Nursing Leonard to 74 wins - Official Raptors 2018/2019 Thread

Maschine_Man

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I guarantee with DeRozan we lose that game in OT....
Probably. I'm not a Derozan hater by anymeans. I really like him, and his game. But I know his limits. When the defense is able to clamp down on him and put some serious pressure on him he has troubles. But that also had a lot to do with the way Casey coached.

with Derozan the Raps won a lot of regular season games, even against good teams. This was also a regular season win...


BUT, yesterday Kawai just showed what makes him that much more important. offensively AND especially what he does on defense.
 

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we dont get to OT with Derozan :comeon:
why not?
With Derozan the raps have played the Warriors close. With no Curry, or Draymond, what makes you think it wouldn't be any different? especially with out Casey ?


I mean, the Raps DID win 59 games last year with Derozan, let's not start this narrative now like he couldn't win games (in the regular season lol)
 

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why not?
With Derozan the raps have played the Warriors close. With no Curry, or Draymond, what makes you think it wouldn't be any different? especially with out Casey ?


I mean, the Raps DID win 59 games last year with Derozan, let's not start this narrative now like he couldn't win games (in the regular season lol)
You're not wrong re: regular season but we are going to see how big the discrepancy between DD/KL2 really is come the playoffs. Believe me I wanted to see this team win a ship with DeMar at the front of it all - but it was not going to happen. Had to accept that especially after the recent playoff run/fail.

All those missed fadeaways, lack of drives to the basket and spin moves turned turn over will not be at the same rate with Kawhi. And whatever Leonard fails to do on offence he will make up for on the other end to atleast wash it out. With DeMar, his kill/death ratio was real bad if he wasn't scoring buckets. Won't see a quarter in the playoffs where Kawhi is purposely benched because he's playing like ass lol.
 

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Did Masai drop the ball on this one?

I'm not sure yet. KK is wet tissue status on defense and has been pretty bad during his last two finals appearances.

I still think Jeremy Lin could be had for cheap as he's just rotting away in Atlanta.

CJ is just a net negative aside from the occasional corner 3.
 
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I don’t know why everyone says the Raptors have such a good bench
Mfs look horrible every time Kawhi comes off the floor
 
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