khans2k5 wrote:It's definitely not the owner's fault that the players couldn't see two feet in front of their face and just chose the greed option. Sorry, but the owners and the league offered up the sensible approach to the cap jump and the players turned it down. There's no other way to look at it. The PA fucked up and now they get to deal with it. Everyone in their mother warned against the huge jump and they ignored it because of their own greed. At the end of the day the owners don't get to just do what they want. The players negotiate the CBA and that cap jump as well. Putting it all on the owners is ridiculous when it was the PA that shut down the proper approach to the cap jump.
I'm not denying the greed of the players. I am saying that the owners needed to anticipate that greed when negotiating the CBA, not as a side bar issue when the cap jump came. The owners couldn't see two feet in front of their face either because parity and competitive balance is really not that important to them. It is revenue and everything else is secondary.
What more do you want them to do? Lockout the league at it's peak because the players want all the money now? Again, they can't make unilateral decisions on this stuff.
thedoper wrote:When did the cavs learn to defend. This year's Cavs may be the most inconsistent team ever.
George Hill is playing like George Hill that sure helps on both ends. It will be interesting to see what happens when the series goes back to Boston.
Yeah Hill is a potential game changer for them for sure. I think game 5 will be close with the Cavs seeming to have made some adjustments.
TT was playing defense tonight like he was when they won the title and Korver had 3 blocks and some very good D. It might also be worthwhile to mention who didn't play Hood and Clarkson. I don't watch those guys enough to know but I haven't heard much positive about those guys on that end.
thedoper wrote:Road win for Houston. Was not expecting that. Good for them. Our 4-1 bitch slap isn't looking as bad.
It's fun that this league can still surprise us right? :) I didn't watch the game but it's kinda funny and surprising in general that neither of these high scoring teams didn't even make it to 100 points. I didn't see that part coming although it shouldn't be that surprising both teams can really defend.
Weird game between warriors and rockets. Harden, paul and gordon basically take and used up all possesions for the rockets. They only play 7 guys! 3 of those guys took 4 shots and capella had 6 shots. It was basically iso ball all the way for the rockets for harden/paul/gordon.
thedoper wrote:Road win for Houston. Was not expecting that. Good for them. Our 4-1 bitch slap isn't looking as bad.
It's fun that this league can still surprise us right? :) I didn't watch the game but it's kinda funny and surprising in general that neither of these high scoring teams didn't even make it to 100 points. I didn't see that part coming although it shouldn't be that surprising both teams can really defend.
Golden State pissed this one away. Shot 3 - 19 in the 4th... a combination of hard-nosed D from Houston and GSW taking shitty shots.
There was one possession in particular when Houston got two straight offensive rebounds through pure hustle, then Harden nearly lost it out of bounds but Looney couldn't grab it, then they hit a 3.
Houston just isn't fun to watch. But they play hard. And even though Chris Paul is super cheap and seems like a miserable person... he saved their season tonight. Harden took a backseat and Paul took over.
