Game 3, Playoffs Round 1: Toronto Raptors @ Orlando Magic - Friday, April 19th 7pm ET - SN1

[G__Deane]

Pascal looked like a superstar. Glad i spent the 2nd half watching the game with some novice, optimistic fans. Tried to get thru a couple of pages here.. feel sorry for the claw reborns and t rex types, determined to be miserable as fuck no matter what

raps in 5. 14 to go

It's not just claw.
Half the posters here spend most of their comments hacking on FVV or primarily Nurse. It's so tiresome when guys are just looking for any reason to be negative on a constant basis in a W....

[Raptor Jesus]

Kawhi flu game

[inthepaint]

[exhales] we survived Tony Brothers folks...

Another nice thing I noticed on this game was that the Orlando fans are a lot like the fans at home at the beginning of the second half: They're all away from their seats getting their fried chicken. The arena was flat then, and we made a nice run.

If the free throw and continuation calls were called, plus that Ross heave at the end of seconnd going in and other little things (like everyone in foul trouble cuz of Tony), this wouldn't have been nearly this close... Entertaining game nonetheless, on to Sunday

[bertarapsfan]

Nick mentions that Kawhi has been under the weather the last couple of days, with no/limited practice time. Might have been an impact

well he still shouldn't be going 1 on 4 fastbreak when we're up late in a game trying to run clock and get a good look

[KeonClark]

Pascal looked like a superstar. Glad i spent the 2nd half watching the game with some novice, optimistic fans. Tried to get thru a couple of pages here.. feel sorry for the claw reborns and t rex types, determined to be miserable as fuck no matter what

raps in 5. 14 to go

[Torassic1]

Reffing was dumb AF. I should be happy but im mostly mad. Lowry with play of the game.

I'm still pissed.

[Ebonhawke]

Nick mentions that Kawhi has been under the weather the last couple of days, with no/limited practice time. Might have been an impact

[bertarapsfan]

And the sad thing is I truly only think we did the whole two starter lineups in the second half because Marc was in foul trouble. If he wasn't Nurse probably would have done the same thing again. SMH!!!!! Right when he get up double digits he goes to these 1 starter lineups and they give the lead right back in a matter of seconds. OG is injured and Meeks should not be playing. It REALLY shouldn't be that hard to stagger the minutes in a way that always has 2 starters in the game.

the weird thing is he has been doing good rotations second half. every game 1st Half he plays Jodie fvv and norm together but doesn't go back to it in 2nd. that's 3 games now nice and we see it doesn't work. if he goes back to that look game 4 he's delusional their enough tape to show its weak

[MixxAOR]

Reffing was dumb AF. I should be happy but im mostly mad. Lowry with play of the game.

[G__Deane]

Nurse, STOP PLAYING 1 STARTER LINEUPS AND STOP PLAYING FRED MORE MINUTES THAN DANNY. DO THAT AND WE WIN GAMES EASILY. TRUST ME.

You should at least say "my bad" and retract this lol

[GLF]

FVV shouldnt play more than 18mins.

And DANNY should be playing 36 minimum

That's more what I meant. I knew he played more minutes than Fred but Fred needs to play even less minutes than he is. Or maybe if we would stop having Fred run the team when kawhi, Kyle and Pascal are in the game we all wouldn't dislike him as much. Some of the frustration with fred is definitely Nurse's fault

[HogieTime]

Yes, lets not play him next game... Start Fred instead!

Let's not go that far lol. But Kawhi needs to find Pascal more. Kawhi also needs to play like the best defensive player in the league like he is always supposedly claimed to be. I haven't seen that yet this year though. Also let's give McCaw a run at Ross instead of fvv

[Zak24gege]

Let's take the win. Siakam came up big 4/4 from 3. Kawhi had one of his worst performances this season, we had a poor whistle and we are able to pull out a win. Forget the refs.

[GLF]

that was some of the ugliest offence I've ever seen to close the game by the raptors. do you think we'll ever get a coach with enough balls to draw up a play or motion offence for the final 3 minutes? seems unlikely. meanwhile orlando created some good looks by movement. god damn... lets hope we learn from this.

We won't. I'm tired of always hoping things will change and it doesn't. With Raptors teams you literally have to hope that we are up by double digits with 3 minutes left. As long as it's very close we are going to go into ISO mode with zero motion or movement. If we are gonna do that it needs to be Pascal.

[Raptor Jesus]

to be fair casey had one for fvv as well.

Maybe FVV has something on Bobby and MU