Live Thread: Cavs @ Warriors, NBA Finals Game 5
2016-06-13
So much for a quiet NBA Finals. What had been a fairly calm—if not overly exciting—series between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors took a turn towards insanity with the league office issuing a Flagrant-One foul to Warriors forward Draymond Green for his shot to the groin of LeBron James near the end of Game Four. Because Green has earned his fourth flagrant foul point of the playoffs he was automatically suspended Game Five, which takes place tonight at the Oracle Arena. As soon as this happened, the war of word commenced.
Klay Thompson on LeBron & trash talk: "I'm surprised some guys take it so personal. It's a man's league. I guess his feelings got hurt."
— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) June 12, 2016
LeBron James says he won't comment on Klay Thompson saying he got his feelings hurt in trash talk. "It's so hard to take the high road," LJ.
— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) June 12, 2016
High Road. invisible bridge used to step over said person when open floor is available left to right.
— Ayesha Curry (@ayeshacurry) June 12, 2016
More Mo Speights on LeBron: "A guy does something like that, you kind of lose respect for him. I had a lot of… https://t.co/U84nQK6SS1
— Ethan Strauss (@SherwoodStrauss) June 12, 2016
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— Marreese Speights (@Mospeights16) June 12, 2016
Andrew Bogut says he's never heard a team complain so much about fouls and yet #Cavs shot more free throws than them through four games.
— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) June 12, 2016
New Story: Warriors essentially accused #Cavs of snitching and the response? "I don't give a f— what they say." https://t.co/0HX2idnYdm
— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) June 13, 2016
That’s a lot of noise, but guess what? None of it matters. It’s all window dressing. What matters is the 48 minutes of basketball that will take place tonight in Oakland. What matters is that the Warriors have been outscored when Green is not on the floor during the playoffs. What matters is that the Warriors will likely give even more minutes to Andre Iguodala and Shaun Livingston with Green out. What matters is that it just became a bit easier to play Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving in this series. What matters is that the Cavaliers need to start moving the basketball after going iso-happy in the second half of Game Four. Kyrie Irving needs to give a crap on defense for a whole 48 minutes and not just when he wants to.
Views on how tonight’s game will go vary wildly among basketball analysts. Some see Green’s suspension galvanizing the Warriors as they win their second consecutive championship, while others feel the window has been opened for the Cavaliers to get the series back to Cleveland. The only consensus seems to be that, whether or not the Cavaliers win tonight, the championship will belong to the Warriors.
That’s sound logic, but fans don’t have to be logical. Fans find reasons to support their teams no matter what. I have yet to recap a Cavalier loss in this year’s playoffs, and I don’t plan on starting now. Go Cavs.
What happened to Delly? Offense non existent. Misses every meaningful JS. Fouls, TOs. Miserable
I could live without your negativaty.
And i could live w.o yours. I don’t write to exchange w. You.
Relax and go chat w. Someone else who supports u
Maybe be more polite to the site admin….nobody here needs you
Who is this guy? smh
You should be incinerated for insulting comments.
To be fair, he was objectively terrible that quarter.
Two of those foul calls were total BS.
Only three players score for Cavs? WTF. And Lue looks determined to gas James.
Meant to add on a positive note only down 3 with 8 tos.
Andy getting creative with the hook-flop
https://vine.co/v/iLTMzgtLeD9
He should be fines for that….and fine the gd ref who called it
Well sucks to play against that for sure. I get why so many non-cleveland fans couldn’t stand him.
Weird quarter. Cavs played like garbage, but LeBron hit three jumpers. We survived that first haymaker, though. Biggest problem so far is that LeBron is getting no rest.
Where exactly is the foul?
So the new standard is to “let the boys play” when it comes to calling fouls — except on jump shots… Got it.
Of course Lebron goes heat check misses and the other team scores. Story of the season
I didn’t hate the shot.
Yeah 2 for 1 on 29 seconds left!!
Going 2-for-1. Can’t be too upset
I don’t disagree, but that was a two-for-one. Even a low percentage shot on a two-for-one is a good play.
The second part is spot-on though – dumb foul.
He was going for the 2 for 1. I would prefer he went for the 3, but it is not a bad shot.
It’d be worth it for any team to play Varejao 10 minutes a game, just due to all the BS calls he draws…apparently the refs are hypnotized by him, and can’t bring themselves to not call his crap.
It’s unreal… Flopping is literally the only reason he’s coming into the game.
I can’t see how Delly will get a better deal next year than what Cleveland offers him. He’s been a dumpster since end of March.
I agree.
Where is the gd foul there? No foul
I think the wind blew a little too hard…
Stupid foul lebron
HOLY CRAP, Andy flop city. He’s annoying as hell. Someone just punch him in the face
Bad bad couple of sequences by delly. Has no confidence in his shot, I guess for good reason since it is awol. He has to shoot open threes though.
Agreed.
Delly is just killing us. We need minutes from him. How does he pass up that 2nd three there? Shoot it!!!!
Andy was setting his feet to draw a flop on LeBron just there, LeBron knew he’d try it so drove around him.
Missed FT. Will haunt us
If I were a ref, I wouldn’t give Varejao any call, ever. Same for Marcus Smart. Cut out the nonsense, stop rewarding this crap.
That call on Andy is total s***. And delly’s gotta shoot that second three with confidence.
Fukk Varejao…
Phew bad stretch for Delly, but yet another flop for Varejao. -1 year, won’t even call him “Andy” anymore.
Delly sucks.
Sit Bron now please
Andy flop, amazing…unbelievable
Curry leaned in on that three but of course he will get that call.
League has to fix that… They did once before, when Walt Frazier used to jump into anyone he got in the air.
Delly with a bad pass and bad foul in these few minutes, come on Delly
Wow. Quick whistle there on Delly. Wow. What a crap call. Steph threw his knee into Delly.
Delly delly delly…..pretty useless in these po
The money just went down.
I could live without your negativaty.
Sure. Don’t rest Lebron. Good Lue /s
Lebron sits down, Cavs will get killed.
Still gotta do it so you can close.
Damn, bad to, wish we could have exploited the extra effort to get it back
All the way with LBJ
https://vine.co/v/iLTqveVKzhi
RJ bringing the defensive energy!
WOW that Andy flop was ridiculous
I can’t believe how useless all the Cavs role players look in this series. The Warriors must employe the best scouts in the league. Or Andy spilled on all the dirty secrets.
Yep. Need a backup PG and SG for next year.
And starting PG, don’t forget
Varajao literally flops for everything wow
Delly sucks again. We need a new backup PG next year.
And a starting PG, which is more critical
maybe we can get a backup PG and an athletic BIG for the bench in the Klove trade because this dude is NOT playing like an all star
And a new most frequent commenter.
In bonus. Hopefully we can exploit this.
God, I detest watching Varejao…..every single piece of any contact, flop….they should fine him to the stone age
The defense on Curry and Thompson looks like the Cavs have never seen them play. Guys, they’re pretty good shooters. (JR and Kyrie the early culprits.)
Is Lue going to gas the starters again?
Welcome to flop city, population Andy
These are the Cavs ugliest uniforms. What in the world were they thinking?
If you’re gonna go out, don’t curse the unis that you’ll wear next year?
Getting open on Simple pindowns is ridiculous.
Yep defense is problematic tonight as is rebounding
No real continuity to the offense for the Cavs ugh
It’s depressing how negative we have become!
Alright maybe the best time to rest Lebron now.
Absolutely nothing suggests the Cavs will win tonight. And pretty sure K Love is getting trading at halftime.
For the Cavs to be in this despite six turnovers is big. The longer the game goes With Cleveland in it,the tighter the dubs will be.
LeBron ties the game with his second triple of the quarter
https://vine.co/v/iLTKw269Hgu
IS LEBRON READY FOR A “CLASSIC” GAME TONIGHT –IF HE CAN CONTINE TO HIT THE “3” AND OPEN HIS DRIVE TO THE BASKET —-GOTTA HAVE HOPE !!
BENCH Love’s ass.
We are so bad at post entry passes
Kevin Love is SO SOFT giving up rebounds to these second and third string players.
We are getting killed on the d boards. Is that their 4 o board?
Love is nervous.
That would be amazing at this stage of PO…. Gotta show up….even w.o draymond, he looks lost, slow and confused.
Turnovers. Ugh.
Would like to see Lue make some substitutions..
Playing 5 guys all game…
Dubs already brought out Ezeli, McAdoo, Barbosa,
Man take put kev
If the Warriors were smart they would just launch threes the entire game. House money
JR Swish!
https://vine.co/v/iLTmUmXdxb2
God we got to make freethrows
Yeah, giving up wide open 3s to Klay isn’t gonna get it done. Please note, Cols, making those threes isn’t random luck. He’ll hit them all night long if you let him shoot wide open.
JR waking up, liked his aggression on a couple drives to the hoop and now cans a corner 3
Are we gonna cover Thompson?
Guess leaving him wide open is part of the game plan….Dubs just pick someone for the easy 3 every time
Van Gundy and Jackson baffled by how easily the Cavs let him get open.
Like the attack mentality from smith.
Cavs in bonus already. Good sign.
Lebron needs to check the stat sheet now
McAdoo and Ezeli on the current lineup. My goodness if we can’t even make them pay for that..
Oops, no extra ‘motivation’ for the Dubs….guess they can curl up in a fetal position now
Should be a flagrant but…
I’m using these terrible uniforms as motivation to turn the game off.
Kyrie over Klay on the baseline
https://vine.co/v/iLTZ5IVMKBK