GAME #43 - Miami Heat 81 - Toronto Raptors 101

[DanH]

The Casey/Mitchell parallels are eerie enough as it is.

[Nilanka]

God, Chuck, on the anniversary of the Salami and Cheese jinx that led to the 81 point game? Are you kidding me, Chuck? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???

The animated re-telling of this night by Jalen Rose, will be totally worth it.

[CalgaryRapsFan]

3 of the 5 are playing d league tonight. We're only dressing 11 men, wright and bennett are available.

So dumb. What a great opportunity to give most/all of them NBA experience, in a game against such an injury-ravaged team.

[Demographic Shift]

Woj reporting David Blatt is out in Cleveland.

[007]

This isn't a must-win, it's a must-not-lose

[hotfuzz]

Woj reporting David Blatt is out in Cleveland.

WHOA! That came out of nowhere. WHAT THE FUCK

[MixxAOR]

lol

Salami and cheese for Raps before door opens https://t.co/PWxIFBuDKh

— chuck swirsky (@ctsbulls) January 22, 2016

Thanks for the jinx Chuck

[rocwell]

WHOA! That came out of nowhere. WHAT THE FUCK

[Wild-ling#1]

Well done Joey. It was getting late in the morning to start talking about an espn game against the Heat. I assume there's no direct way to get the espn feed in TO, right?

Awesome question - wanna see it!!! National in the US.

Think Kyle and DeMar know this???

Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme!!!

[hotfuzz]

#Wojnuke

[3inthekeon]

US ratings for this game are gonna blow chunks.

[Wild-ling#1]

Ballstreams.

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[Wild-ling#1]

Oof..becomes a must win now. You just CAN'T let bosh and a gang of misfits come into the ACC and gain a game in the east standings

In that sense, I'd kind of prefer a closer to even strength match-up - ok, we're short Carroll, and JV's just getting back to game-shape ... but this is the kind of game the Raps should be looking forward to, now, if rested, yes?

[Wild-ling#1]

I'd like to see Lowry and DeRozan rest after the first quarter. This seems like an ideal situation to give the 5 prospects significant playing time in a real, meaningful NBA game.

Interesting. But 4th quarter would be nice ... very nice.

[Henry_Chinaski]

Woj reporting David Blatt is out in Cleveland.

I like Blatt. It's sad that he's out of the league. Cleveland is not going to win the championship anyways. It's either GSW or Spurs.