2019 NBA Finals Thread #4: Golden State Warriors vs Toronto Raptors | TIED AT 1

[Spanish_Laker]

Series over. Warriors in 5 as I predicted.

[Ong_dynasty]

The raptors need to do what the warriors did.. take atleast one game away.
With the injuries you assume it will have to be game 3

[laika]

Oh, and it should go without saying that this last loss may really have put the Raptors over a barrel precisely because of KD's looming return.

I don't think Durant is coming back at all. It's been 4 weeks and Durant doesn't even look close.
The Warriors are the ones that might be getting worried. Durant, Klay and Looney could all miss game 3. Iggy isn't that healthy.

[carlquincy]

Right. Kawhi really needs to step up. 13-34 fg for 38%, 28fta (45.6% of his points come from fts), 8 assists: 7 TO for the series

34 points on 20 FGA while getting double teamed half the game, 14 rebounds including offensive rebounds late in the 4th quarter that were keeping them in the game and he set the finals record for most freethrows without a miss. Siakam\Gasol just played terrible tonight and Lowry was in foul trouble all while playing against 4 allstars. I don't understand how that's a bad game from Leonard, if Siakam even has an average game or Lowry was out of foul trouble they probably win tonight's game.

dude, other people already told you. you're being extremely disingenuous when you keep repeating 34 pts on 20 shots. It's not true. He got 18 points on those 20 shots. The rest came on FTs.

this is a bad look for u.

I get what you are saying, but "X points on Y shots" has been around for so long. Its widely accepted.

No one presents the stats your way. Way too clunky. Just use TS%.

[will]

Read on Twitter

Well ****.

"That was light work.."

This series is about to be over in 5

I love Clay. Lock for the Hall of Fame and he is is absolutely hilarious.

The Fan 590 had Mychal Thompson on the radio for an interview. He was a super entertaining guest. He passed on his sense of humor to his son.

[Magic_Is_Here]

Curious, who on the Warriors currently isn't injured. It seems like half the team is

[binjumper]

Curious, who on the Warriors currently isn't injured. It seems like half the team is

Yeah they could use some more all-stars

[ATLTimekeeper]

LOL Most stacked team ever wins with the help of the refs.

Repeating this multiple times in each series thread before it is closed does not make it true. Curry missed key minutes in the 1st half due to being sick and shot 0-5 to start the game. Klay missed the 4th quarter due to injuring his hamstring and Cousins is still hobbled. Even Iguodala had to leave the game shortly in the 2nd half too. This is on top of Durant being out.

At one point in the 2nd quarter, the Warriors trotted out Klay with hobbled Cousins + borderline D league players for several minutes. You’re acting like this is a 100% healthy Warriors team with Durant playing out there. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

As for the refs, they were terrible both ways. At the very least, most neutral fans can see that. The 3rd quarter run by the Warriors and scoring drought cost the Raptors. Siakam’s 14/17 from last game averaged out to 19/35 after going 5/18 this game so that was significant as well. Green’s defense on him was great.

Klay's basket interference defense on Siakam was great, too I'm just glad the NBA packed these three clowns together in one game instead of ruining several. There's nothing I take from this game as revealing of the series, because it was three bad refs getting a lot of calls dead wrong for both teams. Golden State won on the merit of some big momentum killing threes by Cook, and then were saved by the bell as the Raptors' run at the end came too late.

[Ramed Nazored]

Raptors win 1 game : Series going to 7
GSW wins 1 game : Gentlemans sweep incoming

A lot of children on this board.

[nikster]

dude, other people already told you. you're being extremely disingenuous when you keep repeating 34 pts on 20 shots. It's not true. He got 18 points on those 20 shots. The rest came on FTs.

this is a bad look for u.

Kawhi got some of his FT’s off soft calls or shoulder barges/push off’s as well. I guess some of them washed with a soft call or two in favor of Steph but what matters is that Kawhi didn’t look great when it mattered despite his stat line.

Crazy to think that even with KD out..gsw can still field a lineup of steph,klay,iguodala,green,boogie

I really like the fit of that unit as well.

How long was that lineup on the court together though? Steph, Klay and Iguodala all left the game at different points for extended time due to injury/being sick. If they were all healthy, that’s definitely a lineup that would cleanup against most teams going big.

What matters is that Kawhii is scoring similar 28.5 points on 63 TS%. Similar to steph. And he’s generating 3 possessions per game through offensive rebounds. He could shoot better but he’s been great offensively

[Son Goku 25]

Haha I love it, where were all of these warrior fans and or raptor haters from other teams before? Hahaha

[cdubbz]

Nick Nurse only playing 8 people? not sustainable

[John Murdoch]

Alot of BS calls in this one. Did u guys see that play where Kawhi nearly had his arm ripped off by Curry and Tony Brothers calls jump ball? Lol even Scott Foster was like tf are u doing

[ATLTimekeeper]

Alot of BS calls in this one. Did u guys see that play where Kawhi nearly had his arm ripped off by Curry and Tony Brothers calls jump ball? Lol even Scott Foster was like tf are u doing

That was Lowry, wasn't it? The one near the end where Curry wrapped both arms around Lowry and Brothers called jump ball but Malloy overturned it.

[SlowPaced]

I thought Cousins coming back would disrupt the team? I thought it was a good thing for the Raptors? That's what some basketball savants here told me.

The guy won them the game today with his second half performance.

[ChiCitySPORTS#1]

I agree that Boogie made more of a difference than I thought he could coming back from that torn quad but Looney literally was in the rotation for the dubs championship run last year and has contributed all playoffs so far this year.

I should rephrase - I meant any other team that is not absolutely madly stacked with talent. The Warriors can get away with it, but no other playoff contender is starting Kevon Looney. They honestly could roll out anyone there. They’ve made several guys look good, but Looney wouldn’t be getting meaningful minutes on another team - warriors are paper thin upfront and have the perimeter guys to negate the drop off upfront

Would you consider Curry surrounded by Draymond, a mostly healthy Iggy, a hobbled Cousins, Quinn Cook and Andrew Bogut to be "stacked"?

I'm talking about the roster being top heavy

[naabzor]

If Klay is down I do not see the warriors winning this one. They can just gang up on Curry and let the others try to score.

[BillessuR6]

Raps have to take advantage of all the warriors injuries! They have an unbelievable chance here, they simply cannot blow it...

If GS is at full strength it is almost imposible to beat them in a series...but now stars are aligning for Raps to take the title...

[inquisitive]

If raptors want a split at Oracle , Lowry has to step up big

[Pharmcat]

Cousins was huge in game 2