2018 Playoffs Thread

[Cheesebeef]

Warriors gonna win this one by 20 plus

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

When this team decides to share the ball it is a beautiful game to watch.

 

[Mainstreet]

The Warriors starting JaVale McGee seems to be working out.

 

[Mainstreet]

The Cavaliers are passing the ball well to open the 2nd half.

 

[Hoop Head]

Really enjoy seeing Klay play. He's a lot like Booker, only a bit more fluid and composed. I hope Booker can end up being as good as Klay. If he is, we'll have a great player for the next decade or so. Wish the Warriors didn't sign Durant just to see how good Klay, Steph, and Draymond would get without him. They were likable without KD, or more likable at least.

 

[Mainstreet]

Really enjoyed seeing Klay play. He's a lot like Booker, only a bit more fluid and composed. I hope Booker can end up being as good as Klay. If he is, we'll have a great player for the next decade or so. Wish the Warriors didn't sign Durant just to see how good Klay, Steph, and Draymond would get without him. They were likable without KD, or more likable at least.

I liked how Klay got out on the fastbreak then pulls up to take a 3 point shot. It's money in the bank.

 

[devilalum]

No player in the history of the game has ever been more pleased with himself than Steph Curry.


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[Lefty]

The refs are making it so obvious they want the Warriors to win.

 

[Mainstreet]

No player in the history of the game has ever been more pleased with himself than Steph Curry.

And to Curry's credit he didn't shoot well or move well in the 1st half.

He made that one near miracle shot in the 2nd half that got him going.

 

[devilalum]

The refs are making it so obvious they want the Warriors to win.

At this point it doesn’t matter. Their work was done after game one.


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[ajcardfan]

I think 06’ was their best opportunity even without Amare but Kurt missed the entire postseason and Raja injured his calf in game 1 vs Dallas. They just had no bodies but would’ve run Miami out of the building in the finals.

Maybe you guys aren't old enough to remember but, IMHO, we had far better chances to win titles in 79 and 95. in 79, we were up 3-2 and the Sonics with a chance to close them out at home. Lose the series in 7, an injury-decimated Bullets team had almost zero chance of beating either team.

And, just as painful, in 95 was the loss in seven games to the Rockets. The Rockets romped to an easy sweep over one of the worst teams I've ever seen in the Finals, Orlando.

So, we should have had at LEAST two trophies long before Nash returned to the Suns.

 

[ajcardfan]

No player in the history of the game has ever been more pleased with himself than Steph Curry.


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If I could play like Steph Curry I would need a new home. As my head would be too big to fit through any doors in my house now.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Maybe you guys aren't old enough to remember but, IMHO, we had far better chances to win titles in 79 and 95. in 79, we were up 3-2 and the Sonics with a chance to close them out at home. Lose the series in 7, an injury-decimated Bullets team had almost zero chance of beating either team.

And, just as painful, in 95 was the loss in seven games to the Rockets. The Rockets romped to an easy sweep over one of the worst teams I've ever seen in the Finals, Orlando.

So, we should have had at LEAST two trophies long before Nash returned to the Suns.

I remember them well but there was another season that everyone tends to ignore. We'd played the best ball in the league the second half of the season, in large part, because Rex Chapman and Danny Manning finished so strongly. Danny was finally looking a little like the player we signed.

We lost Manning in the final game of the season (maybe 2nd to last?) and Chapman injured his hand. The Spurs were just too talented to face without 2 of our stronger performers that season but I think we were the best team in the league before those injuries.

Jason Kidd, Rex Chapman, Danny Manning, George McCloud, Antonio McDyess, KJ, Cliff Robinson, Mark Bryant, Hot Rod Williams, Dennis Scott and Steve Nash. What a roster.

 

[Hoop Head]

Maybe you guys aren't old enough to remember but, IMHO, we had far better chances to win titles in 79 and 95. in 79, we were up 3-2 and the Sonics with a chance to close them out at home. Lose the series in 7, an injury-decimated Bullets team had almost zero chance of beating either team.

And, just as painful, in 95 was the loss in seven games to the Rockets. The Rockets romped to an easy sweep over one of the worst teams I've ever seen in the Finals, Orlando.

So, we should have had at LEAST two trophies long before Nash returned to the Suns.

Wasn't born for the title in 79 but I remember the 94 and 95 playoffs quite well. They do sort of bleed together since both resulted in losses to the Rockets but we should have been able to get past them one of those years. Both years we took a 2-0 lead after sweeping past our opponents in the first round only to collapse against the Rockets. I know we would have faced the Knicks in 94 but I liked our odds against the Rockets better than year. They didn't have Clyde yet and the Suns were still driven from coming up short to the Bulls the year before. Shame we didn't get a title during the Barkley years. I wish we did for a few reasons and one of them is so I wouldn't have to hear Shaq try to shut Barkley up on Inside the NBA because he never won a title. Barkley has a better mind for the game than Shaq but whenever Shaq and him argue about something Shaq reverts to "You didn't win a title, shut up" and it's so annoying.

 

[Hoop Head]

I can't believe the fans in the Oracle chanted MVP at JR Smith when he was at the foul line, that's rough. He's not going to live down the end of game 1 for a while. I can't recall an opposing player getting taunted like that during an NBA game in quite some time.

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[LoyaltyisaCurse]

Curry enjoys the game and is a pleasure to watch. He is a good guy to boot.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

I can't believe the fans in the Oracle chanted MVP at JR Smith when he was at the foul line, that's rough. He's not going to live down the end of game 1 for a while. I can't recall an opposing player getting taunted like that during an NBA game in quite some time.

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Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!!!

 

[Cheesebeef]

I remember them well but there was another season that everyone tends to ignore. We'd played the best ball in the league the second half of the season, in large part, because Rex Chapman and Danny Manning finished so strongly. Danny was finally looking a little like the player we signed.

We lost Manning in the final game of the season (maybe 2nd to last?) and Chapman injured his hand. The Spurs were just too talented to face without 2 of our stronger performers that season but I think we were the best team in the league before those injuries.

Jason Kidd, Rex Chapman, Danny Manning, George McCloud, Antonio McDyess, KJ, Cliff Robinson, Mark Bryant, Hot Rod Williams, Dennis Scott and Steve Nash. What a roster.

that was a very good team, but they weren't beating the 2nd 3 peat Bulls.

Our biggest missed opportunity was 1995... without a doubt. Chuck was still at the top of his game, we had 3 point shooters galore with Majerle, Ainge and Person, KJ was great when healthy, had a very good back-up with EP, and Manning WAS the Manning we signed until Joe Freaking Klein blew his knee out in practice. That team was an offensive juggernaut, everyone in their prime or end of their prime, on pace for 64 wins past the halfway mark when Manning went down.

And even still... they went up 3-1 against the Rockets, wiping the floor with them in 3 of the 4 games and had them DEAD TO RIGHTS in Game 5 when they were up 3 with ten seconds to go and all Chuck needed to do was make ONE FT and missed both. Kenny Smith nailed a 3 to send it to OT, and we lost the game and I remember VIVIDLY going to Sky Harbor that night to fly out to help Ouchie pack up his house in D.C. and just KNEW we were screwed, even though we were still up 3-2. Just KNEW we were screwed. Then, Barkley came out like a man possessed in Game 6, running and dunking on everyone, on the way to like 27 first half points and an 8 point half-time lead, but then fell on someone's foot in the third quarter and tweaked his knee and was never the same.

He and the team lumbered through the rest of a Game 6 loss and then he was just COOKED in Game 7 where KJ practically won the sucker on his own, scoring over 40 points, while being something like 18/18 from the FT until the final seconds when we were down 1 and he got fouled and hit 1/2. The Rockets got the ball... we TRAPPED FOR SOME UNGODLY REASON... the ball got swung around and landed with a wide-open Elie for 3 and then came the kiss of death.

That was our best shot... at first with Manning... then we struggled without him for the rest of the season only to start kicking major ass in the playoffs... until Barkley got injured in Game 6 against the Rox in the sequel to our first nightmarish choke job in 1994.

 

[Raindog]

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!!!

"Soupy" Smith has to be the hands down stupidest player to set foot in the modern NBA. I don't think anyone in the league, including his own teammates, liked him EVEN before the Game One screw up. I have to imagine that he is likely done in Cleveland, and quite possibly the league at large.

 

[Phrazbit]

that was a very good team, but they weren't beating the 2nd 3 peat Bulls.

Our biggest missed opportunity was 1995... without a doubt. Chuck was still at the top of his game, we had 3 point shooters galore with Majerle, Ainge and Person, KJ was great when healthy, had a very good back-up with EP, and Manning WAS the Manning we signed until Joe Freaking Klein blew his knee out in practice. That team was an offensive juggernaut, everyone in their prime or end of their prime, on pace for 64 wins past the halfway mark when Manning went down.

And even still... they went up 3-1 against the Rockets, wiping the floor with them in 3 of the 4 games and had them DEAD TO RIGHTS in Game 5 when they were up 3 with ten seconds to go and all Chuck needed to do was make ONE FT and missed both. Kenny Smith nailed a 3 to send it to OT, and we lost the game and I remember VIVIDLY going to Sky Harbor that night to fly out to help Ouchie pack up his house in D.C. and just KNEW we were screwed, even though we were still up 3-2. Just KNEW we were screwed. Then, Barkley came out like a man possessed in Game 6, running and dunking on everyone, on the way to like 27 first half points and an 8 point half-time lead, but then fell on someone's foot in the third quarter and tweaked his knee and was never the same.

He and the team lumbered through the rest of a Game 6 loss and then he was just COOKED in Game 7 where KJ practically won the sucker on his own, scoring over 40 points, while being something like 18/18 from the FT until the final seconds when we were down 1 and he got fouled and hit 1/2. The Rockets got the ball... we TRAPPED FOR SOME UNGODLY REASON... the ball got swung around and landed with a wide-open Elie for 3 and then came the kiss of death.

That was our best shot... at first with Manning... then we struggled without him for the rest of the season only to start kicking major ass in the playoffs... until Barkley got injured in Game 6 against the Rox in the sequel to our first nightmarish choke job in 1994.

One post and years of therapy out the window... thanks cheese.

I don't get in the fetal position quite as well as I did at 13, but I'll try.

 

[GatorAZ]

Maybe you guys aren't old enough to remember but, IMHO, we had far better chances to win titles in 79 and 95. in 79, we were up 3-2 and the Sonics with a chance to close them out at home. Lose the series in 7, an injury-decimated Bullets team had almost zero chance of beating either team.

And, just as painful, in 95 was the loss in seven games to the Rockets. The Rockets romped to an easy sweep over one of the worst teams I've ever seen in the Finals, Orlando.

So, we should have had at LEAST two trophies long before Nash returned to the Suns.

I was just talking about the Nash era but yeah 1995 was absolutely the best chance. Somehow that team won 59 games with a combined 50 missed games by KJ/Barkey due to injury and another 36 by Manning who averaged 18 ppg that year.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Curry enjoys the game and is a pleasure to watch. He is a good guy to boot.

One post and years of therapy out the window... thanks cheese.

I don't get in the fetal position quite as well as I did at 13, but I'll try.

someone else needs to feel my pain.

 

[Phrazbit]

someone else needs to feel my pain.

I remember being a kid and just knowing that 95 team was going to win it all and after the loss I didn't cry... but it literally was one of those things that jades you in the formative years.

When Barkley got traded for several of the villains from that series my disgust was immeasurable. I haaaaaated Elie, Horry and Cassel. Horry was, at the time the least hateable of the group... but oh boy did he do his best to alter that.

 

[AzStevenCal]

that was a very good team, but they weren't beating the 2nd 3 peat Bulls.

Our biggest missed opportunity was 1995... without a doubt. Chuck was still at the top of his game, we had 3 point shooters galore with Majerle, Ainge and Person, KJ was great when healthy, had a very good back-up with EP, and Manning WAS the Manning we signed until Joe Freaking Klein blew his knee out in practice. That team was an offensive juggernaut, everyone in their prime or end of their prime, on pace for 64 wins past the halfway mark when Manning went down.

And even still... they went up 3-1 against the Rockets, wiping the floor with them in 3 of the 4 games and had them DEAD TO RIGHTS in Game 5 when they were up 3 with ten seconds to go and all Chuck needed to do was make ONE FT and missed both. Kenny Smith nailed a 3 to send it to OT, and we lost the game and I remember VIVIDLY going to Sky Harbor that night to fly out to help Ouchie pack up his house in D.C. and just KNEW we were screwed, even though we were still up 3-2. Just KNEW we were screwed. Then, Barkley came out like a man possessed in Game 6, running and dunking on everyone, on the way to like 27 first half points and an 8 point half-time lead, but then fell on someone's foot in the third quarter and tweaked his knee and was never the same.

He and the team lumbered through the rest of a Game 6 loss and then he was just COOKED in Game 7 where KJ practically won the sucker on his own, scoring over 40 points, while being something like 18/18 from the FT until the final seconds when we were down 1 and he got fouled and hit 1/2. The Rockets got the ball... we TRAPPED FOR SOME UNGODLY REASON... the ball got swung around and landed with a wide-open Elie for 3 and then came the kiss of death.

That was our best shot... at first with Manning... then we struggled without him for the rest of the season only to start kicking major ass in the playoffs... until Barkley got injured in Game 6 against the Rox in the sequel to our first nightmarish choke job in 1994.

Sure but that's one of the years that always gets mentioned. The year I pointed to gets lost in the conversation. And I'm not so sure we couldn't have taken that Chicago team, they were not the same dominant team they had been although they were still a 60+ win team.

We split the season series that year with the Bulls but both games came early and we didn't hit our stride till after the All Star break. We closed out the season on a 10 game winning streak and played something like .650 ball the second half of the season.

Whether we'd have won or not, I'd sure love to have that roster in it's prime in today's game. We were loaded with 3 point shooters and forwards that could guard up and down.

 

[GatorAZ]

Jason Kidd, Rex Chapman, Danny Manning, George McCloud, Antonio McDyess, KJ, Cliff Robinson, Mark Bryant, Hot Rod Williams, Dennis Scott and Steve Nash. What a roster.

Damn... BC knew what he was doing...

Imagine him winning a title for pops...