So both Cavs and Dubs swept their first round series with relative ease...

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The other way to look at it was that the Cavs barely beat a #7 seed in each of four games despite Lebron putting up insane lines on both ends.

The role players hit their threes, TT hustled, and that was it. They're still getting worked on defense and the Cavs still had only three guys in double figures.
Kyrie gonna show up.....or you forgetting last year playoffs and game 5 and 7 of the finals....I can only assume klove will be more formidable too(matchup depending....but RJ can arrive too)......to assume these players will stay sleep the ENTIRE playoffs is more of a stretch than that they will......and they still got the sweep wit a week of rest breh.....to look at it any other way is unrealistically pessimistic. The defense, yea it can get better.....but I've been watching this squad for a minute and they can lock down when required......if you revisit this last series you can see moments when they did just that.....they were up on the pacers by 25 or 28 and just took their foot off the gas .....and still won. Cavs are trolling a bit....maybe too confident but definitely can do it when they have too......unlike Portland or the Clippers.
 

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Bullshyt, Spurs don't make six Finals if the league trying to cheat them out. The rubber match between Kawhi and Lebron is still a great storyline. And the league would love to have everyone's expectations denied with a different Finals matchup - it would make the buzz for next year MUCH better.

All year long, everyone been saying that Warriors over Cavs in the Finals in evitable (outside deranged Warrior haters). And it's their third matchup in a row - peeps saying the regular season pointless, even first three rounds pointless. If Spurs make the Finals instead, the league can shout, "See, anything can happen!" and how the Warriors respond next year (plus either Bron chasing his 5th title or Kawhi chasing his 3rd) becomes MUCH bigger storyline than "Will the same two teams meet for the fourth time and will the over stacked Warriors win yet again?"
oh man nba can make a storyline out of anything, it still dont change the fact that warriors and cavs are making them the most money this year. News media were constantly focused on these two teams, everything leads to them preferring of these two teams meeting in the finals for 3rd time

can you imagine if warriors lost again how much their value would drop? KD joining 73 win team and losing in western finals? If I am Silver I would be mad as hell. Spurs are nice and everything but they would not generate the same ratings as the warriors team.
 

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The Warriors are more a lock to reach the finals than the Cavs.
Nah, the Cavs are a CLEAR lock. They're both 95%+ though. But the Warriors will face a clearly better team in the WCF (Rockets or Spurs, whichever), and while they should beat either, they're also dealing with injury issues with Durant (Barnes and Livingston as well) and nobody knows yet what's going to happen with Kerr. I wouldn't trust Mike Brown (or Steve Kerr, either, considering what happened last Finals) to make the critical adjustments DURING a tight game when momentum swings against them (I do trust their players and their shooting though).
 

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Coli brehs say dumb shyt on a daily basis.. I'm only calling it like I see it.. Cavs wasn't winning those games against the Pacers convincingly.. No Bron and Cavs lose that series period
No Bron and the cavs dont win:mjlol: Would the spurs win without kahwi:mjlol: How about the jazz without Gordon:mjlol: or rockets without the beard:mjlol: Great post genius:deadmanny:
 

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goldenstate is a title lock not sure why the coli denying it
 
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