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

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Definitely not. I'm cheap as hell breh

The jump that Siakam made in year 3 is unreal. I can see why Masai wants to hold onto OG if he thinks he'll make that leap in year 3 or 4. Low key the coaching staff here have been great at developing role players. If they can develop another guy who can impact the game like Siakam has, that would be incredible.

Have you guys watched the Grizzlies recently? Even Bruno looks like a decent player, looks like they should've played him at the 5 instead of the 3/4. Stack was playing him at the 5 when they won the D-League championship, he basically won the finals for them and for some reason, they had him playing the 3 again last year (remember Casey tried playing Bruno at the 3 during the preseason last year:francis:). He is still not good on the offensive end, but he alters so many shots and his wingspan really bothers people.

the jump for siakam is crazy , look at kawhi year 3 , no one knew kawhi would be a monster like he is today.

I would not be shocked if siakam averages like 25 and 13 one day, the only time he doesn't score alot of points is because he doesn't take alot of shots.

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The thing that I like about this team is that we have guys now
last year in the playoffs we knew derozan and lowry would derozan and lowry that we had to depend on a guy like serge ibaka :scust: or playoff norm or. fred van vleet taking big shots, or og in game 3 being super saiyan, or greivis assquez, or james johnson etc.

now theres a calmness, You got kawhi, you got danny green, you got marc gasol, you got siakam, you got jeremy lin, and you still got lowry and van vleet


i said it before in a 7 game series I don't see any team in the east beating the raptors. First round should be a damn sweep,
 

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The thing that I like about this team is that we have guys now
last year in the playoffs we knew derozan and lowry would derozan and lowry that we had to depend on a guy like serge ibaka :scust: or playoff norm or. fred van vleet taking big shots, or og in game 3 being super saiyan, or greivis assquez, or james johnson etc.

now theres a calmness, You got kawhi, you got danny green, you got marc gasol, you got siakam, you got jeremy lin, and you still got lowry and van vleet


i said it before in a 7 game series I don't see any team in the east beating the raptors. First round should be a damn sweep,

This is what always bothered me with the team over the last few years, especially when facing the Cavs. We looked like a clusterfukk on offence, every trip down the floor.

It was the constant panicky/pass it around and we get the Demar fade and/or spin in the lane and lose the ball, or the difficult Lowry three.

And then you watch Cleveland come door the floor calm as shyt, and they are running these smooth set plays, screens, pin downs, pick and pops fukking everything.

Now we can finally settle and run through Marc when we need to, and of course Kawhi is a bigger threat 1 on 1 versus someone like DeMar.

But man, Siakam. He might hit 200 KPH right in time for the playoffs :wow:
 
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kawhi really pissing me off
cant play last game but is out thre playing major minutes in a meaningless all star game
 

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I think he'll get used to the cold like everybody else


yeah of course poeple will read into more than they should, it is cold and if you grew up in la then played in texas it takes an adjustment. Winter is almost done and when he goes to niagara falls in april and ish he'll love it even more
 

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Raptor beat writer pissed Kawhi off post game yall see that lol...

Was asking him about the second half and the Spurs game on Friday and he blew it off saying i just wanna enjoy the break then dipped....
 

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Anyone caught that gif of him dancing by himself while Kyrie and KD were chatting....:russ:

Hes a different cat for sure....
 

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Raptor beat writer pissed Kawhi off post game yall see that lol...

Was asking him about the second half and the Spurs game on Friday and he blew it off saying i just wanna enjoy the break then dipped....

hopefully his knee is recovered in time for fridays game :troll:
 
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