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Hope you're right.
KD will at least be back by Game 4. Toronto has no chance.
Hope you're right.
Nah.. Demarcus is. Did you see the way he tried to abuse Duncan?
Gasol and Siakam are the guys who destroyed GS in Game 1 and Gasol has been inconsistent as this postseason. I expect a youngster like Siakam to be a ghost the rest of the series after Draymond clamped him so hard tonight. Golden State is just way better, even with injuries.
Boogie is awesome. Probably my favorite non-Spur.
Load Management abused a whole franchise and held them hostage with his gotry.
It’s insane how he’s just tossing dudes around. But losing Klay (no way he plays IMO) is a devastating blow. GS had no margin for error and losing Klay, even getting KD back, is a big blow.
Old . There's a quote out there of Boogie saying "damn, you're ing good" to Duncan.
Nephew OTOH refused calls from our GOAT.
Klay got a high ankle sprain in last years finals and didn't miss a start tbh.
Hamstrings are a different beast
High ankle sprain is usually a multi-week injury tbh. I'd be surprised if he missed more than 1 game.
I felt the same about that, got away with lot of and still (like Harden) failed to seal the deal.
Really? TOR (and the East in general) has gotten really overrated this year, imo. Even the Spurs, as flawed as they were, never looked outmatched by any of the Top 4 East teams during the season. I know it's not the playoffs but still.
Klay is an ironman and GS is dominant at home. No reason why it shouldn't be 3-1 coming back to TOR.
Without KD, GS is a very limited offensive team. They can’t bend TOR half court defense too much consistently. TOR has no liabilities on either end: Lowry? Can shoot and play defense. Danny? Can shoot and play defense. Kawhi? MVP level. Siakam? Can play both ends and do many things. Gasol? Very good defender.
GS is starting 2-3 players that while maybe solid on defense have some huge offensive flaws.
If KD was playing things are way different, but Kawhi being able to rest on defense, sag and cut out passing lanes etc.. is a big advantage. If KD was playing, that would not happen (imagine subbing KD in for Looney).
That shiny faced is coming back in Game 3 tbh.
If Klay does miss time and KD remains out that complicates things, obviously.
If just one of them returns though GS wraps it up fairly comfortably. If both return, they dominate the rest of the series. TOR is a solid team but they (and the rest of the East) were always a tier below GS and probably even HOU, imho.
I disagree big time man. TOR is well build; perfect for the modern nba. Yeah, their youth is overrated some and they are not 11 deep, but their top 7 can play both sides of the ball reasonably well.
We saw how tough these games were without KD (even with Klay playing well). Swapping Klay for KD does not net GS enough with regards to changing how TOR is defending them.
Having no KD, TOR showed outside of that 3rd quarter, that they can stifle GS offensively
The health of Klay is huge. Interesting couple of days coming up. Iggy and Cooke aren’t shooting you to any chip tbh....
I think you are really overlooking the fact that these games were in Toronto. Things will come a little easier for GS in Oakland, imo.
I'm not trying to be a bitter hater either, TOR is solid they've just never been GS/HOU level solid. No shame in that.
TOR is much better than HOU IMO. But everyone was saying TOR couldn’t do this to MIL on the road and they did just fine. I’m telling you, GS is still good as is, but it’s not a good match up for them. We shall see.
It is time to see if Kawhi's fate is as strong as Tim's.
As great as Tim was, I felt like fate was on his side in several occasions. Tim was injured and bailed out by Horry in 05, it is one thing for Horry to hit a clutch shot but he took over the quarter and OT in a pivotal game. Suns was screwed by referee and Horry in 07. And even in 03, one of the single greatest individual accomplishment, Nash/Fox's injury and Horry's rimmed out 3 were his lucky breaks. If you are not playing with a stacked roster like KD warriors or Shaq/Kobe Lakers, you need a little bit of luck to ring, even more so to ring multiple times.
No team in NBA history can beat a fully healthy 5 star warriors. 3 star makes it fair and Cousins playing like a 0.5 star gives the edge to warriors again. Klay's injury once again gives Raptors a chance. KD/Klay's health rest of this series, and their performance will be critical. It is time to see if Kawhi is destined to be a great one. He is IMO comparable to 2005 Duncan in his current state. Still superstar level, but lacks explosiveness to be a god like 03 Duncan or 18 LeBron. Will he get a lucky break here to be immortal in Toronto?
Stopped reading after no team in NBA history...
MJ in '96 would butt these Dubs, tbh.
At S bag going full hero mode and costing his team. His decision making was as brutal as ever (was actually good in game 1).
Fortunately for him, the Warriors' near 5 year run of luck/attrition is finally catching up to them and in their current state, they face structural/talent issues that are not fixable. Sure, they hung on for dear life tonight, but it felt like one last gasp as opposed to something sustainable.
This is starting to look like the '14 Finals. Game 3 is massive for the Warriors. Find a way to get it and if Durant can come back for game 4 and look like a reasonable facsimile of himself, they've got a shot. If not, this thing is probably over in 5.
They got three days off. Durant plays. No report on Klay yet.
Okay, so we have a Finals where all the star players are limping around on one leg. Who will win the Pegleg Championship?
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