NBA season 2018/19
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@shark i get what you are saying, but i think it's a little bit of a stretch. Prime Cousins and Curry plus Green is still a very good team, but this is not prime Cousins. He's barely played, and hasn't exactly been on fire.
Add in the Warriors are a very top-heavy team, so that those two injuries really hamper them, as i don't think the calibre of their rotation guys is as high as some others.
If it was just one of Klay or KD out, then i still think they are unreal, but both really hurts them. They need one more shooter to make Green and Cousins effective scorers, and no one else seems to be stepping up. Curry was amazing yesterday and they got flogged.
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@shark said in NBA season 2018/19:
@mariner4life said in NBA season 2018/19:
@barbarian said in NBA season 2018/19:
Raptors took it easily in the end, big games from Leonard, Green, Lowry, Van Vliet. Their best performance of the finals so far.
Curry dropped 50 but had virtually no support from anyone else, as expected.
Best finals series in years. I think the Raptors might well win it.
It would be a disgrace if they couldn't beat a side now missing 2 starters and a high rotation bench player.
I don't know if it'd be a disgrace, but definitely opportunity lost. Curry and Boogie should still be able to resist the Raptors given they're both 'franchise players' and on the same team. I mean plonk them both into the Cavs, Knicks, Suns, Bulls etc and any of those teams would expect to contend. Perspective required here. The missing cattle is some premier cattle but let's not forget those guys make GS a legit Super Team. Even without Klay and Durant they should be highly competitive against anyone.
And they would be, but against the Eastern Conference champs in an NBA finals and the added pressure etc.
Boogie has next to no playoff experience to go off so whilst a very good player, he’s in uncharted waters.
Looney is a massive loss. His ability to guard the high screen is almost the best in the NBA for a centre. There were several 3s that the Raptors hit because both Boogie and Bogut didn’t come up or were too slow. Looney is up and in like a 6’11 guard.
I guarantee that the Raptors won’t hit 17 3’s again in this series!
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2018/19:
I guarantee that the Raptors won’t hit 17 3’s again in this series!
their shooting stats were amazing!
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@mariner4life said in NBA season 2018/19:
Curry was amazing yesterday and they got flogged.
They kind of didn't though. That was the weird thing. It always looked like a blowout, but the Warriors somehow kept the margin within 4-8 for most of the game.
Which suggests that if they get Klay back at even 70% they should be very competitive again, and likely win game 4.
And if they get Durant back then they may well win the whole series.
But the whole series depends on their fitness. They stay out and the Raptors likely win in 5. They come back and the Warriors could win in 6.
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@barbarian said in NBA season 2018/19:
@mariner4life said in NBA season 2018/19:
Curry was amazing yesterday and they got flogged.
They kind of didn't though. That was the weird thing. It always looked like a blowout, but the Warriors somehow kept the margin within 4-8 for most of the game.
Which suggests that if they get Klay back at even 70% they should be very competitive again, and likely win game 4.
And if they get Durant back then they may well win the whole series.
But the whole series depends on their fitness. They stay out and the Raptors likely win in 5. They come back and the Warriors could win in 6.
They were in it and had a couple of offensive goal tends gone their way and the Bogut tip in (all bad calls by the refs), who knows 😀
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No scoring from a third option.
Raptors with Klaw, Lowry and Ibaka
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Iggy has had an absolute mare.
Raptors with a great win.
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA season 2018/19:
No scoring from a third option.
Raptors with Klaw, Lowry and Ibaka
Don't forget Siakam, van fleet, and Gasol
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Toronto is 3-0 at Golden State this season.
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This is looking a little like the 87 Finals. A beat up Celts getting done by the Lakers.
Lakers did them in them in the regular season and then again in the Finals when Magic took a more dominant role. -
@ACT-Crusader the hot ranga did a big rant on that on the jump about how history forgets the details on who was injuried etc was pretty good.
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[...] But the best parallel to this current series came in 2014 when the LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh-led Miami Heat were blown off the floor by the San Antonio Spurs. The 2014 finals marked the Heat’s fourth consecutive trip to the championship round — this is Golden State’s fifth consecutive trip — and the series played out in a manner that should sound eerily similar: San Antonio took Game 1 handily, then lost a close Game 2 at home. The Spurs then waxed the Heat in consecutive games on the road to take a 3-1 lead, before ultimately closing the series out at home.
That’s exactly how the current finals series has played out, which is fitting because the 2014 finals MVP was Kawhi Leonard, who now leads this Toronto team. It was Leonard who led the Raptors on Friday to the monster third quarter that ultimately gave them control of Game 4 for good. [...]
The Raptors Are One Win Away From Ending The Warriors’ Dynasty
After a stunning, thrilling, come-from-behind 105-92 win in what may have been the last-ever game at the famed Oracle Arena, the Toronto Raptors are one win awa…
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How The Raptors Became An Elite NBA Team With Only Non-Lottery Players
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@Salacious-Crumb goes to show what you can do when you draft well. Like the Spurs too
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For Toronto it seems to be less about the lottery draft and more about good trades (steals, really).
