you insert Kyrie and Love and your defense gets a lot worse. The Warriors are winning against stifling defense, they would easily average 110+ with those 2 playing heavy minutes.
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you insert Kyrie and Love and your defense gets a lot worse. The Warriors are winning against stifling defense, they would easily average 110+ with those 2 playing heavy minutes.
No, the Warriors are winning because their offense is much better than Cleveland.
For Cleveland, if you filled those positions that are struggling to score with competent offensive players it wouldn't be much of a doubt that Cleveland would win.
disagree, the game pace and high scoring shootout favors the Warriors with Love and Irving.... but hey, you were all doubting the Warriors all season and now that they're about to win the chip it's still something... the Cavs would win IF (insert whatever reason or excuse).
offense efficiency and pace is not mutually exclusive. Cleveland could be playing at the same pace that they are now but score 7-10 more a game because the offense is better.
My original prediction was Warriors in 5. After seeing how things played out I'm sure if Cleveland had Irving and/or Love that would have been enough for Cleveland to win the title.
Warriors should be destroying the cavs but they not. A lot of credit should be giving to the cavs for making this a series they are underman and still doing pretty good.
LeBron is the best player in the world. I don't think they should be destroying the Cavs, Hats off to the Cavs.
Spurs destroyed a Lebron-lead team last year in the Finals. Things just worked out well to get a team that has only ONE starter that it began the season with.
Not true at all. The only reason the Cavs won two game was due to Lebron having historic games where he was averaging a jaw dropping 43pts a game. If Lebron had scored his normal 28 to 29 the Cavs would have loss by 13 to 20 pts each night.
Despite that GSW has a 21 and 13 pt victory is this series. When will yall learn about crowning teams champs based off paper.
Eeww you my man hunit grand but you know a healthy Cavs squad ain't beating these dudes just off the strength that the Cavs are worse defensively with Kyrie and Love in the game but the offense makes up for it
Are they really gonna play GS game of run and gun? Only reason these games been close because this Cavs squad now are better defensively but limited offensively.. Bron is their offense
Lebron only had to do that because they lost their 2nd and 3rd best scores, their best ball handler, and their best defensive rebounder.
This response is fucking stupid.
Eeww you my man hunit grand but you know a healthy Cavs squad ain't beating these dudes just off the strength that the Cavs are worse defensively with Kyrie and Love in the game but the offense makes up for it
Are they really gonna play GS game of run and gun? Only reason these games been close because this Cavs squad now are better defensively but limited offensively.. Bron is their offense
You guys look at things so myopically. It's not a trade..they don't lose their defensive players. They just have more bodies and more minutes to share them. James Jones is playing 20 minutes a game. Love isn't even as bad of a defender as James Jones. They're at best a wash defensively but you get Love's scoring. Shump and Thompson don't lose their playing time.
Yep.
Eewwll u think we gonna see a Lebron 50 point blow up?
I had GS in a strong 7 too but these cats smell blood now I think it's over in 6
Let's see who ref'ing next game.. If it's brothers that shit going 7...
Cavs win by 10.... Lebron goes off like usual but the role players show up and Blatt's dumb ass doesnt sit his second best player..
Eeww you my man hunit grand but you know a healthy Cavs squad ain't beating these dudes just off the strength that the Cavs are worse defensively with Kyrie and Love in the game but the offense makes up for it
Are they really gonna play GS game of run and gun? Only reason these games been close because this Cavs squad now are better defensively but limited offensively.. Bron is their offense
A healthy Cavs squad would kill this team. The warriors still couldn't stop Lebron and would have to deal with Love and Irving. Cavs could still use the Aussie in bursts and would have even more rebounding with Love.
We say the regular season doesn't matter, and it's true for the most part. But Lebron destroyed GS in the regular season too.
Cats acting like Kyrie is chopped liver when healthy. He could easily drop 40 on Curry just like Curry could drop 40 on him.
Kill them? The Warriors biggest loss out of 15 games was 15 points. The Warriors do not get "killed" by anyone. The Cavs have gotten "killed" more than once this season. No one can stop LeBron, but other than that the Warriors win the other match ups and are way deeper. That's why the Cavs are about to lose the championship. Cats on here talked hella shit about Love when he was with Minny and then went to the Cavs about how overrated he is, now that the Cavs are about to possibly lose he makes all the difference? Not buying it...
What's been happening in here?
Had to step away for a while after game 4, thought Erik Spo was coaching...
So I've been chilling...
Curry only averaged 2 more points than Kyrie. Yeah, he is really going to dominate that matchup against a healthy Irving.
GS has proven to be shit inside. Love would only make matters worse with his rebounding.Love and Kyrie give time for Lebron to rest so he can come back fresh to shit on the Warriors. Shit would be ugly. Healthy Cavs are a bad matchup for the Warriors.
The same players taking being used now would be in their true roles on a healthy team.
http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2015/story/_/id/13084270/debating-nba-finals-mvp-favorites
"Iguodala. For all the marveling we've done about LeBron (and he HAS been marvelous), I feel like we're not doing enough marveling about the guy who has put the Best Player on the Planet in handcuffs. For all his magnificence, LeBron has struggled against Iguodala specifically, shooting 35 percent from the field and taking shots from almost twice as far away from the bucket as he does against any other defender (16.3 feet vs. 8.9 feet). Even if you're one of those odd people who think "efficiency doesn't matter," the plus-minus tells the same story: LeBron is minus-46 when Iguodala is on the court, and plus-13 when he's off it."
He is not better than Kobe.
The Warriors was heavily favored,outside of Cleveland and Lebrons fan....the fuck you talking about crowning teams
that's a damn shame that this shit really is that important
Eeww but didn't we call the game based off who was the officials?
shit is like clock work Gene listen I don't want any plea coppin from you come Tues night when GS hoist that trophy in Cleveland
Foster and Davis huh?
Foster always ref close out games hers going to give Bron all them whistles and get him right to the line early..
Now that nigga Marc Davis stay getting Bron in foul trouble and usually gives any team Bron on the most fouls.. He's Tony brothers extra lite..
Gonna be a lot of conflict between him and Foster on them calls lol..
Gonna be interesting with that dynamic, yup GS pulling out a close
Marc davis that bald headed nigga right?
Fuck him the most
Fuck him the most
Cavs got this... 
Cavs got this...
We don't want no plea coppin bruh none lol
Faggit.
Cavs got this...
Not with Scotty reffin'. Home teams are 1-11 in this years' playoffs with him officiating the game.