Raptors

[2014olympicgold]

I wasn't being serious

I know you weren't being serious about Durant, but I do believe they do this so the stars rest and heal up.

There's also been a lot of people who aren't big fans of basketball who think it's a conspiracy against Toronto.

[lucafen4]

I just think it kills series momentum... I mean... a 7 game series is going to take almost 3 weeks.
It's a momentum killer for the fans and the players.
Basically makes this 7 individual games where they count to 4. A win a three days ago barely influences how anyone plays tonight... err.. I mean tomorrow night.

[als_revenge]

Couldn't agree more. I suppose I could live with one extra day off for flying across the continent. But there is no reason to spread out the home and home games...

[2014olympicgold]

It's game day!!!!!

[newfcollins]

Tonight will go a long way to determining if the Raps win. No Durant. No Looney. Possibly no Thompson. If the Raps don't win tonight with those three out, they will lose the series.

[2014olympicgold]

The way Klay has been interviewed, it doesn't sound like he's going to play. But it could be a decoy. My personal thinking is he'll test it out. Could play 30min, could play 3min.

[lucafen4]

With two days off in between... Raptors should have regained confidence. They know they played like crap in the 2nd half and they still almost won that game.

They take one game in Oakland, with those injuries to GS.. It's the Raps series to win/lose

[blayze]

I think Klay will be in. If he's out and the Raps still can't win then they have no business winning the series.

I'm betting KD is back for game 4 which makes tonight a must-win.

[newfcollins]

ABC announcing Klay is active but won't play.

[blayze]

We're playing pretty poorly considering the Dubs are playing their farm team... don't like how this is feeling at all. We should be up by 15-20 right now.

[saucelife90]

A win in dominating fashion, exactly what they needed vs an injury stricken team.

[ericdaoust]

Two more to go.

[blayze]

Strong second half, especially the dreaded third quarter. Let's hope KD/KT need more rest!

[2014olympicgold]

Toronto has won 11 of 12 quarters this playoffs.

But the scary thing as a fan is, one day, all of a sudden, the GSW could have 2 future HOF (who are in their prime) come back. Never get relaxed Toronto...

[2014olympicgold]

Curry since 2016, has only played 42+ minutes against the Rockets and OT games....and yesterday. He scored 47pts yeah, but he only scored 2pts in the final like 7+minutes of the game. He got exhausted. He runs around a ton to get open for his 3 and his style of play isn't made to carry a team like he was trying last night. He's amazing, but he just can't be like "know what guys, I got this" when everyone else is down.

He damn well almost did though.