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Eruditor:
Not team practice. Some people on Reddit said he trained alone. As per shooting practice.

Eruditor:
I won't be too worried though. Except the ref ball is glaring again, we should take game 2. When the lead was down to 4 in the 7th min of the 4th Q, Draymond's layup should have been a goal tend but they called it a block. Then in quick succession they gave Curry 2 fouls, gave Klay 1, gave him a tech and put us in the bonus. Siakam then shuffled to pass the ball to the corner for D Green who hit that 3 and basically sealed the game.

Eruditor:
Shebi Every pundit has said he is the best player in the league. We looked scared to guard him because the refs were fishing for calls for him. He would miss a layup with no one on him and they will get a call. Yet Van Vleet was holding Curry at will.

Eruditor:
Yea bro.

No fears. We got this though. They had a couple hail mary shots that went in and Siakam and Gasol won't be this good again. Only issue is, will Kawhi be this quiet again?

Eruditor:
LOL @ Out of rhythm.

Bro, don't let some of these hecklers stop you from saying the truth. Forget rhythm, Siakam's big game or Marc Gasol.

This game was 100% Ref ball.

I mean, Klay Thompson got a tech. Hahaha haha.

The NBA have gotten what they desired: prevent a sweep to keep the NBA finals interesting. They won't ref this game like this in game 2 for sure.

Notice how nobody is talking about the reffing like they did in the Rockets game 1. At some point, JVG said "it is not a foul if the ref does not call it" after replays showed Marc Gasol maul Curry. LOL.

Watch how analysts will talk about the reffing in games 2-4 now.

A40:
Golden State are going to need KD in this series oh ka ma tan ra wa

abdulkayus:
He did well in our first game against Qatar, and he was hyped up. Since then, he has become a shadow of himself. All the players ain't playing to their best.

KarnThornheart:
Even with MJ active, Hakeem was arguably the best two way player in the league. Put some respect on his name. You can't tell me because Iverson or Paul or Nash never won a ring and Tony Parker did he's better than them. That's blasphemous.

Most people have MJ at number out of sentimentality. He's to basketball what Ali is to boxing. As far as legacy, he's almost universally regarded as the greatest of all time. But anyone who knows boxing will tell you peeps like Sugar Ray Robinson, Henry Armstrong and IMO Marvin Hagler and maybe even floyd were better boxers than him.

KarnThornheart:
He carried them further than they should have ever gone in every single occasion bar 2011. His team's won 3 times and he has 3 FMVPs. And even in 2011, it's funny how when LeBron couldn't perform (17 7 7 or something like that) they lost. I don't understand why people try to equate team accomplishments to a player's greatness. I guess by your standards Barkley was a bum, so was Karl Malone , Stockton, Miller, Steve Nash, Chris Paul, the ice man, Iverson and all these all time greats without rings.

KarnThornheart:
SMH.


When you can immediately spot someone that's been watching skip Bayless too much. Now I understand the root of your problems. Get this into your head, skip bayless is not a basketball analyst , he's an entertainer. If you don't believe me go watch what he's been saying about Kawhi.

steady986:
Man, I'll miss LeBron when he finally leaves. He's such an awesome player to watch. Any living soul who says he doesn't love watching LeBron is not true to himself. Let me tell you, I used to be a LeBron hater, even more than most of y'all here, but it's hard to hate that guy's game.

And he knocked Kobe off top spot on my list of favorite players when he joined the Lakers.

KarnThornheart:
This is by far the dumbest statement I've ever seen on this forum. By faaaar! Not even one statement comes close. Name just one series! Lebron is 6 time all defense and a two time DPOY runner up. so this perception that all the times he lost in the finals his defense had anything to do with it or that he's always been a "bad" defender only a gsw clown who started watching basketball in 2015 would believe. Even last year bar the re.tarded plays some people purposely focus on, in his 16th year he had a better defensive rating than Kawhi, KD and Klay Thompson (39th in the league in defensive win shares). Not saying he's a better the defender but the idea that he's a horrible defender is just a stupid myth started by online trolls for casuals like you. His on ball and perimeter defense may not be what it used to be but that doesn't make him a liability and his zonal/off ball defense is still top notch. That's on him being a bad defender.

And let's talk about last year for a while, shouldering the offensive load he was again in his 16th year, you want him to go lock down Kevin Durant? LMAO! And how will that help his offense when he's expending his energy on a futile exercise in trying to defend durant? In most cases you don't put your best offensive player on the oppositions best offensive player. That's why the blazers didn't put Lillard on curry (not cause he's a horrible defender like someone here stipulated), that's why the cavs try to force curry to work on defense. You also can't use just one player to defend Steph curry, it has to be a team effort and you have to show good players different bodies. Why Pippen and Rodman guarded the opposing teams best player not Jordan. I repeat teams rarely put their best offensive player on a tough defensive assignment let alone someone with the mileage LeBron has.

I keep telling this clown he doesn't know basketball he thinks I'm joking like literally everything you post here is cringe worthty.

Eruditor:
You know why you are stupid? You don't even hide that you just guzzle Nick Wright's nonsense to come and spew here without actually watching games. You are giving me box scores to explain Iggy's role in guarding Lebron. LOL.

Lebron was at his most inefficient best in that series. Do you know how many shots he needed to take to average 35ppg? Try 40 shots per game.

If KD shoots 40 shots per game, he will average 70 ppg.

Fvck outta here.

Eruditor:
Without KD, Kawhi's team led GSW by 22 on their ground, in the first half and lost by double digits with Kawhi guarding Curry. This was in 17/18. Curry did same 3 different times in 15/16. In one of the times, he barely played the 4th Quarter, had 36points and made a highlight reel with Kawhi guarding him where he faked him, Kawhi spun around looking for the ball, only to see Curry nailing a deep 3 in the game. Spurs lost that game by 32. What people said here is that it was regular season. Unfortunately, KD and Westbrook crushed them 4-2 with the game 6 being a 42 point loss or something like that. A curry led GSW then beat OKC in 7 in the WCFs.

Even in that series, Kawhi had a great game 1 against KD but after the adjustments the series was done (barring one or 2 ref mistakes I will admit).

The season you are talking about is the one Kawhi was gaurding KD and GSW could not hit any shots. You won't remember that at the beginning of the 3rd Q before Kawhi got his already bad ankle aggravated, Curry could not miss any shot. I still remember Mike Breen shouting "Bang Bang Bang" with all the 3pt shots Curry was knocking. I argued here then and I would tell you flat out, even if Kawhi did not get hurt, that game would have been tied by the 4th Q.

There is no lead that is safe against GSW. Ask Rockets last year. Down 17 on their ground, game 7, we still overturned it and beat them by 9.

There are players Kawhi has success against. There are players that he is hopeless against. Steph Curry is the player he is hopeless against.

Khanben:
Is Iguodala's man to man defense better than Jimmy Butler's/giannis/brogdon/Middleton. Cause the Klaw just schooled these guys in the last two series.

etidy:
I don't know how someone will look at this series and say the warriors are the favorites. The raptors defense is legit, who on the warriors can stop kawhi? Only KD and he's injured at the moment. If KD comes back early, I see a warriors win but otherwise, it's a raptors win.

Kawhi, Lowry and Danny Green are all legit wing defenders. They will make life difficult for curry and klay.

Regardless of who wins this series will change the legacy of kawhi and curry.

If curry wins, he automatically joins the top 10 all time player and number 2 point guard ever behind only magic.

If kawhi wins, he becomes undoubtedly the best player in the league. 2 final MVPs, 2 Dpoy, 2 nba titles and he's not even 30 yet! He can win a couple of regular season MVP and we are looking at the second coming of MJ.

If the warriors lose and the curry has a shitty series which is very likely with kawhi on him +several double teams. He would be seen as the star player that keeps choking in the finals.

Khanben:
Not saying the raptors will win, but you seem to have forgotten that kawhi's spurs was beating GSW by 20pts before Zaza's curse struck. Kawhi's defense is just extraordinary(one of the things Nick has said recently that I agree with is that there is elite defense and above that is what kawhi can do). Imagine a scenario where they put him a Draymond from full court especially when Green is initiating the offense. The amount of steals/turnovers kawhi can force in this scenario can hurt GSW.

steady986:
And in 2012 playoffs he averaged 11.5 points, 6.0 rebounds and assists and 3.0 steals. Is it that he became better at 40 than he was at 35? I thought he was supposed to be declining?

steady986:
There's no parameter to determine who should decline faster.

And Jordan had Pippen and co so he didn't do it alone as well, as you saw that he couldn't do it all alone in Washington. Likewise LeBron. He did it with the Heat and Cave because he had support, but he couldn't do it with the Lakers because he lacked support.

steady986:
Paul Pierce averaged 19 points at age 34, 35 and 36, which is not exactly a steep decline

steady986:
You're making this claim just to favour your argument. You were not in their bodies to know that they weren't athletic after the age of 34. How can somebody be thrash at 34 and still play till he is 41? That doesn't make sense. Even Jordan didn't play till 41. Not to talk about all the years he missed in between.

steady986:
Like I said, all these players in question are hall of famers. Or are you telling me that only MJ and LeBron have the right to be athletic at 34. Like they have some sort of super powers that the rest of the NBA players don't have?

etidy:
If Toronto makes the finals, I don't see the warriors winning without Durant.

Kawhi, danny Green and siakam will take turns to make life hell for curry and klay.
Draymond green needs to have a monster series to get the other guys involved in the offence.
And then the warriors will lack a consistent scoring threat from inside which makes matters worse for them.
However, two big factors play into the warriors favour
1) Experience
2) Toronto's unique ability to choke

With championship experience and heart the warriors will makes this a series but matchup wise Toronto has the edge.