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2021-2022 Official Toronto Raptors Thread

This league is really a joke.  5 minutes left in the first quarter and the 76ers have taken 9 free throws.  The Raptors haven?t even drawn a single foul
 
Playoff Basketball is a lot like playoff hockey. You build a team that has a bunch of surprising success in the regular season and are like "Hey, we're pretty good without any superstars. Maybe we don't need someone like that to win" and then you get reminded of how Refs call things on stars in the playoffs and you go "Ah, right. Tanking it is."
 
Officiating aside the Raptors are giving open looks, playing poor transition defense and aren?t boxing out guys not names Embiid.  The roster is still really flawed.  This feels like the Derozan era Raptors.  A good team lacking that true star that the officials respect.  It?s funny because Siakam has a decent chance at being 2nd team All-NBA but he doesn?t get treated like that on the court
 
Pretty much sums it up:

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Garden with 5 fouls and you settle for jumpers and step back threes down the stretch.  FVV and Siakam let the team down
 
L K said:
Garden with 5 fouls and you settle for jumpers and step back threes down the stretch.  FVV and Siakam let the team down
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Yeah I totally agree. Siakam I am not surprised by. He hasn?t been good in the playoffs since the Championship run. But Fred? He?s pulling up with 18 seconds on the shot clock. His very much felt like the old DeRozan/Lowry playoff combo.
 
This was too good a team to go out in 4 or 5 but man, it hurts thinking about how close they came to being up 3-2 right now.
 
Nik said:
This was too good a team to go out in 4 or 5 but man, it hurts thinking about how close they came to being up 3-2 right now.
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The Raptors could just as easily get blown out tomorrow but that Embiid thumb injury has changed the dynamics of this series.

Barnes has been fantastic in the glue guy role in his 2.5 games so far in the series.
 
And that Game 3 comes back to haunt them.  Absolutely blown out in the 3rd quarter.  Not using Flynn to try and get some PnR going was a mistake.  Not calling a timeout in the middle of a 30-9 run was a mistake.  Overplaying Siakam to the point that he can?t generate lift was a mistake.    Shooting constant threes and not hitting any was a mistake

What an awful collapse in the second half
 
L K said:
And that Game 3 comes back to haunt them.  Absolutely blown out in the 3rd quarter.  Not using Flynn to try and get some PnR going was a mistake.  Not calling a timeout in the middle of a 30-9 run was a mistake.  Overplaying Siakam to the point that he can?t generate lift was a mistake.    Shooting constant threes and not hitting any was a mistake

What an awful collapse in the second half
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I don't watch much basketball but even I could tell you the raps are not three point shooters before this game. Ick.
 
Report: Embiid out indefinitely with orbital fracture, mild concussion
https://www.thescore.com/nba/news/2349149

Schadenfreude
 
I'm torn because Patrick Beverley is a dirty SOB on the court but his hate train on Chris Paul was pretty amusing over the last 48 hours.
 
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