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Kingsway_fan wrote:

Pooh_Jeter wrote:Yeah, if this health thing with LeBron and AD lingers then it's a problem, but as of now I think they are still the heavy favourites. I can't imagine they want to be in the play in games, but I bet they would salivate at playing Phoenix or Utah in the first round.

This whole stretch feels like a patented LeBron motivation tactic. "Nobody believes in us" even though they are the defending champs. Keep in mind they also played extremely poorly in the bubble last year prior to the start of the playoffs.

Heavy favorites? Lol... yeah, heavy favorites for first round exit....

ruckus wrote:

Slade3 wrote:

Mikistan wrote:
Why is that? Because we beat the gsw warriors franchise who hires racist security, let's owners push players, and rushes players back from injury to re-injure them?

Right, because KD not playing and Klay Thompson out for multiple games made no difference. Check your homerism at the door.

How is that homerism? Injuries are part of the game. The ability to have your key players available when you absolutely need them is the reason we have a guy like Alex McKechnie.

Theres no more an asterisk on our ship than there should be an asterisk on the Rockets 2 ships cause Jordan was shagging fly balls.

DelAbbot wrote:

Slade3 wrote:

Mikistan wrote:
Why is that? Because we beat the gsw warriors franchise who hires racist security, let's owners push players, and rushes players back from injury to re-injure them?

Right, because KD not playing and Klay Thompson out for multiple games made no difference. Check your homerism at the door.

Who cares about KD not playing. Adding KD to an already-champion lineup of Curry+Klay+Draymond is "cheating" anyway. There is no asterisk on our 2019 championship - we beat the 2015 championship lineup.

Slade3 wrote:

ruckus wrote:

Slade3 wrote:
Right, because KD not playing and Klay Thompson out for multiple games made no difference. Check your homerism at the door.

How is that homerism? Injuries are part of the game. The ability to have your key players available when you absolutely need them is the reason we have a guy like Alex McKechnie.

Theres no more an asterisk on our ship than there should be an asterisk on the Rockets 2 ships cause Jordan was shagging fly balls.

Then why is LeBron's title an asterisk?

tecumseh18 wrote:

DelAbbot wrote:

Slade3 wrote:
Right, because KD not playing and Klay Thompson out for multiple games made no difference. Check your homerism at the door.

Who cares about KD not playing. Adding KD to an already-champion lineup of Curry+Klay+Draymond is "cheating" anyway. There is no asterisk on our 2019 championship - we beat the 2015 championship lineup.

Any one series can be decided by injury, but a championship is won by winning four series. Raptors had the toughest road to the Finals, having to beat the hottest team going into the playoffs (Orlando), the most talented starting five in the league (Sixers with Butler and JJ), the dominant team in the league that season by wins and ridiculous point differential (Bucks), and the Warriors who had just swept Portland in the WCF even without KD. The talk going into the Finals was that the Warriors were better without KD. The ball moved better.

At least Klay played three quarters of Game 6 healthy. He racked up the points, but when he went down, Iggy clicked into Ray Allen mode to keep GSW in the game. Cousins was a factor in the fourth quarter. No guarantee that the Dubs would have scored more points if Klay continued to play. Basketball doesn't work like that. We're seeing that with the Nuggets after Murray went down.

Meanwhile, Kyle started Game 6 strong, but if you were watching closely he tweaked his back in the second quarter, and wasn't a factor for the rest of the game. The one shot he made after that was a rim bouncing fluke.

And clearly Kawhi wasn't healthy for Games 5 and 6. He had that spurt toward the end of Game 5, but that was it for the series. And why was Kawhi hurting? Why did he have to play so many minutes? Because OG missed the entire playoffs.

Raps swept the Dubs that regular season, with KD and Klay playing both games. There was nothing more the Raps could do to EARN that championship. See my sig.

Ranger One wrote:Man its gonna be painful losing Lowry next year and having Fred VanChucker be our lead point guard. Hope ya'll are ready for this guy to dribble out the shot clock every possession while hes desperately hunting down his own shot, all the while unable to beat a Center off the dribble, or getting stuffed at the rim 10 times a night.

Tha Cynic wrote:There's actually no reason to defend anything. You can completely ignore posts like the one you responded to.

mdenny wrote:I should know better than to doubt lebron...but I'm wondering if this is finally that moment.

Leo was right....he was getting no lift when he drove the lane. Still executing but that wont work come playoff time against good rim protectors. Those high ankle sprains can take years to fully heal.

Not only that....this was the first time I have seen so many of his patented passes get deflected or intercepted or miss the mark. That, to me, is an even bigger warning sign than lift on his lane drives.

To top it all off...AD has never proven he can carry a team imo.

Of course...this might just be another misguided lebron doubting instance.

Slade3 wrote:

DelAbbot wrote:

Slade3 wrote:
Right, because KD not playing and Klay Thompson out for multiple games made no difference. Check your homerism at the door.

Who cares about KD not playing. Adding KD to an already-champion lineup of Curry+Klay+Draymond is "cheating" anyway. There is no asterisk on our 2019 championship - we beat the 2015 championship lineup.

Yeah, and if Kawhi wasn't playing due to injury you would have cried like a banshee about the "asterisk" championship. You can't just exclude opposing players because you don't like it. And then somehow claim we beat the 2015 version when that was 3 years earlier with different personnel and and younger stars. Are you even listening to yourself? I can't believe you even typed this.

Mikistan wrote:

Slade3 wrote:

DelAbbot wrote:
Who cares about KD not playing. Adding KD to an already-champion lineup of Curry+Klay+Draymond is "cheating" anyway. There is no asterisk on our 2019 championship - we beat the 2015 championship lineup.

Yeah, and if Kawhi wasn't playing due to injury you would have cried like a banshee about the "asterisk" championship. You can't just exclude opposing players because you don't like it. And then somehow claim we beat the 2015 version when that was 3 years earlier with different personnel and and younger stars. Are you even listening to yourself? I can't believe you even typed this.

nice try with false equivalence and strawman arguments

OG would have locked KD down easily

Tha Cynic wrote:

tecumseh18 wrote:

DelAbbot wrote:
Who cares about KD not playing. Adding KD to an already-champion lineup of Curry+Klay+Draymond is "cheating" anyway. There is no asterisk on our 2019 championship - we beat the 2015 championship lineup.

Any one series can be decided by injury, but a championship is won by winning four series. Raptors had the toughest road to the Finals, having to beat the hottest team going into the playoffs (Orlando), the most talented starting five in the league (Sixers with Butler and JJ), the dominant team in the league that season by wins and ridiculous point differential (Bucks), and the Warriors who had just swept Portland in the WCF even without KD. The talk going into the Finals was that the Warriors were better without KD. The ball moved better.

At least Klay played three quarters of Game 6 healthy. He racked up the points, but when he went down, Iggy clicked into Ray Allen mode to keep GSW in the game. Cousins was a factor in the fourth quarter. No guarantee that the Dubs would have scored more points if Klay continued to play. Basketball doesn't work like that. We're seeing that with the Nuggets after Murray went down.

Meanwhile, Kyle started Game 6 strong, but if you were watching closely he tweaked his back in the second quarter, and wasn't a factor for the rest of the game. The one shot he made after that was a rim bouncing fluke.

And clearly Kawhi wasn't healthy for Games 5 and 6. He had that spurt toward the end of Game 5, but that was it for the series. And why was Kawhi hurting? Why did he have to play so many minutes? Because OG missed the entire playoffs.

Raps swept the Dubs that regular season, with KD and Klay playing both games. There was nothing more the Raps could do to EARN that championship. See my sig.

There's actually no reason to defend anything. You can completely ignore posts like the one you responded to.

Anyone who comments about certain players not playing has absolutely no clue about the NBA. If they did, they would realize you could literally put an asterisk beside most championships, including James'. Key players getting injured happens every season but for some reason the American media took it to another level when the Raptors won.

The Raptors were winning that championship regardless of who they faced. They were that dominant once they got past Philly.

Slade3 wrote:
I'm not even going to respond to the post you quoted. So much homerism that I see it's a waste of my time. My god.

Ramed Nazored wrote:

will wrote:AAAAYYYYEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! haters in shambles!

So many crickets following a W. So few ... " " from the mod or he who shall remain unnamed.