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He also said Warriors without Steph can beat the Cavs...
Dude had good moments this morning but he got a little annoying lol
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:15348148
Take it for what's it worth (nothing) but still a less annoying media supporter than Skip Bayless.
He also said Warriors without Steph can beat the Cavs...
Dude had good moments this morning but he got a little annoying lol
Stephen A. Smith says if no more Curry, whoever wins the le will have an asterisk without a doubt for not playing against Curry.
Riiiiight. But not if LeBron wins one for the land
Cavs are quietly rounding into championship team. They will run the table vs everyone this year.
Cavs looking strong TBH
lol at cavs looking strong. They played the pistons..let's take a step back for a secI bet they have a tougher time with ATL/BOS
The Spurs have a trophy case full of asterisks. I'd be super happy with another one.
Errr, he said "whoever wins the le"...meaning LeBron would get an asterisk as well.
And honestly he's right. If Curry can't play these playoffs, whoever ends up winning (Cleveland, SA, OKC, etc.) is going to get questioned about whether they were truly the best team or not. People will always go, "Yeah they were a great team, but there's no way they would've beaten GS if Curry didn't go down". That sort of stuff always happens to an extent when injuries are involved, but when it's the MVP of the team that just broke the single-season record for wins? You can bet your ass people are going to be throwing around the term "asterisk" quite a bit.
Luckily for me, I don't give a
Watch the games. They are healthy and light years ahead in team chemistry over last years cavs. Even delisammich is looking like a got damn problem.lol at cavs looking strong. They played the pistons..let's take a step back for a sec
Cavs will beat a healthy worriers team aleasily
Na dude I have seen the games. Detroit was in almost all of them. I mean they won by one yesterday. They didn't just steamroll through the first round. Cavs do not have the defense to contain a healthy warriors team. Cavs get maybe one game...maybe.
Eventually the asterisk will come to mean just the opposite, that you took the toughest route and beat the best teams in the process with all their players healthy in a non-shortened year. That's because every ring otherwise has an asterisk applied to it by a fan of an opposing team, so just get rid of the asterisk and accept that every win comes with caveats that the opposition will fall back on for emotional, moral support.
* = no caveats
Cavs without their best player Irving took the worriers to 6 games last season.
Add GOAT Kyrie and they trounce everyone with complete ease.
If Curry is healthy this is a better, more experienced team. 73 wins, they steamrolled the entire league all year.
Worriers were on as good a roll as this year last playoffs imo
Still. Cavs were missing their best player and took this same worrier team to 6 games.
i wanna get baked with this dude
The asterisk is only popular because of Phil Jackson using that statement in the fall of '99. The media ran with it simply because they hated the Spurs and loved the Lakers. No one gave the bulls an asterisk when they beat the '91 Lakers without Worthy and Byron Scott or in '93 when they won against the Suns without Ceballos. No one gave the Lakers an asterisk in '88 when they beat the Pistons even though Isiah Thomas played the last two games of that series on a broken ankle.
Asterisks or not, injuries are part of the playoffs, practically every season. Last season GSW had their share of questionable series wins to depleted teams + they didn't face OKC, Spurs or Clippers. Of the teams they faced, not one was whole and Cavs were severely limited with just one star.. They still won.
Yeah the media always makes up some BS to try and take away from our championships.
1999: Lockout
2003: Lakers exhausted mentally from 3 peat, Horry's shot rimmed out
2005: If only the pistons had homecourt
2007: Pheonix players suspended, Mavs upset by Warriors
2014: Heat tired from 4 Finals trips in a row and Ibaka injured
Give me all the asterisks in the world, you beat who is in front of you, that is it, and that is all
Injuries to teams happen every year. It's happened to the Spurs...other teams didn't get an *, did they?
Being dependent on one player, is a weakness in putting together a basketball team. It is part of the game to build a complete team. Because of the obvious reason...injuries happen.
I feel like krie is in the too dumb to lose category and that scares me.
I heard he has a huge
Phil only applied it because of the shortened season but the slippery slope took hold and the avalanche started without regulation so now it's applied to everything which severely dilutes the original intent. Now it's simply the mark of a sore loser.
Who?
Unless it's a big market team like the Knicks. The media still sucks their s for winning a le they only got because Havlicek destroyed his shoulder so badly he could barely throw a pass to his teammates in the last 3 games of the ECF. That was a 68 win Celtics team those Knicks fluked into beating.
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