OT: The Official Toronto Raptors Thread
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MindzEye
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MindzEye
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Ochai's last 4 since getting called out by Darko
14.3ppg, 4.8rpg, 2.5apg, 1.5stocks 67%fg/77% from 3
Leafin'
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That pick could be decent next year.
Great win last night. Barnes has taken another step this year. Barrett looks like an all star.
Wayward DP
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Scottie made Pascal his bitch last night. Kinda feel like a lotta Raps did not like Pascal
Wayward DP
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Dunno if I’ve seen that level of near domination from this team over such a long stretch yet. Although I did go to bed near the end of Q3
Raps got the prime Siakam , Indy gets the decline Siakam
zeke
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he stay?
MindzEye
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Jeremy
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Better than Giannis
MindzEye
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Pascal has been fine in Indy. He was shit last night and got dad dicked by Scottie, but Pascal has been Pascal.
The problem is that Pascal has never been a consistent needle mover/game winner type guy. Really nice supporting player but not the guy who can carry a 45-50+ win team through a rough patch or anything. That team goes as Haliburton goes, Pascal is just along for the ride.
zeke
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it is kinda funny that the two other big names on indy - Hali and Turner - have fallen off hugetime this year. (note that they were great after the siakam trade last year, so i don't know that it's on siakam at all).
Siakam wasn't supposed to be the #1 option there. I was never a Turner fan but his numbers are almost unplayable this year - and if he's not a good player then suddenly that team looks very holey.
Siakam wasn't supposed to be the #1 option there. I was never a Turner fan but his numbers are almost unplayable this year - and if he's not a good player then suddenly that team looks very holey.
MindzEye
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Some of it comes down to usage with Turner I think. He's putting up more 3's (and hitting a higher %), fewer paint touches and FTA but his game impact is down bigly. I know this will shock everyone, but I think the concept of the stretch 5 isn't having the impacts on winning that it should in theory. The only reason I think a centre should above the nail is if they're a distributor. There's so much a big can do in the dunker's spot to set back screen and seals to free up space for cutters and shooters on the move and I think the best teams in the league have caught on to that for the most part. The Celtics are the Celtics and doing their own thing of basically only shooting 3's, but everyone else at the top of the league either bigs who are legit distributors (Joker, Sengun) or role player to elite role player 5's. A guy like Turner standing at the break all night on offence isn't doing a lot to help win games imo, even when he's hitting 40% of his 3's.
MindzEye
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Yeah, NYK is too much for us. Just too much, too deep and too many back matchups for us, even when healthy...
IQ on Brunson - IQ will score on him because Brunson can't defend, but IQ is too light to keep Brunson out of the lane. Probably have to switch Okai over onto him tbh
Okai on Hart - Hart is premium role player technology. A better version of what Okai is right now.
RJ on Bridges - Bridges length will give RJ fits imo. Even if RJ can win this, he'll have to work for it.
Scottie on OG - Maybe the best wing defender in the league for handling someone like Scottie. Scottie can't bully him and OG's length makes Scottie's up and down middy and 3pt game super important.
Jake on KAT - Needs to be in KAT's back pocket in transition so he can't just default to running back to his own paint. Tough, tough night for Jake.
Our healthy bench of Gradey, Bruce, Kelly, Boucher could give Deuce, CamPayne, and Sims the business though