What better way to immortalize somebody’s place in NBA playoff history than to make a tribute video about them? Add in a few clips of them getting dunked on to the tune of Avril Lavigne and you have our country’s greatest cinematic masterpiece since James Cameron’s Avatar.
Goodnight sweet Joakim, you will be missed on the shores of Lake Erie.
PS
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Yawn. Start the series down 2-1, win the next 3. Boom. Just like that the series is over. On to Atlanta or Washington. Matthew Dellavedova grabbed Chicago’s heart out of their chest, squeezed, threw it the ground, stepped on it, then spit on it. He finished with 19 points and had a 20 second stretch in the 2nd half where he hit a 3, stripped the ball, then hit another 3. It was Jordan-esque.
LeBron didn’t play particularly well and still almost had a triple double, Tristan had 13 points and 17 rebounds, our bench went 9-18 on three pointers, and the Cavs officially ended the Thibodeau era by beating the Bulls by 21.
We’re on to Atlanta or Washington.
Let’s look at the game tape
We had quite the scare when Kyrie went down after injuring his foot. Good thing the Cavs won, it’ll provide some much needed rest for Kyrie
Tristan Thompson: Man’s game. Nice spinning and-1 oop from Delly
Mirotic did his best WWE Clothesline impression. Little did he know this would be the turning point that ultimately ended the game and the Bulls season.
Honestly though, who is going to stop this?
HE WINKED AT SCOTTY! HE WINKED AT SCOTTY!
On to Atlanta
Couple quick thoughts:
– Delly highlights upon Delly highlights
– Matthew Dellavedova outplayed Derrick Rose in an elimination game. Just let that sink in.
– He’s also listed as the owner of the Chicago Bulls
– Has anyone given David Blatt an ounce of credit yet? It’s going to be interesting to see in the next couple of days if anyone acknowledges the rookie head coach
– Tristan Thompson is making himself a shit ton of money this playoffs and he’ll deserve every cent of it
– During this time in between the ECF, Kyrie Irving should hire someone to carry him around everywhere he goes like Ariana Grande does. I don’t want him putting any weight on those legs.
– I want to play the Wizards next series solely because they have more hateable players. There’s really nothing about the Hawks that makes you strongly dislike them
– If you would have told me before the season it’d be LeBron James, Tristan Thompson and Matthew Dellavedova on the podium after a series clinching win to move on to the Eastern Conference Finals… I would have spit in your face and then slapped you
– The average margin of victory in the Celtics series was 9.25 PPG. In this Bulls series the Cavs won their games by an average of 10.75 PPG. BUT THE BULLS ARE SO GOOD AND EVERYONE ON ESPN PICKED THEM TO MAKE THE FINALS.
– Has a team ever had the #1 pick in the draft one year and then made the NBA Finals the next? Someone look that up, would ya?
See you guys next Wednesday.
Cavs in 4.
Play this before reading the ensuing quote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetASeLtIkw
“That’s what happens when you’re in Cleveland,” Gibson said. “It’s the second time in a row that they threw stuff at us. It’s classless. We’re just here to play basketball. I can’t focus on that kind of stuff.”
– Taj “Hardcore” Gibson
WAAAAAAAH!!!! WAAAAAAH!!! WAAAAAAH!!! THE BIG BAD CLEVELAND FANS THREW SOMETHING AT ME!!! WAAAHHH!!!!!
Good thing Taj wasn’t hurt though. Can you imagine being hit with a hard object after you were just ejected for kicking a player on the home team in an emotional playoff game? Man. That’d be awful. We really have to be thankful that the hard object didn’t hit him in the head and cause extensive damage… Phew. He’s lucky he didn’t get knocked unconscious. I mean this was just a terrible and heinous crime. Bottlegate x 100.
Wait a second. I thought Taj was in clear and imminent danger as he was being escorted off of the court? I thought those “classless” Cleveland fans were tossing beers/batteries/dog biscuits at him and really letting him have it…
Nah.
They weren’t.
Just one single 100% cotton towel rained down from the rafters at Quicken Loans Arena. You know the towels… About 18X12 inches. Made in China. Soft. Fluffy. White. Maybe about 4 ounces… So basically a murderous weapon.
Taj can’t be serious, can he? THAT’S what he considers “classless?”
Now I get it. Aside from hat tricks in hockey, people that throw things onto the field of play are generally assholes. And that’s fine. I’m not going to sit in my Ivory Tower and chastise people who throw things onto court/field/diamond. You see the name of this website? Without the drunk Browns fans chucking bottles of booze after referees made an officiating blunder in 2001, we wouldn’t be on this here Internet today… But to call an entire city of people “classless” for ONE COTTON TOWEL may be the most ridiculous thing an NBA player has ever done… and I suffered through two seasons of watching Dion Waiters.
Quick. Let’s play a game. Who’s tougher: Taj Gibson or my almost 2 year old dog Bodhi?
You know what Bodhi did after that? He didn’t call me “classless” and whine to the media. He smiled at me with his tail wagging. Then he turned his head around and licked his ass because being hit by a towel is basically the same feeling as a mild gust of wind.
I think it’s safe to say Taj would not have fared well in the WCW (this is an amazing clip)
Bottlegate 