Everything Round 1: Toronto Raptors vs Milwaukee Bucks

[The Great One]

Whew I don't wanna play the Bucks anymore! I'd much rather be playing the Hawks.

Giannis is a freakin monster.

[The Claw Reborn]

Joseph and his 'blame personal misery to everyone else' facial expression after a dumb play.

My takeaway, lol

[The Claw Reborn]

Goodnight

[GLF]

You mean fool you every single game where you manage to let the Raptors ruin your day!

They don't ruin my day lol. Maybe the 2 and a half hours of the game but not my day. If I let this team ruin my whole day I would have killed myself by now lol. You can never trust the raptors to handle business ever. That's the one thing I've learned during my 10 years of watching this team. So I would be a fool to let my happiness be dictated by this team lol. I still say Milwaukee in 6 or 7. We look a hot ass mess out there. It took a couple tough shots by Lowry and Demar and a couple missed WIDE open shots by Milwaukee for us to win a game where we finally shot the ball really well (which probably won't happen again because Patterson and Carroll lol) and kept Giannis as in check as one can. But hey a wins a win I guess. I'll enjoy it for now

[Ball]

It was a lucky win. We still played like fools. Good luck to this team in Milwaukee because they are gonna need it badly. We were 2 missed wide open 3's from being down 0-2. Remember that

I mean, you could also say we were 6 missed free throws away from winning comfortably. We missed our easy opportunities, they missed their's.

[JamesNaismith]

Joseph guarding Kyrie...I'm already having daytime nightmares.

Nvm Corey, Kyle has not been playing good defence at all.

[Jclaw]

caroll is useless

Carroll!

This sums up the Raptors season on the Republic. Note, they are consecutive quotes.

[JamesNaismith]

Whew I don't wanna play the Bucks anymore! I'd much rather be playing the Hawks.

I've been saying even before the Playoffs started, the Bucks are THE worst matchup in the 1st rd.

No one wanted them because of how tough Giannis is to contain with all the shooters around him.

[slaw]

I actually don't think so. I think they figured out their style of play when Jabari got injured (as indicated by their record). I've said this before but Parker was a ballstopper (ala Rudy Gay here). Middleton spreads out the floor FAR better since he is a shooter which allows Giannis to run down lanes and whip the ball out to shooters (who may also continue to pass the ball) instead of the ball slowing down when Jabari starts trying to create as well.

On the flip side, we have our "stars" as usual struggling with the pressure of the Playoffs. They need to play with more confidence and try to forget the moment and just play aggressively.

Lowry and Derozan were both very good tonight. 45 points, 8 assists, 11 rebounds, on 50% shooting. What more do you want them to do?

[The Rawth]

They don't ruin my day lol. Maybe the 2 and a half hours of the game but not my day. If I let this team ruin my whole day I would have killed myself by now lol. You can never trust the raptors to handle business ever. That's the one thing I've learned during my 10 years of watching this team. So I would be a fool to let my happiness be dictated by this team lol. I still say Milwaukee in 6 or 7. We look a hot ass mess out there. It took a couple tough shots by Lowry and Demar and a couple missed WIDE open shots by Milwaukee for us to win a game where we finally shot the ball really well (which probably won't happen again because Patterson and Carroll lol) and kept Giannis as in check as one can. But hey a wins a win I guess. I'll enjoy it for now

I cant really comment cause im box scoring in my office lmao but even watching that tick over was pretty frustrating ill agree on that.

I think Raps in 6. We win next game then they get one more before heading back to us for two more wins. Giannis is scary though and the NBA Loooooving him right now.

[slaw]

I've been saying even before the Playoffs started, the Bucks are THE worst matchup in the 1st rd.

No one wanted them because of how tough Giannis is to contain with all the shooters around him.

The Chicago Bulls say hello...... how do you do? We're about to go up 2-0 against the #1 seed.

[GLF]

Bucks have to come back down to earth at some point right? These guys are playing pretty far above their heads

We say this EVERY time. At some point its us and not them. We are constantly leaving guys wide open and relaxing when we get a 10 point lead. They won't be coming back down to earth because we will make sure we continue to give them way more confidence than they should have. It's usual Raptors protocol lol

[Demographic Shift]

It was a lucky win. We still played like fools. Good luck to this team in Milwaukee because they are gonna need it badly. We were 2 missed wide open 3's from being down 0-2. Remember that

You must be just so much fun at parties and get togethers...

[Ball]

I've been saying even before the Playoffs started, the Bucks are THE worst matchup in the 1st rd.

No one wanted them because of how tough Giannis is to contain with all the shooters around him.

Well at least we're not playing Chicago. It'd be fucking ridiculous if the curse carried over into the playoffs.

[JamesNaismith]

Lesser version? They both play different ways. Lebron is stronger and Giannis is longer. Guys like Tucker is meant to guard guys like Lebron. Giannis is a tougher matchup for him.

We (may) see about that.

LBJ is also faster, MUCH better passer, not to mention his incredible bball IQ which is incredibly difficult to deal with. Unlike like having Delly, Brogdon or Thon to kick it to, it's Kyrie, Love and JR which makes a double much harder to give.