He got beat up by a guy playing down at the Y. I still maintain his injury wasn't that serious.

I think it's obvious he was hurt but it's not worth arguing about. He was great two years ago and looks great again now

When you start begging guys to play with you and teaming up for the sake of rings it takes away from whatever individual greatness you profess to have.

that narrative is very 90's. I highly doubt also that Durant is concerned with his individual greatness/standing. He wants a ring. And he wants to have fun. I think it's clear that he and Westbrook did not like each other all that well.

This is really bad for the NBA if this is a blowout. The salary cap rules designed to keep parity seem to have backfired and made the NBA product the worst it has been since right after Jordan left.

I don't know how a fan of any team but the Warriors gets excited for next year. I guess the Cavs fans could if the Cavs somehow find a way to improve too. Every other team is basically at a lower level.

I agree with you, but the legions of basketbloggers who suck the NBA's dick at every turn won't allow this to be so. Even though any sensible person can see that it's bad when two teams go 24-1 through the first three rounds en route to their third rematch and then one of those teams still gets plastered, we'll hear that the game has never been better, the Warriors have once again changed the way we think about the way we think about the way we think about basketball, black America #resisted Drumpf because Kevin Durant made some shots, there have never been more Chinese people watching, etc., etc., etc.

It will be interesting to see what kind of adjustments need to be made before the next game. It's hard for LeBron and Kyrie to match Durant and Curry because if they cancel each other the Warriors have enough guys to outscore the Cavs lesser players.

Here are some stats that I noticed looking at the box score. Tristan Thompson had 4 boards and 0 points. LeBron had 8 turnovers and the Cavs had 20 as a team compared to 4 by the Warriors. The Cavs shot 9 more free throws than the Warriors. Even though I felt like Kevin Love had a decent game he was still only 4 for 13 from the field. The Cavs shot just under 35 percent from the field. That seems unlikely to happen again. Draymond and Klay combined to go 6 for 28.

Basically I think game 2 should be closer, but you have to like the Warriors at home.

FF swears that the NBA is wide open and there are a number of teams who can win every year.

They can play with G.S.

No such thing as old school new school when it comes to being a competitor.

there are different levels of competitor.

I'd rather see the best teams playing for championship.

The difference is that Curry is playing better so far this series and the Warriors have Durant. Last year Iguodala started in the Finals, so even he has been bumped down a spot. The turning point last year was the injury of Bogut and Green being suspended in Game 5.

Don't really know what you mean by that.

some guys are ruthless. Jordan, for example. Other guys want to play basketball to have fun (see Gasol, P). Some guys only become competitors when they get slapped in the face. Other guys stop being competitors when they get slapped in the face.

Thompson is the major key in this series. Cleveland's hope is to go big, and get better defenders out there...slow the game down. They can't run with the Warriors...they start too many starting defensive liabilities and a guy who I have always liked, Deron Williams looks frightened out there.

The Cavs came back on the Warriors a few years ago because Love was out, Irving was out and Della was in, Shumpert was in. They hit ungodly percentages 3 point wise and played defense. This Cavs team is too diversified, too reliant on defensive liabilities. Thompson should have had way more boards. How does Kevin Love get 18 and Thompson get, what, four?

The only way the playoffs improve in the early rounds is the playoffs are seeded 1 through 16 with an interconference playoffs.

No such thing as old school new school when it comes to being a competitor.

FF swears that the NBA is wide open and there are a number of teams who can win every year.

You wanna talk about not competing?

https://streamable.com/cjhvz

Look at that clip. Steph is competing. Kyrie is not.

Steph Curry has already revealed himself to be a gutless frontrunning coward. I'm cool on his non competitiveness until he starts taking covers on top tier point guards.

He completely dominated his matchup last night, in the Finals. Not much more you can ask for. And it's because of plays like that one too, not just his shooting.

It still amuses me that you think he has a say in it. Golden State has one of the best defenses in the league. They match up the way they do for a reason. Every team in the league does cross matching.

They have been hiding Curry on defense for about 6 years now. It preceded the arrival of Kerr and the "genius" of Ron Adams. They do it because he can't guard a ham sandwich. Scheming plays no role because when they play the Spurs he has no problem taking the Patty Mills assignment.

That's why JR Smith needs to take more than 4 fucking shots when he has Curry, or anyone else on him.