NBA playoffs 2018

Fishy1

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Are we going to see a replay of that? Come on.

Nobody wants to watch this turn into fucking loose ball free throws at the end, but that's what this crew is doing. Fucking terrible.
 

mostman

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Oladipo and Sabonis both were manhandled on that possession. It took James basically shoving someone for the call to be made.
 

Fishy1

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Clearly an over-the-back by Sabonis, but there was a foul before on Oladipo, then that offensive foul?

Shoot me.
 

dhellers

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Yeah that would be my early thought, they should up the pace as much as possible and use their depth to keep it high and exhaust LeBron, he can't keep doing this. Right??
I'll believe Toronto can hold it together enough to eliminate LeBron when I see it.
That is the question: toronto's intestinal fortitude vs. their deep bench.
 

Fishy1

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Indiana just played better this series, on the whole.

That said, Lebron was incredible.
 

Kliq

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Indiana has got to be kicking themselves. Multiple times the series was right there for them and they failed to step up to the plate. You can’t give a player like LeBron multiple cracks at it. Oladipo bombing in Games 4 and 5 really hurt them because they could have easily buried Cleveland right then and there.
 

johnmd20

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Indiana has got to be kicking themselves. Multiple times the series was right there for them and they failed to step up to the plate. You can’t give a player like LeBron multiple cracks at it. Oladipo bombing in Games 4 and 5 really hurt them because they could have easily buried Cleveland right then and there.
It was definitely right there for them. Every game the Cavs won was close. The Pacers had two blow out wins. I think Game 7 was the easiest win for the Cavs in the series and that wasn't an easy win. Indiana must have had a significantly higher point total over the 7 games.
 

johnmd20

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Pacers scored 40 more points than the Cavs over 7 games. They crushed them. And are going home. I wonder what the highest recent negative differential a team has had and still advanced. This has to be up there.
 

scottyno

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Adam, it's not too late to just cancel the western conference semis and let Houston and GSW play a best of 13
 

jon abbey

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Pacers scored 40 more points than the Cavs over 7 games. They crushed them. And are going home. I wonder what the highest recent negative differential a team has had and still advanced. This has to be up there.
That was the third worst ever, number 1 is amazing:

"The worst scoring margin by the winning team? St. Louis Hawks -56 against the Minneapolis Lakers in the best-of-three 1956 Western Division semifinals

G1: STL 116, MNL 115
G2: MNL 133, STL 75
G3: STL 116, MNL 115"
 

Deathofthebambino

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Utah cuts the lead down to 11, and then they blow consecutive fast break opportunities after forcing turnovers. Harden then goes into full Harden mode, and gets to the foul line on consecutive trips and then makes a jumper and it's back up to 15. Oh well.

Meanwhile, Hubie needs to be taken out back and put out of his misery. He's a disaster.