General Playoff Thread: The Long 2nd Season
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They're not even supposed to be here. I like this Warriors team as well. Just don't see how you beat them in a seven game series.
The amazing part of this is it's just another night for Curry. He does this same shit in pretty much every single game. Just takes over when he wants, doesn't matter that teams are completely focused on him. Just insane good.
Even when they do get out on him, doesn't really matter. Has anyone ever had a quicker release than Curry?
Watching Curry shoot free throws is even fun. Guy just flicks the ball at the hoop and they go in.
Series over. I wonder if the Spurs really match up with this Warriors team. I honestly don't see it. OKC I view as the same as this Blazers team. Two great players on the team, but surrounded by garbage everywhere else.
Yup exactly
Throwing out Shaun of the living dead was addition by subtraction by forcing Curry to play more
They should send him some recycled mothers day flowers and a gift card to Chicos or something
That was awesome. I'm sitting here giggling like an idiot.
The irony is that if Steph had made that shot at the end of regulation, we never would have gotten the OT explosion.
The Inside the NBA guys are losing their shit.
Apparently 17 points in OT is an NBA record.
The irony is that if Steph had made that shot at the end of regulation, we never would have gotten the OT explosion.
The Inside the NBA guys are losing their shit.
Apparently 17 points in OT is an NBA record.
You really want to die on this hill? I mean, its Scott Foster - most NBA watchers agree this guy sucks. Just because the game went Golden State's way does not change the fact that it was a bad call for a ref to toss a guy who is, by all accounts, a solid NBA citizen and someone who had never before been ejected, from a playoff game.
I don't think he's arguing with any of this.
It's like he's saying that the 2004 Sox comeback was so much sweeter because they came from 3-0 down to get there. Shit we didn't want to happen or shouldn't have happened, let to something really cool.
Wait, I must have missed this. You think Livingston shouldn't have been ejected? Seriously?
He chased a ref down cursing him out and the first thing the ref saw when he turned around was Livingston in his face cursing him some more.
I'll always some love for Livingston because he started with my clipps but come on. He acted like a complete asshole, I don't give a shit what his reputation, that doesn't give you a free pass to act like a child.
I don't think any player should be ejected from a playoff game barring a physical altercation or verbal abuse that goes above and beyond the normal complaints that follow any foul or missed foul call. From where I sat, Livingston wasn't bitching any more than your typical complainant.
Also, we are talking about Scott Foster here. If this were virtually any other ref than him I might reconsider my view but the guy is generally regarded as the worst official in the NBA.
Finally, my view is likely colored, to some degree, by my affinity for the Warriors. I suspect that both you and Kliq, as Warriors detractors, have the opposite dynamic informing your view of things. As such, I will leave it alone and we can simply agree to disagree.
If I were a Warrior fan I'd have been thrilled that Foster tossed Livingston so get Curry and his ridiculous minute restriction on the floor as much as possible. It probably won them the game with this ejection.
In other news, I am struggling to put that Curry performance in context.
As coremiller pointed out the TNT gang was largely at a loss for words when talking about what Curry did. They pointed out that it usually takes a guy a game or two to shake off the rust. It took Curry just over two quarters.
Not to overstate the importance of that win but if Portland takes that game at the very least, the Warriors have to run another game before they get to what will likely be a meat grinder of a series with the Spurs or Thunder or the Blazers get everyone going and steal a game in Oakland putting the Warriors behind the eight ball (a low probability outcome but not impossible).
Even if you discount the importance of the game, that was a next level performance, period. I am still trying to process it.
As coremiller pointed out the TNT gang was largely at a loss for words when talking about what Curry did. They pointed out that it usually takes a guy a game or two to shake off the rust. It took Curry just over two quarters.
Not to overstate the importance of that win but if Portland takes that game at the very least, the Warriors have to run another game before they get to what will likely be a meat grinder of a series with the Spurs or Thunder or the Blazers get everyone going and steal a game in Oakland putting the Warriors behind the eight ball (a low probability outcome but not impossible).
Even if you discount the importance of the game, that was a next level performance, period. I am still trying to process it.
I'm still trying to process Lillard and McCollum going 18 for 53. Curry is a great player and was going up against a team that doesn't defend the backcourt all that well. It was a virtuoso performance by a guy who has been putting them up at an incredible rate. The Spurs/Warriors series has the makings of an all-time great one. I really hope it doesn't disappoint and turn into a bunch of low scoring slug fests.
I just wanted to join the chorus of Scott Foster sucks. That sumbitch is corrupted, and everybody knows it, yet the NBA keeps trotting him out there to officiate it's biggest games.
I see. I saw it differently. Genuinely shocked it was Livingston acting that way. But to each their own.
Nice job by the blazers, btw. 2 games in the series up 16 or more in the 1st and fail to win the game. That team is a mixed bag of crap. and for all the love Dame gets, deservedly so, he has a tendency to be a one trick pony and take some really dumb ass shots throughout the game.
An alternate perspective on this has a team with the pupu platter of Plumlee, Aminu and Harkless as a STARTING FRONTCOURT managing to hang with the team that just put up the best regular season record of all time, because of a superb offensive backcourt and coaching.
I agree with this view. Stotts is one of the best coaches in the NBA for a lot of the same reasons that Stevens gets love - they get more from the whole than the sum of their parts. Plumlee and Aminu are bench players and Harkless may not even be a rotation player on a real contender. Lillard is an elite offensive talent and McCollum really made a leap this year. 18-53 happens because they really are the only option that Portland has.
Our Blazer fan friends here should feel good - if they somehow lure KD up to Rip City or simply restock the roster this offseason, they are going to be a contender very soon.
Looks like it to me. Only 2 rebounds in 20 minutes tonight. He has deferred scoring to the younger guys but rebounds shouldn't be an issue.
Aminu is one of the most underrated players in the entire NBA. He is absolutely a starting 4 in this league today now that he's established himself as an effective 3-point shooter. He's always been a great 3/4 matchup defender against opponents stars and now he's a threat offensively as well. I wanted the Celtics to sign him so badly last summer.