2019 NBA Finals Thread, Part 3: Golden State Warriors vs Toronto Raptors | SERIES TIED AT 1

[Alonzo_Morning]

What bit is the start of this gif

[JaysRule15]

Did warriors win or raptors lose?

A bit of both. Raps outplayed Warriors 3 of the 4 quarters. Raps' offense just totally collapsed in the 3rd quarter and led to a large deficit.

I thought it was more the Raps offense that was a problem in the 3rd - they went like 5 minutes unable to score a single point!’- although their defense wasn’t great either.

I hope the Raptors get it together for game 3 though and crush them. Swing those overreactions back the other way please cause I hate listening to the media suck up to the Warriors, just so sick of it.

Yeah, the Raps let their frustrations on the offensive end in the 3rd quarter affect them defensively. You could see the Raps defense tighten up in the 4th as their shots started falling. Gotta stop letting offensive flow dictate defense.

[UnbelievablyRAW]

That Raptors defense in the 4th was fools gold. If not for Klay being out that zone would have been an easy 3 for one of Klay or Curry. God forbid Durant was out there lol.

Gasol needs to start shooting again. Dude passed up everything

Pascal needs to stop cutting all the time and mucking up the paint. Believe in that corner 3pt shot more.

Fred should never be guarding Klay Thompson under any circumstance

Kawhi needs to get the ball more off dribble hand offs and off ball screens. The on ball PnR never produce switches because Draymond and Iggy and Klay will never allow that to happen. He needs to be running off of picks and coming to wards the ball running to force the switch or give up a beeline drive to the basket. His passing also sucks. The Warriors are almost not even hedging anymore. Just straight blitzing because Kawhi doesn't pass it quickly enough.

[dhsilv2]

Lowry commited such dumb fouls for some one that suppose to be a vet.

He was doing the same thing last game but the refs were not calling those. They decided to call them tonight. You can't really blame him if the refs are not consistent on how they call fouls.

Watch dray he does the same stuff, but he cuts it back when he's got too many fouls for that time in the game. Lowry doesn't know how to scale it back and it's killing them.

[jaybiddyforeal]

Kyle Lowry's supposed to be the #2 option and he left Kawhi out to dry (again).

He's also the defensive leader. He's not done a great job with understanding how to not foul out, something he should watch is how Dray fouls way more in the playoffs but doesn't foul out.

These were the fouls calls against Lowry

#1 - perfect contest in Klay. Makes zero contact on any part of Klay.

#2 - Ties up Draymond Green. No held ball call. Draymond turns, Lowry lets go of the ball. Draymond continues to turn and somehow falls over sideways, a completely different direction then the way he was moving, and barrels over Lowry who is now behind him. Should have been a held ball or an offensive foul on Draymond.

#3. - Drew a clear charge on Cousins. In legal guarding position and gets bowed over by Cousins after an out of control spin move.

#4. - I don’t remember this one 100% but I believe it was an absolutely clean strip on ??. Made zero contact with anything but the ball.

#5. - Trying to fight through a screen by Livingston. There was no replay of this but Lowry was hot after they called it on him.

#6. - Stripped Cousins from behind. The one replay they showed looked like it was all ball but it was hard to tell from the angle they showed.

At best he committed two fouls. He didn’t let anyone down. The refs let the world down by pulling this crap every game.

[TheGOATWill]

the warriors CANNOT beat the raptors unless KD is playing
and if Kawhi was 100% health wise maybe even KD couldnt help them
RAPS IN FIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Warriors can absolutely beat anyone any time.

[Grape]

We got f-cking screwed. VanVleet & Powell turned into Splash Brothers 2.0 against us.

Thats cause your defense was ****
Stay salty Bucks fans

Bucks were giving Powell & VanVleet these same open shots all series and they simply wouldn’t miss. Even making contested shots galore.

Now against the Warriors, VanVleet seems to be returning the mean & Powell has suddenly become unplayable. Can’t make this sh-t up.

TF you talking about? FVV has had 2 good games, and Powell had a fine game as well.

Mind you, FVV on aggregate shot about average in the Bucks series. You can't complain.

[Mk0]

Wth, Kawhi had 34 points? Where the hell did that come from??

The free throw line

[Prokorov]

lmao at ppl thinking its a wrap. Pppl forgot the Raptors was down -02 and came back and beat the Bucks 4 in a row.

the bucks havent wont 3 titles in 4 years. the bucks dont have curry. the bucks dont have klay. the bucks dont have draymond

[TimRobbins]

Warriors winning without KD/Klay/Looney pretty much says it all. Toronto doesn't belong here.

West couldn't beat them so I guess nobody belongs here. should silver cancel the NBA ?. Find out soon

Couldn't beat them IN TORONTO without two of their three best players? Sorry, Raptors simply don't belong in the finals.

[Alonzo_Morning]

Where's the Raptor's offence going to come from other than Kawhi in Golden State? Pascal isn't good enough to be the number two option yet. Or is he

[NBAFan93]

Is Kyle Lowry even a league average point guard anymore? He can't drive by a parking cone at this point.

Get out of here with this crap. Lowry has been great for like 6 of their last 7 games. He wasn’t solely to blame for Golden State going on a 18-0 run to start the 3rd - the entire team needed to be better during that stretch and that’s why they lost.

[Ramed Nazored]

Now the narrative is going to be that the warriors won without klay. Meanwhile, klay played the bulk of the game and was absolutely excellent. He left and they cut it to a single digit game.

They won without Klay AND KD. As a Cavs fan I would have killed to get this GS team the last few years.

You're being willfully obtuse. They did not win WITHOUT Klay. Klay carried them the entire first half. He was excellent. He played THIRTY TWO MINUTES AND SCORED 25 POINTS. Everything fell apart for them if he left, and the Raptors cut it to a singe digit game. So if you think this Warrior team just won this game "without Klay", you're either an absolute moron at worst and a troll at best. One loss and the fools come up from their caves.

Stop it.

[galeon110]

The fact that Gasol and Siakam got called for their 4th personal fouls before the end of the 3rd quarter and Kyle fouled out says it all. Basketball is all about momentum and aggressiveness. Today's game had zero **** to do with making shots, running plays, rotations, or one coach out-coaching the other, it all came down to the ref's dictation. Taking out the Raptors' top 3 defenders early in the game set the tone for them to lose because it affects the aggressiveness and approach to the game completely. Once the refs take care of that, nothing else matters because it doesn't matter how many **** points the Raptors score or how many rebounds they get, it's going to end up being a layup drill for GSW because the Refs literally cut the legs off the Raptors on the defensive end, which is exactly where that 3rd quarter run by the GSW came from.

[Loaded_Hollows]

Toronto lookin shakyyyyy babyyyy. Beating the warriors at Oracle is a huge task.

[nedleeds]

Kerr is a god, Cousins and Bogut played great when the Warriors looked cooked. The players gotta play but Kerr figuring out the rotation was big, nice to see more Cook and less Swedish Larry

Honestly,the raptors need to game plan boogie and bogut. They're doing a terrible job exploiting two guys with poor lateral speed. Instead they're letting Boogie be a free safety instead of putting pressure on him.

They don't have a point guard who can drive by him. They got Lowry switched onto him multiple times out of the pick and roll. Lowry is just not good enough. He's a slow meatball. I mean, he's owed $30+ million next year and is barely average at this point.

[Tracymcgoaty]

Kawhi had 16 **** freethrows...Harden mad as hell.

[TimRobbins]

Warriors winning without KD/Klay/Looney pretty much says it all. Toronto doesn't belong here.

They absolutely belong, which is why they’re here.

Can’t wait to read these post game takes

No the raptors don't belong.
Games like tonight are why I think there should be some kind of tournament leading up to the Finals where teams have to prove they belong and deserve to advance. Like idk maybe have 30 teams play 82 games against each other, and then the top 16 teams move on and play several 7 game series against each other to decide who belongs in the Finals.

Just abolish the conference system. Raptors would have never gotten through the Rockets (or even Blazers).

[JaysRule15]

Warriors winning without KD/Klay/Looney pretty much says it all. Toronto doesn't belong here.

West couldn't beat them so I guess nobody belongs here. should silver cancel the NBA ?. Find out soon

Couldn't beat them IN TORONTO without two of their three best players? Sorry, Raptors simply don't belong in the finals.

lmao did you watch the game? Klay scored a team high 25 points. When he left, the Warriors offense fell apart and Raps almost came back.

[picc]

Wth, Kawhi had 34 points? Where the hell did that come from??

The free throw line

Looks like you're right.

Sure didnt feel like 34 points. Felt like 20.