NBA FINALS 2019 |——| WARRIORS -vs- RAPTORS |——| USA -vs- CANADA

so thankful magic quit so he cld get these tweets off

Toronto’s victory was a total team effort. Kawhi scored 23 and Fred VanVleet scored 15 off the bench. As a team they played outstanding defense!

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) May 31, 2019

Lowry defeated his playoff voodoo this season.

Iggy thing bumming me out.

Gasol/FVV/Danny/siakim player nearly perfect games. Meanwhile no one on the warriors played very well. Curry got points but they made it really hard and he didn’t have the ball in his hands enough. Kerr gotta tighten up the rotation but that iggy thing may throw a wrench in the whole affair

kawhi wasn't great but he still scored 23 points... siakam and gasol prob won't score 52 total over the next 2 games combined

i just feel like whatever you thought was going to happen before the series is what you should still think is going to happen, unless the iggy injury is serious

i also would probably have made a hedging post about how the raptors got some performances they won't get again but an iguodala injury is just massive

Yup

raps defense was very good toooooo

raptors were favored in vegas tonight

raps defense was fabulous. they'll need that every game if they're going to win.

I'm burning effigies made of articles about the favored 2004 Lakers for the god of SPORTS to finally answer our northern call.

iggy might be fine too didnt look bad but hammys can be weird

Oh yeah their gameplan and execution were top notch. They did not give they dubs much transition opportunity. Klay seemed to be swallows up by their defense especially.

lmao chuck just called the dubs role players a bunch of tito jacksons

Chuck hates the warriors so much lmao

still mad about that whole jump shooting team thing

If you bet against someone long enough eventually you’ll look smart

not sure hes ever going to live that one down lol

Kerr: “The biggest thing coming in was we really didn’t feel we knew this team very well.”

— Connor Letourneau (@Con_Chron) May 31, 2019

hmm lol

an nba team in Canada, ok sure fellas believe that when I see it

Let’s just see what we’re dealing with here hmm ok they are pretty good maybe we shoulda scouted this huh

theyve got a day off to google

I doubt it. Saying something dumb to deflect from criticism for the players is an international method for all coaches of all sports.

They'll know each other pretty damn well before the series is over.

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#WeTheNorth

Andre Iguodala just told reporters that he won't be missing Game 2: "I'll be fine."

— Drew Shiller (@DrewShiller) May 31, 2019

they've been thru this before

pascal was just a beauty

that tech call on klay was bullshit

Siakam was amazing last night. His reluctance to shoot during the Milwaukee series--and early in last night's game--was baffling. When he sunk that one shot--the 1lth, I think, the blind over-the-shoulder shot--I literally laughed out loud.

I find the Warriors terrifying, last night notwithstanding. Right up till the last minute, I was waiting for them to go on a 9-point run in 45 seconds and blow past Toronto before they blinked.

seems like siakam's confidence still comes and goes in these big games. when he sees one or two go in he's a different player.

having a hard time trying to root against this groovy raptors team :(

haa

when u know yr team has won too many titles

true but it didn't come up in the other series

gotta be the right conditions, i can barely bring myself to root for the patriots anymore lol

i like the neverending patriots dominance & salt because i don't respect the sport of football but with bball its different

xp to poly.. same, I feel no sports hate for any of the players or anyone in the org, I cant even hate the drama lord Kawhi anymore. everyone is likable even the drake thing is just funny and endearing to me (I realize this is the opposite for most people), dude is living his best life as a sports fan... hilarious that he wore a nike arm band to cover his curry/durant tat tho.

if anything I was little jealous of raps fans last night being able to feel that first finals win at home and all that angst being washed away, crazy atmosphere and what a win. took me back to feelings I had during the 14-15 title run.

I want this warriors team to win obv really badly and I haven't had sports anxiety going into the finals since kd joined, but for this series I do. I have no prediction of how this will go. feel like it would be major validation doing it without KD but it's going to be really hard, they are so much thinner compared to pre-kd era and have to fight complacency. and this raptors team is hungry and... not the Cavs.

i think im gonna go with the raps

RAPTORS IN FOUR

if anything I was little jealous of raps fans last night being able to feel that first finals win at home and all that angst being washed away, crazy atmosphere and what a win. took me back to feelings I had during the 14-15 title run.

imagine being a Bucks fan right now

btw here's a story that I swear I am not making up - after the Bucks dropped Game 5 on the way to work I saw a deer on the grass on the side of the road lying sideways, kicking its hooves wildly, having clearly been hit by a car very recently. after elimination I drove to work the same way and that same deer was now dead on the side of the road.

being eaten by a velociraptor

you hate to see it

lol amazing story rip deer

frogbs is going through it, i understand the pain.

getting to ECF isn't a bad season! young superstar, good fun squad. I envy Bucks fans!

yeah def. they just have some big decisions that could make or break them this offseason