Sweeping Bullets off the Floor: Official Wizards (#8) vs. Raptors (#1) 1st Round Thread

[taco jay]

this should be a close series considering wall will be back fully healthy, i cant trust the raptors but they do have HCA..all i know is that we should be in for some fukkery

 

[Jermio]

Raptors are trash. Racking up wins against a hobbled league don't make you tough. Probably the second-worst team in the East playoffs after the Bucks. John Wall gonna demolish your team.

 

[Tom Foolery]

I don't doubt every game will come down to the last few possessions.

Toss up series

 

[CouldBeWorse]

Wizards in 5

 

[FAH1223]

Has Satoransky played in the playoffs before?

Didn't play any significant time last year

 

[Auger]

Wizards with Wall to me aren't a real 8th seed. They kind of like us last season, except hopefully without a key series altering injury.

I can't call this one, Raps have a better bench but I saw pretty much the same Wizards team sweep the Raptors in the past

Do the Raps have the same roster from back then?

 

[Jemmy]

Didn't play any significant time last year

Scott Brooks pulling a Oubre Game 7 on Sato is the inevitable too. He just thinks of ways to lose as a coach.

 

[CarltonJunior]

Do the Raps have the same roster from back then?

I said raps have a better bench

 

[Kliq_Souf]

I got WAS i n 7

this the most entertaining matchup

 

[Regular_P]

Raptors in seven. Toronto is incapable of having an easy series.

 

[FromStLouis]

Wizards in 6.

 

[badboys11]

toronto plays horrible in the playoffs and this a bad matchup. its either toronto in 5 or a pick em 7 game series

 

[FAH1223]

 

[Miggs]

^^^^ Cant take Pierce's opinion on the Raptors seriously he and Chris Webber for some inexplicable reason HATE Toronto....

Pierce a month ago said the Raptors had a good shot to come out the East,this nikka changes his mind more than his socks...

 

[Inspect Her Deck]

Gonna be tougher than many may think.

What's key to Toronto's success is defending the 1-5 PnR. Gortat one of the best screeners, Wall one of the best PnR creators and JV isn't a great defender especially if exposed. If Raptors play tenacious D (no pun intended), they'll have little issues.

Gonna say Raps in 6 on the basis that we might drop game 1 as usual and Washington gonna get a game on their home floor and/or any of Wall/Beal/Porter could go off one night and drop 40+.

Raps have more firepower though and a better bench.