2015 NBA Playoff Thread

#3,602
#3,602
Warriors will win this. I said a while back that the winner of the Warriors-Grizz series wins the championship.

Cavs are resilient, but Golden State is a complete team and has the better coach.
 
#3,612
#3,612
Warriors in 5. The Cavs had a cake walk through the East, and are a second tier team compared to the Warriors.
 
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Weezy said:
Warriors in 5. The Cavs had a cake walk through the East, and are a second tier team compared to the Warriors.
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I've got the Warriors in 5, but if the King can play like he did in the finals last year, and a couple guys get hot 4x, the Cavs can win this thing. Delladova sucks, but that doesn't mean he's not going to shoot 7/9 in Game 1.

Hopefully it's a good series.
 
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#3,616
#3,616
I'd say Warriors in 4 if I believed the system in place wasn't corrupt. With that being said, I'll say Warriors in 6. Refs will steal at least one from the Warriors to make it a series and Lebron is good enough to take one. On average, Warriors should win 10 times out of 10 without Love and 7-8 times out of 10 with Love. The Warriors are better regardless.

So yeah, Cavs have no chance of winning unless Curry or Thompson get hurt. Even if Thompson were to get hurt, the Cavs would probably still have no chance. They came out of the worst conference in the history of basketball. They didn't even finish first in the east despite being in the worst conference in the history of basketball. And to top it all off, they're down Kevin Love who will probably leave in the off-season if the Cavs don't win a title, which they won't barring an injury to Curry.

The way I look it as, Lebron is one year removed from losing to the Spurs with Bosh and Wade. This is the same Spurs team that got knocked out in the first round this year. Yet, the Cavs who are worse than the Heat of last year are supposedly going to beat the Warriors who are better than the Spurs of last year. Not happening and you can take that to the bank. Other than friendly bets, I've never bet on sports but I'm tempted to as this is as sure thing as I've seen in a while from my pov. The only thing you can't factor in is how crappy NBA refs are and more importantly, how corrupt they are. Assuming Curry and Thompson get the calls to match Lebron and Irving, this shouldn't even be a series. The Cavs aren't even better than the Warriors with Love so there's no reason they should win without Love. It's really that simple from where I'm standing.




Also, lol @ James Dolan.

Report: James Dolan lowballed Steve Kerr because Kerr had reservations about Knicks owner | ProBasketballTalk

All spring, the Knicks appeared to be trending toward hiring Steve Kerr as coach. Phil Jackson even said Kerr verbally agreed to coach the Knicks, which Kerr didn’t deny. But just as a deal seemed near, Kerr filled the Warriors’ coaching vacancy.

What happened?

Kerr reportedly sought a five-year, $30 million contract. The Knicks reportedly offered a three-year, $13.2 million contract, because Kerr had no coaching experience. New York added a fourth guaranteed season, but the door was already opened for the Warriors, who reportedly gave Kerr a four-year, $22 million contract.

Then, after all that trouble with Jackson’s top candidate, the Knicks wound up giving Derek Fisher – another rookie coach – five years and $25 million.

Again: What happened?

James Dolan happened.

After promising not to meddle anymore, the Knicks owner reportedly submarined Jackson’s attempts to land Kerr.

Frank Isola of the New York Daily News:

Why on earth would Dolan open the bank for Jackson yet play hardball with Jackson’s recommendation to become head coach?

The answer most likely has something to do with Kerr having serious reservations about working for Dolan. So much so that Kerr called former and current employees to do a background check on his potential boss. That information got back to Dolan, who was not too thrilled about hiring the broadcasting partner of Marv Albert, one of many sworn enemies of MSG. The low ball offer, Dolan’s presence and a better team in Golden State made Kerr’s decision an easy one.
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If this seems petty and unreasonable… well, yeah. Dolan has a long track record of being petty and unreasonable.

Albert did speak poorly of Dolan to Kerr, but it’s completely reasonable for a prospective employee (especially one with multiple job offers) to research his potential boss (especially one with a record as poor as Dolan’s). Dolan shouldn’t be so sensitive about this.
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That's freakin hilarious. Old article but I wanted to remind myself why Kerr ended up a Warrior and not a Knick. Even before the botched Kerr hire, missing the playoffs this season and winning a couple meaningless games at the end of season to get the #2 pick instead of #1 pick, which actually turned into the #4 pick... Knicks fans had been teeing off on how crappy of an owner Dolan is for years. I have zero experience in the field but I feel pretty confident I would be a better owner than Dolan. You could literally step outside of MSG, pick a random person in Knicks apparel passing by, hand over all of the basketball operations to them and your franchise would be in better hands than Dolan having his finger in on any decision, other than what he'd like vendors at MSG to serve. In his case, he'd probably have them start serving bottles of vodka. Which would actually make sense because being drunk is the only way the Knicks are even remotely watchable.

Another plus if Dolan were to have MSG sell vodka, fans getting drunk would make them feel like part of the team seeing as I'm pretty sure the Knicks were drunk the past 2 seasons. The nights they weren't out partying, JR Smith would pick up the slack for the rest of the team by doing rails of coke and offering high school girls on twitter his pipe(Could be worse I suppose. Paul George unknowingly offered his pipe to a dude). In the end, Glad Kerr is with GS and hope JR Smith decides to snort some more rock during the finals. Knicks may not know how to make their own team a contender but they'll have played a big role in pushing the Warriors over the Cavs in the finals when all is said and done. Thanks, James Dolan. Ya freakin clown shoes.
 
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TOP said:
Warriors should win 10 times out of 10 without Love and 7-8 times out of 10 with Love.
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Warriors didn't win 7/8 against eastern conference teams, why would you expect them to go 10-0 vs the eastern conference champs?
 
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n_huffhines said:
Warriors didn't win 7/8 against eastern conference teams, why would you expect them to go 10-0 vs the eastern conference champs?
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Because regular season is not the same thing as playoffs and 3/8 of the east's playoff teams finished .500 or below overall.

Also, why would you even ask that question when you expect the Warriors to win 4/5 against the eastern conference champs. I have no idea what's happening as I'm pretty sure you're arguing against your own prediction. Not to mention, there was only a 3% drop off in their winning percentage from the west to east.

More importantly, their 5 losses to the east were against the Hawks, Cavs, Bulls, Nets and Pacers. 4 of those 5 were playoff teams. Most importantly,other than the Bulls(OT loss), they were all road losses. If you've noticed the Warriors home/away records, they're 39-2 at home and 28-13 on the road. The east could only take 5 games total from the Warriors, 4 of which were playoff teams and 4 of which were on the road. The Warriors problem wasn't losing to the eastern conference teams, it was losing on the road. So unless the Cavs are playing 7 home games, I don't care how the Warriors did against east because the east wasn't the problem.
 
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#3,619
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Because regular season is not the same thing as playoffs and 3/8 of the east finished .500 or below overall.

Also, why would you even ask that question when you expect the Warriors to win 4/5 against the eastern conference champs. I have no idea what's happening as I'm pretty sure you're arguing against your own prediction. Not to mention, there was only a 3% drop off in their winning percentage from the west to east and the east was a much smaller sample size.
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I see no contradiction in predicting they go 4-1 and arguing that a 10-0 prediction is absurd. Especially when you consider Golden St gets 3 home games in the first 5. I might go 6 games with my prediction if Cleveland had home court.
 
#3,620
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A healthy Irving and Shumpert will give us fits. We haven't faced a defense as good as the Cavs. This won't be a sweep. LeBron struggled early in the playoffs and now he's starting to get on a role. Thompson is a rebounding machine and I don't believe Bogurt can match his intensity.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I see no contradiction in predicting they go 4-1 and arguing that a 10-0 prediction is absurd. Especially when you consider Golden St gets 3 home games in the first 5. I might go 6 games with my prediction if Cleveland had home court.
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Because 10/10 is so far off of 8/10.

I'm convinced you argue just to argue and your argument about the Warriors vs. the east is absurd. They lost to 5 east teams total. That actually proves how garbage the east as they could only take 5 games in 30 tries and 4 of them had to be on the road while the Warriors had only lost 2 home games all season. The Warriors are going to f*** the Cavs up in GS. Seeing as you love statistics, you shouldn't even bother arguing it. If the east could only take 4 of 5 on the road all season, I'm not sure how you expect the Cavs to take 4 of 7 without the Cavs going 3-0 at home. It's their only chance, they're not taking 2 on the road. They'd be lucky to take 1 seeing as the only the Bulls and Spurs were able to do it during the regular season. And only the Grizzlies could do it once in the playoffs. Warriors are sitting on a home record of 46-3. But okay.
 
#3,622
#3,622
The Hawks were a legit contender 4 months ago. They fell hard. People just now watching the NBA playoffs don't appreciate that the Hawks that beat the Warriors were a different team than the one that got swept. That's why they won 60.
 
#3,624
#3,624
Good thing he can do everything else. Ouch
 

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