I (sort-of) watched the game on a United flight a few weeks ago.
Sigh. Two of the three refs from the game where Draymond was given carte blanche to play linebacker.
Yes, I fly United a lot, and maybe 1/3-ish of the flights have DirecTV. Look at the Entertainment Options on your flight itinerary, and it should tell you whether your plane will be one of them..
That is not an encouraging group. I expect there will be a lot of angry posts in this thread later this evening.
Thank you for this. I heard it and by the time I looked in the game thread I didn't see it mentioned and thought maybe I had an auditory hallucination. The in game entertainment coordinator or whatever the fuck that person's title is should not be allowed in TD again like, ever.
I pause it when they start falling behind and then fast forward and hope they catch up. I’m 62 and in the office tomorrow at 8:30. I cannot skip the game. I wish they kept my WFH days Tuesday & Thursday / they switched to Thursday & Friday for the Summer.
The real question is who we get on Thursday. If we get zarba/foster then we'll see everyone Sunday night. If not the league might be OK with tonight's winner taking it in 6.
I've been switching to radio only by the beginning of the 2nd half. I really dont need to see it.
My wife hears me start yelling when the game is going South and she tells me to take a break. So I put on Netflix or Hulu and I hope they catch up
It's similar for me and I don't know why.My wife hears me start yelling when the game is going South and she tells me to take a break. So I put on Netflix or Hulu and I hope they catch up
Feel similar. I think the officiating is one aspect. I also think that there is something about this particular team and their focus level (and resulting turnovers or lack thereof) make the viewing experience difficult at times.
Yeah, but since Draymond has been totally exposed they won't give him that treatment again. That's for stars.
Part of it is that I know it would be SO incredibly exciting if they actually won this championship with such a young core. Plus we all know that there is no guarantee that they will ever get a better chance to win an NBA championship. So close so I internalize the pressure. Good news is I let the loss go pretty quick by Saturday AM. But I was so irritated that they were up 5 late with a clear path to being up 3-1.
Yep, I remember the hook shot. I watched the 2003 ALCS. The 86 Series. And I watched the recent playoff games of the Sox, Pats, Bruins, etc. And important games for the USMNT and the EPL team I support.
I think it is the sport in general. Basketball and hockey in particular are so fast there is no room for mental breaks even with a lead that seems comfortable. Especially the way the NBA is now, a 15 pt lead before the 4th quarter is basically nothing because any good run is likely to string together a couple threes at least and make it a close game in an instant. Hockey is tougher in other ways because scoring is at much more of a premium and is also much more luck-based; for example it's very easy to dominate the run of play in a hockey game and lose because of hot goaltending or hitting the post a bunch of times, etc, whereas wholesale domination almost by definition results in a win in basketball because of how many possessions there are.
We're probably not real fans anymore. If the Celtics lose tonight, I'll be pissed, but by the morning I'll be fine, and I'll mostly just avoid the SoSH forum and not listen to any Celtics pods.
You're right, of course, but we're running out of time for that to actually happen.
100% with you here. I have to take breaks, watch the score on the web, but when this team does dumb turnover after dumb turnover, I have to just walk away from *watching* it.
Absolutely right, but on the flip side, Curry has never played this well, like, ever in the playoffs. I think his TS% is the highest playoff series of his career. It's bananas. I looked back through his entire playoff game log yesterday, he almost always has either a total stinker (like 3-14 or whatever), or if not, something like one of the meh Tatum games this playoffs (8-21 for 22 points or whatever). His worst game this series is 9-21 for 29 points I think.
Interested to see if Tatum follows-up with his stated intent to go stronger at the rim. I'm not sure you can flip that switch suddenly, but if he can get back to scoring at the rim at an average clip and up his FTAs, it would be huge.
I'd like to see TL not sell all the way out to block every pull-up attempt in the lane. The perimeter rotations already mess up the boxouts; somebody has to go get the ball.
Thank you for posting this. I see Berj all the time on the sideline. Had no idea his wife was going through this. This is really sad.
OTOH the Warriors haven't had the "Klay game" this round. Even after the injury he's good for one supernova game per round.
He did have 25 in game 3. Maybe not "supernova", but it's his fourth most points scored in the playoffs this year.
Here in Hawaii, the games come on at 3 PM. While there are no sleep issues involved, the anguish is the same. No lead is safe with this team when they fall into a collective funk.
Why? It’s just a basketball game.
