Waiting for Tweet from Brenda Casey: "Thought I was the only one allowed to f--- Dwane Casey. Give me the names of those 3 refs." #raptors
— Richard Griffin (@RGriffinStar) November 21, 2016
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golden wrote: View PostIf you look at it from a DD/Lowry conserving energy for the stretch & winning time, it does make some sense. Kind of like the reverse version of Biz last season, who allowed DD/Lowry to rest on defense, conserving energy for offense. Making JV carry the offensive load in the first half allows DD/Lowry to rest on offense.
Unfortunately, there's no stat or measurement for how much energy a player has during the game. You can't see it on TV, other than some obvious huffing & puffing when a guy is winded. But energy levels, expenditure & conservation and player's decisions on how to play based on energy are a massive factor of the game, yet invisible to the fans.
Other than that far-fetched explanation, I got nothing for you.
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Almost equal parts frustrated by continued underwhelming JV usage, that blown end-of-game call, and the fact that this team has already lost twice to Sacramento (!).
Positives: Ross has made huge clutch three's the last couple of games (in spite of the last one being stolen) and this is pretty similar to how the team started out last season, which turned out to be a great year anyway."We're playing in a building." -- Kawhi Leonard
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S.R. wrote: View PostThey are just flat out committed to this being a DD/KL-dominated offence. I don't know what to say anymore.
Lost in the chaos created by that ridiculous call by the refs, is that fact that DeRozan and Lowry (despite scoring 9 points), were absolutely atrocious in the 4th quarter. The selfishness and forced offense lost the game for the Raptors. Between dumb shots, bad passes, over-dribbling and porous defense, "our guys" were terrible.
Had the Raptors played more as a team throughout the 4th quarter, the last ditch hail mary situation would have been avoided.
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DanH wrote: View PostSee, that would explain it if the first half was like the second half. But it wasn't. They show glimpses of playing the right way (attacking mismatches, using inside play to generate fouls, not forcing offence through one option that simply isn't working) which is always promising, but they seem unable to recognize that it's working and abandon it for no reason."We're playing in a building." -- Kawhi Leonard
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rocwell wrote: View PostDid the @Raptors get robbed of a game-tying 3? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/pAmRQKbuDt
— theScore (@theScore) November 21, 2016
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rocwell wrote: View PostDid the @Raptors get robbed of a game-tying 3? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/pAmRQKbuDt
— theScore (@theScore) November 21, 2016
"Both teams played hard my man" - Sheed
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rocwell wrote: View PostDid the @Raptors get robbed of a game-tying 3? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/pAmRQKbuDt
— theScore (@theScore) November 21, 2016
fully-justifiable arguing points, HE ACTUALLY GOT IT OFF IN LESS THAN 2.4!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!?!??!
Unbef*ckinglievable.
I hope Masai submits this clip with his protest.
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rocwell wrote: View PostDid the @Raptors get robbed of a game-tying 3? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ pic.twitter.com/pAmRQKbuDt
— theScore (@theScore) November 21, 2016
9 time first team all-RR, First Ballot Hall of Forum
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DanH wrote: View PostSee, that would explain it if the first half was like the second half. But it wasn't. They show glimpses of playing the right way (attacking mismatches, using inside play to generate fouls, not forcing offence through one option that simply isn't working) which is always promising, but they seem unable to recognize that it's working and abandon it for no reason.
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lewro wrote: View PostI more concerned with our defense than our offense. Seemed we made hay when bebe played. He was +11, jv was -14.
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DanH wrote: View PostSacramento's bench being terrible is a more likely explanation for that, but sure. Scoring 36 points in a half is totally fine.
The defense has been consistently bad. The offense has been good. Jv is the anchor of the defense and I think hes one of our worst defenders. We can try to have a shoot out every game but defense is key in the playoffs. At the same time I think jv will be huge in the half court offense in the playoffs. Both jv and biz were useful in the playoffs last yr.
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