Exclusive Official Around the NBA FINALS - 2015 Edition, Cavs vs Warriors

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    The Golden Shower won playing 5 on 8 . . . Shower Power!
     
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    Seems to me like Steve Kerr did one hell of a job. Can't see Jackson pulling that off.
     
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    Steve Kerr is one of my favorite basketball guys on the planet..just amazing he won a championship as a rookie and blew off Phil Jackson and the Knicks to do this. He's a guy that just gets it from every angle. He's having fun and not full of himself. I'm glad to see him do it.
     
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    Thank goodness he didn't. He's already beyond insufferable . . .
     
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    That's a fact!
     
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    Mark Jackson has the ability to look tortured and angry while smiling..he's always had the look of somebody you wouldn't want to buy a car from
     
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    I got a bunch of Cavs gear for my husband (who is a LeBron fan) for his birthday. I was supporting him tonight. I also wanted one more basketball game on Friday night because I'm a basketball fan.
     
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    I agree
     
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    I'm still a Kerr fan from his Portland days.
     
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    Klay Thompson and Marc Gasol would anchor the Good Shooters Who Routinely Throw Up Horrific Bricks team.

    Klay comes across as pretty cocky on the court. I'm guessing he's not the most professional guy in terms of how he prepares himself for games, leading to massive inconsistency.

    This season just exposed Mark Jackson for what most people outside the Warriors organization realized he was: not a particularly good coach. I still don't know what any of his regular cliches mean.
     
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    This series was over when the cavs went up 2-1. So boring, so predictable.
     
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    Kingspeed was wrong again lol
     
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    I have one Cavs jersey, a DeJuan Wagner.

    The Warriors are on the list of teams I would probably never buy a jersey for unless it was absolutely spectacular (basically Sarunus Marcilonus). Other teams on that shit list are Rockets, Thunder, Sonics and Lakers. The Mavs are borderline there as well.
     
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    KingSpeed's a good guy, just a tad dominated by the California media.

    With Cleveland missing 2 of its top 3, the games shouldn't have been this close. These were not exactly 2 of the best-coached Finals teams ever. Kerr and Blatt didn't impress me.
     
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    LeBron did leave it all on the court but he could not carry the team to a championship.

    The Warriors are good but also incredibly lucky. Every team they played had at least one key player either unavailable at all or playing so injured as to be ineffective.

    Mark Jackson was a mediocre coach. And he divided his team.

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    Warriors president Rick Welts has been named Grand Marshall of Pride Parade.

    Why do team always hold victory parades in the middle of workdays?
     
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    Will Golden State repeat? Obviously they'll re-sign Green (he's restricted, so they can match anything) and they don't have any other key FAs do they? Is Barnes a FA? I don't think he counts as "key" though. So the key factors are: can they stay healthy again? Curry used to have ankle problems but it sounds like they fixed that, so Bogut is probably the key issue. His major injury may be butt-hurt-ness. Iggy getting finals MVP is the perfect salve to being asked to come off the bench.

    Whatever happens they should be outright faves to make it to the Western finals. The interesting thing there will be if OKC can be healthy. Now THAT would be a series. Westbrook vs. Curry alone would be worth the price of admission.

    (I said Iggy was the Warriors MVP all along [which is not the same thing as saying he should win MVP, but I guess the voters were too chicken to give it to LeBron] but it is funny that the guy he was getting all the praise for guarding put up video game numbers. And while Curry didn't score like expected, he was the reason every other Warrior was getting easy looks: if MVP voting went by "guy the other team was most terrified of" then Curry wins it going away. But then, on the other hand again, he didn't have to defend anyone, because he wasn't on LeBron and nobody else on the Cavs could score.)
     
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    Totally agree with you on Steph's importance. 11 voters decided the MVP. 7 went for Iggy, 4 for LBJ, 0 for Steph.

    I woulda gone 1.Bron, 2.Steph, 3.Iggy.
     
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    I only watched three of the games, but I thought Iggy was getting WAY too much credit. In the games I saw he took a ton of bad shots that weren't in the flow of the offense. There's no way he was more important to their wins than Steph was.
     
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    Damn the guy from Akron even voted for Iggy. lol.
     
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