**NBA FINALS THREAD - RAPTORS DEFY GRAVITY**

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Lol these comments after Game 1 at Toronto

Kawhi and Siakam both literally had career highs and shot 80% from the field. Not a single other player on their team was in double digits, didn’t have a single bench player score a point til midway through the third quarter and the rest of their team outside of Kawhi and Siakam shot 32%.

Toronto is the favorite and this was Game 1 at home for them, so they did what they were supposed to do. But we’ll see what happens when Kawhi and Siakam aren’t both having the game of their lives.

And Toronto still only won by 13

Oh, and Denver’s plan to let Houston fall to 4th was 3D chess

But majority of NT was playing checkers at the time

Chess? They damn near lost to the Spurs . That was supposed to be the cake matchup they wanted and it went 7 games. What are you gonna say when they lose to Portland?

 

[B Sox]

Denver lost to Houston in 3 out of 4 regular season meetings by an average of 16 points. Avoiding a potential 2nd round matchup with them seems like it would be a pretty good idea.

 

[DLF]

Bucks by 6

Houston by 5

 

[don ramon]

And your mans Jokic had a Westbrook style triple double.

man what. not even close brah

get all the way outta here

 

[Maximus Meridius]

21/15/10/1/3 with 0 turnovers, even with 26 shots, in a game 7, isn't a Russ style triple double anyways. Had 0 turnovers and won. A good amount of his misses came in the 4th when he was absolutely gassed.

Silly to even compare the two.

I give him credit this thread just picks and chooses who to over hype. If this dude is Dirk meets Gasol he should do this do right? I can't celebrate a 2 seed beating a 7th seed in 7 games.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Denver lost to Houston in 3 out of 4 regular season meetings by an average of 16 points. Avoiding a potential 2nd round matchup with them seems like it would be a pretty good idea.

What are you gonna say when they lose to the blazers?

 

[B Sox]

A fat slow 24 year old leading a team to victory against an opponent with 2 all-star caliber players and one of the best coaches of all-time is pretty impressive. Deserving of the hype.

 

[buc em]

And Toronto still only won by 13

They only won by 13 while having career best games out of their two best players. The rest of their team got locked up in bad matchups. Ben and Jimmy are bad matchups for Lowry, JJ defends shooters like Green well and Embiid and even Boban (other than dragging him out to the three point line) are bad matchups for Gasol. We just need Kawhi and Siakam to not go nuts for four games to have a chance at winning this series.

 

[B Sox]

What are you gonna say when they lose to the blazers?

I mean they certainly could.

Are you legitimately arguing that they would be better off playing a team they lost to 3 out of 4 times in the regular season instead of a team that they beat 3 out of 4 times though?

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

but I'm not saying its a fact on why they did what they did.

This. I get the gambling angle and I'm not saying it's unrealistic but you're also ignoring how many chances the Spurs had to take control of that game in the last few minutes and they smoked every one. I've seen plenty of teams concede in that kind of situation. Maybe LMA had bread on it, I don't know

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

I mean they certainly could.

Are you legitimately arguing that they would be better off playing a team they lost to 3 out of 4 times in the regular season instead of a team that they beat 3 out of 4 times though?

The blazers got swept by OKC in the regular season and look how that turned out

 

[B Sox]

The blazers got swept by OKC in the regular season and look how that turned out

You got it man.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

A fat slow 24 year old leading a team to victory against an opponent with 2 all-star caliber players and one of the best coaches of all-time is pretty impressive. Deserving of the hype.

This is my point right here. When ya'll like somebody ya'll put extras on it.

They beat LMA and Derozan. 2 dudes that have been terrible in the playoffs. I know ya'll love Jokic and "the real young core" but calm down. Good 1st rd win, did what they were supposed do, the Spurs was not some great team.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

You got it man.

And PDX was 2-1 against gsw. Are you legitimately arguing they would've been better off facing the warriors in the first round?

 

[B Sox]

And PDX was 2-1 against gsw. Are you legitimately arguing they would've been better off facing the warriors in the first round?

Yup, you got it.

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Yup, you got it.

It's the exact same logic you used. You got it tho

 

[storm2006]

@antidope my *****, I hate it had to be him

 

[nick.]

Nikola Jokic, 2019 playoffs:

• 23 years old
• 23/12/9 on 49/33/88
• 31 PER
• 57 TS%
• 8.8 OBPM, 4.5 DBPM
• 1.0 VORP
• Series W
• Didn't get sonned

Russell Westbrook, 2019 playoffs:

• 30 years old
• 23/9/11 on 36/32/89
• 16 PER
• 47 TS%
• -0.3 OBPM, 2.4 DBPM
• 0.2 VORP
• Series L
• Got sonned

Their performances aren't even comparable.

 

[frshstunna]

We really need to discuss the Spurs only getting back DeRozan and Poetl for Kawhi.

Figured this exactly that they wanted tho, just to keep making the playoffs...the trade was good for that

 

[8pm at msg]

Imagine if Jokic got himself into shape

 

[lawdog1]

Imagine if Jokic got himself into shape

You never know. Being out of shape may be a necessary part of his powers...

 

[B Sox]

It's the exact same logic you used. You got it tho

So we just ignoring that GS and HOU are on a different tier than everyone else in the West?

 

[onthesceneclean]

Warriors Rockets Game 1...i’m putting my $$ on the Rockets today man...pray for me

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

And Toronto still only won by 13





Chess? They damn near lost to the Spurs . That was supposed to be the cake matchup they wanted and it went 7 games. What are you gonna say when they lose to Portland?

Lee, you gon be sick if Denver makes the conference finals so I’ll leave it be

 

[Nike Jordan]

All of the pressure is on Houston.

All of it.