Game Thread PLAYOFFS - ROUND 2, GAME 1: Blazers @ Warriors - 5/1/16, Sunday, 12:30 (PDT), ABC

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  1. Fez Hammersticks

    Fez Hammersticks スーパーバッド Zero Cool

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    It's tougher in our case.

    Here you need to hide CJ and Dame. Especially Dame - his defense has been putrid since the playoffs began.
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    Pretty ridiculous the league spotted GS one free game by giving us zero time to rest, regroup, or prepare. Sure GS may have won anyway but the league felt they had to make sure of it for some reason.
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    ¡Pinche Tunchi!
     
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    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    I love conspiracy theories, but, what they care most about is money. They want as many weekend games as possible. More viewers equals more money.
     
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    Schedule was pre-determined. Golden State got more rest because their series went shorter.
     
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    Why aren't the Electric Six massively huge?

    This is one of my faves (from when they were the Wildbunch):

     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    So if we'd lost game 6 and won game 7 we'd have had two games today? That's not even fair. ;)
     
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    Minstrel Top Of The Pops Global Moderator

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    Hah. No, I meant the series starts, based on series length contingencies, were pre-determined. If Portland had gone to game 7, this series would have started on Tuesday instead of today, based on the existing schedule.
     
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    42N8Bounce Red Hot And Rebuilding

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    And we won 2 out of the 4 quarters today, so we got that going for us.
     
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    CJ is a borderline all-star and a max contract player.
     
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    True, but he may be more useful in trade then as a building block; it'll be very hard to build around a backcourt that's on the small side and defensively challenged. It probably won't be optimal to pair him with Lillard but not playing him starter minutes would be a waste of talent--so a trade may be the logical outcome.
     
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    Or we have them work hard in the summer to become good defensive players.
     
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    Time to introduce the voodoo voodoo.jpg voodoo.jpg on GS
     
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    The difference was the Blazers knew they were going to play Sunday no matter what. However they would have been playing the Clippers had they lost game 6. Much different scenario.
     
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    Predetermined schedule or not, no time to prepare vs. five days to prepare = disadvantage + throw the Blazers under the bus like a sacrificial lamb. The league treated us like the fall guy to their scripted heavyweight matchup. Like the movies, I'm rooting for the underdog to get pissed off and knock out the champ. We'll worry about the mob repercussions later. ;)
     
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    B-Roy If it takes months

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    Kicking Curry when he's already down. I like it.
     
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    He may be down, but he's not out. Kick him till he's out.
     
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    So, who wants to pull a Celtics Pride with me after game 3? We can kidnap Curry and Thompson! Fool proof!
     
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