ECSF: P1 | (1) Toronto Raptors vs Cleveland Cavaliers (4) | TIED 0-0

[kenwood3333]

Cavs in 6, Lebron with 4 games of 40+ to carry the team
Unimpressed with Raptors not dominating a Wiz team with no depth and lots of internal conflicts

[DowJones]

Cavs took 3 of 4 from Toronto in the regular season.

[RakimAbdulJabar]

I will eat a rock if the raps win this. LeBron owns them. No confidence against him whatsoever.

Indy really blew it.

The Raptors put a 34 point beat down on the Cavs earlier this season at home in January I believe. Last year's Raps lost BOTH HOME GAMES to the Cavs in the regular season and proceeded to get swept. This year will be different. Book it. The Raptors are a 7.29 SRS 59 win team, much better team than the 1.18 SRS 48 win Pacers who just took the Cavs to 7.

The Pacers beat the Cavs by 34 in game 6, so unfortunately what happened in January doesn't mean much.

I give the Raptors the same chance as the Pacers, i.e. around 30%. Not because the Raptors aren't a better team than the Pacers, they are, but until I see them play with confidence and get consistency from Lowry/DeRozan I have to assume that history repeats itself. Hope your Raptors can advance, they certainly deserve a chance after all these years

[simple_jack]

This sucks. if we win the series "Lebron has the worst supporting cast ever".

If we lose "Baby dinosaurs". No win situation at all.

Who gives a ****...just beat him lol geez.

We need to do this. No better opportunity than now. I hope our coaching staff are game planning hard.


We have the better roster outside of Lebron, rest, HCA, defense, coaching staff, fans, etc.

[SFour]

Cavs took 3 of 4 from Toronto in the regular season.

That's not possible considering they only played each other 3 times...and Cavs had home court 2/3 games. This time Raptors have HCA.

[picc]

From all observations on this board, Raptors fans have stockholm syndrome with lebron. Its actually pathetic how defeatest they sound about a series they should be salivating to play.

The more I see it the more I want them to lose.

I'm seeing a lot of positivity. There's like a couple with Stockholm syndrome, but we're a big fanbase. It's expected

I browse the raps forum regularly (you guys are very entertaining). Half the posts about this series are omega males literally bending over and pulling their pants down.

Its pitiful tbh.

[RCM88x]

Raps get their best player in VanVleet back for the whole series so they'll be much tougher than in R1. Idk what to think, could be any result honestly.

[Childs]

This sucks. if we win the series "Lebron has the worst supporting cast ever".

If we lose "Baby dinosaurs". No win situation at all.

Who gives a ****...just beat him lol geez.

We need to do this. No better opportunity than now. I hope our coaching staff are game planning hard.


We have the better roster outside of Lebron, rest, HCA, defense, coaching staff, fans, etc.

Hey I agree completely.

[jonjames]

Best chance the Raps will get to make it to the Finals. Cavs are really awful on defense.

Raptors in 6, imo, but I dunno. They've always been bad against LeBron led teams. Let's see.

We took them to 6 with a couple of years ago with a weaker roster... The Cavs were unbeatable last year...

And that was a much stronger Cavs team in 2016 than they are now in 2018. In 2018 the roles are reversed, the Raptors are much better now and the Cavs are much worse.

Honestly anyone who picks the Cavs in this series is only doing so because of what they have accomplished in the past, nothing to do with their current play right now which is the most important and relevant in terms of winning a playoff series.

[vado]

I guessed Raps in 6 against the Wizards. I'm going to take Raps in 7 against the Cavs.

[SFour]

From all observations on this board, Raptors fans have stockholm syndrome with lebron. Its actually pathetic how defeatest they sound about a series they should be salivating to play.

The more I see it the more I want them to lose.

I'm seeing a lot of positivity. There's like a couple with Stockholm syndrome, but we're a big fanbase. It's expected

I browse the raps forum regularly (you guys are very entertaining). Half the posts about this series are omega males literally bending over and pulling their pants down.

Its pitiful tbh.

Raps forum is very bipoar and reactionary....go read the forum if/when Raptors win game 1.

[infinite11285]

Raptors SHOULD win this series. There's no excuse for them not to.

[simple_jack]

From all observations on this board, Raptors fans have stockholm syndrome with lebron. Its actually pathetic how defeatest they sound about a series they should be salivating to play.

The more I see it the more I want them to lose.

I'm seeing a lot of positivity. There's like a couple with Stockholm syndrome, but we're a big fanbase. It's expected

I browse the raps forum regularly (you guys are very entertaining). Half the posts about this series are omega males literally bending over and pulling their pants down.

Its pitiful tbh.

Most of those posters are teenagers or college students

The 6 ain't friendly.

We expect this team to beat the Cavs. They put in the work this season and won 59 games. We're completely healthy so there are no excuses.

[SeniorWalker]

I will eat a rock if the raps win this. LeBron owns them. No confidence against him whatsoever.

Indy really blew it.

The Raptors put a 34 point beat down on the Cavs earlier this season at home in January I believe. Last year's Raps lost BOTH HOME GAMES to the Cavs in the regular season and proceeded to get swept. This year will be different. Book it. The Raptors are a 7.29 SRS 59 win team, much better team than the 1.18 SRS 48 win Pacers who just took the Cavs to 7.

I don't disagree that the raps should win this on paper. Deepest team they've ever had and derozan has gotten better. Cleveland also doesn't play great basketball on either end and rely too much on LeBron to do everything.

LeBron however has mentally dominated them. I've never heard "stars" give up against him the way derozan and Lowry have in the past.

[picc]

I'm seeing a lot of positivity. There's like a couple with Stockholm syndrome, but we're a big fanbase. It's expected

I browse the raps forum regularly (you guys are very entertaining). Half the posts about this series are omega males literally bending over and pulling their pants down.

Its pitiful tbh.

Most of those posters are teenagers or college students

The 6 ain't friendly.

We expect this team to beat the Cavs. They put in the work this season and won 59 games. We're completely healthy so there are no excuses.

Some of you do. Many of you don't.

Good luck.

[KHRICH]

Cavs took 3 of 4 from Toronto in the regular season.

crazy that we managed to play a non division team 4 times apparently lol

[OdomFan]

Welp this is the Raps chance to get that respect.

[NickAnderson]

Wouldn’t it be epic if the raps actually win in 4. Puts a whole new meaning to raps in 4.


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[Lebr0nJames]

Should be a great series. Raptors are a different animal than the last 3-4 years but they'll need their stars to perform to win. I got Cavs in 6, it's until I see Lebron lose in the Eastern conference I'll go with somebody else otherwise.

[Mister Ze]

Wouldn’t it be epic if the raps actually win in 4. Puts a whole new meaning to raps in 4.


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