Game 57 - Cleveland Cavaliers 97 - Toronto Raptors 99

[Scraptor]

Projected Starters:











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Projected Starters:

Notes:

• Cavs are now 11-4 under Tyronn Lue vs 30-11 under David Blatt.
• Raptors beat the Cavs by 4 at home in November; Cavs beat Raps by 22 at home in January.
• Kyrie Irving and JR Smith combined for 49 points in that loss.
• Raptors need only 2 wins before their next 2 losses to achieve Phil Jackson's 40-before-20 requirement of elite teams.
• As our final meeting against the Cavs, this game will be our tiebreaker in the season series and will thus give us the #1 seed if we can match the Cavs in the standings at the end of the season.

Key Stats:
-per basketball-reference.com

Raptors
PTS/G: 102.4 (13th of 30) ▪ Opp PTS/G: 97.6 (5th of 30)
SRS: 4.08 (6th of 30) ▪ Pace: 93.3 (26th of 30)
Off Rtg: 109.4 (5th of 30) ▪ Def Rtg: 104.2 (10th of 30)

Cavaliers
PTS/G: 103.1 (9th of 30) ▪ Opp PTS/G: 96.9 (3rd of 30)
SRS: 5.75 (4th of 30) ▪ Pace: 93.0 (28th of 30)
Off Rtg: 109.8 (4th of 30) ▪ Def Rtg: 103.2 (6th of 30)

[Scraptor]

Uh this is game 57 Scraptor do you even math

Why no no I do not Other Scraptor

[Axel]

Uh this is game 57 Scraptor do you even math

Why no no I do not Other Scraptor

Got ya covered.

Nice Chevy Cavalier but it needs more rust.

[Axel]

Big game

[planetmars]

Would have been nice to have a healthy Carroll for this game. The good thing is that the Cavs don't have anyone that can really bother DD (Shumpert has a shoulder injury and will be questionable; Jones/Jefferson are just old). Defensively we can't really do much against Lebron and just hope JR Smith or Kevin Love aren't feeling it from the outside.

Gonna be a tough one, but an exciting one.

[DanH]

Better?

[rocwell]

Better?

i'd buy this shit

[DanH]

JJ is going to have to bring it today. Hopefully he still gets minutes in spite of his bad game yesterday.

Scola on Kevin Love might prove to be hilarious.

[rocwell]

JJ is going to have to bring it today. Hopefully he still gets minutes in spite of his bad game yesterday.

Scola on Kevin Love might prove to be hilarious.

Tomorrow*

[DanH]

Tomorrow*

Whatever. Time is an illusion.

[tDotted]

Hahaha Chevy Cavalier, well done.

But about this game: If players (*cough*DeMar*cough*) CLOSE OUT ON SHOOTERS, I think we win this one

[Nilanka]

I took this picture at Jurassic Park (Game 7 vs. Nets), and it still applies now.

[Axel]

Better?

Looks more accurate.

[rocwell]

I took this picture at Jurassic Park (Game 7 vs. Nets), and it still applies now.

Don't lie. It's from '90s.

[KeonClark]

This game is massive for first seed. If we win it's a race to the finish. If we lose they've basically sewn it up and we're resigned to a 2nd place finish. It really does come to that