Game # ....30x5 Bulls at Raptors Thursday February 3rd 7:30pm on SN

[Jclaw]

'Nuff said
Looking forward to round 4.
We must break them.

So.........quite a game for Gary.

In the spirit of the newest craze,
I think if the answer was Gary Trent Jr,
the guess that would get you all the right letters would be
The Eye of the Tiger.
(no fact checking please)

Fun game that I did not seem coming after falling behind to the *rested* Heat.

But back to GTJ.
Remember that trade?

I'd say the reaction had fans and not fans but probably graded out as lukewarm at the time.
Masai and Bobby taking a flyer while getting rid of someone they probably wouldn't resign.
Sure..
I see you Masai.
You didn't just take a flyer.
You were building the UberRaptor


A little bit of Kawhi

A dash of Freddy's pesky defense

He's got OG's silent assassin vibe

And you know he does art

Throw in some of DeMar's scoring prowess.

This is what you get

You'll notice that this is only the front view.
The backside is not shown because it's incomplete.
He needs to work a bit more on taking charges first.
(Get well soon Lowrys)


One thing you can see from the above tweets is that Gary just tied DeMar's record for 5 straight games of 30+.
(as an aside, is it more amazing that he has 5 straight games of 30+ or that he has 5 straight games of
31-33 pts...no more, no less? weird)

So, in the next game he will have the chance to break Demar's record.
And of course...

It will be against DeRozan and his Chicago Bulls
You can't write this stuff.
More, importantly,
Can we just take care of the Bulls?
This is getting silly.
Here's where the amazing stories begin.

We haven't beaten them in exactly 2 years (from today)
That game marked an 11 game winning streak

There was another time where we just couldn't beat the Bulls.
I think one of my first game threads was for the game where we finally did.
March 21 2017.
That's when we stopped an 11 game losing streak to them
We won in overtime, finally beating Jimmy Butler.
And in that OT game, Butler had 37 and 10 (sound familiar?)
And, of course, our leading scorer was

It's time to put an end to this streak.
Let's remind another top Eastern team about the new look Raptors.
Come out strong.

Most importantly,
let's get together for a win.

Go Raps

[KeonClark]

Ain't no thread like a Jclaw thread

This will be our 6th straight game against an Eastern Conference rival that's playing really good basketball. So far we're 4-1 with wins over heat x2, hornets (hung 158 in reg on indy the very next night) and hawks who were streaking. The only team we lost to in that stretch were the bulls, which can be avenged tomorrow.

[planetmars]

I feel good about this game. Vucevic is the guy that will be our toughest cover, especially since he's a floor spacer too. But I think we can beat them. We didn't have Fred last time out and we made it close despite losing.

[Kagemusha]

Awesome thread by you as always.

DeMar vs GTj.
Past vs present (/future?)

Another Kawhi-lite performance by Gary and we will all forget that DeMar was once a Raptor.

[bertarapsfan]

Sportnet had a crazy stat during the last matchup. Basically this matchup is a series of one team dominating.

97-98- Bulls won 8 straight
99-2002- Raps won 16 straight
2002-2006-Bulls won 15 straight
Traded back a forth win between 2006-2014
2014-2017-Bulls 11 straight
2017-2020-raps win 12 straight
2020-Present bulls on a 5 game win streak vs raps

[saints91]

Great thread Jclaw! Keep it going!

If the Raps can get a rotation player for Dragic, we'll be a tough out in the playoffs.

[KeonClark]

Sportnet had a crazy stat during the last matchup. Basically this matchup is a series of one team dominating.

97-98- Bulls won 8 straight
99-2002- Raps won 16 straight
2002-2006-Bulls won 15 straight
Traded back a forth win between 2006-2014
2014-2017-Bulls 11 straight
2017-2020-raps win 12 straight
2020-Present bulls on a 5 game win streak vs raps

It all makes sense when you remember when these teams were awful...until you get to 2014-17, I can't believe the Lowry/Derozan raps lost 11 straight

[saints91]

Them and Charlotte used to have our numbers

[planetmars]

Jimmy always bottled up DeMar and then scored over 30 himself. Got super annoying.

[MixxAOR]

It all makes sense when you remember when these teams were awful...until you get to 2014-17, I can't believe the Lowry/Derozan raps lost 11 straight

that's Jimmy Butler is our father era

[DanH]

Looking very forward to this one. Should be a great game. Apparently Birch is supposed to be back sometime this week, would be nice to have the extra size for this matchup.

[Primer]

Ain't no thread like a Jclaw thread

This will be our 6th straight game against an Eastern Conference rival that's playing really good basketball. So far we're 4-1 with wins over heat x2, hornets (hung 158 in reg on indy the very next night) and hawks who were streaking. The only team we lost to in that stretch were the bulls, which can be avenged tomorrow.

But MixxAOR said we should be tanking. Really hard to tank if we keep beating all the good teams.
???

[MixxAOR]

But MixxAOR said we should be tanking. Really hard to tank if we keep beating all the good teams.
???

I'm not going to go into it when they are winning and people are having fun. But my stance didn't change.

[Kagemusha]

Not expecting another 30 pt performance by Gary Bird jr.
A win will be enough.

[Dr Hannibal Lecter]

Bulls have a lot of guys out, injuries..
I want the raptors 2 obliterate them, total destruction.