Lol this is so good

honestly i believe draymond about intent because no one would be so blatant about kicking somebody in the nuts

but he still kicked someone in the ****ing nuts and should be suspended

Dallas losing as the 1 seed had to be a big upset

yeah Dallas losing as the 1 was probably biggest.

When Knicks lost as the 1 to Miami, it was known that was going to be a competitive series and NY just had issues because of the lockout season/injuries.

When Memphis beat SA in rd 1 as the 8 vs 1, that line wasn't that big either really I don't think.

....nothing is efficient, basically. I dont really see why that matters. Its the best guess there is.

Knicks were never the 1 seed

re: the westbrook rebound -- that was amazing. the hops and air-time rwb got from standstill...

and there was the durant block on green and transition 3
and that waiters dunk

i think the storyline would be more fun if we saw GSW play Cleveland and Lebron finally wins one for #theland with KLove but i've been an OKC fan all year and it's especially hard not to cheer for them now.

the fact that waiters has found a positive role on the team and curbed his ego... dark skinned and all... is lovely

Golden State >>>> Denver > Memphis imo. Memphis was a decent team in a brutal conference. Denvers was cool because they came back down from 0-2. The crazy thing was that the very next series Denver went down 0-3 and forced a game 7 against Utah. I was too young and green to understand the significance, but it would be sick to witness a series like that now with the way the media hyper-evaluates everything.

Whoops, I meant when Knicks beat Miami, in the '99 lockout year.

Also you had the Mourning/LJ suspensions which wasn't an even trade-off. So that is another reason it wasn't considered much of an upset.

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That would fall under the category of "accident".

Was also best of 5 which ups the variance. Right?

Allan houstooooon

You get the point. There are three ways you can hit a guy in the nuts in the basketball. You can hit him intentionally (100% your fault). You can hit him inadvertently while making a normal, non reckless basketball play (100% not your fault, like the first time Draymond kneed Adams in the nuts). Or you can hit someone in the nuts by playing recklessly. This latest incident seems to fall into the third category imo.

Yeah, I was wrong about LJ/Zo tho. They didn't get suspended like I thought they did.

That was the shining moment for the Ewing Theory

My take on the Green kick:

If it was anyone else, the benefit of the doubt would be given, but it's Green.

That kicking motion isn't exactly natural as the foul happens.

If Jones(cavs) gets suspended for his arm flail, why not Wenvil for his nut shot?

Think there's something to be said about GSW not responding psychologically and emotionally well to this. Yesterday their game just seemed off in every aspect, they were getting beat in transition, the rim protection was bad, ball movement was poor.

When you think that 2 years ago they were losing in the 1st round of the playoffs and last year they never played a team with 2 good players in it now all of a sudden they are facing adversity with two elite players kicking your ass at will, a supporting cast playing great (Ibaka, Waiters), the atmosphere in the building was amazing yesterday too btw, the intensity and all that. At some point OKC went on a run, there was the Draymond incident and they just seemed really shook and could never recover from this while Thunder had full confidence. Basically the perfect night for OKC really and if you're like the Bulls who have won 5 titles already you'll have a lot of these situations and have a lot more experience as to how to react and stay composed but this team as historically as it is is still a fairly new thing for them. Especially with all the added pressure of being the goat team etc...
Really seems like yesterday was a case of "momentum" for the thunder even though those intangibles are not easy to justify and quantify at all times.

They're still more talented and the better team, luckily for them there are potentially 4 games remaining and next game everything is basically reset, unless things go all wrong again I think there's a good chance they just bounce back, play their basketball and show over the next couple games that they're still the best team, can only get better really

The dray truthers are a hilarious lot. The duncd on pod douches were especially laughable.

Plenty of guys kick a leg out for balance purposes and sometimes for drawing contact purposes . Not a lot accelerate a leg when theyre already descending from the apex of the jump while looking at the opponent's crotch. That Adams has ruined dray all series and is clearly in his head is obvious as well.

@haralabob
Line steamed towards OKC about 40 mins ago. So would tend to think he gets suspended.

Those dudes love the warriors so makes sense

Situation or super star status should never matter , even if it is Game7 Finals and its Lebron who did that he has to go,who the hell cares if series is decided by that.

Adrian Wojnarowski

The NBA will not suspend Golden State's Draymond Green for Game 4, league sources tell @TheVertical.

The line movement will be interesting.

Flagrant 2 most likely which is what it should be.

Let the him play.

Here come the haters

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