deletethis
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How many times was Lowry in foul trouble this season? We see this every playoff appearance for the Raptors, they get jobbed by the NBA's arbitrary officiating.
What's frustrating is that, ironically, our kryptonite is exactly what we need to round out this team. This squad desperately needs someone like Paul Pierce who A) has been in every situation a guy can encounter in the NBA and B) always shows up when it counts. This is the second straight season this core has shown they can't get up for big games and a lot of that seems to be their mental strength. The only reason this game was even tight tonight was because the bench went crazy in the 4th and honestly, Washington didn't play well either.
Onto Casey, who just got outcoached by one of the jokes of the NBA in Randy Wittman. Wizards fans hate him, Wizards writers think he's long past his expiration, and he just made our head coach look like a fool! I'm so glad Pierce was Washington's leader scorer while we benched our JJ so Ross could shoot ****ing 27% from the field! I'm soooo glad we continually got murdered on the boards late while JV rotted on the bench. I'm sooooooooooo glad that our only real success barring the last 4 minutes of the 4th came from penetration and points in the paint while our guards had a ****ing chuckfest from range. Seriously, look at these splits:
Lou: 4-16, 2-8 from 3.
DD: 6-20, 0-1 from 3.
Lowry: 2-10, 0-4 from 3.
Ross: 3-11, 0-6 from 3.
I guess Casey's only gameplan on offense was to rain 3s and pray to the basketball gods that they dropped. Meanwhile our bigs are killing themselves for limited looks and producing, but why would we ever give them the ball?
Amir: 8-12 (mostly PnR action).
JV: 3-7 (almost entirely putbacks).
PP: 4-8
That's right, our stretch 4, a position Washington routinely struggles guarding (they touched on this on ESPN several times), got 2 damn looks in the second half after being our leading scorer in the opening 24 minutes. I'd like to say Washington outplayed us but realistically, we beat ourselves.
All in all I can't stand the way this team is coached, and no I'm not making excuses, we played like **** and we deserved to lose. But Dwane Casey....he makes some mind boggling decisions. I don't see how he is back next year if we get eliminated by Washington. He's not coaching to the team's strength. How does JJ not get a single minute in this game?
You can tell who's a basketball fan and who's a Raptors fan ITT. Game 1 went to OT and the series is a wrap? **** off. You think the things we do "******" is just us? No every single ****ing team does ****** things. Because it's ****ing hard to execute perfectly.
The series is over my ass.
You can tell who's a basketball fan and who's a Raptors fan ITT. Game 1 went to OT and the series is a wrap? **** off. You think the things we do "******" is just us? No every single ****ing team does ****** things. Because it's ****ing hard to execute perfectly.
The series is over my ass.
You can tell who's a basketball fan and who's a Raptors fan ITT. Game 1 went to OT and the series is a wrap? **** off. You think the things we do "******" is just us? No every single ****ing team does ****** things. Because it's ****ing hard to execute perfectly.
The series is over my ass.
You can tell who's a basketball fan and who's a Raptors fan ITT. Game 1 went to OT and the series is a wrap? **** off. You think the things we do "******" is just us? No every single ****ing team does ****** things. Because it's ****ing hard to execute perfectly.
The series is over my ass.
You sound like the angry one lol.
I know we did a lot of good. And yes thanks tips, I realize all teams have issues. It's how they're handled. I'm allowed to be confused about Casey's coaching decisions.
Raps need a star PF/C to make up for the missed perimeter shots
Does this make sense
I'm mad but I'm not irrational. I'm confused about Casey's coaching decisions too (Luckily Game-to-Game adjustments he's a lot better at compared to in-game).
But saying this series is over after a game 1 OT game is ********.
yeah rebounding killed us man o man did it ever, Amir!! just standing around looking lost in Ot, nobody helping on the weak side...fml! but really....Casey is an idiot. Plain and simple, he got out coached again in a playoff game. You tell me! how does Casey not do a damn thing when Washington goes small and uses Pierce at the 4 and just lights us up! You don't think JJ would've helped there??? JJ has size and quickness over Pierce...Casey just standing around looking like an ass while Whittman is killing him strategically on the other side. Casey is a flat out terrible coach
Lol Raps lose one game and the sky is falling. It was pretty good that they actually came back from being down 15 late and had Lowry fouling out too.. They just blew it in OT. Raps still got this. Wiz are overrated.
People angry about execution and line ups etc doesn't mean sky is falling.
We should bounce back and hit some shots next game. I just get angry at some of the decisions by Casey were iffy