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Offline RPGenerate

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I just don't see it happening. Honestly I'd say they're lucky to even be there with such an unbalanced roster.
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Offline SparzWizard

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You saw what they did to them in Game 1 with just Curry and Thompson. These are almost the 73-9 Warriors of 2016 with Bogut and without Barnes.



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Nope.  Warriors sweep or win in 5 at most.
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Offline BringToughnessBack

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Apparently they are not releasing the real extent of that injury in attempt to keep morale higher. I am thinking it is not a grade 1 injury but rather one that takes many weeks(grade 2 or 3) if not months to heal. This is if it only the calf and not something far more severe. 

Not close to returning sounds like he is not coming back this year and why would he risk his big contract in the offseason for anything now. Curry has stepped back seamlesly back into the main alpha role though so they might not have issues no matter who they face.

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No way Blazers even take 2 games, let alone the series.

Their roster was already weakened with Nurkic out, although I think GSW would've destroyed Nurkic if he took the floor anyways.
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Only if another injury were to occur on the Warriors.

The Blazers are a good team, but they don't match up well with the Warriors. Especially with Nurkic being out. They can't play Kanter like they did against SAS/DEN and their small ball options are not great.

Offline rondofan1255

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Warriors in 5 at most. Expecting a sweep. Reminds me of the Toronto-Cleveland series last year. A big choke late in an early game with the lead, and that was it.

Blazers also couldn't take advantage of a hobbled Curry missing games a few years ago, and that was with no Durant.

Denver would have been a better series with post play, but the result would have been the same imo

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Nope lol

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Time proved that the Blazers could take down the Durantless Warriors...in the 1st half. 2nd half, not so much.

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Narrator: They could not.

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