2015-16 NBA Thread (feat. the Wives)

This is a purely personal belief and I don't mean to detract from Bryant's very real and very large accomplishments, but in my mind he was about the most boring superstar to watch of my experience. Maybe Elvin Hayes was his rival there, but that's it.

 

Steph and the Warriors run probably won't be truly appreciated for another 10 years when people look back and see how spectacular it was. When they lost this year, they LOST (only one, maybe two games that were inside five points), but they only won 13 games by fewer than five points. They smoked teams.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, your new clubhouse leader.

Just to echo some of what's been posted already, last night's Kobe show feels like a senior night game where the coach lets the regulars score as many points as they want against the league doormat. Think Lisa Leslie's last prep game, when the opposing coach pulled his team off the floor at halftime.

Celebrating a stellar career? No problem. But celebrating this as one of the league's GOAT moments is ridiculous. Only the train wreck that is the Sixers kept the Lakers out of the cellar this season. And the effort to get Bryant another ring may have set the massive rebuild that's needed back a year or two.

 

No doubt that to this lifelong Warriors fan that it feels like the world has flipped; I watched the West/Wilt/Goodrich teams dominate, there was the brief glimmer with the '75 Championship but then it all fell apart so fast in '76 against the Suns (Alvin Adams!!), then the Lakers got Kareem, then Magic, Kobe, Shaq, and frankly I just thought the Warriors would always be the also-ran; now this??? Greatest Regular Season ever? Potentially Back to Back? [I do remember the 2001 Mariners very vividly but there's no Bret Boone flash on this team]

 

Michael Jordan's last game made the difference between 37-45 and 38-44. Jordan had 15 points and was outscored by Kwame Brown in a loss to the Sixers.

 

David Blatt 30-11
Tyronn Lannister 27-14

This Cavs team is better than last year's team, which got to the Finals after going 12-2 in the Eastern Conference playoffs. LeBron needs to have some sort of signature post season. His best known post season was quitting in game 5 against Boston.

 

Jesus.

Were you in a coma during last year's playoffs?

 

He lost.
Winners go home and fuck the prom queen. LeBronites talk about doing his best.
He's got a healthy team. He chose Kevin Love and let Kyrie Irving stay. Shumpert Thompson and Smith are there because he wants them. It's time for The Chosen One.

 

LeBron won 14 playoff games last year while basically playing 1-on-5 much of the time, including two wins over an all-time great team in the Finals.

This "winners win" shtick is getting pretty tired.

 

So this year he has no excuse.

 

Other than the Spurs and Warriors are much better.

 

Winners win. Individuals can will their team to victory in team sports because our ancestors used to rally around alpha males in the caves.

Also, Jordan won every championship because he was the ultimate Winner and he had the right moral character for winning, not because he had a team with another HOFer in his prime, several all-star role players and an elite coach. Also, those times it looked like he lost? Didn't really happen (other than the ones early in his career before he learned the will of the warrior.)