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Which one will happen first
This poll is closed.
The Warriors drop a game 5 11.36%
Klay scores more than 15 points in a game 17 38.64%
Lebron admits his own mortality 7 15.91%
The Lakers draft Ball 15 34.09%
Total: 44 votes
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Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

DeimosRising posted:

He saved us from like 5 straight Spurs championships and somehow the alternative was actually worse?

We live in a crazy world
Rick Fox was going to be on tv all the time either way

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Brolander
Oct 20, 2008

i am but a vessel

Cool Buff Man posted:

Please everyone stop being so loving wrong all of the time

i am not and am never wrong unless i say so

EvanTH
Apr 24, 2004

i like to express my inner pain by being really boring on the phone
or just when i'm kickin it
that's me though
i'm kind of oddddddd

A Buff Gay Dude posted:

I guess the point you're missing is that to me there's no difference between a borderline EC playoff team and a 5 seed WC playoff team.

So you're saying the thing that we're missing is that to you [the factual opposite of a thing that is true] is true ?

Pozload Escobar
Aug 21, 2016

by Reene
well duh one is better in a h2h but both have the exact same chance of making the finals (none) and both are gonna get stomped and get a free bad draft pick in return

Ghost Dog
Aug 17, 2016

well also theres no way in hell the cavs were a borderline playoff team. by ws/48 the actual 8th seed had 5 better players than the cavs best, the 7th seed had 6 better players and the 6th seed had 7 better players. the actual fringe playoff teams had entire lineups better than the cavs whole roster. how one can see this and think that means the cavs were a playoff team is....mysterious

Pozload Escobar
Aug 21, 2016

by Reene

Ghost Dog posted:

well also theres no way in hell the cavs were a borderline playoff team. by ws/48 the actual 8th seed had 5 better players than the cavs best, the 7th seed had 6 better players and the 6th seed had 7 better players. the actual fringe playoff teams had entire lineups better than the cavs whole roster. how one can see this and think that means the cavs were a playoff team is....mysterious

*checks advanced stats* It's almost as if they decided to throw the season about a month in, very strange

Ghost Dog
Aug 17, 2016

A Buff Gay Dude posted:

*checks advanced stats* It's almost as if they decided to throw the season about a month in, very strange

i mean, no thats not what that means but even if it did, what can i use besides your eye test if their record doesnt count and the quality of their players doesnt count?



also how much do you want to bet if i look at the split stats theres 0 difference after a month

Ghost Dog
Aug 17, 2016

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/CLE/2011/splits/

heres the split stats. unfortunately no advanced stats but we can see they won most of their games past the 1st month despite apparently starting to tank then. they also never in any month scored more points than they gave up. kinda odd for a Surefire Playoff Team. wheres this huge falloff from when they decided to start tanking?



i feel like i should stop now but it takes about 10 seconds to prove every stupid thing you say wrong so oh well. whats the next excuse for why they were really a secret playoff team. the actual playoff teams had entire units better than their roster, they were 18 wins off of being the 8th seed and from a cursory glance theres no difference in their play after a month, if anything they were better at the end of the season so the tanking theorys shot.

Pozload Escobar
Aug 21, 2016

by Reene

Ghost Dog posted:

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/CLE/2011/splits/

heres the split stats. unfortunately no advanced stats but we can see they won most of their games past the 1st month despite apparently starting to tank then. they also never in any month scored more points than they gave up. kinda odd for a Surefire Playoff Team. wheres this huge falloff from when they decided to start tanking?



i feel like i should stop now but it takes about 10 seconds to prove every stupid thing you say wrong so oh well. whats the next excuse for why they were really a secret playoff team. the actual playoff teams had entire units better than their roster, they were 18 wins off of being the 8th seed and from a cursory glance theres no difference in their play after a month, if anything they were better at the end of the season so the tanking theorys shot.

tanking teams never have an uptick towards the end of the year when the scrubs are playing for jobs/contracts

Ghost Dog
Aug 17, 2016

A Buff Gay Dude posted:

tanking teams never have an uptick towards the end of the year when the scrubs are playing for jobs/contracts

so the next excuse is to double down on being wrong about tanking? when did they tank?? wheres the downtick in performance? they had a losing record every month. their one "good" month they were outscored by over 5 points a game. they never had a good month to tank from. please come back to reality

Mr. Mambold
Feb 13, 2011

Aha. Nice post.



Dejan Bimble posted:

Shaq is just a terrible person all around
He tried to frame a guy for possession of child pornography and yet he's on tv twice a week mumbling about basketball. He should be cooked and fed to feral dogs

Dejan, what did feral dogs ever do to you?

A Buff Gay Dude posted:

The thunder having had KD, Harden, Russ and Ibaka and now having just Russ is extremely funny to me

It's Dickensian. It's not funny. Idiot.

Pozload Escobar
Aug 21, 2016

by Reene
No it's actually insanely funny to me

EvanTH
Apr 24, 2004

i like to express my inner pain by being really boring on the phone
or just when i'm kickin it
that's me though
i'm kind of oddddddd

A Buff Gay Dude posted:

well duh one is better in a h2h but both have the exact same chance of making the finals (none) and both are gonna get stomped and get a free bad draft pick in return

I meant you had the analogy wrong and most people agree that a 5th seed in the EC is roughly on par with an 8th seed in the West

Pozload Escobar
Aug 21, 2016

by Reene

EvanTH posted:

I meant you had the analogy wrong and most people agree that a 5th seed in the EC is roughly on par with an 8th seed in the West

Totally agree

But the middle is no place to be in today's NbA

Mr. Mambold
Feb 13, 2011

Aha. Nice post.



A Buff Gay Dude posted:

No it's actually insanely funny to me


Well, Dickens wasn't all that much for funny. The team deaths by traffic last year were pretty tragic. Maybe Shakespearean was what I was aiming for. The Russ story alone is the stuff of lore and is ongoing.

predicto
Jul 22, 2004

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON
All I can say is I'm glad all of this lame rear end back and forth shitposting is happening in a dead GDT where no one has to read it, rather than clogging up the lovely and much more significant G/V thread.

whew!

predicto
Jul 22, 2004

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Mr. Mambold posted:

Well, Dickens wasn't all that much for funny. The team deaths by traffic last year were pretty tragic. Maybe Shakespearean was what I was aiming for. The Russ story alone is the stuff of lore and is ongoing.

Russ is a tragic figure indeed. An otherwise perfect being, destroyed by the hamartia of ball-hoggery.

dont be mean to me
May 2, 2007

I'm interplanetary, bitch
Let's go to Mars


predicto posted:

All I can say is I'm glad all of this lame rear end back and forth shitposting is happening in a dead GDT where no one has to read it, rather than clogging up the lovely and much more significant G/V thread.

whew!

And yet you walked in.

predicto
Jul 22, 2004

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

dont be mean to me posted:

And yet you walked in.

I have no life

i'm ashamed

Brolander
Oct 20, 2008

i am but a vessel
its still happening lol

GAME DAY

Ghost Dog
Aug 17, 2016

predicto posted:

All I can say is I'm glad all of this lame rear end back and forth shitposting is happening in a dead GDT where no one has to read it, rather than clogging up the lovely and much more significant G/V thread.

whew!

the cycle is eternal

Mr. F!
Sep 21, 2016

I hope the cavs win game 3.

I'll send my energy to lebron so he doesn't get tired.

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

Mr. Mambold posted:

Dejan, what did feral dogs ever do to you?


It's Dickensian. It's not funny. Idiot.

A stray dog stole my toy spear for one

EvanTH
Apr 24, 2004

i like to express my inner pain by being really boring on the phone
or just when i'm kickin it
that's me though
i'm kind of oddddddd
we named dogs FIDO not because they are Freaks, Irregulars, Defects and Oddities, but because we expect fidus from them, fidelity as their constant trait. A feral dog possesses no loyalty and I cannot respect a creature who is not faithful to his family.

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Ammanas
Jul 17, 2005

Voltes V: "Laser swooooooooord!"

Mr. F! posted:

I hope the cavs win game 3.

I'll send my energy to lebron so he doesn't get tired.

He has no shortage of energy, only a shortage of Will. If LeBron chose to, he could score 80 points. He simply doesn't see it

Plus 80pts + 10 from Kyrie and 10 from Love doesn't match against GSW's 120 lmao

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