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LJ2 wrote: View PostForcing the other team to match up is always easier when you have the best player on the floor. In the playoffs more often than not, the Raptors were the higher seed facing the lower seed and they STILL never had the best player on their team. People can say whatever they want about Casey, I agree he had his faults, but lets look at it with some perspective.
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DanH wrote: View PostMatching up to the opposing star was not the issue. Matching up to the opposing role players was the issue.
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LJ2 wrote: View PostWe struggled with the Cav's in the playoffs every year because of their role players? Or because we were struggling to match up against LeBron? I mean the cascade effect usually starts from the top doesn't it.
If you are a legit 1st or 2nd seed and facing the 7th or 8th seed (who struggled a week or two ago to secure a playoffs spot) it shouldn't take you 6 or 7 games to finish them off. GSW & Rockets just destroy every team in the first round with no excuses and that should be the model of success. You win fast and get to rest for the next round.
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DanH wrote: View PostMatching up to the opposing star was not the issue. Matching up to the opposing role players was the issue.LJ2 wrote: View PostWe struggled with the Cav's in the playoffs every year because of their role players? Or because we were struggling to match up against LeBron? I mean the cascade effect usually starts from the top doesn't it.
In the past three years the Raptors have matched up with the Cavaliers, Casey and the staff prioritized defending the star.
What always bit the Raptors in the ass? LeBron drive, dish, and an open shot, or an easy layup.
By defending the best players, the attention was off the role players, and they hit their open shots, doing what they were supposed to.
On the other hand, the Raptors' stars didn't show up, so, to say matching up the opposing role players is/was the issue, I gotta disagree. Everybody on the Raptors was the issue -- that's a shallow take, sure, but to me, that's what happened.
I always thought the Raptors should've allowed LeBron to go single coverage -- when LeBron was caught in a bad situation, role players were positioned to bail him out, and didn't come through (esp. vs. the Warriors).
Instead, the Raptors overhelped, they rotated slowly on top of that, and their individual matchups were staggered with poor defenders. I still don't understand Miles playing the four -- the series vs. the Cavs should've never been played based on individual matchups, or playing small to counter.Twitter: @ReubenJRD • NBA, Raptors writer for Daily Hive Vancouver, Toronto.
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Hotshot wrote: View PostWe struggled against every team in the playoffs.
If you are a legit 1st or 2nd seed and facing the 7th or 8th seed (who struggled a week or two ago to secure a playoffs spot) it shouldn't take you 6 or 7 games to finish them off. GSW & Rockets just destroy every team in the first round with no excuses and that should be the model of success. You win fast and get to rest for the next round.
My point was that it's easier to create a mismatch when you have the best player(s) on the floor which we never or almost never did.
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DanH wrote: View PostMatching up to the opposing star was not the issue. Matching up to the opposing role players was the issue.
https://www.basketball-reference.com...s-raptors.html
With all respect to Lebron's skill level vs. the rest of his team, Love is a bit more than a role player. :-)
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Kuh wrote: View PostI'd specifically say for the Cavs that who killed us has always been Kevin Love. We can handle Lebron on his own; we have struggled containing both Lebron and Love at once. Heck, Love outscored every player on the Raptors in our last series.
https://www.basketball-reference.com...s-raptors.html
With all respect to Lebron's skill level vs. the rest of his team, Love is a bit more than a role player. :-)
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LJ2 wrote: View PostWe struggled with the Cav's in the playoffs every year because of their role players? Or because we were struggling to match up against LeBron? I mean the cascade effect usually starts from the top doesn't it.
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LJ2 wrote: View Post
My point was that it's easier to create a mismatch when you have the best player(s) on the floor which we never or almost never did.
Also JV gets into his All-star mode come playoffs time. This is something thats to be farther exlpored. Let JV punish the other team when they go small instead of Casey " oh they are going small, better sit JV down even though he is dominating out there!"
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