2018-19 NBA and Raptors thread

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by RichKlit

The refs make it so hard to watch a whole game. The game management and clear biases ruin a great game.

At this rate they're going to successfully knock out the Raptors in round 1 vs the ****ing Magic. What a crappy league. It's too bad because it good be so great with legit officiating.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Is Lowry actually gonna finish this game with 0 points? He needs to be a team player and swap with Van Vleet for the playoffs, Lowry off the bench will probably be effective.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Even with Kawhi in hero mode they can't win. Lowry needs to be benched though, I can't even say if they do that they'll still win this series because they suck and don't deserve the respect, but they have no chance if Lowry starts every game. He's getting dealt in the summer anyway, #### his feelings.

[Jason14h]

Not bad Lowry only outscored by 25 at the point guard position

[Machiavelli]

Holy hell

Poor rebounding, 3-point and free-throw shooting
Lowry with 0 point, just inexcusable

[Senator Clay Davis]

And wonderful game management at the end too going for the two for one way too late and having Gasol take a three. You can't even laugh at this ####, it's too predictable to laugh.

[bluejays]

Originally Posted by Machiavelli

Holy hell

Poor rebounding, 3-point and free-throw shooting
Lowry with 0 point, just inexcusable

Forget the refs. It was all the Raps dropping the ball on this one. You just know based on this one game that Ujuri is finished with Lowry for good. He along with others were just not good enough, but it starts with Lowry. He’s just not a guy who can be there in a pressure situation in the playoffs. Deal him in the offseason ASAP.

[Beninho]

Should’ve traded both the choke bros, wow was Lowry terrible. Scared to drive, scared to pull up anywhere. One of the worst playoff performers of recent memory. Truly terrible, couldn’t even hit his 2 free throws. Glad I get to watch the flames after that flaccid performance. Siakam was the only player to raise his level. No idea why they waited till 6 minutes to get Kawhi in the game. Bad coaching as well. Also, raptors are paying Powell 10 million a year. This is a flawed team. At least Siakam is the real deal


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[Jason14h]

Originally Posted by fleury

Forget the refs. It was all the Raps dropping the ball on this one. You just know based on this one game that Ujuri is finished with Lowry for good. He along with others were just not good enough, but it starts with Lowry. He’s just not a guy who can be there in a pressure situation in the playoffs. Deal him in the offseason ASAP.

They tried to deal him at the deadline just not a lot there for a 33 year old point guard.

As bad as it was Orlando shot 50% for 3, Lowry got zero, and we still almost won

They should still be fine this series, but sure don’t look like a real threat to do anything moving forward

[Senator Clay Davis]

Some mild credit to Kyle, after Ben Simmons #### the bed big time earlier, Kyle was nice enough to do even worse. Nice guy when you think about it.

[Beninho]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Some mild credit to Kyle, after Ben Simmons #### the bed big time earlier, Kyle was nice enough to do even worse. Nice guy when you think about it.

Was just thinking that, 2 pretenders. Lowry was a liability all over the court. Wish they kept Delon, Augustine got to the bucket whenever he wanted because Lowry has no length or speed.


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[dissentowner]

That last 3 that won it for Orlando nobody even made that a tough shot. Nice clean look. Totally unacceptable.

[Beninho]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

That last 3 that won it for Orlando nobody even made that a tough shot. Nice clean look. Totally unacceptable.

Yup, Gasol with 2 terrible plays at the end. Passes up a 3 with 2 seconds on the shot clock to let the clock expire, then gives Augustine too much space after the raptors #### up their coverage. This team has been anti-clutch for close to 6 years now. Oh and the bench outside of Ibaka and Vanvleet is putrid. I can go all day, but even if they win this series they aren’t beating the Bucks.


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[Senator Clay Davis]

Also pretty horrifying that Kawhi had only 33 minutes in a game where they never had a comfortable lead. It's 99% likely he's gone after the year, feel free to run him into the ground and not manage his minutes to help the Clippers next year.

[Senator Clay Davis]

We all need a pick me up after that, so lets take solace that today's choke job at least makes the Lakers look bad.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1117209287950864384

[Senator Clay Davis]

So I went to bed with the Warriors up 31, wake up and see that they lost. Once Kawhi is on the Clippers they are gonna be the big challengers to the Warriors going forward, what an amazing job by Jerry West and Doc Rivers with that squad. They have rebuilt on the absolute fly, trading Blake and Tobias Harris in back to back seasons and still being absolutely set for the future and to win now.

[The Big Chill]

Good start for the Raptors so far. Not really sure what's going on with the reffing, Raptors getting called on every chippy play and Magic are getting away with the same plays.

We'd be running away with this game if we could hit some of these open 3s

[The Big Chill]

This is comical. Raptors have been the aggressive team and have over double the fouls!

[dissentowner]

Lowry is such a poor big game player.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

So I went to bed with the Warriors up 31, wake up and see that they lost. Once Kawhi is on the Clippers they are gonna be the big challengers to the Warriors going forward, what an amazing job by Jerry West and Doc Rivers with that squad. They have rebuilt on the absolute fly, trading Blake and Tobias Harris in back to back seasons and still being absolutely set for the future and to win now.

Nobody knows what Kawhi is going to do.