**NBA FINALS THREAD - RAPTORS DEFY GRAVITY**

[goldmember]

Jazz

Stop wasting everyone's time. We need HOU at full strength for the GSW rematch

 

[sooperhooper]

Steph be dancing after making 3’s how is that different from rocking the baby

That's a personal celebration. Rocking the baby is taking a shot at the defender. Saying that he's too little.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

SALT LAKE CITY -- Houston Rockets center Clint Capela, who had perhaps his worst performance of the season in the Rockets' 107-91 Game 4 loss to the Utah Jazz on Monday, told ESPN that he has been battling two respiratory illnesses during the series.


Capela, who missed a practice due to illness days before the series started, said he was diagnosed with adenovirus and a klebsiella infection during a Sunday visit to a Salt Lake City doctor, who prescribed medication and eye drops.

Capela, whose eyes were extremely bloodshot, was told it would be another four or five days before he would be fully recovered.

"It's tough, man," Capela told ESPN after being held to four points on 1-of-6 shooting and seven rebounds in the loss. "Especially when I try to breathe, it's hard. I'm just going to fight it the best that I can."

It was a season-worst scoring total for Capela, who averaged 16.6 points and 12.7 rebounds during the regular season. He grabbed fewer than seven rebounds only twice this season.

The Rockets were outscored by 20 points in Capela's Game 4 minutes. It was his second worst plus-minus of the season behind a minus-22 in a Dec. 6 loss in Utah.

 

[amitt5504]

Whenever someone has a bad game, it’s always the injury excuse

 

[freeze]

Has anyone ever smacked the floor and the actually got a stop?

Leaning towards kg. And maybe someone in the 90s.

 

[pums]

I thought he was just high from 4/20

 

[pums]

 

[HOU$TON]

My bracket has houston in 5 anyway but we still should’ve closed out last night. Rockets will get it done tomorrow night. Cost me a few dollars tho

 

[whitemamba27]

wish houston closed out in four, need CP playing as little as possible before golden state.

 

[bballkid11]

BOLD Predictions on ESPN:

Bontemps: That Golden State beats Houston in five games in the Western Conference semifinals. For all of the growing belief that the Rockets can beat the Warriors in a series, I think that the Warriors -- if healthy -- will end that series more quickly than many would expect. And here's a bonus one: Toronto will win the East.

Goldsberry: The Larry O'Brien Trophy is moving East. Like Andre, I think the Warriors are vulnerable, but I also think whoever comes out of the East will take home the title.

Marks: A Joel Embiid flagrant foul will cost Philadelphia a chance at reaching the conference finals. After picking up flagrant fouls in Games 2 and 4, Embiid is two points shy of serving a one-game suspension.

 

[amitt5504]

BOLD Predictions on ESPN:

Bontemps: That Golden State beats Houston in five games in the Western Conference semifinals. For all of the growing belief that the Rockets can beat the Warriors in a series, I think that the Warriors -- if healthy -- will end that series more quickly than many would expect. And here's a bonus one: Toronto will win the East.

Goldsberry: The Larry O'Brien Trophy is moving East. Like Andre, I think the Warriors are vulnerable, but I also think whoever comes out of the East will take home the title.

Bontemps one is bold but lowkey realistic

Goldsberry is legit bold, I can't see Boston winning it lol

 

[bballkid11]

Bontemps one is bold but lowkey realistic

Goldsberry is legit bold, I can't see Boston winning it lol

Look at third one I added haha

 

[bostoiah]

Damn...had no idea Kyrie never lost a first round playoff GAME. 16-0

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Kept my word and didn’t watch the game, did the jazz really keep that harden strategy of defending behind him? I’m reading that they kept the same tactic

 

[ballinsam23]

What’s GS defensive ranking this year?

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

What’s GS defensive ranking this year?

11

Houston 18 but probably much better than that due to getting bezdeklik back later in the season and capela coming in out of shape. They ended the year elite

 

[trynafeelmink]

This ***** Capela got Allergies & acting like he got diagnosed with HIV

 

[addict4sneakers]

Capela must have mad mucus on his hands cause he was sloppy with the ball

 

[air jsarg]

I'm going to cut Clint Capela some slack here, there was at least 2 or 3 lobs during that game where I thought to myself "thats a tough one to get"

James doesn't always give him alot to work with on a lob

 

[pums]

Bruh had 4 points.

 

[buc em]

BOLD Predictions on ESPN:

Bontemps: That Golden State beats Houston in five games in the Western Conference semifinals. For all of the growing belief that the Rockets can beat the Warriors in a series, I think that the Warriors -- if healthy -- will end that series more quickly than many would expect. And here's a bonus one: Toronto will win the East.

Goldsberry: The Larry O'Brien Trophy is moving East. Like Andre, I think the Warriors are vulnerable, but I also think whoever comes out of the East will take home the title.

Marks: A Joel Embiid flagrant foul will cost Philadelphia a chance at reaching the conference finals. After picking up flagrant fouls in Games 2 and 4, Embiid is two points shy of serving a one-game suspension.

Yeah those flagrants could **** us with Embiid. Ridiculous they even called that last one where Embiid got all ball a flagrant.

I also think there’s a verrrry high chance something breaks out between Ibaka/Lowry and Embiid/Jimmy/Ben/Mike Scott.

 

[champcruthik]

 

[trynafeelmink]

Yeah those flagrants could **** us with Embiid. Ridiculous they even called that last one where Embiid got all ball a flagrant.

I also think there’s a verrrry high chance something breaks out between Ibaka and Embiid/Jimmy/Ben/Mike Scott.

Ibaka been missing on that punch for years, Prayers to the first person who gets caught by one it may be lights out

 

[whitemamba27]

happy with anyone from the east not named boston making it to the finals

 

[getback]

happy with anyone from the east not named boston making it to the finals

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