Great season for Toronto. Time to re-tool. Free Agents: DeMar DeRozan(PO) Bismack Biyombo(PO) Luis Scola James Johnson Jason Thompson
LBJ's legacy about to get more tarnished when he loses OKC these Finals. 7 Finals Appearance 2 Championships..
I dunno, man. The GS-OKC series ain't over 'til it's over, it can still be Warriors and Cavaliers in the Finals if the Thunder don't go for the kill.
For all that talk of Lowry disappearing, he sure did seem to be the only Raptor to show up in their elimination game. Hold your head high, Kyle! You had a good season and overachieved considering the lack of talent surrounding you.
Last year after this point. LBJ was shooting around 41-42% in the playoffs. He just shot 62% in this series and 55% for the playoffs. Dude is healthier, and his team is fully healthy. He's going to wreck any team in the Finals. It's up to Kyrie and Love and his teammates to keep up their level of play. LBJ is going to be monstrous in this Finals for sure.
OKC or Golden State are too much for any Cavs. The screen eye test indicates the Cavs never went up against this caliber of basketball. They have a better chance against the Warriors of course but will probably win one mercy game against the Thunder. I'm serious, the Cavs will be throttled and wrecked easy. Toronto at its best is not even a quarter of what OKC or Golden State has to offer.
I don't disagree. OKC or Golden State will at worst win in 6 barring any major injuries. Only hope for Cleveland is if they find a way to channel their crazy 20+ three point performances from the first two rounds.
Its hilarious how good the cavs think they are, even tho this is the best team they ever had. Okc finally figured out how to use there players.....or is it Adams thats changed everything? Warriors have gotten exposed, but its funny how even when up 3-1 you never really are in control, if the team down wins game 6 they 90% will win the series
I think Cleveland is an underdog, but they took two games from Golden State with Tristan Thompson or Delly as the second best player, plus they nearly took the first game too. Now they are healthy with better role players added. No matter how weak the rest of the conference is, it doesn't magically make Cleveland worse too.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"I don't know how possible it is," to bring everyone back, says MU. "Some things are more difficult than others."</p>— Eric Koreen (@ekoreen) <a href="https://twitter.com/ekoreen/status/737301456617758720">May 30, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"We want to bring them back," Masai says of DeMar and Biyombo. "Sometimes those things are difficult or challenging."</p>— Eric Koreen (@ekoreen) <a href="https://twitter.com/ekoreen/status/737301717545418752">May 30, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Is MU prepared to offer DeMar a max deal: "That question is for later."</p>— Eric Koreen (@ekoreen) <a href="https://twitter.com/ekoreen/status/737302282291679232">May 30, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"I don't know that our coaches will be pushing for two (more) young guys on our team," MU says about 9 and 27. Open to any moves.</p>— Eric Koreen (@ekoreen) <a href="https://twitter.com/ekoreen/status/737302733661704192">May 30, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ujiri: power forward and back-up three are two main areas of need ...</p>— Michael Grange (@michaelgrange) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgrange/status/737302269637492736">May 30, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"We didn't win the championship. Could we have won the championship? I don't think we're good enough, that we're there yet."</p>— Eric Koreen (@ekoreen) <a href="https://twitter.com/ekoreen/status/737303652235284480">May 30, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Ujiri is clever so I really hope he doesn't extend DeRozan, lets Scola walk (sorry, he's my man, but is just not made for play-off basketball anymore) and tries to trade some guys. While they were good, there's better talent out there.