Ghostriding Through The 6 For The Chip - Raps v Warriors Finals Thread

[MikelArteta]

My Blazers helped this but.. Damn GSW fans disrespectful

In 5?

Yall nikkaz lost all 3 games yall played this year..

Not to say yall WONT win.. cuz its definitely not over by a long shot..

But yall really think yall winning 4 straight

Com'on shunn

Yup golden state hasn’t beat us at all this year

Lost by 20 in one Nd yesterday would have been double digits if steph didn’t hit that 3 at the end

 

[OJ Simpsom]

I love my city. We got this.

 

[trick]

Staying up for that was worth the lack of sleep

Gotta wait til Sunday for game 2

That was fun as hell to watch, but yeah these 9 pm start times are terrible. Tired as hell this morning

 

[MR. Conclusion]

I agree with those who feel game 2 is a must win for TOR. You have to take advantage of a hobbled GS squad without KD and Iguodala (allegedly).

 

[MikelArteta]

Mississauga Jurassic park had a estimated 20,000 people

 

[MR. Conclusion]

Siakim looked like a 10-year perennial All-Star. He did whatever the fukk he wanted to do like "who gonna stop me".

You always need dudes like VanFleet on your squad.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

This potentially could be the best Finals ina decade though the 3-1 shyt despite my feelings about it was inarguably a great series and an infamous moment in professional basketball..

And I agree with the 2nd part of your post. We’re at the apex of this “reactionary, hot take era” and this thread, IG/Twitter are prime examples of this.. and I don’t see shyt changing anytime soon

There's no way this finals could be better than Cleveland/GSW in 2016

 

[MikelArteta]

I agree with those who feel game 2 is a must win for TOR. You have to take advantage of a hobbled GS squad without KD and Iguodala (allegedly).

We’ve come back down 2-0 against a 60 win team who only lost 2 in a row once all year

We came back down 2-1 after losing home court to a team many viewed as having the best starting lineup in the nba

We came back down 1-0 against the hottest team entering the playoffs in Orlando

But suddenly up 1-0 game two is a must win for us

 

[levitate]

"We won without you...!!!"

Not now, nikka - new day!

 

[MikelArteta]

Golden state is 7-7 in the finals without Durant

And 8-1 with Durant

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

As long as the Warriors keep playing the "Death lineup", this will happen again

Absolutely not. Draymond is a very, very overrated individual defender but Siakam will never make 11 shots in a row (including one not even looking at the basket) again. Kerr is absolutely terrible at in game adjustments but he’s usually decent from game to game.

 

[trick]

Absolutely not. Draymond is a very, very overrated individual defender but Siakam will never make 11 shots in a row (including one not even looking at the basket) again. Kerr is absolutely terrible at in game adjustments but he’s usually decent from game to game.

Wonder if they’re gonna put Cousins or Looney in the starting lineup, obviously Jordan Bell at the 5 is not going to work this series

 

[malbaker86]

its just the experience and defense

It's like people forget Kawhi (and also Danny Green too) has played in 2 finals and one of those being a game 7 in his 2nd year in the league and also has been to the WCF on 2 other occasions as well. He's hella experienced and know what it takes to get it done.

Whether the Raptors win this series or not, I had changed my pick to Raptors in 7 prior to the game yesterday, they ARE NOT intimidated by GSW with Durant or without Durant.

 

[#1 pick]

Against Philly they said that Embiid and dem just played bad and couldn’t get it going.

Against the Bucks they said that the role players didn’t show up and Giannis was undisciplined.

Game One here and now folks are saying the Warriors offence was sloppy and disjointed.

Maybe just maybe the Raptors are really fukking good. Yes, we got a lot of series left and it can still go either way but a lot of y’all nikkas need to wake up to the fact the this Raptors team is really fukking good.

They are a defensive superteam. They got like all defensive guys at every position and even the guys they bring off the bench can defend like FVF, Ibaka and Powell. They really don't have a defender you can pick on. They rarely make mistakes and v. GS it's impossible not to and they found a way to limit mistakes.

The best defensive team I've ever seen. I used to think it was the Spurs that won the title v. Miami and that's still the best defensive team I've seen in the RS but this team is special special on D.

 

[MikelArteta]

It's like people forget Kawhi (and also Danny Green too) has played in 2 finals and one of those being a game 7 in his 2nd year in the league and also has been to the WCF on 2 other occasions as well. He's hella experienced and know what it takes to get it done.

Whether the Raptors win this series or not, I had changed my pick to Raptors in 7 prior to the game yesterday, they ARE NOT intimidated by GSW with Durant or without Durant.

And gasol been to the conference finals and played in Olympic gold medal games against USA

Ibaka has been to the finals before and played against this gsw before

Fred van vleet a 4 year college senior who played in the ncaa title game

These guys ain’t scared