if game 7 wasn't enough, now the nba will turn the lakers into a superteam. i thought the rockets would be better than the lebron/PG lakers... but if they get kawhi too, our window is shut. replaced by the more popular player, team, city, front office... its all about ratings. we were about 5 missed calls away from the championship. and if we just went 4/27 instead of 0/27 we would've beat the warriors and the refs anyway! instead we will have to supertax cp3 to make good on his opt&trade. gonna keep ariza and capela too... so our ship will slowly sink for the next 4 years. only hope is the spurs send kawhi to another team besides the lakers. although boston or the sixers would be tough to beat with him, at least we'd have another chance at the finals.
It's a super team or bust league now. I hope the Rockets can get James but it's ridiculous that it has to come to that to feel like you have a chance to win a championship.
The biggest thing I hate, outside of the Lebron "super team" era, is the corrupt NBA refs that influence the outcome of games. The refs are responsible for alot of teams winning championships that didn't deserve to be there. As long as NBA refs are influencing the outcome of games the product of the NBA will never be what it should be. You're basically taking the competitiveness out of the game just to market it to fans who do not know anything about basketball On a side note the new NBA rules have also watered the game down
Am I allowed to watch the Rockets play the rest of the NBA, even if the league's brass appear to stack the deck in favor of certain teams and Houston isn't one of them? I think I am. Why do I bother? Because I think we can beat the stacked deck. I think that had Chris Paul not gone down in the last 22 seconds of game 5, we win anyway, and a ref didn't make that call. It was bad luck, bad juju. Yes, assigning those particular refs to the WC Finals was an obvious act of bias in favor of Oakland. You have to find a way to win, regardless, and I think we did, but for that injury to Chris.
A boxing fan accusing basketball the most corrupt sport.... i know refs suck but not as thick as boxing judges.
we didnt go 0/27... harden hit a 3 in the middle of that 'streak' but it was revoked.. so no ifs and buts..had we hit a couple more shots refs would have robbed us even more... it was clear the officiating was fair until it become clear the worriers were about to sink too deep to come back in the second half...they were on ropes...
I agree with parts of your posts but I completely disagree about the superteams!!! I love and have always loved the idea of superteams and it needs to continue to build intense rivalries --- like the 49er and cowboy dynasties of old.... I love how good the warriors are because when someone takes them out it makes it that much better---- stop being sooo whiny.... I always wanted to play the best and beat the best... not make rules that make all teams average and beat an average team. That's boring
This is just about the Warriors winning a few times. If it weren't for that people wouldn't be complaining about the league being ruined and officiating. The league is still competitive. The Warriors are not some unbeatable team the NBA has never seen. Houston was 24 mins from knocking them out twice with one star player, the Cavs beat them without KD, and with KD the Celtics and Rockets have very realistic chances of beating them. Celtics have the pieces to create a team that can win multiple championships. There are some other teams one star away from competing as well. The Warriors drafted well and then had incredible luck with timing of the cap jumping up. This is crucial, and could have easily been several other teams like the Thunder. Its not some conspiracy. If this cap jump happened after Presti had drafted KD, Russ, and Harden then Harden never would have been traded. He was traded over a a few million dollars a year so they could sign Kendrick Perkins. You would be complaining about the Thunder ruining the league. Imagine KD, Harden, Russ, AND another star in his prime. This is not something that will go on forever, there are already serious threats against the Warriors that are nearly 7 years younger on average (mostly Boston, but potentially Philly). If the Warriors win the next 4 years in a row, I would then maybe be done with the league. It just is not likely. This is their time, but it is not going to be like the Celtics winning 11 out of 13 years consecutive years, there is just way too much talent in the league now.
i read somewhere that NBA lost a lot of money the way this NBA Finals played out. if they lose money, great. they should keep losing money and learn a lesson.
That happens when the finals ends in 4 games instead of 7. So you want them to rig it after all, so that it goes 7?
