NBA season 2018/19
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@barbarian said in NBA season 2018/19:
Klay out of today's game. You feel like it's now a must win for Toronto.
Up by eight points early.
If they can't win today, they can never win at Oracle. Double and triple Curry all day, and let the others shoot.
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Curry with 17/6/3 in the first quarter. You feel like he needs 55/15/12 for the Warriors to win!
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game over before half time
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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.
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@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.
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@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.
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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.