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

[slaw]

Missed the game. What happened in the second quarter? Why are the top guys playing 33 minutes?

[Zainab]

[Zainab]

Kyle Lowry doesn't wait for the offseason to take vacation

[inthepaint]

--I got hit but the ugly head of the Game 1 curse again. Over to you for the next thread @Scraptor.

--Said this on the the front page, but wanna ask here too: Is Kawhi on some kind of minute restriction or something? Why a coach would wait 6 minutes into the 4th on a neck-and-neck game to put your best player back in is beyond me. Reeks of a rookie coach too caught up on spreadsheets.

--Someone please tell Kyle that just because you're the 3rd/4th scoring option within the starters and you don't need to go for 20 anymore, doesn't mean you can't go the whole game without a bucket. There's a difference. We know he can do everything else out there, time to get in bed with his shooting coach, forget about other shit in practice and start building some muscle memory back from 3.

--An old coach once told me: there are usually 3 tell-tale signs of a nervous team: Turnovers, missed free throws, and missed defensive assignments (because the D is when a nervous player takes a mental break before his next offensive possession). Raptors didn't have a ton of turnovers, but they sure missed a lot of free throws and had some surprising blown coverages on D, especially by their guards. Looked like a bit of the yips to me. Hopefully this L will jolt them and they'll come out spitting fire next one

[Zainab]

Lmao Bron left the east and the Raptors signed a superstar just for Kyle Lowry to let them down again lmaoooooo

[Raptor Jesus]

Kyle sent out Pascal for the press,

this is sad

[hotfuzz]

Missed the game. What happened in the second quarter? Why are the top guys playing 33 minutes?

A mixture of sloppy offense and raptors bricking open 3s. Bench gave away momentum when quarter started.

[golden]

Again he was a +11. Team high. DJ went off, but some of that was not when Lowry was on the floor. And yeah Lowry needs to do better.. he's not blameless but he's not the reason we lost.

DJ Augustin was +5, so guess what? Kyle outplayed DJ! Don't do this to yourself, PM. It's not worth it.

I'm at the point of just laughing this one off as some weird Raptor karma and being pissed that we're now going to need 6 or even 7 games to vanquish these guys. I accept that Lowry randomly gets the yips in big games and hasn't played real defense in like 4 years. It is what it is. We should be able to overcome that.

However, Nurse only playing Kawhi 33 minutes was more concerning... that's totally in your control. Letting him cool off on the bench while the Magic built a lead, especially when Kawhi started the game looking like he was gonna drop a 40 piece.

[Zak24gege]

This game really hurts...Miscommunication on last play say;s something about preparation and understanding of roles and responsibilities. How could they let him shoot? Let's hope it's a wake-up call. Augustin goes for 25, 12 years in the league. Our point guard gets 0 points. Total embarrassment.

[golden]

Kyle Lowry doesn't wait for the offseason to take vacation

"Wow. Look at that 7-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio!" ---- A.I., SR, KeonClark, Scraptor, DanH, Barolt,....

[The Claw Reborn]

There was a long stretch that Van Vleet guarded Fournier and the magic streaky shooter basically man handled the miniature back up guard.

Masai fired Casey for not adjusting but Nurse was even worse. Ffs how can you allow a back up player with his size defend a starting 2 guard who can nail threes???

Raptors were up by 8 but Nurse load manage the minutes of both Green and Kawhi. De ja vu of so many regular season games (with no scheduled game the next day). Still understandable then but for him to continue this shit in the playoffs is just Dumb.

I just wanted to know what exactly his success rate of his after time out plays?

Playing Kawhi 33 minutes at home/ first game of a series with so many days rested prior is fucking Idiotic.

Casey would feel way better now.

I cannot believe until now why Masai hired this G league coach

[hotfuzz]

This game really hurts...Miscommunication on last play say;s something about preparation and understanding of roles and responsibilities. How could they let him shoot? Let's hope it's a wake-up call. Augustin goes for 25, 12 years in the league. Our point guard gets 0 points. Total embarrassment.

And it was against possibly our best two defenders.

[Zak24gege]

DJ Augustin was +5, so guess what? Kyle outplayed DJ! Don't do this to yourself, PM. It's not worth it.

I'm at the point of just laughing this one off as some weird Raptor karma and being pissed that we're now going to need 6 or even 7 games to vanquish these guys. I accept that Lowry randomly gets the yips in big games and hasn't played real defense in like 4 years. It is what it is. We should be able to overcome that.

However, Nurse only playing Kawhi 33 minutes was more concerning... that's totally in your control. Letting him cool off on the bench while the Magic built a lead, especially when Kawhi started the game looking like he was gonna drop a 40 piece.

This game was ours to win, but the guys with all that playoff experience could not make plays in the clutch whereas the guys with no playoff experience do...Fucking awful game by Lowry and Nurse (Kawhi 33 mins).

[Zainab]

[The Claw Reborn]

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