I guess the question is: can they beat the Warriors?

Raptors have better perimeter defense than the bucks, but neither team have practiced switching.

Also raps have played a lot of games at this point. It’s eventually going to catch up to them when they’re chasing Steph and Klay off of every screen for 40+ minutes.

>the winner of this shit east will go on to face a 9 day rested warriors with 2 allstars sitting in case the series looks remotely competitive

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if the raptors play dirty yes they have a chance. warriors are a pretty soft team especially fucking steph curry. i don't understand why teams just afford a couple of flagrants to knock his ass on the ground for real instead of that fake jump shot flop he does

O how quickly they forget

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This last one is a Kawhiless Raps blowing out the trannies at quietcle so you know Lowry and crew have more confidence than all the casuals weighing in itt
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The 2016-17 Spurs were built to match up against the Larrios as well as SA's capspace would allow them. Those Spurs were blowing out the opposition on the road to the tune of 21 points before Kerr ordered Pachulia to take out Kawhi. The 2018-19 Raptors are better than the 2016-17 Spurs.

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>The 2018-19 Raptors are better than the 2016-17 Spurs.

Even amidst the rest of your stupid-ass post, this stands out as something that's objectively not true.

Cope cazzie

warriors in 4. these 2 garbage teams are playing for the right to get daddy dicked by the dubbies

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>Leonard gets away, drives INSIDE AND FINISHES AGAIN. Welp, that was pretty good lift on a guy who had a bad quad.

The 16-17 Spurs had more wins in a tougher conference, better SRS, and better point differential. They were the best defense in the league that year. That team was really fucking good. Warriors might still have been better over a 7-game series even with Kawhi but we'll never know.

Raptors problem this year is that everyone except Kawhi is liable to vanish at any given point in a playoff game.

How really good is a team that can't extend, maintain or protect a 21 point lead without one player? Next man up, the strength of the team is the team, all this cute Popovich mantras got shit on in the wcf. The Spurs last meaningful possession in Game 1 was an Aldridge corner three to take it to OT that bricked. That's how mentally weak and embarrassing that Spurs tream was without Leonard.

The 2019 Raptors just won an equalizer game with Leonard having a subpar, limping game. They went through the baptismal fire of a 7 game series against the stacked 76ers and are now about to close out the Rockets East in 6. They will do better than a Popovich team that got so far only to get swept.

Meanwhile the last real team to offer the Larrios adversity was the Clippers.

I guess the better question is: Can they beat the Warriors in 4 or will it take 6?

It would be so funny if the Warriors won without KD.

With Kawhi anything is possible.

Do you actually think that the 2019 Raptors would win a single game against the Warriors without Kawhi. Is that actually what you're saying right now.

The shitters are running kawhi ragged keeping him singe handedly carrying them that niggas leg is going to explode by the time the finals start

A dynasty about to become old
and all you can ever do is nervously insist it isn't so

The Raptors definitely have a shot against the Warriors especially if KD is out. The Warriors aren't as good as they were in 2017 either.

But that still doesn't change the facts here, the 17 Spurs were a better team than the 19 Raptors, and the 2019 Raptors would lose every game by 20 if they played the Warriors without Kawhi.

>Kawhi is the only raptor who can show up consistently
>everyone else is hit or miss
Sad!

I already ran a 1000 sims. In a 7 game series the 2019 Raps beat the 2017 Spurs 68.304% of the time. Aldridge sucks ass, Siakam fits Kawhi's style better.

They better pray he doesn't go down

you didn't run a 1000 sims of shit, shut your ass up

Yes I did. Sorry sore loser. The second best player on the spurs in that 17 wcf after Leonard went down was Jonathon Simmons.

Do you want to hear Pop shitting on Aldridge and praising Simmons during his exit interview of Game 4? Because I had the clip running on loop while I ran the sims.

I will admit, it's weird how much offensive shine Simmons got in that series, in retrospect. And you're right that LMA was terrible in the playoffs. but Kyle Anderson and Manu both played better than the Simmons.

but also, that Spurs team was going up against the 2017 Golden State Warriors, who lost 1 game that entire postseason and had a healthy Durant, younger Iguodala, younger Livingston, David West, etc, etc in that series. Of course they were worse than the Warriors w/out Kawhi. The question is how do you think the 2019 Raptors would do against that Warriors team without Kawhi. You think Kyle Lowry would be out there dominating?

Let's put it this way. 18 minutes left in regulation, Raptors at home, load manage Kawhi on the bench but spot them 21 points and I have 77.967% confidence Siakam, Gasol, Ibaka, Powell, Danny and Lowry will close out the game than an Aldridge-led team with Simmons as their best player, Manu destroying Livingston and Slomo trying to hold Durant to below 35. I've seen enough from both rosters to call it.

That 21 point lead was erased by transition buckets too and guess who has the most transition points and best defense remaining in these playoffs.