Game 2, Playoffs Round 1: Orlando Magic @ Toronto Raptors - Tuesday April 16th 8pm ET, TSN

[bertarapsfan]

FT's favoured Magic...+9

we did nothing to earn free throw we were jacking up 3s all game not much driving the lane

[rocwell]

Lillard lol

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[Zak24gege]

we did nothing to earn free throw we were jacking up 3s all game not much driving the lane

Exactly...going only 9 - 14 didn't help either (Lowry 0 - 2, Magic 18 - 20)...

[Zak24gege]

Crushing Celtic defence or pathetic Pacer offence? 84 - 74. Pacers put up only 8 points in the 3Q. Bricks O'Plenty must have been the first star in that game.

[golden]

we did nothing to earn free throw we were jacking up 3s all game not much driving the lane

And yet Nurse was wondering aloud about the lack of FTs. We traded JV for Gasol. Lowry and FVV can't get to the rim. Teams can load up on Kawhi and Pascal in the post. We don't have any real inside presence anymore. We're solely a jump shooting, make-or-miss team now, playing against a young, athletic team that can close-out and contest quickly with length. But..... we have super high IQ, so we'll figure it out.... I guess.

[hotfuzz]

Watching the Bucks game and THIS is how you start off the playoffs as a top seed. We were pathetic yesterday.

[bertarapsfan]

Watching the Bucks game and THIS is how you start off the playoffs as a top seed. We were pathetic yesterday.

ya bucks look good. but..... this pistons team with no blake is a lottery team.

[DanH]

Scraptor gonna win four straight here. Honestly as frustrating as that first game loss was, it wasn't super worrying. They had a great defensive strategy, worked wonders on their key scorers, and Orlando had to get likely unrepeatable performances from role players and hot shooting from distance just to eke out a last possession win, all while the Raptors made all sorts of correctable mistakes on offence and threw away a lot of possessions with the wrong offence initiators handling the ball.

Now, the thrown away possessions have been an issue all year, but it started looking better down the stretch, so I'm gonna chalk that up to first game nerves and say they settle in from here on out.

Still expect a 5 game series win. Could go six, but hopefully because someone catches fire for Orlando, not because we make those mistakes again.

[hotfuzz]

ya bucks look good. but..... this pistons team with no blake is a lottery team.

I have no doubt in my mind that we would have struggled game 1 against these very Pistons.

[bertarapsfan]

I have no doubt in my mind that we would have struggled game 1 against these very Pistons.

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Lol come on bro.. their 2nd best player is luke kennard! The atlanta hawks could give these pistons san blake a good series

[RandomGuy]

ya bucks look good. but..... this pistons team with no blake is a lottery team.

They swept us.

[Zak24gege]

Bucks playing like a championship team should.

[KeonClark]

They swept us.

Without Blake?

[Zak24gege]

Ya Gotta wonder who is the play-off tested, veteran team...With 1:02 remaining Raps ahead 101 - 99. T-Ross misses a 3 and Danny Green doesn't box out Gordon. Then he gives up a straight-line drive to DJ down the middle of the lane, no one steps up to help, no rim protection and finally on the DJ 3, Kawhi is switching whereas Gasol is staying with his man. In that 1 minute span, Magic score 5 points, Raptors 0.

Never mind Lowry getting 0 points and Kawhi only playing 33 minutes, with a minute to go, we were up by 2 and just forced a contested 3 from Ross that missed. We had control and we gave it away, mainly on defensive breakdowns that just should not happen with veteran players. We damn well better see a much better effort at both ends of the court or this team is toast.

[MixxAOR]

Ya Gotta wonder who is the play-off tested, veteran team...With 1:02 remaining Raps ahead 101 - 99. T-Ross misses a 3 and Danny Green doesn't box out Gordon. Then he gives up a straight-line drive to DJ down the middle of the lane, no one steps up to help, no rim protection and finally on the DJ 3, Kawhi is switching whereas Gasol is staying with his man. In that 1 minute span, Magic score 5 points, Raptors 0.

Never mind Lowry getting 0 points and Kawhi only playing 33 minutes, with a minute to go, we were up by 2 and just forced a contested 3 from Ross that missed. We had control and we gave it away, mainly on defensive breakdowns that just should not happen with veteran players. We damn well better see a much better effort at both ends of the court or this team is toast.

Because it's not Raptors vs Magic. It's Raptors vs Raptors. They are their own worst enemy