AggressivelyStupid posted:

also the raptors starters are poo poo

The Glumslinger posted:

Get ready for a lot of op-eds this week if Kobe wins an Oscar tonight

Spacebump posted:

Should be 0 for both.

Paul Zuvella posted:

CRISPYBABY posted:

Lowry is..a lot, yeah. I'm grading on a curve because of how successful the team has been, although arguably that's . I was pretty worried about it when it was signed but I'm OK with it now.

Every Raptors player in the current rotation except FVV is on contract for next year, so hopefully we can repeat the same kind of success as the team is doing this year and I'll still be OK with it then. Or maybe he falls off a cliff and embarrasses himself.

Third year of it might be ugly.

It's weird, as a number person I can look at him right now and say that you're probably not getting 29 million worth of production out of him (whatever your metric is), but since he's not dragging the team down the contract length matches up for (two of three years) of the teams contention window I'm not as worried about it as say, Grizzlies fans about Mike Conley.

dokmo posted:

Yes, tremendously so.

El Gallinero Gros posted:

In fairness he's putting up career numbers in pretty much everything and Portland would be a lotto team if you replaced him with an average PG

Away all Goats posted:

KAT has also unfrotunately gotten labeled as a bad defender.

Drunk Canuck posted:

Toronto Raptors, 2018 Champs.

BWV posted:

Losing to Cleveland in the conference final would be just as disappointing as losing to them in the second round. The team is playing so well that if they lose to anyone before the finals it'll be the result of a massive choke job/a big drop off in performance o some crazy poo poo like Giannis averaging 50.
Obviously I'd prefer the easiest route but I'm not sweating seeding like other years.

morestuff posted:

https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/975747519459274753

I'm guessing he's suffering from an acute case of LeBron's foot on his throat

quote:

I have had chest pains and other troubling symptoms, compounded by a loss of sleep, throughout the year. Despite a battery of tests, there have been no conclusions as to what the exact issue is.

Metapod posted:

Vogel is the worst looking coach

MourningView posted:

I like to imagine that Pop fully intended to hire someone else and go back to being GM before watching one Tim Duncan practice and changing his mind

quote:

Poppovich is a dickhead, an incompetent, impotent, flaccid dickhead.


Does anyone else hate him as much as I do? I mean, whose fault was it that
we didn't have enough salary cap room to court any good free agents this
year? Whose fault was it that we traded for Charles Smith, who turned out
to be a total bust? Whose fault was it that we signed Carl Herrera instead
of Kevin Willis? Whose fault?

quote:

This is the most screwed news I've heard in a long time. Why now, only
hours before Dave's return? What good is Popovich going to do?

I would not have been surprised if Hill had been screwed at the end of
the season. But, why now?

Does anyone have any inside info. Today's SAEN did not have a hint of
it, and I'm stuck away from a radio or TV to hear the news.

I've gone to a couple of games this year and was planning to buy a
mini-pack now that the semester (and my degree) is over. I'm so
disgusted now that I'm reconsidering. At this rate, who can we get in
the lottery?

Jamie Ford
UT-San Antonio

quote:

The "braintrust" in charge of the Spurs has fired Coach Bob Hill
on the very day that David Robinson is scheduled to return. If
you look at what sort of lineups the Spurs have been putting on
the court, I dunno what else besides 3-15 you could expect.
Cadillac Anderson at center? ugh .. Surprising how you can fire
someone who guided the team to 121 wins in the last two seasons;
and if you blame the playoff problems on Hill, he should have been
fired at the end of last season.
Gregg Popovich (surprise!) takes over, and was not called an
"interim" coach, according to ESPN. As far as I'm concerned, fire the
front office, who continues to make miserable deals and continually
trades draft choices for old farts and has-beens. Do the Spurs have
*any* draft choices left this century??

Spacebump posted:

Depends who the rest of the lineup was.

Dirk won a title with Jason Terry as his second option. (So if they had Shawn Marion and Tyson Chandler things would have been all right.)

Redgrendel2001 posted:

2018 gonna 2018.
https://twitter.com/basketballtalk/status/976245960077606918?s=19

Spoeank posted:

Bruno Caboclo has over 25% of his career minutes for the Kings, despite appearing in just five games since the trade deadline.

He has more minutes this year for the Kings than in any of his three plus seasons for the Raptors.

Goddamn.

BWV posted:

so if the idea is that Ibaka needs rest the WHY NOT REST HIM? When Derozan and Lowry have both been given scheduled rest days why not give an entire week to the geriatric power forward? Sit him the rest of the season. But apparently he is spending extra time after practice to work on his jumper because clearly he needs more on-court time. The guy is washed and I want my friend Pascal or my other friend Big Jake to take all his minutes.

So why doesn't this happen? There is only one answer. Something is up. Serge has whatever files John Salmons had on Casey and is extorting him for playing time.

e: they should do a drill before each game with Serge. If he can dunk from stationary position than he can play. If not, rest him for the next game.