Yea, that timeout made no sense. So annoying.

well at least there wont be a durant mystery hanging over the last 2 games, hes pretty clearly done now

They’re confirming it’s an Achilles injury...

dis gon be good.

that is fucking awful

he probably knew he was risking a lot to try and play when he obviously wasnt ready

There's footage of his calf/achilles imploding on that drive. Definitely a longterm injury

arsedoc md wrote:

Yea, that timeout made no sense. So annoying.

That was so insane at the time i thought nurse knew something we didn't. Kawhi was cooking them and he actually just handed the momentum back to the dubs. Bizzare

I'll have the dubs major props if they dig this series out 

arsedoc md wrote:

Yea, that timeout made no sense. So annoying.

A lot of talk about that.

Draymond Green to @notthefakeSVP on whether Toronto's late timeout gave the Warriors an energy boost: "Absolutely. They had got it going there. We took [their] timeout. We were able to gather ourselves, draw up a play. I think that timeout allowed us to settle in."

Did Nurse call it? Look at this video, it looks like Kawhi is signaling for Lowry to call it

but then Kawhi said: "At that time I felt that he probably wanted to get us some rest," Leonard said. "You never know. I mean, if we would have won the game, we wouldn't be talking about it."

So don't really know. Anyways, with KD out, it's done.

Nick nurse said he called it in the post game iv. Cos he wanted them to rest before the final push. It looked bizarre whoever called for it. In every sport, from every junior level, these sort of breaks are taken by the opposition teams for gamesmanship to stop momentum.

it makes me so happy that the celtics built their entire project around acquiring assets to trade for AD, and AD was like "nah"

really? the Celtics didn't just assemble a talented young core? snap up 2 (previously) All Star free agents, have the ability to gamble on Kyrie? There is little debate the strategic operations at the ball club have been nothing short of excellent and with the key ingredient of being versatile of pulling in each direction (should an asset fail to land).

Unless we want every team to tank for years like Philly.

Lets see what happens.

KingslandBarge wrote:

really? the Celtics didn't just assemble a talented young core? snap up 2 (previously) All Star free agents, have the ability to gamble on Kyrie? There is little debate the strategic operations at the ball club have been nothing short of excellent and with the key ingredient of being versatile of pulling in each direction (should an asset fail to land).  

Unless we want every team to tank for years like Philly.

Lets see what happens.

im a sixers fan. i am happy with the sixers decision to tank and where it has gotten us, even with poor injury luck and a few missed picks.

the celtics havent won since 2008, despite making the most lopsided trade in recent nba history that gifted them massive assets. it might all still work out. but im 95% sure irving is gone. brown looks like their best young player, tatum seems to have stagnated or even regressed, and they've wasted a bunch of first round picks in the last 3 years. they still have lots of assets, but horford is about to enter his decline phase, and he might leave as well if they dont offer him the max. they might have brown, tatum and lots of picks, or AD + 1 one of those guys and very few picks.

either way, im happy. fuck the celtics.

come on man, i dont' want a game 7. Board man needs to go get his apples. Afraid 3rd quarter, game 6 Klay will takeover.

every feather touch is a foul. fucking nonsense.

Wow, now Klay is out for the game with that knee injury.

They won't get this Lowry in Toronto. They gotta get it done now or it's warriors series. Especially with Leonard playing shit

Draymond Green Chris Webbered a time out 😆

Refs do an amazing job to dampen these climactic moments.

Raptors have the best witch doctor in the NBA.

yep not to take anything away from the Raptors, but I feel cheated from a fully contested series

That was amazing. Incredible scenes in TO!

What an exciting few games, too!

i feel so dead inside right now. i cant believe this happened. i still fucking love the NBA, but goddamn this was a really tough sports year for me

Shit final. Don't like GSW but I wanted them to lose at full strenght, not like this.

And yeah, Durant out for the year now Klay done his knee. Shit times for them.

KingslandBarge wrote:

yep not to take anything away from the Raptors, but I feel cheated from a fully contested series

Shouldn't see it that way. These things happen every year and you can argue every which way about how teams aren't  evenly matched etc. CP3 injury last year. No kyrie/love the first time around etc. Fuck the warriors. They even got Cousins on top of everyone they already had. 
Full credit to the raptors with the load management on kawhi. 
He is simply phenomenal btw. Single handedly stopped the one hitherto unstoppable player in the league in Giannis after 2 games down. Was phenomenal against lebron too during that finals, then helped stop this 3peat/dynasty and all that legend from forming...they beat gsw 3 straight games in the playoffs. Unthinkable. Same with 3peat in miami against the big 3.

Gotta say, I feel like there's a big injury coming for lebron. So many years playing late into the playoffs...physical freak.

hubie brown really voted vanvleet as finals MVP, lmao