Cavs vs Warriors Game 2

[fishonjazz]

I'm sure the warriors plan all along was for Currys ankles to constantly get injured so they could sign him for cheap, to make the salary cap jump and then be the only team willing to offer durant a max contract, to know that klay and draymond would be there when they picked in the draft..... cause, you know, they are just great team builders.
They are so smart that they thought klay to be the better player than kahwi even. How can anyone hope to be better team builders than them?

 

[lauriandres]

How do I build a team? I just make yogurt.
Pretty hard for me to build a better team.

We have a proverb - the person who is thirsty should do the walking i.e hard work.
Nobody is preventing other teams to practise 3 point shooting until they can hit the three pointer no matter where they are on the court.
IMHO artificial and forceful breakdown in sports is not good. Of course if the main idea of sport is something else besides the "let the best team win".
Similar to the Michael Schumacher hate when he was dominant.
Maybe it is better to let market decide whether super teams are good for the society or not.

 

[fishonjazz]

We have a proverb - the person who is thirsty should do the walking i.e hard work.
Nobody is preventing other teams to practise 3 point shooting until they can hit the three pointer no matter where they are on the court.
IMHO artificial and forceful breakdown in sports is not good. Of course if the main idea of sport is something else besides the "let the best team win".
Similar to the Michael Schumacher hate when he was dominant.
Maybe it is better to let market decide whether super teams are good for the society or not.

Ok

 

[LoPo]

Quite honestly, the main reason the Warriors team pisses me off is our own missed opportunities. Durant is a massive **** for doing what he did, but the front office is brilliant. Trading us those scrub contracts to get Iggy, drafting like they have, and then having the space for Durant. That's all front office.

And what mainly pisses me off - we drafted Alec freaking Burks over Kawhi Leonard. That move still riles me up to this day. Such a stupid, stupid decision. Kawhi is better because of Pop, but he was going to be a player of influence for years. Pop made him a superstar, but he would have been at least Iggy or better on his own. And we passed on the guy.

Just dream....

Hill/Exum
Hayward
Kawhi
Favors/whoever
Gobert

The Warriors FO did what we didn't. They executed excellently.

 

[Rubashov]

We have a proverb - the person who is thirsty should do the walking i.e hard work.
Nobody is preventing other teams to practise 3 point shooting until they can hit the three pointer no matter where they are on the court.
IMHO artificial and forceful breakdown in sports is not good. Of course if the main idea of sport is something else besides the "let the best team win".
Similar to the Michael Schumacher hate when he was dominant.
Maybe it is better to let market decide whether super teams are good for the society or not.

Free market capitalism will solve everything? **** I've now seen this ridiculous justification used for everything.

 

[lauriandres]

Free market capitalism will solve everything? **** I've now seen this ridiculous justification used for everything.

Well, unlike other leagues like Premier League in England or Serie A in Italy - the NBA is franchise. All those super teams NEED other teams too; do you really think that NBA could circulate as much money with only 2 or 4 teams? Imagine that Cavs and Warriors play 80 games only with each other, because the fans of other states are not fond of the quality drop.
IMHO what NBA lacks is that the are no real rivalries i.e a good player who is born in Utah does not have the attitude "the basketball in Utah will grow large, i would like that my state team will crush teams from other states". For example, rivalries between Arsenal vs United or Milano Inter vs SSC Napoli.
Also, nobody is preventing that small market teams form a separate league if they think that they will have more money from fans that way.
Or do you disagree with the statement - that with pro sport the best team should win and some artificial tuning which will give advantages to weaker players is not good?

 

[LoPo]

Good points lauriandres. And Forza Inter by the way.

It is really easy to see why people who dislike the NBA will probably always dislike the NBA. It's a win now league with very little patience development. Without the Iggy trade, would GS be GS? Would they have gotten good enough to draw the attention of a Durant if Iggy never got traded there? Without the Love trade, how good would Cleveland be? Would Wiggins have them sweeping almost every series? There is no loyalty and almost zero competition when you're talking top to bottom or even top half with each other.

If the NBA turns into La Liga (Spanish soccer league), I think it's bad to for the league. In La Liga, Barcelona and Real Madrid are king. Every once in a while, a team like Athletico comes in, but it's almost always been those two. Real and Barcelona are the class of world club soccer. However, their league isn't seen as great because it lacks top to bottom competitiveness. People prefer the Premier League and other leagues.

Long story long, the NBA has to find a way to institute a hard cap. The late 80's and early 90's were fun because there were a number of teams who played good basketball. So many teams had "stars". There is a chance that most of the top 10 or so players in the NBA play on only a couple teams: GS has KD, Steph, Klay and DG, Cleveland has LBJ, Kyrie and maybe Melo and CP3. SA has Kawhi and maybe CP3, Houston has Harden (not a title threat) and OKC has Westbrook (not a title threat) and NO has Davis (not a title threat).