NBA Finals 2015-2016 thread

[Ogaju]

I will not bet against LBJ in game 7 !!!

[PhoSita]

He snitched his way to a game 7.

Draymond should've kept his cool. Series would be over if he had.

Warriors have nobody to blame but themselves.  Lebron has been awesome, but the Warriors haven't brought their best to any of the games in Cleveland, and they didn't even really show up in a Game 5 at home.

Well on their way to the greatest playoff collapse of all time.  Lebron is writing his masterpiece.  The Warriors could be an embarrassing footnote in history.

Honestly it wouldn't really even bother me if GS lost this series now. They aren't some all time great team regardless. Maybe of the past 10-15 years that's about it. They have played so desperate the past two series jacking up 3's it's gotten annoying.

I think the greatest ever is definitely out the window but if they win game seven they're still in the conversation for a top five to ten team all time.

Where would their playoff record be compared to those teams? That should mean more than a regular season record.

I think the best way to measure this would be to check out fivethirtyeight's team ELO rankings.

[SHAQATTACK]

And yet ANOTHER example of NBA officiating incompetence.

Steve Kerr and the rest of the Warriors should complain like a MFer in the post-game conference. Maybe the league will hear them like they heard Lebron.

And that's another BS foul on Green on Lebron. Good effing grief.

It's really embarrassing 2 watch. Nba wants their game 7.

Knew it the sec I heard green was suspended it was going down like this .  A game 7 was inevitable .

I ll be so glade when LeBron is gone from basketball forever .

maybe a 50 / 50 chance the Warriors now have.

[knuckleballer]

Games like this make me wish I didn't detest LeBron.  I can't stand to even watch when he's playing this well.  So obnoxious.

TP - my thoughts exactly. I just want this series over, either way, at this point. But if it's the Cavs, I won't be finishing the game / watching the championship celebration.

I really do wish I could like Lebron.  He's a great player.  Something about watching him when he's playing well just rubs me the wrong way.  Maybe it's just hard wired at this point.  I'm not trying to hate on him.  He has taken over the last two games.  He's a force of nature.  Though I still think Curry at full strength is more valuable at this point in their careers.

I'm the same way.  I wish I could enjoy watching him play, but I just can't.  There isn't any one good reason for it, it's just a lot of petty reasons that have added up over time.

[saltlover]

I think Draymond will play a lot more free in game 7.  If he gets a flagrant 1, he just misses game 1 next year.  And he's got room for a T also.  He can just be himself, emotional time bomb and all.

[manl_lui]

I think Draymond will play a lot more free in game 7.  If he gets a flagrant 1, he just misses game 1 next year.  And he's got room for a T also.  He can just be himself, emotional time bomb and all.

I think so too, I think game 7 will be a very tight game and not a blow out like other ones. I expect a down to the wire game

[jpotter33]

Games like this make me wish I didn't detest LeBron.  I can't stand to even watch when he's playing this well.  So obnoxious.

TP - my thoughts exactly. I just want this series over, either way, at this point. But if it's the Cavs, I won't be finishing the game / watching the championship celebration.

I really do wish I could like Lebron.  He's a great player.  Something about watching him when he's playing well just rubs me the wrong way.  Maybe it's just hard wired at this point.  I'm not trying to hate on him.  He has taken over the last two games.  He's a force of nature.  Though I still think Curry at full strength is more valuable at this point in their careers.

His blatant arrogance and the way the media worships him certainly doesn't help my dislike of him. But I've never liked him since the day he came into the league. Being a rival to the C's certainly helped that develop, too.

[Vox_Populi]

Is Tristan Thompson the third best player on Cleveland?

[hpantazo]

Can refs win the mvp?

I think they have it locked down, no player is even close to them in this series

[passesofftodj]

This series has been far from special.  At this point I don't really like either team very much.  I'd watch the Warriors a lot this year and rooted for them quite a bit but they just look injured and tired.  No Bogut = no rim protection.  I am not a LeBron fan but he was flat out spectacular tonight.

[jpotter33]

HA! Kerr bashing the Curry foul out tonight to the press. He said three of those fouls were obviously wrong, Lebron flopped on the last one, the ref bought it, etc. He also said there's total inconsistency with all the grabbing and everything that they're doing to guard Klay and Steph and then Steph gets called for the ticky tack crap.

Good for Kerr. If Lebron is going to publicly lobby this kind of stuff, then Kerr should, too. Take the fine and put that into the refs' and league's heads. You know they give guidance to the refs to look out for certain things before games. Smart move by Kerr.

[hpantazo]

This series has been far from special.  At this point I don't really like either team very much.  I'd watch the Warriors a lot this year and rooted for them quite a bit but they just look injured and tired.  No Bogut = no rim protection.  I am not a LeBron fan but he was flat out spectacular tonight.

The OKC-GS series was special. The Finals so far have sucked as a series.

[Endless Paradise]

And this is why is the NBA should've kept their greasy, corrupt hands out of the game and stopped catering to their favorite star Lebron. They might have single-handedly turned this series around and given Cleveland the momentum to finish this due to their inconsistent rulings in order to appease their player king. This series should've been over with Draymond playing in game 5. But, hey, ratings and more games! 

Maybe Draymond should keep his hands and legs away from people's nuts and he wouldn't have to worry about being suspended.

Yeah, it's too much to ask the NBA to be consistent in their rulings. 

When's the last time you see two people scuffle like that and one is given a T and the other a flagrant? None that I can recall, because that's not how it works...

Gee, maybe it had something to do with one of the parties involved swiping at the other's nuts and the other party not doing the same?

And this is why is the NBA should've kept their greasy, corrupt hands out of the game and stopped catering to their favorite star Lebron. They might have single-handedly turned this series around and given Cleveland the momentum to finish this due to their inconsistent rulings in order to appease their player king. This series should've been over with Draymond playing in game 5. But, hey, ratings and more games! 

Maybe Draymond should keep his hands and legs away from people's nuts and he wouldn't have to worry about being suspended.

The NBA should suspend people when they deserve it and not wait for some relatively minor incident to use as an excuse for a make up call

So the NBA should suspend people when they hit their flagrant foul point limit? You mean like Draymond did? Yeah, I agree.

Sorry, doesn't work that way, no matter how much you want it to since they beat your Thunder. 

Perhaps his nuts wouldn't have been in the way if he wouldn't have stepped over him. That's just him throwing his arms out just like he did when he was standing up, which is ALWAYS a technical not a flagrant in any other situation.

They needed to appease their boy while ensuring more games for more ratings. That or Lebron's groin matters more to them than Adams', which wouldn't surprise me either..

It doesn't matter if LeBron stepped over him, what kind of argument is that? You know [dang] well you're not allowed to retaliate. Draymond wouldn't have been allowed to punch LeBron in the face for stepping over him and he's not allowed to hit in the nuts for the same reason.

Hitting someone in the nuts is always a flagrant. Without exception. Check out every single example of a player hitting someone in the nuts in the last several season and they were given a flagrant, either in the game or retroactively.

No, you're not allowed to retaliate. Thus why you get a technical foul just as fast as the person who initiated the contact would.

And Draymond was just reacting to the Queen stepping over him. If he wasn't stepping over him and trying to start crap, then his nuts wouldn't have been there. Therefore, yes, it does matter that he was stepping over him.

Draymond was reacting to the step-over and confrontation, so it should be what every other single player would receive in that situation - a technical along with Lebron. It was only a flagrant due to it being Draymond and Lebron's crying and prodding.

No, you don't just get a technical when you escalate the situation by being physically aggressive towards the other player. It doesn't matter why Draymond hit his nuts, he did it.

[SparzWizard]

I wonder if Steph Curry could get suspended one game for throwing his mouthpiece at a fan.

If he does, my 'o my.

[hpantazo]

I wonder if Steph Curry could get suspended one game for throwing his mouthpiece at a fan.

If he does, my 'o my.

All sources so far say that the word from NBA officials is Curry throwing the mouthpiece will be a fine but does not warrant any suspension.