Raptors Discussion: v32 | The playoff push continues. Trade Deadline on Thursday, Feb 20

[mikebel111*]

I am convinced that the refs truly don't like Toronto.

Maybe bryant is on lakers

Raps have played sloppy

But lakers lucky today

 

[mikebel111*]

How is that clearpath?

 

[Nitehowl]

Refs laker fans
And derozan gets selfish at the wrong times

when it comes down to crunch time why does DD think he is the team. All during games so much passing then when it comes down to last minute he thinks he is all world and doesn't have to pass ...just lob up some off balance *****.... same in Boston game

 

[Suntouchable13]

How do you cough up 2 double digit leads? Not one, but two. How?

 

[mikebel111*]

Thanks referees!!!
I know raps didnt play well
But these calls
Yup lakers homers

 

[Eyedea]

the officials have been terrible in this game BUT u can't be losing double digit leads lime they did on numerous occasions in this game

Well the 3rd quarter lead was lost largely due to two shooting fouls at the three point line (as well as a couple and-ones). Raps lost at the free throw line which ultimately cost them the game.

 

[mikebel111*]

So derozan goes to rim when game is over

Idiot guy

Until he learns to play as team in the stretch, he will remain just a decent and good player

Nowhere near star

 

[Bluejaysfan*]

Lowry is the best player on this team. DD is just the supporting piece. If I were the Raps, I do whatever it takes to get Lowry resigned and try and use DD to get another top piece. I mentioned it before but would a DD, our first this year and the knicks 1st not be a solid offer for Love? Then you let a guy like Ross really develop in the SG role. DD often suffers from the same problem Gay had, and the Raptors got rid of him.

 

[Radiohead]

Lowry is the best player on this team. DD is just the supporting piece. If I were the Raps, I do whatever it takes to get Lowry resigned and try and use DD to get another top piece. I mentioned it before but would a DD, our first this year and the knicks 1st not be a solid offer for Love? Then you let a guy like Ross really develop in the SG role. DD often suffers from the same problem Gay had, and the Raptors got rid of him.

Minnesota laughs at that offer.

 

[Jamie Thomas]

I did not watch the game but JV with only 14 minutes and 3 shots? WTF? He had only 3 PF, I don't get it.

 

[The Nemesis]

Lowry is the best player on this team. DD is just the supporting piece. If I were the Raps, I do whatever it takes to get Lowry resigned and try and use DD to get another top piece. I mentioned it before but would a DD, our first this year and the knicks 1st not be a solid offer for Love? Then you let a guy like Ross really develop in the SG role. DD often suffers from the same problem Gay had, and the Raptors got rid of him.

Minnesota isn't going anywhere near an offer like that.

and as for DeRozan, while it's true that he's a volume scorer and at times a chucker and he has some atrocious games in terms of shot selection, just his assist #s since the Gay trade give feint hope that maybe he's getting it through his head slowly that he can't suck up every possession down the court trying to run an iso play and ending with him putting up a 15-20 foot jumper over a ready defender.

Not saying he's going to lead the Raptors to the promised land, but he's at least improved.

I did not watch the game but JV with only 14 minutes and 3 shots? WTF? He had only 3 PF, I don't get it.

early foul trouble plus Casey's customary "I make dumb personnel decisions in late game situations" coaching strategy. Valanciunas and Amir were both stapled to the bench for the end of the game.

 

[Jamie Thomas]

Minnesota isn't going anywhere near an offer like that.

and as for DeRozan, while it's true that he's a volume scorer and at times a chucker and he has some atrocious games in terms of shot selection, just his assist #s since the Gay trade give feint hope that maybe he's getting it through his head slowly that he can't suck up every possession down the court trying to run an iso play and ending with him putting up a 15-20 foot jumper over a ready defender.

Not saying he's going to lead the Raptors to the promised land, but he's at least improved.



early foul trouble plus Casey's customary "I make dumb personnel decisions in late game situations" coaching strategy. Valanciunas and Amir were both stapled to the bench for the end of the game.

Thank you. Casey can really be an idiot sometimes.

 

[trellaine201]

Do you think our team is coming back to earth?

 

[Kamal007]

To be fair, JV was getting man handled by Gasol inside pretty much every trip up the floor, they needed to put a better defender on Gasol. If this game was in LA, JV would have fouled out but the raps were getting a ton of breaks with JV's defense on Gasol.

 

[Suntouchable13]

Anyone else suspect that the game today was fixed? I just have this bad feeling that it was. Some of the calls by the refs were atrocious. The free throw discrepancy. I don't know just something doesn't feel right.

 

[The Nemesis]

Anyone else suspect that the game today was fixed? I just have this bad feeling that it was. Some of the calls by the refs were atrocious. The free throw discrepancy. I don't know just something doesn't feel right.

nah. I wouldn't go that far. NBA refs just suck.

 

[Radiohead]

Anyone else suspect that the game today was fixed? I just have this bad feeling that it was. Some of the calls by the refs were atrocious. The free throw discrepancy. I don't know just something doesn't feel right.

If the game was fixed, the refs wouldn't risk letting LA go down by 17 late.

 

[Eytinge]

Amir needs to stop with the threes.

 

[topched]

Amir needs to stop with the threes.

The whole team needs to stop settling for outside jumpers

I think that's just part of being a young and unpolished squad... We get into stretches of settling for shots or in ydays case playing to the other teams style. In the 2nd half We got caught up in that fast break take the first look you get .

Hopefully we can breed this out as we go on

 

[Joey24]

Just mark it up to being a bad game. As for are they coming back down to earth, I wouldn't think so, I would just chock it up to Gasol deciding he wanted to play and the Toronto team not playing the style of ball that got them to where they currently are.

 

[All Day Kessel]

Raptors not looking good

 

[hockeywiz542]

Toronto Sun: Raptors' Jonas Valanciunas benched against Los Angeles Lakers

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/19/raps-big-v-benched-against-lakers

Jonas Valanciunas is not at the point in his young career where he plays regardless of his production on the floor on a given night.

If Dwane Casey has one thing in his arsenal he might not have had earlier in the season, it’s depth at most positions and Sunday he used that depth rather than stay with his young centre.

So when Casey didn’t like what he was getting from the Lithuanian centre and sat him down from the 5:52 mark of the third quarter through the end of the game against the L.A. Lakers on Sunday, it was as much a product of the depth the Rudy Gay trade brought Toronto as it was a message to Valanciunas.

“He needed to do a better job on Pau Gasol and I thought Chuck (Hayes) and Amir (Johnson) did a better job on him and we went for the defensive matchup,” Casey explained.

Early foul trouble limited Valanciunas to just under eight minutes in the first half but the six minutes in the second half were all a result of Casey’s decision to go with a more effective Hayes.

Gasol scored 22 points on 8-of-20 shooting but had an edge in the rebounding department on Valanciunas, as well.

 

[All Day Kessel]

complete the comeback

 

[Longshot]

Not sure they're going to get the W today, but it looks like a nice comeback. The score at half time was butt ugly.

 

[Leaf Rocket]

damn....4 point lead.