The 2022 NBA Finals | (3) Golden State Warriors VS. (2) Boston Celtics (BOS 1-0)

[ajones9219]

People are seriously underrating the mavs defense, which held the suns to 27 1st half points in a game 7.

The Mavs had a great defense all year but they looked gassed for multiple stretches in the playoffs. Also imo they were by far the least talented of the 4 remaining teams even counting Luka being Luka

[Miami_Lux]

Well, clearly you do. I'm in a thread about the Celtics, talking about the Celtics. The other guy put something out which just wasn't factually true and I put an opinion and backed it up with facts about the Celtics. Here you are, a Miami fan, in a thread that doesn't involve your team, accusing me about caring and talking about my team? Weird take my friend.

I'm not picking fights either, that's you in every game thread - even when your team isn't playing.

So me opposing some of your takes on the Celtics is trolling? It seems to me you have a very thin skin (to say the least) and lash out at everyone who disagrees with you or says something negative about the Celtics. And I don t even dislike the Celtics team and wished them good luck against the Warriors. Which makes your accusations even funnier.
Anyways I think we have a disagreement on what constitutes as factual evidence. So I ll just leave it at that.

What were you opposing? You came into a conversation that had nothing to do with you or your team and said this.

Don t try to reason with this guy. He is the worst Celtic homer on this board. He will go to incredible lengths to defend his team. A true fanatic.

I mean, it's as clear as day. I'm not even going to waste my time on you anymore. Clear troll.

Mate, you’ve been the worst Miami fan going around. Nothing by crying all series. You don’t deserve class.

Good series to the rest of Miami fans.

You should provide the whole context. Being a classless dick.

Personal attacks are not allowed. -b

[Darthlukey]

Don t try to reason with this guy. He is the worst Celtic homer on this board. He will go to incredible lengths to defend his team. A true fanatic.

To be fair I’ve seen some really bad ones that would give this guy a run for his money.

True. Most characteristic is that they feel the need to attack your point immediately if you say something they don t agree with.

Isn't the point of discussion (albeit from opposing sides at times) to 'attack' a point one doesn't agree with? I mean, you gotta be logical about it and not resort to name calling etc, but focusing on a point is kinda the point

[PlatinumState]

Warriors in 6

[Miami_Lux]

To be fair I’ve seen some really bad ones that would give this guy a run for his money.

True. Most characteristic is that they feel the need to attack your point immediately if you say something they don t agree with.

Isn't the point of discussion (albeit from opposing sides at times) to 'attack' a point one doesn't agree with? I mean, you gotta be logical about it and not resort to name calling etc, but focusing on a point is kinda the point

True. I guess having a rational discussion on a sports forum is not always the easiest thing especially if you are rooting for a team. But you should try to be as objective as possible.

[GregOden]

Whoever wins the rebounding battle wins.

[metalinguss]

Whoever wins the rebounding battle wins.

Celtics might have the edge here. Looney looked like Rodman vs the Grizz and Mavs' big men. Let's see if he can do the same vs Horford and Rob.

[Luke Skyowner]

Will Porter be back? He was solid for GSW against Mavs few or one game(s) he played.

Pretty sure the Warriors will have OPJ, GP2 and Iggy available for this series.

defence points just went up bois! Thanks for info, i love when there is a potential for the Finals to be really really good. GSW being much deeper with those guys back makes me guess they play as quick pace as possible. Can C slow them down..

[Asian Celtic]

Two words: Moving Screens.

Warriors in 6.

I haven't watched much Warriors games, do they have harder moving screens than what Bam Adebayo does?

[multo]

Whoever wins the rebounding battle wins.

Celtics might have the edge here. Looney looked like Rodman vs the Grizz and Mavs' big men. Let's see if he can do the same vs Horford and Rob.

Warriors were not expected to win the rebounding battle against Grizzlies and Mavs but they did. Celtics are much bigger though.

[Darthlukey]

Whoever wins the rebounding battle wins.

God I hope that isn't true, cos boston was awful on the glass vs miami

[hoosierdaddy34]

I got Warriors in 5. Celtics **** the bed too much and even if both teams are at their best, Warriors are just better. Should be a quick series.

[multo]

After Game 1 RealGM will either be like:

IT'S OVER
"Warriors are just a different animal."
or
"Warriors haven't faced this kind of Celtics defense.

Which will it be?

[oldshoolballer]

I like the the Celtics in 7. I like the defense and they can attack in a lot of different ways. Should be a great series.

[TheLand13]

Cool story. We won some fully healthy and lost some fully healthy. They’re tight series, it’s the way it goes.

The Grizz won a game without Ja Morant, does that mean they’re better off without him? I’m not sure what point you’re trying to prove.

Did you even read my post to begin with? It’s pretty clear what my point is. You lost multiple key games while having a fully healthy team while the other team didn’t. I acknowledge that your team had injury issues. They aren’t the reason why these series were closer than they were supposed to be.

Bucks won game 4 with Rob Williams out and Heat game 3 with him out. How about Miami winning game 1 when Horford/Smart were out - another dream I guess. I got your point and I'm correcting it to. Other teams benefited us having players out as well.

Rob Williams was out there running on one leg tonight. He didn't even have a rebound. We're just as banged up as every other team.

The bucks were without their second best scorer and third best player. I don’t care if Boston didn’t have Williams. They won multiple games without him so you can’t point to that as the main reason. Celtics also couldn’t overcome the heat who lost Jimmy butler for an entire half. You’re not going to get any sympathy from me regarding injuries.

[Curmudgeon]

Whoever wins, we won't have to listen to any more PR crap about the "Heat culture" until next October.

[AussieCeltic]

Did you even read my post to begin with? It’s pretty clear what my point is. You lost multiple key games while having a fully healthy team while the other team didn’t. I acknowledge that your team had injury issues. They aren’t the reason why these series were closer than they were supposed to be.

Bucks won game 4 with Rob Williams out and Heat game 3 with him out. How about Miami winning game 1 when Horford/Smart were out - another dream I guess. I got your point and I'm correcting it to. Other teams benefited us having players out as well.

Rob Williams was out there running on one leg tonight. He didn't even have a rebound. We're just as banged up as every other team.

The bucks were without their second best scorer and third best player. I don’t care if Boston didn’t have Williams. They won multiple games without him so you can’t point to that as the main reason. Celtics also couldn’t overcome the heat who lost Jimmy butler for an entire half. You’re not going to get any sympathy from me regarding injuries.

I don’t need your sympathy, we’re in the NBA finals. The injury excuse is the lowest form of excuses. You play who is in front of you. When people say we’ve only faced injured teams, well so has our opposition.

[Darthlukey]

Whoever wins, we won't have to listen to any more PR crap about the "Heat culture" until next October.

And that's the ticket, winning the series is awesome, but making sure miami didn't win is much sweeter

[Ill News]

Not gonna make predictions for this one. I've been off for every series anyway

I'm just glad that two teams that were built the right way are gonna face off against each other in the Finals. Boston and GSW drafted and developed their respective cores, and those cores are relatively the same: Warriors have the devastating Splash Brothers with a defensive genius in Draymond completing them, while the Celtics have the extremely versatile Jays with another defensive genius in Smart backing them up. Curry is still the best player in this series, but Tatum is looking like a future MVP as well.

Jaylen is probably going to be the key in this series. All the focus will be on Tatum again, so it's up to Jaylen to eat all of his defenders alive since they'll be smaller than him. That's the main advantage these C's have: their best players are just walking mismatches against the Warriors, and you can be sure that they'll be hunting the worst defenders on the floor all series long. But I expect the Warriors to fluster the Celtics with their amazing ball movement and pretty stellar defense as well, and it's not like the Warriors have bad defenders in their lineup anyway.

I seriously have no idea who's going to win this series, which makes it one of the most exciting and highly anticipated in recent memory. The Celtics have had the Warriors' number in the regular season for the past few seasons, but that means jack **** in the finals. Warriors are well-rested while the Celtics are really banged up. But the Celtics have played 12 games in 23 days, so having more days off during the Finals will probably allow them to be more aggressive on defense.

Hoping for an excellent Finals, and for Banner 18 to finally be hung in the TD Garden rafters.

[lars_rosenberg]

As a Warriors fan, I love how the Celtics are now seen as the favorites for the series. More pressure on the young inexperienced guys.
More motivation for our vets.
Boston is a great team, but I like our chances.