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05-09-2016 , 09:33 AM

#14976

Christophersen

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Yall are insane if you think Cavs are better than any of the top 3 west teams (ok, OKC is a flip imo). Spurs or Warriors will crush them.

05-09-2016 , 09:54 AM

#14977

Eltbus

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CAVS are clearly better than OKC. These scorching takes of raps and /or OKC > CAVS are jaw droppingly dumb.

05-09-2016 , 10:01 AM

#14978

Victor

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Originally Posted by Christophersen

Yall are insane if you think Cavs are better than any of the top 3 west teams (ok, OKC is a flip imo). Spurs or Warriors will crush them.

cavs have owned the spurs the last few years. mebbe thats meaningless so whatever. regardless, cavs have a ton of talent and are playing really well. they are moving the ball and not so reliant on lebron and rotating isos. and they have realized 3>2 and are playing gs's style better than gs does.

anyone can win, esp teams with durant, or curry or pop, but the cavs should be favored vs any of those.

05-09-2016 , 10:10 AM

#14979

mjw0586

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I'd be happy to bet all the money on Cavs > Thunder at a pick 'em

05-09-2016 , 10:23 AM

#14980

nit3.runn3r

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At this point, I'm a believer that only a fully healthy woyas team can beat lebron. And even then, I'm going 7 games.

05-09-2016 , 10:23 AM

#14981

AcTiOnJaCsOn

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05-09-2016 , 10:47 AM

#14982

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05-09-2016 , 11:13 AM

#14983

patron

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Originally Posted by Green Kool Aid

Is it true that all else being equal, the team with home court has a better chance to win the series at 2-2 then at 0-0?

Is it true that all else being equal, the team with home court has a better chance to win the series at 3-3 then at 0-0?

05-09-2016 , 11:17 AM

#14984

Caldarooni

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There is nothing about the current west playoff teams to indicate they would "crush" the cavs

05-09-2016 , 11:58 AM

#14985

ClarkNasty

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Raps only +/-180 to win the series. All this Cavs talk is premature

05-09-2016 , 12:14 PM

#14986

tarheeljks

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Originally Posted by Kowabunghole

these things cycle. like capris. and ass play. you're probably too young too realize that

My age belies my wisdom

05-09-2016 , 12:23 PM

#14987

Baltimore Jones

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There's no universe where Cavs are or should be favored against Curry at 60% health or higher. Not healthy Spurs either. No home court. Recency bias.

05-09-2016 , 12:41 PM

#14988

tzwien

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Healthy Warriors and Spurs win in 5 or 6 games against healthy Cavs. If Curry is on the floor and can move at all they are still better than the Cavs. Without home court they would have to play absolutely legendary to win in the finals against Spurs/Warriors.

OKC was a little better than Cavs in the regular season. Hard to tell right now since lebron is in the lolEast and the West is extremely tough.

05-09-2016 , 12:52 PM

#14989

tarheeljks

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I got the Cavs > Thunder

05-09-2016 , 01:14 PM

#14990

FlyWf

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Quote:

Originally Posted by tzwien

Healthy Warriors and Spurs win in 5 or 6 games against healthy Cavs. If Curry is on the floor and can move at all they are still better than the Cavs. Without home court they would have to play absolutely legendary to win in the finals against Spurs/Warriors.

OKC was a little better than Cavs in the regular season. Hard to tell right now since lebron is in the lolEast and the West is extremely tough.

OK for some reason a lot is saying this, probably because it was true a few years ago, but the East has been improving. The West is very top heavy, but the East had much more depth. The first round was pretty much a bye for everyone in the West once Blake and Paul got hurt. The Mavericks, Grizzlies, and Rockets were all worse than the Pistons! I don't think people gave Lebron enough credit for sweeping an unusually good 8 seed, 44 wins would be like the 6th seed or better most years in the lolEast of the past decade.

The Cavs had a better record against the West than they did against the East this year.

05-09-2016 , 01:21 PM

#14991

tarheeljks

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Not sure the pistons were better than the rockets and Mavs, think those 3 are comparable. Not a lot of reasons to think the thunder are better than the cavs regardless imo

Edit: actually, that's an overstatement but yeah

05-09-2016 , 01:24 PM

#14992

bigt2k4

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got okc as > cleveland vs other teams, but not vs each other

05-09-2016 , 01:32 PM

#14993

Seadood228

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I think we are under-rating playoff Bron and Clevelands ability to go big yet still have great shooting, I think you can all but throw out Cleveland's SRS ratings/PD from the regular season because they are a completely different, rested team right now.

05-09-2016 , 01:55 PM

#14994

Seadood228

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Originally Posted by 72off

it's literally 1 guy?

Check the series threads, it's pretty comical. I understand though.

05-09-2016 , 01:58 PM

#14995

Eltbus

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I've jagsfan.gif'd like four times at the last two pages

05-09-2016 , 02:02 PM

#14996

tarheeljks

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can't just toss 82 games of play. if you want to say the reg season is not fully indicative that's fine-- and true for plenty of teams in a variety of ways-- but there's no way the cavs previous 8 games of play demonstrates more about their ability than the preceding season as a whole. they are different in that they are bombing away from 3 more so far, but they shot a lot of 3's in the regular season. think they are really only different to the extent that they're shooting incredibly from 3, but that's obv not going to persist. 36% in the regular season, 46% so far in the playoffs

tldr; swongs, moml, etc

05-09-2016 , 02:05 PM

#14997

THAKID

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Originally Posted by tarheeljks

Thought we got our laughs about the pfs playing SF a few years back

ILBLAKA isn't exactly a typical PF
He shoots very well set shot corner 3pters and is quick on D

Too just laugh it off is obnoxious
But in this matchup with kiwi at the 3 i guess it wouldn't work

05-09-2016 , 02:13 PM

#14998

tarheeljks

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not trying to be obnoxious, just don't see how you actually think it is a good idea. shooting figures aren't transitive. if you move ibaka to sf you are alter the composition of the lineup; he won't get the same quality of looks be they corner 3's or elbow jumpers. think about how many of his jumpers come out of scenarios where he is the screener. its apples and oranges with him at sf. also, who is he going to guard? being able to switch onto someone off a screen is totally different than checking them primarily on the perimeter. it's not just bad b/c kiwi is the opposing 3

05-09-2016 , 02:59 PM

#14999

JayTeeMe

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zomg Joeger. I like him. Can't believe he's going from Pera to Vivek/Boogie and only getting like $4M/yr. That job is a career destroyer.

05-09-2016 , 03:06 PM

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Tien

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Spurs at this moment in time don't have the edge against Cavs.

Tim Duncan is finished. It's parker / Kawhi / Lamarcus vs LeBron and an army of 3 point shooters, Kyrie and Love are also in great rhythm. If you throw the regular season out the window and take the relevant sample size which is the playoffs, the Spurs haven't shown me enough to believe they'd kill the cavs.

A healthy Curry is the only team that can expose and punish the Kyrie / Love pick and roll weakness. We will see if Curry is healthy enough to beat Spurs in 7 games.

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