Saturday, May 23, 2015

It's official the Hawks are that bad!

To all those LeBron haters that still exist out there, you lost your hope for him not going to five straight finals when his team defeated the Chicago Bulls, I get it you have some strange urge to hate greatness, and the odd way a millennial will rise to it. Seriously though, this man is good for basketball, if you truly love this game so much than why are you hating the closest version to a clone of Magic Johnson perhaps one of the most loved NBA players of all time, and I am sure the majority of you're mouths were centimeters from Michael Jordan's hypothetical balls when he was in the league. This a man who rarely implied his team might be partly responsible for their success, and his ego was so big he thought he should quit basketball and try baseball for two years, wait Michael you ain't Bo Jackson, your last name is not Sanders.
Though on the subject of the Hawks, this is exactly why teams have superstars, and don't tell me you consider Jeff Teague one, for you would be dead wrong, Kyle Korver not even close, and Al Horford is one of those Power Forwards forced to be a Center due to a lack of size in the NBA these days. Atl has completely abandoned what got them the number one seed in the East through an excellent regular season, seems like they are using isolation plays more than the Cav's, remember when the Hawks were known for their ball movement, yeah me neither I didn't watch them outside of SportsCenter which they were barely on because they're boring to watch.
Credit does have to go to the Cavaliers though, their defense has jumped to another level in the playoffs, and they have frustrated an Atlanta team without a true leader and one of those coaches that would be a genius if he got lucky and had a superstar or two on his team, but since he's coaching the Hawks he seems sub-par. Now the Cavs seem poised to sweep the Hawks and get some rest before the Finals, the next man up philosophy seems to be working, even so to the point that LeBron grabbed the bench with only one rebound needed for a triple double towards the end of game two.
Even with Kyrie Irving in a suit on the sideline trying to heal up from injuries on both knees, LeBron used his leadership to keep the team well directed and focused, and we know that at this point people in Cleveland are starting to feel some serious excitement for a long awaited championship. So we shall see if LeBron and company have the killer instinct and step on the feathered necks of the Hawks on Sunday evening, and on that note Panda out!!!

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