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Yeah the Cavs didn’t really need to do much this game and in fact, didn’t do much
The Knicks shot like 32% for the game
Edit: 37%, they must have heated up in garbage time
New York was going hard for the offensive boards in the first half and Cavs did legit meet the challenge, but most everything else was a gimme.
This is going to be an interesting series.
Reputation seems to be a key part, according to the statement
(this is a joke just incase people think otherwise)
Also apparently Sabonis has a sternum contusion and is listed as questionable (bet he plays, but sucks there was something that wouldn't show up on the initial xray).
So either he was being reckless or intentional, or intentionally reckless. Either way it was incredibly dangerous and potentially life-threatening. What if he landed on Sabonis's neck or head, or he caused some kind of heart attack, or he straight up destroyed some fingers?
Raised in SoCal but spent the last 11+ years in the Bay. Lakers fan with an affinity for the Dubs. Full disclosure, I own a Draymond jersey. The Town designs were too good to pass up and I love Oakland. Everyone's got a Curry jersey and Klay has had putrid performances every single time I've seen them live, which has been a lot over the years, to the point where I'm convinced it's a personal vendetta against me.
Draymond is one of the most undeservedly shit on players I've seen in the league. He is also one of the most deservedly shit on players in the league. Both can be true. I think he's a generationally talented defensive genius that is somehow often underrated as a player. He also sucks at some things on the basketball court and gets appropriately memed on for it because he's a polarizing public figure. He's outspoken and intelligent and unusually self-reflective but also incredibly dumb and narrow-minded and full of silly excuses. He deserves blame for the 2016 Finals but doesn't deserve all of the blame, which is what he often gets. He attracts extremely polarized takes because that's what happens to polarizing and outspoken figures, he becomes a vessel for some of the worst instincts of sports media and the culture at large. I saw the same thing happen with Richard Sherman, Marshawn Lynch, and others.
I think he's a mighty interesting person and player who doesn't get enough flak for some of the things he does, gets way too much for others, and is very often a flawed dumbass who can be hard to defend. You won't catch me unconditionally backing him every time he does his latest stupid and/or dangerous thing, but I'm also not terribly interested in seeing him or his supporters get straw manned.
Basketball is richer for his being part of it.
Man, Thursday is looking brutal. Kings Warriors and Clippers.Suns at the same time? Ouch.
I love the NBA playoffs, but damn, it can feel hard to get a night off to like, go grocery shopping.
The only hunger that matters is that of The Beam
If we're playing pickup basketball and I kick you in the groin, maybe there is a path for me to convince you that it was an accident and maybe it was! If I do the same thing a week and a half later to you or someone else we're playing with, it wasn't an accident. You should go back and reexamine the first occasion because it also wasn't an accident; I've lost plausible deniability in both incidents.
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/chris-paul-breaks-infamous-losing-streak-vs-referee-scott-foster-as-suns-top-clippers-in-game-2/
https://streamable.com/73a4w3
and he's not wrong
the Kings have been getting away with a whole bunch of bullshit both on Dray and Steph
Steph has been arguably more egregious starting from Len taking away his ankles in game 1 right in front of the ref and them basically mobbing the shit out of him every possession
Lol posting this Reddick commentary as serious discussion. Your bit is hilarious, but maybe this one is taking it a bit too far. I do appreciate your commitment to the absurdity of it all though, no matter how crazy the take is. You gave me a good laugh at work so I won't say it's a bad thing.
40,000 years from now we’ll call it the Astronomicon
How dare he have a different take! Yeesh. Not everyone is gonna agree with what you guys think, come on now.
Duke!
needs more austin reaves
AD did as recently as game 1. His performance was fucking outrageous that game.
It's an ice cold shooting game from the team and from AD. I think sleeping on an opponent everyone started writing off after the first game and getting slapped around in g2 is about as close to a scripted outcome as there is with the Lakers over the last few decades.
AD was pretty good in that game, but only scored 22. Outside of that game, he's been held under 20 for like the last 5 or 6 games, I think.
Of course before that, he scored 35 like 4 times in a row or something. He's just so up and down. That's why I don't think either he or Lebron look bad, just not "best player on a championship" level, which is a very high bar, imo (for example, I don't believe my favorite player, Dame, has ever been good enough to be the best player on a championship unless the team was really stacked or just a super great fit)
It's not the take itself, it's the barking at everyone and even pointing at the lady (sorry don't know her name) co-host as he interrupted her that skeezes me out. It's just a very uncomfortable look and I never liked when Skip did it either.
As for the take it wasn't without merit but he also conveniently ignored all the extra WWE shit Green pulled after the ejection that JJ was arguing should have been enough punishment.
40-23 3rd to make it a game. Way to wake up.
AD scored a pretty efficient 22 and had 7 blocks/3 steals in one of the best defensive performances I've ever seen.
People have a habit of seeing that AD didn't score 30 and saying he didn't have a great game and the fact is he was an absolute defensive god that game.
And how was he this game?
Thats what im saying, if he played like that every game, sure, he could be KG part 2, but he has a game like that, and a game like this.
And tbh, individual defense is not as important in bball as individual offense, and we all understand that. For the simple fact that the offense mostly decides where the ball goes. Thats why the best defensive player in the league is rarely considered one of the best over players, unless they are also outstanding on offense.
Nobody these days wins a title when their best player is a defensive ace and gets you an efficient 22.
Now, just to contradict myself, i know both AD and Lebron can go on an extended tear and improve from here. I just havent been seeing that level of play yet.
Sham Charania is a writer for the Athletic
Apparently it was a unanimous first-place vote, as well
NBAPR is PR for the NBA
Yeah this is my issue with it. It's a "technically he's right, but..." situation. Yeah, the Kings are doing stuff that isn't being called every time, and if you edit footage of the entire game down to a few plays you can see that clearly (just like....every team every game if you pick and choose 2-3 plays out of 48 minutes of basketball). It's playoff basketball and teams are trying to see what they can get away with to impede players. But there's a difference between grabbing a guy (which is absolutely a foul and should be called!) and stomping on their chest? The notion that he needed to stomp on his chest to "free himself" is absurd. He was already "free" when he stomped on his chest. I'll spare everyone the clip of Shannon Sharpe explaining that you don't need to stomp on someone's chest to free your leg, because JJ Reddick is enough of that first take style nonsense already.
So seeing people take those clips and use them as a "See Draymond shouldn't have been suspended!" is ridiculous, and that is what JJ Reddick is doing (and most of the people I've seen parroting this clip as well). So yeah as such I'm pretty dismissive of the clip overall -- it's a weird partisan hit video where you ignore everything the Warriors are doing, edit footage of an entire game to show the Kings committing some uncalled fouls, and then somehow reach the conclusion of "Draymond is a victim and should not be suspended!" It's the basketball version of a heavily edited political hit advertisement.