Playoffs

boards of FL wrote:It's not that I don't understand that basketball is a team sport, or that victory most often goes to the combination of better team and coach.  It's that you guys simply keep repeating that line in spite of everything that I have been saying.  The real lack of understanding lies with those who can't unwind team success from player value.   That is what you guys don't seem to understand.  

The Warriors have the better team, better bench, and better coach.  The Cavs have the best player.  And it isn't even close.

2seaoat wrote:I think dr J and lebron do have some similarities. Dr J didn't win a championship until a bigger star (moses malone) came to town. Dr J was older ofcourse... but he finally let the ball revolve around the offense and became a team player.

Lebron isn't the goat... not even in my all time starting lineup. Those players understand how championships are won... and it sure as hell isn't taking fall away threes when teammates are open or bullying the drive using the free arm to clear the way. That's a foul... it requires no great skill... it's not even fun to watch.


Bingo......nobody has been fooled on Sports radio for five years, but the NBA pampers him because he has loyal fans who cannot recognize what you clearly set forth.   He is not on my top ten team, and in ten years from now at least two and maybe three of current players will be higher on that list.  He simply cannot win......I would be happy to see him win this year, because my respect for him as a man, a role model, and competitor has always been high, but I would NEVER want to have somebody like him on my team.....been there and done that......stat chaser exist at every level of basketball, and the geometry of the same is well understood......at least by those who have played or coached.

2seaoat wrote:He has a path to goat as does Curry, and one will win and one will lose........and you have already agreed that it will not be James.

Joanimaroni wrote:You seem to keep forgetting the concept of basketball.....it is a team sport. GS won last year because they won more games than the Cavs.

2seaoat wrote:Again, if James is every going to get back on the path to GOAT, he must win this series.  No excuses.   He has three all stars, and a very good bench.

2seaoat wrote:I watched the game playing poker this evening.  It is 4:15 am and I will say the better team tonight won.  Cleveland played well, and James played great.   Patrick Ewing and Shaq got away with physically pushing people out of the way for years so tonight when James committed an offensive foul against Curry and Curry got the blocking foul, the poker room went nuts.....the conspiracy theory folks got very vocal.  However, not that much later, the refs called a foul on love which probably was the worse of many bad calls last evening.  

Steve Kerr is not a complainer, and he was very specific that three of Curry's six fouls were not fouls......I agree, but I think the Cavs outplayed the Warriors, and the warriors without their center is soft in the middle on defense.   That being said all the conspiracy theory folks who were howling during the game that the fix was on forget that the best TEAM usually wins in a seven game series.  However, I think Green should have been suspended in the OK series, and to delay the same brings the integrity of the league in question, and now with Curry throwing a mouth piece into the crowd......sorry that should be a game suspension.   I think the refs have been incredibly bad the last three games, but I have been unable to see a definite slant, other than calling tic tac fouls on Curry, and not calling James on the offensive fouls, but to allow Curry to play, means that this whole thing really is about the ratings, and Curry's wife's tweet may be closer to the truth than folks think, but not for the same reason.   I love the MVP and I think the Warriors will easily win the seventh game, but in my opinion Curry should not be playing and should be suspended.  If he is not, like Green not being suspended right away, then the league has raised real questions as to whether the entire NBA is susceptible to rigging games for gambling by not being consistent in both ref calls and suspension.......I will be sad if Curry does not get to play, and the series will be changed, but the integrity of the game is more important.  It is unacceptable to throw a mouthpiece into a crowd of fans,, and a fine is not a proper remedy.   Yea, he has been targeted with ticcy taccy fouls, and he has not gone to the free throw line as he is hammered without calls, but that is the NBA, and throwing your mouth piece and not getting suspended means the NBA is a joke.