NBA 2015-2016 Season Thread

[Meacon Keaton]

Epic Game 7 and whole series collapse for OKC.

[Monkey D. Lars]

Its all my fault for supporting choking teams. Still proud we got this gar even though we should've closed out the series. Even though I stillnhave a tiny bit of faith left. 

Also I hate Green.

[gunnar hendershow]

We can blame KD and Westbrook all we want but Sam Presti has had half a decade to build a fucking bench around these guys and he's never gotten anything better than an 8-man team. It's just extremely unfortunate, and it makes those guys jack up a lot more bad shots than they should because they reasonably can't trust the rest of the team to do anything.

[Mofoticon]

Durant's legacy takes a big hit for the terrible game 6 and disappointing game 7.

Call me a homer all you want but I think LeBron & company have been waiting 12 months to play and beat this GS team. Cavs in 6.

[Meacon Keaton]

You are a homer.

But I can see Cleveland beating Golden State.

[gunnar hendershow]

I can't. They're athletic but not OKC athletic, and even still GSW beat them.

It'll be over in 5 or 6.

[Noah]

OKC losing pleases me. More of that please. 

[VerbalPuke]

Yeah...I don't like Russel Westbrooks face so this is good. 

[DMN in the House]

By virtue of playing for both GS and Cleveland this year, Anderson Varejao is guaranteed a ring.

[MalaCloudy Black]

 

[LL!]

I am of the mindset that Cleveland is fierce enough that they will force a game 7 but eventually Golden State takes it.  

[En Dub]

If I'm being honest with myself? Cleveland is about to stomp golden state. This is the same team that hung in there last year without Kyrie OR Love. And I'm just talking about how their presence would have changed things last year, that's ignoring the growth of Kyrie to the most dominant scorer in the Eastern conference playoffs, if not both sides. 

[DMN in the House]

GSW in six. Cleveland is built to out Warrior the Warriors, but I don't see it happening.

[gunnar hendershow]

21 hours ago, En Dub said:

If I'm being honest with myself? Cleveland is about to stomp golden state. This is the same team that hung in there last year without Kyrie OR Love. And I'm just talking about how their presence would have changed things last year, that's ignoring the growth of Kyrie to the most dominant scorer in the Eastern conference playoffs, if not both sides. 

The thing is, last year they hung with Golden State because the injuries forced them to play this ridiculous slow-paced defensive lineup throughout the series. They won't have to do that this year and need to actually beat Golden State in a shootout. As soon as the Warriors said "okay, we'll just play small and start Iggy" the series got extremely lopsided for the last 3 games. Now the Cavs are going to have better scoring but make some defensive sacrifices to do so. The matchups just aren't there for them.

Chances are it's Golden State in 6 with them splitting the first 4, if the Warriors win both games at Oracle it could be done in 5.

[Szumi]

Curry is playing really shitty so far this game, Thompson not much better. The GSW bench is really carrying them in this game.

[gunnar hendershow]

Cleveland's done a great job guarding Curry and Thompson, the problem is that means other people are left open like Barnes and Green. You'd rather they have to beat you though.

[Szumi]

Haha Iggy just got slapped square in the nuts by Dellededova or whatever his name is.

[gunnar hendershow]

It was pretty obvious all along Shaun Livingston was going to be the x-factor in this one.

[The Buscher]

This series is over.  Maybe the Cavs will play better at home and win a game or two there but I can't see how they win a game in Oracle.

[Tyrone]

So was OKC/GSW the real NBA Finals? This is so unbelievably one-sided.