.

And don't give me the Jordan stuff...best ever...but he got every single call.

Jordan/refs from the mid 90s would have had about 4500 free throws tonight if he was in LeBrons shoes.

On that last play of regulation, they would have waited to see if the shot went in, and then called a shooting foul on the defense after seeing the shot rim out.

And one would've just been the icing. Jordan doesn't miss that layup.

 

[No. 16]

The Warriors will come back with a vengeance. They usually do after a loss.

By far the worst game Curry has played in a long while. Delly was a factor, but Curry isn't going to shoot 5/23 very often.

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

Curry broke John Starks's record for most missed 3PTA in a single NBA Finals game.

 

[tommyGunZ]

Perhaps the odds will move enough to make me throw a couple bills on GSW.

 

[Jayrod]

Perhaps the odds will move enough to make me throw a couple bills on GSW.

Please do. Just so the Cavs can win this.

 

[Slapdash]

That was only the 4th loss at home for the Warriors this season right?