2019 NBA Finals Thread, Part 2 | Golden State Warriors vs Toronto Raptors | RAPS LEAD 1-0

[jc23]

Raps in 6 if kd doesn’t come back

[Clay Davis]

You got it bro.

Looking forward to Siakim going nuclear the rest of the series. Like you all are saying, nothing about tonight was unusual, so what else would we expect? Cant wait to get you guys' takes on next game's unusual supernova performance.

Siakam, taken 27th overall, is better than any prospect on the Lakers, who have had 3 straight years of top-2 picks to work with.

Trying to decide whats more sad -- you thinking this would make me the slightest bit upset, or you trying to get personal because I suggested a Raptors player shooting 14/17 in a finals game would be unsustainable.

I'm leaning toward the latter. Emotionally lashing out against another posters team/players with unrelated information is pretty standard here. So you being this basic isn't really a shock. But the homerism it takes to get this rustled about what I said... which was pretty tame, all things considered... wow. Middle aged, suburban soccer moms would tell you its not that serious.

I like how you say his play his unsustainable while saying nothing about his play was unusual. On the list of most coherent posts ever, this is the most whurzhumbledumplebumpleslispkin.

[CalOrl11]

On reflection, I'm proud we won just one game against the Raptors

[SpreeS]

I have bad flair for this Finals. KD and now Iggy have health problems. Cousins is unplayable. Bench is thin like never before. I dont think that we could have better offense than yesterday. Curry had very good game with 34pts 5ast on 70TS% shooting. For example, he could have 10-18 shooting with 39pts on 78TS% and it would be perfect game, but I dont think that we would won anyway. Klay had avg/ok game too. Problem is that we dont have 3rd option, who could give us 15pts every day against TOR defense. Green and Iggy cant do it against Gasol/Ibaka/Leonard/Siakam. Who else? Noone!!! We need to live and hope that Curry would have game A or A+ and Klay would be in 20-30pts range in every game - It impossible. So w/o KD our ceiling is 110pts agaisnt TOR.

Now our defense. If Iggy done, we done too with KD in or out. So I hope he is ok. Our defense is place where we could be way better than in game one. Could we hold TOR to 100pts? I think yes, b/c its only one way to win games in this Finals. Kerr and our CS picked really bad def plan for game one. Kawhi has knee issues, lets he play one on one and we dont leave others. I think we could live with Kawhi 30pts.

Kawhi 13W PTS 30.8 USG% 31.6 %PTS 33.9
Kawhi 6L PTS 30.7 USG% 31.3 %PTS 37.9

Key to wins is to neutralize other players. Also forget lineups Cousins/Jerebko/Livingston/Cook. DREB and DRTG were awful. Dont leave Klay + scrubs against Leonard. Only these guys must play.

Bell/Looney/Bogut
Green
Iggy/McKinnie20min
Klay/Livingston20min
Curry

Looney/McKinnie/Iggy/Livingston/Curry - these 5players could finish 1st and 3th Q
Bogut/Green/McKinnie/Klay/Livingston - these 5 players could start 2nd and 4Th Q

Again Dont leave Klay alone with scrubs. Need to separate Green and Curry. Lets Curry would be main ball handler for 10-12 min. It could change game flow and confuse TOR defense. We have possability to play diferent type of games - use it.

[B00Yah]

Siakam is killing us. But he strikes me as a player who is still in that early phase of his career where he’s 5 secs away from doing something pretty bone-headed. I hope I’m right.

Guy has rock solid judgment.

Got a little shook in earlier series with his shots and some overly aggressive d, but he's really good.

Plus, he's only been playing ball for 7 years or so.

[FlatearthZorro]

No idea what Kerr was doing resting Curry for so long in the 4th. Made no sense. They had 9 days of rest..

When Jerebko hit that three to cut it to a 4 point deficit in the 4th, Curry & Draymond should’ve been up and at the scorers table immediately.

Exactly what I was thinking. Really weird after 9 days of rest. He literally rested Curry till the deficit was 9 or 11 points.

[BayArea408415]

People talk about Siakam not being about to do what he did in game 1

Kawhi was 5-14 and Lowry 2-9

7-23

31%

Raptors won by double digits lmao

Kawhi worst game since 1st round

Danny Green, Gasol and VanVleet all shot well on top of Siakam shooting 82% on 17 shots. It's rare that all of your starters shoot well unless it's a blowout. On the other hand, the Warriors only had Curry and Thompson in double figures besides Green with 10 points, of which 6 were from FT's. For the most part, the Warriors looked awful outside the Splash Brothers.

Without Durant, the Warriors need a 3rd guy to get 15+ on efficient shooting. Green is too inconsistent scoring wise to rely upon and Cousins isn't in any condition to. Game 1 showed how depleted their roster looks sans Durant (and the depth/starter they lost to sign him). The Warriors could beat a Blazers team without Nurkic in their current state but the Raptors are a different beast. Hopefully, Iggy can play Game 2 and Durant returns by Game 3 or this will be an uphill battle. I think the Warriors are up for it either way but nothing is assured.

[picc]

I like how you say his play his unsustainable while saying nothing about his play was unusual. On the list of most coherent posts ever, this is the most whurzhumbledumplebumpleslispkin.

Did I say nothing about his play was unusual? Or... did I say the exact opposite of that, and your reading comprehension is as wonky as your word choice?

You guys just keep topping yourselves.

[RyderMike]

No idea what Kerr was doing resting Curry for so long in the 4th. Made no sense. They had 9 days of rest..

When Jerebko hit that three to cut it to a 4 point deficit in the 4th, Curry & Draymond should’ve been up and at the scorers table immediately.

Exactly what I was thinking. Really weird after 9 days of rest. He literally rested Curry till the deficit was 9 or 11 points.

I feel like Kerr was cocky. So used to his team just turning it on, that he was thinking have your fun, we're still going to win. Then he put his guys in, but the raps matched every warriors make. Lesson learned i think.

[BayArea408415]

No idea what Kerr was doing resting Curry for so long in the 4th. Made no sense. They had 9 days of rest..

When Jerebko hit that three to cut it to a 4 point deficit in the 4th, Curry & Draymond should’ve been up and at the scorers table immediately.

Kerr's lineups and substitutions always have me perplexed. This is the NBA Finals and he played the entire roster outside Bogut/Evans for 7+ minutes. The roster/depth is depleted sans Durant but the rotation/minutes should be staggered to match the Raptors lineup as much as possible.

He sat Curry/Green together earlier in the game and then left Klay alone with scrubs for 4 minutes between the end of the 3rd/beginning half of the 4th with Green returning before Curry. Meanwhile, the Raptors had 3 starters on + Kawhi on within a minute early in the 4th. He was fine playing catchup with 7/7.5 minutes remaining in the 4th quarter?

Without Durant playing, the Warriors should have 2 of Curry/Klay/Green on at all times (exception being foul trouble).

[mademan]

Siakim may have played well today, but Curry looked great too. The Raps can win if Siakim plays poorly, or if Kawhi looks very, very pedestrian. Can GSW win if Curry has an off shooting night? Or if he just has an ok night?

[guess_wh0]

So GSW score 30% of their points off broken plays, Curry+Thompson combine for 55 points(right around expectation), are perfect from the FT line and the Raptors should feel fortunate because Siakam hit one lucky shot from 3 ft.

[tomacorandom]

and people said Gasol would be a non-factor...

Defensive player of the year (almost every year on talks to be). Multiple times allstar. Led his team to WCF... Not surprised at all

Dubs didnt go small once. Lets see 2h

[ATLTimekeeper]

Siakim may have played well today, but Curry looked great too. The Raps can win if Siakim plays poorly, or if Kawhi looks very, very pedestrian. Can GSW win if Curry has an off shooting night? Or if he just has an ok night?

I thought the Raps got a lot of lucky bounces at the rim, but the Warriors got a lucky bounces off the rim and on loose balls. They all seemed to end up in buckets for them. It's hard to read too much into a game like that.

[ATLTimekeeper]

No idea what Kerr was doing resting Curry for so long in the 4th. Made no sense. They had 9 days of rest..

When Jerebko hit that three to cut it to a 4 point deficit in the 4th, Curry & Draymond should’ve been up and at the scorers table immediately.

Kerr's lineups and substitutions always have me perplexed. This is the NBA Finals and he played the entire roster outside Bogut/Evans for 7+ minutes. The roster/depth is depleted sans Durant but the rotation/minutes should be staggered to match the Raptors lineup as much as possible.

He sat Curry/Green together earlier in the game and then left Klay alone with scrubs for 4 minutes between the end of the 3rd/beginning half of the 4th with Green returning before Curry. Meanwhile, the Raptors had 3 starters on + Kawhi on within a minute early in the 4th. He was fine playing catchup with 7/7.5 minutes remaining in the 4th quarter?

Without Durant playing, the Warriors should have 2 of Curry/Klay/Green on at all times (exception being foul trouble).

I thought the plan to double Kawhi just gave the Raptors too much open space in the halfcourt. Almost like he was coaching from the perspective of what he had seen in the previous series.

[jpengland]

Noone has learned from game one hot takes yet?

If GSW grab game two, they become firm favourites. They came in cold after a long break. They will adjust and I would still favour them to win the title.

Toronto had home court, were rolling from that series and had a whole city excited for a first finals series.

[mtcan]

Go ahead GSW...focus the D on Siakam and that frees up Kawhi.

There is no Embiid or Giannis to get in Pascal's way. You won't stop both Pascal and Kawhi.

[-Sammy-]

Y'all are going to force us to create a new thread every single day, aren't you?