I am looking at the Raps yesterday...they had battled back..65-66 and they had 3-4 opportunities to take the lead and move on but they could not or would not score.
I am looking on incredulous as the Raps simply would not put the dam ball into the basket.
predictably Orlando started to score went on an unanswered run and took the game from there. the raptors went about ten-twelve chances to score and simply did not. that is not how a championship team plays
Quote:Orlando made 12 of 20 field goals in the fourth quarter and led by double digits for the final nine minutes.
Quote:''Just never really got in a rhythm,'' coach Nick Nurse said. ''They made some big shots every time we thought we were right where we needed to be.''
Quote:Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard (rest) did not play after scoring 25 points, 19 of them in the second half, in Friday's home win over San Antonio. Nurse said Leonard will return for Tuesday's game against Eastern Conference rival Boston
no matter what!!! a team of supposed classy vets, brought to Toronto to take the Raps through a successful playoff run is not supposed to shut down so completely in any dam game..and lose by double digits
that is the answer to Nick Nurse's excuse: '' we just never got going!''
what the frig is the point of being a veteran then if you have not figured out how to score when you need to..how to overcome a scoring slump at a critical point in a game
and the star player who could have helped the Raptors was at rest.
this raptors team is going to get worse if they don't get Leonard up off his lazy arse rump and make him play every friggin game
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I mean its just one game eh..but its a bad sign for the Raptors.
this Leonard bizness is really pissing me off. I hate favoritism and inequity in any and every dam thing at all.
how can all the other players play every day and Leonard cant..or wont?
who made such a deal with Leonard..to give him such princely and unequal and favorable treatment?
how does Leonards 50% playing load impact his salary? is he still getting paid like he is playing 100%
how does it impact the other team members..are they satisfied the unfair load on them while Leonard gets paid in all likelihood, much more than all of them?
and if Leonard was not fit enough to play 100% of the time why the hell did Ujiri sign him, and trade away the heart and soul of the team to get him?
I am seriously pissed at the Raps over Leonard- and the loss of DeRozan. PISSSED INDEED!!!!:angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: I am so pissed I am walking away over it. SCREW THE RAPTORS. i AM GONE!
some people going fine all of a sudden goes crazy....MASAI UJIRI!!!!:angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
Valancunis is worth more to the raps than Gasol ever will be..even is Gasol is the better more experienced player. Gasol will never have as much game impact as Jonas always had
I am sure that even after 5 games or so Valancunis figures for the Raps are better than Gasol's
I love players like Valancunis. he is the kind of player I would always have around, to encourage and as example for other player
Valancunis improved every dam year he was in Toronto..EVERY FRIGGIN YEAR, BY BIG MARGINS.
vALANCUNIS FOR EXAMPLE CUD NOT DO 3-SHOTS. BY THE TIME HE ELFT WAS A VALID, SUCCESSFUL 3-POINT SHOOTER WHO GAVE LOST OF POINTS PER GAME..ALWAYS IN THE TEENS..
Valacunis was good for triple scores..points, defense and assists. the Raps are getting a drible of points from Gasol. and Valancunis always came in with energy, active, powerful. Gasol is a very quiet player in my estimation.
Valancunis was part of the Raptors team..Gasol is not.
it was a mistake to trade Valancunis..a big one. he would have done all that was asked of him. he listened, took advice, improved his game constantly, a hard trier..worked exceedingly hard at his game
Lin is a good smart player..but there is a reason why he does not stick with any team. he is not consistently good. he does not make a consistent positive diff.
there are a lot of Chinese in TO..the reason why he is here. that fact bound to figure in his presence
Brooklyn killed San Antone. San Antone is like #5 team in the mighty west
Detroit won its 7 out of its last strengthening its hold on #7 in the East.
Charlotte lost and falls into a tie with Orland for #6 the last playoff position. the point is that Orlando is rising and Charlotte is falling. Orlando will give the Raps a real hard time in the playoffs if both teams meet.
in the playoffs if these trends continue the Raps will have to play Brooklyn or Orlando. both of this teams will beat the Raps..especially Brooklyn, both those teams will beat this Raptors team right now, today, badly.
and watch out for Detroit as well. Dwayne Casey has Detroit playing very well indeed. they are a team who are better as sum total of their parts, rather than a collection of talented individuals
I warn for the last time..that if Leonard does begin to play every game and the Raps do not build chemistry, they are may not make it past the first round. and if they do not Masai Ujiri will be looking for a job
if Detroit beats the Raps that would be a serious low point indeed. but they could because the way Masai gutted the team there is no heart and soul to the raptors anymore. anyone of those solid committed teams will be too much for the heartless Raptors