FIRE DWANE CASEY !! - Official Raptors 2017-2018 Season Thread

[Miggs]

trending down and trending up is what happens in a regular season

the situation now, is the same situation during your 10 game win streak (in regards to playoffs)
ya'll were overeacting to wins, and now yall overeacting to the losses

the issue was, and still is, whether derozen and lowry will step their game up come playoff time. or atleast play on the same level. they havent done that in the previous 4-5 years
the other issue is whether your young ass bench who been overachieving all year, can keep it up during the playoffs
i personally wouldn't trust either of those factors based on history, but things can change and you guys do have homecourt throughout the playoffs which is huge

Yes but its happening at the wrong time right now and its a natural reaction....Theres alot more to it than this breakdown lol..

Yall notice other coaches are now game planning for our bench by taking out starters early and playing them against our bench in thre 2nd and 4th quarters and trying to line up 3 bigs to matchup with CJ Miles.....Its going to be alot about if Casey can make good game adjustments when coaches switch it up and the last 2 games he clearly has shown hes lost when coaches play chess...

I think the Casey issue is bigger now than its ever been....Again these reaction are not about losses but about HOW theyre losing....For me losing last night is not a big deal but its about how badly theyre playing and how soft theyve gotten defensively...

IF they play with fiya and purpose and lose there wont be no reactions....How you win and lose is as important to this team right now...

 

[Frangala]

But they did crush the Celtics WITH Kyrie...Team is just not playing well right now....Hard to understand how out of nowhere the defense just dropped and suddenly they stopped playing with intensity...

Maybe tired of the regular season and already looking ahead to playoffs. OG vs. Lebron is a disaster for TOR.

 

[Miggs]

Maybe tired of the regular season and already looking ahead to playoffs. OG vs. Lebron is a disaster for TOR.

OG has hit a wall,he doesnt have the same energy he had in the 1st half...I think Siakam is the best 1 on 1 defender we can throw at LeBron.
Truth is we should be throwing different coverages at him all the time and we should be hard doubling and trapping him routinely,problem we've turned into such a robotic defensive team....Everyone needs to be told what to do rather than naturally reacting to it right now.

BRon had Demar and Kyle on back to back ISOs and the other 5 guys stood around the perimeter and watched,you have to KNOW who ur playing and what to do and when to do it....were just playing dumb basketball right now.

 

[Guess Who]

Yall already throwing in the towel? I still think they make the ECF if they keep the 1st seed. If you avoid the Cavs, there's still hope.

We just gonna lay down to Lebron like some bytches regardless

 

[Miggs]

We just gonna lay down to Lebron like some bytches regardless

5 pts smh...It feels like we COULD actually beat them now if we had 2016 Lowry,but hes fallen off so much that we cant count on him and we cant beat a far worse CLE team cuz of his decline...

Him and DeMar

 

[Guess Who]

5 pts smh...It feels like we COULD actually beat them now if we had 2016 Lowry,but hes fallen off so much that we cant count on him and we cant beat a far worse CLE team cuz his decline is so great...

All he has to do is make threes and play decent defence without gambling...and don’t turn it over. Problem is he plays like shyt when he’s not ball dominant.

How u let Jose Calderon shyt on you??

 

[thatrapsfan]

@Guess Who 24 hours later things look a lot different. Best chance for Raps to make the final ever.

 

[thatrapsfan]

Just saw the playoff ticket prices

 

[Miggs]

Just saw the playoff ticket prices

House down payment,its fuggin crazy....

Whats funnier is they charge you a house down payment and then tell you they wont go over the luxury tax for this team
Theres a reason the playoff atmosphere aint been the same since the Brooklyn series...


Ill be watching from my stool at King Taps or Sharkies...

 

[Guess Who]

@Guess Who 24 hours later things look a lot different. Best chance for Raps to make the final ever.

Haha I still don’t trust this team versus Lebron. But hopefully they grow some nuts and plan normally against him.

Just saw the playoff ticket prices

I didn’t even look fam. Not even worth disappointing myself.

 

[Miggs]

Haha I still don’t trust this team versus Lebron. But hopefully they grow some nuts and plan normally against him.


I didn’t even look fam. Not even worth disappointing myself.

Its wild how Van Vleet is more composed than Demar and Lowry are....Last night Fred was making the big shots in the second half and making the timely passes and plays...He has so much poise in those moments.

Where as Demar is taking uneccesary threes and dribbling into traffic with no idea what hes doing and Kyle turns into a shook bytch where he cant make shots and tries to make those cute uneccsary passes off the screen and rolls that the bigs cant handle...Sounds crazy but i would consider late game situations putting the ball in Freds hands and letting him run the plays....

 

[Guess Who]

Its wild how Van Vleet is more composed than Demar and Lowry are....Last night Fred was making the big shots in the second half and making the timely passes and plays...He has so much poise in those moments.

Where as Demar is taking uneccesary threes and dribbling into traffic with no idea what hes doing and Kyle turns into a shook bytch where he cant make shots and tries to make those cute uneccsary passes off the screen and rolls that the bigs cant handle...Sounds crazy but i would consider late game situations putting the ball in Freds hands and letting him run the plays....

I don’t think that’s crazy at all. I think his number should be called in clutch situations. Maybe not to initiate the play but to be the recipient of an open look or something.

I don’t know how you 28 and 32 years old and be scared to play a game. I don’t get it.

 

[Miggs]

I don’t think that’s crazy at all. I think his number should be called in clutch situations. Maybe not to initiate the play but to be the recipient of an open look or something.

I don’t know how you 28 and 32 years old and be scared to play a game. I don’t get it.

Some nikkas just dont have that calmness under adversity regardless of age....Fred doesnt rush,he doesnt hesitate,he doesnt out think himself in the big spots.....you saw it last night.

He was calmly hitting those 3s to spread the lead out and making the correct plays....I see so much anxiety in late game Lowry and Demar even last night that it makes me think VV should run more of that late game offense...

 

[Guess Who]

Some nikkas just dont have that calmness under adversity regardless of age....Fred doesnt rush,he doesnt hesitate,he doesnt out think himself in the big spots.....you saw it last night.

He was calmly hitting those 3s to spread the lead out and making the correct plays....I see so much anxiety in late game Lowry and Demar even last night that it makes me think VV should run more of that late game offense...

Only thing I worry about with Fred is I don’t know if he has the skill level to have the ball run through him frequently. I wonder how he will be able to adjust once double teams and traps start coming at him. Then again, maybe that’s ideal because then Lowry and Derozan will face single coverage if Fred can pass out of the double teams.

 

[Blankthawtz]

We just gonna lay down to Lebron like some bytches regardless

Sorry to interrupt your congregation but I had to cosign the hell out of this.... Dude had had yall number for years.... Makes no fukking sense how Yall collapse in the post season after a good reg season....literally not missing any of the elements except confidence....