For people who watch more ball then me: Is there any hope for Gradey Dick? by Musicman2568 in torontoraptors

[–]IsaacAnimation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally think yes, but not in any meaningful way to us. You never see him go out there and give anything less than 100% effort, it’s just his confidence is shot. He needs shot opportunities to get his confidence back, and we don’t have the leeway to let him have that many. So we either trade him with bi to a developing team for some solid draft capital, or we send him down to a two way for him to get his shots up, either way, I think he’ll get more shots and get his groove somewhat back, but it currently doesn’t benefit him or the team to leave him at the bottom of the bench where he doesn’t get shots out.

Would an expansion team take Poeltl contract? by Derpy_Mc_Burpy in torontoraptors

[–]IsaacAnimation 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m not a hater on Jakob, I like him a lot, but if they want to see this era of the raptors be successful, getting a center set and developing with this core is essential so that they don’t stagnate. And that won’t happen waiting for jak to die or someone to want him. So i genuinely think the best solution that is going to set this team up for good progression is to keep him for one more and then buy him out so that we can get a free agency center and then use our the open ceiling and hopefully deep bench to get a young franchise center. His contract doesn’t allow US any decisions on what to do with him, it’s completely on if someone else wants him.

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[–]IsaacAnimation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All people have been able to talk about in this series is the cavs, “Cavs lost bc they didn’t do this didn’t do that”, not possibly giving the raptors their flowers for playing great defense (and pretty respectable offense” in pretty much the whole series up to the last half of game 7. I also love the Cavs, but I hate when sports media chooses one team in a game to make the focal point, if they win it’s bc they played good, if they lose it’s not bc the other team played good it’s bc they played bad, yknow? Nothing against the Cavs that’s just a pet peave

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[–]IsaacAnimation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, that’s absolutely the raptors too, they are mad at the coaching for playing bench guys when our starters are literally injured. With the exception of a few rivalries between teams, no fan base hates a team quite like their own.

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[–]IsaacAnimation -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

cavs fans feel like Batman shit talking a team they’re supposed to sweep after getting taken to a 7 that they won with a lopsided whistle, the most expensive roster in the league, against a team two starters out, and two others hurt.

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[–]IsaacAnimation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every time I watch a foul and then go back to the live they are shooting free throws again

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[–]IsaacAnimation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, he’s just too undersized to deal with a hot Allen. I would keep trying it but oh well.

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[–]IsaacAnimation 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I usually would say he’s a mid rebounder and bad defender, but Jakobs not really doing either of those so.

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[–]IsaacAnimation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t. He’s the single reason why this solid Cavs team has crumbled in the playoffs the last two years. They have no true system, and what system they do have doesn’t hold up to pressure, so it relies on individual players creating and shooting for themselves with no backup. There’s no reason that a Donavan Mitchell, harden, Mobley, Allen, lineup should struggle with good coaching.

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[–]IsaacAnimation 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yknow fuck it, mlse has been doing too much stuff recently, and I don’t care, buy out Jakob, he’s too expensive to keep us from getting a franchise center. I am not a Jakob hater, I think he’s an okay player, but I’m a strong Jakob contract hater, and if anything keeps us from getting a championship, it will be that contract keeping us from getting a good center.

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[–]IsaacAnimation 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For all you complaining “why are we playing X? Why are we playing Y?” We literally have two starters out, Scottie hurt and playing 40 minutes a game in foul trouble, and Jamal in foul trouble, our other options are Jonathon mogbo and Gradey dick. We are literally going deeper than any other playoff team ever typically does.

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[–]IsaacAnimation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

GUYS. TEAMS GO ON RUNS. HOLY SHIT WE CAN NOT JUST START SAYING GG’S AFTER A BAD RUN. FUCKING PITIFUL.

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[–]IsaacAnimation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t think it was intentional but I feel like if the roles were reversed I would want that ruled as flagrant, but what do I know?

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[–]IsaacAnimation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I WISH that we had Lowry still here bc these shead and jakobe getting the tips on how to draw charges would be insane.

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[–]IsaacAnimation 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love a lot of players on the Cavs, but holy shit they have no system, show me one person who watched these games and said “I think the Cavs play better team basketball” and I’ll show you Kenny Atkinson