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phoenix suns vs toronto raptors
scotiabank arena
7:30pm
friday february 21, 2020
with 27 games remaining, the raptors sit 2ndin the eastern conference with a record of 40w – 15l. Considering all the injuries to key players, owning the third best record in the nba is a testament to the strength of the entire organization. To the president of basketball operations masai ujiri, the coaching staff led by nick (coy) nurse and of course the players...
well done!
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unlike past all-star games (asg) where raptor players were hardly noticed, we had 2 of our guys featured prominently in the most exciting and memorable asg in a long, long time. Not only did kyle and pascal play the entire 4q, our kyle lowry drew the 1st and 2nd charging fouls ever in an asg.
that’s an example of why kyle lowry is without question the groat. Kyle plays to win. He will do whatever is needed including taking a (non-call) charge from lebron james in a damn all-star game. Get this, according to the star's sports columnist bruce arthur "sources indicate lowry managed to place his locker next to giannis over the weekend"
heart of a champion...
right fucking here man!
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now looking towards the stretch run, the website tankathon has the raptors remaining strength of schedule ranked 11th overall. Our main rival for second, boston, are next at 12th. The other ec contenders - indiana are 16th, miami 26th and philadelphia 29th. Only the bucks ranking 5th, have a tougher remaining schedule.
First-up are the phoenix suns. They are led by sharpshooter and all-star (replacement for damian lillard) devin booker. the suns currently sit in 12thplace, 6 games out of the western conference playoffs.
Second-year player and rising star deandre ayton sat out friday night’s game and has missed the past 2 suns contests. Without the 6'11" ayton, they have been playing their own version of small ball, with all five starters between 6’3†to 6’8â€. Neat-o-fact, the raptor starters are either shorter or taller - ok, og is 6’8†- than the suns line-up.
Until further notice, here are the suns starters:
phoenix suns 22w - 33l
pg - ?
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sg - ?
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sf - ?
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sf - ?
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c - ?
pg - ?
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sg - ?
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sf - ?
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sf - ?
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c - ?
last season, it was a home game against phoenix when nurse had spicy p go and get the game winning bucket. He got it!
Wearing the city edition uniforms, here are the projected starters for the nba champions
toronto raptors 40w - 15l
pg - #7 the groat
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pg - #23 fred vanvleet
sf - #3 og anunoby
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pf - #43 pascal siakam
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c - #9 serge ibaka
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go raptors go
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