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Which game 7 loss is harder to accept

2018 lose to Cavs
2 (3.9%)
2012 lose to Heat
1 (2%)
2010 lose to Lakers
48 (94.1%)

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Offline Stig

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I know this team is supposed to have the least chance compared with the big 3 era teams, but some how it feels this loss is the hardest to swallow. Our opponent is not a good team, we have home court advantage, history is on our side, and yet we let it slip from our fingers.

Re: Which game 7 loss is harder to accept: 2018, 2012 or 2010?
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2018, 03:46:59 AM »

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2010. Not very close, either.
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Re: Which game 7 loss is harder to accept: 2018, 2012 or 2010?
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Offline LGC88

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Controversy, referee, can be frustrating.
However, a team that committed suicide in a game 7 is by far the one that hurts the most.
We could have lost 4-0 vs Houston or GS I couldn't give a [dang].
But this way of losing game 7 vs a bad cavs team?
I'm still in shock. It hurts so much.

Re: Which game 7 loss is harder to accept: 2018, 2012 or 2010?
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Offline bopna

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This yr was just gravy.
We are in fact very happy they over achieved.

2010 was obliterated in my mind.. It just stings so much I have not even watched it anymore than I watched it live on TV.

Re: Which game 7 loss is harder to accept: 2018, 2012 or 2010?
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Offline Androslav

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2010. It is not close.
2012. Didn't bug me as much as I realized that LBJ just played the best game of his career.
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Re: Which game 7 loss is harder to accept: 2018, 2012 or 2010?
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Offline gouki88

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2010. I can't imagine anything coming close to that.

Or at least, I hope nothing ever does
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Re: Which game 7 loss is harder to accept: 2018, 2012 or 2010?
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Offline Neurotic Guy

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Can’t speak of this loss in the same breath as 2010.  I am about 90% over this one already. Looking forward to Cavs getting destroyed, but more so looking forward to next season.   This is also less painful than 2012.  That ended an era; this one’s just begun.

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Offline rondofan1255

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2010 was easily the worst. Didn't expect much out of the 2012 or 2018 teams, especially 2018 with the injuries.

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Offline Beat LA

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2005, 2009, 2010, 2012, and now 2018. I've seen more than enough of these defeats, by now, quite frankly, not to mention the destruction of all of those records. It's sad, really, as I guess that that stuff just doesn't mean anything, anymore :-\.

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Offline TA9

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Game 7 against the Lakers in 2010. Without a doubt. We were literally one win away from winning the title that year.

I know that the loss against Cavs is painful but let us be a bit realistic. Our guys did incredibly well this year considering that Irving, Hayward etc. were out with injuries but I don't think that we would have fared well in a Finals series against the Warriors.
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Offline mr. dee

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Game 7 against the Lakers in 2010. Without a doubt. We were literally one quarter away from winning the title that year.

I know that the loss against Cavs is painful but let us be a bit realistic. Our guys did incredibly well this year considering that Irving, Hayward etc. were out with injuries but I don't think that we would have fared well in a Finals series against the Warriors.

We led the lakers by 13 going into 4th.

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Offline TA9

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Game 7 against the Lakers in 2010. Without a doubt. We were literally one quarter away from winning the title that year.

I know that the loss against Cavs is painful but let us be a bit realistic. Our guys did incredibly well this year considering that Irving, Hayward etc. were out with injuries but I don't think that we would have fared well in a Finals series against the Warriors.

We led the lakers by 13 going into 4th.
Seems like my memory has repressed that fact. Still hurts to this day.
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« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2018, 04:58:25 AM »

Offline SparzWizard

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Game 7 against the Lakers in 2010. Without a doubt. We were literally one quarter away from winning the title that year.

I know that the loss against Cavs is painful but let us be a bit realistic. Our guys did incredibly well this year considering that Irving, Hayward etc. were out with injuries but I don't think that we would have fared well in a Finals series against the Warriors.

We led the lakers by 13 going into 4th.

I blocked out 2010 Game 7 from my memory.

But tonight's performance eerily reminds me of that. 12-13 point lead in the 2nd quarter and it disappeared?


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Re: Which game 7 loss is harder to accept: 2018, 2012 or 2010?
« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2018, 04:59:14 AM »

Offline ozgod

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I know this team is supposed to have the least chance compared with the big 3 era teams, but some how it feels this loss is the hardest to swallow. Our opponent is not a good team, we have home court advantage, history is on our side, and yet we let it slip from our fingers.

Game 7 in 2010 far outweighs this one. I'm pretty much over this one already. I tried to keep a level head throughout the playoffs and keep thinking of the bigger picture.

This one hurts when it wasn't supposed to because our expectations changed over the course of the year, and over the course of this series. At the start of the year, and even when Kyrie went down, we'd all have been happy if we had been told we would make the ECF and be one game away from the Finals. But over the course of the playoffs and the Cinderella run continued they made us feel anything was possible. The stage seemed to be set, we were at home, LeBum on his last legs, it felt like destiny for an unheralded team to make the Finals.

They just couldn't quite seize the moment. At the end of the day they have LeBum, gotta take your hat off to him. That level of intensity and commitment to the cause and ability to execute when the pressure is greatest is what the likes of Tatum, Brown, Rozier and Co should aspire to. At the end of the day they executed better as a team. But this failure at the last shouldn't take away from what has been an awesome season by a team that was really fun to watch and gave us some great moments.

I think once we've had time to think and the loss isn't so raw we will find we have plenty to look forward to with this team.
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Re: Which game 7 loss is harder to accept: 2018, 2012 or 2010?
« Reply #14 on: May 28, 2018, 06:20:34 AM »

Offline TheSundanceKid

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2010. Not very close, either.
Yes, not close at all. 2010 was heartbreaking. This was not the Finals and we can see a bright future. 2010 was all doubt and misery, not knowing if that was the last we would see of the big 3