**NBA FINALS THREAD - RAPTORS DEFY GRAVITY**

Who Will Win it All?

  • Warriors

    Votes: 86 53.4%
  • Bucks

    Votes: 27 16.8%
  • Raptors

    Votes: 9 5.6%
  • Nuggets

    Votes: 2 1.2%
  • Rockets

    Votes: 13 8.1%
  • Sixers

    Votes: 5 3.1%
  • Celtics

    Votes: 6 3.7%
  • Clippers

    Votes: 5 3.1%
  • Other West Team

    Votes: 6 3.7%
  • Other East Team

    Votes: 2 1.2%

  • Total voters
    161
  • Poll closed .
KD's ceiling on offense + defense plus health makes him > Kawhi for me but that's hair splitting at it's finest.

Winner of GSW / Hou today wins the series. Rockets push this to 6 games minimum, and suddenly the minutes allocations become a factor. Dubs win and can end this Wednesday.

Bucks / Cs all about Kyrie. Length and size has bothered him a bit. Making him rush and take some poor quality shots, even for his standards. He'll bounce back tonight though.
 
They’re in BEANTOWN tonight...and there’s levels to this. Boston in playoffs don’t play around. MJ hadda conquer Boston in Boston...Bron ....now Giannis? I don’t think he’s reached that level yet

Boston was quiet as a church mouse the other day. He shot 22 free throws in a road game.

Giannis, Massachusetts
 
KD's ceiling on offense + defense plus health makes him > Kawhi for me but that's hair splitting at it's finest.

Winner of GSW / Hou today wins the series. Rockets push this to 6 games minimum, and suddenly the minutes allocations become a factor. Dubs win and can end this Wednesday.

Bucks / Cs all about Kyrie. Length and size has bothered him a bit. Making him rush and take some poor quality shots, even for his standards. He'll bounce back tonight though.

Yup -KD > Klaw
Yup - Rockets in 7
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Yup- Kyrie bounces back, but idk if it will be enough still.

Right there with you bro.
 
He very well might and that's why the Steph Curry injury narrative is so funny to me though. He's just an up-and-down player in the playoffs. He'll go nuclear and hit 10 threes on game and then go 7/22 the game and look awful, then play great the next game when he's miraculously healthy again. He's not "more injured than he's letting on", he's just inconsistent.

Media members are so quick to make up reasons why Steph didn't play well, they just want except that he's inconsistent

Steph is inconsistent in comparison to who exactly... that's the important question here.

For his career in the playoffs he's at 26/5/6 on 45/40/90, every now and then he has some games where he'd played bad but overall he's been pretty consistent.
 
Emotions way too high on this. We're not even in June. Clips get what I just saw yesterday? **** Turn up. Kawhi pls

 
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He very well might and that's why the Steph Curry injury narrative is so funny to me though. He's just an up-and-down player in the playoffs. He'll go nuclear and hit 10 threes on game and then go 7/22 the game and look awful, then play great the next game when he's miraculously healthy again. He's not "more injured than he's letting on", he's just inconsistent.

He's a great player, no one is doubting that. His averages are great but if you look at if on a game-by-game basis, it's becoming more of good game, followed by bad game, followed by good game, etc. My beef is that there are so many media members and fans ready to make up a reason Steph had a bad game. He's the only player who just can't play poorly. If he goes 7 for 20 the narrative becomes, "it's his ankle/knee", "he just doesn't look right", etc. but the moment he back to playing well, these stories go away all of a sudden.
 
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Not even Stephen curry believes the crap.

KD ain’t gonna let that happen.
 
while we're talking about Klay getting max contract this off-season, low key he's been playing like crap offensively and no one seems to be giving him a hard time about it. Some team will give him the max but I'd he weary of him being my team's $35m/year primary guy who teams are keying in on every night. It's gonna be interesting to see how he performs are the primary guy if he leaves
 
while we're talking about Klay getting max contract this off-season, low key he's been playing like crap offensively and no one seems to be giving him a hard time about it. Some team will give him the max but I'd he weary of him being my team's $35m/year primary guy who teams are keying in on every night. It's gonna be interesting to see how he performs are the primary guy if he leaves

Klay's fine as long as you don't expect him to be a #1 option. Rockets switch which forces Klay into things that aren't really ideal to his skillset, but he's fine. He's a 6'7 JJ Redick with defense which is great and valuable, but you definitely need a primary shot creator and scorer beside him.
 
Klay's fine as long as you don't expect him to be a #1 option. Rockets switch which forces Klay into things that aren't really ideal to his skillset, but he's fine. He's a 6'7 JJ Redick with defense which is great and valuable, but you definitely need a primary shot creator and scorer beside him.
So he's basically a better Yea Yea Headdick lol
 
Whatever team offers Klay a max deal (not named Golden State) without getting another star to pair with him will probably regret it. He's really the guy you want if you already have that definite #1 on your team that can create.
 
Klay's fine as long as you don't expect him to be a #1 option. Rockets switch which forces Klay into things that aren't really ideal to his skillset, but he's fine. He's a 6'7 JJ Redick with defense which is great and valuable, but you definitely need a primary shot creator and scorer beside him.

That's what I'm saying though. If a team gives him a max contract, they expect him to be the #1 guy or at worst 1B.

To play devil's advocate with you, is "6'7 JJ Redick with defense" worthy of a max contract?
 
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