2018-19 NBA Thread

[Sammy Sofa]

What a great picture. The faces are perfect.

 

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Pretty sure this dude is foolishly trying to watch the court and the screen at the same time, and he's tearing himself apart:

 

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[SouthSideRyan]

Somebody wanna check on sneaky and UMFan

[JennieGarthAlgar]

I can see Beilein wanting to give the NBA a shot. Didn't think it'd be the Cavs.

[Sammy Sofa]

[NOLA]

the east is fun as heck and that's gotta be one of the coolest buzzer beaters ever

Yeah that was awesome, unfortunately I think the ECF (well and the WCF) are gonna be snoozers. Don’t think it takes the Warriors or Bucks more than 5 games to do their job.

DIsagree, especially about the West. I think both those series are going to be great.

[Cubswin11]

the east is fun as heck and that's gotta be one of the coolest buzzer beaters ever

Yeah that was awesome, unfortunately I think the ECF (well and the WCF) are gonna be snoozers. Don’t think it takes the Warriors or Bucks more than 5 games to do their job.

DIsagree, especially about the West. I think both those series are going to be great.

I just don’t see it in either series, hope I’m wrong and we get two 6-7 game series. But just think the Warriors and Bucks are on another level than the two teams they’re playing. Lillard And Kawhi will both probably have a game they carry their team but don’t think either the Raptors or Blazers have the talent or fire power to make it interesting.

[NOLA]

Yeah that was awesome, unfortunately I think the ECF (well and the WCF) are gonna be snoozers. Don’t think it takes the Warriors or Bucks more than 5 games to do their job.

DIsagree, especially about the West. I think both those series are going to be great.

I just don’t see it in either series, hope I’m wrong and we get two 6-7 game series. But just think the Warriors and Bucks are on another level than the two teams they’re playing. Lillard And Kawhi will both probably have a game they carry their team but don’t think either the Raptors or Blazers have the talent or fire power to make it interesting.

So, maybe you were right about that.

[soccer10k]

DIsagree, especially about the West. I think both those series are going to be great.

I just don’t see it in either series, hope I’m wrong and we get two 6-7 game series. But just think the Warriors and Bucks are on another level than the two teams they’re playing. Lillard And Kawhi will both probably have a game they carry their team but don’t think either the Raptors or Blazers have the talent or fire power to make it interesting.

So, maybe you were right about that.

 

I thought the Warriors would handle the Blazers pretty easily. I did buy in to Toronto being nearly as good as Milwaukee and that being a good series though (still might be but I think Milwaukee wins in 5).Toronto was only a couple games worse than Milwaukee and that was with Kawhi missing 1/4 of the year.

[Sammy Sofa]

Yeah, I thought the East series was at least going to be competitive (the Raptors only finally barely won one because of the Bucks making a ton of mistakes as opposed to the Raptors actually stepping up, IMO), but never thought the Blazers had a chance against the Warriors. I can't wait for the Bucks and the Warriors, especially with the added drama of them trying to work Durant back in when it seems like the Warriors so obviously play so much better without him.

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I'm rooting against Toronto just because of how obnoxious drake is on the sideline

[Regular Show]

I'm rooting against Toronto just because of how obnoxious drake is on the sideline

 

Right there with you. I think he's literally been walking on the court at times during games (which is prohibited for all fans courtside). He takes the annoying Spike Lee superfan schtick to whole 'nother level.

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that kawhi/giannis sequence was awesome

[UMFan83]

Kawhi has been amazing this playoffs. I really hope he stays in Toronto after this year rather than go to like LA

[The_Achiever]

Kawhi is incredible. He should sign with the bulls instead of LA this offseason.

[UMFan83]

Kawhi is incredible. He should sign with the bulls instead of LA this offseason.

 

I think the Bulls have a better shot at drafting Zion with the 7th pick than signing Kawhi lol

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[Sammy Sofa]

 

It's the Prince basketball game all over again.

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[Proven Veteran]

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Execute him and distribute his money to people who deserve it.

[sneakypower]

funny to me that the only reason this series is in doubt for GSW is because Klay hurt himself flopping

[Sosa21MVP]

3-1 Raptors. :hello:

[Brian]

I'm exactly the kind of petty that would enjoy them not winning the 73-9 year and the year to get a 3 peat.

 

This is definitely over, it's not like 3-1 leads ever get blown.

[UMFan83]

Who would have guessed we’d be one game each away from Raptors and Blues championships?

[soccer10k]

I'm exactly the kind of petty that would enjoy them not winning the 73-9 year and the year to get a 3 peat.

 

This is definitely over, it's not like 3-1 leads ever get blown.

 

It pretty much comes down to Durant. If he comes back, even if he's not fully healthy, the Warriors can definitely win the series, even if he's not 100%. Even if he doesn't, they're good enough to win it, though I don't think they will.

 

They need Durant. They're a championship team without him, but they're not unbeatable. During their first two runs without him, they won 67 and 73 games, but also fell behind 2-1 to the Grizzlies and the Cavs the first year, fell behind 3-1 to the Thunder and then blew a 3-1 lead to the Cavs. Durant makes them unbeatable.

 

I don't think Durant is playing this series. I think the injury is more serious than they've let on and it's a bit of gamesmanship on their part to not announce his status until before each game.

 

Definitely happy for the Raps. Hope they can close it out in front of their fans on Monday.

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I'm exactly the kind of petty that would enjoy them not winning the 73-9 year and the year to get a 3 peat.

 

This is definitely over, it's not like 3-1 leads ever get blown.

 

I think the series is over too. The only question is if Durant is coming back next year and right now I doubt it very much.

 

I think he's teaming up with Kyrie somewhere.