I get a half sandwich and can't finish my meal when I go there. The fries are delicious but as long as I can stop mysef from eating too many I'm ok with the half. I can't imagine eating a full sandwich
when lebron returned, i thought we were pretty much guaranteed a title. becoming the buffalo bills of basketball was a development i should have foreseen. but 25 years of non stop dick punching isn't enough to fully murder the optimist in me i guess. i honestly think the indians are going to be the team to end the streak. and not like the '95 team, but some boring 86-76 team that fails to sell out a single game, backs into the wildcard, and draws some favorable matchups. the perfect anticlimax to this endless run of failure. in 2076.
Van Gundy had an interesting thought on Lowe's podcast that it was a mistake to fire Blatt this season. And yes Van Gundy hates any coach being fired. With the odds high that the Cavs would lose to the Warriors this season they would be able to fire him after the finals, hire Lue, and run it back next year. Now if they lose they are going to feel that a big change is needed.
What's disappointing is that it seems like they've given up. At least when we were overmatched in last year's finals it seems like they cared a lot and had a sense of pride :/
you have no problems that require scapegoats you just don't have a team that is as good as GS, if OKC had finished the job the odds of winning were way higher it sucks but it's not as bad as just sucking imo maybe shop Love for more wing 3/D guys if beating GS is the inevitable goal, doesn't mean Love is awful hes just not someone who can hang with what GS does
Finals summed up thus far P.S. I really want Cleveland to win but GS is in another dimension right now.
i think mozgov might be like one of those central american baseball players. are we sure he isn't 45 years old? that was awesome, but game 4 will be a lot harder. really curious what they do with love. think ppl are overreacting to the correlation here. we get hammered in games 1 and 2 without love with the way we play. but his matchup problems are still a thing so it'll be a tough decision. think bringing him off the bench could be smart, not only because our lineup tonight worked but also because our bench has been terrible and could use a spark
Agree on KLove. People are going to overreact and say stupid things. I love what he brings to this team but he's just not a great matchup against GS' starters. Would like to see him play 15 or 20 minutes off the bench and see how it goes.
This is how it has to be. Either it's the ultimate comeback story or the biggest heartbreak since the fumble.
Not to "defend heartbreaks" but the '97 World Series would probably be slightly more stingy than this one. We actually were favored there and were expected to get it done. Here, I'm proud that they at least made it here against a 73 win team coming back from down 3-1. Not to say I wouldn't be completely, utterly devastated. EDIT: Just saw the Marlins had a better record than we did in '97. Maybe we weren't. I was 9.
97 feels that way just because they had the game in the fucking bag and then good old Joe Table shit the bed on the mound. You could see in his eyes that he was terrified of the moment. I'm not sure how Grover didn't see it and yank him.
Things Cavs have going for them - I no longer believe GS intimidates them Bogut out and Iggy hurting helps LeBron and Kyrie dialed in I do expect Curry and Thompson one of them will go off. Cavs have a shot, which is all you can ask for based on how things looked a week ago.
When the starters came out of the game last night at the end, I saw a team that was so excited, and so proud of themselves, and so engaged in eachother. They know what they have to do now, and they aren't afraid to do it. I think we win game 7.
when the green suspension came down, my first thought was about how it perfectly set up another cleveland let's all kill ourselves sports moment. it immediately opened a navigable path to game 7 heartbreak, as opposed to a fairly routine 5 game defeat, which was where the series appeared to be headed following game 4. on the other hand, there are a lot of reasons for optimism (fuck me). lebron is dialed in like nothing we've ever seen before, and this year he actually has the pieces around him to pull it off. additionally, the warriors are springing leaks everywhere. they completely lost their poise last night and the looks from their bench in the waning minutes last night looked like a bunch of guys who were watching breaking news about a terrorist attack. the depth they used to completely swallow cleveland in games 1 and 2 has vanished. bogut's done, iguodala can barely move, and barnes has crawled so deeply into his own head that i'm half expecting him to pull a top out of his shorts to spin on the sideline just to make sure he's still in this reality. thompson and curry have combined for 62 and 55 points over the last 2 games respectively, and it hasn't been close to enough.
I get what you guys are saying and agree. However, I'm preparing and expecting the worst possible scenario
I'm setting myself up to be horrendously heartbroken but I honestly believe the Cavs will take game 7. The Bogut injury is being overlooked as I think Ezeli is pretty terrible and without him they have no semblance of size on the court. Iguodala looks like a 90 year old man out there and without him they have nobody that can guard Lebron unless you put Draymond on him which completely opens up the paint for the bigs/LeBron to drive into.
thought someone put acid in my beer during Love shutting down Curry, Curry passing out, getting it back, then getting stoned again in the final minute
This was my attitude pretty much the entire game. Even when up 4 with 6 seconds I was expecting some bullshit to happen. Suck our dicks. This is such a good feeling
said it in the NBA thread, but couldn't be happier for y'all love it when a franchise wins their first ever or in like 6 decades. As a fan of a team that never wins shit, I'm envious.