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06-21-2016 , 08:35 PM
most tilting thing about Klay is how bad he travels every time he drives and does the hop step. every single time he hop steps, pauses, then takes another step. and it never gets called.
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06-21-2016 , 08:47 PM
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most tilting thing about Klay is how bad he travels every time he drives and does the hop step. every single time he hop steps, pauses, then takes another step. and it never gets called.
Well he learned it from the goat.
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06-21-2016 , 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by THAKID
Started at 50/50 win rate
Wtf
http://stats.inpredictable.com/nba/w...407&pregm=odds

For the pre-game odds adjusted graph
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06-21-2016 , 10:43 PM
So Dray got one last nut shot in during the closing seconds? What a freak.
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06-21-2016 , 11:13 PM
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=163...pnapi_internal

video exemplifies the two types of homer theory. the good ones and the bad ones. i.e. the devestated ones/shocked vs the yelling at the refs
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06-21-2016 , 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by DarkCheck
I can't speak for the very few others but i wanted to let the cavs fans enjoy their championship. Not because i don't believe in my team or players anymore.

Also i realized before game 6 that me being in this thread is the equivalent of me walking into a downtown cleveland sportsbar. I'm not looking to be Steve Bartman in a chicago sportsbar. I'll prolly never give my opinions on lebron anymore.

Lebron and Kyrie played a great series. Congrats!
Well your opinions on lebron are trash.
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06-22-2016 , 01:03 AM
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Kerr being all smiles about this type of **** is not a good look for a coach, I'm guessing we won't be seeing a lot of that next year
**** all of you so hard for slobbering this team's antics all year. There literally was like one guy in December who said "they run around like goons every time they hit a 3" and everyone else was just constant "shut the **** up and enjoy watching the most historically great team there will ever be" and "how could anybody not like this team?".
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06-22-2016 , 01:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Banzai-
http://stats.inpredictable.com/nba/w...407&pregm=odds

For the pre-game odds adjusted graph
So the real odds then ....
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06-22-2016 , 01:06 AM
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So Dray got one last nut shot in during the closing seconds? What a freak.
Where

And wtf at the Lebron butt pat too Curry not bein all over the Internet
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06-22-2016 , 01:09 AM
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game 7 win probability from inpreidictable



"The "tension index" for game seven was 7.9%. This means that, on average, the win probability was 7.9% away from 50% (in either direction). To put that in context, the tension index for an average game is 22.1%. Note that a lower index indicates a more "tense" game. A maximally boring game would be one with a tension index of 50%, implying the win probability immediately shifting to a single team and staying there for the course of the game.

At 7.9%, game seven of the 2016 NBA Finals was the most "tense" finals game of the past 10 years. It was the 2nd most tense game of the playoffs (out of 838 games), bested only by a recent first round classic: game 7 of the 2015 Spurs-Clippers series (tension index: 7.2%)."
I'm guessing that constant zig-zag near the end is the ~4 minutes that neither team scored. Misses and misses and misses, and you can see the win probability zig every ~20 seconds or so until Kyrie finally hits that 3.

That part of the game was just unreal tense. Looking at that line diving up and down over and over is a perfect way to capture how huge every possession felt - the momentum kept swinging with every stop and it felt like anything could happen.
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06-22-2016 , 01:19 AM
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**** all of you so hard for slobbering this team's antics all year. There literally was like one guy in December who said "they run around like goons every time they hit a 3" and everyone else was just constant "shut the **** up and enjoy watching the most historically great team there will ever be" and "how could anybody not like this team?".[/quote]

Preaching to the choir
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Where

And wtf at the Lebron butt pat too Curry not bein all over the Internet
They replayed it a few times, not sure how you missed that. I guess it's not all over the internet because it happens every game, no one cared
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06-22-2016 , 01:38 AM
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Great collection. Can anyone locate the bench literally falling all over each other during I think the Portland series? There were also some over the top Steph bench celebrations in a recent game if anyone has.

I'm posting them on Facebook for my fellow #DubNationers who only actually watched ~8 minutes of NBA all season.
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06-22-2016 , 01:42 AM
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I'm guessing that constant zig-zag near the end is the ~4 minutes that neither team scored. Misses and misses and misses, and you can see the win probability zig every ~20 seconds or so until Kyrie finally hits that 3.

That part of the game was just unreal tense. Looking at that line diving up and down over and over is a perfect way to capture how huge every possession felt - the momentum kept swinging with every stop and it felt like anything could happen.
The slow pace probably made it even more tense.

Whether or not it was optimal, you have to admire the excruciating pace CLE played at the end. It was super, super deliberate and planned. They knew exactly what they were going to do in a close game.
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06-22-2016 , 01:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Baltimore Jones
**** all of you so hard for slobbering this team's antics all year. There literally was like one guy in December who said "they run around like goons every time they hit a 3" and everyone else was just constant "shut the **** up and enjoy watching the most historically great team there will ever be" and "how could anybody not like this team?".
Think this was me but I'm a verified hater.
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06-22-2016 , 01:53 AM
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Think this was me but I'm a verified hater.
++ congrats man!
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06-22-2016 , 02:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Baltimore Jones
The slow pace probably made it even more tense.

Whether or not it was optimal, you have to admire the excruciating pace CLE played at the end. It was super, super deliberate and planned. They knew exactly what they were going to do in a close game.
Make sure the MVP nails a(nother) 3?
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06-22-2016 , 03:01 AM
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++ congrats man!
Now I have something to tell the grandkids about, I was hating on Steph and the Warriors before it was cool!... The first time I mentioned that they over-celebrate routine stuff was back in the 2015 regular season, but who's counting.

I also found this:

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I still think there are more things you can do and perhaps we will see it more in the playoffs. I think not doubling Steph, switching everything even if it puts your big on him, is the best way. I'd want him driving to the hoop on every possession, yes he's good at that but will he be if he's forced to do it all the time? Don't bring any doubles, and make Steph put it on the floor all the time. I think that coupled with going at him on the other side all the time might just wear him out and encourage him to make some risky passes and suboptimal floaters.

Pretty much the only think he lacks is elite speed, and I think most players, even bigs, can stay fairly close to him on the blow-by. What you want to avoid is bringing any help because They are too good of a passing team and you don't want others involved.
I hope I get a ring sent to my house.

But for real what I didn't predict was that a team would be able to dictate matchups to the extent that Cleveland did, not only forcing Steph to play D on every possession, but to play it against their best offensive players... after having to fight so hard not to get switched on. I think this was a huge leak in Kerr's gameplan basically making Steph the primary defender for a whole series. That might work in the regular season where teams aren't going to perfect dictating those switches, but it seemed awfully easy for Bron to do once they figured things out.

I feel kind of sorry for Steph... almost.. He was forced to guard Bron/Kyrie, box out Love/TT, and still carry an offense, it's no wonder he had struggles late in games 5,6 and 7.

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