Harden out, Kyrie out, It's up to Kevin Durant now.. UPDATE: He failed

[Mad Good Dro]

GS was considered a fluky team that got lucky. Nobody saw them as a juggernaut. LeBron shyt the bed and muhfukkas still wanted to him finals MVP.

And the bucks have an unskilled nikka that just runs and jumps and a trash coach that chokes every year, keep that same energy.

 

[darryl]

That warriors squad came outta nowhere. I remember watching the nba heavenly throughout high school from 2010-2014. During that time the top teams in the west were spurs, Grizzlies clippers, lakers and okc. Warriors weren't nowhere to be found. I skipped the whole 2014-2015 season because i was burnt out from basketball, only to check in during the finals to see them there it shocked the hell outta me.

 

[duncanthetall]

It’s crazy how Giannis goes from an unskilled nikka that just runs and jumps and chokes every year to a 2x mvp that KD can’t beat without kyrie and harden.

You see it too?

 

[NatiboyB]

You see it too?

That goal post got moved extremely fast. Now Giannis is the 2nd coming. When last week he was Chris Gatling with a first step.

 

[UpAndComing]

All the attention on him now

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

That warriors squad came outta nowhere. I remember watching the nba heavenly throughout high school from 2010-2014. During that time the top teams in the west were spurs, Grizzlies clippers, lakers and okc. Warriors weren't nowhere to be found. I skipped the whole 2014-2015 season because i was burnt out from basketball, only to check in during the finals to see them there it shocked the hell outta me.

They didn’t necessarily come out of no where they went 6 games with the Spurs the year before and 7 with the clippers before that.. It was a slow build

 

[Dr. Narcisse]

I think it's

1. Different in having a team setup for the whole season and having a team that you have to switch up in the playoffs.

2. Lebron's team was like 50+ that season, got swept when they got out west.

3. People always focus on offense, but Cavs success was mostly due to their defense. In the Pistons games games went above 89 points like once and in the finals like zero times.

Cleveland had like 4-5 players that made the all nba defense team in adjacent years. Snow, Lebron, Verjao, Hughes and probably someone else like All-star Ilgaskas.


Other than that Lebron is much better in making other people better, while KD is a sniper.

You're underrating one aspect of LeBron.

Controlling the pace. Only other dude is close is maybe CP3.

I know Bron Ball is not liked. However, his ability to control the tempo when his team isnt as talented is incredible. Then when he's got shooters he knows how to keep them in rhythm when they have a hot hand.

 

[Piff Perkins]

This thread got me hyped for the game.


I dunno what's gonna happen but it should be entertaining.

 

[THE MACHINE]

That goal post got moved extremely fast. Now Giannis is the 2nd coming. When last week he was Chris Gatling with a first step.

Oh my God

 

[South Paw]

Yeah my pops texted me after game 4 "giannis is just unstoppable. he's a problem that the nets just cant solve"

 

[THE MACHINE]

Thread title took me back a bit.

 

[Kaypain]

Lebron manage to will the series to 6 games in 2014 without Kyrie and KLove

I know Durant can do the same

Imo this supporting Nets roster is better than that Cavs team

 

[Kaypain]

That Hawks team isn't even better than the 2021 version and you know it. Grow up.

He got smoked in 6 in the Finals and put up an inefficient & empty 36 PPG against the first genuine contender he faced.

So you just gonna ignore those Spurs huh

 

[ISO]

No one had them in the finals let alone winning the title in 2015

They were a 67 win team.

Sure, people didn’t predict it but they had been ramping up every year and were a juggernaut.

 

[madness]

nikkas don’t like it when little widdle KD gets the same treatment as other greats. Don’t be too mean to him, you guys.