Official Around the NBA May 2019 Playoff Edition Thread!

I agree, but Kawhi was remarkably effective at driving into heavy traffic and somehow coming out the other side with a firm grip on the ball and an idea where he wanted to pass it. That's some forceful collapsing of the defense, rather than driving in with no Plan B and resulting in a bad shot or pass to the wrong team.

 

You counted 3 airballs because you are bias and only see what you wanna see. This is very sad and disrespectful.
If you look closely, you will notice that Lebron, Kobe, Kyrie, ...also shoot airballs.
You ask: What makes Toronto offense way better?
When Kawhi sat for 10 minutes in the 4th, the Raptors went on a 12 points in 5 possessions and cut the lead, while Kawhi was sitting.
Just listen to Tim from Minute 3.
Kawhi plays ISO, but with a clear purpose. He is also the high assist guy on the team. We have players who can play ISO ball and shoot the midrange, but they are very poor decision makers and the coach can't train them to make better decisions. That's the difference.
CJ is a better midrange player than Kawhi. But ... he is a very poor decision maker.
When our Dame was double teamed, we cried. Kawhi was double teamed at times, but found ways to make things happen.

 

Good Decision Maker. Something our team dearly lacks. I wish our players would be less hero balls ...
Also, surrounding players know exactly where to be and Kawhi trusts them. I doubt our money guys trust the players around them.

 

Reality sucks.

 

I would take both in a hearbeat over Aminu and Harkless.

 

Hopefully we let him walk. I'm sick and tired of him

 

Jordan back to the Mavs lol secret agent man

 

You gotta l love how KJ took it and ran with it into a rant about other people. Man needs to worry about himself every once and a while.

 

You think it is me that needs to worry about myself?

Is this where you always post one of your LOL's or SMH's or WTF's? I guess all could apply to this set of comments right?

 

LOL.

 

Bro what are you talking about???

Those Lakers and Celtics WERE DEFINITELY Superteams.

And you're talking like what you're saying is an exact certainty when there's no way to know.

 

I'm not tryna be rude bones...

But how can you say this when you weren't alive to experience it?

 

Logic.

 

I WASN'T SAYING THEY WEREN'T. I literally said that to him when he had the same response.

 

It doesn't mean they don't either bones.

Why don't you understand that you're inserting your opinion here as well?

 

Logic cannot be sound when you're missing information.

 

How is what I'm saying coming across as me not understanding I'm "inserting my opinion" when I'm literally disagreeing with an opinion stated as fact (superteams = ratings)?

 

So you think that those teams wouldn't have gotten the same ratings without the 3rd and 4th stars if they still met in the Finals?

 

1st, I'm not sure why you're talking about the finals only.
Ratings happen all season. Secondly,

LA's 3rd star was Big game James Worthy.

The Celtics 3rd star was Kevin McHale.

To answer your question, No.

They might not have even made it to the finals with their third star gone let alone have the same or better ratings..