2016 NBA Playoffs EASTERN Conference Discussion

^^ Yep.

 

Oh that's right, I forgot he's not a Cleveland fan and he doesn't like LeBron at all. That makes me even more open to signing him.

 

This game isn't starting out very well. Cleveland has 37 points in the first quarter.

 

Predictably it's a blowout so far. Why are these teams SO much better at home? Tale of two cities.

 

I don't see why the Raptors can't win in Cleveland. Heck, why not the series?

 

They're not coming back to Cleveland. This is going as expected, big win tonight, close win in game 6 unless Toronto folds under the pressure and gets down double digits in the 3rd or so. The only negative I can throw at the Cavs tonight is that Kevin Love is a front-runner, a phony. He's good when things are going well, he's good at home, and he sucks on the road and when things are going bad. I hope the Thunder (or Warriors in the event of a miracle) destroy the Cavs.

 

Bickering? Where??

 

Well, first, at 2-2 it's not anyone's series, not unless LeBron got injured and was out for the rest of the series. Cleveland is undefeated at home in the playoffs, and they had 2 of 3 games in the series left at home. Mainly though, I've been watching this movie play out for 20+ years now, and I guess it gets old having to make the argument for the obvious. Maybe goes back to watching my first playoff series at like 9 years old or so. "I don't see why we can't beat the Suns, dad." Well, we didn't have Charles Barkley and Kevin Johnson. "I don't see why we can't beat the Jazz". Well, they have Karl Malone and John Stockton, we weren't ready yet.

I've been watching this LeBron movie play out year after year now since 2011. I'm tired of having the same argument, the movie always ends the same way, LeBron makes the Finals. I felt safe calling it in January, because it was the safest bet in the NBA, even safer than the Warriors because the West is tough and the East both sucks and blows. Until LeBron runs out of gas from going to the Finals every single year, or the East gets a team with 2 legit stars, this movie will continue to end the same way. And I guess it annoys me when people want to help the LeBron narrative by acting like he doesn't have the easiest road to the Finals every single freaking season since he initially left Cleveland to join his buddies on a superteam because he couldn't stay and get it done where he was. Hopefully Durant and Westbrook are about to be the anti-LeBrons and get it done right where they started. Man do I hope som cause f*** LeBron.