Raptors Discussion: v96| Playoff Round 1 vs Philadelphia

[Nylanderthal]

Tough way to shit the season away, some calls didn’t go out way but they deserved that big fat L with the poor decision making and indecisiveness down the stretch. Some absolutely brutal possessions in crunch time.
They need a big & a finisher.

 

[Byron Bitz]

Brutal f***ing choke job. Can’t believe Embiid got that shot off in time

 

[BTP]

:|

 

[The Big Swede13]

Siakam sucked down the stretch.

 

[Nylanderthal]

Really, the 76ers should be embarrassed. Embarrassed that the NBA has so little confidence in them actually winning an even series that they've had to blatantly cheat in order to help them. Seriously, do these guys have no pride at all?

They’ve been the better team the whole series, stop it. That’s the way the nba goes. Big time players get more respect and thus more calls than the plugs.

 

[Aashir]

We don’t have a go to guy

In that OT, everyone saw it: our team was nervous. They looked shook. Turnover, bad shots, bad plays it was all there. We didn’t have a guy who could calm us down and just reestablish confidence. OG tried, but he couldn’t make the free throws that mattered. Trent was so on and off, he put the buckets up, but attempted shots that made me scratch my head, especially whatever that was he thought he was doing in OT.

Siakam and FVV were down right embarrassing, they shied away from the game when it mattered most. They also shot very poorly

Raptors couldn’t capatalize and 76ers did

 

[djdev]

fred and siakam are chokers man, lol.
fred in his last 7 quarters is like 5/28 and gets blown by on every possesion and then blames his teammates.

i like pascal but hes scared in the post season. shame man, we should have won.

 

[Aashir]

all I ask is to not be swept, lose gracefully in 5

 

[djdev]

Siakam sucked down the stretch.

he didnt make a fieldgoal after halftime in the most important game of the year, he aint the one, its bubble pascal all over again.

 

[sylejman]

NBA feels rigged, timeout call after he shot the ball????

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Brutal f***ing choke job. Can’t believe Embiid got that shot off in time

Feels bad he was able to get the ball on the short side.

 

[Lightsol]

They’ve been the better team the whole series, stop it. That’s the way the nba goes. Big time players get more respect and thus more calls than the plugs.

4 TIMES more calls? Uh, no. This has pretty much been the story of the Raptors since Masai took over. When they hit the playoffs, the refs allow whatever team they're playing to do whatever they want whenever they want, and the Raptors end up in major foul trouble. Every. Single. Time.

BTW, if the "better team" won, why do Embiid and Harden have to dive to draw fouls as often as possible? Why do they have to use the old "kick off the defender" technique the NBA insisted repeatedly they would be putting a stop to this year? Why do they allow shit like Doc Rivers running onto the court while the ball is LIVE to call timeout even though it's against the rules?

The truth is, when they won in 2019, the team was playing so good they overcame all of this. But every other year, they've simply not been good enough to overcome whoever they're playing AND the f***ing refs one-siding every playoff game.

I mean, this is pretty much the same story as Game 7 against the Celtics two years ago. Oops, they missed the winning shot; better invent a reason to give them a mulligan on it!

 

[1specter]

Shades of LeBronto. That sucked.

 

[Emerica]

That's a wrap. Definitely a problem when your max contract + $20M a year PG aren't even close to being your best players in the series. Oh well, all things considered Philly is a team that is built to win now and we are a team that wasn't even expected to get into the playoffs. I genuinely believe this will be Scottie's team as early as next season.

 

[tmlms13]

We don’t have a go to guy

In that OT, everyone saw it: our team was nervous. They looked shook. Turnover, bad shots, bad plays it was all there. We didn’t have a guy who could calm us down and just reestablish confidence. OG tried, but he couldn’t make the free throws that mattered. Trent was so on and off, he put the buckets up, but attempted shots that made me scratch my head, especially whatever that was he thought he was doing in OT.

Siakam and FVV were down right embarrassing, they shied away from the game when it mattered most. They also shot very poorly

Raptors couldn’t capatalize and 76ers did

Scottie Barnes can be that guy in a few years

 

[stickty111]

Talent beats heart every time especially if there is a big talent discrepency. All though in this case Raptors heart gets overrated.
Not sure what the point of all this was just to get swept in the first round. You were better of going for a higher pick. Masai has work to do otherwise Raps could be stuck in good enough for playoffs position which is a bad spot to be in.

 

[HamiltonNHL]

NBA feels rigged, timeout call after he shot the ball????

the coach called it.

 

[CabanaBoy5]

fred and siakam are chokers man, lol.
fred in his last 7 quarters is like 5/28 and gets blown by on every possesion and then blames his teammates.

i like pascal but hes scared in the post season. shame man, we should have won.

Pascal has performance anxiety in the playoffs. Not the first time we’ve seen this. Freddy NotAllStar has been horrific. We need a star. Tbh this team wasn’t built to win this season.

 

[Aashir]

Talent beats heart every time especially if there is a big talent discrepency. All though in this case Raptors heart gets overrated.
Not sure what the point of all this was just to get swept in the first round. You were better of going for a higher pick. Masai has work to do otherwise Raps could be stuck in good enough for playoffs position which is a bad position to be in.

Ahh the age old trope of, too good to miss but too bad to compete

 

[Nylanderthal]

We don’t have a go to guy

In that OT, everyone saw it: our team was nervous. They looked shook. Turnover, bad shots, bad plays it was all there. We didn’t have a guy who could calm us down and just reestablish confidence. OG tried, but he couldn’t make the free throws that mattered. Trent was so on and off, he put the buckets up, but attempted shots that made me scratch my head, especially whatever that was he thought he was doing in OT.

Siakam and FVV were down right embarrassing, they shied away from the game when it mattered most. They also shot very poorly

Raptors couldn’t capatalize and 76ers did

Yup

 

[PromisedLand]

 

[joepeps]

the coach called it.

yeah from running across the court... that illegal and should be an automatic technical foul.

 

[Lightsol]

Shades of LeBronto. That sucked.

Yeah, it's funny how similar to pre-Kawhi Raptors this was, isn't it? Then you remember that this is how the 7-game series with the 76-ers went in 2019, only the Raptors were able to win... in 7. On the literal last shot of the game. They had to fight the refs most of that series, too... Just like every other series against one of the NBA's "chosen teams".

 

[Lightsol]

Apparently the argument is that it "was a dead ball"... Except I'm pretty sure there's a rule in there about shooting a dead ball, too. So if the ball was dead, then Embiid committed a technical himself by shooting it anyway. Either way, that was as blatant as it gets.

 

[tmlms13]

If Scottie and the non-vax guy play we win that game imo