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Official NBA '17-18 Season Thread
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So losing to GSW for one game without Cp3 invalidates Harden's MVP status? That doesn't make any sense to me. What if they lost without Harden? lol
There's a reason why CP3 is nowhere near the running for the award this year.
There's a whole season worth of evidence that the Rockets are a vastly superior team with CP3 in the lineup versus without my dude
And those same stats don't show for Harden as well?
Show me the differences where CP3 means more to the team than Harden. Be specific and point out the differences.
Show me the differences where CP3 means more to the team than Harden. Be specific and point out the differences.
Del Rio you're forgetting the most important ability is availability my dude. CP3 is constantly injured at this stage of his career, so whatever +/-, PER or whichever advanced stats you wanna point to must be taken with an enormous grain of salt. It's probably the single thing that makes LeBron a GOAT contender is his durability. If LeBron is Bruce Willis in Unbreakable, then CP3 is Samuel L. Jackson's character, Mr. Glass-for-bones.
As a long time Lakers fan I just enjoy watching the Celtics fail. Philly needs to hurry up and get better so Boston can't cakewalk into the ECF for the next 5 years
"Can't play Eastern Conference"
Billy Donovan
Billy Donovan
The Little Engine That Could finally ran out of gas. It hurts more that they made it this far and almost knocked off the king. C’est la vie
The brighter side of this Celtics defeat (aside from seeing the Celtics lose, of course) is that some dumb Celtics fans will stop with those stupid thoughts about "we can win the NBA without Kyrie, trade him to another high draft pick." As we say here in Brazil: Too much talent is never too much.
Altered your post for accuracy.
That being said, there's nothing wrong with the Celtics getting eliminated. ;)
Time to overdose on heroin.
Cleveland has an enormous pile of shit known as their roster that needs fixed before LeBron cakewalks anything in the future.
I feel like Chris Paul being injured for Game 6, and possibly Game 7 is all it takes for the NBA to have THE EXACT SAME FINALS FOUR FUCKING YEARS IN A ROW. Seriously if GSW wins tonight I’m not even gonna watch the Finals because I know the ass pounding that awaits the Cavs. At least the Rockets can ass pound them and be something new. Zzzzz
Warriors/Rockets in 4
Warriors/Rockets in 4
If cavs somehow win the ship with this team... I got a weird vibe..
Ughhhhhhhh goddammit i want paul to get a ring
Oh please, stop. Rockets and Celtics sank by themselves. They had control of their games and wasted it on the wrong decisions and impatience of their players. It's inconceivable for a team which wants to reach The Finals to shoot 44 balls from perimeter and just hit 7. Both teams were INCOMPETENT, and that's the truth. Congratulations on reaching the conference finals, but Rockets and Celtics lost to themselves.
GSW in 6, I'll see those Finals like every year.
If anything, this season proved that LeBron's teammates in years past were all solid (Can't stand the retards who said otherwise); this is the obvious, inevitable result of building entire rosters around a superstar so that they can't function without him.
This was the first year in a while where there felt like some competition outside of the finals. Personally I think the NBA's been nearly unwatchable for almost a decade outside of the Lakers since they're my team, but I would be more excited since it seems like this won't be a three-team league much longer.
No CP3 leaves a sour taste in my mouth. For the most part, the series didn't live up to expectations.
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