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Luka Doncic continues to make his case as a legitimate MVP candidate with a solid 41 point performance in a road win over the Rockets. The Unicorn should be squarely in the lead in the MVP race; he’s averaging monstrous numbers and while helping his team climb the western conference standings.

 

[Bernie Madoff]

What a good comeback boys

massive W

Embiid had zero points LOOOOL

 

[astorecalledkmart]

Is it haram to pray for a sports outcome?

I legit remember people seriously praying for the Raps to win during taraweeh loool

 

[Celery]

What a good comeback boys

massive W

Embiid had zero points LOOOOL

Yeah great win. I never thought they could lose for some reason. They ended on a 10-0 run and Simmons that he was Kawhi in game 7. Lol

 

[astorecalledkmart]

Man, Gasol completely shut down Embiid looool. He was completely shook when going for those free throws

 

[Celery]

The Raptors came away with an impressive 101-96 victory over the 76ers in a rematch of the semis. Several takeaways from this game
> Joel Embiid is having nightmares of Gasol with Kawhi’s laugh. He scored zero points
> Fred VanVleet no longer struggles against the sizers. He averaged 2 points against them last year and scored 24 tonight, including 8 points in he paint.
> Siakam is now officially a superstar. While the 76ers lost their closer in Butler, Siakam came up big in the clutch for Toronto on both ends. First he isolated on the slow footed Horford, then spun, took contact from both Embiid and Horford and finished with the and one. Then he stole a pass intended for Tobias Harris to seal the win
> The Raptors can ride their defence to the finals. The Raptors defence is just ridiculous; While everyone in the US media is talking about how Embiid had a bad game, he joins Kawhi Leonard, LeBron James and Damian Lillard as the other victims of Toronto’s suffocating defence this season.
> The Sixers are in big trouble. The acquisition of Horford and Richardson doesn’t even come close to replacing Jimmy Butler and JJ Reddick and that was on full display last night.

Excellent statement win. The raptors are for real and they are going to the finals. I’m not saying they’ll win it all but the east is wide open and the raptors have the best defence.

 

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The Raptors played game one in their quadrennial beatdown of New York knicks last night, winning 126-98. This is not surprising at all. Siakam had 31 in 3 quarters but it’s not too impressive because the Knicks are miserable.

 

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The Raptors defeated the Disney Bros aka the Orlando magic 90-83 in a truly ugly battle. The raptors ate too much during their team dinner and forgot how to shoot, scoring on 28% on 3 pointers.

The Raptors superstar Pascal Siakam was held to just 10 points but it was their energetic shooting guard Norman Powell who took over in the third outscoring Orlando 19-12 by himself! VanVleet continues on his all-star trajectory and the bench continues to flourish in the absence of Lowry and mafuzzi.

Who knew the Raptors would be so good that we’d complain about their wins?! Next up is the Utah Jazz and hopefully the Raptors offence will be signing a different tune than last night.

 

[Michael Jackson]

Serge and Kyle might be coming back versus the Jazz. Also do you guys think Kyle Lowry will retire as a Hall of Famer?

 

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Serge and Kyle might be coming back versus the Jazz. Also do you guys think Kyle Lowry will retire as a Hall of Famer?

For Kyle Lowry to retire as a HOF he needs to be in one more finals run in my opinion. The Raptors should coerce him into retirement after the season if things go well and then retire his jersey.

I’m looking forward to the return of Lowry and Ibaka but I think they should play limited minutes for two reasons; first to keep their bodies fresh for the post season and to continue to get the best out of their newfound bench mob 2.0. I’d hate it if Norma Powell has hits minutes dramatically cut.

 

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The Raptors led by 40 at half time and allowed the Jazz to score 49 in the third. Yikes / lol at the Jazz for outscoring a team by 20 and trailing by 21 at the end of the quarter.

 

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If you try to fix something that isn’t broken, you run the risk of breaking it. Kyle Lowry came back and went 2 for 15 from the field to cost the Raptors a winnable game. Why not ease him in? Shit

 

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I’m trying to understand what’s going on in this game. I really just want to blame Kyle and the coaching staff. Things were going well. Why throw Lowry back into the mix?

 

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Raptors are getting stop after stop but can’t throw the ball in the ocean. They are 9-33 from 3 point range. The team with the best 3 point shooting in the league won’t repeat this. One of those nights. Let’s just take the L with 3 minutes left. And god damn Kyle Lowry.

 

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Boy do they deserve this L or what

 

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I swear someone should be benched for this miserable performance. Oh my goodness.

 

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The Houston Rockets are legitimate title contenders. The Raptors did a good job of trapping Harden but are getting killed by McLemore. They deserve this L

 

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It’s quite early in the season so it might be worth waiting until mid March to judge this team. I decided to watch one out of every five games from now on.

 

[Celery]

Well well well. Things are not going well for the Toronto Raptors and every fan seems to think they know why: the return of serial whiner Kyle Lowry and beauty queen Serge Ibaka. Ever since they returned the Raptors are 1-5 and the lopsided 112-92 loss to the flippers was an exclamation point.

On paper, Kyle Lowry is way better than the bench players who’ve been stepping up but this is a team sport and chemistry is important and Kyle appears to have thrown it off a bit. Though I like Nick Nurse’s creativity, I feel that he’s being stubborn just like Dwayne Casey and we know how that ended up.

The Raptors will find their groove again with Lowry back and I suspect a major winning streak starts soon. Though most people are beginning to write off the Raptors I still think they have what it takes to win the east. They have 3 all star players (Lowry, FVV and Siakam) and an excellent supporting cast. They’ve also been there and have done that. Buckle up!

 

[Celery]

The Raptors take on the Brooklynn Nets tonight at Scotia Bank Arena. Kyrie Irving will not play for the Nets as he misses his 13th straight game with a shoulder injury. Spencer Dinwiddie has stepped up big time in Kyrie’s absence and the Nets have won 9 of their last 12.

The Raptors are still trying to reintegrate Serge Ibaka and Kyle Lowry and they’ve yet to rediscover their rhythm and groove they had pre-injury. Hopefully this is the game when the entire unit starts clicking again. They’re more than capable of beating the Nets tonight and the schedule looks fairly easy over the next 4 games.

I expect the Raptors to climb the standings up a little bit because Miami lost last night and is likely to lose 2 of their next 3. Boston is expected to lose their next road game in Dallas making them 1-2 in the last 3 games. Toronto will likely displace Miami for 3rd or 4th. The only downside in all of this is that our arch nemesis Philadelphia continues to rise in the standings. This is not a big deal because they seem to be the only team we own in the east.