The Finals

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The Effort Police said:
They aren't as annoying as the Clippers, but the Clippers have to be to make up for undersized defenders and inexperienced players and are by no means a good defensive team. They were 21st in DRTG in the regular season. The Raptors are an elite defensive team that include:

A 2-time DPOY and consensus best defender in the league.
A former DPOY C.
Another big who's a 2 time block leader and 3 time all defense.
A former all defense SG.
An above average defensive PG
A rapidly improving impactful PF.
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Kawhi's playing on one leg.
Gasol is old and slow and sorta useless against the Warriors unless they play Bogut and Boogie 48 minutes.
Ibaka is nowhere near the player he was when he got all those accolades with the Thunder.
Green is still good but also going against the best off-the-ball player in the league in Klay.
Lowry is second to CP3 in the "guys who crumble in the playoffs" rankings.
Siakam has not exactly been awesome to start the playoffs (and is going to have to defend an absolutely unique offensive player in Draymond Green).
 
It is really really odd seeing national media types lineup up to get on the "Raptors are gonna beat the Warriors in five or six games" bandwagon when we saw this exact Warriors roster (although now missing Festus Ezeli and Speights) have the most dominant regular season of all time three years ago.
 
Warriors missing shots right now. Raptors really to attack while they can because it's not gonna last all night.
 
Aside from his travel-assisted dunk, Klay has been horrible to start the game and the Raptors are only up 3.
 
The thing that goes unmentioned is that Dray is an amazing rebounder for his size. Lets the Warriors play small while still dominating the battle on the glass.
 
I'm concerned if I'm the Raptors. We absolutely outplay the Warriors for 12 minutes and only come away with a 4 point lead.

Sure Kawhi hasn't gotten going yet but the same could be said about the entire Warriors roster (even Steph has been rusty in spurts thus far).
 
Tetsujin said:
It is really really odd seeing national media types lineup up to get on the "Raptors are gonna beat the Warriors in five or six games" bandwagon when we saw this exact Warriors roster (although now missing Festus Ezeli and Speights) have the most dominant regular season of all time three years ago.
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And Bogut.
And Barnes.
And Klay and Draymond having better seasons then than now.
Basically the only constant is that Steph is still MVP level.
 
These Raptors alums they're wheeling out are all dudes who spent like five years with them (Charles Oakley/Muggsy/Dell Curry) at the end of their career or guys who were young guys that they gave up on (Damon Stoudemire and T-Mac) or Chris Bosh who all their fans hate.

Obviously Vince Carter wasn't there.
 
The Effort Police said:
Not true for the regular season. This was Klay's worst season in five years, and Green shot 39% from 3 in 2016 and has failed to replicate that every other year.
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That may be true in the regular season but Dray has pretty much carried the Warrior at times since KD went out.
 
Nice stint by Boogie. So so so so happy for him

Obviously rusty. No lateral quickness right now. Still made nice plays and gave nice effort.
 
I mean, the Warriors are making absolutely dumb mistakes every other play and they're still only down one.
 
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