A King Asks For Seconds & A Chef Obliges: Official Warriors vs. Cavs 2016 NBA FINALS Thread

[Kobes Two Jerseys]

Only tears shed (if any) will be of joy...cuz the cavs won't blow 13 point leads over and over like the thunder did...ya heard

They gotta have leads first.

 

[Malta]

Draymond gonna feast on loves horrid defense.

Love will guard Bogut imo.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

little did lebron know, this skinny little dude would be preventing him from getting rings. He's clapping, but aint even know what's really going on

If Harden doesn't exist, does last year end up being "Lebron and nobody" vs. "Harden and Dwight"?


I think Lebron would have taken Houston apart, but that series would have been ugly.

 

[CarltonJunior]

Love will guard Bogut imo.

And he will still give up alleys and putbacks

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

Draymond gonna feast on loves horrid defense.

Feast how? Draymond isnt some scoring threat lol

 

[GunRanger]

If Harden doesn't exist, does last year end up being "Lebron and nobody" vs. "Harden and Dwight"?


I think Lebron would have taken Houston apart, but that series would have been ugly.

idk i think houston would win. Dwight was really focused, and dominant at times. His knee started bothering him, but it was a matchup problem more so.

 

[DIMES]

One thing I trust more withe the Cavs then the Thunder is their ability to close out games.

What troubles me is Loves defense. Its a favorable matchup for Green, he can routinely beat Love down the court.

Also when things turn south for the Cavs, JR Smith has mental lapses defensively. Not a good thing when your guarding Klay Thompson

Kyrie I actually think can cancel out some of what Steph does. Hes like a poor mans Curry to me, ill dribblin skills and he can shoot

My guts tellin me Warriors in 6 but I feel like the Cavs have a legit chance. Lebrons a great leader and you really have to be 100% committed each possession on offense and defense. The warriors are the best at capitalizing off of other teams' mistakes. The Thunders gave away many opportunities on offense with foolish turnovers and poor shot selection

The Cavs wont make as many mistakes as the Thunder did.

kyrie has better, quicker handles and is the best below the rim finisher in the league


Aint nothing poor about that.. too different games there's not much comparison. Otherwise nice analysis but GS been exposed by OKC and Portland too many times. The cracks are prominent.

Weak on the boards and finishing inside and they continually take bad shots and are bailed out by circus/prayer threes. Cavs have been dominating with very few lapses. Cavs in 6

 

[Osmosis]

"The Chef Serving Our King Once Again: Cavs vs Warriors II"

DO IT

I thought you were a Bron stan

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I think this series is going to revolve around Kyrie/Love's defense to a large extent. That and whether Cleveland's role-playing shooters (especially J.R. and Frye) keep hitting their threes, or whether they choke on the big stage. If JR/Love/Frye/Irving (and to some degree Shump/Delly) can hit threes and Cleveland's defense isn't completely embarrassing, they can absolutely win this series.

I still have GS in 7 though. I trust GS's shooters and GS's defense a lot more than Cleveland's, even if they don't have a Lebron. And I think the digging down they had to do in the OKC series put them through the fire already, so they're more battle-tested than they ever have been.

Random out-there thought - I think Kyrie needs to play with the second unit more. Delly isn't bad with the first unit, because they don't need him to score and his defensive effort is great. Kyrie's defensive flaws are minimized when Shump is on the floor with him and Love isn't. I would play Kyrie every second of the game that Lebron isn't on the floor so that an actual creative scoring threat is on the floor at all times, and reduce Kyrie's minutes overall so that he can give full effort on both ends of the floor every minute he's on it. Then give Delly more burn with the first unit, to force GS's guards to work as hard as possible. I also think that running Kyrie with the 2nd unit would allow Lebron to rest a bit more and make him more effective for the rest of the game.

Roughly (of course everything always depends on game situations and a shytload of other stuff).

Lebron-TT-Love-JR-Kyrie: 20 minutes
Starters with Delly: 10-15 minutes
2nd-unit with Kyrie: 10 minutes

Depending on how everything's going, the rest of the minutes would be Lebron with the 2nd unit, Lebron/Kyrie with the second unit, or whatever other various combinations are working that particular game. And I'm not opposed to Frye eating up either TT's or Love's minutes depending on how he's playing. Or a magical comeback by Mosgov.

 

[jwonder]

King James shut these light nikkas up.

 

[Kobes Two Jerseys]

King James shut these light nikkas up.

He needs wade and bosh to do that. Lbron can't win shyt without them.

 

[kingdarius]

I really hate watching the way the warriors play. Idk if its skill or luck but the way they shoot 3s no matter what and they go in just defies all logic lol. That game 6 in okc is a perfect example. Dudes only shot 2 mid range jumpers in the 4th qtr and wound up winning haha...yea okc choked but i mean cmon brehs that shyt aint make sense...and most of the shots werent even good looks. this team on some angels in the outfield shyt and theres no way to stop it really except to put a hex on these niccas....they nvr gonna stop shooting no matter how bad the shot and 6x outta 10 it'll go in and your left looking like okc in that 4th qtr...imma root for bron but all resonable logic is thrown out the window against this team cuz they just defy it

 

[Long Live The Mamba]

Dubs in 6

 

[NY's #1 Draft Pick]

Shump had Klay strapped in last year's finals but keep using smileys because you're a dikkriding follower who can't think for himself.

On cue


U gon be as fukk again. Bron ain't never gonna win a ring again.

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

don't know how the series will go..but I do know kyrie gonna put work in on these lightskin nikkas