Looks a lot like 90's isoball
Clipper Nation
Golden State isn't playing 90's style basketball, though.
The way they were talking, it was as if it is extinct and every single team ditched ISOball for great ball movement
Clipper in hiding
Atleast credit the Warriors for drawing foulsLooks a lot like 90's isoball
James and his fadeaway fail
They were ready for that. He couldn't in' breath.
It was Kerr out of the TO.
Because of ISOBALL, that CN swore was extinct
BS, head cheese, the ISO worked splendidly...Kerr just made adjustments on the fly and James did not respond to those adjustments. They caught James tiptoeing on his last regulation shot. "If he goes there again, pin his ass on that sideline. Understand?" - Kerr in that TO. Those kind of mental mistakes cannot be made in playoff settings. You're gonna answer for it. The Cavs answered for it.Because of ISOBALL, that CN swore was extinct
I told ya's last nite mid third quarter that Iggy's demeanor, his restraint and poise was game saving. He never got flustered, nor angry, nor frustrated. He stayed the course. Iggy made it possible for them to win. Iggy made it probable for them to win.
Iggy
No it didn't work. James never had any intention of driving to the basket. He was scared of driving, getting fouled, and having to win the game at the line.
Now that's just silly. It failed because Kerr fathomed it out over 48 minutes, looked at the tapes at 1/2 time and set his snares. James, making the same mistake he's made before stepped into one of 'em on that sideline and the snare snapped.
They weren't going to call anything in that situation. He was better off taking a jumpshot than driving into the teeth of the defense and either getting hacked with no whistle or losing the ball.
I'd rather have Kyrie taking that shot anyway. Not that LeBron "isn't clutch" or whatever, just that Kyrie is more of a shotmaker than LeBron is.
& James froze, not solid, but, he stiffened considerable. "Uh, oh." He'd ed up and he knew it & Media knows it as well, but, that sequence will never see the light of discourse (cept here). No % in it.
Huh? What?
The Cavs have ran more than twice as many ISOs per game as the 2nd and 3rd ranked ISO teams in the playoffs, this year(Pelicans and Bulls)..there's a reason it has been widely discussed..
I've been saying the Cavs are too ISO-oriented, all playoffs..it's funny how delusional people are, though, this is the most love Lebron has received from the fans and media since 2009, and it's the worst he has looked since 2007 or 2008
shet YO ass up. You were slobbing his knob all Damn season and proclaiming how ISOball isn't prevalent anymoreHuh? What?
The Cavs have ran more than twice as many ISOs per game as the 2nd and 3rd ranked ISO teams in the playoffs, this year(Pelicans and Bulls)..there's a reason it has been widely discussed..
I've been saying the Cavs are too ISO-oriented, all playoffs..it's funny how delusional people are, though, this is the most love Lebron has received from the fans and media since 2009, and it's the worst he has looked since 2007 or 2008
Ya, that's not true..damn, this dude is worse than Arnold Tait, tbh
Intellectually LeBron knows that too much ISO is a bad thing- he's flat-out said as much a number of times during the playoffs- but it's like he can't help himself. It's a habit he can't kick.
Not defending Bron, but I think he knows despite being the underdog... I know he said he never is, but still Knows he will be questioned with another Finals Loss. So know he doesnt want to play that way ... but if he is facing a likely loss I can understand why he resorted to it. I dont think most guys are being selfish when they chuck and by all accounts Lebron is not ... they just dont wanna lose with someone at the wheel. Lebron doesnt want to go down in flames a la Paul Walker (RIP) with someone else in control of the wheel.
Here it is, for the iso s:
Warriors show how they intend to 'stop' LeBron
OAKLAND, Calif. -- In winning Game 1 of the NBA Finals 108-100 in overtimeon Thursday, the Golden State Warriors revealed their plan for stopping LeBron James.
Except their plan for stopping LeBron isn't about stopping LeBron. It's about having him go it alone. James dominated the action, led all scorers with 44 points, made incredible plays and came incredibly close to victory. The Warriors will take it, though, and not just because they won. While the Warriors almost lost, that happened mostly due to offensive issues. Their top-ranked defense, and most especially Andre Iguodala's top-flight defense, won this.
Warriors coach Steve Kerr joked about his team's effectiveness on James, noting that he scored 44 points. Kerr eventually settled on "pick your poison" when describing the conundrum of stopping such a talent. What's clear is the Warriors have chosen their poison. Today, they live. They want a game in which James shoots 38 times, with only four of those tries coming in the restricted area. They want a game in which Cleveland scores 100 points on 94 shots. If LeBron beats Golden State with floaters and step-back jumpers, those are the breaks.
A key principle in Golden State's defensive approach is this: The Warriors don't want to be like theAtlanta Hawks were against the Cavs in the Eastern Conference finals. Atlanta let James sprint into his drives. It also kept collapsing whenever James drove, ceding an average of 9.3 assists per game to The King. In contrast, on Thursday night, James managed a mere six assists in 46 minutes of play. The Warriors have more rim protection than the Hawks did, and they intend to leverage it. When LeBron drives, it's up to his man and shot blockers -- not perimeter defenders -- to halt the assault.
"He made a lot of tough jumpers that were contested and we'll live with him shooting a lot of shots and scoring 40 because we feel like a lot of guys who are key to them winning a series don't get touches and don't get going," Warriors center Andrew Bogut said of James.
James gave the Cavs everything he could, but had little left when Cleveland missed its opportunity at the end of regulation. This was an eight-point win, decided by an inch. Iman Shumpert was that close to bringing home-court advantage to Cleveland, after LeBron's game-winner try shanked into Shump's hands. Shumpert's follow-up lipped over the iron, sparing the Warriors a do-or-die Game 2 on Sunday.
"I didn't even think we were going to overtime because I thought Iman's follow was going in," Kerr said.
The rest of the game was classic Golden State. After resisting for all of regulation, Kerr finally went small with Draymond Green at center. That blew apart a larger Cavs squad that had been logging heavy minutes. The Cavs scored only two points in the extra period -- an uncontested LeBron layup after the result was in hand.
"We feel like our depth will win this series in the long run, whether it's seven games, six, whatever it is. Hopefully we're right," said Bogut, who sat during that small-ball burst.
It's all part of the LeBron erosion project. Let him take his shots, let him log his minutes, and wait for him to wear down. There's always risk in such an approach because James is great. An entire arena of people who gulped as he launched that game-winner attempt would attest to that.
On most nights, the Warriors will need more offense from more players. Stephen Curry was himself, but other starters struggled, especially in the beginning. Poor shooting dug the Warriors a 14-point deficit in the first quarter. It took Iguodala and Marreese Speights providing an unexpected jolt of offense to right the ship. Once Golden State closed the gap, the action was closely contested until the fourth-quarter buzzer sounded.
The Warriors are lucky to escape Game 1, but they're also quite good, both in terms of talent and strategy. They backed LeBron James off, refusing to allow him acceleration toward the hole. Then, they invited LeBron to beat them all by himself. He's skilled enough that he came so close to achieving just that.
But in the end, the defense and its game plan prevailed. A king cannot rule well if his subjects starve.
^^ Ethan Strauss said this prior to the game, tbh, that Kerr and the Warriors said they intended on allowing Lebron to do whatever he wants 1 on 1, which is the correct strategy..the rest of the team is useless if they can't play off him, and having Iguodala/Green/Barnes/Thompson is as good as anything in the league outside of maybe Kawhi/Green at defending Lebron..
Look at this ty game. Straight out the 90s
That was one of the tiest games I have ever seen, definitely 90s style
Modern NBA ball is more boring than beisbol tbh
3 pt jump shots lol
Basically watching a bunch of white reject undrafted players who created their own league, with the TV's brightness level set to 1
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