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^cool website. i enjoyed reading this one

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bad-news-cavs-fans-the-warriors-dont-care-how-good-your-team-is/

^cool website. i enjoyed reading this one

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bad-news-cavs-fans-the-warriors-dont-care-how-good-your-team-is/

from that article:

But better news for the Cavs is that the Warriors haven’t really kept this phenomenon going in the playoffs.

yup... i'm honestly shocked that GSW got beaten as bad as they did.. I thought it would be much closer. Steph is having a really bad series right now.

They had Shumpert face guarding him the entire length of the court -> THAT'S HOW YOU DO IT. I absolutely loved seeing that. *TRY* and lock him down the entire length of the court.. this is something you might see in college or h.s. bball. When you can't contain a guy, you try and face guard him the entire length of the floor, with various (more athletic) defenders to keep them fresh. That's just rugged, aggressive defense.

The absence of Love might also help, but like I said in an earlier post, more-so on the road. At home he can be lights-out.. on the road however, he can be a brickhouse. I liked seeing Jefferson in there for the overall energy/aggressiveness.

Cavs looked good tonight.. but GSW looked bad. The real test will be, who wins when both teams are firing on all cylinders.. hope we see that before the playoffs are over.

Finally.. monstrous Lebron dunks can lead to series victories. I'd like to see someone (538) drop some stats on that. Every series I remember where Lebron ended up doing some extra crazy dunk, ie, vs Boston while on CLE & MIA, he ends up on the winning end.

pc!

STATS   MIN   FG%   REB   AST   BLK   STL   PF   PTS
This Game   40   .538   11   6   2   1   2   32

LEBRONSTER (lol).



Curry really needs to clean up his turnovers.. in this series alone (first 3 games): 6, 4, 5 .. that's BAD for a PG.

They're almost 2015 finals numbers for Lebron. Both Lebron and Kyrie need that top of the key jumper more often imo. They did it well tonight (well Kyrie hit pretty much everything early) but it leads to so many more points in the paint when they're dangerous from that distance.

Curry is approaching Westbrook figures for turnovers but without the 30 odd points to go with it.

It'll be interesting to see how many minutes Love plays in the next game. The Cavs looked better without him

lolll, fun stuff:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI-Bfk_OeB4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI-Bfk_OeB4</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFEWVOHixnA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFEWVOHixnA</a>

I just viewed ESPN and saw the headline "have the cavs figured the Warriors out". Man I'm so frustrated with sports media and how they jump from one extreme to other. They did this with the Cavs - Raptors series as well saying ohh it's going to be a sweep and then shifting over to the other side - are there issues with Cleveland.

I understand it's entertainment and you have to make good television out of it but even the analysts like Stephen A Smith do this. I quote he said "this series is over, I give the Cavs a 6% chance and that's in case tragedy strikes or serious injury happens." He has some explaining to do if that doesn't happen lol.

Finally a competitive game!  Hope the rest of the series goes like this!!

Damn, I don't know how competitive it'll be now! I know it's been mentioned before but I think you could see Lue's inexperience come into play today. They say young coaches tend to make the mistake of leaving their best players in for too long in close games. He played both Lebron and kyrie to start the 4th and all of the way through. cavs went ice cold that 4th quarter.

Meanwhile, Kerr played James Mcadoo lol. You have to trust your bench and give your top players adequate rest. Either way I'm not sure it would've made a difference but it could've kept it close. This GSW squad is just too good

yup.. and man did Lebron look frustrated at the end of that game. He was letting his emotions get the best of him, he doesn't normally get into confrontations like that. He was definitely at fault for walking over Green.. and then he roughed up Curry pretty hard. You can see it slipping away.

I still think Lebron needed to be alot more aggressive in the 4th quarter.. he's just too unselfish. He deferred alot of shots to Kyree who was literally chucking it up. Kyree had some nice drives, but would have liked to see Lebron just keep attacking.

RIP CLE.