Official 2016 NBA Playoffs Thread: Conference Finals: Warriors / Thunder | Cavs / Raptors

[freeze]

pat highkey ******ed lol

 

[Quincy McCall]

 

[Retroballer]

You know nothing about basketball

Ehh your just trying to say some hot take in the moment. I get it. You don't like harden. Still doesn't make you correct. Harden's carried a team for three straight years in basically an offense that is, harden do something or else because we don't know how to score.

 

[AEA18]

Local RH was saying Dwight will get a 2/40 from someone like the Celtics.

We don't want him

 

[antidope]

You can't place the blame on one of them (Harden and Dwight) , they hold equal shares of blame.

 

[ill steelo]

Durant shot 7/33 tho

 

[Air Pope]

Durant shot 7/33 tho

Saw the box score & thought it was a typo

 

[art vandelay]

No typo. He stunk up the joint.

 

[goldmember]

Yea can't remember the last time KD shot so poorly like that

MAIN reason Mavs won. Most of those were easy and just plain wide open shots lol

 

[hoosierdaddy317]

 Pacers

Why Cory Joseph damn near better than our starting PG?

Why Paul wanna pass to Ian in the post when PG can literally score just about every possession?

Getting manhandled on the boards.

Why Jadakiss as hard as it gets?

Game 3 Thursday mane

 

[ny mavurs]

Fell asleep during the Dubs game and I'm not surprised by the outcome

 

[iamjusayn]

lol f the fans. We trying to build dynasties, b.

Y'all not building jack...relax! [emoji]9995[/emoji][emoji]127998[/emoji]

 

[datznasty]

Man reading back from last night's posts of the Thunder-Mavs game, all those years of having his mom courtside and kissing her in the mouth must have really worked regarding KD's image. He is apparently infallible. Dude shoots 21% including 3 misses In the last 21 seconds, of his 26 total misses which is a career high for him, 1 of which would had been the game winner, and fumbles a rebound to Wes Matthews for what turned out to be their game winner essentially, and everybody still blaming Russ

 

[Lovetohate3000]

Man reading back from last night's posts of the Thunder-Mavs game, all those years of having his mom courtside and kissing her in the mouth must have really worked regarding KD's image. He is apparently infallible. Dude shoots 21% including 3 misses In the last 21 seconds, of his 26 total misses which is a career high for him, 1 of which would had been the game winner, and fumbles a rebound to Wes Matthews for what turned out to be their game winner essentially, and everybody still blaming Russ

russ didn't shoot good and still made a bunch of dumb mistake in crunch time . kd shooting like this is a rare thing. Westbrook fn up in crunch time is what he does and who he is. That's why kd gets a pass.

 

[thirdtimearound]

KD is holding the point God back.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

datznasty would you consider Scott Brooks a good coach? Why or why not?

 

[art vandelay]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba...s-to-warriors/ar-BBrVOcg?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=iehp

Most things and antics from Shaq I don't agree with, this is seemingly legit tho.

 

[carver]

Pretty cool playoff artwork

credit to SnowceansJay gf over on r/nba

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Lets see what stupid team will give him a big contract. I hope nobody does after this effort. This dude aint even tryna swindle a team

The rockets maxed him out after he did the exact same thing the year before in the playoffs with the lakers

Why do people make a big deal when Bron cries to the refs? Literally every player in the league does

I think iswydt. Jumpmanesque post

damian lilliard was acting like a crybaby all night yesterday

Fixed...i have hated this guy since he got Van Gundy fired. Now watching fail repeatedly against a team i hate as well makes me dislike him even more

Will players/coaches ever trust dwight again after what he did to svg? Not to mention trying to get Kobe traded. Players around the league will never want to be on the same team as him, ever.

You gotta mess with JET for the fact that he said lebron wouldn't be able to guard him and then went out and proved it

Lebron can't even guard Nick young tho. Dead srs

The Rockets show the limitations of analytics. Morey was so dead set on building a particular type of team he never bothered to consider the personalities he was acquiring.

This. Hinkie is just as worse.

But Harden's been past the 2nd round though!!

His team made that run with him on the bench tho

We don't want him

You deserve him

 

[datznasty]

The team was elite under him for whatever it's worth. He had his flaws and I understand firing him, just didn't think you'd bring a rookie coach in in the biggest season in the team's history (KD's fa yr). The team liked him and played hard for him, doesn't seem like anyone likes or respects Donovan, hell that's why they had to go out and sign Nazr just be a defacto Coach. Biggest beef with SB was his undying allegiance to no longer productive veterans at the expense of younger, more productive, players but we're seeing that again with Donovan (Foye over Payne) which leads the question of it's an organizational thing (it is). There was also the "why the **** is Kendrick Perkins in the game," factor, proving he was bad about in game adjustments. He just picked a line up/game plan, and ran with it regardless of what the situation called for (ie the finals- smallball but continued to trot out 2 bigs when they're playing Battier at PF) . In the 2012 finals, even though we lost in 5 games, 4 straight L's, if you subtract the time Kendrick Perkins was in the game we won those minutes, in blowout fashion IIRC.

There was the same 4th quarter execution problem we see now, not as pronounced because KD/Russ were surrounded by better players at time.

I'd say in 2012 playoffs he outcoached Pop though. Granite we were also so much younger and just outathleted them, to go from down 0-2 in a series to winning the next 4 straight without HCA is amazing. Just made 2 simple adjustments, switching all their pick and roll action, and then on offense that 1-3 pindown where James initiated the offense and Russ went and picked for KD's man which cause TP to switch onto KD who in turn would get it mid post and just turn and shoot over him. I couldn't believe how many times they let us just bury them with that

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Interesting. So you're saying Miami wasn't necessarily the better team in the finals, okc was just out coached and it cost them a title?

Was he instrumental in the development/non development of guys like KD/Russ/ibaka/harden/Jackson and others or would they have been who they are regardless?

 

[addict4sneakers]

Homie out here contacting references for what laker fans hope to be an upcoming coaching vacancy


Not even mad

 

[carver]

Scott Brooks is taking that D.C job... LAL is stuck with Byron 

srs.

Speaking of KD.. last night he sucked fat ones.. but what's with him and Russ constantly telling other people what they should or shouldn't be doing.. dudes always saying something to the media 

 

[flyerthandelta]

Ibaka gonna demand a trade after this season

 

[theknowledgeableprofessor]

OKC messes up by keeping their offense between KD and Russ. Those fools need to learn how to pass to other team mates. Tooo many missed buckets because of that...too many