NBA season 2018/19
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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).
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Funnily enough, IF the Warriors win today (big if), do they become the favourites?
They go back to Oracle where you'd back them to level up the series at 3-3 - this is of course in a world where Durant and Klay are fit and firing.
Then we set up a game 7 in Toronto, with the Warriors holding all the momentum...
It's an interesting hypothetical.
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The mood in Toronto is very much that tonight's win is a given. I have two major thoughts on the game:
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Like the Patriots, Storm, Spurs and other dynasties, they don't lack belief in situations like this and there is absolutely another stanza left in this one.
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A good mate got box tickets to this via a supplier today. To get in the door in nosebleeds is US$2,500. Asshole.
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@barbarian said in NBA season 2018/19:
Funnily enough, IF the Warriors win today (big if), do they become the favourites?
They go back to Oracle where you'd back them to level up the series at 3-3 - this is of course in a world where Durant and Klay are fit and firing.
Then we set up a game 7 in Toronto, with the Warriors holding all the momentum...
It's an interesting hypothetical.
It all boils down to what version of KD they get. Toronto has new found belief and they are going to need it. To me this is their big chance. They don't want to go back to Oakland and try to win, and then have to play a winner take all game 7 anywhere. If it gets to game 7 the Warriors will win in a canter
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Good start to the game. KD moving well and hit his first 3.
Warriors defence pretty good, but their rebounding is struggling, so second chance opportunities have killed them.
Raptors have Spurs-like ball movement. Good to watch.
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KD re-injures it and is goneski.
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Steph and Klay about to go off I reckon. OKC game 6 performance coming up. You heard it here first.
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Boogie has come off the bench with his sour angry face on (as per usual) and made an immediate impact.
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