Hate when ppl use injuries as an excuse. One of the biggest factors when winning a championship is having players on the team that don't get hurt. Not the Raptors fault Durant is skinny as a toothpick and Klays ankle gave out on him.
Raptors were the better team cause their players arent made of glass. Deal with it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by PAChiefsGuy:
Hate when ppl use injuries as an excuse. One of the biggest factors when winning a championship is having players on the team that don't get hurt. Not the Raptors fault Durant is skinny as a toothpick and Klays ankle gave out on him.
Raptors were the better team cause their players arent made of glass. Deal with it.
Injuries can always always be a reason. not even an excuse.
They are uncontrollable and are a product of luck. [Reply]
Originally Posted by PAChiefsGuy:
Hate when ppl use injuries as an excuse. One of the biggest factors when winning a championship is having players on the team that don't get hurt. Not the Raptors fault Durant is skinny as a toothpick and Klays ankle gave out on him.
Raptors were the better team cause their players arent made of glass. Deal with it.
3 players on the Raptors team had ever played beyond the first round of the playoffs. The Warriors players aren't made of glass.... [Reply]
Originally Posted by dirk digler:
There was no big 3 in GS in this series except for Game 5 for 1 quarter. It is a big 2 for 4 games. Boogie was out for months until he came back for the Finals. Did you watch him play he wasn't good for most of the series and he barely played a couple of games. Draymond barely scores 10 pts a game but he is a very good defender.
There is no comparison, Lebron played KD didn't. I don't get why that is so difficult to understand.
KD didn't play. But Curry did. And Klay Thompson played the majority of the series.
Lebron - Dellavadova - JR Smith - Tristan Thompson - Mozgov / Shumpert (75%)
Curry - Klay (most of the series) - Draymond - Iguodala - Boogie (75%)
GS injuries led to Iguodala and Boogie getting more playing time. You know who started in place of Kyrie & Love? Dellavadova started and played 40 minutes / game. The 5th spot was such a mess that CLE relied on Shumpert & James Jones. Outside of Lebron, the 2015 Cavs might have had the all-time worst NBA finals roster in history. [Reply]
GS injuries led to Iguodala and Boogie getting more playing time. You know who started in place of Kyrie & Love? Dellavadova started and played 40 minutes / game. The 5th spot was such a mess that CLE relied on Shumpert & James Jones. Outside of Lebron, the 2015 Cavs might have had the all-time worst NBA finals roster in history.
Originally Posted by MAHOMO 4 LIFE!:
2007 Lebron was even worse!!
Well to be fair, I'm not trying to make a case about the supporting cast. The 2007 Cavs supporting cast was healthy (by the way, their defense was criminally underrated) which the 2015 Cavs were not. I was just pointing to the comedy of wanting to asterisk the Raptors win because of injuries when Golden State's first title was due to a far bigger asterisk. If people want to be poor sports and not credit Toronto for the win, then the Warriors' first title was a sham too. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Al Bundy:
Fuck the Raptors. This one is 100% tainted with injuries.
So does LeBron get to count 2015 as a title now over the Warriors because he would have won it with Kyrie and Love? I'm afraid sports don't work that way.
The Raptors beat the team the Warriors had on the court. It's not their problem that that team wasn't healthy. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Al Bundy:
Anyway, nice 1 off Raptors. The Warriors will be back and the Raptors will be back to losing in the 1st round.
KD tore his Achilles, Klay tore his ACL, and Curry is 31 years old and on the way down. The Warriors' dynasty is thankfully done, the Raptors finished it for good. [Reply]
It took some balls for Ujiri to make the trade he did for Kawhi. In terms of winning a championship, it's a no-brainer. But it would have been so much easier and more comfortable to just stick with Demar on the long-term contract and have your meaningless profitable 50 win seasons with early playoff exits. He could have kept his job with the Raptors for years that way, but he wanted more for this organization. It's one of the best trades in NBA history considering how it turned out and how little he gave up to get him. And if Kawhi stays (and the Raptors remain contenders in that scenario for a while yet), it could get even better. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
So does LeBron get to count 2015 as a title now over the Warriors because he would have won it with Kyrie and Love? I'm afraid sports don't work that way.
The Raptors beat the team the Warriors had on the court. It's not their problem that that team wasn't healthy.
It is ironic how the Warriors dynasty began and ended in a similar fashion.
Winning a series against a team missing two of their top players and then losing a series while missing two of their top players.
Being a neutral fan, I disliked both of those series. I’d rather see two fully healthy teams battle for the title. It happens though. [Reply]
