2017-18 Toronto Raptors and General NBA Thread

[Senator Clay Davis]

Even if Paul is out for the series (or year), Houston is winning this series with defense right now, offensively they've been very poor the last two games and still won. If they bring the effort level again they can still win, the Warriors look lost right now.

[Strange Brew]

CP3 being out would be a huge turning point. I suspect he misses game 6 and gives it a go for game 7. Not sure Rockets can win with out him.

Win or lose, their performance should quiet some naysayers after two gutty wins in a row. D’Antoni in particular has been ridiculed by a few casual fans and would love to see him prove some people wrong.

4 bench points for the Warriors tonight. Rockets with 29 I believe, although basically all Eric Gordon as they used a 7 man rotation. He is a difference maker.

No doubt this thing going 7.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Vegas knows everything, and if the Warriors are -10.5 for Saturday that's a pretty good indicator that Paul isn't gonna play.

[Strange Brew]

Paul not playing game 6.

[Beninho]

If the rockets make the finals with an injured Paul... just what a missed opportunity for the raptors. Still can’t believe how pathetic Derozan was

[Senator Clay Davis]

While I think Paul will probably play game 7, he'll probably be ineffective at best and possibly a negative on the floor. So for Harden the next two games will be his legacy, his chance to shred the choker label. He's gotta be grateful they won the last two, otherwise we'd be talking about his 20 straight (!!!) three point misses and shooting barely above 33%. He really needs to stop all the step back shots, not only are they poor shots, but they do not look nearly as cool as he thinks.

[Strange Brew]

I guess people love using labels and generalizations for effect. Rockets have outscored Warriors when Harden on floor without Paul but no doubt it’s a big loss.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Yeah but that's why stats are often misleading. Like last night I think Harden was +13 and Paul was -6. You'd be crazy to say Harden was more valuable than Paul last night, Paul carried them for extended periods of the game.

[Drake]

Looks like the refs have put their white jerseys on in the second quarter to save the cry babys season....

[Strange Brew]

Might be some doubt creeping in for the Warriors.

[Strange Brew]

Or not.

[Strange Brew]

Well save Harden for game 7 now.

[Senator Clay Davis]

I'm not sure what would be "less likely than likely". I guess I'd read it to mean Paul isn't playing game 7, but we'll see.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1000595631302328320

[Strange Brew]

I really doubt he’s playing. But jeez, everything is on the line here. What a game to miss.

[bluejays]

This ESPN broadcast crew is awful. James on that so called block got all hand and they showed they replay 4 times and there was absolutely no mention of a foul that the refs didn’t call. So far the refs haven’t been brutal but their fourth quarter is coming up. Time to write another chapter for Lebron.

[activeStick]

The Celtics are playing like the Raptors did. Two open 3-pointers, miss them both. Great offensive rebound! Miss the 3.

[mivdo]

Rozier 0-10 from 3 pt. Just awful.

[Beninho]

Flames roster the last time lebron wasn’t in the finals


No. Player
60 Mikael Backlund
17 Rene Bourque
4 Jay Bouwmeester
16 Dustin Boyd
24 Craig Conroy
15 Nigel Dawes
5 Mark Giordano
20 Curtis Glencross
11 Niklas Hagman
21 Chris Higgins
12 Jarome Iginla (C)
38 Jason Jaffray
44 Aaron Johnson
21 Olli Jokinen
34 Miikka Kiprusoff
26 Ales Kotalik
8 Staffan Kronwall
22 Daymond Langkow
45 Jamie Lundmark
19 Jamal Mayers
1 Curtis McElhinney
10 Brian McGrattan
25 Dave Moss
23 Eric Nystrom
7 Adam Pardy
3 Dion Phaneuf
33 Brandon Prust
28 Robyn Regehr
6 Cory Sarich
11 Fredrik Sjostrom
27 Steve Staios
18 Matt Stajan
42 Brett Sutter
35 Vesa Toskala
3 Ian White

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[Machiavelli]

Quelle surprise. Stupid league