Game Thread 2017 WCF series - Spurs vs Warriors

Golden State playing only as hard as needed to win by 6.

 

If Kawai doesn't get hurt, spurs win this game by double digits.

 

Someone needs to step under Zaza next game.

 

Edit: Fail
Or Edit, Edit: Both of them!

 

My bad, it's Kawhi not Kawai.

 

That was some bullshit by Pachulia...he obviously put his foot where Leonard's left foot was coming down.

 

So happy to see LaMarshmallow miss the big shot. I effing hate that guy.

 

71 points for the Warriors in the second half...

 

Haha, reporters afraid to ask Pop questions during his press conference.

 

MVP - Zaza Pachulia. The only way to beat Kawhi and the Spurs today was to take him out. Mission accomplished.

 

The idea that Pachulia intentionally set out to injure Leonard is silly, in my opinion. He's not even looking at where he placed his foot--he's watching the shot as Leonard comes down. The idea that he could, with surgical precision, place his foot perfectly so that Leonard's left foot would land on it and roll--without even looking to try to line it up--is fantastical. Even if a player tried to do that and was putting all his focus into it, it would be hard to position his foot perfectly.

Also, if it's that easy to re-injure a player, why would Pachulia only carry it out mid-third quarter?

Also interesting: no one on the Spurs bench reacts with any type of anger. You'd think a move clearly designed to re-injure their best player would elicit some reactions.

It was just bad luck on a basketball play that happens thousands of times.

 

Who said Zaza was trying to intentionally hurt Leonard. Did I miss someone's post?

 

I don't think he was intentionally trying to hurt Leonard on that play, but I do believe he intentionally was trying to crowd him and move into his landing space. Now how you want to interpret If that means he intentionally hurt him, I don't know, but I definitely think he meant to take his landing space away.

 

Yeah, a couple of posts explicitly said that, a couple of other posts strongly implied it.

 

I think he was trying to crowd him. "Intentionally take away his landing space," I don't know. To me, it just looked like he lunged out on a contest. I agree with the foul call because his foot did end up under the shooter and it doesn't matter whether you meant to create contact or not when it comes to fouls, but it looked unintentional to me--that is to say, it didn't look like Pachulia did anything unusual. It was just bad luck where his foot ended up (IMO).

 

That's some bullshit. GS dirty pieces of shit. NBA big pile of shit for condoning it to ensure the script.

 

Respectfully, I'm not sure you're right. Zaza did indeed not look down. But, if you're a dirty player (and I'm not saying Zaza is one of those), you just keep stepping under a player and 1 out of 10 you'll get lucky and injure a guy... and since, it only happens 1 out of 10, you don't look dirty.

 

Blind. He did a bunny hop to make SURE his bigass feet ended up in the general vicinity. Doesn't have to work every time. Dirty as hell.

 

IF I intentionally swerve at a car on the freeway 50 times and only one driver crashes and dies because I didn't actually just ram all their cars I'm still guilty of something.

 

Yeah, the Spurs bench is blind too. Sad. Must be why they lost.