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.
This is making me nervous I hope we could hold on to this lead enough.
Lbj looks tentative to drive. Damnit. Another loose ball board for the warriors.
Great cut by Shumpert! Kyrie found him for the dish.
LeBron back in with enough legs to hit another J
https://vine.co/v/iLtui3m7z2H
So is Andy making Gilbert sorry he waived him?
Can’t put crap back in a donkey.
Another bad Out of Bounds call…AV was standing on the line when he tipped it off of Shump…
http://www.pleasestopshooting Shump.com
Lbj still hitting js!!!
Had there been a worse player in these finals than Shump
He grabbed a round and didn’t boot it out of bounds! He mad a wide open dunk! Mvp mvp mvp.
No
F you, Varejao
Who replaced Shump with an animated bag of garbage?
Wowser how about that, common foul, alright refs, alright, play on.
Why is Kerr chatting with Lebron?
https://twitter.com/oldseaminer/status/742557731891085312
Ball don’t lie lol
That was a poorly executed swipe by JR. Would be shocked if they didn’t call this a flagrant
JR fouled him… will be extremely surprised if this is NOT a flagrant
That is a flagrant, I think they are finally going to give in to their constant flopping.
God i hope they call that foul a flagrant
Varajao basically in the game to draw fouls, so annoying from the other side
Anderson Varejao ‘s been shot!
https://twitter.com/CavsNationNet/status/742557534863556609
Oh my the acting……. This has to be Varejao’s best performance of his career in a game
Watch JR get the flagrant because he’s JR
Unreal the lengths Andy goes to on these flop sells
Varejao fishing for a flagrant exaggerating the contact.
OMG Andy is such a tool. “That’s Denzel-ish,” says one of the announcers.
+infinity….it’s so freaking old
Tribe lost a tight one tonight. Offense failed. Los looking good on the mound.
Wow, AV may have actually been fouled for once this season
Kyrie answers a Curry 3 with a kiss off the glass
https://vine.co/v/iLTLjEeZmvm
Kerr is doing something very unusual here with Curry. He usually rests ALOT before he comes back in the 4th.
Between the Hack-a-Tristan and a couple minutes 4Q rest, have to hope LeBron has enough to bring it home.
Kevin has to Make Curry drive there no matter what.
Easier said than done, he was in his grill. I kind of think curry just doesn’t think love can block his shot.
Is like Curry sees KLove on him and automatically he sees the basket like the grand Canyon lol.
Say what you want about Kyrie, but he has balls of steel. Big time player, unfortunately not very smart.
How is Kyrie not smart?
He can’t use screens or run offense
It will get better with time and experience, still only 24.
Oh boy that three isn’t a good sign from curry. He has no respect for love to block his shot
Love has actually been decent when switched onto Klay or Steph tonight.
Yeah but curry has nailed to step backs with love in his face
Suspecting tired legs kill lbjs jumper and we fail to survive. Not hoping for that; just guessing
Nah man. He can go to the hole with Draymond out.
GET LOVE OUT OF THERE
Curry loves that right to left crossover on the left side when Love is defending him… Drains it everytime
I don’t want to jinx them but it would really suck if they give up this game after fighting this hard.
If we’re gonna go down, might as well go down with a fight.
This entire game is a battle. 12 to go, where heart and belief matter as much as anything lol I’m thrilled to be watching alongside the Cavs: The Blog crew
Wow like the orchestra in the titanic scene
Jefferson is playing great for us. Lue would be a complete idiot if he doesn’t close for us.
First 3 minutes of the 4th are KEY, cant leave their bench mob dictate the game
If there was ever a time for Love to give us anything, its these first 2 or 3 minutes of the 4th.
I wish Delly had been in there for some of that last stretch. I think the Delly/LBJ pick and roll could have blow it open with all the rim protection out of the game. Also could have used some smarter play bringing the ball up.
Need to leave it all on the floor for the final 12.
Maybe but the warriors are sagging hard with delly because of his shot being off, would probably be tough to get a pass to james.
Exactly and coach Lue noticed the same.
Delly has no confidence. LeBron needs to take him to a strip Club or something.
I guess they are looking at plus minus and deciding not to use him. Can’t have him in with Shump either
Great effort. Hard to fathom we are down but three on the boards though
Great quarter for the most part, but we had a chance to really push the lead but sloppy tos cost us.
Great quarter. Need to rest Lebron minuscule spurts and maintain the lead all the way.
Sloppy end to the quarter. But enough of a lead to give LeBron a blow for a minute or two.
Oh Tristan. How I wish you had somewhat of an offensive game. Cavs need to get some trst for Lebron and or Kyrie. Can’t have them on empty the last few.
KI sat out the last couple minutes of the 3rd…thankfully…Hopefully Lue sits LBJ for at least the first two minutes of the 4th…
Damn tt gotta finish that
Didn’t wanna get fouled shoulda gone right up through speights.
Probably yeah but he made his last two fts
Great quarter Cavs. Felt like the hacka-thompson really backfired cause it gave Cavs a rest.
Cavs might regret not extending the lead some when they had the chance
Was going say the same thing, two turnovers by RJ and TT shoulda dunk the damn ball
Yeah how does TT miss that. Should be ballin more on the boards too.
Can Draymond miss every game?
If the Cavs win tonight, it will only take another flagrant (or two T’s) in game 6 for him to miss game 7.
I don’t know what the stats are but I don’t think they have ever won a game this season when he hasn’t played.
Common finish the quarter strong!!!
Go ahead let them hack
Can’t believe he missed
Bad couple tos by rj, damn. Momentum killers
Sit Lebron and Kyrie the final minute then defend as hell the rest of the way.
What?? Now Curry comes in?? That like never happens in Kerr’s rotation this pt in game
More from RJ
https://vine.co/v/iLTVxe0rAqY
RJ playing inspired basketball (minus that travel)
Come on Mo!! Don’t let us down!!
Mission accomplished. Livingston didn’t go off and Kyrie got some rest. Now time to do the same with LeBron.
Wow. Mo Williams. Lue is done with Delly. I’d rather see McRae.
Love McRae. Dude can straight up and shoot. What happen to Delly earlier? I missed 1st quarter
Horrible offense and sketchy defense. He wasn’t ready for the moment.
They aren’t letting Delly get away with his normal off-ball handsy defense, his jumper isn’t working and he has no confidence in it, and we aren’t running anything through him on offense, which is where he shines. I LOVE Delly, but not sure what Lue can do. On the bright side, maybe this means we can keep him next year. If he keeps making year-to-year improvements, he’ll be a great backup PG. And in the grind of the regular season he’s huge, especially if the Cavs want to make a push for home court advantage throughout the playoffs next year.
Hell yes thompson air ball!!
Curry is resting. Be nice Kyrie sit too
Hack a Tristan is just giving our guys a rest. I think it’s backfiring.
Good point.
I would let them foul TT every time down. Foul their whole damn team out for all I care…
Screw you, Klay, for even trying that garbage shot
Good answer TT!!!
Just sit TT for a minute please.
He TT out now !