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tzznandrew said:
This series is almost certainly not going to go long enough, but if it did, JR Smith's stupid gamble at half-time, and then his idiotic end-of-game play would go down in Finals lore.
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If it doesn't last, it'll still be part of Finals lore. Gotta exonerate LeBron somehow. Can't believe LeBron pined for JR Smith to be on his team.
 
How many games is James going to score 50 on 60% shooting? While also Love has over 20?

Cavs had to have this game, especially given the circumstances in the last 10 seconds.
 
This game was over. Horrible to see these guys celebrating
 
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Still love watching Klay and Curry play but Draymond is such a huge dipsh^t it makes them hard to root for. Between JR, Draymond, and Tristan you have some clowns ruining what is otherwise some awesome basketball. Lebron deserved to win that, it's going to be hard for him to restrain himself from killing JR when they get back to the locker room.
 
4UConn said:
The NBA is an officiating disgrace.
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How do these guys get paid so much? Theyre more than horrific. At one point in this game, the ref with the slicked back hair didnt know whether a play was a charge... so he asks the ref standing 30 feet away behind everything at half court as if he had a better look. Good god.
 
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Well that was entertainment I feel really dirty watching that I think I need to take a 2 hour bath in bleach.
 
Draymond was quiet until he hit those two shots. He then started that nonsense. Smh
 
tzznandrew said:
Even Javie said it was a tough call. LeBron's feet were moving and his body was awkwardly positioned relative to Durant. I didn't have a problem with it going either way.
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It's either indisputably a block in order to overturn the call on the court, in which case Javie should be in sync with the refs because that's what he's paid to be, or it's a tough call and the refs shouldn't have changed it.
 
Between the JR debacle and the postgame scuffle, this will be one of the all-time buried leads. Even as one of the original members of the Warriors bandwagon, I'm disgusted right now. The league stole that game from Cleveland, plain and simple. Maybe the greatest player ever just played one of his all-time greatest games and you completely screwed it up.

Golden State should feel small. Next to that guy, next to everything that just had to happen for them to win a game on their home floor as an astronomical favorite...they should feel small.
 
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champs99and04 said:
Between the JR debacle and the postgame scuffle, this will be one of the all-time buried leads. Even as one of the original members of the Warriors bandwagon, I'm disgusted right now. The league stole that game from Cleveland, plain and simple. Maybe the greatest player ever just played one of his all-time greatest games and you completely screwed it up.

Golden State should feel small. Next to that guy, next to everything that just had to happen for them to win a game on their home floor as an astronomical favorite...they should feel small.
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Meh they're telling themselves LeBron won't go for 45+ in regulation and Love goes for 20+ maybe one more time this series
 
champs99and04 said:
Golden State should feel small. Next to that guy, next to everything that just had to happen for them to win a game on their home floor as an astronomical favorite...they should feel small.
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They aren't the ones who grabbed a rebound 4 feet from the basket and then ran away from it.

They'll sleep just fine, and they should. That whole game was filled with absurd no calls both ways. And LeBron had an all-timer.
 
champs99and04 said:
Between the JR debacle and the postgame scuffle, this will be one of the all-time buried leads. Even as one of the original members of the Warriors bandwagon, I'm disgusted right now. The league stole that game from Cleveland, plain and simple. Maybe the greatest player ever just played one of his all-time greatest games and you completely screwed it up.

Golden State should feel small. Next to that guy, next to everything that just had to happen for them to win a game on their home floor as an astronomical favorite...they should feel small.
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Something just doesn't look right with GS this year but ultimately the product on the court is what matters and I think despite GS not looking as good they have enough firepower to overcome it and other teams just dont aside from Houston and a Kyrie led Celtics team, Cleveland just had that look that they could have stolen this series possibly only to get robbed and choke and have Beavis and Butthead on your team.
 
Reason why now we might not see a good series and get to enjoy LeBron’s greatness...

1. The Refs
2. Hill
3. J.R.

Warriors make it so hard to root for them, especially Green and Curry. Curry should just be quiet, he’s not close to being in the same class as the KING.
 
Well hopefully Cleveland can steal game 2 but its more painful to lose that way then get blown out.
 
It's a shame how this game played out. I am not sure I have ever been so frustrated by a game where I wasn't a die hard fan of one of the teams.
 
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tzznandrew said:
They aren't the ones who grabbed a rebound 4 feet from the basket and then ran away from it.

They'll sleep just fine, and they should. That whole game was filled with absurd no calls both ways. And LeBron had an all-timer.
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You're nuts.

I'm an unbiased observer. Golden State got 3 or 4 key calls in the last 5 minutes of regulation.

  1. LeBron got fouled on the arm which was a no-call assuming a clean strip.
  2. Then Cavs got called for 2 fouls on 2 clean strips.
  3. Icing on the cake was the terrible charge/block reversal in the final minute. Even though it was close, you gotta stick with the call on the floor there. Yes Bron was moving but the rule is different in the NBA... you can move but he maintained position prior to KD making a move up. LeBron established a legal defensive position despite the fact he was still moving. He did not initiate contact. You cannot reverse that.
JR being an idiot will get the headlines.
But there was obviously some serious home cooking there for a series of calls which absolutely changed the outcome of the game.
 
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superjohn said:
Still love watching Klay and Curry play but Draymond is such a huge dipsh^t it makes them hard to root for. Between JR, Draymond, and Tristan you have some clowns ruining what is otherwise some awesome basketball. Lebron deserved to win that, it's going to be hard for him to restrain himself from killing JR when they get back to the locker room.
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Pretty much agree with all of that.

And Draymond is the type of player, with SOME of that junk, that I’d normally love. But he’s just a clown.
 
Scoe said:
What a clown show.
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What makes the whole officiating sequence so odd is exactly how we ended up with a reversed block/charge.

They only reversed the call after they looked at LeBron's position in relation to the restricted arc. That was the rationale for going to replay that ultimately led to the reversal. I really can't believe those refs couldn't tell how far away LeBron was from the arc. Should not have been replayed in the first place; the explanation is total BS
 
Rocktheworld said:
What makes the whole officiating sequence so odd is exactly how we ended up with a reversed block/charge.

They only reversed the call after they looked at LeBron's position in relation to the restricted arc. That was the rationale for going to replay that ultimately led to the reversal. I really can't believe those refs couldn't tell how far away LeBron was from the arc. Should not have been replayed in the first place; the explanation is total BS
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They changed that rule. They can review any block/charge for legal guarding position in the last 2 minutes. (EDIT- I guess this is wrong. I have been mis-informed by the bad people of Reddit).

Block is the correct call on that Durant play though. As a secondary defender, he has to establish legal guarding position before Durant begins his upward motion. He's moving his shoulder into him and left foot plants (establishing the guarding position) after Durant has begun the upward shooting motion.

Is it weird they can overturn it? Yes. Should they have called it a block in the first place so they didn't have to overturn it? Yes.
 
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