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10 hours ago, Watermelon said:

Im not rooting for them to lose but I don't know. Were talking about a team that won 13 straight without Durant... They're scary good

Yeah I agree. Curry is flipping good along with Thompson. Then you factor in Donkey Green. McGee is the best player the Warriors have lol. But you're probably right. Unless I'm way off and proven wrong, it's going to be a Cavs - Warriors rematch barring upsets. Warriors have the Blazers and I like Lillard, McCollum backcourt. Usually making clutch shots and carry the load for the Blazers. Cavs idk who they're facing but I believe it will Miami, Indiana. Correct me if I'm wrong. Should put up a fight but again Lebron will outplay everyone since he's a different LeBron come playoff time. But I agree probably another Warriors title win

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13 hours ago, Watermelon said:

So it looks like the Bucks will face the Raptors in the first round as of right now and I'm not too sure what to think of that. On one hand, we dodge the Cavs until the third round and get to face a pretty easy Celtics in the second but we might not even get to the second. Bucks are a big physical team and I bet they'd give the Raptors trouble in a 7 game series. Its all cool though, I've got the Raps losing to GSW in 6 in the Finals

What exactly about the Celtics makes them pretty easy?

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Raptors will be lucky to make it out of the first round, whether it's Atlanta or Milwaukee. I do see the celtics faltering due to Thomas' size, and believe he will be locked down in the playoffs but the raptors will not beat the celtics in a 7 game series. The cavs are coming out of the east and they'll be facing Spurs/warriors.

 

Really hope cavs win, and curry is exposed once again so he stops waving his hands at every little thing he does. If it wasn't for Thompson being able to guard all the better pgs, curry would be getting slaughtered on the regular. Not sure he's a top 5 pg without Thompson.  

 

 

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2 hours ago, Sikhguy23 said:

 

 

 

Raptors will be lucky to make it out of the first round, whether it's Atlanta or Milwaukee. I do see the celtics faltering due to Thomas' size, and believe he will be locked down in the playoffs but the raptors will not beat the celtics in a 7 game series. The cavs are coming out of the east and they'll be facing Spurs/warriors.

 

Really hope cavs win, and curry is exposed once again so he stops waving his hands at every little thing he does. If it wasn't for Thompson being able to guard all the better pgs, curry would be getting slaughtered on the regular. Not sure he's a top 5 pg without Thompson.  

 

 

Why do you say that the Raptors will be lucky to make it out of the first round? I think they match up really well against the Bucks and should be able to beat them. 

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7 hours ago, Shaft said:

Why do you say that the Raptors will be lucky to make it out of the first round? I think they match up really well against the Bucks and should be able to beat them. 

I think both teams will provide match up problems for the Raptors. Milwaukee is a big team, that I think provides match up problems for a lot of teams it's just a matter of whether their skill will show. It also has to do with the fact that both Lowry and Derozoan don't play nearly as well in the playoffs as they do in the regular season, maybe this year will be different. Time will tell I guess.

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43 minutes ago, Sikhguy23 said:

I think both teams will provide match up problems for the Raptors. Milwaukee is a big team, that I think provides match up problems for a lot of teams it's just a matter of whether their skill will show. It also has to do with the fact that both Lowry and Derozoan don't play nearly as well in the playoffs as they do in the regular season, maybe this year will be different. Time will tell I guess.

I don't know about the playoffs thing, there are facts to it but there is more. Lowrys been a starter for 3 playoff runs. He played well in the first(lost in 7 games), terrible in the second(swept) and in the third he played okay(I give him the pass because he had a messed up elbow since all star break). Demar played a bit worse than his development at the time. He was averaging 20ish in the reg season and got the same in the playoffs, only difference is that he shot 5% worse. Its bad but not as bad as people make it out to be. Both Lowry and Derozan have made great improvments this year and I expect Demar to drop 25+ in the post season with Kyle not far behind

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Yup,I say 6 games too. Giannis  is amazing but he can only do so much. Raps have really good depth and will hopefully just do a little bit more than the Bucks. 

Lowry and Derozan have to be at their best. They both had incredibly slow starts last playoff and I don't think either of them reached the level they were playing at in the regular season.

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Cavs are still the team to beat in the East, even with the recent struggle. They'll turn it on in the playoffs imo.

 

Raptors won't make it out of the 2nd. 

 

GSW will make it to the finals. Spurs will be in the final four though.

 

Rockets will win against OKC, even though I like Westbrook more than Harden. 

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Cavs will turn it up in the playoffs as usual. Charles Barkley is right  when he says cavs don't want to play the wizards,and are trying to get the 2nd seed so they can play the raps (if they make it). The wizards are the only scary team in the east that have a chance, let's see how far they make it. 

 

If the spurs make it to the final 4 they'll push the warriors to 6 or 7. 

 

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Hope Cleveland gets the 1st seed. I don't want to face them in the 2nd round as Playoff Lebron is going to be scary af. Hope a team like Miami upsets them after they beat the Celtics in their 1st round matchup. Then we can easily handle the Bucks. I believe it'll go 6 as well with the Raps edging them out. if we face LeBron 2nd round, Lowry and DeRozan will be able to beat the Cavs as theyll be hungry to win a series vs the Cavs after last year's series loss. DeRozan is having one of his best scoring seasons in his career and hes going to have to come up big if we want to outlast the Cavs. Tucker and Ibaka will have to huge too if we want to pull off the title win. The Heat are a team to watch out for in the playoffs. They beat the Cavs tonight in a OT thriller. Tyler Johnson, Whiteside and Dragic are going to put the Celtics on their heels if they manage to sneak in and Celtics hang on to 1st. 

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Do you guys actually watch all three of Wizards, Raptors and Celtics games? I watch all the Raptors games as well as the Wizards or Celtics games whenever they're on tsn or sportsnet(not very often but sometimes) and Raptors are better than those teams by a decent margin. We have the season series vs both of them and many of those wins were without Lowry or Ibaka/Tucker and we still won. Raptors are one of 3 teams to be top 10 defense and offence(only team in the east), lost all three games to Cavs within 4(one game wasn't as close as score implies but whatever) and even had the highest offensive rating in the league with something absurd like 116pt/gm (I think this would've been highest in Nba history too!) for half the season until injuries derailed the team. In the second round, either the Raps will win in 7 or lose in 6/7 but it'll be close and Lebron would have saved himself for a 3-8 finals record if he loses

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The Greek Freak is going to be the biggest threat to the Raps in this series. it should be a beauty to watch. Raps should cruise by but it will go 6 or the distance. if we catch fire, probably 5.  Cavs resting LBJ once more in our regular season finale as the game doesn't matter to both teams other than heading to the playoffs with momentum. Hope Lowry, DeRozan and co light up Uncle Drew tonight. 

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On 10/04/2017 at 10:32 PM, gmen81 said:

Is Parker done for the year? Or any chance he might play?

Done for year. Torn his acl around Jan. I might of picked the Bucks if he was playing though. Bucks are so close to breaking through. Going to be problem for years to come. 

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On April 12, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Jiggs50 said:

Done for year. Torn his acl around Jan. I might of picked the Bucks if he was playing though. Bucks are so close to breaking through. Going to be problem for years to come. 

Yep and It's the second times he's injured the same knee, i feel bad for the guy

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