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Joey wrote: View PostWell fair enough, I meant "defensive pedigree" I guess.
He's a 3x All-Defensive 1st Team, and 2x Blocks leader. Anchored the defense of a couple of Finals bound teams, and leads the NBA in cumulative blocks since 2008-09.A key that opens many locks is a master key, but a lock that gets open by many keys is just a shitty lock
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e_wheazhy_ wrote: View Postso are we discounting Hakeem? He had mad pedigree
he'll obviously go down as the immeasurably better player+defender in the history of the game.
But unfortunately for us, Hakeem will be remembered as a non-factor and a footnote with the Raps.
Ibaka on the other hand – while he's yet to play a game for us – has a real opportunity to earn that title in his time here.
(I knock on wood.)
COME ON SERGE!!!
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davywilly wrote: View Post
That video of the Pistons game posession is horrible - look at the movement of the other Raptors, Carroll actually walking out of bounds on the baseline because it doesn't even matter if he's on the court, Lowry walking around the JV screen because DeMar is never going to pass the ball - everybody knows there is no play, there will be no pass. That allows DeMar's defender to overplay him, and with that set up DeMar doesn't have a clear path to anywhere - left, right, or to the basket he's going to run into a help defender within 2-3 steps. That means, and his defender knows, he is only going to do one thing - use a couple of dribbles and a couple of pump fakes to try to create enough space to get an 18 foot shot off. He's literally not going anywhere. Could you make a final player any easier to defend? That is an honest question."We're playing in a building." -- Kawhi Leonard
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davywilly wrote: View Post
The Raptors W/L% over that time period is 0.614. Their W/L% in those 129 close games is 0.326. That is bad news for tightly contested playoff series..."We're playing in a building." -- Kawhi Leonard
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S.R. wrote: View Post"Since 2013–14, the Raptors have played 129 games in which they found themselves behind by five or fewer points with no more than five minutes remaining, and they’ve won only 42 of them."
The Raptors W/L% over that time period is 0.614. Their W/L% in those 129 close games is 0.326. That is bad news for tightly contested playoff series...
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Bendit wrote: View PostAs long as I can care to remember, this has been the one single coaching flaw railed about Casey on this board..end of game/oto plays. My own opinion is that he has many plusses as a NBA level coach but not this. I believe most of even his ardent supporters would agree. Masai is the curiosity though. He probably values all those other positives more.
The defence slipping this year and now the post-Christmas funk (leading to the most frustration we've seen from the lockerroom in several years) present a bump we have not seen in the Masai/Casey era in terms of the severity of the step back. It's different than making progress in general even though not everything is perfect (can't really expect perfection).
The remainder of the year will decide everything. Here's to hoping for the best, as much as I'd like to see a coach with great end of game play calls."We're playing in a building." -- Kawhi Leonard
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Bendit wrote: View PostAs long as I can care to remember, this has been the one single coaching flaw railed about Casey on this board..end of game/oto plays. My own opinion is that he has many plusses as a NBA level coach but not this. I believe most of even his ardent supporters would agree. Masai is the curiosity though. He probably values all those other positives more.
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GOLDBLUM wrote: View PostSeeing as Olajuwon was on his farewell tour/last legs, he shouldn't really get the same consideration as 'all-time best Raps defender.' If he'd been able to make an impact, then yeah, 100% he takes it –
he'll obviously go down as the immeasurably better player+defender in the history of the game.
But unfortunately for us, Hakeem will be remembered as a non-factor and a footnote with the Raps.
Ibaka on the other hand – while he's yet to play a game for us – has a real opportunity to earn that title in his time here.
(I knock on wood.)
COME ON SERGE!!!A key that opens many locks is a master key, but a lock that gets open by many keys is just a shitty lock
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