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Now who else wanna fukk with Hollywood Court?
James yes..Patterson no fuggin way....Hes been gawd awful of late..shooting like 25 % his last 5 games,hes turned into a perimeter player and nothing else...

Beginning of the year alot of raptor heads was saying PP by mid season could take over the starting PF,but nobody is gonna argue that anymore....


I'd still give him a shot at starting with Johnson, their talents offset one another and you'd be able to mimic what the Warriors have to a certain extent. The fact he's turned into a perimeter player is why you play him with James / DeRozan, gives you the spacing to pull the PF out the lane and gives them attacking lanes.


It's hard to come off the bench and be effective, Amir is a garbage man so really his game won't be affected much.
 

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here comes the barrage of Masai BB commercial, Kyle Lowry all star commercial, open gym promo of derozan with his daughter or amir hustling for a loose ball 3 years ago commercial, morris peterson commercial against the wizards, fans outside watching the raptors choke in the playoffs commercial. fakkit ass franchise.

remmeber the kyle lowry in the basement commercial with ross laughing

waits for the amir going to medieval times and being apart of the community

some more throwback fridays honouring such great raptors like eric and aaron williams and acie early
 

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thats what happens when your gm and coach have toddlers and infants. they probably saw ross' child at halftime and beg their dad not to trade him because he's so cute and cuddly.

you can tell masai is a players gm. we need a gm that gives no fukks about these players and treats them as numbers like danny ainge.

masai is garbage

colangelo would smile in your face and trade you the same day

all hail bryan
all these player friendly gms like dave nonis, colangelo, alex anthopolous are failures
 

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Before they explore trades they need to give Johnson/Patterson a chance in the starting 5.
yeah its about time they shook up the lineup. give teams different looks cuz they already have us figured out in a lot of ways. Ross is not producing and they turn a blind eye to it. we always hearing how good JJ, and Lou off the bench are for us and them being the spark that we need - well how bout having good starts in each quarter to begin with and not relying on a 'spark' to get shyt going
 

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Team laid an egg last night. Had a players only meeting after the game led by Lowry. James Johnson saying that their hot start got them overconfident.

ATL outhustled and out-executed the Raps all night. Horford 8-for-8 mostly on wide open mid-range jumpers. Horrendous turnovers everywhere.

They need to get it together with the Pelicans and Bucks coming to town, otherwise they're going to get embarrassed again in Memphis.
 

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Team played like ass last night. Let ATL do whatever they wanted. The defence was laughable. Lowry been playing terribly for two weeks. Patterson playing scared and without confidence, throwing up prayers. Amir Johnson needs the all-star break in the worst way. Ross is just trash and I'm still mad we drafted him over Drummond. I told my brother the other day, I'll be surprised if Ross gets a third contract in the league--he'll be done after his seventh year.

Speaking of Ross, it's clear that he doesn't put any work into his body or his game. He doesn't look like he studies film, he hasn't improved his handles, he can't shoot off the dribble, and he still has the body of a teenager. That nikka has zero work ethic. This is your JOB nikka--you gotta work at that shyt.

As for the team--nikkas got overconfident and they look like they ain't focused enough on their JOBS. Half the team is living the nightlife heavy and it is probably starting to affect their results. Casey needs to get a hold of this squad.

Also, there's been too much Hansbrough lately. I say we give Chuck Hayes a chance again. We were playing well with him in the rotation.
 

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What happened to Lowry :scust:

2 weeks ago you coulda put him in the MVP discussion,last 5-6 games hes been awful in every facet of the game...His shooting and D have absolutely stunk since the Phoenix game...Ive never seen him so careless with turnovers and jack up so many horrible shots than he has in the last few weeks...
i was saying yesterday...dude straight burned out lol. might have to consider giving dude a game or two off cause he looks GONE
 

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Team played like ass last night. Let ATL do whatever they wanted. The defence was laughable.

This has more to do with what Atlanta did do...than what Toronto didn't do. Raptors aren't the only squad that has had these issues when playing the Hawks,

Think you're coming down to hard on your squad. You guys have a good team that I think can make a run. Just need to give Atlanta credit.

Health/Injuries will be a big role in who wins the East.
 

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The fact that Casey still allows him to take shots at the end of quarters says more about him.

no one takes him seriously as a coach.... sam mitchell would have smacked the shyt out of you.... casey gets no respect, dude knows little about the game, yet never played in the L either, he should be coaching high school basketball
 

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no one takes him seriously as a coach.... sam mitchell would have smacked the shyt out of you.... casey gets no respect, dude knows little about the game, yet never played in the L either, he should be coaching high school basketball

We run into the same problems.

1. Hire new well-respected GM
2. Get's rid of massive contract, clears cap space
3. Inherits head coach to "give him a chance"
4. Team overachieves, wins the divison only to lose in the first round
5. Following season, signs of struggles

This happened when BC came in and kept Smitch, and now with Masai and Casey. In both cases, both coaches were signed after the initial season. MLSE only cares about playoff revenue, look at the way they charged folks last year. Treadmill team blueprint right here. Masai built a great treadmill team in Denver and is doing it here too.
 
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