GAME 1, 2019 Playoffs, Orlando Magic @ Toronto Raptors, 5pm EST, Sportsnet One

[Superjudge]

Lol, you brought up weak arguments and then sharing bull crap excuses. The personal attacks actually made it legit hahah.

personal attack? Buddy, you have posted literally dozens of the same BS posts, same message (BS message) same same same. Honestly, get over it, you behave like a 12 year old having a tantrum and you expect what? Respect?

[MixxAOR]

Meh its not Nurse thing its Toronto thing. Pop could be our coach and we wouldn't get calls

[Zak24gege]

Another blatant problem for this moving forward in case they hurdle this debacle in the first round are the refs.

Obvious in the regular season, refs showed zero respect and attention towards Nurse. The less calls that Kawhi gets can be related to his coach with no patches on his chest. Zero pedigree will never survive the playoffs when zebras most of the time dictates where they want the series would go.

BTW we make our free throws we win. This was not a professional effort.

[hotfuzz]

Lowry just became the highest paid player ever to score 0 points in the playoffs.

[spicy_d]

if they lose game 2...they're gonna get swept

[The Claw Reborn]

Another blatant problem for this moving forward in case they hurdle this debacle in the first round are the refs.

Obvious in the regular season, refs showed zero respect and attention towards Nurse. The less calls that Kawhi gets can be related to his coach with no patches on his chest. Zero pedigree will never survive the playoffs when zebras most of the time dictates where they want the series would go.

[Zak24gege]

Hope they make this guy look like the idiot he is.

[bertarapsfan]

just saw that JV was at the game. I knew he would show up. should a checked him in the 2nd quarter

[The Great One]

The playoffs is where the REAL stars shine. Lowry is no star. He's shown year after year that he's afraid of the big moment. Dude is a perennial playoff choker. It's not a "lazy narrative" like some of the homers here say, you know who you are. It's a fact. His performance tonight has to be one of the worst performance by an "all star". He was historically bad. But i'm not really surprised, this happens EVERY year. Can't wait how the homers sugarcoat his performance tonight.

[The Claw Reborn]

One reason we can’t hold leads is because our defensive rebounding is soft AF since we lost JV. We can’t stop runs when teams crank up the intensity to desperately try and get back into games. That’s when you just need some basic toughness and physicality... what JV brought.

JV for all those positives he brings however can be a defensive liability. I think the consistency of rotation has been the achilles of this team ( injuries or no injuries ), it actually came from the horse’s mouth a few days ago. He experimented with his line ups. But it seems it backfired on him.

[The Claw Reborn]

God damn you have very limited understanding of the game of basketball.

Lol, you brought up weak arguments and then sharing bull crap excuses. The personal attacks actually made it legit hahah.

[Apollo]

The guys should feel embarrassed by this loss. Especially Kyle.

[bertarapsfan]

just finishing watching... wish I didn't. wtf man..
Kawhi was good but to few minutes. Pascal was scoring but on a HUGE volume of shots
I liked how marc played. good hustle and hit big 3s when we were struggling.
now the bad wtf Lowry 0bpts isn't ideal but how can you get roasted by Augustin e and goddammit MCW!?.
what was up with the rims? had like 8 shots honing and out. we couldn't hit a 3 to save or life in the 1st half and had tons of open looks. this team is straight cursed. no production from the bench and FVV and Jodie meeks outplayed Lowry. his biggest moment was taking a Terrence Ross knee to the balls.
it wouldn't be raptors basketball if it was easy...

[golden]

Noticed that Raptors in the regular season cannot hold leads on most occasions because of Nurse’s experimentations of his rotation.

Another thing, Can someone tell me if they have seen in this first game any new strategy that this coach was bragging about he was trying to keep in his safe and willing to roll out when it matters?

Lowry shit on the bed but a close game like this would still fall on the coach’s onus

One reason we can’t hold leads is because our defensive rebounding is soft AF since we lost JV. We can’t stop runs when teams crank up the intensity to desperately try and get back into games. That’s when you just need some basic toughness and physicality... what JV brought.

[Superjudge]

Clifford adjusted having Vucevic act as decoy, he knew from the get go that the Raptors will concentrate their defense on his big guy so he allowed both Fournier, DJA and even Isaac hang around the perimeter. Raptors collapsed on Vuc leaving the shooters wide open.

This noob coach never adjusted. He rolled out a three guard line up with Powell/ Kyle and Van Vleet out there.

if you still dont see this kind of coaching blunder then you watched a different game.

Kyle showcased a one man shit show but Kawhi/ Green/ Pascal and Gasol were more than capable to take over yet these four guys were load managed because Nurse still thinks his team is playing a back to back.

Fuck you Nurse

God damn you have very limited understanding of the game of basketball.