What’s their defense like with out Bogut?
Dude is made from glass and will not be healthy for the full playoff run.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
What’s their defense like with out Bogut?
Dude is made from glass and will not be healthy for the full playoff run. [/quote]
Well, since he IS healthy I’m only concerned with what IS, not what may be. Besides, Festus Ezeli is capable of stepping in for him in the event of an injury. The guy missed about a year and a half due to injuries, but he’s a legitimate 7-footer with legitimate defensive skills. He won’t score shit, and he isn’t the passer out of the high post that Bogut is, but the Warriors have the best offense in the league with a black hole for an offensive threat at the center position, so replacing Bogut with Ezeli wouldn’t be the death blow many outsiders think it would be.
It certainly wouldn’t help their chances if Bogut were injured, though. He’s still light years in front of Ezeli.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
I dont care much about making a bet, but the warriors are a jump shooting team as the ole adage goes “live by the jump shot, die by the jump shot”
GS just has not gotten cold all season, but it makes me wonder how those young nerves will do with the bright lights in the playoffs.
It’s also really hard to pick against the spurs in the west.
Cavs for sure in the finals, it’s too hard to pick who gets out of the west. [/quote]
Actually, they did go cold for a while. Heading into the All-Star break they were struggling a bit. But they still went 7-3 in their last 10 games going into the break. And they came out of the month of February, in which they played a grand total of two games at home, with two losses.
They’re the type of team that struggles and wins by 3 and then plays well and wins by 15.
GS is clearly the favorite out west, however i still think the spurs and grizz will make the series interesting.
For the sake of entertaining basketball, we all need a healthy Bogut for the playoffs.
Still, I won’t be surprised if GS falls short of the Finals. (ie. that whole gotta-pay-your-dues-in-the-playoffs thing again)
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Warriors or the rest of the field? I’m taking my Warriors over everyone.
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DB, I’m sure I speak for most when I say the NFL thread would genuinely appreciate a “state of the Niners” post from you.
[quote]chillain wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Warriors or the rest of the field? I’m taking my Warriors over everyone.
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DB, I’m sure I speak for most when I say the NFL thread would genuinely appreciate a “state of the Niners” post from you.
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The NFL is a fucking joke that I refuse to give my money to anymore. It’s a league that places the dollar bill above all else, and it got ugly this year. The way the Ray Rice thing was handled was a disastrous embarrassment from start to finish. They talk about player safety out of one corner and then they turn around and talk about 18-game schedules and adding a playoff round and moving a team to fucking London of all places.
And let’s not kid ourselves here. The product on the field is a joke as well. The league keeps putting a bunch of fucking RETARDS out on the field and call them referees, the rules are completely vague and overly oppressive, it takes a goddamned Supreme Court justice to interpret half of them, and a large part of this is because the NFL is too cheap to put actual, professional, full-time refs on the field.
The Niners’ stadium is a fucking joke, and it’s the same with every other new stadium. A billion-dollar palace built by the taxpayers so that the billionaires can charge an arm and fucking leg to watch a shit product on the field. Every other play is a penalty. Taking into account the odds of a penalty being called is a legitimate in-game strategic ploy. That’s not sports, that’s a joke.
But the biggest thing for me is the domestic violence issue. Let’s face it. The NFL is filled with thugs who would openly rally behind a guy like Ray Rice or Ray McDonald. Why? Because half of them do the same shit. I refuse to continue to watch and spend money on a product whose owners only react to the vicious beating of women and endangering of children’s lives when the public outcry threatens to harm the bottom line. You vote with your dollars and I just voted.
You guys can all sit there in that pathetic fucking thread and bitch and moan about your pathetic fucking teams and all that. Not me, not anymore. The NFL isn’t such a good product anymore that I can willingly set aside basic principles that I abide by in order to get a little entertainment on Sundays.
And people can say it’s sour grapes all they want, given how pathetic the Niners are. But I was off the bandwagon in September, before they started sucking cock. Ray McDonald’s neighbors are students of mine, and when they asked me why all these police cars were bothering the guy they were so excited to live next door to, I fucking dropped that team and that league right then and there. Seeing the second Ray Rice video solidified it for me. The Aaron Hernandez trial and the videos of women in Ray Rice jerseys supporting him at their home games really drove it home. What are they doing? They’re placing their team’s success above their own basic principles?
It’s a product that is getting more and more expensive to enjoy each year, and the quality of it is getting worse and worse each year.
I watch sports on television (hour delay to skip commercials), but ill only go to baseball games anymore.
Going to an nba game is like going to the circus and there happens to be a basketball game. I’m paying money to watch basketball because i love the sport. Im not there to catch a free tshirt and dance on the giant tv. They have alienated basketball fans in pursuit of the casual viewer who just wants a night on the town, which is fine, but unless the tickets are free you can count me out. Which should also be said unless you spend $100+ for close seats, you cant see shit anyways and are better off at home.
The “in-game experience” is code for bullshit to keep children and women happy.
DB covered the nfl just fine, but i do find myself spending more time skipping commercials than i do watching them play.
[quote]Aggv wrote:
DB covered the nfl just fine [/quote]
Indeed
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
No idea if this is true, but there’s a long standing rumor that Kidd and Jackson had a fight over Toni Braxton and Kidd demanded a trade. No shit.[/quote]
[quote]chillain wrote:
[quote]Aggv wrote:
DB covered the nfl just fine [/quote]
Indeed
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By the way, if I came across as personally insulting, that was not my intention.
The whole thing is really disappointing to me because my (formerly) favorite team is perhaps more guilty of the things I ranted about than any other team.
People have called me a hypocrite because my favorite musician is James Brown, who had a history of domestic violence in his later years. The thing is, while I enjoy his music, I don’t ROOT for him. But when it comes to sports, you are literally rooting for the players on your favorite team to do well in life, to do well at their job. You are pulling for the person himself, not just enjoying a product that he has produced. I cannot root FOR people of Ray McDonald’s ilk anymore. I won’t do it.
And the Niners really are the worst example of it. Jed Fucking York is a joke. He repeatedly references his time growing up in the organization and the fact that his uncle is Eddie D. as part of his qualifications for running the team. Apparently, the guy is a fan of hereditary monarchies. I am not.
And on top of all that, every single owner is fucking liar who thinks us fans will show up to watch the game no matter what bullshit they try to shove down our throats. Jed York talks about winning with class, and then he turns around and Baalke has signed Jerome Simpson to a deal. Unfuckingbelievable. That right there tells you what NFL owners think of their fans. They think we’re all a bunch of fucking lemmings who will keep showing up to the games no matter what. They treat us fans like fucking drug addicts. I’m done with the whole thing.
I catch myself tuning into some news about the team from time to time, but that’s about it. The NFL is impossible to avoid entirely, but I’m trying. I just worry what will happen to my convictions if the Niners start out the season 6-0. You can tell all the guys in the NFL thread that I’m basically rooting for whatever team is up against the Niners from week to week, if I’m rooting for anything at all.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
By the way, if I came across as personally insulting, that was not my intention.
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No way DB, not at all.
You covered the topic… and then some… in your uniquely particular way.
knicks 2014-2015 season
So lets hear your predictions for the NBA playoffs:
West
GSW vs NOP
POR vs MEM
LAC vs SAS
HOU vs DAL
East
ATL vs BKN
TOR vs WAS
CHI vs MIL
CLE vs BOS
Personally I think the MEM vs POR series willl be the best series to watch in the first round
That was fantastic.
I would love to know what was going through JR smiths head when he knocked that guy out, see him in a few games.
See ya Klove
dear random bench guy, step up and hit corner 3’s, play shit defense, and we’ll never know Klove is gone.
enjoy the lakers next year klove, and please hope Wiggens career is nothing special.
Shitty playoffs so far. Assuming no major injuries winner of LAC v SAS will go to the finals and in the east I really can’t see anyone other than Atlanta or Chicago going through.
Clips and Spurs have been the best two teams of the last 20 regular season games and it is a tragedy this series is not a west finals match-up.
[quote]Teledin wrote:
Shitty playoffs so far. Assuming no major injuries winner of LAC v SAS will go to the finals and in the east I really can’t see anyone other than Atlanta or Chicago going through.
Clips and Spurs have been the best two teams of the last 20 regular season games and it is a tragedy this series is not a west finals match-up.[/quote]
Warriors put it in the tank to finish the season, they’re still the safe pick to win the West. Also Houston looked fine in the Dallas series; Howard played good ball, JSmoove actually looked like a decent player for stretches and not the LVP of the league, etc. The Rockets could definitely win that series vs whichever team it is they end up playing(probably a much better chance for them if it’s LAC, Kawhi seems to handle Harden really well, just not a good matchup for them).
The East looks like a clown show now that Love is hurt. Cavs could still win it if I’m judging on how good ATL and CHI looked beating mediocre squads(remember Boston was actually like 23-11 to finish out the season, Cavs got no favors with that 7 seed matchup).
That sweep by GS proved to me that they’re legit contenders.
And by the same logic, that’s a strike against CHI. (HOU and ATL were never in the conversation)
I also wouldn’t rule out a Finals run for WAS; that Hilario-Gortat frontline is tailor-made for playoff basketball.
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[quote]chillain wrote:
That sweep by GS proved to me that they’re legit contenders.
And by the same logic, that’s a strike against CHI. (HOU and ATL were never in the conversation)
I also wouldn’t rule out a Finals run for WAS; that Nene-Gortat frontline is tailor-made for playoff basketball.
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I was really impressed with Gortat in that series. Killed it on the offensive boards, has great footwork, clogs up the middle and makes smart decisions on offence.
Keep in mind the Raptors were basically an 8th seed calibre team in 2015. I don’t think they even played
.500 ball from Jan-April. For that reason I don’t think Washington’s sweep was impressive as people think.