Cleveland 4 - 2 Golden State

Warriors are looking very vulnerable. I really hope Kyrie is at least 80% for the Finals. Sorry Hawks, love you guys, but gl next year.  

If both teams sweep, that means we wait a long time for the NBA Finals  

The pelicans lost first round, so i don't care who wins anymore.


but it's going to be Cavs and Warriors in the finals. If Kyrie isn't completely healthy, then warriors will win in 6. If he is healthy, Warriors win in 7. The Warriors are just far too good to lose the finals.  

^Warriors haven't played Lebron in playoff mode and their season series ended as 1-1. Rockets are showing the weaknesses of GS in that game 4, all Cavs gotta do is look at the tapes, up their defense, Cavs in 6.  

Posted by Bryan*

^Warriors haven't played Lebron in playoff mode and their season series ended as 1-1. Rockets are showing the weaknesses of GS in that game 4, all Cavs gotta do is look at the tapes, up their defense, Cavs in 6.

The Rockets didn't find the weakness of Golden State, curry got injured and didn't play for a decent chunk of the game. And they still almost made a comeback. Rockets are going to lose this next game regardless since it's in Oracle.

And, yeah, the cavs have lebron and all, but do you REALLY think that Lebron is going to carry his team past the best pure shooting team in the league without Kyrie or Love? There is no way in hell, sorry, dude.  

Posted by PoeticFolly

The Rockets didn't find the weakness of Golden State, curry got injured and didn't play for a decent chunk of the game. And they still almost made a comeback. Rockets are going to lose this next game regardless since it's in Oracle.

And, yeah, the cavs have lebron and all, but do you REALLY think that Lebron is going to carry his team past the best pure shooting team in the league without Kyrie or Love? There is no way in hell, sorry, dude.

Kyrie will be more than 80% by the time he's at the Finals and the role players that the Cavs have can contribute a lot as shown throughout the playoffs. Keys to win against Warriors: rebounds, defensive stops, 3-pointers.

Rockets have made the impossible against the Clippers who I remind you were down 3-1 and made a comeback to win the series, which proves Rockets can pull an upset against the Warriors.  

Why do the Warriors get to be so ****ing healthy

Cavs with KLove + Kyrie at 100% - Cavs in 6
Cavs without KLove + Kyrie at 100% - Cavs in 7
Cavs without KLove + Kyrie sorta healed - Warriors in 7
Cavs now - Warriors in 6

But who knows, maybe LeBron is driven by inspiration to bring a title to Cleveland and win it in 7. It would be probably the greatest accomplishment in his legacy so far. Any team with LeBron James should never be counted out.  

M prediction: Warriors in 5 over Cavs, and that might be one game too many. If the Cavs were in the west they would have struggled to get out of round 1.  

I could have sworn I left the Western Conference ********** on r/NBA an hour ago.

The Cavs put up a 14-1 record against the West (including the Warriors and Rockets) after the All-Star Break, the time when they actually started playing like a good team. Not to mention they swept the season series against Memphis and the Clippers, split against Golden State, and are on the verge of sweeping a full-strength 60-win Hawks team without two of their best three players.

Sure, given the Cavs' current health which is atrocious - LeBron is playing hurt, Kyrie is playing at 1/5 of himself with glass legs that make me cringe every time he gets the ball, and Love isn't even there anymore - and given the Warrior's amazingly perfect health of the only notable injury during the Playoffs being Speights, they would be beaten pretty handily in 6 games. But a team with a full-health Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving? Cavs in 7, maybe even 6 if they theoretically had home-court advantage.

We've already seen it in the regular season. If you watched the two Cavs v. Warriors games this season, the Cavs (WITHOUT LEBRON, AND before the JR/Shumpert/Mozgov trades - they still had Dion ****ing Waiters) were able to keep up with Golden State at Oracle for three quarters and were tied heading into the 4th before their lack of depth and fatigue broke them down. When the Cavs played the Warriors at the Q, Curry and Klay were held to 17 points due to Shumpert's on-ball defense and counter-screening for Kyrie the Cavs were doing, and the Cavs came away with a very comfortable victory. Let's not forget that LeBron and Mike Miller have more Finals experience than the entire Golden State roster. The depth advantage for the Warriors is a much more valid argument for them, but Dellavedova and Thompson have more than proven themselves these Playoffs, and while the Warriors still have that going for them, it's not like the Cavs are that outclassed.

Golden State in 6 or 7 this time around, but as a betting man, I would never pick them against a full-health Cavs team.  

Fourth time copy/pasting that for all of the rabid Curry worshippers around the Internet.

Meanwhile Kyrie is looking so much better against the Hawks right now. Should be an easy win for the Cavs unless they have a huge breakdown. Makes me feel a lot better for their Finals run.  

Yes, I completely agree, Talon. If the cavs and warriors were both completely healthy, I would say the Cavs in 7, without a doubt. But just don't see any way that they would be able to do it with as injured as they are right now.

But it is good to watch Kyrie playing right now.

I just turned on the game.  

My broom was ready.  

Posted by Talon

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Well damn, that was unnecessarily condescending. I really don't care enough to do the required research, but I'm betting I could probably find amazing 15 game stretches during the unnecessarily long NBA regular season for a number of the top teams in the west and make it sound like they should be the favorites.

Throw the cavs in the west and they're what, a 6 or 7 seed. Pretty sure they would have struggled to get past two very good teams in the clips or rockets without home court advantage, like I said.

Meanwhile GS has looked vulnerable for about two seconds in the Memphis series before adjusting, won 67 games despite clinching early, and had a point differential of +10. I'll stick with GS in 5 and we'll see what happens.  

Update: Klay is expected to play besides having a concussion

2 MORE DAYS then we can witness Game 1 of the NBA Finals.  

Game's on, Cavs up by 10 at the end of the first. This is going to be a great ****ing series, win or lose.