NBA Finals Thread

[Blacken]

How did Duncan miss that?

Because basketball is hard. Next question.

 

[shawnrbu]

Kawhi Leonard has played 17 pretty invisible minutes so far.

 
Outside of the 4th Quarter of Game 1, he has been terrible this series.

 

[mauf]

I'd love to see a rule change where such egregious flops could earn the player a technical, if not for the fact that the refs can't be trusted with judgement calls of that sort.

League office reviews flops on tape. Three flops gets you a one-game suspension. Each subsequent flop earns another one-game suspension. That would put a stop to it.

 

[Blacken]

League office reviews flops on tape. Three flops gets you a one-game suspension. Each subsequent flop earns another one-game suspension. That would put a stop to it.

Maufman for commissioner.

 

[bball831]

Danny Crawford gets to officiate Finals games?  WOW.

 

[Ed Hillel]

This is a joke. They changed that rule.

 

[bball831]

That's a flagrant on Green if the play is reversed. 

 

[Blacken]

Oh look, James gets fouls. You mindless fuckfaces can stop whining now, right?

 

[bball831]

Refs are losing control of the game.  Horrible.  

 

[Ed Hillel]

David Crawford?

 

[ifmanis5]

Oh look, James gets fouls. You mindless fuckfaces can stop whining now, right?

Are you calling us mindless fuckfaces?

 

[bball831]

When can we start asking if Wade is shaving points? 

 

[Blacken]

Are you calling us mindless fuckfaces?

Yes.

Well, not you.

 

[ifmanis5]

Huge make.

 

[Blacken]

Kawhi Leonard, bailout three. OK, sure.

 

[bball831]

Duncan's hands are amazing - he sucks up every rebound near him.  

 

[Cerebus the Batboy]

I don't mind that the refs make mistakes, but I could live without Breen/Van Gundy/Jackson's attempts to whitewash them all.

 

[ivanvamp]

Kawhi Leonard, bailout three. OK, sure.

I'd love to have that guy on the Celtics.

 

[ifmanis5]

Maybe Diaw shouldn't guard LeBron 1-on-1?

 

[ThePrideofShiner]

Uh oh, LeBron is seriously heating up.

 

[riboflav]

Manu makes some of the smartest decisions you'll see in any game and also some of the absolute dumbest. 

 

[bball831]

Lebron's +12 tonight.  Time to turn the A/C off tonight.  

 

[PedroKsBambino]

Lebron is soooooo good.  Fun to watch.

 

[Mugthis]

Spurs seem too good and smart for LeBron to beat on his own. But.......

 

[ifmanis5]

James is going around Diaw like he's not even there. Time to make changes, Pop. Get him help or get him off.

 

[bball831]

Wow bad help defense by Duncan there -- you don't say that often.  

 

[Ed Hillel]

Cole on Duncan down low is a mismatch.

 

[bball831]

Floperific.  

 

[Ed Hillel]

Is Patty Mills Nate Robinson?

 

[bball831]

Very weird lineup from Pop.  How often have Parker/Mills/Bellineli/Bonner/Splitter even played together this year?

 

[mpx42]

He got desperate for some offense.

 

[SemperFidelisSox]

It's Lebron vs SA in the 4th quarter.

 

[bball831]

I wonder if that's going to make Doris cry again?

 

[mpx42]

Another Popovich classic

 

[riboflav]

Spo is such a great coach. His game-to-game adjustments (for each player on the Heat) are extremely impressive.

 

[bball831]

I'm shocked Duncan isn't in this game right now.  Figured Pop would go get a lead before Lebron gets back in the game.  

 

[Ed Hillel]

What a flop by Wade.

 

[bball831]

Lebron is back for the rest of the game and he's up 3.  Will be an uphill battle for the Spurs to get this one.

 

[PedroKsBambino]

I'm shocked Duncan isn't in this game right now.  Figured Pop would go get a lead before Lebron gets back in the game.  

 
I don't think he can play it out from this point, so decision is whether to use him, pull him, put him in or not.

 

[Ed Hillel]

That was a pretty hard foul.

 

[riboflav]

Every timeout, I turn to ESPN to find Verlander on my screen from the Tigers' dugout. WTF? Is he like the third announcer tonight?

 

[Mugthis]

My favorite thing about this matchup, going back to last year, is how each team will have multiple runs a game where they look unbeatable. Even when the games don't end close, they was usually a point in each game when it was easy to imagine the other team winning.

 

[eddiew112]

Unbelievable from Ginobili

 

[Ed Hillel]

That was goaltending either way, since he hit the net, right?

 

[bball831]

Poor Danny Green can't get a foul call.  

 

[Ed Hillel]

Patty Mills is quite the flopper himself.

Great shot by James.

 

[Ed Hillel]

LOL James.

 

[bball831]

Kawhi Leonard should be getting the ball to go at James Jones.  Not Ginobili on James.  

 

[Mugthis]

I wish these fucking refs would stop conspiring for the Heat. 

 

[Ed Hillel]

You gotta be shitting me.