The Basketball Thread

[Kieran. 6,317]

How are people making fun of lebron (not on here but in general)? He was by far the best player this series and if the Cavs were playing with more than seven men, GSW would not have won this series.

Cavs and Warriors fans though, most bandwagon motherfuckers on earth.

[mikeholiday 209]

How are people making fun of lebron (not on here but in general)? He was by far the best player this series and if the Cavs were playing with more than seven men, GSW would not have won this series.

my theories...

1) "the decision". Lebron telling his critics to enjoy their normal lives with their everyday problems..

2) most basketball fans just worship MJ and that any comparison to him is sacrilegious

3) to a lesser extent #2 applies to Kobe vs Lebron. There are a ton of Kobe fans out there.

[Amblève. 4,995]

Can't feel happy for any team that has The Mole on its roster.

[communicate 2,703]

Iggy MVP well deserved. Id put Draymon over Curry too. 6'7" playing center and defending a 7'1" tank and boxing out a 6'9" offensive rebounding machine.

I will definitely put curry as MVP candidate. Forget stats, He was trapped all day long, yes all day.

Cavs tactics is to take the ball out of his hand but he still scored enough points and made plenty of big shots and if you count "hockey" assist, he will have plenty of those

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

Why not Lebron? I think it's clear that he was the best. I don't understand why is it a must to pick someone from the winning team.

Igoudala was great though.

I'm sure lebron would have won if it went 7 games. But 6 games, can't give it to a Cavs player.

[iseah100 5,612]

Why would the Cavs have won with Irving and Love? I don't think so. Iggy deserved it, he changed this series and I always thought he was a great match up for LBJ. GSW deserved it.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Man, LBJ tried. Massive respect to him. If Love and Irving were available it would've been a very different series because that releases the strain on LBJ, and LBJ doesn't stay as the only scorer in the team. If Cavs were fully fit it's easily their ring IMO.

[iseah100 5,612]

Man, LBJ tried. Massive respect to him. If Love and Irving were available it would've been a very different series because that releases the strain on LBJ, and LBJ doesn't stay as the only scorer in the team. If Cavs were fully fit it's easily their ring IMO.

I disagree. Cavs were much better defensively without Love and Irving. Those players, while great scorers, have deficiencies as well. They played very tenaciously and gritty. It'd be a different, better series.

[nyikolajevics 2,573]

They did

[The Skipper 20,593]

I disagree. Cavs were much better defensively without Love and Irving. Those players, while great scorers, have deficiencies as well. They played very tenaciously and gritty. It'd be a different, better series.

It would've been very different indeed, and better for Cavs. All Warriors had to worry about really was a way to stop LBJ from scoring. If you throw Love and Kyrie into that mix it becomes an entirely different ball game. It frees LBJ from being the only scorer in the team and allows Cleveland to conjure up a lot of different game plans.

With the likes of JR, Delly, TT etc. on the bench as well coming on to impact the game... It would've been Cavs' championship IMO.

[iseah100 5,612]

It would've been very different indeed, and better for Cavs. All Warriors had to worry about really was a way to stop LBJ from scoring. If you throw Love and Kyrie into that mix it becomes an entirely different ball game. It frees LBJ from being the only scorer in the team and allows Cleveland to conjure up a lot of different game plans.

With the likes of JR, Delly, TT etc. on the bench as well coming on to impact the game... It would've been Cavs' championship IMO.

Possibly. You can't say though, Warriors beat top teams all season, not oike the Cavs are the best team ever, it would have been far from easy.

[NishC300 1,865]

R.I.P Moses Malone. One of the greatest of all time.

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

And the season is back!

Another sport to take my mind off Chelsea from time to time!

Hopefully no key injuries in the playoffs this season.

[Pacquiao 1,834]

OKC v Spurs tonight! I will definitely be staying up to watch!

[Pacquiao 1,834]

Westbrook is such a beast!!!

[nyikolajevics 2,573]

Anthony Davis last night: 32 points, 19 rebounds(!!), 4 blocks. Not bad.

Also, the Warriors have their 15th game in a row.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Steph Curry :worship:

[Amblève. 4,995]

Seeing the Warriors players go mad at an illegal screen is awesome. You'd think a team that includes Bogut and Green wouldn't even dare open their mouths about such an incident.