I wouldn't say that they are not a championship calibre team, remember Nurkic got injured by still with Lillard and CJ on the helm, they're able to upset Denver Nuggets and win against OKC. So that alone speaks the competitiveness of this team. But we all know that it is different facing GSW in WCF, they have so much experience in close out games and I think that what lack's Portland, the experience to be in this kind of high level basketball. I'm sure Lillard and CJ had learn a lot from this lost.
Warriors are not just head and shoulders above other teams, they'll make even great teams look so mediocre at their will, they can be that good. They already knew what teams could tend to do each game and they always have a counter plan to each of their opponent's plan. It thought Lillard was going to be too much for them to handle but look at how effectively they handle him, I looked back at Lillards buzzer beating 3 points to end the series against OKC (which was very deep from the 3 points line), and compared it to back to back chances against GSW I wonder why he couldn't make either shot. 
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Portland just could not close out games against the Warriors this series. Well, any team could hardly do that, but atleast they could have won atleast one game.
Unfortunately they haven't, there's no other team that can beat the warriors, even the Rockets only won 2 games. On the east, Raptors is also having a hard time closing games against the Bucks. I don't think their roster (other than Kahwi) have that belief. It's probably the result of them always falling short in the past.
Raptors already won 1 game, 2-1 is the series score now, but if they loss game 3, that would put them in big trouble. Most of the discussions now are with the other conference, Bucks vs Raptors. While later, Golden State Warriors and Portland Blazers will have their last match if GSW will win this.
I guess people already gave up with this conference and chose to be focused with a better and more exciting much. Okay, going to join the discussion about Giannis with his gang and Raptors. Haven't watched the game instead I reviewed it with a replay, I was impressed that it got a 2 overtimes.
That's a very intense match.
I guess people already gave up with this conference and chose to be focused with a better and more exciting much. Okay, going to join the discussion about Giannis with his gang and Raptors. Haven't watched the game instead I reviewed it with a replay, I was impressed that it got a 2 overtimes.
That's a very intense match.
The last 2 games of the Warriors vs Blazers series was all disappointment to the fans, they are up 15 points or more but they gave up that.
Even if they will win in game 4, most likely they will be dominated on the road in game 5, so this series will end early as what most of us predicted.
Earlier. Portland Blazers was swept by the Golden State warriors. They had 13 point lead in the 4th quarter but failed to protect it. They were scoreless for a few minutes that paved the way for GSW to catch up. Congratulations for GSW for making it into the NBA Finals, again. They deserve it.
Hope they will improve next season, they should do better since they improve their experience by reaching the WCF, Nurkic should be healthy and hopefully back to normal, I'm afraid his confidence will dropped as he already experience an injury, but at least canter would make this team more solid.
I wouldn't say that they are not a championship calibre team, remember Nurkic got injured by still with Lillard and CJ on the helm, they're able to upset Denver Nuggets and win against OKC. So that alone speaks the competitiveness of this team. But we all know that it is different facing GSW in WCF, they have so much experience in close out games and I think that what lack's Portland, the experience to be in this kind of high level basketball. I'm sure Lillard and CJ had learn a lot from this lost.
Most of the discussions now are with the other conference, Bucks vs Raptors. While later, Golden State Warriors and Portland Blazers will have their last match if GSW will win this.
I guess people already gave up with this conference and chose to be focused with a better and more exciting much. Okay, going to join the discussion about Giannis with his gang and Raptors. Haven't watched the game instead I reviewed it with a replay, I was impressed that it got a 2 overtimes.
That's a very intense match.
I guess people already gave up with this conference and chose to be focused with a better and more exciting much. Okay, going to join the discussion about Giannis with his gang and Raptors. Haven't watched the game instead I reviewed it with a replay, I was impressed that it got a 2 overtimes.
That's a very intense match.
The last 2 games of the Warriors vs Blazers series was all disappointment to the fans, they are up 15 points or more but they gave up that.
Even if they will win in game 4, most likely they will be dominated on the road in game 5, so this series will end early as what most of us predicted.
Earlier. Portland Blazers was swept by the Golden State warriors. They had 13 point lead in the 4th quarter but failed to protect it. They were scoreless for a few minutes that paved the way for GSW to catch up. Congratulations for GSW for making it into the NBA Finals, again. They deserve it.
Hope they will improve next season, they should do better since they improve their experience by reaching the WCF, Nurkic should be healthy and hopefully back to normal, I'm afraid his confidence will dropped as he already experience an injury, but at least canter would make this team more solid.
Nah. You can say the same for any other team going against the warriors in the playoffs. The blazers proved a lot by just being in the wcf when not a lot of people expected them to be there. Gsw was just head and shoulders above everyone else and it's likely they'll retain the title regardess of who wins in the ecf. And they'll likely solidify the dynasty until next season.
Most of the discussions now are with the other conference, Bucks vs Raptors. While later, Golden State Warriors and Portland Blazers will have their last match if GSW will win this.
I guess people already gave up with this conference and chose to be focused with a better and more exciting much. Okay, going to join the discussion about Giannis with his gang and Raptors. Haven't watched the game instead I reviewed it with a replay, I was impressed that it got a 2 overtimes.
That's a very intense match.
I guess people already gave up with this conference and chose to be focused with a better and more exciting much. Okay, going to join the discussion about Giannis with his gang and Raptors. Haven't watched the game instead I reviewed it with a replay, I was impressed that it got a 2 overtimes.
That's a very intense match.
The last 2 games of the Warriors vs Blazers series was all disappointment to the fans, they are up 15 points or more but they gave up that.
Even if they will win in game 4, most likely they will be dominated on the road in game 5, so this series will end early as what most of us predicted.
Earlier. Portland Blazers was swept by the Golden State warriors. They had 13 point lead in the 4th quarter but failed to protect it. They were scoreless for a few minutes that paved the way for GSW to catch up. Congratulations for GSW for making it into the NBA Finals, again. They deserve it.
Hope they will improve next season, they should do better since they improve their experience by reaching the WCF, Nurkic should be healthy and hopefully back to normal, I'm afraid his confidence will dropped as he already experience an injury, but at least canter would make this team more solid.
Portland just could not close out games against the Warriors this series. Well, any team could hardly do that, but atleast they could have won atleast one game.
On the east, Raptors is also having a hard time closing games against the Bucks. I don't think their roster (other than Kahwi) have that belief. It's probably the result of them always falling short in the past.
On the east, Raptors is also having a hard time closing games against the Bucks. I don't think their roster (other than Kahwi) have that belief. It's probably the result of them always falling short in the past.
There you go. Warriors is waiting in Finals. I really thought, Blazers will steal game4. Oh my, they have 3.3sec left for the last shot in OT, they rush it. I knew it, it won't go, they rush it, the form is bad. Anyway, kudos to Blazers they put a good fight and it's really entertaining eventhough they didn't won even one game. Warriors is well rested before entering NBA Finals.
Another familiar scenario, Portland leads, then GSW made a comeback and wasn't able to produce the game winning shot.
Curry did have a crucial turn-over though that could have finished the game, a traveling violation. But it just delayed the inevitable as they swept Portland. They really put a good defense of Lillard on the closing seconds of the OT and wasn't able to get a good look.
There you go. Warriors is waiting in Finals. I really thought, Blazers will steal game4. Oh my, they have 3.3sec left for the last shot in OT, they rush it. I knew it, it won't go, they rush it, the form is bad. Anyway, kudos to Blazers they put a good fight and it's really entertaining eventhough they didn't won even one game. Warriors is well rested before entering NBA Finals.
Congratulations to the Warriors and fair play to the Blazers their lack of composure cost the series, they could have one of two games.
Golden State Warriors are literally more composed and I think they'll eventually defend their championship with a relative ease, regardless of who their opponent is.
There you go. Warriors is waiting in Finals. I really thought, Blazers will steal game4. Oh my, they have 3.3sec left for the last shot in OT, they rush it. I knew it, it won't go, they rush it, the form is bad. Anyway, kudos to Blazers they put a good fight and it's really entertaining eventhough they didn't won even one game. Warriors is well rested before entering NBA Finals.
Most of the discussions now are with the other conference, Bucks vs Raptors. While later, Golden State Warriors and Portland Blazers will have their last match if GSW will win this.
I guess people already gave up with this conference and chose to be focused with a better and more exciting much. Okay, going to join the discussion about Giannis with his gang and Raptors. Haven't watched the game instead I reviewed it with a replay, I was impressed that it got a 2 overtimes.
That's a very intense match.
I guess people already gave up with this conference and chose to be focused with a better and more exciting much. Okay, going to join the discussion about Giannis with his gang and Raptors. Haven't watched the game instead I reviewed it with a replay, I was impressed that it got a 2 overtimes.
That's a very intense match.
The last 2 games of the Warriors vs Blazers series was all disappointment to the fans, they are up 15 points or more but they gave up that.
Even if they will win in game 4, most likely they will be dominated on the road in game 5, so this series will end early as what most of us predicted.
Earlier. Portland Blazers was swept by the Golden State warriors. They had 13 point lead in the 4th quarter but failed to protect it. They were scoreless for a few minutes that paved the way for GSW to catch up. Congratulations for GSW for making it into the NBA Finals, again. They deserve it.
Most of the discussions now are with the other conference, Bucks vs Raptors. While later, Golden State Warriors and Portland Blazers will have their last match if GSW will win this.
I guess people already gave up with this conference and chose to be focused with a better and more exciting much. Okay, going to join the discussion about Giannis with his gang and Raptors. Haven't watched the game instead I reviewed it with a replay, I was impressed that it got a 2 overtimes.
That's a very intense match.
I guess people already gave up with this conference and chose to be focused with a better and more exciting much. Okay, going to join the discussion about Giannis with his gang and Raptors. Haven't watched the game instead I reviewed it with a replay, I was impressed that it got a 2 overtimes.
That's a very intense match.
The last 2 games of the Warriors vs Blazers series was all disappointment to the fans, they are up 15 points or more but they gave up that.
Even if they will win in game 4, most likely they will be dominated on the road in game 5, so this series will end early as what most of us predicted.
Most of the discussions now are with the other conference, Bucks vs Raptors. While later, Golden State Warriors and Portland Blazers will have their last match if GSW will win this.
I guess people already gave up with this conference and chose to be focused with a better and more exciting much. Okay, going to join the discussion about Giannis with his gang and Raptors. Haven't watched the game instead I reviewed it with a replay, I was impressed that it got a 2 overtimes.
That's a very intense match.
I guess people already gave up with this conference and chose to be focused with a better and more exciting much. Okay, going to join the discussion about Giannis with his gang and Raptors. Haven't watched the game instead I reviewed it with a replay, I was impressed that it got a 2 overtimes.
That's a very intense match.
This is very intriguing because they never really won against the Bucks with a huge lead.
Here is their history.
Basing on the history its clear that they do really have a hard time on winning until now were are still seeing that struggle.Here is their history.
That's 3 games, their problem is in the last quarter or the closing minutes, they can't dominate the bucks and game 3 was a almost snatch by the bucks.
Until they have a convincing win against the Bucks, people will not give full confidence on the Raptors.
I was afraid raptors would lose this game too because it was so close, I really want this series to be a lot more close and see that game 7 here as well, bucks have been doing awesome until now and raptors had that game 7 with Sixers and the last second Kawhi moment.
I don't care which team wins, I like both of them but I really want that game 7 last second thing again, it was awesome when dame did it to OKC and it was awesome when Kawhi did it to Sixers and now with this series it would be awesome again, I think it will not matter who wins since warriors will destroy both of them, they can literally build a combined team of all players in bucks and raptors coming together and warriors would still win, so this series is all we have left in our hands and I want it to go as long as possible.
Obviously that's what we all want from this playoffs finals, to last as much as possible so we can enjoy watching more games. It's also much more entertaining to watch a decider game 7 instead of a series ending in 4-5 games because as you said the Warriors are probably going to close it in a short time so we are definitely not seeing a game 7 there. I don't care which team wins, I like both of them but I really want that game 7 last second thing again, it was awesome when dame did it to OKC and it was awesome when Kawhi did it to Sixers and now with this series it would be awesome again, I think it will not matter who wins since warriors will destroy both of them, they can literally build a combined team of all players in bucks and raptors coming together and warriors would still win, so this series is all we have left in our hands and I want it to go as long as possible.
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I don't consider the win be lucky. Kawhi Leonard was injured that game and what a game he showcased. He played I think 50+ minutes that game. Giannis was shooting poorly that game so I guess this wasn't luck. Giannis had a rough game. Hmm... looks like Giannis got carried away with all the sudden attention he got during last week. Or perhaps his fans were expecting too much from him and he was under a lot of pressure to repeat his performance. He is just 24 years and far away from becoming a legend. Mike Budenholzer should remember this during the next match, and try to calm him down.
On his recent game 3 performance you can clearly see the pressure but we dont know on whats the actual thing that bother him about
but overall this Giannis is a monster.
This is very intriguing because they never really won against the Bucks with a huge lead.
Here is their history.
Basing on the history its clear that they do really have a hard time on winning until now were are still seeing that struggle. Here is their history.
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The raptors took this game but in a very hard way eventhough it's their home court. It took them two OT to defeat the bucks that has no Giannis playing in the second OT though. Buck are still my bet to win the east finals.
I just realized that now.
I have been saying that while watching the game.
Bucks is making it hard for the Raptors to win the game.
This is very intriguing because they never really won against the Bucks with a huge lead.
Here is their history.
Jan 31 Milwaukee 105, Toronto 92 Antetokounmpo 19 Pts Siakam 28 Pts
Jan 5 Toronto 123, Milwaukee 116 Leonard 30 Pts Siakam 30 Pts Antetokounmpo 43 Pts
Dec 9 Milwaukee 104, Toronto 99 Antetokounmpo 19 Pts Lopez 19 Pts Ibaka 22 Pts
Oct 29 Milwaukee 124, Toronto 109 Ilyasova 19 Pts Ibaka 30 Pts
Credits to: http://www.espn.com/nba/teams/comparison/_/team1/tor/team2/mil
3-1 in the series and they just won 7 points against the Bucks while Gianis is still a monster with points.
They shut down Gianis at game 3 and even fouled him out. It could have been another overtime or a win for Bucks if he did not get that foul.
What if suddenly Middleton finds his rhythm?
I was afraid raptors would lose this game too because it was so close, I really want this series to be a lot more close and see that game 7 here as well, bucks have been doing awesome until now and raptors had that game 7 with Sixers and the last second Kawhi moment.
I don't care which team wins, I like both of them but I really want that game 7 last second thing again, it was awesome when dame did it to OKC and it was awesome when Kawhi did it to Sixers and now with this series it would be awesome again, I think it will not matter who wins since warriors will destroy both of them, they can literally build a combined team of all players in bucks and raptors coming together and warriors would still win, so this series is all we have left in our hands and I want it to go as long as possible.
I don't care which team wins, I like both of them but I really want that game 7 last second thing again, it was awesome when dame did it to OKC and it was awesome when Kawhi did it to Sixers and now with this series it would be awesome again, I think it will not matter who wins since warriors will destroy both of them, they can literally build a combined team of all players in bucks and raptors coming together and warriors would still win, so this series is all we have left in our hands and I want it to go as long as possible.
It was a good opportunity for Bucks to do the break in this game.
They actually seem strong to make it in the next game and I hope that he will do it, so that they will finish early in this series and get ready for the big finals.
I was afraid raptors would lose this game too because it was so close, I really want this series to be a lot more close and see that game 7 here as well, bucks have been doing awesome until now and raptors had that game 7 with Sixers and the last second Kawhi moment.
I don't care which team wins, I like both of them but I really want that game 7 last second thing again, it was awesome when dame did it to OKC and it was awesome when Kawhi did it to Sixers and now with this series it would be awesome again, I think it will not matter who wins since warriors will destroy both of them, they can literally build a combined team of all players in bucks and raptors coming together and warriors would still win, so this series is all we have left in our hands and I want it to go as long as possible.
I don't care which team wins, I like both of them but I really want that game 7 last second thing again, it was awesome when dame did it to OKC and it was awesome when Kawhi did it to Sixers and now with this series it would be awesome again, I think it will not matter who wins since warriors will destroy both of them, they can literally build a combined team of all players in bucks and raptors coming together and warriors would still win, so this series is all we have left in our hands and I want it to go as long as possible.
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I don't consider the win be lucky. Kawhi Leonard was injured that game and what a game he showcased. He played I think 50+ minutes that game. Giannis was shooting poorly that game so I guess this wasn't luck. Giannis had a rough game. Hmm... looks like Giannis got carried away with all the sudden attention he got during last week. Or perhaps his fans were expecting too much from him and he was under a lot of pressure to repeat his performance. He is just 24 years and far away from becoming a legend. Mike Budenholzer should remember this during the next match, and try to calm him down.
that game was a must win for the Raptors as we all know that no NBA team has ever come back from a 3-0 series. Its only happened a few times in sports at all with the Red Sox doing it once vs the Yankees. The eastern conference doesn't even matter anyways because the Warriors will dominate whatever team comes out of the ECF. Even without Durant they are still the best team in the NBA.
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