Game #72: Toronto Raptors 129 - Cleveland Cavaliers 132

[sanyo]

And Calderon and Hill shooting 80+%...

Yeah mentioned Hill earlier but yeah Jose as well.

Raps blew out the Cavs last time and lost by 3 today... I think they are still ok with CLE.

[The Claw Reborn]

Beating Bron 4 games of 7, that’s the hill they have to climb this post season.

Bottom line

Playing perfect

If not then it would be another heartache for the faithfuls.

ISO ball and lazy defense even for just 5 minutes will cost them the series

This is the absolute best the Cavs have got..15 of 24 from 3....Hill and Candy with 34 points....and they won it late...Lebron was Lebron and your going to get that level every game from him...

Just don’t see how the rest of the NewLooks are able to repeat that game of a consistent basis....

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[sanyo]

I also did forget TOR did play back to back as well.. CLE was rested... old Toronto would have been blown out by 30... this Raps went to the wire.

It is an improvement in my eyes, but Ibaka is my gripe right now, he's clearly breaking down near the end here and needs more rest. Give young legs Siakam more mins with the 1st unit...

[Demographic Shift]

Yes skeptics are celebrating tonight.

Me I appreciate the Raptors trying to change the culture but still am bothered when I still see low IQ iso ball and lazy defense making me join the skeptics

This is the absolute best the Cavs have got..15 of 24 from 3....Hill and Caldy with 34 points....and they won it late...Lebron was Lebron and your going to get that level every game from him...

Just don’t see how the rest of the NewLooks are able to repeat that game of a consistent basis....

[The Claw Reborn]

Beating Bron 4 games of 7, that’s the hill they have to climb this post season.

Bottom line

Playing perfect

If not then it would be another heartache for the faithfuls.

ISO ball and lazy defense even for just 5 minutes will cost them the series

[A.I]

So it took history to win by 3... CLE got lucky then.

And Calderon and Hill shooting 80+%...

[sanyo]

Not gonna get that every night. Wow.

So it took history to win by 3... CLE got lucky then.

[rocwell]

[Sonny]

It's also brutal watching Ibaka shoot bricks after bricks in crunch time. It's like Patterson all over again. He is useless out there.

[MixxAOR]

It's hard to stay positive when Lebrons drops us like this right before playoffs. But we were on back to back and played a lot of games.

[veda-parabolist]

Lebron evolved since then.

Once again: Lebron with 17 assists, 0 turnovers tonight, most assists with 0 turnovers ever in NBA history (according to Espn). Probably we didn't all see that coming in 2011. This won't happen every night presumably. It was a heckuva game, sure the late-game execution by the Raps left something to be desired, but I don't see a reason to get too upset. Give us the Cavs in a 7 game series with equal rest and I still like our chances.

[MACK11]

Yup! Same shit every time we play them. Lebron does as he pleases with little resistance and they hit open 3 after open 3. Until we learn how to play defence against this team we have no hope in hell of beating them in a seven game series.

Yup. The plan should be either let LeBron score 60 or the Role players beat you. You cannot win with LeBron doing whatever he wants and the rest of them getting wide open looks. LeBron has 17 assists and ZERO turnovers

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[rocwell]

Same old Raptors.

— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) March 22, 2018

[Hotshot]

The game they combined for 5 points was against a bottom 10 defense in the league

Lowry -9 and DD -10. Made Calderon and Hill looked like they were in their prime.

[The Claw Reborn]

with 15 secs or so left, you need to try for the 3... no excuse for the 2. I get you hope the Cavs miss at least one, but then your pressured with less time left... either go for the tie or go home there...

Defensively the guards are caught in between that rainbow and the arc.

Either they rebound the miss or guard the three.

They ain’t committed defensively, always caught in no mans land

That has been their Achilles all these years