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2014-15 NBA Season Thread
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I was kind of rooting for LeBron and Cleveland. I know people hate him, but the fact that they even won 2 games with the guys left on that team is strictly because of him. Put any other player in the NBA on that team and they don't win any games. I mean when you're relying on JR Smith to win games, you're in trouble...
Injuries are always going to be a part of the game, but in that way GS got lucky.
No doubt that Cleveland had been bitten badly by the injury bug, but that is part of the game. I am glad to see Iguodala get the MVP.
What an incredible season for the Warriors from start to finish. After decades of traumatic basketball, I never thought I'd see the day where they'd lift the trophy, let alone have one of the most dominating runs the league has ever seen. Only two of the great Bulls teams tallied more total wins than the 2014-15 Warriors did.
I had a strong feeling about Steve Kerr when he put his hat in the ring for a head coaching job. I knew he would dramatically improve whichever team he ended up with, but this is something else.
Credit to Cleveland: they fought hard to the very end.
I had a strong feeling about Steve Kerr when he put his hat in the ring for a head coaching job. I knew he would dramatically improve whichever team he ended up with, but this is something else.
Credit to Cleveland: they fought hard to the very end.
I too was pulling for Cleveland. Good series, but I would have liked to have seen each team with their full complement of players in good health. I do not like having to compare teams that are missing personal that were in place as the team progressed through the season and throughout the playoffs. There is always a "what if" scenario.
Good series, happy for the GSW. Can't wait for next season! Boy with hockey over and now the NBA...... and since I don't follow baseball till playoffs. Is it football season yet!
Good series, happy for the GSW. Can't wait for next season! Boy with hockey over and now the NBA...... and since I don't follow baseball till playoffs. Is it football season yet!
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Congratulations to the Warriors. I'm disappointed the Cavs couldn't get it done, but I'm proud of what they did this season with all of the new additions to the team.
Luck and other teams' injuries play a part in pretty much every NBA champion's success. So do the structures of the playoff brackets and upsets elsewhere (avoiding the Spurs and the Clippers). That's the game.
A Finals where Irving and Love were healthy would have been quite different, but I expect the result would have been the same. The Cavs stayed pretty close thanks to their defensive efforts, neither Irving or Love would have been able to sustain that. Trying to match the Warriors in a high-scoring shootout doesn't sound like a recipe for success.
A Finals where Irving and Love were healthy would have been quite different, but I expect the result would have been the same. The Cavs stayed pretty close thanks to their defensive efforts, neither Irving or Love would have been able to sustain that. Trying to match the Warriors in a high-scoring shootout doesn't sound like a recipe for success.
A team that would have matched up was Atlanta. They had a less than ordinary postseason and didn't get to finals so that helped us in SF. They slayed everyone all year with impressive record.
LOL, this was my response to a buddy who was talking about parades.
I'm so over championship parades. Boston is, beyond, spoiled in that respect.
If talking 2000s they had more than NY for sure but overall NY has so much that they have 20 something baseball rings alone. Insane if you ask me.LOL, this was my response to a buddy who was talking about parades.
I'm so over championship parades. Boston is, beyond, spoiled in that respect.
But in 2000-2009 MA saw 3x Pats, 2x Red Sox, plus Celtics all win big.
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That state had the lion's share of what the east coast got that decade and the 2013 Red Sox and 2014 Pats tied others on shortly after Bruins.
For this whole period of what will be 2010-2019, I am more than happy with Giants with 3 WS cementing a dynasty and Warriors with recent series win, but I can always hope for more. A SJ Sharks win would seem to come out of nowhere but that would be as crazy and happy as the Warriors having done it for what was the first time in many people's lives. But with Kerr and the Splash Brothers, I can see the Warriors being back here again next year and yielding more than 60 wins.
When it comes to championships, a Chicagoan in their 40s had arguably one of the best runs. Boston is the only other in this category.
1985 Bears
1990s Bulls (6 championships)
2005 White Sox
2010- Present Blackhawks (3 Championships)
1985 Bears
1990s Bulls (6 championships)
2005 White Sox
2010- Present Blackhawks (3 Championships)
Yes Chicago is in the money. Nothing like Mike.
I wouldn't have put Chicago in same category as New York or Massachusetts in terms of parades, overall, but I forgot you guys have a full on dynasty with Blackhawks right now. Well done and it must feel like to you what our SF Giants dynasty feels like to us. I just don't want it to stop and we are always out chasing three things: Beat LA Dodgers, win the World Series, and yeah, beat LA Dodgers. It just hurts me to see someone amazing like Clayton Kershaw on the Dodgers and he's our baseball anti-Christ.
We also have somebody on our 49ers' rival Seahawks that's our football anti-Christ and that's Marshawn Lynch of the Seahawks and he's the premier player in NFL much the way Kershaw is to baseball. But it was great to see Golden State Warriors (Oakland) parade with Marshawn (Oakland raised) in it. Maybe that bay area spirit will convince Marshawn to sign on with 49ers or Raiders!
http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/...-parade-for-golden-state-warriors-in-oakland/
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