In Episode 1503, Sean Woodley and Vivek Jacob react to an ugly, 99-91 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night. Off the top, they chat about the offense reaching a new low, scoring just 91 points against what was the 29th-ranked defense in the NBA coming into the game, and hitting just 4-of-29 threes on the night. Is there any hope for this offense turning things around? And does its overall badness threaten to undo the defense, which so far is one thing this team actually does ar an elite level? Next, Sean and Vivek discuss whether losses like this threaten to undo all the good vibes groundwork that was laid in the preseason, and what the emergence of Scottie Barnes could do to keep the good times rolling even in the face of tough losses like Monday’s. Lastly, they run through The Good (Gradey Dick, Scottie Barnes), The Bad (Gary Trent Jr.) and The Hmmmm (Will Darko Rajakovic have to revert some old Raptors schemes that have worked for this group in the past? Can the Raptors trade for Malcolm Brogdon tomorrow?) to round out the show.
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Wow yall can't sleep? Y'all are super early this time haha
@sean woodley not getting buy in from some players, half ass cuts and picks or not at all.
time is coming where a decision has to be made to shake things up, and it wont be firing the coach. i think its like last year someone agreeing to play off ball but really didnt so they went to iso-ball. so half assing it or not at all to make it look bad so it looks like it doesnt work, to make the coach look bad, so they go back to iso-ball or get the coach fired.
the chemistry and effort isnt there, not just from 1 player but a few players. a few puzzle pieces we are finding dont fit at all in this puzzle right now, and the time is coming soon to make a decision.
i think part of it is thinking you are better than the other player and they are giving him the keys to the team. like a company where you are a manager, they bring a guy in who you know is gonna replace you in a year, so you know this and are not happy about it.
Thank GOD that the raptors didn’t trade Barnes for Dame. This team isn’t competing for anything with or without a Dame caliber player. Meanwhile Barnes looks like a future superstar and the team has him under control for at least 4 more seasons.
The offense is literally worse than 22/23. That is a breathtaking realization. I am an optimist (but man, things better improve quick).
first Nick got fired. next blow up of the team before trade deadline after we go for Masai's head.
They looked awful … Darko .5 offense isnt helping at all… and when u have multiple guys that are playing for contracts this team will fall apart very quickly …its gonna get bad very quick if this isnt fixed asap
6:16 – stop the Malachi Madness….
Also, guys aren't moving well. Play Freeman-Liberty
Let Dennis be off-ball with the starters, and on-ball with a bench unit
It does seem like its ball movement for ball movements sake at times. Give it one 1 or 2 more games for the offense to work its self out. All this ball movement shouldn't culminate wiith Precious Achiuwa wide open at the 3 point line.
Also the problem with Nick Nurses defense wasn't that it was inherently flawed. It was because he insisted on playing that way ALL the time regardless of the situation. I would like to see more aggressive unpredictable double teaming every once in a while.
So this team can't close games for years now let's get a head coach who has less experience closing games than the players do that's works right??? Y wouldn't the raps get a coach who has experience closing games and a winning record closing games don't think that would b the ideal coach for us?