Everything (2016-2017) Regular Season Game Threads

[Abbas]

Derozan has also fallen back to Earth lately which has hurt.

Its not even this, People are double/triple teaming him and when he passes out teammates miss wide open shots

[Ball]

I never understood why without Kyle people acted like we had such an easy schedule. Without him literally every game is tough

Tbh I didn't think the spacing would be this bad without Lowry. We added Ibaka who's like a 40% 3pt shooter this season, and moved Powell up in the rotation when he wasn't really playing much. So we lost 2 of our best 3 pt shooters and replaced them with 1 really good shooter and 1 respectable shooter. How the offense is so ugly is very likely because we just don't run any sets for our shooters (Casey.........)

[Puffer]

Bad shots, turnovers, other team getting easy layouts, nobody hitting open shots... playing like hot garbage lately.

[Cody73]

Not sure if anyone is still watching, but the rookies aren't giving up. Game's over, but were showing some heart.

[golden]

Doug Smith trying to defend Casey on why JJ is better this year. Doesn't realize that the Raps staff told JJ to bulk up to play PF. smh.

Apropos of nothing, James Johnson is 25 pounds lighter than last year and is in the final year of his contract. Just sayin'

— Doug Smith: Raptors (@SmithRaps) March 12, 2017

[tDotted]

It's ridiculous the kind of grudges Casey holds... he's young and going to be up and down -- unless he doesnt hustle in practice I see no reason why he isnt out there, he was fantastic for us for a good month -- and granted he was slowing down, this is a normal part of development.

I just want Casey out.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if he doesn't hustle in practice. He's been terrible since the new year

[Ball]

Doug Smith trying to defend Casey on why JJ is better this year. Doesn't realize that the Raps staff told JJ to bulk up to play PF. smh.

Apropos of nothing, James Johnson is 25 pounds lighter than last year and is in the final year of his contract. Just sayin'

— Doug Smith: Raptors (@SmithRaps) March 12, 2017

JJ signed at 4 million a year, playing way better than Carroll who we signed as a $16 million player.

[golden]

JJ signed at 4 million a year, playing way better than Carroll who we signed as a $16 million player.

Fake news Casey apologist, Doug Smith, was trying to spin it like JJ was overweight and out of shape last year because he's a lazy fat-ass or something. SAD.

There is a slight change in store for Johnson this year. A year ago, he saw time at both small forward and power forward. This year he will only see time at the four, something Casey feels is best for Johnson and good for the team.

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/10/08...o-playing-time

[KHD]

Doug Smith trying to defend Casey on why JJ is better this year. Doesn't realize that the Raps staff told JJ to bulk up to play PF. smh.

Apropos of nothing, James Johnson is 25 pounds lighter than last year and is in the final year of his contract. Just sayin'

— Doug Smith: Raptors (@SmithRaps) March 12, 2017

"apropos of nothing". Doug you smug fuck.

[Ball]

Fake news Casey apologist, Doug Smith, was trying to spin it like JJ was overweight and out of shape last year because he's a lazy fat-ass or something. SAD.


http://www.torontosun.com/2015/10/08...o-playing-time

I knew the Raptors asked him to gain weight, but still have no idea how this made any sense. Asked the same thing of JV and look what happened. He was so agile and spry in his first year, kinda like Poetl!!!

[DanH]

I think we win this one. Handily. I say JV beasts inside, MIA has nothing to stop DD with, and role players hit shots. Miami's luck runs out.

All of that against all logic, but I'm going with it.

Welp. Logic wins out, hope dies a brutal death.

Offence was just ugly, perimeter defence was horrendous. JV played well... yay...

Yuck.

[golden]

I knew the Raptors asked him to gain weight, but still have no idea how this made any sense. Asked the same thing of JV and look what happened. He was so agile and spry in his first year, kinda like Poetl!!!

Casey did exactly the same thing with Rudy Gay and almost destroyed his career.

[golden]

Ppl are picking at scabs while almost any narrow loss right now comes down to Lowry being out. Put Lowry on the Raptors, take Millsap off the Hawks, replay that game with all other variables being constant and the discussion here would be much different.

There's always something to pick at after a game, for the coaches and players as well as the fans, I don't think those things are actually THE reasons you lost when you're playing without your best player on the road against a healthy, similarly ranked team.

Take Bosh and Wade off Miami. Oh, wait....

[tDotted]

I knew the Raptors asked him to gain weight, but still have no idea how this made any sense. Asked the same thing of JV and look what happened. He was so agile and spry in his first year, kinda like Poetl!!!

Casey luvs him some small ball 4s!!

[A.I]

I knew the Raptors asked him to gain weight, but still have no idea how this made any sense. Asked the same thing of JV and look what happened. He was so agile and spry in his first year, kinda like Poetl!!!

Raptors asked JV to gain weight at the wrong time. They wanted a C who can go toe-to-toe with big guys like Hibbert and Howard, but around that time is when the league started transitioning from big, physical big men to mobile, perimeter-oriented bigs.