Is this

>>76351609
Hes the only net positive on that team right now outside of LeBron. He scored 27 pts in 30 mins. I know he's a birch and gets out of position but he ain't the problem. Irving, Smith, Thompson, Williams, Frye, Shumpert, Korver. Those are your problems.

>>76351609
Maybe it has something to do with a 72 win team adding the second best player in the world

Fuck this crooked league

>>76351609
Literally playing better than Lelshames

>>76351609
He's been playing well, hes the only one outside of LeBron showing up

>>76351695

It's so hilarious to see Americans bitch about muh parity when in reality this is what would naturally happen in a free market. Where's your love for capitalism when it comes to sports, y'all sound like the biggest commies on earth recently lmao

>>76351695
maybe if the cavs didn't have the highest salary in the league they would have been able to pay durant ;)

>>76351736
Yeah I don't get it. I think it's just a case of a loud minority on here. No matter what sport here it does better when there's dynasties and elite caliber teams. It's just one of those cases where people say one thing and want another.

>>76351807
its literally just cavs/lebeta fans

>>76351736
>>76351807
>>76351821
MILLENIALS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

>>76351942

Care explain the correlation?

>>76351609

no it's because the coach is a Lebron yes man who has no idea how to stop the Warriors

>>76351695
>It's only okay when Cleveland stacks their team with all stars.

>>76352021
Fuck offshill

Didn't say thatat all. Said theleagueis crooked.

Geta real cap or fuck off NBA.

>>76351736
Free markets promote efficiency, sports leagues are for entertainment you autist

>>76352021
Warriors were already stacked idiot.

>>76352126
Does your space bar not work or are you too fucking lazy to hit it? Fat ass

>>76352176
there are competing leagues it's just that they're all irrelevant shit

>>76352185
No there aren't. Not in the US at least.

And ((())) are using their corrupt media apparatus to slander and disparage other leagues that aren't even basketball related.

>>76352212
ever heard of the CBA?

>>76352255
A league halfway around the world isn't a competing league.

>>76352176

>we need someone to step in and restore muh parity again
>good teams need to be punished for being good, bad teams should be rewarded for being bad

Yeah, not socialistic at all.

>>76352144

So you advocate rigging or punishing teams for just being better than other teams for entertainment purposes?

>>76351609
No, Cleveland is choking because Lebron is so arrogant he thinks he can win the title by himself.

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They don't play defense and they don't move the ball.
t. Spurs Fan

>>76352271
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Basketball_Association

>>76352271
>>76352576
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Basketball_Association

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>>76352594
>a literal NBA development league that folded years ago is free market competition

You shills are shameless. baka

He gets absolutely roasted every time the Warriors attack him in pick and roll. What kind of pussy beta big man gets posted up and scored on by a point guard KEK

They're losing because they think they can get into a shootout with the warriors which they clearly cannot.

>>76351609
Love has been the Cavs second best player so far. Thompson, Smith, Williams hell their entire bench has done nothing.

>>76352963
>le shill boogeyman

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>>76353061
So it's just some rando completely dishonest anon?

fuck off Shillstein

>>76353009
Lebron has been getting roasted on defense as well. So much that they are trying to hide him on D. Durant raped him in game 1, so Lebron ended up on Green most of game 2. Then Lebron tried to take Durant in the 4th of game 2, and Durant started raping him again.

Everyone praises lebron for his brilliant basketball mind, but this is what happens when you let him choose a coal who is his yes man instead of an actual good coach, and let him fill your roster with old shooters. Their only chance was to be more physical and run with the warriors but their roster is incapable of doing so.

>>76352274
>So you advocate rigging or punishing teams for just being better than other teams for entertainment purposes?

to some extent, yeah

that's what the NFL and NBA drafts are based on

>>76353097
Lebron has too much pride to realize this isn't 2012, he's no longer an elite one on one defender

>>76351942
Millennial lebeta fans are the only fanbase in the history of America to use an outrage over "non" parity to try to detract from the legacy of a better opponent. Nobody cared about parity when the Yankees won forever or when the Lakers and Celtics or Steelers, niners, and cowboys went on their respective runs. Cherishing parity above dynastic greatness is, indeed, socialist cancer in the body of sports. It:
>Brings every team down to a lower level of play which hurts serious fans
>Robs truly great players from getting the pieces they need to challenge history which hurts their legacy
>robs casual and serious fans alike from witnessing greatness.

Their bench is so trash its unbelievable, Richard Jefferson should have retired, Williams should never had been signed and they shouldn't have have up Mo Williams for Korver. A lot of mistakes were made that put them in this situation. They need to drop all these AARP members in the off season even if they manage to come back because if they will it will be in spite of them

>>76353239
Mo Williams retired nigga, he wouldn't be here one way or the other. At least Korver can put the ball in the hole occasionally and play semi respectable defense unlike that retarded crackhead JR Smith.
>opening play of the game
>fouls Curry on a 3
Bench this faggot, he's obviously brain dead from drugs. Friendly reminder he should be in prison for manslaughter too.

>>76353080
minuscule baller detected

>>76351669
Oh look a reasonable response, of course this is /sp/ so it'll be completely ignored.

Ty Lue is a hack, and a placeholder for Lebron to do the actual coaching. And Lebron is not even a good coach, let alone on par with Kerr.

Here's the deal: no one disputes that the warriors' roster is more talented than the cavs'. If you're going to have a shot at beating a roster that is objectively more talented than your own, you're going to need elite coaching, and a scheme that plays to your advantages and away from your opponent's strengths. That's why Pop's teams are the only ones that stand a chance. Lebron trying to play heroball only works when the objectively more talented team is hit with injuries and suspensions.
I'd actually like to see what an elite coach like Pop could do in this matchup coaching the cavs. It would be a much more interesting series.

It's because Thompson can't get more than 4 rebounds and Jr can't score a single fucking point

>>76353206
Actually yeah many people did hate the Yankees when they were winning titles. Mostly because fans said they were buying up all the talent t do so. How young are you to not remember this?

Celtics, Steelers won mostly by building talent through the draft and smart trades. They never just throw tons of money at the top talent.


Once again the Cowboys are one of the most hated teams in American sports, while also having one of the largest bandwagons. But even they drafted most of their top talent like Aikman, Smith and Irving.
The Warriors for the most part were indeed built through the draft, people didn't hate on them last year for this. People hate the fact that Durant jumped on their bandwagon to help his legacy. Same goes for Lebron when he conspired with Wade and Bosh to join forces. This modern shit is not the same thing.

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>>76352594
>the CBA, the developmental league Isaiah Thomas ran into the ground, was a competitor of the NBA

>>76354754
Yep. Yankees were the most hated team in Sports.

They were literally referred to as 'The Evil Empire'

>>76353309
I agree JR is a liability and he hasn't played well since coming back from injury. Korver isn't much of an upgrade but at this point he looks to be a small upgrade. TT's poor play the first two games is even more troublesome. The Warriors clearly had a strategy against him and the Cavs had no counter to it. TT can play both sides of the ball. This is simply Lue failing to get him integrated into the gameplan better.

>>76351736
Yeah, it baffles my mind, their views on sports show they actually don't have idea what socialism actually is. And ironically they're probably the same ones who curse Stern into oblivion for stopping the Paul/Lakers trade. Amerifats, I swear...

>>76353239
Every championship team has one or two old men well past their prime. It's part of the winning formula.

>>76354754
>jumped on their bandwagon to help his legacy
Or, you know, he chose to play for a well-run organization, with teammates he actually enjoyed playing with, in a better city, instead of with Russ in Oklahoma.
These guys are already making tens of millions of dollars a year (and more in endorsements anyway). Taking a but of a pay cut to get more enjoyment out of their career seems pretty reasonable.

>>76355222
Durant is indefensible. He left a team filled to the Brim with talent, a team good enough to be up 3-1 and should have made the finals if kickmond had gotten properly suspended, for a team overflowing with talent. Nobody in the history of the NBA has left a team as talented as the Thunder in their prime. But I don't blame him for it. It's the NBA's fault for allowing such a cancerous team to be possible. I'd do the same. It's sanctioned cheating.

The problem is that they're playing shitty defense against one of the best scoring teams ever assembled. That and nobody else is stepping up and making shots. I guess you could blame GM LeBron for making the team sign and trading for these players if you want.

Last year the Cavs looked defeated after 2 games and they turned it around. But after the Warriors collapse last year, they seem to want to embarrass the Cavs and I don't see them falling apart this year. But who knows, maybe something crazy will happen

The Cavs' biggest problem is LeCramp pretending he's a Magic Johnson and playing point-forward all the time instead of letting Kyrie do his work.

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>>76352274
>So you advocate rigging or punishing teams for just being better than other teams for entertainment purposes?

Yes. In fact, my favorite sport's best league is BUILT on this idea.

>>76351669
fpbp

>>76351736
>muh sports league is the same as muh economy
Germans can't be this retarded. Now tell me how the national debt is the samething as household debt you kraut faggot.

>>76351736
>German typing "y'all"
disgusting.

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Reminder that the Warriors have perennial choker Durant and will get embarrassed 2 years in a row by LeGod

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>>76358125
>WIR WAREN KAISERS UND SCHEISSEN

>>76351609
Game 1: 15 Pts/21Reb
Game 2: 27 Pts/7Reb

>>76351736
Baseball has more parity then the NBA or NFL, and it coincidentally has the closest thing to a free market.
Max contracts in basketball essentially subsidize talents for teams. If there were no max, Lebron and Durant would make far far more, making it harder to ever assemble "super teams."

>>76358125
Proxy fags BTFO

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>>76358209
This!

>mfw legod gets two for da land

>>76351736
American pro sports are notoriously socialistic
>rewarding the worst team with the top draft pick, or a better chance in the draft lottery
>salary caps
>max contracts
>'muh parity'

then it gets combined with the culture's unhealthy obsession with individuals, their personalities (incl. such gossip-worthy banalities as politics), and the blacks, and you get abominations like the NBA and NFL

of course, the national pastime baseball is the free market in all its glory

>>76358604
>Baseball has more parity then the NBA
That's because there are more moving parts on a baseball team than a basketball team. Depth really doesn't matter much in hoops, whereas in other sports it matter more. Look at roster sizes ffs

>>76351736

>be german
>watch the bayernwinsliga
>buyern wins again
>next year
>buyern wins again but not by a big enough margin, some competition from BvB gave them some trouble
>buyern buys whoever it is gave them trouble
>buyern wins again by another 15 point margin
>repeat this process ad infinitum

We should all follow the paradigm of sports leagues put forth by the germans

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Actually not really. He's the only real rebounder out there, and can score to boot. He's doing his job.

The biggest liabilities: Tristan Thompson's utter and total lack of scoring ability to complement merely above average rebounding/defense, J.R. Smith's defense and streaky offense, Kyrie's defense and streaky offense, Deron Williams being unable to do anything whatsoever on the court

>>76355280
>It's sanctioned cheating.
No, it would be cheating if the league blocked the move. THEY DIDN'T BREAK ANY RULES SIGNING KD! How do you not get this? Other teams need to get gud

>>76354754
>How young are you to not remember this?
Reminder that anyone moaning about millennials is either 14, 40 or too fucking retarded to realise they're moaning about themselves

>>76363524
learn what sanctioned means you withering dipshit

>>76363681
I know what it means retard. You're implying that GS was able to do what no other team was, which is incorrect. They are playing by the same rules as every other team, they just did it better. Keep whining though, I'm sure that'll help