Game 61 - Houston Rockets 113 - Toronto Raptors 107

[rocwell]

Happy Birthday, Toronto!

[Hotshot]

Had to look this up ... 8 kids by 6 women apparently ... and the article was OLD. My goodness. Lol

When he becomes a free agent I fully expect Howard to pull a Latrell Sprewell on his first offer sheet and angrily respond " I got a family to feed!!" man some NBA players never learn so no surprise they go bankrupt once they are out of the game. Ross better pay attention.

[DanH]

Yea they've looked a mess lately so i'm not surprised. Hopefully they get their shit together. Cause if this slippage carries itself into the playoffs again kiss the first round goodbye no matter who we play

See, this is why it is insane to conserve rotations to maintain a bench lineup - anytime, something can change, and if your game plan is for a lineup that plays for 10 minutes or less a game and is extremely efficient to make up for the much more heavily played starting lineup's deficiencies, any slip at all in that bench lineup's performance can be disastrous. Thankfully JV has had his best stretch of the season and we've gotten multiple star performances from Lowry and DD to keep the team afloat over the past while. Hopefully the plan is not to just wait for the bench to get better - fix the starting lineup and worry about the bench after.

[OldSkoolCool]

See, this is why it is insane to conserve rotations to maintain a bench lineup - anytime, something can change, and if your game plan is for a lineup that plays for 10 minutes or less a game and is extremely efficient to make up for the much more heavily played starting lineup's deficiencies, any slip at all in that bench lineup's performance can be disastrous. Thankfully JV has had his best stretch of the season and we've gotten multiple star performances from Lowry and DD to keep the team afloat over the past while. Hopefully the plan is not to just wait for the bench to get better - fix the starting lineup and worry about the bench after.

You need to fix the starting lineup because that's the basis where you are going to sub your 3 key bench players into in the playoffs. If that base is largely a negative...well I hope they at least bring the swiffers...

[Barolt]

See, this is why it is insane to conserve rotations to maintain a bench lineup - anytime, something can change, and if your game plan is for a lineup that plays for 10 minutes or less a game and is extremely efficient to make up for the much more heavily played starting lineup's deficiencies, any slip at all in that bench lineup's performance can be disastrous. Thankfully JV has had his best stretch of the season and we've gotten multiple star performances from Lowry and DD to keep the team afloat over the past while. Hopefully the plan is not to just wait for the bench to get better - fix the starting lineup and worry about the bench after.

It's still insane to me that twice in the last 3 months we've been without JJ/Carroll and both times Ross was coming off a great stretch of games, and both times Powell jumped him to get the starts because of 'bench chemistry'. What about 'playing the best lineup to win'?

[JWash]

It's still insane to me that twice in the last 3 months we've been without JJ/Carroll and both times Ross was coming off a great stretch of games, and both times Powell jumped him to get the starts because of 'bench chemistry'. What about 'playing the best lineup to win'?

Personally I don't think Ross should start even with Carroll/JJ out. It makes sense because in our 100% healthy best starting lineup (KL-DD-Caroll-2Pat-JV) he wouldn't be present. However 2Pat absolutely should be because he should be a starter full-time anyway.

[Barolt]

League-wide, post all-star break, TS% rankings(min 20% usage, 20 MPG):

1. Steph Curry 72.3%
2. Chandler Parsons 72.1%
3. Jonas Valanciunas 69.5%
4. Kyle Lowry 68.9%

[Barolt]

Personally I don't think Ross should start even with Carroll/JJ out. It makes sense because in our 100% healthy best starting lineup (KL-DD-Caroll-2Pat-JV) he wouldn't be present. However 2Pat absolutely should be because he should be a starter full-time anyway.

I like Powell, but I think Ross should be starting if Patterson isn't, because DeMar/Powell/Scola is just so little spacing.

Obviously, you're right. Patterson's the guy who needs to be starting. I'm just not sure anything short of Scola getting hurt is going to make that happen.(even if Scola got hurt, would JT leapfrog Patterson now?

[rocwell]

We made it to 1 Million Twitter Followers thanks to YOU. Stay tuned for some upcoming fun. #WeTheNorth #RTZ pic.twitter.com/Fh6oFvL5UL

— Toronto Raptors (@Raptors) March 6, 2016

We made it! We made it! #smallmarket

[ogi]

It's still insane to me that twice in the last 3 months we've been without JJ/Carroll and both times Ross was coming off a great stretch of games, and both times Powell jumped him to get the starts because of 'bench chemistry'. What about 'playing the best lineup to win'?

To be fair we need someone capable of consistently scoring points off the bench

[tonious35]

no way? is he fucking insane?!?!?!

Tell that to Shawn Kemp

[GLF]

See, this is why it is insane to conserve rotations to maintain a bench lineup - anytime, something can change, and if your game plan is for a lineup that plays for 10 minutes or less a game and is extremely efficient to make up for the much more heavily played starting lineup's deficiencies, any slip at all in that bench lineup's performance can be disastrous. Thankfully JV has had his best stretch of the season and we've gotten multiple star performances from Lowry and DD to keep the team afloat over the past while. Hopefully the plan is not to just wait for the bench to get better - fix the starting lineup and worry about the bench after.

Couldn't agree more. Casey's stubbornness will be the death of him. He will never make a change to anything he's doing until things become a disaster and it's too late. Very reactive instead of proactive.

[Puffer]

Away from home. Just wondering about recommendations for streaming. I'm afraid I haven't bookmarked past recommendations.

[Superjudge]

Ballstreams.com is good

[Puffer]

Thanks SJ