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The Finals | Game 1 | Cavs @ Warriors | June 2nd, 2016 | 9:00pm EST

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Czvosec said:
I just don't understand why people are going after Ty Lue. Guys has made very few mistakes this postseason, and whenever he has, he's corrected them. He'll fix whatever he messed up tonight.

Calm down, guys. Let this series play out.
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okay then explain how his game plan of iso was a good idea? clearly it was a game plan with them going in the post with Love and Lebron the 1st 2 quarters. explain to me why it was good game plan to go with kyrie with the 2nd unit instead of the more successful lebron 2nd unit. explain me the game plan to not play frye at all in the 2nd half and why we are still using delly and kyrie on livingston when he always torch these guys in the regular season and not use the taller Richardson on him?

i have no beef with you..i just need people to explain their reasoning in support of this gameplan.
 
I think my problem is this Warriors team just isn't one you can afford to make mistakes with. Especially not after they've come back from near-death already with OKC. They are confident and not going to let themselves get in that position again without fighting for their lives at least.

And we in return... I mean damn, can anyone blame a bit of pessimism after that. Holy shit I just hope we can at least put up a good enough fight not to feel embarrassed by the end of it...
 
Flight479 said:
He guarded Steph well and only Steph. That lineup is fine and has considerable height. Aside from Curry and Barbosa, Kyrie would be in a mismatch every time.
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He was pretty solid against Iguodala and in the limited possessions he found himself on Klay.

Livingston was on fire against Irving and Shump.

Irving then found himself on Barnes, who they immediately posted up.
 
Plaxicofan7 said:
Lue HAS to stop playing Kyrie with the bench unit. It just doesn't work. It had success 1 time in the ATL series but that's it. Lebron needs to be the one on the floor with them. And I have no clue why Frye barely played, he has the ability to be a game changer and barely saw the floor. Lue needs to play what works, hopefully he gets it done in game 2.
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It worked in ATL, because Channing Frye was part of that unit. Kyrie was out there with no one else that's a threat to score. And they flipped around the LeBron version of that unit by not including Channing Frye or Jefferson in that line up. Both Shump and JR were in that version of the 2nd unit. So it was basically Delly and LeBron versus everyone else. Hated the line ups tonight.
 
Kyrieville said:
You watch ESPN? Stop it.
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Nope I don't even watch ESPN, but being the largest and most distributed sports network their opinions and "news" will undoubtedly and annoyingly find its way into my life lol
OT: Really wish Fox Sports would take off and give ESPN some needed competition
 
Seriously, though - when you hold Curry and Klay to a combined 20 points, and lose by 15 points, that's no bueno. That's a golden opportunity, and we choked the chicken.

Sounds like they defensed us exceptionally-well, but one has to keep trying, to find something that works. If the Big 3 are off, then you have to give Frye some burn.

And if you are getting beat by Livingston and Bogut, then you need more Delly/Shump and Moz.

Lue has to wake up and smell the fucking coffee.
 
Triple-S said:
I'm just frustrated.

Why is this warriors team relevant? Why are they breaking records? With this style of basketball?

I'm very willing to accept a team like the Spurs, or past Lakers teams for example.

Why is this "working"? It feels frustrating because this isn't like 2005-2009 where the Cavs were indeed not as talented as say, the Celtics or something.

I apologize for sounding whiney. I'm just a bit frustrated is all.
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At the end of the day, you can't do much about a team hitting jumpers and this Warriors team hits jumpers better than any other team has. For eternity, defenses have considered it a success to get the opposition to settle for jumpers. Now, you have a group of guys that are perfectly fine doing that because they hit a ton of them. Their average game is essentially a hot shooting night from a standard NBA team.
 
fujikuro said:
It is pretty amazing when someone has a near triple double and royally sucked.
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Or you don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Cavs were down 3 when LeBron sat in the 3rd. Part of the reason they came back and he helped lock up Steph that qrt.

If you want to say he didn't play great...fine. Saying he sucked? When he also got no calls from the refs.
Quality posting though.
 
KilgoreTrout said:
Seriously, though - when you hold Curry and Klay to a combined 20 points, and lose by 15 points, that's no bueno. That's a golden opportunity, and we choked the chicken.

Sounds like they defensed us exceptionally-well, but one has to keep trying, to find something that works. If the Big 3 are off, then you have to give Frye some burn.

And if you are getting beat by Livingston and Bogut, then you need more Delly/Shump and Moz.

Lue has to wake up and smell the fucking coffee.
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You didn't even watch the fucking game....

SMFH..

I'm out.
 
gourimoko said:
Because they go after Ty Lue after every game, ever since Blatt got fired.

Again, it's transparent and fucking pathetic; and it's also indisputable by just going through post history.
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it seems that all you see..
 
gourimoko said:
He was pretty solid against Iguodala and in the limited possessions he found himself on Klay.

Livingston was on fire against Irving and Shump.

Irving then found himself on Barnes, who they immediately posted up.
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Iggy drew a double I believe on one switch. Whether its a miss or not doesn't matter if it's an open shot. Certain lineups Kyrie has to be taken out. The Warriors are far too smart and will find the mismatch every time. Unlike us, we go away from it too much.
 
Schematically, we're lost. We aren't making passes that lead to anything mainly because we are so stagnant. Passing just to pass, then to pass it back to the player who originally passed it.

The Warriors are abusing us as far as X's and O's, mismatches, switches, ect. If we're going to try to win based on talent (which is what it looked like to me) then this series will be over in 4 or 5 games.
 
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