God damn so happy Curry is back. This is so much fun to watch especially him and Klay running with the 2nd team

Dramond Green is really, really good.

Edit: AND just went coast to coast for an and-1.

What a shot to end the half! Thompson off glass for three.

LMAO Chuck says he wants to punch Draymond in the face

At the game laughing at the latest Raptors choke against this team. That was an all-timer considering LeBron was tired and conserving energy for most of the game.

The sad thing is that they actually are better than them this year too but DeRozan/Lowry don't actually believe they can beat them so they won't do it. Cavs in 6 remains my prediction but the Raptors better win on Thursday if they even want to get that far.

Very much so, a close approximation. What matters is that the players don't (or at least the ones that play the end of the game) and that's why they never will.

Would have liked to have seen Poeltl over JV bricking every 2 footer and getting outmuscled for every rebound. Poeltl is better anyway.

NOLA has done a great job hanging so close but with Steph back and playing well it seems like a run to pull away is coming at any moment.

Game and probably series over for the Pelicans. Curry was dominating tonight even playing limited minutes.

Series ended before it started. It's a 73 win team that added Durant to it.

Yep. Hell of a run for the Pelicans. Gentry should be COTY. But their outmatched in this series. I'll be impressed if they take a game.

Wish the Pelicans could get Kawai to team with AD. That would be fun to see. Of course it won't happen.

The Pelicans probably would have won last night if Curry didn't play. As long as they stay healthy they should get to the Finals. The Rockets series is going to be off the hook though.

Yep. Regarding the possible Rockets / Warriors series - I hope so, because I'm a Rockets fan...BUT to be completely honest, I can see the Warriors beating the Rockets in 5 or 6. Reason being, this Rockets team has been built to beat the Warriors. If the Rockets don't win at least one home game to begin with, I think they'll go "mental" and that will end it early. I think IF the Rockets do manage to at least get a split at the start, they'll have at least a punchers chance, and IF they manage to win the series, it will go 7.

If the Warriors are healthy, I don't see a current team in the league that can beat them.

If you could get AD in Boston with Kyrie and Heyward, or Lebron in Houston maybe.

They're just damn good though. They shoot it so well and they're well coached.

I think they really need to win the 1st two at home to have a chance against them in that series.

I attribute his great game to bad coaching on the Raptors and the fragility, softness of JV.

The Raptors didn’t learn from game 7 against the Wiz, they were getting destroyed that game all because they fail to box guys out in the paint in order to setup their guys in positions to get rebounds. Game 1 of this series its the same ****ing thing. And JV physically doesn’t stack up well against TT. That and his lack of awareness kills the Raps at times.

Revising it to Warriors in 5 over the Rockets. Losing home games to the Utah Jazz in the playoffs is S-O-F-T.

Don't be that guy; the Jazz are legit. They won't win the series, but they are a solid team.

Define legit. They'd get swept by the Warriors. Truly elite teams shouldn't be losing home playoff games to a 48 win team that doesn't score above the league average.

The Jazz won the season series against Golden State 3-1 and the three wins were by 19, 30 and 40 points. The last game was meaningless, but overall they played them well. I'd never pick them to win a playoff series but I imagine they'd put up a fight at least. Mitchell looks legit.

I have a bad feeling the Rockets are going to flame out in the next round. Maybe just because of D'Antoni's playoff record.

One of the 3 best teams in the league by record after they got Gobert back. I think id consider that legit.
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the Jazz are missing their offensive facilitator/play maker that makes their entire offensive set work. The fact they even took one off Houston is pathetic for the Rockets and all that talent.

The Warriors did not try in the regular season. All of those games were meaningless to them.

agreed. Last year GS swept them in the playoffs but I can't remember if Gobert was totally healthy or not. They may win 1 game because Mitchell is awesome but that is about it.

Were they giving minimal effort the entire season?

what talent? Houston is full of players who were bottom-feeders before they came to Houston. They are, and were always, frauds. But getting a team like that to win 65 games says a lot about Harden. The Wizards on the other hand....

Pretty much. They also had some injuries to deal with.

Good news to Wizards fans. Grunfeld got an extension so you have the security of him being locked up for a while longer.

I knew about the injuries, but not enough when picking the spurs to beat them in round one. But turning that switch on when ya want to isn't always easy. Especially when you already have fed the hunger of getting that first ring

The raptors are total frauds.

He's killing them

He's so damn good. 33 years old. My God.

Fading way away

LeBron in total beast mode tonight.

Cavs still gonna lose to the Warriors, unless the league intervenes and helps the Cavs like they did a couple of years ago.

There were people in this thread as recently as a week ago that thought this was the year an almost 60 win Raptors team finally took it to Lebron.

lol funny joke

Damn I missed the beat down. Did the game start at 5 or something? I guess the Pacers are better than the hapless Raptors.

Raptors are SOFT. They need to blow the team up and get somebody that can take over and will the team to a win. Lowry and DeRozan are good players but they're soft and they're not true superstars.
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43-8-14 on 19/28 shooting. In his 15th year in the league. By happenstance, I was sitting beside a bigger LeBron James fan than me. He knew and respected his greatness. You all should as well. It's a privilege to be able to watch the greatest player to ever play this game do his thing like that. Looks like it will be my last chance to do so this year as well.

I don't know where that Kevin Love has been for the entire playoffs, but if he shows up from now on, the Cavs really shouldn't have any problems in the next round either.

Yes.

No shit. They're a 73 win team who added Kevin Durant.

No, the Pacers suck. Raptors probably beat that team in 5 or 6 games.

Difference is that the Raptors (their starters anyway) have no belief against LeBron. He's living in their heads, their hearts and their souls. Also Kevin Love playing like the All-Star he is rather than looking like that scrub Serge Ibaka makes the Cavs a bit more difficult to beat.

There are no true superstars coming through that door. Just get rid of DeRozan, Ibaka and JV and play the bench guys (Wright, Siakam, Poeltl) in their place and you'd be better than you are right now anyway.

But, of course, that's never happening.

I agree. They make All Star teams because the East is so bad but they wouldn’t sniff one if they played in the West.

So he sucked while you stroked?
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Difference between Jordan and Lebron fans:

Jordan fans weren't surprised when he put up 45 or so. It's always been par for the course.

Especially in the Finals.

what a run (26-8)by the Celtics to end the half and make this a game again

You're aware that LeBron has better career playoff and Finals stats than MJ, right? You can't win this.

Your obsession with LeBron's dick is interesting to me. This isn't the first time you've referenced this. LMAO

As much as I think LeBron is the GOAT, it's sad that a lifetime fan of the Raptors would go to the game and take satisfaction in his performance.

What's the other option? Dwelling on the disappointment of this franchise and its soft players? I'll pass.

A lifetime of disappointments from the Jays/Raptors/Chiefs/Leafs has more than prepared me for all of this.

It used to be noble to respect an opponent. Now it's all sore winners, and ever more sore losers. And have the Raptors even been around for a lifetime yet?

Yes, old ****. The 90s were a long time ago.

Ha. I'd ask for a pic of your mom to make sure that you're not my kid. But I don't want to take the chance of getting pinched on the back child support

In my experience, the Jordan dicksuckers are far worse than the Lebron dicksuckers. Those guys constantly go off the ****ing deep end any time an NBA fan speaks highly of any basketball player but Jordan

They're both awful. Generational warfare is fun to watch at times, but it can also be very annoying. But with that said I can't wait until every Boomer is in the ground, and half of the Yers starve to death because they were never equipped in order to properly handle adulthood

Nice D Embiid

Embiid got burnt there. Didnt get his feet out in front.

Were those old guys just posing for the camera behind the announcers?

Ben Simmons lol

My prediction that the Celtics had zero chance to get to the ECF isn’t looking to good lol

If voting for ROTY wasn't already over with, Simmons would have lost it to Mitchell after tonight's performance. :eek:

It's frustrating knowing how good the Celtics are even though they're missing their 2 best players. They'd win the east easily at full strength.
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Only coach better than Stevens is Pop IMO. Stevens is a Mastermind.
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And yet LeBron would still beat them in the playoffs, just like he's going to do to that team once again in a few weeks.

No there is one that is even worst - Kobe dicksuckers. A player that couldn't hold either one of those players jock.

Stevens is probably better. Pop had Duncan, Ginobili and Kawhi to help make him look good for years. Boston has had who? And they're still winning 60 games.

Most definitely. ****ing sucks

I wasn’t so sure early on if he was going to be a good coach but he has won me over this year

True.

Who was that one douche? ARROW2 or some shit like that? Jesus, that guy was like Tigger and Alex Smith. Absolutely inseparable.

Yeah they are by far the worst and find some way to insert Kobe into any greatest player discussion which is not at all reasonable to anyone other than the Kobe guys.

Actually had one of those in front of me tonight too. He could not handle the LeBron talk. I asked what made Kobe the best and could not get a clear answer.

Stevens has employed a pretty solid game plan against him. He's actually not that difficult a player to guard, though, when you consider he can't shoot at all.

Fully healthy Celtics vs this current Cavs team. Celtics win in 6.

Not healthy Celtics vs this current Cavs team. Cavs win in 5 if not 4

That was the guy. Anytime Lebron was brought up he'd unbearably spam on about Kobe and the Lakers.

I think we can all agree on that. :thumb:

Kobe isn't even a top 5 Laker player that is the funny thing about the whole deal.

I hate Kobe dickriders as much as the next guy, but this is a ridiculous statement.

Jordan:

All-time leading PPG average in playoffs

More PPG in NBA Finals

Most NBA finals MVP's

NBA Finals series scoring record

Perfect Finals record (6-0).

He even beat that great 98 Jazz team without Pippen for most of the game in game 6 to win his sixth title. 8 points in the final 2 minutes including the game winning steal and game winning shot.

We'll probably never see anything like that again.

KCC,Maybe Lebron will be the GOAT; I don't know how the rest of his career will play out. But, if Lebron loses in the Finals he will have the same number of Finals losses than Jordan had wins.

Wrap your head around that one.