NBA: ***Official 2019 NBA Playoffs Thread***
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I think it just depends on how free agency shakes out. There could be a pretty big influx of talent moving west, and if that happens it's going to make the path to a playoff spot that much more difficult. At any rate they won't have the luxury of coasting through the regular season. But if KD re-ups and he and Klay can get back late in the regular season (I know it's a long shot for KD, but you never know), that is one dangerous seven or eight seed.
Exactly. Point being nearly every single team fights injuries/adversity unless you're extremely lucky.
Oh I'm not saying there is an asterisk but I've already seen and heard people use that term. Sure it could've been different, but you have to play with the cards you're dealt.
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Yeah, the asterisk talk has come up for numerous championship teams in different sports, and the end result is basically the same. Very few people remember the "asterisk" that some folks want to attach. A championship is not diminished at all in the long term. Or even the short term. Look at the Warriors Championship over Cleveland that people have been referencing. Very few people view it as anything other than a legitimate championship. That's how history will look at the raptors as well, as a champion. All of this other fluff will fall away.
I never said there was an asterisk, it's part of the game. I said that many people will definitely talk about that.
Yikes, don't look through the CyHawk thread then.
Cyclone fans in there talking about how they enjoyed seeing Drew Tate get injured in the 2005 game.
I would've loved to have seen us beat Iowa with a fully healthy Drew Tate. I thought he was a diva. But when you lower your head on a tackle to bring down a safety after throwing an interception, you get what you get.
Solid comparison of thousands cheering for an injury to a single poster.
Clearly you didn't watch the last 2 minutes of either game 5 or game 6.
So by calling for a TO they didn't have Draymond picked up his seventh technical foul of the postseason. Does that mean he has to sit out the team's season opener next year?
I didn't see that on TV. Iowa fans would still be bringing it up if our stadium was cheering Tate got hurt.
I'd have loved to see GSW if they had a month or two to get used to playing without Durant.
If they're at full strength with four all stars and a finals MVP it's just a matter of if they are focused which is boring.
For those saying asterisk...
The only two asterisks I have in 30+ years of watching these playoffs are the year Spurs took a title away from Phoenix by being rewarded for trying to injure the MVP when the game was over, and the year the officials pretty obviously rigged the WCF against the Kings for the Lakers. Those are two cases where the best team wasn't in the finals and the champion was able to advance without outplaying all of their opponents on the court.
If I had to give another it would be Dwayne Wade's 97 foul shots in 6 games. It wasn't as bad as Kings-Lakers but it was pretty bad. I'm not positive Dallas was the better team though where Phoenix and Sacramento definitely outplayed the eventual champ.
What a gutsy effort by the Warriors after Klay went out. Pretty fun fourth quarter to watch and they go the shot they wanted with Curry at the end. I don't think they would have won in Toronto without Klay but it would have been fun to have a game 7.
Really cool that Nurse won and cool that Canada got its first championship. It is going to be a crazy offseason and will be interesting to see where everyone ends up.
Really cool that Nurse won and cool that Canada got its first championship. It is going to be a crazy offseason and will be interesting to see where everyone ends up.
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No. While calling timeout when you don't have one is a technical foul, it doesn't count toward his total. Sort of like a technical for illegal defense wouldn't have counted either
