Even so I hate the thought of them being back in the Finals before the Lakers. Even if it's the Cavaliers again plus they'd likely put up a better fight against the Warriors. Unless it's Boston and if the Lakers aren't in it I'd like to see a competitive Finals.
I only have 3 teams whom I'm rooting against. In order: 1. Cavs 2. Rockets 3. C-bags. I might be on suicide watch if there's a Lebron v Harden finals.
Hopefully the Wizards comeback and by some miracle the Jazz can upset the Warriors. I could live with Wizards/Jazz in the Finals.
Nope and I have a suspicion that Boston may be as fraudulent as the 2015 Hawks, who I totally believe are the worst 60 win team of all time.
I have a feeling the Cavs will be champs again. I have seen the Spurs against the Rockets and they looked terrible. Warriors still don't look together, Rockets darn sure don't have a shot. **sigh**
The difference between the mid 2000 Suns and this year's Rockets are Pat Beverly, Ariza, Capela, and Nene.
No. The whole narrative about the Cavs being in trouble, losing a lot of games after the AS Break, having bad defense, not being able to flip the switch, bullcrap. It was fake drama, because everyone knows this season was a 2 team race from day one. Unless there's some catostrophic injury to one of the main players on these 2 teams, it will be the Warriors and Cavs again, and once again either team can win.
Yeah those are garbage calls. I'm not sure if they're intentionally biased towards because I've seen no evidence why the league would anoint him their next MJ. Anyway, just like the league started cracking down on flopping in the more traditional sense, this is going to be spotlighted enough so that'll have to do something.
Lebron is just too good , his stats line ( minus the FT %) is very impressive in his 14th season . The difference with the 2nd best player in the East ( Wall/IT) is too big of a margin .
http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/245843/Tony-Parker-Injures-Left-Knee-Will-Undergo-MRI Tony Parker suffered an unspecified left knee injury during the second half of the San Antonio Spurs' Game 2 win over the Houston Rockets. Parker sustained the injury on a non-contact play. Parker was unable to put any weight on the leg and was carried off the floor. Parker will undergo an MRI on Thursday to determine the extent of the injury. Parker averaged 10.1 points and 4.5 assists in 25.2 minutes per game during 63 regular seasons. "It's not good," said Gregg Popovich after the game.
in that they're NOT amare stoudemire, shawn marion, raja bell, and leandro barbosa? yes, i agree. as for the SA/hou series. 1. as i said before, that one game wasn't the end of the series. sometimes, you just make a crapton of threes. btw, dantoni's suggestion that they just need to make more threes was just...classic dantoni. this f***ing guy... 2. mash's stamina on this harden thing is pretty astonishing. plays like the one above happen all the time for harden and very rarely for other players (i presented those data earlier). it's not because he's so incredibly good that teams must foul him. again, he rarely has a big scoring game without a boatload of FTAs. he doesn't deserve them. when he doesn't go to the foul line, he looks meh, and his team loses. 3. all that said, SA's in big trouble. there will be close games in this series, and parker's their big play guy on offense (not named kawhi). i think houston takes it now, but only because parker got hurt. they better pray a couple guys on gs get hurt, too, though. because my prediction there is pain.
