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[EC Semifinals] (2)Toronto vs. (3)Philadelphia

Discussion in 'NBA Dish' started by J.R., Apr 23, 2019.

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(2)Toronto vs. (3)Philadelphia

Poll closed Apr 28, 2019.
  1. Raptors in 4

    3.2%
  2. Raptors in 5

    15.9%
  3. Raptors in 6

    55.6%
  4. Raptors in 7

    15.9%
  5. Sixers in 7

    3.2%
  6. Sixers in 6

    4.8%
  7. Sixers in 5

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  8. Sixers in 4

    1.6%
  1. Easy

    Easy Boban Only Fan
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    Why didn't Kawhi shoot a three to win the game?
     
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  2. Sajan

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    So GSW vs. MIL?
     
  3. Carl Herrera

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    Kawhi vs Sixers:

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  4. Hmc415

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    He might be but u also have to realize the man took like 1/3 of the season off. He's a whole lot fresher than everyone else
     
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  5. apollo33

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    Then Masai is obviously a better GM than Morey by a long shot because the team still won a ton of games without Leonard.

    We on the other hand play like a lottery team without Harden
     
  6. YOLO

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    i mean houston did beat gs without harden this year. that doesn't really help this lottery team take
     
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    is james harden watching this?
     
  8. apollo33

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    What was their record without Harden this season, I have no idea. I would say probably about.500 which is lottery in the West
     
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    considering harden doesn't really miss that many games, hard to really draw much of a conclusion.
     
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  10. apollo33

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    well considering how many games Chris Paul missed, it's not hard to draw the conclusion that we wouldn't make the playoffs if Harden rested as much as Leonard
     
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  11. YOLO

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    Kawhi has been logging extremely heavy minutes in the playoffs. Rest has nothing to do with this
     
  12. peleincubus

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    Averaging the 2nd most points in the last 50 years after only Michael freakin Jordan’s highest season. While the second best player that is in his 14 th season is out for a large portion of the year. Fighting tooth and nail for the 2nd seed. Beating Utah and playing the Warriors. Kawhi’s heavy minutes in the playoffs is less or equates to Hardens amount of rest. Cool
     
  13. YOLO

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    Yup the same guy who wants to be in the end of games even when he doesn’t need to be. Who’s actually using this as some gimmick excuse. Oh people that can’t hold him accountable. Cool
     
  14. Major

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    delete
     
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  15. peleincubus

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    I don’t hold him accountable for that. The blowouts we had this year were few and far between. It sucks. But I stand by Harden. He has done everything in his power to beat them I believe that.
     
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    Of course it's with the caveat that Kawhi is healthy however from what I can see if both are healthy Kawhi>Harden, sadly.
     
  17. roslolian

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    Nah biggest choker is Irving, at least Embiid powered his team to a couple of wins. Irving had like a 4 game stretch of horrible performances.

    TBH if Lebron never came back to Cleveland I think everybody would have put Irving on the same category if not lower than Kemba Walker.
     
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    Damn I fell asleep and I lost the best moment of the playoffs. FML





    :D
     
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  19. JW86

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    Awesome shot, Kawhi's like MJ there with the tongue out and Joel looks almost scared to watch. That's tough man, looking at that other picture there's nothing more Embiid could've done, just a crazy clutch shot. I actually watched it on replay and could see there was only 4 minutes left of the last stream, but still I didn't expect that to go in and figured there was a part missing. Got chills from that shot, the pin drop silence before eruption was just amazing. Must be great to be a Raptors fan right now. And it's crazy how it's a reversal of the missed shot by VC in 2001 vs. the exact same team.
     
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    One of the greatest basketball photos of recent times.
     

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