2022/3 season thread

Couple of points:

It's not "what little negative"; there's tonnes of it.

1'm a Celtics fan yes, but foremost I'm a basketball fan. Pre-Covid, when I was in the US monthly with work and in a position to see games regularly I didn't decide on what teams to watch, I almost always decided on players. I've seen LeBron in the flesh countless times. One of the greatest in game dunks I've ever seen was LeBron over half the Celtics team (not the dunk over Jason Terry btw). I purposely sought out to watch him play many times. It's nothing to do with who I support as a team, nothing.

Carcharadon is a Warriors fan btw, so his "hate" 🙄 is not based on LeBron beating up on the Celtics.

No-one has mentioned "The Decision" on here in a long time. But since you mention it, surely even you can admit how it was handled was appallingly bad for LeBron's "brand"? But you probably won't even admit that, right? Just to be absolutely clear, I have no issue with him wanting to play elsewhere....that's his call. But he handled it so badly it's used as an example of how not to exit a team/job/city etc.

The comments about lack of empathy and threats to the validation of my youth? Lol. Whatever amateur psychology book you read that in should be shredded. But since we're doing amateur psychology, the way you defend him in such a ridiculously over the top way in the face of all available evidence suggests a deep insecurity on your part TBH.

You only see "hate"? You repeatedly ignore any and all criticism of him no matter how valid - even when that criticism is flanked with praise, and frankly that completely undermines a lot of your positions. Even your defender-in-chief on here says you go "overboard" in your praise for LeBron but he's probably been removed from the super friend list for saying that. No-one, and I mean no-one, on here isn't saying he isn't great. We'd just like to see less of the "me, me, me", and the flopping, and the travelling, and the gamesmanship, and the "I've never played on a super team" and "I need to learn how to flop" comments etc. etc. You also seem incapable of seeing the praise I and others give him at times - example: you can say he played an amazing game in G4 of the WCF and still criticize his last 2 plays. You do know they're not mutually exclusive, right? You do know you can both praise a player and criticize him for actions in the same game - it's not as simple as "he had a great game" or "he was crap".

Despite what you seem to think, Jordan isn't my favourite player, but I do think he was the greatest to ever play the game - again, I know you struggle with subtlety and nuance, but there's a difference. My favourite player is Larry Bird - knowing how some people think I'll probably be accused of being racist now. 🙄

The dunk I referenced btw:

Great team performance, it’s a very rare thing to see 4 guys scoring over 20 each when your team scored just 110 in total - you tend to only see that in high scoring blow outs.

There’s a chance, but it’s a slim one. It’s never been done, but if anyone was to do it, it’s likely to be a team that had a significantly better season than the team currently leading them, lost a few games to the other team shooting way above expected % in games 1 and 2, has game 7 at home etc.

I’m not saying they’ll do it and I’ll be shocked if they do, but after games 1-3 you’d have been mad to see anything but a sweep, and yet here we are.

Bam has been very disappointing, not just this series but throughout the play offs. The all time record for teams down 3-0 is 151 - 0, so it's highly unlikely that this will happen, but. Boston are actually better away from home than they are at home in the Play Offs in the last few seasons, so if they can win G6, it's a once off all to play for G7. It would be bizarre, but this is likely the best chance go that becoming 151 - 1.

I was going to post a slew of LeFlop videos but I decided against it.

That said, the one where Grayson Allen is called for a foul on LeBron is priceless, the look on Allen’s face says it all. It’s by no means his most ridiculous one, but it is funny.

Curry doesn’t complain like a bitch though.

and doesn’t say **** like “I need to learn how to flop”

I’ve had this weird feeling all day Boston are going to win tonight. Can’t explain it and it could all be bollocks, but feeling it.