Game #25: Brooklyn Nets 102 - Toronto Raptors 110

[golden]

I'm not sure that passes the eye test, Golden

Yeah, something’s off here. ESPN, NBA.com and BBref are all showing 7 ft. But Blake Murphy reported 6-10, which seems correct.

[G__Deane]

Nice quality bounce back game even though there were moments there where you felt Brooklyn was going to tie or take the lead. Siakam had a nice first half. Good defensive game from him which I liked even more than his offense early on. He's slowly getting his energy back which is nice. Norm is really impressing me. Less and less bone head plays, and is just on fire from 3. Again has become our most consistent 3pt shooter. Who would have thunk?

Gasol and Serge were really active on the boards. Serge still really has no offensive game. Missed his 15 foot bunnies. Airballed a 3. But he had some nice put back layups/dunks and was active around the rim to get to the free throw line. He was pretty good defensively though. Kyle hit a couple of big 3's.. missed some good clean looks though. Just want to see one nice KLOE game from him since he got back. Marc was great. Active early. Hit a few 3's. more than 10 points. That just helps the offense when he can make his shots.

I don't know why McCaw got so many minutes. He was terrible on offense. Had some nice passes I guess. Defense was sound but not anything OG or Norm couldn't do. Was it Nurse just giving him Fred's minutes so that the offense can click when he gets back? No idea. Was a +11 though so we didn't lose the minutes he was on the floor. So many WIDE open three's that he just blanked on. I don't get the love. I mean he had more minutes than OG last night.

Brooklyn just isn't that good right now. Borderline playoff team that will get the 7th seed because the bottom half the East is a joke. Should be an easy 4-0 sweep for the team that gets them in the first round. Even with Kyrie back. They'll be awesome next year though.

Nice to keep that Atlantic home streak alive.

The Gasol argument suggests that as long as you're (+) the rest doesn't matter and you can throw up zeros lol.
Play McCaw 48 minutes!

[planetmars]

Nice quality bounce back game even though there were moments there where you felt Brooklyn was going to tie or take the lead. Siakam had a nice first half. Good defensive game from him which I liked even more than his offense early on. He's slowly getting his energy back which is nice. Norm is really impressing me. Less and less bone head plays, and is just on fire from 3. Again has become our most consistent 3pt shooter. Who would have thunk?

Gasol and Serge were really active on the boards. Serge still really has no offensive game. Missed his 15 foot bunnies. Airballed a 3. But he had some nice put back layups/dunks and was active around the rim to get to the free throw line. He was pretty good defensively though. Kyle hit a couple of big 3's.. missed some good clean looks though. Just want to see one nice KLOE game from him since he got back. Marc was great. Active early. Hit a few 3's. more than 10 points. That just helps the offense when he can make his shots.

I don't know why McCaw got so many minutes. He was terrible on offense. Had some nice passes I guess. Defense was sound but not anything OG or Norm couldn't do. Was it Nurse just giving him Fred's minutes so that the offense can click when he gets back? No idea. Was a +11 though so we didn't lose the minutes he was on the floor. So many WIDE open three's that he just blanked on. I don't get the love. I mean he had more minutes than OG last night.

Brooklyn just isn't that good right now. Borderline playoff team that will get the 7th seed because the bottom half the East is a joke. Should be an easy 4-0 sweep for the team that gets them in the first round. Even with Kyrie back. They'll be awesome next year though.

Nice to keep that Atlantic home streak alive.

[G__Deane]

Clippers lost to the Bulls (no Kawhi, load maintenance, left knee soreness) and the Rockets lost to the Pistons lol.

[G__Deane]

Just realized that Serge Ibaka is officially 7-ft tall without shoes. Wtf. Now it makes sense why he's slower footed than you would hope. And he's the tallest guy on the Raptors.... Gasol is 6-11.

I'm not sure that passes the eye test, Golden

[DanH]

Visiting TO for Christmas... anybody have any suggestions on best/cheapest way to get seats? I will try the usual methods of ticketmaster and stubhub but not sure if there are any other avenues I haven't heard of. Hoping to see the Mavs and Thunder.

Christmas day seats vs the Celtics are at ridiculous prices, but I will drop a few fuck Bostons in the game thread as is customary for the holiday season.

Seatgeek is a good tool for quickly finding good seat deals.

[G__Deane]

Love the 15 rebounds.

5 of them land in your hands free and uncontested if you're positioned correctly so you know he went and got some

[golden]

Just realized that Serge Ibaka is officially 7-ft tall without shoes. Wtf. Now it makes sense why he's slower footed than you would hope. And he's the tallest guy on the Raptors.... Gasol is 6-11.

[Rudy Bargnani]

Gasol and Ibaka combined for 27 rebounds

[KHD]

didn't see all of this one but I'm hoping we see Gasol have more nights like this. We aren't built with him as a main scoring option, but we're so much better when he's at least a threat.

[Puffer]

Only thing to watch is they are a dominant offensive rebounding team. Going to need to be a focus to gang rebound, or kill them so much in transition that they have to back off the aggressive rebound chasing.

Boom.

Marc almost took care of the Raptors defensive rebounding all by himself.

[Gonzz]

Ya Norm. Boo McCaw. Just getting in on the crap - on bandwagon.

[JawsGT]

I'm not feeling mccaw either, especially with davis there, who is better at everything.

[slaw]

Does he have good defense? I didn't see anything special. He gets bumped off screens as easily as Lowry, and then his man is wide open. So what's the point?

I don’t get the McCaw thing at all. Other than the contract, I can’t explain it.

[Zak24gege]

But someone told me if Marc dropped 10 and 5 he couldn't play D?

Love the 15 rebounds.