2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

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Celtics in 4 (Did you mean: Cavs in 4?)
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Celtics in 5 (hello Bill Simmons)
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Celtics in 6 (hello Sauru)
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Celtics in 7
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8%
Cavs in 4
5
38%
Cavs in 5
2
15%
Cavs in 6
1
8%
Cavs in 7
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Olynyk is a dirty player and should be killed or at lest suspended one game
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One more round before we all reluctantly jump on the Cavs bandwagon
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23%
Things would be different if Rondo were healthy (and Bernie were the nominee)
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8%
First conference finals series to be exclusively on NBA TV
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Total votes : 13

Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby Sauru on Tue May 23, 2017 9:43 am

Andrew wrote:
Sauru wrote:man /r/nba is a mess right now. half the people cant get off lebrons nuts while the other half is trying to make them see reason


They're also making comments about James Jordan's murder. Classy.


yeah its a great place to go if you enjoy arguing with kids and adults who have yet to mature past 14
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby Andrew on Tue May 23, 2017 9:44 am

But we're apparently the bitter, insecure, overly-sensitive haters. Oh well.
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby Sauru on Tue May 23, 2017 6:36 pm

Andrew wrote:But we're apparently the bitter, insecure, overly-sensitive haters. Oh well.



i love how the word "hater" is used like a trump card. like a feminist that will scream "sexist" if she is losing an argument. of you have stats to back up why lebron is not the greatest ever? fuck that you just a damn hater. now i give lebron all the credit in the world but the conversation is lebron vs kobe and no one vs jordan
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby Andrew on Tue May 23, 2017 7:17 pm

"Hater" has sadly become a convenient deflection of any and all criticism. Why come up with a counter-argument, or reconsider your actions or attitude, when you can simply say of your critics "Ah, they're just haters"?
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby NovU on Wed May 24, 2017 12:41 am

It was worse with Kobe.
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby air gordon on Wed May 24, 2017 1:13 am

Lol then don't pay attention to the nonsense

This is like Howard stern. A majority of his audience were people that were offended by him but listened anyway so they hear the offensive material

Andy Kaufman would be killing it if he was alive now
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby bowdown on Wed May 24, 2017 1:24 am

Why does Marcus Smart shoot the ball like crap so much? He has got all the tools but of course he has to have the major shooting handicap in his arsenal.
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby Dee4Three on Wed May 24, 2017 2:42 am

bowdown wrote:Why does Marcus Smart shoot the ball like crap so much? He has got all the tools but of course he has to have the major shooting handicap in his arsenal.


Hey, as long as he's knocking down 7 threes in playoff games, shoot away Marcus.

But let's be real. We can't depend on him doing that on the regular. Hopefully we shoot well as a team tonight
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby air gordon on Wed May 24, 2017 3:00 am

Why not run early plays for him to get him in rhythm? You could almost see his shot form looks off after his first miss
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby Dee4Three on Wed May 24, 2017 3:10 am

air gordon wrote:Why not run early plays for him to get him in rhythm? You could almost see his shot form looks off after his first miss


I can agree with that. I wouldn't mind us trying to get him involved early to build his confidence and rythem.
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby Jackal on Wed May 24, 2017 7:05 am

Andrew wrote:As far as the MJ vs LeBron debate is concerned, you can probably guess which side I'm on, but the case has been pretty well laid out by someone who's taken the time to dig through all the numbers.


Thank you for this link. It's so nice to be able to refer to that when the generation of now start that argument. Just, no.
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby Andrew on Wed May 24, 2017 12:16 pm

Jackal wrote:
Andrew wrote:As far as the MJ vs LeBron debate is concerned, you can probably guess which side I'm on, but the case has been pretty well laid out by someone who's taken the time to dig through all the numbers.


Thank you for this link. It's so nice to be able to refer to that when the generation of now start that argument. Just, no.


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It's a fantastic resource. As I said, a lot of research and thought put into it.
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby bowdown on Wed May 24, 2017 2:05 pm

BTW who is that second announcer? Sounds like Steve Kerr lol
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby Sauru on Wed May 24, 2017 2:46 pm

that shit was just brutal. i mean i have seen this move stutter the defense enough to get the score but kyrie sent him to the 5th row with this one.
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby air gordon on Wed May 24, 2017 3:22 pm

in the finals we may again see a pick and roll to death with whoever Curry is guarding

cavs shot 71% in the 2nd half. nuts
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby Dee4Three on Thu May 25, 2017 12:24 am

Reggie Miller seriously must have someone in his ear telling him to say nothing bad about Lebron James. Lebron CLEARLY double dribbled on that post move on Jaylen Brown, as someone watching it on tv, we didn't even need to see it in slow motion to tell, it literally was the most obvious thing. However, not only did Reggie Miller praise Lebron multiple times about the move, but when they went to the replay, they cut out the view where you can see him carry it.

Reggie Miller is the most annoying voice (tied with Mark Jackson), for national tv broadcasts.
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby Andrew on Thu May 25, 2017 12:27 am

You might be giving Reggie too much credit there. I think he manages to be a terrible commentator all by himself, without a producer in his ear telling him what to say.
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby Dee4Three on Thu May 25, 2017 12:28 am

Andrew wrote:You might be giving Reggie too much credit there. I think he manages to be a terrible commentator all by himself, without a producer in his ear telling him what to say.


You could be right. He has gotten worse every year.
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby Andrew on Thu May 25, 2017 12:35 am

You know, while I obviously have fond memories and nostalgia for the players of the 80s and 90s, a lot of them didn't turn out to be very good commentators once they hung up their sneakers and transitioned to the booth.
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby Dee4Three on Thu May 25, 2017 12:40 am

Andrew wrote:You know, while I obviously have fond memories and nostalgia for the players of the 80s and 90s, a lot of them didn't turn out to be very good commentators once they hung up their sneakers and transitioned to the booth.


Miller and Jackson hurt my ears. I love Tom Heinsohn because I am a Celtics fan, but I see why most everybody else outside of Boston doesn't like him. I actually enjoyed listening to Baron Davis when he was a guest on the TNT broadcast, soft spoken and knew what he was talking about. I wonder how he would do as a color commentator in actual games. Chris Webber doesn't bother me, and neither does Kevin McHale.

I feel like it's a 50-50 success rate for former players as commentators, haha.
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Re: 2017 Conference Finals: 1 Boston vs. 2 Cleveland

Postby Andrew on Thu May 25, 2017 12:41 am

McHale is pretty good. I've come to somewhat like, or at least tolerate C-Webb over the past couple of years.
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