Nalod wrote:Few schools of thought. Last year Love never sniffed the finals and Kyrie went down in game one, a game that went to over time and the Cav's lost. They won the next two and had GSW down 2-1.
Lebron was amazing last year which is lost on many because they did not win it.
Perhaps Kyrie plays, and Cav's win the series last year? Then Blatt is Kerr.
But fate has it and Lebron, who like most GOAT's are diva's and wanted his guy.
GSW validates its Chip with a 73 win season that was off the charts. They lost only 3 games all season long at home. And being up 3-1, loses its last two at home.
One might say Cav's are and have been the better team face to face if healthy. Splash brothers lived and died by the three.

IM impressed with Cav's defense, which made the Splash brothers less effective. They had a bad series cuz OKC wore them down, as did the the cavs. This shyt is not easy.

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tj23 wrote:They still had so many miscommunications and poor offensive sets. LBJ and Kyrie were just too good and GS just didn't take advantage. Steph hasn't been himself for a while.

I don't know if it was the Cavs playing defense better or what - but I think this was key- Steph had a very bad series.

Steph missed shots, OKC gave Cle the blueprint for slowing down their offence and Lebron and Kyrie were unstoppable.

If you watched this series it was that simple. One thing about Lue was he was cool (which funny enough he credits Phil Jackson's influence). Aside from that this series simple came down to which team played better.

Curry is a great player and I'm not going to tell him to change, but!

Seriously, when your shot is not falling, at some point, you need points and you need to attack the basket and make refs give you FTs and get in closer and score 2's.

I agree. Also that behind the back pass that was a turnover has no place being thrown in the second half of a game 7 for the title.

I commented on that pass in the playoff thread...arguably the most ill-advised and poorly executed pass I've ever seen in a playoff game, and even if completed it was not going to help develop the play any differently than a simple bounce pass.

It is the kind of pass you might make if you were up by 30 late in the 3rd quarter...and after causing the turnover the coach would have called a time out and taken the offending player out of the game.

What was he thinking?

This just came up on my twitter.

Tweet was deleted or there was problem with the URL:

https://twitter.com/benyewest_/status/744999803168264192

GS seemed to think they were invisible to a certain degree, and lets not forget about there bench, they flat out vanished in the last 3 games.

Livingston, (who owned game one) was a complete non factor.