hate u...
Was going to post this ;_;
Will this lift the curse???
Hopefully not. to hell with the Warriors!
Free Agency and stacking teams suck in the NBA.
The NBA is a fucking joke, yet you rush to post this?
Happy 4th.
Yeah, but that's different cuz.............Yankees!
Don't ever try to get a Yankee fan - or a fan of any NY team - to be consistent, thoughtful, insightful or fair. Ain't gonna happen. Trust me, if Yankee fan said "A Rod sucks" when he joined the NYY it wasn't out of a sense of fair play, it was cuz he hates A Rod that much.
As a Dubs fan, I can tell you most here were not that excited at the prospect of getting KD, nor did we think he would come here. And for many of us "Old School" types, it wasn't offense that kept the Dubs from repeating, it was lack of toughness. (And ridonkulous officiating, but that's another thread!)
So this just throws another happy shooter onto the floor without addressing the diving for balls & rebounding edge that literally every team GSW faced in these playoffs held over them (except Houston, but they didn't even wanna be there). But I will say, they can probably now just outscore any opponent with sheer talent, toughness or no.
And if the Warrior brass knows how they're fiting KD under the cap, who has to be jettisoned, they ain't hinted at it yet. But Bogut has - he apparently removed all mention of GSW from his Twitter.
Lebron was Lebron - Kyrie was the difference in that series - he was on fire and never let up. Officiating had nothing to do with it. Cleveland played better and was the tougher, hungrier team.
Than LeBron crying about being called a bitch.
I'm pretty sure that even mentioning officiating was an addendum after saying they lost cuz lack of toughness, hustle and rebounding... but, like see what you wanna see.
Curry's injury WITHOUT ANY QUESTION hampered his jumper and his quickness cutting to the hoop, but I didn't mention that. That's an excuse, albeit also true.
Name the last time you saw Steph throw his mouthguard in disgust - Hell, name the last time he even fouled out of a game - and then tell me the officiating didn't suck. Well, I guess it didn't suck if you're a Cavs fan, eh Franch?!
superstars (lebron excluded) usually always get very favorable calls. curry could have been called for a couple more in that game. and some of the ones he was called for were just stupid fouls on his part. injuries are no excuse my man, all teams deal with them in the post season. maybe the warriors weren't as good as everyone thought because of their easy win against a hapless cavs team in the 2015 finals?
Very fair analysis Owen, but in reality, the Dubs lose when they miss their 3s, and cannot be beaten by any team that has ever suited up when they make them,
I'd like more balance. I hope you're right, and the hundreds on here who say there won't be enought basketballs to go round are wrong. KD hitting the boards and D'ing Lebron would be AWESOME!
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Lets not forget the cartel featuring Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Bayern Munich in soccer.
How do you figure that? MLB free agency started in 1977 - Yankees have won 7 World Series since the Free Agency era began and 20 prior to that.
So... what's your logic there?
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The Yankees have had a higher payroll and cherry-picked talent from poorer teams since the Babe Ruth trade - Free agency just made it obvious.
But when it works and it's within the rules, then props. How many times the Yankees HAVEN'T won since 2000 shows there's more to it than just opening the wallet.
re baseball - there are a number of factors that allowed lower-tier teams to achieve parity over the past ten+ years. The steroid ban made it difficult to identify production outliers and just throw money at your roster. Organizations are now forced to develop and refine moneyball metrics. And teams are just smarter in general - every FO has an anyltics department with proprietary methods. The KC's of the world are better at using their luxury tax revenue, etc.
Teams with resource advantages will find the means to create super teams. It's as old as the '27 and '77 Yankees.
Only on a Michigan blog do we see this type of insightfulness! Thankz Ballz!!!
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OH MY GOODNESS!!!
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U mad?
and Boston before that
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...but I've been a Warriors fan for a long time. I watched through the rough years and I'm glad the franchise is finally big time.
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I can't help but laugh at know-it-alls.
Hmmmm...Oklahoma or elsewhere, tough decision.
But yeah these guys can't win titles so they join forces.
I know Kobe is a very, very difficult person to get along with, but I'm wondering if this is really going to work out.
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They didn't seem to have a problem with that before Durant showed up, but with adding another superstar to the mix, maybe that changes.
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I'm sure it was all Kobe's fault and had nothing to do with Dwight
Yessir
Dwight Howard is/was/always will be