The Toronto Raptors rallied back late against a better team. A combination of defensive grit, pace, and zone defense had the Nuggets out of sorts. The Raptors closed the gap and around the 5 minute mark, as is his habit, Darko Rajakovic went back to his starters. Specifically, Dennis Schroder and Pascal Siakam. The run was over. The defense was dead. Turnovers. More isolation ball.
A big 30 point, 10 rebound, 5 assist performance from Scottie Barnes.. wasted. A huge night for Malachi and Precious off the bench. Wasted. Chris Boucher’s hustle and competent guard play from Gary Trent Jr. Wasted. This team is cooked.
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Masai said that Poetle is a championship winning piece
Roster is poorly constructed, Darko Rajakovic is not being a good coach (haven't washed my hands on him yet), and Nick Nurse is coaching his ass off with sixers. In retrospect, would have been better to keep him but I guess he saw the writing on the wall with this team. Going back to Darko, the fact that you have to call 2 time outs so close to each other in the first quarter speaks volume. My concern is they already tuned him out. He has done this in 8-9 games so far this year. That's absolutely pathetic it has to come to that.
Poetle is NOT a championship piece. Masai and Bobby should go look at what they did that was right. A center who can play today's NBA – I.E. Shoot the friggen 3s and make free throws. Doesn't matter if you shoot at 18%. You bring an opponent a bit out of the paint AT LEAST, giving space to players like barnes or siakam.
Look back at the last few years shall we? All the recent championship teams in the last 5 years. Giannis, can attempt to shoot the 3, Jokic, can shoot the 3, Gasol, can shoot the 3, Ibaka, can shoot the 3. A. Davis can shoot the 3. All these players can make the free throws at a high clip.
Poetle is a BAD fit and is a back up center at best. Bad contract by the raptors but I guess they want to save face giving up that draft pick.
And OG trying to hard to be something he is not, completely cringe when he wants to do a post up and honestly not that much of a lockdown defender in a while.
And the dumb turn overs, let's not go there.
I don't like how shallow the pg rotation is. I wanted Dowtin to give us depth, i want Freeman to play, i want Mac Mcclung because he's got physical talent to victimize 1v1 matchups i want to see flynn as a sg next to more pg options then what we're seeing.
dennis the menace must know darko's secret or something
I wonder how much non-basketball stuff is gunking making the obvious changes to MO.
Forgot the game was today. Looking at the stats, Scotties back is hurting
You should consider adding a marker when coach Moe joins in and he starts with his rant and then you either correct him or calm him down. Best part of the stream.
That negative net rating screenshot shocked me. hope to god this is on purpose or there is some kind of plan, I don't wanna believe nobody has brought this up in the organisation or even worse, darko (or management) knows and refuses to change…