WCF: Golden State Warriors beat OKC Thunder (4-3)

[Potential]

yeah was wondering that, i know raps played the game 7s but its been a game every other day since last round for us

Friday/Saturday night is prime time for TV shows for TNT I don't think I've seen them carry a game on those days for a while.

What the? Who watches TNT when there's no basketball on?

[nabbs]

This team really lacks discipline man... Especially Russ. Guys who don't panic under pressure and shoot themselves in the foot with turnovers literally give the game to GS on a silver platter.


That KD tech was essentially the turning point but if you kept your composure and executed, you could have maybe cut it down to 10 heading in to the fourth quarter.

[Badonkadonk]

Not to blaspheme, but Cavs vs. Warriors part II is going to be epic.

[artsncrafts]

Not to blaspheme, but Cavs vs. Warriors part II is going to be epic.

nah warriors in 5

[720]

Not to blaspheme, but Cavs vs. Warriors part II is going to be epic.

nah warriors in 5

Yup, Cavs may steal one but I can't see them being competitive.

[raptorstime]

After ibaka fouled iggy from 3 nearing the end of the first half, okc lost all the momentum. I swear im tired of this softy.

[gp2015]

Friday/Saturday night is prime time for TV shows for TNT I don't think I've seen them carry a game on those days for a while.

It's pretty s*** that they get two extra days to rest, and recover from injuries while we still have to play every other game.

The least they could do is give us the same amount of days off.

Not really considering no other team had to go 7 games to win the series. We were the higher seed in each of the previous two rounds, and were taken to 7 by the least dangerous opponents. This was in our hands. Rest goes to those who win when they're supposed to, whatever the schedule. It also goes both ways; Cavs could have used the rust excuse, yet after three minutes, looked to have shaken it off, so the talk then became 'Oh, they have fresh legs.' Yep, because they took care of playoff business and got to rest.

Umm...no, this has nothing to do with previous rounds at all. If one conference finals side gets extra days off to rest, the other conference should get the same. It's only fair. Why is it the West teams get 2 extra days of rest for no reason? Did they do anything to earn it? No.

According to your theory that whoever plays the best should get the most rest, then why are the Cavs (who have swept through the the whole playoffs so far) getting less rest than OKC/GSW this round?

[Badonkadonk]

Not to blaspheme, but Cavs vs. Warriors part II is going to be epic.

nah warriors in 5

Yup, Cavs may steal one but I can't see them being competitive.

They were competitive last year, pushing GS to 6 games (one win in Oakland, one loss was in OT), with a starting lineup of:

L. James
T. Thompson
T. Mozgov
I. Shumpert
M. Dellavedova

They had guys like James Jones and Mike Miller helping off the bench. I know Curry won the award, but Lebron is dominant.

I think GS wins, but all of the games should be competitive

[Sherlock]

It's pretty s*** that they get two extra days to rest, and recover from injuries while we still have to play every other game.

The least they could do is give us the same amount of days off.

Not really considering no other team had to go 7 games to win the series. We were the higher seed in each of the previous two rounds, and were taken to 7 by the least dangerous opponents. This was in our hands. Rest goes to those who win when they're supposed to, whatever the schedule. It also goes both ways; Cavs could have used the rust excuse, yet after three minutes, looked to have shaken it off, so the talk then became 'Oh, they have fresh legs.' Yep, because they took care of playoff business and got to rest.

Umm...no, this has nothing to do with previous rounds at all. If one conference finals side gets extra days off to rest, the other conference should get the same. It's only fair. Why is it the West teams get 2 extra days of rest for no reason? Did they do anything to earn it? No.

According to your theory that whoever plays the best should get the most rest, then why are the Cavs (who have swept through the the whole playoffs so far) getting less rest than OKC/GSW this round?

If the Raps had finished off Miami in 6 games like they were supposed to have, game 1 of the ECF would have been this past Sunday, Game 2 this past Tuesday and Game 3 would have still been Saturday night. So we would have had 3 nights off.

But of course the Raptors couldn't close in 6, so we played game 7 on Sunday instead and as a result lost our opportunity for rest.

[zippy]

Not to blaspheme, but Cavs vs. Warriors part II is going to be epic.

nah warriors in 5

Yup, Cavs may steal one but I can't see them being competitive.

You guys are nuts, I would literally bet Cleveland in 4 or 5.

[kidr1211]

Cleveland is on another level this year, i think they go 7 with cleveland winning tbh

[hankscorpioLA]

Fire Donovan

[G R E Y]

It's pretty s*** that they get two extra days to rest, and recover from injuries while we still have to play every other game.

The least they could do is give us the same amount of days off.

Not really considering no other team had to go 7 games to win the series. We were the higher seed in each of the previous two rounds, and were taken to 7 by the least dangerous opponents. This was in our hands. Rest goes to those who win when they're supposed to, whatever the schedule. It also goes both ways; Cavs could have used the rust excuse, yet after three minutes, looked to have shaken it off, so the talk then became 'Oh, they have fresh legs.' Yep, because they took care of playoff business and got to rest.

Umm...no, this has nothing to do with previous rounds at all. If one conference finals side gets extra days off to rest, the other conference should get the same. It's only fair. Why is it the West teams get 2 extra days of rest for no reason? Did they do anything to earn it? No.

According to your theory that whoever plays the best should get the most rest, then why are the Cavs (who have swept through the the whole playoffs so far) getting less rest than OKC/GSW this round?

I meant that the NBA has a set window within which it can schedule its games, and so rounds are always scheduled with maximum games worked in. If the games don't go maximum, then a team gets more rest. If it goes the full 7, then there's less time to rest. It has nothing to do with 'earning', or 'lack of fairness'.

The NBA has a great many considerations when making the post-season schedule, and it may simply be that they did the best they could given whatever conditions and circumstances were in place, and as it stands, the west happens to have a couple of extra days because of external factors.

What a team CAN control is taking care of business to ensure it gets as much rest as possible in between rounds, regardless of schedule. Cavs are the most rested team in the post-season, schedule notwithstanding. We ought to have had more rest, but that was up to us.

[LLJ]

How are the Cavs gonna stop that?

These championship level teams are insanely good. Raps have some work to do (actually, a lot), but I'm still glad they get a taste of what it really takes. This experience will be good for the younger guys to hopefully pass on to our future draft picks.

[720]

nah warriors in 5

Yup, Cavs may steal one but I can't see them being competitive.

You guys are nuts, I would literally bet Cleveland in 4 or 5.

WTF? lol

[ruckus]

It's pretty s*** that they get two extra days to rest, and recover from injuries while we still have to play every other game.

The least they could do is give us the same amount of days off.

Not really considering no other team had to go 7 games to win the series. We were the higher seed in each of the previous two rounds, and were taken to 7 by the least dangerous opponents. This was in our hands. Rest goes to those who win when they're supposed to, whatever the schedule. It also goes both ways; Cavs could have used the rust excuse, yet after three minutes, looked to have shaken it off, so the talk then became 'Oh, they have fresh legs.' Yep, because they took care of playoff business and got to rest.

Umm...no, this has nothing to do with previous rounds at all. If one conference finals side gets extra days off to rest, the other conference should get the same. It's only fair. Why is it the West teams get 2 extra days of rest for no reason? Did they do anything to earn it? No.

According to your theory that whoever plays the best should get the most rest, then why are the Cavs (who have swept through the the whole playoffs so far) getting less rest than OKC/GSW this round?

It's a little odd that they would have 3 days off between games 2 and 3. There's nothing going on at Chesapeake. The TNT schedule is clear (just showing movies on Friday and Saturday) and from a marketing standpoint, I'm sure the NBA and the network would prefer to have a potential game 7 on a Saturday night vs a Monday.

Fun fact, OKC is closer to Cleveland and Toronto than San Francisco.

[ruckus]

How are the Cavs gonna stop that?

These championship level teams are insanely good. Raps have some work to do (actually, a lot), but I'm still glad they get a taste of what it really takes. This experience will be good for the younger guys to hopefully pass on to our future draft picks.

Yeah, I'm a little confused as to where this team goes from here. Looking at the level that Cleveland, Golden State and Oklahoma City are playing at, ECF is the ceiling for this particular team. I wouldn't mind being a perennial Eastern Conference finalist/semi-finalist with incremental improvements year over year but, we aren't reaching a Spurs-type dynasty without an all-time great.

Best case scenario if Masai continues along this route is we catch lightning in a bottle in one year and get that surprise 'ship like Dallas or Detroit.

[Joker]

How are the Cavs gonna stop that?

These championship level teams are insanely good. Raps have some work to do (actually, a lot), but I'm still glad they get a taste of what it really takes. This experience will be good for the younger guys to hopefully pass on to our future draft picks.

I'm kind of of two minds on this. It's a valuable learning experience, to get a taste of what it actually takes to contend, but at the same time...you've got teams like Atlanta that just get swept by Lebron every year.

[LLJ]

How are the Cavs gonna stop that?

These championship level teams are insanely good. Raps have some work to do (actually, a lot), but I'm still glad they get a taste of what it really takes. This experience will be good for the younger guys to hopefully pass on to our future draft picks.

I'm kind of of two minds on this. It's a valuable learning experience, to get a taste of what it actually takes to contend, but at the same time...you've got teams like Atlanta that just get swept by Lebron every year.

You can't do anything about talent, but hopefully this team becomse more comfortable in the playoffs moving forward. This team had to fight tooth and nail this year, some of it was self inflicted too. Hopefully later teams can have some smoother playoff runs (up until the inevitable elimination) than this year's.

[KingKyrie1]

GSW are scarier team than Cleveland just because of the illegal screens without that it would be a sweep for Cleveland.
Again the Warriors offense is just tons of moving screens to open up their shooters, without that their offense is stagnant.