NBA 2015-2016 Season thread

Szlia_sl said:

Well... 4th quarter ended up being straight forward...

Except in the third quarter of game 2, Curry has not shown MVP caliber play. How comes? OKC's defense or the fact he has not much of an impact on the game when he shoots poorly?

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OKC has an army of athletes they can throw at him. That is the thing about PGs being so important in today's NBA, Westbrook is the only one nobody has an answer for. He puts so much pressure on the opposing PG, they just wear down (see: CP3).

OKC has this.

Watching Biyombo really makes me want to hold onto Noel.

These conference finals are a great example of why I love watching sports. Such unexpected turnarounds and interesting strategies and counters from game to game. Thunder go from getting blown out by 40 points by the Spurs to blowing out GS in back to back games. Lowry goes from being absolutely atrocious, unable to throw a ball in the ocean, to roasting the Cavs. And yet, I can completely see Steph scoring 50 and blowing out OKC next game or Lebron doing the same.

On a side note, it's surprising how awful Love has been in these playoffs. His post game has just disappeared, in all the series -- shooting 30% from 2PT land.

Almost every game seems like a blowout. Getting ridiculous.

Welcome back to Cleveland, I guess hah. Raptors are getting called on shit-tons of fouls, and they've been getting crap passes like constantly so far.

Rezz_sl said:

Welcome back to Cleveland, I guess hah. Raptors are getting called on shit-tons of fouls, and they've been getting crap passes like constantly so far.

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Raptors have shot more free throws.

Daezuel_sl said:

Almost every game seems like a blowout. Getting ridiculous.

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These series have been pretty terrible.

I've never seen announcers so disengaged from the game.

Not much to say when a team is down 40.

Fennin_sl said:

Raptors have shot more free throws.

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Yeah it was foul central on them in the second half. 38pt loss in the finals is a ridic. disparity.
Totally with Daezuel on it getting pretty silly how "off" a team has been in over half the games played so far. Only 3 close ones out of 9 games.

Cavs sure picked a great time to peak... GSW not so much.

will be interesting to see what people say if OKC blows GS out to close the series.

I don't really know what to expect. If any team can come back from a three game deficit against a team playing like OKC it would be this Warriors team but, as I think I mentioned already, they've never been in this position yet in their careers. They've never had a true must-win game before. And now they'll have three in a row to have any shot. Draymond is the key to everything and he hadtriplethe number of TOs as assists in Game 4. TRIPLE! He's just fucking terrible.

Fennin_sl said:

I've never seen announcers so disengaged from the game.

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Lmao Van Gundy literally said if you're just tuning in, turn it off. I'm sure the execs loved that.

You know Westbrook has it. But this is when Durant needs to show he's a killer. This is when great players (and teams) don't mess around and close shit out. They need to weather the first half emotions and then kill it in the second half. No mercy.

GS doesn't have an answer for Westbrook. His driving ability at will has been ridiculous.