What is your ideal lineup?

[TrueTorontoFan]

Yes. Easily. Frankly he is small for a 3, and last year he guarded whoever the better wing was, even if that was the 2.

6'8 is lebron sized... how is he a small 3.

[Uncle_Si]

i don't think he's referring to height. Lebron is 6'9 and like 260. Carrol is probably closer to 230-240

[rightsideup]

i don't think he's referring to height. Lebron is 6'9 and like 260. Carrol is probably closer to 230-240

Is not Carroll listed like 215

[A.I]

Is not Carroll listed like 215

6'8, 212 lbs, so significantly less than 230-240.

[DogeLover1234]

6'8, 212 lbs, so significantly less than 230-240.

I dont think thats right cause that is about ross' size. Maybe its outdated?

[Snooch]

KL
DC
DURANT
Draft/AB
JV

Primary Bench

Joseph
Powell
Ross
Bruno
Bebe

[Axel]

Hard to really say which line up to use for certain situations without knowing the context (opponents, score, gameflow, etc).

So I'd break things down like this:
Starters
KL - DD- DC - PP - JV

First basic sub-group
KL - TR - DC - LS - JV

Second basic sub-group
CJ - DD - TR - LS - BB

Third basic sub-group
CJ - DD - TR/DC - PP - BB

Small-Ball sub-group
KL - CJ - DC - PP - JV

3 Point Sub-group
KL - CJ - TR - DC - PP

Lockdown D sub-group
CJ - TR - DC - JJ - BB

That is the basic 9 man rotation with JJ on the short leash.

Ideally, a well balanced line-up may look like
KL - TR - DC - JJ - JV
6th DD
CJ
PP
TR
LS (he's old)
BB

[Cody73]

My choices (And I'm going unique here):


Lowry
DeRozan
Carroll
Bennett
Valanciunas


Bench:

Joseph
Ross
Johnson
Patt/Scola
Biyombo


Lineup I crave to see when we go small:

Lowry
Joseph
Ross
Carroll
Johnson

[Maury]

My choices (And I'm going unique here):


Lowry
DeRozan
Carroll
Bennett
Valanciunas


Bench:

Joseph
Ross
Johnson
Patt/Scola
Biyombo


Lineup I crave to see when we go small:

Lowry
Joseph
Ross
Carroll
Johnson

I like them all but the small lineup. I don't really think we could put jj at the 5, probably better to take out Joseph, move everyone up and then have Bismack in there for rebounding, rim protection etc. while still being mobile.

[DanH]

I like them all but the small lineup. I don't really think we could put jj at the 5, probably better to take out Joseph, move everyone up and then have Bismack in there for rebounding, rim protection etc. while still being mobile.

JJ got some time at the 5 tonight! Never say never with Casey.

[Maury]

JJ got some time at the 5 tonight! Never say never with Casey.

Lol I noticed that. At least he got some minutes he played pretty well.

[cinqueda]

It's hard to say, so many of our players are inconsistent, DeRozan, Lowry, Ross, Carrol, Patterson you never know which version you'll get on the day, to a lesser extent Valanciunas and Biyombo too, But Lowry is our best player when he's on form. I feel like we need to work out who's on on the day, so start the best players of course,

KL
DD
DC
Scola/PPat depending on who we're playing
JV

second line

CoJo
TRoss
JJ
PPat/Scola/Bennet
Biz

with a real rotation, derozan and ross are not small forwards, hockey line ups don't work. I like CoJo on the floor because he's probably our best at playing to his strengths on a day, and our best decision maker, lowry derozan and JV are all pretty poor decision makers towards the end of the game, which is all summed up in the magic game we just saw, I think closing line up

KL
CoJo
DC
PPat
JV

setting up with CoJo as the ball handler lowry as the preferred option to shoot.

[Simplicity]

Has anyone watched bballbreakdowns latest video on the raptors? It's mainly about our line ups and how it looks concerning with so many negative net ratings.

The best line-up (at the time of the video, pre-Magic game) had a 63 net rating which had KL, CJ, DD, DC, JV together. JV is too slow a a center to protect the rim with Scola a CJ playing tight defense improves JVs defense a lot.

[Axel]

Has anyone watched bballbreakdowns latest video on the raptors? It's mainly about our line ups and how it looks concerning with so many negative net ratings.

The best line-up (at the time of the video, pre-Magic game) had a 63 net rating which had KL, CJ, DD, DC, JV together. JV is too slow a a center to protect the rim with Scola a CJ playing tight defense improves JVs defense a lot.

Playing a very good defender (CJ) would have a great impact to all linemates net ratings/defence more than a weak defender like Scola.

Wouldn't read too much into yet. CJ's impact has been great though and finding him more opportunities could be a key to success down the road.

[Mindlessness]

Playing a very good defender (CJ) would have a great impact to all linemates net ratings/defence more than a weak defender like Scola.

Wouldn't read too much into yet. CJ's impact has been great though and finding him more opportunities could be a key to success down the road.

When we signed him I thought he'd be a long shot at becoming a starter, if at all. I think I'm wrong, he's really damn good and I can see him replacing Lowry for us.