NBA Playoffs

[Jeff Matthews]

Commentary on last year (Search Youtube for "James Harden Choke"):  

 

Game 5 vs. San Antonio - "Okay, he played 'small,' but 'choke' is too incendiary a term."

 

 

Game 6 vs. San Antonio - "There should be an investigation."

 

 

[Jeff Matthews]

1 minute ago, CECAA850 said:

I think the 6 man rotation was killing everyone's legs.

I was always concerned about fatigue, but no, Harden is a choker, I'm afraid.  He just went mentally south for the last 3 games.  Gordon was a star.

[Jeff Matthews]

 

[JJkizak]

Those criticisms are pretty vicious even though they have data to back them up.

JJK

[wvu80]

---NBA FINALS---

----Cavs vs Warriors----

[Jeff Matthews]

What a game!

[Jeff Matthews]

What an error!  Smith blew it.  Tie game.  Offensive rebound under your own basket with 3 seconds left.  He clears the ball past the 3 pt. line.  WTF!  He must have thought they had a lead.

[wvu80]

Game tied, JR Smith rebounds about a foot from his rim and he runs to half court.  Lebron has got to be p.o.'d!

[Jeff Matthews]

Plus, Hill missed that free throw for the win.

[wvu80]

Game over, GS by 9.  If you can't score in OT you can't win.

[Jeff Matthews]

James will go down as the guy who never made GOAT because of his teammates.  He could do well in Houston.

[wvu80]

Thompson for Cavs just got tossed with 2 seconds left.  Will he be suspended for the next game?  Another terrible blunder by the Cavs?

[kvndoom]

Rooting for Golden State but Cleveland gave that one away. Damn!  Once they blew a sure thing in regulation they had no life left in them. 

 

And OMFG Draymond Green really needs to stop trying to be Dennis Rodman. Sometimes he does more harm than good out there. 

[CECAA850]

The game was a lot closer than I originally thought it would be.  This was probably the most entertaining game of the post season.  Didn't both teams shoot over 60% in the first half?  Lots of turning points in the game and you could "what if" a lot of scenarios but the better "team" won in the end.  You can point to JR's blunder but in the end, Lebron as GM has the coach he wanted and the team he wanted.  Win or lose it's on him.  If they don't win these finals  I'm sure next year he'll leave and take over a different team.

[CECAA850]

9 hours ago, Jeff Matthews said:

He could do well in Houston.

Maybe, maybe not.  3 Alpha males on the same team works some times, other times not.  The chemistry would certainly be different, that's for sure.

[Davis]

Last year I was rooting for the Cavs over G.S.

I guess it was more because East v. West and the fact I was tired of hearing about how great G.S. is.

But how a year can change things.

Considering the Pacers were not even supposed to win 40 games this season and were a goal tend call away from eliminating the Cavs in round 1 along with the demeanor of Cleveland it looks like I am on the G.S. side this year.

All things aside it is looking like an entertaining final round.

[JJkizak]

I'm surprised that Cleveland did as well as they did. The Warriors come at you with too much to handle.

[Jeff Matthews]

1 hour ago, CECAA850 said:

Maybe, maybe not.  3 Alpha males on the same team works some times, other times not.  The chemistry would certainly be different, that's for sure.

I mean, "and let Harden go."  He's not the guy to step up when it's needed most.  

[CECAA850]

35 minutes ago, JJkizak said:

I'm surprised that Cleveland did as well as they did.

It happens.  There's no way they can keep up the shooting pace they had in the first half.  You have to be near perfect every quarter to beat them.

[CECAA850]

Just now, Jeff Matthews said:

I mean, "and let Harden go."  He's not the guy to step up when it's needed most.  

Then they'd be who the Cavaliers were when they had Irving but Paul can't play a whole season without getting hurt.