PRESEASON GAME 2: Toronto Raptors @ Utah Jazz - Oct 2nd, 9pm ET SN1

[DanH]

I don't think JV should be guaranteed a start every game. Kawhi and Lowry obviously yes. If anything I'd say OG (when he comes back) and Green should be more locks to start than JV (not that they're better players, but my philosophy is you always want to start the lineup that allows you to perform the best on the defensive end).

I wonder if the starting lineup is actually going to change from night to night depending on matchups. That's more similar to professional soccer where managers will rotate their starters depending on a particular opponent's strengths. In basketball it tends to just be set starting 5s, but I'm open to something new here with Nurse. Against someone like a Gobert, Ibaka is fucked just from a pure size disadvantage standpoint, but against centers who aren't quite as good or are smaller I see no reason why we can't use JV as a 6th man instead and play a more mobile starting unit.

I can definitely see us changing up the starting lineup, but I would hope that JV is more default starter than default bench player. Ibaka should be used as a starting C only against the smallest of opposition, IMO. I also think JV starting can lead to better defensive results sometimes even against small-ish opposition, as Ibaka isn't THAT much more mobile than JV (they tend to have him drop back on PnR coverage too) and is significantly more likely to give up offensive boards no matter the opposition's size. Still, I have no issue with playing small when it's warranted. I just think that will be less often than implied in your post: that is, only against smaller centres, not ones that "aren't as good," which seems like an ideal scenario to play JV and maximize the offence of the unit while losing very little defensively.

[Nilanka]

JV to start (as per Nurse on the Fan just now)

Looooool! Great avatar!

[Nilanka]

Haha Keef Morris got tossed out of a pre-season game for trying to intimidate a rookie (Robinson). That dude still remained a stupid bully.

Try pulling that shit with OG again..

I might actually hate the Wizards more than the Cuntics. Morris, Oubre, Rivers and Howard. A roster littered with rejects.

[Maury]

I might actually hate the Wizards more than the Cuntics. Morris, Oubre, Rivers and Howard. A roster littered with rejects.

We should banish them to an island for misfits

[Nilanka]

We should banish them to an island for misfits

"Sometimes, the better team loses" - Wizards Reject #1

[rocwell]

I hate all Mormons today. Preseason vibe is just too strong.

[Demographic Shift]

Haven't seen that there is any TV of this one... Nothing on all the TSNs 1 though 5 or all the Sportnet Geographys... Even the League pass in the pay per view says nothing....

I think the Jazz are on a channel called Root Sports... Anyone know if they are broadcasting ?

[Yuri Gagarin]

The heading says Sportsnet1

[KeonClark]

I know theres a lot of calgarians here..is this weather for real? Fuck.

[rocwell]

I know theres a lot of calgarians here..is this weather for real? Fuck.

Global warming can't come soon enough, huh?

[Puffer]

The heading says Sportsnet1

Found it and set pvr. Starts at 9:00

[Nilanka]

Haven't seen that there is any TV of this one... Nothing on all the TSNs 1 though 5 or all the Sportnet Geographys... Even the League pass in the pay per view says nothing....

I think the Jazz are on a channel called Root Sports... Anyone know if they are broadcasting ?

https://www.nba.com/raptors/schedule

[Scraptor]

Man we're lucky they didn't schedule a game in Calgary this year. It's snowpacalypse now out here, Kawhi would have hit the eject button and bailed on the entire season

[Jclaw]

I know theres a lot of calgarians here..is this weather for real? Fuck.

I was one for a while. Remember reading a short story when I got there that went something like "Just moved to Calgary in September...saw a snowflake...it was so pretty...just drove by an elk...so beautiful"...then it degrades to "..we just got snowed in by a ^&#% blizzard in October..my car just got rammed by an elk..." Still..love the place.

[KeonClark]

Global warming can't come soon enough, huh?

This is "global warming" they just had it wrong. Freak weather all the time these days

Your parents weren't lying when they said "it wasnt this bad when we grew up"..and its only getting worse