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

[Guess Who]

I think our rebounding woes have been overstated. We have only been badly outrebounded in one game in the past couple weeks iirc (Brooklyn).

EDIT: Just did some research and it appears I was wrong. We are struggling on the defensive glass. Denver, GSW, Brooklyn and Cleveland all beat us badly on the glass.

 

[Miggs]

I think our rebounding woes have been overstated. We have only been badly outrebounded in one game in the past couple weeks iirc (Brooklyn).

EDIT: Just did some research and it appears I was wrong. We are struggling on the defensive glass. Denver, GSW, Brooklyn and Cleveland all beat us badly on the glass.

I dont think its as bad as it looks i think we get caught ball watching and get lazy on the glass,i think with Siakam,Ibaka and Leonard we have enough rebounding....just like with our D,we have the guys to play great defense but we dont always do it because we get lazy to often...

Lowry and our lack of 3 point shooting to me is our biggest issues right now...Lets be real if Lowry just played DECENT the last week we win all 4 games which were close and were not even having a discussion about rebounding....

Were talking about yesterdays game because Lowry was 0 for 5 with 0 points but if he hit that one 3 when were up 97-94 and iced it,this probably isnt as big an issue as its being talked about......the line between us being 25-4 and 21-7 is a couple of 3 pointers that he missed....

 

[Guess Who]

I dont think its as bad as it looks i think we get caught ball watching and get lazy on the glass,i think with Siakam,Ibaka and Leonard we have enough rebounding....just like with our D,we have the guys to play great defense but we dont always do it because we get lazy to often...

Lowry and our lack of 3 point shooting to me is our biggest issues right now...Lets be real if Lowry just played DECENT the last week we win all 4 games which were close and were not even having a discussion about rebounding....

Were talking about yesterdays game because Lowry was 0 for 5 with 0 points but if he hit that one 3 when were up 97-94 and iced it,this probably isnt as big an issue as its being talked about......the line between us being 25-4 and 21-7 is a couple of 3 pointers that he missed....

What’s crazy is that 5 of our losses have come in the last minute of the game. We gotta be better in crunch time. THAT is a real problem as well. The offence stalls in crunch time and it’s iso Kawhi.

 

[MikelArteta]

Playoffs were just trying to win a game

 

[MikelArteta]

What’s crazy is that 5 of our losses have come in the last minute of the game. We gotta be better in crunch time. THAT is a real problem as well. The offence stalls in crunch time and it’s iso Kawhi.

Nurse is overmatched

 

[Miggs]

What’s crazy is that 5 of our losses have come in the last minute of the game. We gotta be better in crunch time. THAT is a real problem as well. The offence stalls in crunch time and it’s iso Kawhi.

I think we have to kill the Kawhi ISOs,hes a great player but clearly his two main weaknesses are late game shot selection and inability to distribute the ball....HEs so dominant in the post we should be inbounding and passing to him down low on a clear out,some of these end of game shots are bad coaching decisions....the jumper against the Celtics,the baseline miss of his leg against Detroit,the 3 pointer against Milwaukee....all 3 could have been wins if we ran actual plays....no pin downs or screens,no movement off theba ll just straight dribble the clock out and shoot over whoever the defender is

I was upset in the Celtics game cuz we just took a dumb shot and didnt even look for an advantage...No screen to get a smaller defnder or a big that he can drive on,just dribbled the air out of the ball and shot a 18 footer over Morris...its like Casey is still here end of games.

 

[Miggs]

Nurse is overmatched

He definitely has no creativity late in games....

 

[Miggs]

Where Lowry hurt his back in the Warriors game,if you remember he missed the Cavs game 2 days later....and hasnt been the same since...

 

[Kwabena]

Kawhi out tonight with a hip injury God help us

 

[Guess Who]

Kawhi out. Lowry playing like trash. Ugh.

 

[Auger]

wow

 

[Auger]

It's like a totally different team outchere, let's wait until the 3rd - 4th

 

[afterlife2009]

bounce back game for og so far

 

[CJ]

Kyle sandbagging all these games just to show tonight that we don't need KL2

 

[Auger]

Kawhi really wanna play with the clips?!?