Game #74: Toronto Raptors 106 - LA Clippers 117

[consmap]

Toronto Raptors


Kyle Lowry
DeMar DeRozan
OG Anunoby
Serge Ibaka
Jonas Valanciunas




Los Angeles Clippers


Milos Teodosic
Austin Rivers
Tobias Harris
Wesley Johnson
Deandre Jordan

After a close victory against the Brooklyn Nets, the Toronto Raptors bounce back from their loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday. Three players scored over 20 points for the Toronto Raptors in the win: Kyle Lowry (25 points, 12 assists, 10 rebounds), Jonas Valanciunas (23 points, 8 rebounds), and DeMar DeRozan (21 points, 3 assists).

The Raptors are currently not winning as easily as they did earlier in the season. In their most recent stretch they've dropped two games against talented teams in OKC and Cleveland, and have struggled to soundly defeat lottery bound teams like Orlando and Brooklyn. The intensity has taken a dip for the Toronto Raptors, likely a result of having to play a sizeable amount of games in such a short time span. Unfortunately there won't be much time to rest with the Clippers coming to visit on Sunday. Until they can find some breathing room to hopefully right the ship, the Raptors must continue to find a way to keep churning out wins against beatable competition. A 60 win season is well within their grasp!

[Scraptor]

A 60 win season is well within their grasp!

Our grasp, consmap. The season belongs to the fans too.

I'm not saying we're responsible for all the winning this season... just 97% of it.

[Puffer]

Our grasp, consmap. The season belongs to the fans too.

I'm not saying we're responsible for all the winning this season... just 97% of it.

Consensus basketball. Better than actual evidence.

[Joey]

Edited to the title to be Game #74 instead of #73.

[rocwell]

Edited to the title to be Game #74 instead of #73.

Damn. The end is near.

[rocwell]

Raptors are meeting with Monty McCutchen before practice today as part of McCutchen's tour around the NBA to improve the player/official lines of communication.

— Blake Murphy (@BlakeMurphyODC) March 24, 2018

[planetmars]

Another revenge game.. glad its at 6pm instead of 1pm. I hate early afternoon games.

The Raptors need one of those February wins soon. Maybe its the fact that CJ has had the shits, or its because everyone is tired.. not sure. But we really need a good defensive effort in this one. Technically we had a good defensive game against Orlando, but that was more of Orlando being bad then us being good. Brooklyn should not have had a 14-15 point lead or whatever the hell it was.

[Demographic Shift]

Raptors are meeting with Monty McCutchen before practice today as part of McCutchen's tour around the NBA to improve the player/official lines of communication.

— Blake Murphy (@BlakeMurphyODC) March 24, 2018

The Raps said they would talk if Monty brought them the head of Marc Davis as a sign of good faith.

[G__Deane]

Game day
Game Day!
GAME DAY!!!

[G__Deane]

Warriors’ Steph Curry to miss three weeks with MCL sprain

[slaw]

Warriors’ Steph Curry to miss three weeks with MCL sprain

Yep. Which is why you never take a view like, "there's no way Raps can ever beat the Warriors," cause you never know what can happen....

[wayner]

.. glad its at 6pm instead of 1pm.

So is Kyle since 'Nova plays at 2:20 to get back to the Final Four.

Wonder if they rest Serge on Tuesday against the Nuggets since the next game after that is on Saturday so he would get a six day break.

[wayner]

Warriors’ Steph Curry to miss three weeks with MCL sprain

Isn't he being re-evaluated in three weeks. He could miss a lot more.

[DanH]

So is Kyle since 'Nova plays at 2:20 to get back to the Final Four.

Wonder if they rest Serge on Tuesday against the Nuggets since the next game after that is on Saturday so he would get a six day break.

Doubt it. If they were going to rest him, the back to backs made sense. At this point I figure they just ride it out until they get those actuals days off. He might get a rest game after this break as there are a couple back to backs yet to come.

[slaw]

Raptors are meeting with Monty McCutchen before practice today as part of McCutchen's tour around the NBA to improve the player/official lines of communication.

— Blake Murphy (@BlakeMurphyODC) March 24, 2018

What a farce.