NBA Thread

[Carlos Danger]

Hope the Nuggets beat the Spurs and Derozan is golfing next week.

[Abomination]

47-34 at the half lol. Not exactly stellar basketball being played.

[Dr. Dinger]

Was at the Raps game, best bball game I’ve ever been to! Suffocating defense.

[Krylian]

Was at the Raps game, best bball game I’ve ever been to! Suffocating defense.

 

That's what I love to hear. It's the defense that will get us places.

[Dr. Dinger]

That's what I love to hear. It's the defense that will get us places.

 

Marc Gasol gave Embiid nothing all night, and Kawhi was smothering every wing the 6ers have. Kyle taking charges, Iblocka in full force, Danny Green with his fundamental soundness and textbook closeouts. This defense is scary good and right now every shot Kawhi takes is hitting nothing but the bottom of the net. This actually might be the best all-around Toronto sports team we’ve seen since the 93 Jays.

 

That was a statement game and Philly is thoroughly demoralized. If you read the Philly papers and blogs, they are searching for answers right now. What a drubbing.

[Dick_Pole]

Marc Gasol gave Embiid nothing all night, and Kawhi was smothering every wing the 6ers have. Kyle taking charges, Iblocka in full force, Danny Green with his fundamental soundness and textbook closeouts. This defense is scary good and right now every shot Kawhi takes is hitting nothing but the bottom of the net. This actually might be the best all-around Toronto sports team we’ve seen since the 93 Jays.

 

That was a statement game and Philly is thoroughly demoralized. If you read the Philly papers and blogs, they are searching for answers right now. What a drubbing.

 

So what I'm hearing is pound the under 220.5 tomorrow.

[Spanky__99]

Raps getting rekt here early.

[Abomination]

Well, if that's the worst half we have in the playoffs, we should do really well. We played like s*** offensively and we're only down 13.

[Abomination]

The NBA really needs to decide in the offseason what a foul is. Guys are getting murdered in the paint and nothing is being called, while a guy outside sneezes on the other guy and gets one. Maybe they don't want inside play anymore, I don't know. It's frustrating to watch as a fan though, because you don't know what a foul is anymore.

[Abomination]

There's going to be some really exhausted players after this game. Both teams are playing very hard.

[Carlos Danger]

Our bench fnnn sucks this series. Get the starters back in there!

[Carlos Danger]

Plus nothing from Lowry or Vanfleet..

[Carlos Danger]

Lowry s***ing the bed on shots when it counts..

[Spanky__99]

Ughhh... missing so many shots.

[Abomination]

Lowry s***ing the bed on shots when it counts..

 

The entire team has been outside of Kawhi. In fact, no Raptor is shooting over 50%.

[Carlos Danger]

5 fnnn points or something from the bench.. We got to within 1 and totally screwed it with subbing and horrible shooting.

[Abomination]

5 fnnn points or something from the bench.. We got to within 1 and totally screwed it with subbing and horrible shooting.

 

They're going to have to stagger the bench in, keeping no more than 1 or maybe 2 guys from the bench on the floor at any one time. That unit just isn't playing well enough offensively or defensively to be on the floor together.

[Spanky__99]

Huge bucket, Lowry!!!

[Spanky__99]

All ball, horse s***!

[Spanky__99]

Bah Gawd... what a finish!

 

Godammit!

[Abomination]

Damn, pretty exciting finish to the game at any rate.

[Carlos Danger]

Fnn Danny Green sucked tonight!! They should have gone for 2 and the foul.

[Boxcar]

Damn, Danny Green's gotta hit that!

[Boxcar]

Fnn Danny Green sucked tonight!! They should have gone for 2 and the foul.

 

They got a wide open 3 for a pretty good shooter. What else can you do?

 

At least the team shot like garbage and still barely lost lol

[Spanky__99]

Kawhi's a freakin' beast!!!

[dineke]

lowry really tried to nutmeg harris with the game on the line...

[Bobthe4th]

[jaysblue]

 

He's just not a consistent performer in the playoffs. Regardless whether Leonard is back or not, I think Lowry is traded this summer. Masai traded DeRozan and JV for the same reasons. He's moving away from the type of team the Raptors had between 2015-2018.

[dineke]

He's just not a consistent performer in the playoffs. Regardless whether Leonard is back or not, I think Lowry is traded this summer. Masai traded DeRozan and JV for the same reasons. He's moving away from the type of team the Raptors had between 2015-2018.

 

Lowry's been good in the playoffs the last 3 years.

[Spanky__99]

Although that particular play was ridiculously high risk, he still got the ball to Kawhi whom found a wide open Green, they just didn't make their shots. The D was great again, they play like that through this series they'll be fine.