New Album & The Beginning of Basketball Season

[WLVCA]

My favorite Warriors right now are Steve Kerr and Luke Walton. Haven't turned on them.

Can't say that about the players, especially Green and Bogut.....and who thought Steph Curry could become unlikeable. His constant whining and "less than great" playoff performance has turned some (me) against him.

Those could be my Clipper colors bleeding through, though.

 

[jadis]

This has been quite a colorful series I've seen in years, filled with drama and twist in some expectations. I'm banking on the fact the Jerry West is an executive Board Member of the Warriors, and he usually gets a ring wherever he is.

 

[rblnr]

This has been quite a colorful series I've seen in years, filled with drama and twist in some expectations. I'm banking on the fact the Jerry West is an executive Board Member of the Warriors, and he usually gets a ring wherever he is.

I'll take the Warriors tonight - anybody else?

Hope the fellow fathers out there had a nice day.

 

[Steve Williams]

Warriors all the way

 

[WLVCA]

Go Cavs Go.

 

[WLVCA]

Great game by both teams.

Happy for the city of Cleveland

 

[JackD201]

Congratulations Cleveland. You won't be fooling anybody with that make up anymore Uncle Drew.

 

[FrantzM]

I still hate Lebron James... BUT... He's been magnificient throughout the Finals... Consistently great games after games. Came a point where it was Kyrie and LBJ and they beat the GSW.
Curry played very poorly, his casualness with the ball cost them dearly. Draymond is the real deal but Curry needs to work on an inside game to compensate for bad shooting nights....

LBJ is the best player in basketball, after this display of greatness , there can't be any doubt... (I still don't like him )
Congrats to LBJ and Kyrie Irving. You were incredible. A few more players and Cleveland could be a dynasty..

 

[mauidan]

Frantz, just like Phil and Colin Cowherd, you have mastered that unique skill of restating the obvious.;-)

 

[Mike Lavigne]

I still hate Lebron James... BUT... He's been magnificient throughout the Finals... Consistently great games after games. Came a point where it was Kyrie and LBJ and they beat the GSW.
Curry played very poorly, his casualness with the ball cost them dearly. Draymond is the real deal but Curry needs to work on an inside game to compensate for bad shooting nights....

while I like Steph Curry; his body type has no chance of an inside game.....he simply cannot ever have the explosiveness and strength that small stature guys need to survive in the paint. he has zero room for error with his game. he lost his edge with the earlier injuries and has yet to regain it. he does not have the core strength of say.....a Gary Payton.....who while on paper looks like he is a similar size but lived on posting up smaller players and had amazing toughness. Steph is soft. I'm not saying he is not mentally tough, just physically fragile for the NBA game.....while needing precision and perfection to do his thing.

LBJ is the best player in basketball, after this display of greatness , there can't be any doubt... (I still don't like him )
Congrats to LBJ and Kyrie Irving. You were incredible. A few more players and Cleveland could be a dynasty..

never has there been an overall physical specimen like JBJ. when you observe the pressure to be perfect that has been on him all his life, it is amazing he has maintained his composure so well. it's always been interesting to observe how many resent him for not always choosing perfectly. I'm so happy he can now stick it to all his detractors.

no athlete ever had so much expected........yet could never do enough.

 

[Steve Williams]

I agree. The best team one. Warriors got humiliated.

Kudos Dan.

 

[MRJAZZ]

Great game by both teams.

Happy for the city of Cleveland

A big + 1.....
Cheers

 

[jadis]

Warriors lived with the outside shots for their firepower the whole season, and even last season. It was gone somehow late in the Finals. Gone was the way Curry escaped any guard and shot over anybody as in the OKC series. It was just not there. Somehow teams live and die with their best players, Curry did not deliver the last 3 games. If KD wants to come in, let him in. Barnes is a free agent.

 

[jadis]

Frantz, just like Phil and Colin Cowherd, you have mastered that unique skill of restating the obvious.;-)

What I wouldn't ever do, and which is not even an obvious fact to me, is to equate LeBron with the word great in the mold of the true NBA greats. Great traveler yeah, in the court and outside the court, traveling to cities and great in picking his spots (great team mates maybe). I can only remember one convincing title he won, vs. OKC. Next he needed an ex-Celtic to save him, next he had to taunt a player by stepping over him and incur no taunting technical, and next he slammed a reed thin guard to the floor when he realized he was going down 1-3, and finally won a psy war series worthy of the WWF. Just stating the obvious to me.

And like Frantz, I hate him.

 

[FrantzM]

What I wouldn't ever do, and which is not even an obvious fact to me, is to equate LeBron with the word great in the mold of the true NBA greats. Great traveler yeah, in the court and outside the court, traveling to cities and great in picking his spots (great team mates maybe). I can only remember one convincing title he won, vs. OKC. Next he needed an ex-Celtic to save him, next he had to taunt a player by stepping over him and incur no taunting technical, and next he slammed a reed thin guard to the floor when he realized he was going down 1-3, and finally won a psy war series worthy of the WWF. Just stating the obvious to me.

And like Frantz, I hate him.

Jadis

We share those feelings but he's a very good player, the NBA needs somehow to apply the rules... He travels and a lot. He barrels through other players chest in a way that makes you wonder how the referee didn't see that on each play. The man is however a great player and would play within the rules if they were enforced.

Looking at the game quietly and with some distance. There were some strange lapses by Steve Kerr: He kept Varajeo too long in the game when the man could not complete a layup or catch a pass ... let alone defend. He kept Barnes when he was ice cold way too long when Shaun Livingston or even Mac Adoo would have been better. Barnes was missing all his shots.
Step Curry still needs to play better on the big scene, that casualness with the ball s has haunted him this year, looks good to flip the balss to unsuspecting players during the regular season ..not so during the playoffs... TO me the game was lost on his stupid and BAD pass to Klay THonpson who would have been in a position to shoot but could not catch the ball so flippantly passed and that was just one of many bad passes by Curry. Last year Steph was average, this year same and it showed. I am with you bring on KD.. an inside and outside player and a rebounding presence.. It would be interesting if they get him

@Mike
Steph is perhaps a small player but there has been players with this body type who developed an inside game to allow them some room on their outside game. Allan Iverson comes to mind, he played too much inside and his career was cut short but Steph is likely the best shooter this game has seen, they must know he can score inside and that will allow him some room outside... Last year they won in spite of his average to poor play, this year they needed him to step up the game : He didn't. They lost.

 

[still-one]

GS didn't score a point in the last 4:39 of the game. The Cav's only 4 points in the last 4:52. Those last 5 minutes may have been exciting but both teams played poorly at the end.

 

[Steve Williams]

GSW need to find a 5 and sign KD

 

[jadis]

I am with you bring on KD.. an inside and outside player and a rebounding presence.. It would be interesting if they get him

My hidden desire is for Danny Ainge to lure KD over to Boston. The salary cap is $94m, reportedly, and that's a LOT of extra space for Danny to sign good players in the FA market and trade in his multiple draft picks this year and also of last year. Love (Love Who?) may still come over for his free lobsters.

 

[WLVCA]

Who couldn't and didn't hate LeBron James after The Decision....besides Heat fans and front runners? And he deserved every bit of the vitriol.

How could you not respect 73 wins in the regular season for the GSW?

LeBron did show some respect to Steph Curry in Game 7. There was a play in the last five minutes or so when they collided while fighting for the ball on a long rebound. LeBron helped Curry up and patted him on the butt. Those two guys knew the other was playing their heart out and respected each other. Couldn't find the video this morning but I do remember it.

It was a fun series to watch and a great game 7.

One of the most amazing things I saw post game was JR Smith thanking his parents and breaking down into tears. My image of JR Smith was that he was one of the biggest knuckle heads in the NBA. Stunning to me to see him show his human side, some vulnerability and respect to his Dad. I didn't think he had that in him.

 

[Mike Lavigne]

@Mike
Steph is perhaps a small player but there has been players with this body type who developed an inside game to allow them some room on their outside game. Allan Iverson comes to mind, he played too much inside and his career was cut short but Steph is likely the best shooter this game has seen, they must know he can score inside and that will allow him some room outside... Last year they won in spite of his average to poor play, this year they needed him to step up the game : He didn't. They lost.

the issue is explosiveness and core strength. Steph does not have that and never will. even some little guys like Isaiah Thomas on the Celtics (or Allan Iverson) have that sort of power to go inside and then tumble and get up. those guys are fearless to a fault.

Curry is quick but not 'hard'. and never will be. he is a thoroughbred type player that has to avoid contact for him to be effective at his strengths. I love Curry's game and enjoy watching him do his magic, but he cannot physically dominate.

I'm saying that as Curry gets older he will have to use guile and not contact to be more effective.