I am not sure anything changes for how Golden State played Cleveland last year. The difference is Kevin Love and Channing Frye are shooting from three and not Shumpert. LeBron played his heart out, but his numbers were deceptively not great in the finals last year, by his standards.

 

35.8 ppg on 39%

13.3 rpg

8.8 apg

3.5 topg

45.7 mpg

 

Those are great numbers by anyone's standards, though his fg% was not great. His other options were even less great.

35.8 ppg on 39%

13.3 rpg

8.8 apg

3.5 topg

45.7 mpg

 

Those are great numbers by anyone's standards, though his fg% was not great. His other options were even less great.

LeBron can will his way to those numbers any game he wants. It doesn't mean it was effective. I am not knocking him - I know what he had to work with - just the reality of it.

LeBron can will his way to those numbers any game he wants. It doesn't mean it was effective. I am not knocking him - I know what he had to work with - just the reality of it.

 

So, because he can do that whenever he needs to, they aren't great numbers?

So, because he can do that whenever he needs to, they aren't great numbers?

 

His shooting percentage is not good. There's no way to debate that.

 

Somebody needs to send Curry to the floor and wipe that smile off his face. Need to send the message to expect violent contact on the way to the rim.

 

 

One thing I have learned about Curry, he ain't no punk. I think people see his smile and slender stature and assume weakness. He is not that.

 

 

Agreed on both counts but as Shaq/Barkley say, someone needs to "touch him up."

35.8 ppg on 39%

13.3 rpg

8.8 apg

3.5 topg

45.7 mpg

 

Those are great numbers by anyone's standards, though his fg% was not great. His other options were even less great.

 

His FG% was down because he shot the ball way more than he is accustomed to because it was either him or JR scoring the ball. If you want to beat Cleveland make Lebron average more than 32 point per game. The more he has to shoot the better off you are.

KI isn't close to Westbrook but watching him and Curry go back and forth will be a lot of fun.

Somebody needs to send Curry to the floor and wipe that smile off his face. Need to send the message to expect violent contact on the way to the rim.

 

Why? Because he enjoys playing the game? :lol2:

Agreed on both counts but as Shaq/Barkley say, someone needs to "touch him up."

 

Unless it knocks him out of the series, this will not benefit them in anyway. Probably make it worse tbh.

^^^^He gets it. We probably won't find any common ground here so I'll just say I anticipate a deceptively great stat line this time around.

His FG% was down because he shot the ball way more than he is accustomed to because it was either him or JR scoring the ball. If you want to beat Cleveland make Lebron average more than 32 point per game. The more he has to shoot the better off you are.

Exactly. Unless the reason he is scoring that much is because he is making some threes. In that case, the Cavs are unstoppable and could even beat next year's Duke team.

Mosgov is simply not mobile enough to be on the court with a team like the Warriors. The game is evolving in such a way, that the era of the great centers may be gone. The pace of play is just too fast.

 

He did just fine last year.

Unless it knocks him out of the series, this will not benefit them in anyway. Probably make it worse tbh.

 

It might but I still embrace the #nolayup laws of the past.

Exactly. Unless the reason he is scoring that much is because he is making some threes. In that case, the Cavs are unstoppable and could even beat next year's Duke team.

 

Don't be ridiculous. The 96 Bulls can't beat next year's Duke team.

Unless it knocks him out of the series, this will not benefit them in anyway. Probably make it worse tbh.

 

And with the flagrant foul rules of these days the goon will be the one who hurts his team. I just want to see an old fashioned takedown. Like when Hansbrough was systematically destroying Duke those four years and then Gerald Henderson put his elbow in his nose. That's what I'm talking about.