NBA 2018-2019 playoffs thread...finals is set..”Warriors vs Raptors 2-4” Raptors win the title!!!
Not really.
Toronto has never been to the finals.
The Warriors are an all time great team.... Even without Durant.
Toronto is basically overachieving somewhat
To your point? They are dominating the Dubs in most facets of the game.
You aren't wrong however sometimes you just get beat.
Frazier didn't choke against Foreman or Ali. He just lost
True, but Ali and Foreman didn't have one arm tied behind their back either.
The loss of KD and Looney, along with a partially injured Iggy, Klay, and Cousins...
When the other team is full strength is just something I think is a monumental advantage for the Raptors.
I NEVER thought the Dubbs had an advantage over Cleveland in the 2016 finals. Both teams was fully equipped with their star players.
51 second mark. Illegal screen EVERY TIME.
They called it late in the game, but they literally do this shit all game long.
If a defender is chasing directly behind the offensive player, then please explain to me how the screener is still able to set a screen in time?
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Man all I know is OKC had absolutely NO EXCUSES not to win a few years ago and the Rockets had NO EXCUSES not to win last year but they both lost. The Raptors had every chance to win Game 5 until the Warriors did what they have done so many times before and that’s start playing like the championship TEAM they are. The Raptors are going to have to play a hell of a game tonight to win, if they don’t I dont see them beating a tried and true championship team like the Warriors in a Game 7
You never know what’s a lie or truth though. They made it like he was a unofficial member of the Lakers but that could’ve just been lying by ass Rob Pelinka.
Hmmmm
Setting up the conspiracy narratives if the Warriors lose tonight.....lol....
Just for clarification...
I am seeing people saying different
But
KEVIN DURANT IS A ROC NATION CLIENT
https://rocnation.com/about/
I am seeing people saying different
But
KEVIN DURANT IS A ROC NATION CLIENT
https://rocnation.com/about/
That ain’t no conspiracy.. just go back to game 3 on Marc Davis trash
Marc been on his clown shit since the Miami Heat days
I wish I could shake your hand.
LeBron made Wade lose money? I thought the Heat paid Wade? That's LeBron's fault?
Black people don't see that they crucify black people that don't do exactly what they say?
Of course it’s worse. Far worse. Losing against a team who hasn’t had their best player all series, a hobbled back up center, a starting center coming off a quad tear and being spotted a game where two starters (Klay and Kevin) didn’t even play while you’re at full strength is worse.
I wish I could shake your hand.
LeBron made Wade lose money? I thought the Heat paid Wade? That's LeBron's fault?
Black people don't see that they crucify black people that don't do exactly what they say?
Why did Wade opt out? Answer that one.
Bgol ballers said he can make it working for more years at less money. Why didn't his agent stop him? Why would any sane man give up free $ just because?
The failure to deal with this honestly is my problem, not the fact that he did it.
Yep. It's really stupid they're able to get away with that all game. They're literally playing a fullback role and just clearing the gap. Draymond is the worst offender.
WOW...
these white folks on the radio saying Kevin Durant was
SELFISH and SELF MOTIVATED
when he tried to rush back from injury
Cacs stay cacing
these white folks on the radio saying Kevin Durant was
SELFISH and SELF MOTIVATED
when he tried to rush back from injury
Cacs stay cacing
I must be the only person who doesn’t think Anthony Davis is worth that much?
Yea you are.....with KD sitting out a year and us never really knowing if he's gonna be that dude again it could be between him and the Greek freak as far as best players in the world in a few years
I don't think people truly appreciate how KD's injury completely reshapes the NBA.
It ain't set in yet like people are gonna forget what KD prime looked like in a few years....
The Klay Thompson 3 is Golden State's best hope right now
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26956006/the-klay-thompson-3-golden-state-best-hope-right-now
With their backs against the wall in a must-win NBA Finals Game 5 in Toronto, the Golden State Warriors leaned on an old friend to extend the series: historically great 3-point shooting.
The Dubs are the defining team of our time in part because they've turned the basketball court inside-out, winning games from the perimeter as opposed to the interior. Check out these bonkers numbers from Monday's win:
Those days are long gone, thanks in part to a pair of world-class jump-shooters who are seeking their third consecutive world championship.
Both Splash Brothers come into Thursday night's Game 6 (9 p.m. ET on ABC/ESPN App) with 20 made 3s this series, but Klay Thompson has gotten there on 35 attempts, compared with 56 for Stephen Curry. Thompson has been a lifesaver in the four games he has played in this series -- he missed Game 3 with a hamstring strain -- hitting a whopping 57% of his 3s. The rest of the Warriors have combined to make just 33%.
Of course, Thompson is a great shooter -- a quick look at his shot chart from this season proves that -- but in the course of this five-year run, Thompson has shown himself to be a monster in the biggest postseason games.
Thompson's big-game résumé is as good as anybody else's in the league, and his timely shooting is once again proving to be best in class in these Finals. Through five games in this series, six players have tried at least 50 shots. All but one of them has an effective field goal percentage between 46.0 and 51.4. Thompson has an eFG% of 65.8.
Kevin Durant to worry about, the Raptors will devote their best defensive resources to slowing down the Dubs' perimeter attack.
Thanks to injuries, this is the thinnest Warriors team we've seen in five years, and it's also true that this Raptors squad is the best defense the Dubs have faced in the Finals during their dynasty. In a make-or-miss league, that's an unfortunate combination for Golden State.
But if Klay has shown us anything in this series, it's that champions know how to defy expectations.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26956006/the-klay-thompson-3-golden-state-best-hope-right-now
With their backs against the wall in a must-win NBA Finals Game 5 in Toronto, the Golden State Warriors leaned on an old friend to extend the series: historically great 3-point shooting.
The Dubs are the defining team of our time in part because they've turned the basketball court inside-out, winning games from the perimeter as opposed to the interior. Check out these bonkers numbers from Monday's win:
- Golden State made 20 3s while shooting 47% from beyond the arc.
- The Warriors made just 18 2s while shooting 45% inside the arc.
- It was just the third time that a team won a Finals game with more made 3s than 2s, and just the fourth time that a team won a Finals game despite making 18 or fewer 2-point buckets.
Those days are long gone, thanks in part to a pair of world-class jump-shooters who are seeking their third consecutive world championship.
Both Splash Brothers come into Thursday night's Game 6 (9 p.m. ET on ABC/ESPN App) with 20 made 3s this series, but Klay Thompson has gotten there on 35 attempts, compared with 56 for Stephen Curry. Thompson has been a lifesaver in the four games he has played in this series -- he missed Game 3 with a hamstring strain -- hitting a whopping 57% of his 3s. The rest of the Warriors have combined to make just 33%.
Of course, Thompson is a great shooter -- a quick look at his shot chart from this season proves that -- but in the course of this five-year run, Thompson has shown himself to be a monster in the biggest postseason games.
Thompson's big-game résumé is as good as anybody else's in the league, and his timely shooting is once again proving to be best in class in these Finals. Through five games in this series, six players have tried at least 50 shots. All but one of them has an effective field goal percentage between 46.0 and 51.4. Thompson has an eFG% of 65.8.
Kevin Durant to worry about, the Raptors will devote their best defensive resources to slowing down the Dubs' perimeter attack.
Thanks to injuries, this is the thinnest Warriors team we've seen in five years, and it's also true that this Raptors squad is the best defense the Dubs have faced in the Finals during their dynasty. In a make-or-miss league, that's an unfortunate combination for Golden State.
But if Klay has shown us anything in this series, it's that champions know how to defy expectations.
The reason I say it is this. The Warriors got beat by a consensus top 3-5 player of all time on a legendary tear. Cleveland wasn’t missing anybody. They didn’t lose to a battered team. And one of their main guys missed a potential close out game. Kyrie put up 30 per game as a sidekick in those last 3 games. They got beat by unprecedented performances. Cleveland had to play damn near perfect to win.
Golden State has won a game where they scored 5 points in the last 3 minutes and one when they were dead and the Raptors coach iced his own damn team. The best performance they got this series was in a double digit loss.
They are missing the best player in the world and all of their major players have had ailments besides Draymond.
So yeah to me. It’s worse.
No doubt his agent called him immediately.
He BETTER
sidebar..
Rich Paul looking better and better.
https://www.bgol.us/forum/threads/s...hy-rich-paul-will-own-the-nba-summer.1052941/
This nigga beat down bout to hop on the nets dick early.
Exactly. Warriors lost to a legendary player on a legendary run getting 30 a game from his sidekick. The whole team was healthy. The Warriors are unhealthy and in the best performance they got out of Steph ......they lost.
But wasn't Bron playing hurt when he came back to the Lakers so they can make the playoffs
I guess that's not Paul faulfathough 
I can roll with that