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NBA Finals 2017 |OT| Same As It Ever Was
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Or you just play your best players lots of minutes which Kerr did better than Brown. He staggered KD and Curry so at least one of them was on the floor basically every minute. Brown would sit Curry and Durant at the same time for stretches because he's an idiot...Klay is a good offensive player but he's not that dude like a Curry or Durant.
LyleLanley
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He couldn't handle being great so he took the easiest path.
Sho_Nuff82
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LeBron is 32 dude.
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Series is probably over. Warriors playing a good game is unstoppable. Warriors playing a mediocre game still requires a very good effort from the Cavs.
BUT, Thompson and Kyrie can't be so bad the whole series right? Maybe the home crowd pumps them up? I still don't expect a sweep unless Kyrie and Thompson have really good game 3's but the Warriors are also firing on all cylinders.
BUT, Thompson and Kyrie can't be so bad the whole series right? Maybe the home crowd pumps them up? I still don't expect a sweep unless Kyrie and Thompson have really good game 3's but the Warriors are also firing on all cylinders.
Feel like you're underestimating how intelligent that decision was, a lot of coaches ain't gon do that. At all.
Lot's of coaches aren't smart enough to sub in a player that will shit all over the other player on both ends of the court? Lue subbed out Frye immediately so does that make him Red Auerbach for recognizing it?
2012 Heat. Lebron was keyed in, Wade could still get to a high level, and they figured out it was Lebron's team. They took apart OKC. 2013 Heat had the streak but should have lost to the Spurs. A Manu free throw or rebound away.
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Idk. What's stopping KD from just rising up over him and shooting?
Is there a huge height difference? I forget KD is 7 feet lol
beat
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There was a period in the regular season where Kerr nearly never staggered Curry and Durant's minutes. I forget the precise reasons, but I think it was justifiable. Maybe it was that the bench + Durant wasn't that productive. Anyways, it sounds dumb but trust me, Brown wasn't deviating from Kerr's rotation schemes.
PadWarrior
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Makes him less stubborn. I was moreso speaking on how smart of a movd it was by Kerr to just subvert damn near all expectations
There was a moment yesterday with like 3 minutes left in the half when Klay was still on the bench I thought, "it was you all along!" I'd been blaming Mike Brown for butchering Klay's rotations all post season pretty much and here was Steve Kerr doing the same.
Meanwhile Mike Brown making it hard on the Warriors for game 3. What are you doing man? Lebron and Kyrie are gonna send Curry to the bench with 3 fouls like 90 seconds into the game.
Meanwhile Mike Brown making it hard on the Warriors for game 3. What are you doing man? Lebron and Kyrie are gonna send Curry to the bench with 3 fouls like 90 seconds into the game.
Throw rebounds in there and it gets even worse.
-tetsuo-
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Stupidity everywhere. Hey, Lebron actually looked human by showing his fatique and look at those Warriors! He can't beat them. Better retire when he's near his peak and gets paid millions to play the game he loves. Makes sense to me.
If he maintains them and KD has a few normal games he very well could. Still a lot of ball to be played.
RareFantasy64
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diFBCa_ivU0
2:26
"Who cares if he keeps losing in the finals for the final 5 years of his career! What's it matter? It clearly doesn't matter to him or historians of the game. No one holds the Finals losses over his head when discussing his legacy!"
They're saying he's fighting an injury, but I agree
2:26
"Who cares if he keeps losing in the finals for the final 5 years of his career! What's it matter? It clearly doesn't matter to him or historians of the game. No one holds the Finals losses over his head when discussing his legacy!"
They're saying he's fighting an injury, but I agree
BadAss2961
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Looking at the numbers, Kyrie hasn't really been terrible or anything, he's just been contained.
Keeping him from going off was always the key to this series for GS. Bron will get his, but he's not comfortable carrying the scoring load. Love took more shots than him last game, Kyrie took more shots in both.
friskykillface
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Kyrie killed his finals run by going Super Saiyan against the Celtics
That one play that looked bad was actually bad, dunno why he kept playing after rolling his ankle, think about what was at stake.
That one play that looked bad was actually bad, dunno why he kept playing after rolling his ankle, think about what was at stake.
Prototype Viktor
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I don't watch basketball because it's not a sport but when will the Warriors play a team in the finals?
mashoutposse
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Kerr seasoned his bench all year long so that they can be effective when exploiting the dated strategy of shortening the bench for the playoffs.
Pit your high quality, fresh-legged minutes against their low-quality, fatigued minutes. Keep quality up by strategically deploying 'death squad' lineups instead of leaning on half-hearted staggered rotations. That's how games are ended in the third quarter.
DasPenguin
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To be fair, the only way KD can guard a center in the defensive end is if the other team's center is terrible with the ball. Fortunately for GS that covers half the league, easy.
Bam Bam Baklava
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JR Smith is allowing 90% shooting on defense. Never forget that one post.
Hyperactivity
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I've been watching the games this posy-season. They're both defenders that typically know where they need to be, and when to be there, and both are good at securing rebounds (Love is actually great at it, in that he has a really solid understanding of where the ball is going and how he needs to position himself for the rebound)
As for JR
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/j-r-smiths-defense-is-upside-down/
It varies.
I'm gonna trust this dude about basketball more than you. Love is a decent to good help defender, eh on man to man, and great at rebounding.
Even Hitta had his moment of being right. Bam Bam can't claim that
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/6fkep6/warriors_shot_charts_love_and_shumpert_have_been/
Like I fucking said.
Wanna talk more shit, Bam Bam?
EDIT: Wait, shit, Bam Bam was a step ahead of me
Reading is hard.
Lol don't. Box score tells you next to nothing. He's been terrible. Most of the points he does has have been when the game has been mostly decided.
ryutaro's mama
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Lionel Richie
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The Warriors as a whole played very badly in the first half. It still didn't matter.
Now that's fucking awesome. Mike Brown is just the greatest dude ever.
Ninja Scooter
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I really hope Silver is serious about pushing for getting rid of the one and done rule. Fuck the NCAA.
NBA has nothing on the highly skilled offenses in NCAA.
Agreed.
Yep, I'd love for a renewed focus on the D-League instead
CopperPuppy
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yes please
ryutaro's mama
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Yep this would be great. I think there is a lot of potential here. It would be cool to see a lot of good of young foreign prospects vs young us players .
Wouldn't adding rookies with even less experience make the talent level even worse?
i had no idea there was an issue with talent level in the nba
CopperPuppy
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What is confusing about my post? The thread was moving at a nice clip even on off days until recently. The lack of competition in Games 1 and 2 have blunted interest and slowed the thread.
Talent level in the NBA is higher then it's been in along time. forcing kids to play collage ball for over year doesn't increase talent and isn't enough time to build fundamentals.
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LeBron needs to get the banana boat for next year
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