NBA

[Jimmy Higgins]

US is fickle. Looks like they generally hate the west. Only CA, NV, and HI for Warriors while rest of US, including Texas-ah, favoring our friends from Toronto.

Once Golden State became a dynasty, fandom goes to heck. You'll have the home town, bandwagon, and fairweather fans. Everyone else will hate them... especially in signing Garnet, which made a really good team almost unbeatable.

 

[rousseau]

2016 and 2019 should be called the Durant-less years.

I'm enjoying his absence, it's actually making this interesting. And if the Raptors somehow squeak out a title that'd be incredible.

 

[Tharmas]

Well, well, well Toronto. Just one more push and you’ve got it.

I think Curry was pretty tired Friday, after his humongous Wednesday.

Sifting through the different rumors, I would guess that there’s no way Kevin Durant will be back. By Monday Curry will be quite rested. But then, so will Leonard and Co.

Toronto just need to keep that killer instinct.

 

[blastula]

I'm not sure Durant matters at this point anyway. I read that teammates were questioning his injury, it's not a good vibe there. They look done. Toronto took their 3rd quarter dominance away.

But the biggest story of the finals to me is this chucklefuck.

Warriors minority owner who shoved Kyle Lowry fined $500,000, banned for season - Los Angeles Times

He didn't appear to be drinking, so I can't imagine what he was thinking. Also not sure how the NBA thinks this is a sufficient punishment. The guy's a double billionaire, $500K is couch change to him, it's same proportion as $25 to a $100,000aire.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Also, being banned for the rest of the season isn't much of a punishment. That's a one game suspension, FFS.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Thank goodness, go Toronto. We can only stand one dynasty at a time in the US, and the Patriots called it first. #waityourturn

 

[Alcoholic Actuary]

KD's playing tonight! Here we go.

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[blastula]

He was playing and doing good, but I just turned in and the first play I saw he went down and went to the locker limping.

He's really trying to make this extra dramatic.

 

[Alcoholic Actuary]

He was playing and doing good, but I just turned in and the first play I saw he went down and went to the locker limping.

He's really trying to make this extra dramatic.

Or maybe he's just really hurt.

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[blastula]

Sure it's possible.

 

[blastula]

On second thought, it's that he knew they didn't him this time.

 

[fromderinside]

With super effort at the end by the remnants KDs contribution was enough to get warriors over the line tonight.

Looks like demarcus is getting better each game. His presence may be enough to get warriors back to championship.

 

[Alcoholic Actuary]

On second thought, it's that he knew they didn't him this time.

Third thought? He tore his achilles tendon and had surgery for it today. And down 3-1, they definitely needed him to win game 5 even though he only scored 11. (they won by 1).

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[Tharmas]

What a game!

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Yay! Go Raptors … or, I guess, Went Raptors!!!!

One thing I don't get, though. That Warriors' guy called a fake timeout with a second left on the clock and extended the game for another five minutes or so. Since they didn't have a timeout left, why did the clock stop when he called the timeout as opposed to the clock running down while he was rolling around on the ground with the ball? If that was a legal move instead of a referee screw up, the rule book should be updated to make it an illegal move where the timeout doesn't happen.

 

[Alcoholic Actuary]

Fantastic work Toronto!

(Also, I'm pretty sure the entire GSW medical staff will be fired)

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[ronburgundy]

Yay! Go Raptors … or, I guess, Went Raptors!!!!

One thing I don't get, though. That Warriors' guy called a fake timeout with a second left on the clock and extended the game for another five minutes or so. Since they didn't have a timeout left, why did the clock stop when he called the timeout as opposed to the clock running down while he was rolling around on the ground with the ball? If that was a legal move instead of a referee screw up, the rule book should be updated to make it an illegal move where the timeout doesn't happen.

It definitely deflated the excitement of the moment. But in most cases, the other team would want the technical called, so they get shots and the ball. And to call a technical requires stopping the game clock. It just happened that the guy was on the floor at half court with 2 seconds left, so not calling the technical would have been better for the Raptors. But you can't have the refs making such subjective judgments about when it would be better for the other team to not call the technical.

Also, it wouldn't have taken 5 extra minutes, if the refs weren't so absurdly slow in getting things going again, and then took like 3 minutes to restart after the foul on the inbounds play.

Gotta give props to the Warriors for almost pulling out another win w/o KD or Thompson. They win if Thompson doesn't go down. I was rooting for the Raptors, but have say that it wasn't quite as impressive that they won as it would have been pathetic if they had lost.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Yay! Go Raptors … or, I guess, Went Raptors!!!!

One thing I don't get, though. That Warriors' guy called a fake timeout with a second left on the clock and extended the game for another five minutes or so. Since they didn't have a timeout left, why did the clock stop when he called the timeout as opposed to the clock running down while he was rolling around on the ground with the ball? If that was a legal move instead of a referee screw up, the rule book should be updated to make it an illegal move where the timeout doesn't happen.

Right, that's my point. The rule book should be clear that this isn't a technical foul. It should a case of a player deciding to lie down on the floor and wave his arms around while the clock keeps running. If you use up all of your time outs, you shouldn't be able to stop the clock anymore in the middle of play.

 

[rousseau]

Gotta give props to the Warriors for almost pulling out another win w/o KD or Thompson. They win if Thompson doesn't go down. I was rooting for the Raptors, but have say that it wasn't quite as impressive that they won as it would have been pathetic if they had lost.

Would have been nice to see the Warrior's finish it out with Thompson, but you could flip it around and say that a healthy Golden State was playing with an unfair advantage, and Toronto won when Golden State was cut down to a normal magnitude. Either way, one of the teams needs to have the brunt of the talent, but this time the law of attrition favored the Raptors.

 

[rousseau]

Yay! Go Raptors … or, I guess, Went Raptors!!!!

One thing I don't get, though. That Warriors' guy called a fake timeout with a second left on the clock and extended the game for another five minutes or so. Since they didn't have a timeout left, why did the clock stop when he called the timeout as opposed to the clock running down while he was rolling around on the ground with the ball? If that was a legal move instead of a referee screw up, the rule book should be updated to make it an illegal move where the timeout doesn't happen.

Right, that's my point. The rule book should be clear that this isn't a technical foul. It should a case of a player deciding to lie down on the floor and wave his arms around while the clock keeps running. If you use up all of your time outs, you shouldn't be able to stop the clock anymore in the middle of play.

Trade-offs abound in sports. In this case calling the technical usually helps the opponent, so that's the rule. Even in last night's game, while it stopped the clock from winding down, it made it impossible for the Warriors to win.