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Toronto Raptors!
dkeage Offline
#51 Posted:
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frankj1 wrote:
I'm one of 11 people watching, so I doubt it

They'd rather not have to refund advertising dollars
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#52 Posted:
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they can give 'em private school vouchers instead
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#53 Posted:
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GS +3
MACS Offline
#54 Posted:
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8trackdisco wrote:
Isn't Oakland still a dump with methheads walking around with Marinovich jerseys?


That's most cities in CA.
teedubbya Offline
#55 Posted:
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What a good game
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#56 Posted:
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frankj1 wrote:
kind of hope so...

Me too.
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#57 Posted:
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teedubbya wrote:
What a good game

yeah!

depth comes into play.
Celts nearly made the finals last year without Kyrie and Hayward cuz the role players were ready.
rfenst Offline
#58 Posted:
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Wow! One point game with 37.7 seconds left. Talk about a cliffhanger...
frankj1 Offline
#59 Posted:
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last game evah at the Oracle

Raptor +3
Curry at the line
shot clock off..
teedubbya Offline
#60 Posted:
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Too good
teedubbya Offline
#61 Posted:
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Wow.

A T
teedubbya Offline
#62 Posted:
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Raptors got this
frankj1 Offline
#63 Posted:
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should be a formality now.
Kerr knows.
teedubbya Offline
#64 Posted:
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Dumb to call foul.
frankj1 Offline
#65 Posted:
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hard to ignore if you're not on the take...
dumb but legit
teedubbya Offline
#66 Posted:
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It’s not bad to be on the take. Everyone is.

Great game. Impressive champs.
rfenst Offline
#67 Posted:
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I wanted GS to win tonight, forcing a game 7, but alas...
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#68 Posted:
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8trackdisco wrote:
What does The Town mean on the GS jerseys?

Toronto's slogan "We the north" makes English teachers shudder.

I half expected GS to have We Iz South or something equally inane.

try "we the people..." instead of "we be toys"
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#69 Posted:
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rfenst wrote:
I wanted GS to win tonight, forcing a game 7, but alas...

me too...but Toronto won 3 on the road...I don't care who is injured, that's incredible.
rfenst Offline
#70 Posted:
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Yeah, but...
teedubbya Offline
#71 Posted:
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Dorris is blizzard. Has she had a stroke?
teedubbya Offline
#72 Posted:
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Bizzaro not blizzard.
MACS Offline
#73 Posted:
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Golden State's run is over... who is up next?

KD - torn achilles.

Klay Thompson - torn ACL.
teedubbya Offline
#74 Posted:
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Next year was gonna be different for them anyway they looked at it.
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#75 Posted:
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they'll still sign Thompson, Durant is officially a mercenary now.
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#76 Posted:
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so the Raptors did it without the modern model of a Big 3...they had a #1 but the other roles were filled by a few changeable parts.
Wonder if, now that sports teams all copy the latest trend, this will affect free agent signings and trades in the near future.

seems worth it to get a great one-year payer like Leonard if you win a title...then start all over. But at least you got that title.
MACS Offline
#77 Posted:
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frankj1 wrote:
so the Raptors did it without the modern model of a Big 3...they had a #1 but the other roles were filled by a few changeable parts.
Wonder if, now that sports teams all copy the latest trend, this will affect free agent signings and trades in the near future.

seems worth it to get a great one-year payer like Leonard if you win a title...then start all over. But at least you got that title.


Kinda makes Jordan look like a loser, eh? I mean... Kawhi did it with no other star... Jordan needed Pippen, Magic needed Kareem, Bird needed McHale... Lebron needed D-Wade and Kyrie...

I kid, I kid.
frankj1 Offline
#78 Posted:
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all sports change over time, some changes are subtle, others obvious.
Hoops had the 3 point shot by the time Bird hit the league but it wasn't option #1 then, and centers and power forwards mostly played with their backs to the basket in the low post, etc. etc.

today, 7 footers have to be able to be 3 point threats, the 3 is often taken within 10 seconds of a possession, the lane has opened as a result, hard fouls are frowned upon, etc. etc.

Always difficult to compare eras in light of style changes and rule changes...I have always believed that the stars of the 60's would be stars today if born in this era.

Imagine how many points Havlicek would have had if he played with the 3 pointer.
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#79 Posted:
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Playoffs were good this year. I usually had the games on while doing something else, watched quite a bit of them.

You're right, different eras... but Jordan though, ... was leaning towards Lebron as GOAT... but I still think he has to earn it by winning one in the west.

Lebron did carry that squad to the finals last year though... that was a pretty big accomplishment.

Reggie Miller would terrorize everyone with modern rules though.
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#80 Posted:
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Eh, Warriors were an ICU.
They were waaay more banged up than reported.
That’s what happens when you make the finals five years in a row, you’re playing way more games, AND, playoff basketball is a TOTALLY different game compared to regular season ball.
You’re playing the same team, at least 4 and often 6 or 7 times in a row. It’s soooo much more physically demanding.

KD goes down, Cousins goes down and barely comes back at maybe 70%, Thompson gets hurt then later goes down for good, Curry mangles his finger and still has gimpy ankle, Iguodala has back issues, Looney has fractured ribs and cartilidge in upper chest, etc.
Chit happens...

But if the Warriors were 100% healthy?
They smoke the Raptors in 5 games, maybe even a sweep.
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That's the way it goes, doesn't mean Toronto didn't earn it. They played great.
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#82 Posted:
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bgz wrote:
That's the way it goes, doesn't mean Toronto didn't earn it. They played great.

Agreed, especially game 6.
Warriors had Leonard under control (as much as that’s possible, but Raptors got huge games from THREE additional players.
Still, Warriors had a decent look at a game winning shot.

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frankj1 wrote:
hmmm. half Jew kid in boxing

who was the kid a while back who wore the Star of David on his trunks?

I'm gonna go look...



Could you imagine? Maybe we need more Half Irish Jews in the world... maybe the Irish would win a fuck1ng war for once! Because Catholicism and Christianity in general hasn't done a friggin thing for us but sell us to the English. Tiocfaidh ár lá
frankj1 Offline
#84 Posted:
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shabbat shalom
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#85 Posted:
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frankj1 wrote:
shabbat shalom


May the Flying spaghetti monster wrap his ever loving noodley appendage around you and yours! Who know's' you might get lucky and their will be meat balls involved..... allow me to restate that, Maybe his meatballs will be involved👾

Actually I'm going back to Shabbat Shalom.... much easier to type.Angel
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I thought when talking about the English you would be a pog mo thoin type of guy.
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Speyside wrote:
I thought when talking about the English you would be a pog mo thoin type of guy.



Nope, kiss my ass doesn't cover it, it goes deeper for me. I grew up going to beef and beers every weekend to raise money for the poor orphans (the IRA) of Northern Ireland. With the occasional visit by the FBI always wanting to talk to my grandfather (I actually didn't refer to him as grandpop, he was Joe Daly) about this and that. We're not actually sure our last name is really Daly. There are some hints that they all changed their first and last name when they came over, they didn't just drop the O' but changed it completely. My grandfather and his brothers left Ireland and a lot of unanswered questions one step ahead of the English some time in the 40's. By the time I met him I was a young teen, he was an old man marinated in alcohol. All he did was drink, sing in Gaelic and sometimes relive arguments in Gaelic, none of us had a clue what he was saying. But, he was VERY clear when it came to traitors (the Protestants and the rest of Ireland) and the English. Us kids avoided him like the plague and that suited him just fine. But the anger over Northern Ireland was family wide. My Great grandmom and grandmom both came over from the north and seemed to be in a state of RAGE 24/7 about it. As a kid I didn't really know why we hated the English or the Protestants, just vague notions of they stole our country. It was just..... normal. As I got older and read the histories etc. I understood though and to this day I say Michael Collins was a fuck1ng traitor. horse So I say again Tiocfaidh ár lá (sounds like Tchucky are la) means Our day will come.
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KingoftheCove wrote:
Eh, Warriors were an ICU.
They were waaay more banged up than reported.
That’s what happens when you make the finals five years in a row, you’re playing way more games, AND, playoff basketball is a TOTALLY different game compared to regular season ball.
You’re playing the same team, at least 4 and often 6 or 7 times in a row. It’s soooo much more physically demanding.

KD goes down, Cousins goes down and barely comes back at maybe 70%, Thompson gets hurt then later goes down for good, Curry mangles his finger and still has gimpy ankle, Iguodala has back issues, Looney has fractured ribs and cartilidge in upper chest, etc.
Chit happens...

But if the Warriors were 100% healthy?
They smoke the Raptors in 5 games, maybe even a sweep.



Agree with you on the being tired part which leads to injuries. Not so much on the rest of your fanciful hypothetical. But you can live in whatever world you want to. Opinions and such. There is only one fact here though. They lost.

As to the rest..... if drafter had a weiner he’d be a dude but in reality he doesn’t and we wouldn’t know how he self identifies if he did.
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