2022-2023 Toronto Raptors/NBA season thread

[Paulie Walnuts]

These anti vaxx nut jobs have lost it. Rodgers turning into a bum now Irving.

[manwiches]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

These anti vaxx nut jobs have lost it. Rodgers turning into a bum now Irving.

He was always a moron. Hes a flat earther

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[bluejays]

Totally not playing devils advocate here, but he never outwardly said something antisemitic. He's coy about what he says which tells me he loves the trolling attention. Genuinely get annoyed with him that way. But I kinda disagree with suspending him over this this late. Yesterday him and the team agreed to donate $500k to Jewish causes. I'm pretty sure if he didn't like them he wouldn't give a lot of money to them. The guy is a moron though.

[flames_fan_down_under]

He doesn't need to outwardly say anything anti-semitic if he is promoting anti-semitic material; just because he says he wasn't promoting doesn't mean that he was not actually promoting it. Putting it on your social media account with millions of followers is promotion. In any city this is unacceptable, but in Brooklyn where 1 out of 4 people are Jewish, this is just a disaster. He thinks being contrarian makes him forward thinking, combine that with the narcissism of a pro athlete making millions, you get this.

[Hockey_Ninja]

Kyrie put out a Black Hebrew Israelite film. Black Hebrew Israelites are a cult religion of black conspiracy theorists who believe we as black people are the true Jews and that the actual Jews are “fake Jews”. The ideology is anti-semetic in nature and Kyrie makes it pretty clear in this clip that he holds those beliefs

https://twitter.com/user/status/1588207995930001408

“If I know where I come from” = We as black people are the real Jews

[bluejays]

Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja

Kyrie put out a Black Hebrew Israelite film. Black Hebrew Israelites are a cult religion of black conspiracy theorists who believe we as black people are the true Jews and that the actual Jews are “fake Jews”. The ideology is anti-semetic in nature and Kyrie makes it pretty clear in this clip that he holds those beliefs

https://twitter.com/user/status/1588207995930001408

“If I know where I come from” = We as black people are the real Jews

That's really interesting. Never heard of this group. Again, not playing devil's advocate, but if a Sunni Muslim thinks they're true Muslim, and conversely thinks a #####e isn't, is that hate speech? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the idea of antisemitism myself but I thought it was the disliking of Jews for the sake of playing into stereotypes. If he thinks his form or background of Judaism is real, and another isn't, it doesn't seem to be propagating any stereotype. Just for my own information really.

[Hockey_Ninja]

Scottie doing a great job running the point with Pascal getting injured and FVV out

[Hockey_Ninja]

Well, at least the Raps kept Luka under 40

[The Big Chill]

Barnes had zero points in the first half and ended with a triple double. He really stepped up late. I hope Siakam doesn’t miss any time, but if he does then hopefully Scottie can take the opportunity to shine

[Mathgod]

Warriors can forget about a repeat unless they learn to play defense.

[The Big Chill]

Great game from Banton tonight, he was really a difference maker.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Anunoby has been outstanding on defense all season, and has really taken it up a notch on offense since Siakam went out. Might be in the running for both DPOY and MIP.

[savemedrzaius]

This Raps team is more physical than 50% of NHL teams. Love this team! A real team with a great system.

[Senator Clay Davis]

So uh....all aboard the tank train? Team just isn't very good right now and Wembanyama is about as good as prospect as there's been in recent history.

[Hockey_Ninja]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

So uh....all aboard the tank train? Team just isn't very good right now and Wembanyama is about as good as prospect as there's been in recent history.

Hopefully. This team just ain’t a contender as is. Need a guy who can take over games badly

[bluejays]

Some of it was to be expected. Barnes is in a typical sophomore slump, Van Vleet has always been a streaky shooting SG playing PG, and OG has been a streaky defensive specialist. All are coming to roost. The shock to me is Siakam has grown quite a bit when I thought he'd taper off one way or another. Best to let the rest of the season play out but on paper they never got better, so I'm not surprised that they've been pretty cold. They're also no longer a surprise team so just gotta play it out and expect management to do what they need to when the time is right.

[The Big Chill]

It’s crazy how much the Raps are struggling this season. The injuries have been non stop, and even when healthy there has just been no rhythm from anyone besides Siakam. FVV has been chucking bricks all season.

[Johnny199r]

Koloko starting and getting 2-4 points a game really hurts.

[bluejays]

IMO, the team built just wasn't good to start off with. Fred has been looking increasingly frustrated since last year I've noticed, as well, though that could have been the injuries more than anything.


One thing of note here in this article. If that is indeed a similar package for OG, I say wave goodbye and package him out. Fred could get some good interest too I'd think. This team needs a reset for some time now. The bench is atrocious and that magic has worn off. Building around Siakam (kills me to say that), and Barnes may be the way forward. If they get some good packages for any number of the rest, and look to retool for the next two seasons, that would be great. The team is shallow past the seventh man or so.

[GirlySports]

Pascal is on fire. He's got 43 after 3 quarters and has scored the Raptors last 17 points.