Cavs vs Pacers

[Message Board User 12396]

12 minutes ago, d2o said:

They should have recognized they weren't hitting earlier and started getting to the basket.

Yeah 8 for 34 from 3 (and 12 for 20 from the line).  Just one of them days.

[PittsburghTiger 6209]

18 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:

Yeah, he's the only person in the league that does it. No one else. AT ALL.  

lol

I seem to have missed where someone said he was the only one. I thought since he was playing in the game for which this thread is named it seemed appropriate to mention.

[d2o 1602]

1 minute ago, PittsburghTiger said:

I seem to have missed where someone said he was the only one. I thought since he was playing in the game for which this thread is named it seemed appropriate to mention.

calling it "patented" intimates that, no?

 

[immortal13 4059]

2 minutes ago, d2o said:

calling it "patented" intimates that, no?

 

No

[Jive Turkey 12657]

Remember that trade of Paul George for Oladipo and Sabonis, where the Pacers got fleeced?

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2017/07/01/victor-oladipo-domantas-sabonis-all-indiana-got-paul-george/445305001/

Yeah, not so much. Victor is about to step up to the next level. 

[aggie08 21560]

Dipo is winning Most Improved, he's a lock for an all-defense team, and he should make 2nd team All-NBA. Not a bad year.

[Goo Punch 4275]

4 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

Remember that trade of Paul George for Oladipo and Sabonis, where the Pacers got fleeced?

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2017/07/01/victor-oladipo-domantas-sabonis-all-indiana-got-paul-george/445305001/

Yeah, not so much. Victor is about to step up to the next level. 

When keeping it real goes wrong.

[PittsburghTiger 6209]

There were games at Indiana where Oladipo was amazing. I'm not really surprised at his development.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8823]

Oladipo with 2 fouls in the first minute, and Lebrons 3-3. Pacers want to hit that reset button

[d2o 1602]

Bron with 6 pts in the first 70 secs.   Dipo with 2 fouls and 2 TOs.

[aggie08 21560]

Hard to imagine a safer bet in all of these playoffs than Cleveland winning this game.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8823]

Lebrons on pace for 528 pts

[MNLonghornFUKM 8823]

good lord. 16 in the first 5 min

[d2o 1602]

12 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Hard to imagine a safer bet in all of these playoffs than Cleveland winning this game.

bingo

[Machinator 32099]

Just turned on the game. Were the fouls on Oladipo legit?

[MNLonghornFUKM 8823]

8 minutes ago, Machinator said:

Just turned on the game. Were the fouls on Oladipo legit?

eh a 50/50 charge followed by a hand check. nothing I dont think anyone would argue in January...playoff basketball they are iffy

[Machinator 32099]

Let's see if LeBron gets more than 2 minutes of rest this half.

[Machinator 32099]

 

6 minutes ago, Machinator said:

Let's see if LeBron gets more than 2 minutes of rest this half.

4 minutes, that's an eternity for the Cavs in the playoffs.

[Francisco 2.0 32432]

....and just like that, it's a 4 point game.

 

 

[Machinator 32099]

Now 3 fouls for Oladipo. I think you risk keeping him in.

Guess Nate disagrees with me.

Edited April 18, 2018 by Machinator

[Goo Punch 4275]

Turner just pinned LeBron’s shit.

edit: or James just bricked a layup.

Edited April 19, 2018 by Goo Punch

[Goo Punch 4275]

Cleveland fans are giving LeBron’s effort a standing ovation but they are tripping with no map if they think that LeBron is going to will them to anything this year. He’s going as hard as I’ve ever seen him play and yet the rest of his team is doing nothing. Nothing.

[Machinator 32099]

Hill with... 5 fouls?!?

[Machinator 32099]

For the first time, I'm truly doubting that this team can make the Finals.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8823]

thats a flagrant? unlikely if Jordan Clarkson took the ball to the rack

[immortal13 4059]

1 hour ago, d2o said:

No way that is a flagrant

 

[Machinator 32099]

Come on Myles, you just got showed up by Korver on defense.

[Machinator 32099]

Pacers have a real chance now.

[Machinator 32099]

Whelp, it was right there.

[Dutchrudder 11154]

Yup. LBJ is not a great FT shooter though.

[immortal13 4059]

Lebron's hair is a disaster. Dude should shave it off

[Machinator 32099]

That should do it. Very promising signs for the Pacers, though.

[immortal13 4059]

And then there's Marv Albert's hair. Looks like his wig was made from the Chucky doll

[Machinator 32099]

Not that Love has been especially great this series, but if he has to miss any time, any margin of error Cleveland had is completely gone.

[d2o 1602]

1 minute ago, Machinator said:

Not that Love has been especially great this series, but if he has to miss any time, any margin of error Cleveland had is completely gone.

yep

[MNLonghornFUKM 8823]

geez lady....really gotta ask the pop question?

[Whitman 694]

2 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

geez lady....really gotta ask the pop question?

Yea, she's going to regret doing that (or whomever told her to ask it).

[immortal13 4059]

2 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

geez lady....really gotta ask the pop question?

Yeah, that was out of place. I kinda felt for Lebron having to answer that question

[Artificial Iverson 107]

9 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

geez lady....really gotta ask the pop question?

no shit. It was completely out of line to ask Lebron that just to get a reaction. What a terrible thing to do. Classless TNT. 

[Machinator 32099]

Now they're doubling down on this by showing a replay of the LeBron interview. Absolutely shameless.

[Braff Zacklin 13667]

Yeah, that interview was uncomfortable as fuck. One of the benefits of being a nobody is you don't get shit like that sprung on you. Geez.

3 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

Cleveland fans are giving LeBron’s effort a standing ovation but they are tripping with no map if they think that LeBron is going to will them to anything this year. He’s going as hard as I’ve ever seen him play and yet the rest of his team is doing nothing. Nothing.

Forty-four minutes and a triple-double Sunday, 40 minutes and almost half the team's points and rebounds tonight ... how do his teammates not feel guilty?

[aggie08 21560]

13 hours ago, Machinator said:

For the first time, I'm truly doubting that this team can make the Finals.

I said back on Shaggy that I hoped that someone other than the Cavs would make the Finals--even if I didn't think it was likely--just for variety's sake.  Then, I thought about it and walked it back.  I wanted one more year of the best player on the planet taking on a superteam, with all that talent sharing the same court.  Now, I'm back to my original instinct.

We all know exactly how a Cleveland v. GS/Houston Finals will go: Kevin Love will have a couple of nice 18 and 10 games while being picked on defensively, the Cavs defense will largely by overwhelmed, and LeBron will be brilliant and unguardable...and it won't be enough.  Probably not even close to enough.  I couldn't possibly care less right now about seeing Jordan Clarkson and Rodney Hood in the NBA Finals.

Conversely, even if a different Eastern representative will almost certainly still lose, maybe we'd get to see a 40/20 game from Embiid or an out-of-nowhere 4th quarter from Fred Van Vleet.  Just something new would be fun.

[d2o 1602]

6 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

I said back on Shaggy that I hoped that someone other than the Cavs would make the Finals--even if I didn't think it was likely--just for variety's sake.  Then, I thought about it and walked it back.  I wanted one more year of the best player on the planet taking on a superteam, with all that talent sharing the same court.  Now, I'm back to my original instinct.

We all know exactly how a Cleveland v. GS/Houston Finals will go: Kevin Love will have a couple of nice 18 and 10 games while being picked on defensively, the Cavs defense will largely by overwhelmed, and LeBron will be brilliant and unguardable...and it won't be enough.  Probably not even close to enough.  I couldn't possibly care less right now about seeing Jordan Clarkson and Rodney Hood in the NBA Finals.

Conversely, even if a different Eastern representative will almost certainly still lose, maybe we'd get to see a 40/20 game from Embiid or an out-of-nowhere 4th quarter from Fred Van Vleet.  Just something new would be fun.

Yeah, that prospect does nothing for me.

[aggie08 21560]

9 minutes ago, d2o said:

Yeah, that prospect does nothing for me.

Simmons, Embiid doing their thing on both ends, Covington D'ing fools up, and Redick/Saric/McConnell/Belinelli/pick your favorite white guy shooting 3's sounds more much appealing to me today than LBJ, Love, and...Larry Nance maybe?

 

...I admittedly had difficulty talking myself into the Toronto alternative.

[d2o 1602]

24 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Simmons, Embiid doing their thing on both ends, Covington D'ing fools up, and Redick/Saric/McConnell/Belinelli/pick your favorite white guy shooting 3's sounds more much appealing to me today than LBJ, Love, and...Larry Nance maybe?

 

...I admittedly had difficulty talking myself into the Toronto alternative.

You think all of those things would happen with GS?

[aggie08 21560]

4 minutes ago, d2o said:

You think all of those things would happen with GS?

For a series? No. For a game or 2? Who knows, maybe? Which is more than I can say for any Cav not named LeBron.

[d2o 1602]

1 minute ago, aggie08 said:

For a series? No. For a game or 2? Who knows, maybe? Which is more than I can say for any Cav not named LeBron.

Meh, I'd rather see 7 (or however many) games of Lebron

[aggie08 21560]

I think this year's Cavs would be extremely fortunate to make it 5. But, you're right, who knows with LeBron.

[Chad 1728]

LeBron's back must be sore from all that carrying last evening.

[Patrick Bateman 3933]

Cleveland coming out in game 3 with intensity..... Refs too!  Hill just gave a forearm to Turner in the lane and they called it on Myles.  What?

Refs calling it pretty close in the first minute or so.