Game #5 FINALS (3-1) Raptors vs Warriors June 10th, 2019 at 9:00pm in Scotiabank Arena

[Jclaw]

No game 6 thread?

[bertarapsfan]

I know it doesnt matter now but still cant believe Nick called that T.O. Would been so much better to hear the ACC erupt when the final buzzer went off

[bertarapsfan]

Just watched the Durant injury for the first time on tv. When it was live I was in a bar. 70% of the crowd definitely cheered after it was apparent he was hurt.

[The Great One]

Game 5 tonight?

[GOLDBLUM]

Big game.

This could be it...

Just think of the possibilities:

[Kagemusha]

Heres a contrarian view and a bit of a defense for the incident. I'd venture to say most of the fans in the building were wired. They might have had the odd adult social beverage starting at noon. People do stunning things when, as the police line goes, "alcohol was involved." Its a reflex reaction and when your drunk those reactions can be visceral. Its done. Its over. We move on to Thursday.

l was even afraid that a riot or violence will ensue after the game had we won.

[Demographic Shift]

Meh, it will all go away, by next game. It's just today's narrative in the nba soap opera. Toronto is taking our lumps today, and frankly rightly so. We can make all the justifications in the world about turnovers, excitement, kd killing us etc and they're all trueand they all did contribute.

Bottom line, large majority of toronto fans were acting like dick heads for a long enough amount of time before changing their tune that everyone noticed it. The first 15-20 seconds were NOT polite applause go kd go chants.

so we take our lumps, as any fanbase would. We broke an unwritten rule of sports etiquette when we were caught up in the moment.

The 24 hour news cycle has taken over....
Todays news is all about Durant and his operation and where he is going to play next year.and where Davis and Irving are going to play next year. The NBA media circus needs new oxygen every 24 to 48 hours and a byproduct of this is that the reaction to Durants unfortunate exit from this years playoffs has been relegated to the digital dustbin of history. The blah blah blah classless... yada yada yada classless stuff is pretty much done.

No one likes to see players go down (I wouldn't shed a tear or have an erg of remorse if someone had drilled Sean Avery into the next galaxy... Head first. of course ...before he became irrelevant and left the NHL.. but I wouldn't cheer out loud .. silently yes )

But we digress.

Heres a contrarian view and a bit of a defense for the incident. I'd venture to say most of the fans in the building were wired. They might have had the odd adult social beverage starting at noon. People do stunning things when, as the police line goes, "alcohol was involved." Its a reflex reaction and when your drunk those reactions can be visceral. Its done. Its over. We move on to Thursday.

[GOLDBLUM]

[rocwell]

Too soon?

nah everybody acting nice like wtf. Ok, he's out for 9 months best of luck to him, but he's still a snake. He ruined NBA. A snake. bye bye

[Bendit]

Too soon?

Not going there man ... too much nuance, unknowns and feelings.

All I know is I wish no one harm nor injury. But this is the finals and our team is in it. Fuck Durant or anyone else on the Dubs. They got hurt in "battle" and I am sorry.
Now let's play the game with what we have.

[KeonClark]

Durant confirms a torn Achilles.

Too soon?

[Bendit]

Durant confirms a torn Achilles.

[planetmars]

No way ill Danny Green match Klay's 3's. First off he doesn't take anywhere near the number of 3s Klay will take. Secondly, these playoffs he really has had only 2 good games where he made 6 & 5 3's. Most games he gets 0 or maybe 1. The thing keeping him on the floor is his defense.

Klay's made threes in the series:

game 1 - 3
game 2 - 4
game 3 - n/a
game 4 - 4
game 5 - 6

We hold Klay to 3 or 4 3's made.. I think Danny can match that. If it happens, uncork that champagne bottle.

[Zak24gege]

Either something is wrong with Siakam physically (doubtful) or Draymond is in his head (more likely). I don't think its the bright lights.. he scored 32 in game 1. Draymond knows how to stop/slow him down. I'm not expecting much from Siakam offensively anymore.

Hoping for another break out game from Danny though. We need him. Hope he can match Klay's threes.

No way ill Danny Green match Klay's 3's. First off he doesn't take anywhere near the number of 3s Klay will take. Secondly, these playoffs he really has had only 2 good games where he made 6 & 5 3's. Most games he gets 0 or maybe 1. The thing keeping him on the floor is his defense.

[golden]

Either something is wrong with Siakam physically (doubtful) or Draymond is in his head (more likely). I don't think its the bright lights.. he scored 32 in game 1. Draymond knows how to stop/slow him down. I'm not expecting much from Siakam offensively anymore.

Hoping for another break out game from Danny though. We need him. Hope he can match Klay's threes.

He had great game 1, a very good game 3 and a good game 4, so that's 3 out of 5 games of good to great play. It's not Draymond, it's basically the Sixers defense where GS are doubling Kawhi and Pascal for the drive and helping off Gasol and Lowry, when they become passive shooters. Lowry especially has a bad habit of hot-potatoing back to Siakam in the back-end of the clock. His vaunted BBIQ should know that a late-clock Siakam corner 3 isn't a high percentage shot, but he does it anyway. Lowry needs to shoot every f**king open jump shot he gets.