NBA: Clippers (#3) vs. Warriors (#6) Playoff Series Thread

[Robz4000]

Demonkey Jordan with the bads

[Expert]

That's not a very parsimonious hypothesis, Einstein. A simpler explanation is that teams are just choking.

That's a more convenient explanation, but not more parsimonious. That explanation allows the NBA to make more money.

What other game has the unwritten rule that the aggressive team gets more favorable calls? Or that "home cooking" exists, or that stars get special ref treatment, or that refs swallow whistles at crucial points in the game? What other sport do you know all the refs by name, where they have little kissing exhibitions and races, where they are like the bad guys in WWF, where the same guy has been doing it forever and he's ancient, where an official was imprisoned for his illegal betting activities and subsequently spilled the beans? What other sport do you know of where you have to "feel out" the officiating to know what you can and cannot get away with.... "they are letting them play tonight"... or "they are calling it tight tonight"...

How many college refs do you know by name? How many football refs? Exactly... but that's not parsimonious.... teams are just choking so that almost every matchup is going to go seven games and the Memphis series has 4 overtimes, most in the history of the league.

[Kawhi]

wheres that got Danny Granger

[Robz4000]

det call

[100%duncan]

CP

[MeloHype]

CP0

[100%duncan]

clippers

[HI-FI]

.4 noooo

[Spurs da champs]

dat clock.

[Chinook]

Draymond Green showed the up.

[Arcadian]

That's a more convenient explanation, but not more parsimonious. That explanation allows the NBA to make more money.

What other game has the unwritten rule that the aggressive team gets more favorable calls? Or that "home cooking" exists, or that stars get special ref treatment, or that refs swallow whistles at crucial points in the game? What other sport do you know all the refs by name, where they have little kissing exhibitions and races, where they are like the bad guys in WWF, where the same guy has been doing it forever and he's ancient, where an official was imprisoned for his illegal betting activities and subsequently spilled the beans? What other sport do you know of where you have to "feel out" the officiating to know what you can and cannot get away with.... "they are letting them play tonight"... or "they are calling it tight tonight"...

How many college refs do you know by name? How many football refs? Exactly... but that's not parsimonious.... teams are just choking so that almost every matchup is going to go seven games and the Memphis series has 4 overtimes, most in the history of the league.

I didn't say it was wrong, just unparsimonious. Conspiracy theories require more assumptions than the simple possibility that things just work out the way they do. But, of course, that doesn't prove they are wrong.

[ElNono]

gotta miss the 2nd one...

[ElNono]

yup onto game 7

[100%duncan]

Cliff Pul

[rogues]

I'm so mad at the Clippers..I can't imagine how my brother Clipper Nation feels..

[skut_farkus]

Chris paul just doesn't have it

[Robz4000]

Spurs/Mavs confirmed for 7,

[IrisHockey]

every series in the West will go 7 games.

This is shaping up to be the best playoffs of all time, surpassing 2011..

[ElNono]

Can't wait for the Choke Paul and Vagina Griffin rant from Clipper Nation

[HI-FI]

That's a more convenient explanation, but not more parsimonious. That explanation allows the NBA to make more money.

What other game has the unwritten rule that the aggressive team gets more favorable calls? Or that "home cooking" exists, or that stars get special ref treatment, or that refs swallow whistles at crucial points in the game? What other sport do you know all the refs by name, where they have little kissing exhibitions and races, where they are like the bad guys in WWF, where the same guy has been doing it forever and he's ancient, where an official was imprisoned for his illegal betting activities and subsequently spilled the beans? What other sport do you know of where you have to "feel out" the officiating to know what you can and cannot get away with.... "they are letting them play tonight"... or "they are calling it tight tonight"...

How many college refs do you know by name? How many football refs? Exactly... but that's not parsimonious.... teams are just choking so that almost every matchup is going to go seven games and the Memphis series has 4 overtimes, most in the history of the league.

dropping some serious truth bombs.

but curious i thought you said the NBA wasn't rigged? i never thought it was totally rigged, but definitely manipulated, just my belief. I just don't think a billion dollar operation is going to leave everything to chance. But some things they can't control and always have multiple threads/stories if plan A can't happen.

The fact we know the refs and you have guys old as dirt still running around with peak hoodrats is definitely suspect imo.

[TheMACHINE]

Blake Griffin does the dumbest fouls.

[Expert]

I didn't say it was wrong, just unparsimonious. Conspiracy theories require more assumptions than the simple possibility that things just work out the way they do. But, of course, that doesn't prove they are wrong.

So? It's not like there are two competing theories that make sense. The odds of every team choking just at the right time to get to a game seven cannot be higher than the business of the NBA pushing it's product through creative game play and just in time foul calling. One might be a conspiracy, but it's not like I suggested aliens.

[Venti Quattro]

Chris Paul and another Game 7... Is Jannero Pargo available to sign for LAC?

[Mugen]

What a great playoffs so far tbh.

[Mugen]

if the Clippers lose to a team with Draymond Green as their best big....