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Basketball / Re: NBA Playoffs: 2015-2016
« on: June 20, 2016, 04:56:33 pm »<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hp7NfhmGfA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hp7NfhmGfA</a>
nba refs are blind as hell - there was one right behind james watching. 7:45 lbj travels (pick up his established pivot foot which was the left) as he pump fakes got Ezeli in air; before there was any contact he switch the pivot foot to right - a very clear violation. but of course lbj has been allowed travelling all the times throughout his entire career.
it was extremely hard to watch Ezeli and Varejao in the game. omg they were absolutely terrible... their stats were horrendous. absolutely nothing on both side of the floor. Kerr was down right idiot for playing them two for so long.
lot of bs in this series. wouldn't have gone as far as saying nba gave it to CLE but nba heavily influence the game to extend the series that was pretty obvious... nba set it up for to be a 7 game and no matter if GSW or CLE had won nba can spin it as a good story either way. but with father time rapidly closing on bron bron nba decided to give it to CLE this year.
lbj is such a fake drama queen. his leg broke the fall already he was purely acting. just like last year when he crash into the camera in the finals. his petty acts are why i will never praise him from the heart.
the only i like about him is his collection of epic chase down blocks... nba's shitty reffing makes it very hard to enjoy the game. is it too damn much to ask for fair officiating?! establish the condition of the game early and call it fair on both ends of the floor. game 7 was pretty good reffing overall but they still allow a lot of holding which i absolutely hate. game 6, that was nasty bias for CLE, touch fouls in nba finals are a joke.
in the end nba got what they wanted. this finals series was very unsatisfying for me (even before the final game 7 result). just didn't like how it went down at all. WCF was far more epic and tense.
I just don't think NBA influenced this series as much as you think.. Warriors went up 3-1 and couldn't close it out at home. Sure they didn't have Green, but really, that's 100% on him. I didn't like the suspension but he definitely did a street-fighter punch to Lebron's sack... had he literally just done nothing, and not gotten suspended, it more than likely could have been a 4-1 win by GSW.. BUT GSW OPENED THE DOOR. That's their fault.. Then they couldn't close it out at home. Kerr made some very bad decisions. Curry was pretty much off. Bogut got hurt. Igoudala wasn't 100%. They fell apart.. and, they were falling apart the entire post season..
I think people might forget how beat up they looked by the end of the 73-9 run. Chasing that record really took it's toll on them. Their post season was far from dominant, they had a ton of stuff go against them, most notably Curry's injuries. Then that series with OKC was beyond grueling.
Bottom line, they were up 3-1. They had 3 opportunities to close it out; 2 at home.
That's when Lebron & Kyrie took over.. If Kyrie had never gone full beast mode, GSW would have it's second straight title. We knew Lebron would bring it, but he needed someone else to step up huge.. and that was Kyrie.
IMHO, CLE's wins over GSW were more than fair.
As for OKC being able to kill CLE.. I just remember what MIA did to OKC. Obviously CLE isn't MIA.... home court advantage is everything in the playoffs, and CLE would have had home court over OKC. Cleveland is a strong team defensively, can't deny it.. They make high-scoring west coast teams look like east coast teams, .. hell, that's what the East always does in the finals. These crazy high scoring West teams, get in their vs the East, and then it becomes ugly. Always happens.. OKC vs CLE would have been no different, in that regard.
today for a few reasons.
