NBA Champion - Cleveland Cavaliers 2016-2017 Season Thread

• like_that

  

  like_that;1853705 wrote:Game 2 will answer this imo. If the cavs stomp them again we should expect to close this at home.
  
  I know Boston wasn't hitting their shots early and IT looked like shit, but it's not like the cavs role players were hitting many shots either outside of Lebron inside the paint.

  I'd like to modify this. Love and TT killed it lol. They should be able to do that all series.
• friendfromlowry

  Lol at Olynyk coming back down to earth though
• Commander of Awesome

  

  My god....
  
  
• superman

  Commander of Awesome;1853713 wrote:My god....
  
  

  Looks like my kid guarding me in the driveway when he was 8.
• Ironman92

  

  superman;1853721 wrote:Looks like my kid guarding me in the driveway when he was 8.

  On an 8 ft rim
• superman

  Ironman92;1853722 wrote:On an 8 ft rim

  Close. It was 9.
• like_that

  

  superman;1853721 wrote:Looks like my kid guarding me in the driveway when he was 8.

  You can dunk?
• superman

  like_that;1853730 wrote:You can dunk?

  Getting close again. I'm 40 now so it's a slow process since my last foot surgery. As long as there are no medical setbacks, I'll dunk and bench 400 on my 41st birthday.
• Benny The Jet

  

  superman;1853737 wrote:Getting close again. I'm 40 now so it's a slow process since my last foot surgery. As long as there are no medical setbacks, I'll dunk and bench 400 on my 41st birthday.

  Good grief. How's those roids treatin ya?!?!
• superman

  Benny The Jet;1853760 wrote:Good grief. How's those roids treatin ya?!?!

  Not roids when a doctor gives them to you and calls it hrt.
• BR1986FB

  superman;1853761 wrote:Not roids when a doctor gives them to you and calls it hrt.

  Correct. It's all about quality of life.
• Sonofanump

  Had to look this up. KI 4-11, 11Pts, 6 A. But no one really cares after what Love did and TT beast mode.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Kyrie has quietly had a shitty playoffs. I think he's hurt.
• BR1986FB

  Commander of Awesome;1853797 wrote:Kyrie has quietly had a shitty playoffs. I think he's hurt.

  Not sure whether he's hurt but I agree with the first part. Hope it's not the latter because they will need him at his best against GS.
• sleeper

  

  Commander of Awesome;1853797 wrote:Kyrie has quietly had a shitty playoffs. I think he's hurt.

  I also think he is hurt. I'd sit him for the Boston series even if it means a game is lost.
  
  Boston has no answer for Lebron, TT or Love.
• like_that

  

  I don't buy that kyrie is hurt. He has had good games, especially at distributing the ball. The cavs haven't really needed him to step up with how Lebron is playing. Even then he single handedly nailed in Torontos coffin. He was also practicing and working out hard during the layoff. If it was anything serious I doubt he would have participated.
• sleeper

  

  At this point, with the way this team is playing, I don't see how you can pick anyone but the Cavs to win the title this year.
  
  The Cavs will do what they did to the Warriors last year and that's screen Lebron with Curry's man to get a 1v1 matchup with Curry and then punish. It will be easier this year because we added more shooters and the Warriors got substantially weaker in the front court. Unless the Cavs shooters go ice cold from the 3, I could easily see a NBA finals sweep 4-0.
  
  Has any team ever gone undefeated in the playoffs?
• like_that

  

  sleeper;1853803 wrote:At this point, with the way this team is playing, I don't see how you can pick anyone but the Cavs to win the title this year.
  
  The Cavs will do what they did to the Warriors last year and that's screen Lebron with Curry's man to get a 1v1 matchup with Curry and then punish. It will be easier this year because we added more shooters and the Warriors got substantially weaker in the front court. Unless the Cavs shooters go ice cold from the 3, I could easily see a NBA finals sweep 4-0.
  
  Has any team ever gone undefeated in the playoffs?

  That's not going to happen.
• BR1986FB

  like_that;1853807 wrote:That's not going to happen.

  Yeah, I don't see a sweep. I just hope my shitty dream doesn't happen.
• Sonofanump

  sleeper;1853803 wrote:At this point, with the way this team is playing, I don't see how you can pick anyone but the Cavs to win the title this year.
  
  The Cavs will do what they did to the Warriors last year and that's screen Lebron with Curry's man to get a 1v1 matchup with Curry and then punish. It will be easier this year because we added more shooters and the Warriors got substantially weaker in the front court. Unless the Cavs shooters go ice cold from the 3, I could easily see a NBA finals sweep 4-0.
  
  Has any team ever gone undefeated in the playoffs?

  This might be the most quintessential sleeper hot take ever. Thoughts?
• BR1986FB

  If the Cavs were to sweep through the playoffs, including Golden State, they would have to be in the discussion for the best team ever. 92.3 had a national guest on this morning and he was discussion Lebron's quest to be the greatest player ever vs the Warriors quest to be the best team ever....said that was the matchup in the Finals.
• like_that

  

  Sonofanump;1853817 wrote:This might be the most quintessential sleeper hot take ever. Thoughts?

  I think we all know Sleeper has become a caricature of himself at this point. No need to devote any further posts to it.
• Crimson streak

  

  Kyrie is fine. He was t in the flow of the offense at all last night. I hate to bitch about last night bc let's be real we destroyed them. But I didn't like the lebron ISO so much. I would have liked them to move the ball more. Also if I'm lue, I'm playing JR late in games in blow outs and just tell him to shoot every time down the court and try and get him going more. If we can get jr and korver hot entering the finals, it will be absolutely deadly to GS
  
  
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• like_that

  

  Predictions for tonight?
  
  Tony brothers is reffing tonight...
• friendfromlowry

  Cavs 106 Celtics 97