OT: The Official Toronto Raptors Thread

[MindzEye]

Tough night for the tank

 

[zeke]

that's a quality win.

 

[zeke]

raps gave up the big lead and were all the way down by 6pts with a few minutes left and hardened the fuck up and got it done. solid.

 

[zeke]

 

[zeke]

yeah the tank is kaput

 

[MindzEye]

yeah the tank is kaput

It was always at least mostly an illusion. Would have taken crazy injury luck to stay that bad all year

 

[zeke]

looks like Orlando Robinson is the Truth, too. cool.

 

[MindzEye]

looks like Orlando Robinson is the Truth, too. cool.

His defensive nerdies are actually good. All deep bench minutes, so who knows what he looks like against better players but there might be a NBA player there.

 

[zeke]

#trueC

 

[zeke]

I know he's in foul trouble tonight but I think Gravey's leash is getting shorter anyways.

and it's not jakobe getting handed those minutes either.

good

 

[MindzEye]

Extend everyone, trade no one.

Title Run.

 

[zeke]

yeah looking at minutes i won't be shocked to see Bruce starting soon.

 

[MindzEye]

I know he's in foul trouble tonight but I think Gravey's leash is getting shorter anyways.

and it's not jakobe getting handed those minutes either.

good

The kids should be on the 905. Gravy should be a mid rotation player that you can ride more when he's feeling it.

 

[MindzEye]

yeah looking at minutes i won't be shocked to see Bruce starting soon.

The starting lineup needed a glue guy. Okai was fine in that role usually but just fine. Bruce is a better point of attack defender, tougher, great off ball movement, etc.

Okai-Gravy off of the bench is good for us. Both are decent NBA bench players.

 

[zeke]

The kids should be on the 905. Gravy should be a mid rotation player that you can ride more when he's feeling hit.

i think shead and battle can help the team right now tbh. though when iQ is back then not much time for shead.

walter for sure should be 905. he does nothing at the nba level right now.

now that Bruce is showing he can actually play then yeah dick should be in a bench role having to earn every minutes.


but I still think we should be trading all the expirings boosh bruce davion so the kids will get rotation time down the stretch.

 

[zeke]

The starting lineup needed a glue guy. Okai was fine in that role usually but just fine. Bruce is a better point of attack defender, tougher, great off ball movement, etc.

It's the offense where he's the big upgrade over agbaji imo - bruce can actually dribble and make plays, in addition to being a good off ball shooter like agbaji.

 

[MindzEye]

Dunno if I'd call Bruce a good off ball shooter, but yeah. Bruce can do a little bit of everything.

 

[MindzEye]

 

[zeke]

seems like he's been pretty money on catch and shoot and corner 3s tbh. but i haven't checked the stats.

 

[MindzEye]

Gradey was a -16 in 14 minutes tonight and the 2nd worst rotation player (Davion) was a +2.

Gradey's single biggest issue going forward imo is that there's just nothing there when his shot isn't dropping. He's not a ball stopper per se, but the only shot being created when the ball hits his hands is his own. The rebounding is pretty grim for a wing of his size, and the defence is matador level. Aside from being a better play maker defensively, I don't see a lot of growth there from last year to this. He's a hall pass into the lane when defending the dribble. Getting less impressed the deeper into the season we get.