NBA Finals Game 5 Open Thread

Submitted by Magnus on

Can Golden State close out the Cavs tonight without Draymond Green? It should be fun to watch, regardless.

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Mr. Elbel

June 14th, 2016 at 7:59 AM ^

was really hoping golden state would win last night so that draymond wouldn't get tons of credit and LeBron would still cry. I actually mentioned something of a similar scenario back during the western conference finals. now it seems that if golden state is going to win they'll have to do it with draymond green on the floor. maybe he'll just have a sucky game but someone else will take over enough to win it for them. go blue. screw msu and screw the entire state of ohio, especially Cleveland and especially LeBron.

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UM Fan from Sydney

June 14th, 2016 at 8:25 AM ^

This makes no sense. You don't want Draymond to get a lot of credit with a Warriors win, but that would also give him a second championship.

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WorldwideTJRob

June 14th, 2016 at 11:29 AM ^

Green comes back so that will limit Lebron's scoring output some and you have to believe GSW won't shoot 0/11 on uncontested 3's like they did in the 2nd half. Plus the odds of Kyrie and Lebron scoring 40 each are pretty slim so they need their $113M teammate to pick them up.



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Magnus

June 14th, 2016 at 11:34 AM ^

I don't know if he was the best player on the floor, but he was the best scorer. His shooting percentage has been climbing all series from 32% to 36% to 48% to 50% to 71% last night. He seems to be figuring out what he can do against Golden State. I'm not sure if he can top last night's performance on Thursday, but Golden State needs to figure something out. I think it certainly helped that Green and Bogut were out, because he could go inside and/or post up without worrying about the shot blocking of those two guys.

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