What's the prediction for game 5 varianceminefield? luckbox warriors still got the horseshoe in bum bum or no?

the angle posted in here makes it pretty obv that it was a pretty minor flail / fendoff thing that barely made contact

totally transparent attempt at extending the series from the nba, the defenses of this decision itt are wanting quite hard

supposedly the cavs campaigned extremely hard for this suspension behind the scenes - can't really blame them, but still lol

i think kerr has heaps of options for replacing green's minutes so it'll be interesting where they go, none of the choices are that good tho. they def need to start iguodala and try to have him shadow lebron's minutes as much as possible. brandon rush might get dusted off too which could work out ok, he can sortof replace what barnes does at sf while barnes plays more pf to cover green

seems like there is a sentiment on twitter from some of the usual smart nba ppl that the line might be way off currently (-5.5 for woyas), opining that it is closer to a flip, if not cavs favs. i am inclined to agree just because green is such a huge part of the woyas gameplan, and also never really misses time, so it's hard to envision exactly what they plan to do without him

When Barnes was out this year Rush stepped in and started for him. He really found his stroke at the 3pt line. Draymond only missed one game and Thompson started for him but he's no longer with the team so who knows

Yeah the line is way off, I think GSW-3 is about the best they should be getting, and I would hate betting GSW there. Cleveland -6 seems free even though they are probably going to get blowed out.

Also I agree this is the NBA extending the series just as they did in the WCF, lol at those arguing it either way. Draymond getting a stay of execution gave the NBA a joker in their pocket, and they used it.

In before this 30 point massacre. Warriors are going to curb stomp after that suspension. The WIM is going to be out of control.

And there's of course a huge chance Lebron slanks it up again

According to the NBA slappies I follow on Twitter the NBA stands zero immediate financial gain from extending the series as their $ is locked in. The Warriors actually stand to make the most money if the series goes 7 because they get the extra home game revenue which is substantial. Never thought this was the case.

I'm pretty sure making your business partners happy is pretty important to the NBA.

Seems an odd commercial agreement in which media buyers are happy to get almost 50% more commercials (or less) for a one-price-fits-all.

Maybe not immediate financial gain but say LeBron does come back and win the series or one of the splash brothers go off for 50+ or there is an epic game 7 between the two teams. Your stock has to grow always in any of those scenarios when you're going against the Warriors winning in 5, yawnnnnn

Prediction: GS wins by 90. Draymond rushes the court flailing his legs all over the place, and in the process ends up giving labron a gigantic nutSHAT. The trophy presentation occurs with labron turtling on the ground with Draymond standing over labron while raising the trophy. After, labron announces he will be taking his talents nowhere and retires because he knows he will just be Draymond's bitch forever regardless of where he goes.

After the warriors are dribbling the clock out on their finals win draymond should come out running full speed and drop kick LeBron in the chest.

Outta nowhere

not sure. im not going to bet on it until i see the start, may live bet it. warriors -5.5 sounds like a fair price. i think the draymond suspension could give the cavs enough to push this back to clev

Someone tell her she's not on the team.

holy **** lewuss is such a pussy

Wish Green wasn't a misogynist

Iggy seems like the coolest dude and goat role player and prob mvp again. Why aren't the Cavs at least trying to **** with his head and doing hack an Iggy as an experiment? He is 61% from the free throw line this year and if you've ever seen him start missing them it's cringe-worthy. It might be worth getting in his head a little and seeing if the rest of his game falls off a bit- even if the experiment fails...

Isn't it all about attacking weaknesses at this stage?

literally laughing out loud right now at "i'm a father of three kids"

This line seems off to you because you probably underestimate how important Curry and Thompson are to Dray and overestimate how important he is to them.

But I agree he will be missed on defense.

the weird thing to me is the total has gone since draymond has been announced out from 206 to 204.5

do they think bogut and ezeli are going to get more minutes, not mo speights?

don't think speights will play a ton unless he gets hot. based on game 4 i'd expect that even mcadoo sees minutes before him.

think the game will be close. woyas should be ok offensively, but they don't have a lot of margin for error defensively. gotta get something out of bogut, particularly on the glass

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Woyas did set more ball screens for Curry last game, most in the series by a lot. Interestingly most of them were not by the bigs (not sure how green is labeled there but I don't think he set many anyway). Expect more of the same tonight, though they will prob still try to avoid screening Lebron's man (prob Iggy)