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2019 NBA Playoffs Thread

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There's still the chance that they have only 1 down year if they retain #11 and #35.

Is Klay's cap essentially unusable, the way KD's is, if he also ends up leaving? If so, things could get really bad, and they could run out of ways to rearrange Titanic deck chairs a la the Cavs trying various trades to appease LeBron once Kyrie wanted out.

The question becomes if Steph and Draymond Webber are willing to tank this coming season; heaven help the rest of us if them getting a 2020 high lotto pick comes into play.

Honestly, if they weren't willing to keep KD out, I don't think that team is going to try and tank.
 
I don't think this means the end of their dynasty. Steph, Klay, and Draymond can still hang with just about anyone. They shuffle out those weak ass role players and Demarcus, then they're right back at the top of the conference.

If it wasn't for our injuries in 2015, Steph Klay and Draymond would never have won a single championship, they weren't a "dynasty". It was Durant who made them a dynasty. Steph/Klay/Draymond together are very good but they alone are not a championship team. Even in 2015 they needed Iguodala in top form to beat Lebron plus four bench players. Iggy will be 36 next year.

They need another all-star caliber player to add to Steph/Klay/Draymond to be a championship favorite. Even if they just drop Durant with no replacement, if they max Klay they will be over the cap for the foreseeable future, unless they let Draymond go too.
 
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Kawhi is going to get ridiculously overrated now, and his finals wasn't all that impressive, but golden state lost so I don't care. Steph has 0 finals Mvps in 5 appearances. Cousins didn't get the free ring he signed up for. Durant shredded his Achilles. Only thing that would make it better if it was Cleveland instead of Toronto winning

Calling a future sure fire Hall Of Famer, multiple time DPOY, multiple time finals MVP getting overrated, after winning his second title just as he enters his prime at 27 years old is....

Fucking YIKES.
 
Another year older. Cap issues and role players no longer flocking due to no guaranteed ring.

Klay will be 30 next season with a torn ACL, and maybe MCL.

Curry's 32 year-old ankles (next season) are next on the injury wheel.

I think we won't see them in the Finals again.

If KD returns i wouldn’t hold your breath.
 
Calling a future sure fire Hall Of Famer, multiple time DPOY, multiple time finals MVP getting overrated, after winning his second title just as he enters his prime at 27 years old is....

Fucking YIKES.

Philly fans must be dying right now: they came within a shot or two of taking the raptors down and that was with Embiid dealing with diarrhea or whatever the fuck he had

That being said Leonard making Giannis his bitch the next series was definitely in the Lebronto/Leboston and Hakeem spanking D-Rob territory so he deserves the accolades he's going to get
 
Role players go to middle of road playoff teams all of the time and the Warriors are still in that upper echelon.

Cap issues will limit what they do, but they still maximize the potential of every scrub that lands on their bench. Curry and Green to an extent are the engine to that offense. They just need fresh guys since Iggy, Livingston, and Bogut aren't cutting it anymore.

They probably do a mini rebuild this year since they still have a first round pick or take their chances on Klay coming back before the playoffs.

There's no guarantee Curry will injure his ankles. Like there's no guarantee these guys will just go away. They are a well put together franchise that had a bunch of luck but capitalized on it every single time.

I just want them to be irrelevant, like losing to the Blazers/Rockets in the playoffs or competing for the 8th seed against Lebron.

This made the Warriors the Warriors: not only did they have 3-4 prime age stars with 1-2 MVP level players but their roleplayers were basically starter level talent for championship teams. Igoudala was clearly an all-star level talent who happened to just be a roleplayer because the Warrior were so stacked.

They went down hard with injuries but this was an all time team even without Durant (Cavs were an amazing collection of talent as well: Lebron at GOAT level with two all-stars and we had good roleplayers as well in TT and JR Smith)
 
Calling a future sure fire Hall Of Famer, multiple time DPOY, multiple time finals MVP getting overrated, after winning his second title just as he enters his prime at 27 years old is....

Fucking YIKES.
When you have people calling his playoffs a top 3 playoffs of all time and saying he's a better playoff scorer than Michael Jordan, yeah. Overrated. YIKES.
 
When you have people calling his playoffs a top 3 playoffs of all time and saying he's a better playoff scorer than Michael Jordan, yeah. Overrated. YIKES.

Hadn't heard anyone say that. He is up there in points I believe, all-time, in the playoffs. I wouldn't go so far to say it was one of the best playoff runs ever.

LeBron and Jordan definitely had better ones.

But no, he's not overrated. I've not heard any absurd hyperbole's. Like he's now better than LeBron or Jordan.

I don't think his run was 'overrated'. And people saying he shouldn't have been finals MVP are so wrong.

Just like LeBron has NEVER won them all by himself, as great as he is. Same with MJ.

Leonard averaged 28 ppg with a TS% of 60% in the finals. That's excellent.

He made the biggest impact on the floor, too. With an ORtg of 121 and DRtg of 107.

I don't think he played great last night, but still, he was outstanding in the finals and for the entire playoffs.

And he's definitely the biggest reason why Toronto won a title. But guys like Van Vleet, Siakam, Lowry, Ibaka and Gasol were very good too. You got to have help.
 
Will the Warriors even make the playoffs next year? I don't know if Steph and Green can lead them there.
 
There was no other way for the warriors run to come to an end. It had to play out like that - not some other team putting together a super team, but the warriors themselves losing star players to injury, and fighting to stay alive with a scrappy underdog bunch of backups, and almost pulling it off - so that they know they still over-achieved for what they had (as far as healthy players.) The expressions at the end were perfect. Yep. Well, "we did great considering" - just one shot away from forcing a game 7 - which they knew they would lose without Klay anyway. No one seemed devastated. No one cried like Brad Marchand of the Bruins the day before when they lost in game 7 of the stanley cup finals.

So the loss was the kind of loss I could never imagine as a warriors fan - one that didnt hurt or sting but just seemed inevitable, like thanos just sitting down when he knew he had lost. It just seemed like the fitting end to the dynasty. And now they have a new narrative - can they reform in the future and come back?
 

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