Official: NBA Finals Thread
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Colin said no.
I'm just keeping up with it on my phone. There is no villain to me so that makes it harder to care who wins and loses.
These are 2 very good teams playing high level basketball.
I’m pulling for OKC but I wouldn’t be mad if Indiana won.
Easy to root for both of these teams.
Both play hard. Both are well coached. Indiana probably a little better coached?
No villain on either team to root against.
I’m pulling for OKC but I wouldn’t be mad if Indiana won.
Easy to root for both of these teams.
Both play hard. Both are well coached. Indiana probably a little better coached?
No villain on either team to root against.
I'm watching. I turned Game 2 off at halftime. I knew the Pacers were cooked. Looked like a completely different team. Something was way off. But OKC looked like a different team too. Pacers are back to their normal selves tonight.
It's possible. Obviously not near MJ level in general, but I get your point. He may do it if OKC goes on the run that many think they will. Big difference between MJ then and SGA now is that back then people actually cared where you played college at. There was a history. Nobody cares about that stuff anymore. Especially when a guy was only on campus for like six months. It would take a super special three year guy to see something like that again.
Two more, Pacers. Friday's crowd is gonna be nuts. Gotta bring it and protect home court and take control.
Not a boomer but I just think it mucks up the game. Younger kids emulate the NBA players they look up to. We’ve got elementary kids complaining at refs because they took a gather step and then two more and were called for a foul. In every other sport, rules are pretty uniform from the lowest levels to the pros. Why shouldn’t the NBA be officiated that way? JMO though.
Okc gave that away and the pacers played as well as possible. Going to be interesting to see if the pacers can keep this pace.
Quite the contrast on the mic between hali and sga. Hali mostly a hype man. Sga very clinical and intelligent.
Quite the contrast on the mic between hali and sga. Hali mostly a hype man. Sga very clinical and intelligent.
They've been saying that about the Pacers every series.
But doesn't loosening up the freedom of movement do the opposite of mucking it up? I dont know, I dont see how its making the game worse, and its been called this way for far longer than just the last few years like some thing. We've been hearing the "that was a travel in my day!" since like 2002.
And, to the point of other sports, a lot of them have changed rules or the way they were enforced, to allow for more offense. We've seen it in the NFL. Protect the QB, protect the receiver, no more hip drop tackles, etc. Now, some of that is for safety.. but I think similar to the NBA allowing a little more freedom of movement, the NFL is doing this to create more offense.
How did OKC give the game away?
Amazing that the Pacers were in the ECF last year, in the Finals right now, and some people still think they're a Cinderella and won't give them a shred of respect. Weird. I don't know what more they need to do for some to admit they're actually a pretty damn good team.
"If the Pacers can keep up this pace"? You serious, Clark?
As far as mucking it up, I think it makes calls a lot more subjective. It allows more foul baiting. The defense gets put at a disadvantage. We always hear they don’t play defense but they’re absolutely trying to. It’s impossible to when a guy picks up his dribble takes two steps back and pump fakes as you close out to draw a foul after you played him perfectly up to that point. I’m not downing the NBA though. I enjoy it.
Following the Denver series to a t at this point. OKC buzzer beating loss, OKC beatdown, OKC loss by 9.
Denver lost that series because of game 4. They were at home, OKC shot 10-41 from 3, it was a game they had to win and didn’t.
Indy has a real shot now due to stealing game 1. Game 4 is probably a 50% type swing in win probability of the series.
I mean this with love and someone that is rooting for OKC to win the series due to the UK guys…but 21 year old Cason Wallace is just not NBA Finals starter good at this point.
Denver lost that series because of game 4. They were at home, OKC shot 10-41 from 3, it was a game they had to win and didn’t.
Indy has a real shot now due to stealing game 1. Game 4 is probably a 50% type swing in win probability of the series.
I mean this with love and someone that is rooting for OKC to win the series due to the UK guys…but 21 year old Cason Wallace is just not NBA Finals starter good at this point.