wash

@JustEsBaraheni there’s no advantage. you hate the same odds as everyone else. no incentive to tank. every team will be trying to win and the teams that aren’t set up to win will just not win as many games

I *hate* the idea of expanding the lottery + flattening odds. So now instead of 5 teams per conference vying to lose and get better odds… you’re opening it up to more teams? Need to go the other way. Make it so 3-4 worst teams have the best chance + odds plummet from there.

@michaelgrange so play him more and poeltl less

“I have utmost trust and respect in that guy … he plays basketball to win.” — Rajakovic on Collin Murray-Boyles. Rookien was +17 in 20 mins vs. Heat.

@william_lou because it’s not a difficult opponent

the way scottie barnes and brandon ingram have stepped up in this game is exactly what we wanted to see. leaders took over in a must win game.

@stillkeel it’s tough watching poeltl on the court when i know how much better we can be without him.

Ingram, Ja’Kobe, Scottie, CMB and Mamu Inject this lineup into my veins to close out games

@eladbenari @william_lou i would imagine so. his strengths are being a player coach and he has a solid defensive scheme. but he’s incapable of strong in game adjustments

@william_lou When they are actually serious about winning, Darko will no longer be employed.

darko playing Jakob and CMB together against a zone. OK.

@JustEsBaraheni it’s laughably obvious what lineups work and which ones don’t. it’s so predictable. who would’ve thought a fast lineup with switchable defenders, three point shooting and ball movement works well (shead, walter, barnes, mamu, cmb)

Heat run more zone than any team in the NBA. Actually, double the 2nd place team in terms of frequency. The Raptors #1 solution to this is Scottie Barnes.

@RapsReport darko is genuinely not trying to win by playing jakob poeltl for more than 2 minutes in any basketball game. easily the most useless player on a basketball court. and playing him alongside cmb is just malpractice

The Raptors versus the zone

Welcome to Canada: the only place where you can watch an ad on tv prompting you to “remove your snow tires today” while it’s snowing outside on april 7th

@raptorsrepublic lose all 4, lose the play in, miracle jump in the lottery for a top 8 pick and next season make the right trades and actually be a real team

4 games to go. Can the Raps finish this stretch 4-0? #WeTheNorth 📸: Petre Thomas

@0uttis @Raptors everybody’s checked out man 😭 just lose

most important game of the season tn @Raptors

@ScottieAllStar4 @RaptorsShaq we can be much better next year with the right trades and imo a different coach. i just don’t know if bobby is going to make the right decisions

@RaptorsShaq Now that I think about it, our records pretty impressive when we factor in the fact that we can't shoot threes.

Look at my team dawg

@balligami @Sleeper_Hoops i just refuse to believe statlines like these haven’t been recorded at least one other time

🚨Balligami!🚨 LeBron James 30 PTS / 9 REB / 15 AST LAL 128 @ DAL 134 This statline has NEVER been recorded in NBA history. It's his 1st Balligami this season and 58th of his career. Balligamis this season: 60 | Balligamis all-time: 4318

@0uttis a new coach

whos the best guy in this draft to maximize a scottie cmb jakobe core

@william_lou darko “no adjustments, we have 3 games in 5 nights and i’m proud of our effort” rajakovic

wait how did you come out of that timeout with jak still on the floor and CMB still on the bench???? the tatum/queta pick and roll killed you all game

@reeber93 @william_lou hey cmon he has to try and find the positives 🤣

@william_lou Too bad they kept him in and the games over now

very heads up substitution there by darko putting Jakob in before the jumpball. jak's size kept queta off the glass and got the raptors the last shot. nearly got the tip in too. tiny margins like that will matter in these game

@zulfi_sheikh unfortunately they’re stuck playing with ingram and poeltl for the first half of their careers

Ja'Kobe Walter and Collin Murray-Boyles are going to be a force for the Raptors as they develop

@AllNBAYuji darko has the worst rotations in the nba. his focus is on being supportive and encouraging. that is not useful in meaningful games. he has no spine. a serious coach would play ingram and poeltl 0 minutes in the 2nd half

I genuinely have hatred in my heart for RJ Barrett and Darko Rajakovic

@raptormoments cmb, walter, scottie, rj, quickley, shead, mamu those are the valuable players

jakobe walter is a basketball player. raptors dont have many

@RaptorsShaq gotta love that extension

Jak looking like the weak link out there, physical bigs eat him for breakfast

@arsh1497 @william_lou i’m done with pushing for that. i don’t know if it’s scottie or darko but he’s clearly never going to be aggressive

@william_lou And Scottie decides to attack and have more field goal attempts, although he hurt him self early

adjustments for the second half: - CMB starts for Jak - RJ mikan drills to convert these layups - BI drinks a double espresso and joins this game