The Finals: Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Golden St. Warriors Part 2

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Nah...nevermind, not gonna go there.

I'll let you think what you want to think about me. You're wrong but I ain't gonna get through to you. I just want to be able to talk basketball, that's my main purpose of frequenting this forum. The label of "reddit-lite" was simply an observation that it's becoming harder and harder to do so around here. Keep posting your memes man, just don't be a hypocrite about it.

Im about done with you and im not joking either

[ProfessaPackMan]

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New two day off rule between games when traveling. Has nothing to do with anything other than players wanted more rest when traveling for games.

Oh I knew this already. I remember talking about this last year hoping they went this route.

But the way he phrased his post made it seem like the league was catering to Soccer in this instance, that's why I said it sounded too stupid to be true.

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Thought this was an interesting strategy when GS feels they'll just let LeBron go one on one instead of a Box and 1, they just shut down the passing lanes on one side of the floor

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Also a pretty crazy defensive sequence from Iggy
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[dsallupinyaarea]

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That's about as good a defensive sequence you'll ever see.

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It's amazing.

Even though this is a *****, its still interesting from skip baseless

Iguodala not getting credit for SHUTTING DOWN LeBron. Iggy primary defender 32 times last nite. LBJ, only 2 attempts! 0-2! 3 TO's!

Of course Iggy had help at times but dude has been doing a great job.


...and I don't know what happened to LeBron's jumper. It looks like he regressed

[CMH]

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Thought this was an interesting strategy when GS feels they'll just let LeBron go one on one instead of a Box and 1, they just shut down the passing lanes on one side of the floor

Yep. They sort of did this last year by telling LeBron to beat them.

But this year, it's been put to the extreme because they no longer have to worry about who is guarding him.

Last year, they made the game 4 decision to start Iggy to stick on LeBron. But LeBron has clearly lost a step (and relax Cavs fans, losing a step at his level still makes him amazing. It just means it also helps the defense a little bit more) and the Warriors don't care if it's Curry or Bogut guarding James.

The plan is to let him go iso and shut down his passing lanes. It's the ultimate go ahead and prove you can beat us strategy.

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Yep. They sort of did this last year by telling LeBron to beat them.

But this year, it's been put to the extreme because they no longer have to worry about who is guarding him.

Last year, they made the game 4 decision to start Iggy to stick on LeBron. But LeBron has clearly lost a step (and relax Cavs fans, losing a step at his level still makes him amazing. It just means it also helps the defense a little bit more) and the Warriors don't care if it's Curry or Bogut guarding James.

The plan is to let him go iso and shut down his passing lanes. It's the ultimate go ahead and prove you can beat us strategy.

Doesn't help when the Cavs won't move off the ball, but seeing that they don't get that many shots, they might just feel like they're ball watching half the game.

Lue hasn't seen this in the film sessions or are LeBron and Kyrie ignoring him like RWB and KD did?

[dsallupinyaarea]

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Lebron and Kyrie both played the entire 2nd half. Off ball movement is one of the first things to go when you're fatigued. Kerr's rotation is still 9 or 10 guys. Lue uses like 7. It caught up to them last night.

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It's amazing.

Even though this is a *****, its still interesting from skip baseless



Of course Iggy had help at times but dude has been doing a great job.


...and I don't know what happened to LeBron's jumper. It looks like he regressed

Iguodala is a beast. If I had to vote I'd say him or Green as finals MVP. But really I'am not sure they win this series without either Iggy or Green.

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Iggy is like +116(more than anybody on his team by far) in these finals so people might take that and choose him again unless Steph has another unworldly game in a Game 5 win.

@ESPNSteinLine
Sources say the Draymond Green/LeBron James Game 4 incident is indeed under league review, but there is no known timetable yet for a ruling

It's possible they could hit him later and make him serve a 1 game next season kinda how they did Biyombo.

[airjoca]

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LeBron is not an alpha dog. Never has been.

Wade was, and that's why things worked out for LeBron at Miami. Even though Wade was already going downhill in terms of physical ability, he instilled his mentality on LeBron and the team.

LeBron will forever be a beta dog, and Kyrie is too young and inexperienced to be the alpha dog.

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LeBron is not an alpha dog. Never has been.

Wade was, and that's why things worked out for LeBron at Miami. Even though Wade was already going downhill in terms of physical ability, he instilled his mentality on LeBron and the team.

LeBron will forever be a beta dog, and Kyrie is too young and inexperienced to be the alpha dog.

Did you copy and paste that from realgm. I saw that post somewhere else.

[airjoca]

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Posted the same at neogaf.

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I do think LeBron learned to really win when he was with Wade, but I can't say he's never been a leader or anything.

He needs to put some work in on his jumper again this summer though. Probably should work on that post game too, just being able to do it effectively without over dribbling.