What in God’s name are they doing? Is this a balance drill?
Based on the Celtics complete no show at home in G6 versus Miami, I’d feel pretty good for the Warriors in Game 4.
I don’t know any of these dudes personally. Some people think their issue is mental toughness - I don’t think it’s that, they were tough all year. I think they honestly get overconfident. Big win in Miami Game 5, big win in San Fran in Game 1. Next day or two they hear how great they are - the ECF is locked up, the Finals are theirs, then they get slapped in the face by a group of real pros. You can see it in individual games, too - they get up big by doing the right basketball things, and then they think they can hero ball and iso it, show off their dribble.
I know every team does it, to some level. I pay more attention to them, so it may just seem worse.
It’s weird as hell. You would think they would’ve fixed it by now if it was easily fixable, but it’s gone of for two series now.
Then again maybe all the rest and extra time the finals have maybe they’re able to get their shit together. Being tired/injured probably played a lot in the inconsistency.
Timelord being hurt was definitely a big factor in both those series, and he looked great in game 3. Smart got DPOY, but timelord is far and away their best defender. Dude is insane. A huge part of GSW success is getting easy buckets on mistakes people make trying to follow Curry/Klay around, but timelord is able to erase those mistakes.
I mean, I didn’t mention OG playing the playoffs at all until you got mad at me for not doing it? I said he was the 5th/6th option, I didn’t mean that during the finals. I’ll admit I thought he was injured for the beginning of the playoffs and came back for a bit at the end. I remember their rotations for the Bucks and 76ers series. I remember how they often played Serge and Gasol vs the Bucks, then both saw substantially less minutes vs GSW and Fred/Powell/others saw more minutes.
Mavs weakest since I started really following to win, then Raptors then probably the cavs.
Either of these teams will be the worst though. Just both have been blown out a ton by very inferior teams. Just not something that happens to top tier champions. I’m sorry, you just can’t lose by 50 to Memphis, or 30+ to Miami and be equal to actual good champions.
During covid I went back and rewatched some of those miami/Dallas games on YouTube. Just frequently like 73-71 halfway through the 4th. Pretty funny how different the game is.
Not mad buddy. You waxed poetically about how important OG was to that Raptors team. I kindly informed you he wasn’t.
Want another stroll down memory lane? You list Boucher as a key guy above. How many minutes do you think he played in the playoffs? How about regular season?
You don’t remember that team well at all. They were not as good as you think they were. Your memory is lying to you.
I didn’t say OG was super important at all lol, I just said he’s a really good role player, and if he’s your 5th-6th best player you have a pretty good team. That’s all I said then you got into some weird gotcha where you thought I meant he was finals MVP or something?
“That team is way better than these. They won almost 60 games in the regular season. They had 7 legit dudes. FVV, an all star this year was their 4th option. OG was their 5th.”
That was the original comment that got you all mad. It had nothing to do with the playoffs or finals! It only even refers to the regular season for where OG was in the pecking order!
I don’t know why you think I’m mad, man, this is entertaining - I keep having good guffaws when you talk about how key guys were when they didn’t even play.
Toronto won a title! That’s hard to do! It’s OK to admit they just plain weren’t as good as your lying memory tells you. Just consider: you didn’t know OG didn’t play. You didn’t know Boucher didn’t play. You don’t know how good the rest of the team was. Maybe you just didn’t follow hoops that season, it’s cool.
Were they really a “complete no show”? I just remember Butler GOATing it up to an absolutely ridiculous extent.
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He played 67 games that year lol and was the 5th/6th option all year. Was he in the finals? No, but I never said that.
The thing I deleted was when you got mad about his stats is he was 7/3/1 that year as I compared him to Grant Williams in his role…who also averaged 7/3/1 this season. I did that without looking up either stats, and they managed to be almost exactly the same! Weird how I could do that without ever watching games apparently.
Mavs fans were so happy to win a title, Boston fans will be mad for 20 years no one respects the team as much as they do and it’s going to be insufferable.
Yall arguing about some dumb shit because golden state still winning this.
The nba refs blatantly rigged GSW vs Houston a few years ago.
Of course. He’s on Boston ergo it’s worse. Especially from notoriously violent player Al Horford.
I suppose the play where Draymond ripped at Tatum’s hurt shoulder was just an oopsy too.
https://mobile.twitter.com/clutchfans/status/1534749624371621889?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
Here it is. Just a normal boxout.
Stay classy:
Yeah, that’s fair. Not right for me to take away from Jimmy.
07 Suns Spurs
Owed gsw for rigging 2016 finals 
KD coming to the warriors had Green doing zero offense for 3 years and he just regressed massively. I mean he was never very good at it, but at least it wasn’t playing 4v5. He could make cuts and score if completely ignorant.
Thinking Basketball put out a video and the Celtics legit just completely ignored him and played 5v4. Either he needs to take advantage of that and score some at least or they need to give a good chunk of his minutes to OPJ & Loongod
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Warriors mostly just played like shit so a lot of stuff is fixable imo. One thing though thats crazy is how well Boston is shooting. They’re shooting 43% from 3 when they’re a 35% team. Like is that going to regress to the mean at some point?
The bucks left them even more open than the warriors ever did and they shot 35%. Hopefully we get a couple bad or average shooting games out of them.
The Cs adjustment was taking jaylen on the perimeter more to draw Draymond out, curious how this gets adjusted.
Um, are you trying to insinuate that Al Horford ISN’T a 70% 3p shooter?
Man, the anti-celtics bias is ridiculous on this site
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