Game 68 of 82: Toronto Raptors @ Cleveland Cavaliers,

[KeonClark]

The 48-19 2nd seed Raptors visit the 14th seed 16-50 Cavaliers. There's no way around it, this team sucks. Kawhi I presume is playing and Cleveland is quite injured as well to make matters worse, simply severely out-gunned. This game is a good chance to get everybody rolling *COUGH* Gasol *COUGH* and keep tightening up the screws on the invisible "chemistry" quotient that is so important.

OUT: Fred Van Vleet, Toronto (thumb), week to week, JR Smith, Cleveland (ded), John Henson, Cleveland (ded), Matthew Delevadova, Cleveland (concussion), Tristan Thompson, Cleveland (foot), Larry Nance Jr, Cleveland (chest)

Your starting lineups guess:
Kyle Lowry -- Collin Sexton
Danny Green -- Brandon Knight
Kawhi Leonard -- Cedi Osman
Pascal Siakam -- Kevin Love
Marc Gasol -- Ante Zizic

Our Miller Genuine Draft Key Matchup (MGD!!):

P Skills




VS

Kevin "Bitch you get no" Love



Life comes at you fast. One day (Lebron) you're here, one day you're there, you're so unfair!

Fuck Cleveland.

[KeonClark]

It's on tsn at 7 eastern..if joey could edit.. unless that's bad luck..I forget how that works..

[G__Deane]

Would love to see another blowout with Kawhi and Siakam hugging and laughing ..... Gasol gets 15 assists, McCaw getting more run

[Zainab]

woooooooooooo GAME DAYYYYY FAME DAAAYYY

[007]

Obligatory post:

[golden]

Obligatory post:

Moses Cleaveland is buried in Canterbury, Connecticut.

Even the founder of Cleveland left Cleveland.

[planetmars]

Road to 60 wins continues. Need to go 12-3 the rest of the way. Let's go!

[Zak24gege]

Hopefully we saved a few 3-balls for tonights game...An irritating trend - listening to other play-by-play guys around the NBA, when their team hits on a three, I'm hearing them loudly say BANG!

[007]

Road to 60 wins continues. Need to go 12-3 the rest of the way. Let's go!

Given that only 4 of our last 15 games are against teams above .500 (Detroit, OKC, OKC, Brooklyn), it's definitely doable.

[KeonClark]

Given that only 4 of our last 15 games are against teams above .500 (Detroit, OKC, OKC, Brooklyn), it's definitely doable.

And we're gonna wanna smack Detroit after Casey getting the upper hand in the first 2. And get up for those Westbrook/George games. Not a trap game in sight in those ones...Brooklyn a likely first round opponent

[Zak24gege]

Road to 60 wins continues. Need to go 12-3 the rest of the way. Let's go!

Would be a nice achievement and going 12 - 3 is a realistic scenario, however would certainly not make line-up decisions or playing time with this goal in mind.

[Jclaw]

Might be nice to give Lowry the night off but I guess we don't play again til thursday and it would be tough without FVV. Should be a good one but they should keep the result of last night's Warriors-Suns game in the back of their minds

[planetmars]

Would be a nice achievement and going 12 - 3 is a realistic scenario, however would certainly not make line-up decisions or playing time with this goal in mind.

I agree.. we shouldn't kill ourselves to get 60 wins.. That shouldn't be the team's goal. And it isn't especially since we're giving Kawhi so many games off. But even if we rest guys we may still get 12 wins. We play a lot of crappy teams down the stretch.

[Zak24gege]

Moses Cleaveland is buried in Canterbury, Connecticut.

Even the founder of Cleveland left Cleveland.

Having seen downtown Detroit in the late 80's while attending a Frozen Four Championship at Joe Louis Arena, I can picture what Cleveland must be like. The economic trends around domestic auto assembly has had devastating effects on these so-called rust belt cities.

[KeonClark]

I agree.. we shouldn't kill ourselves to get 60 wins.. That shouldn't be the team's goal. And it isn't especially since we're giving Kawhi so many games off. But even if we rest guys we may still get 12 wins. We play a lot of crappy teams down the stretch.

We have 2 strategies at once. We're ultra preserving Kawhi cause regular season doesn't matter. And we're running Kyle into the ground cause regular season is everything.