2018-2019 NBA Season Thread [Archived] Basketball • Page 1136

He's only played 32.3 minutes a game in these playoffs. He shouldn't be tired.

 

Giannis gonna be downright mean on Tuesday.

Kawhi played 52 minutes tonight.

 

I didn't expect the Bucks to sweep the Raptors because they did win 58 games in the regular season - I'm just so frustrated with how it happened

 

you get tired when the opposing team gets to hack your arms and hit your in the face repeatedly without any foul calls

 

Kawhi is a robot though.


I kid. Dude look exhausted in OT 2.

 

Kawhi was unreal tonight

 

Some might say your ribs get separated

 

Good thing he ended the game resting up on the sidelines

 

Kawhi’s gonna be fine, raptors playoff experience is gonna be a major factor going forward. This one’s going 7

 

it's not going 7 - the Raptors needed every thing to break their way to barely win in 2OTs at home

the Raptors are ass

 

I expect another big George Hill game on Tuesday.

 

I’m sorry for being mean and an asshole tonight

Good game Toronto

 

Middleton and Bledsoe were a COMBINED 6-32? Fucking yikes.

 

Giannis was 5-16 too and Mirotic was 3-11

the Bucks played TERRIBLY tonight - a lot of it was self-inflicted and the refs let the Raptors get away with a lot of extra hacking but the Raptors execute their game plan well tonight and the Bucks didn't

 

Drake makes me hope the raptors not only lose this series but lose kawhi and go winless for eternity.

 

Giannis put up 12 pts and it still took double OT for the raptors to win. Not really worried AT ALL.

 

The entire Bucks fanbase makes me feel a similar way about the Bucks.

 

You’re always saying shit like this. Listen to what you’re saying and learn from it dude.

 

I had this series going 7 because I don't really trust either team. Bucks are a better team, but have a lot of inexperience. Raptors are known for choking - but have Kawhi (who now appears injured).

Last night was just an ugly game for both teams. Neither team deserved to win, but the Raptors should have blown the doors off the bucks considering how bad the Giannis/Bucks struggled. The fact that it took two overtimes at home to win is really unsettling. They had some of the worst, careless turnovers you could imagine too.

I originally had Bucks in 7 but now I'm thinking more of Bucks in 6.

It really doesn't matter at all because it's the Warriors in 4.

 

I am definitely believing that the Bucks are the juggernaut team this postseason and not the Warriors. Bucks in 5 vs Raptors, in 6 vs Warriors.

 

It’s the Warriors. They are still destroying everybody else without the best player in the world. If they get him back they have to be the favorites, maybe even if they don’t.

 

Warriors have experience too, this is Giannis' first deep playoff run. It'd be a lot for him to win in his first finals against an incredible team that has been there five years straight. That kind of thing matters.

 

Steph/Klay/Draymond didn't have THAT much more playoff experience when they won their first championship than Giannis does now. (KD obviously does though.) I'd say if anything the x-factor is probably Kerr given that this is Budenholzer's first season with this level of talent on his roster.

It just feels like the Warriors have been doing their jobs and beating their opponents but for the most part the Bucks have been slaughtering theirs. There are exceptions throughout the season and postseason but I just can't doubt this Bucks team yet. Bigtime "team of destiny" vibe.

 

According to Simmons, kemba (from the Bronx/Harlem) isn't going to the Knicks because he's actually from "deep ny". Gonna go ahead and say that's racist.