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« Reply #150 on: May 16, 2016, 07:26:03 AM »
Glad for you max.
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« Reply #151 on: May 16, 2016, 09:14:48 AM »
Game 7 vs the Miami Heat to  go too the Eastern Conference Final vs Lebron , Check .

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« Reply #152 on: May 17, 2016, 05:15:50 PM »
add to check list Quags

Lowry & Derozan bush bath..check
Lucky draws check
Carib  in the fridge (imported from Ontario) check
Cocoyea broom check
Bottle ah white rum check
oh nooooo...cyah find a clean-neck chicken for game 2


anyway..one game at a time..Let's Go raptors HUUEEHGGH

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« Reply #153 on: May 17, 2016, 07:45:45 PM »
 :rotfl: think you got it covered brother .almost halftime dont forget wide open offense from the cavs damn , need that white fowl maxi.
btwdrinking coors lite imported from costco Montreal lol
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« Reply #154 on: May 17, 2016, 08:37:27 PM »
Wow Cleaveland playing such pretty basketball  its a shame that I want them to lose , this is what basketball was meant to be .Reminds me of the mid eighties, an there was only one thing that could stop such free flowing play , and that was Detroit style dirty bad boy basketball , I think it would be the only way to knock the cocky outta them fools .

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« Reply #156 on: May 19, 2016, 06:31:17 PM »
De rozen to the lakers.. You heard it here first...

Durant a possibility to raps...

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« Reply #157 on: May 22, 2016, 05:23:31 PM »
Raptors point guard Cory Joseph has Trinidad and Tobago roots, his father David Joseph migrated to Canada at the age of 12 and was a successful basketball player and coach.

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« Reply #158 on: May 23, 2016, 09:11:16 PM »
All you Toronto faithful that kept the faith over the years Congrats. Thank you for letting LeBrick know is playoffs not preseason
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« Reply #159 on: May 23, 2016, 10:05:48 PM »
Series tied 2 all .
And momentum shifts .

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« Reply #160 on: December 16, 2016, 12:30:58 PM »
http://www.sportsnet.ca/basketball/nba/rolling-raptors-still-short-attention-outside-canada/
The Toronto Raptors are the hottest team in the NBA, which doesn’t necessarily make them the best team, but given the franchise’s recent success doesn’t mean that winning 10 of their past 11 starts and sitting a half game out of first place in the Eastern Conference is an aberration, either.

The Raptors have been among the best teams in the NBA for three calendar years now, and appear to be improving. When you sport a league-leading offensive rating of 115.3 points per 100 possessions — nearly two points ahead of the second-place Golden State Warriors and three more than the Warriors managed in their 73-win season a year ago – clearly something is happening.

And they know it.

“It’s not a fluke,” said DeMar DeRozan, amid a career year in his eighth season, averaging 28 points a game, fourth in the NBA. “We’ve had one of the toughest schedules the league and we’ve figured out a way to come out on top and it’s not just from one individual, it’s coming from a team perspective, you know?”
People should now.

But the curious thing as the Raptors continue to roll — they are going for their fifth straight win and 11th in 12 games against the visiting Atlanta Hawks at the Air Canada Centre Friday night — is how little apparent buzz their performance is generating outside of the ACC, which will be sold out for the 106th straight game, and among local television audiences, which are up significantly.

In a long NBA season there are lulls and this part of December - after all the early season excitement has petered out and before the Christmas Day hoops festival ramps up - qualifies as one of them. It’s a good time for lists.

Thus we have the quarter-season award watch. One might think that the Raptors, given their status as the league’s most excellent offence and their December dominance and status near the top of the league tables would get their share of buzz.

One might think wrong.

We’ve long given up thinking that the Raptors will ever be top-of-mind league-wide. Their status as the NBA’s lone Canadian franchise means they will always fall short in terms of getting their fair share of national US broadcasts or appearances on the Christmas Day showcases and the like. It’s not going to happen. Two US markets drive ratings and broadcast revenues more efficiently than one Canadian market and one US market. It's just math.

But what is interesting is how the Raptors' early season accomplishments have barely penetrated the consciousness of even those who aren’t presumably thinking about ratings or advertising revenues and who are appealing to a hardcore basketball audience.

A sampling of three respected NBA voices’ early season awards tracking leaves the Raptors virtually bereft of any kind of recognition whatsoever.

At SI.com, Ben Golliver - who drew the Raptors ire when he and colleague Rob Mahoney had DeRozan ranked 46th on their pre-season list of the NBA’s top 100 players — listed five candidates for Most Valuable Player and two honourable mentions without getting to DeRozan or Kyle Lowry who have been the twin locomotives driving the Raptors train.
Similarly, Sam Amick and Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today didn’t acknowledge the potential candidacy of either of the Raptors duo.

Howard Beck, who covers the NBA for Bleacher Report, listed nine players who deserved MVP consideration through the season’s first 20 or so games without mentioning a Raptor.

Granted, the MVP award is the NBA’s tallest mountain, scaled only by Hall-of-Famers, and this season to date has produced some incredible performances by the likes of Russell Westbrook (everyone’s MVP favourite or co-favourite, it seems), Kevin Durant, James Harden, LeBron James, Anthony Davis and more.

And this isn’t to suggest that either of Lowry and DeRozan should or will win the award at the end of the year. It’s just that it seems strange that two players having career-years for an Eastern Conference finalist team that is hitting never-before-seen peaks in offensive efficiency while on pace to win 59 games is doing all of it with so little fanfare league-wide.

For the first dozen games DeRozan was doing things – like posting 10 30-point outings - not done since Michael Jordan was in his physical prime. For the past dozen or so games Lowry is doing things — like hitting 59 per cent of his three-point attempts — that Steph Curry (34 per cent from deep over his last 10, but who’s counting) would envy and would likely have generated a Twitter hashtag by now and a sponsored spot on ESPN’s Sports Center.

So far? Silence.

"You can’t control that,” said Raptors head coach Dwane Casey about the lack of attention Lowry — the only player in the NBA averaging at least 21 points, seven rebounds and 1.5 steals while shooting at least 44 per cent from deep — has generated. "All you can do is continue to win, play at a high level, continue to do it and hopefully the US media will see it and recognize it. We’re biased here, but he’s played at such a level it should be talked about it. But I can’t control it, Kyle can’t control it. The one thing he can control is to continue to put forth the effort to help us win and almost embarrass everybody else to [talk] about it.”

But the list of Raptors deserving attention for their individual accomplishments in the context of team success doesn’t begin or end with DeRozan and Lowry.

DeRozan made a point of mentioning Terrence Ross as a viable Sixth Man Award candidate after Ross rescued the Raptors with 25 points off the bench against the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday night. Only six players in the NBA are averaging at least 19.9 points per 36 minutes and shooting at least 44 per cent from three, but Ross is the only one doing it off the bench. Throw in his 1.7 steals and Ross is the only player in any role providing that combination of ball-hawking, scoring and perimeter marksmanship on a per 36 basis.

But while most Sixth Man lists include Jamal Crawford of the Clippers, Zach Randolph of Memphis, Lou Williams of the Lakers or Eric Gordon with Houston, they don’t mention Ross and the Raptors.

"What Terrence does for us is incredible,” said DeRozan. "For me not to hear he’s a Sixth Man candidate, it’s kind of unfair because without him coming off the bench and doing the things he do, we wouldn’t be who we are and be in the position we are now.”

How about Coach of the Year?

Dwane Casey is one of the most likeable and media-friendly bench bosses in the NBA. He gives of his time freely. He’s also turned a team that was within a hair’s breadth of being blown up for tanking purposes three years ago into one of the most consistent winners in the league that is now putting up unheard-of offensive numbers.

Yet all that gets him only one mention as a Coach of the Year candidate and third place at that, even though he’s managed the NBA’s third youngest roster and features a raw rookie in Pascal Siakam starting at power-forward; has been missing its only significant off-season acquisition in Jared Sullinger and lost its best defensive player from a year ago — Bismack Biyombo — to free agency.

In that sense, Casey fits right in with his team: overlooked and under-appreciated.

“That's just the way it is when you’re in Toronto,” said Patrick Patterson, the anchor of the Raptors' unheralded second unit. "It’s been that way since I’ve been here. I don’t think it will ever change, but as long as the people around [us] understand it. that’s all that matters."

The solution to all of it is to keep winning, of course.

“We do,” DeRozan said when asked if his club deserved more attention than they’ve received to this point. “[But] I’m not going to sit up here and cry about it or mention about why [we’re] not in it; it just gives [us] more fuel to keep winning, keep doing what we know how to do and everything will figure itself out.”
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« Reply #161 on: January 11, 2018, 09:32:51 PM »
Good ole fashion CutAss for Lebron an Company, Drake should write ah song, Magloire should make ah calypso

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« Reply #162 on: January 16, 2018, 10:34:51 AM »
dammit, ah goat mouth the team ? :-[

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« Reply #163 on: February 13, 2018, 11:21:49 AM »
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« Reply #166 on: May 27, 2019, 05:29:47 AM »
Where are my Raptors fans ?

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« Reply #167 on: May 31, 2019, 08:44:07 AM »
Game 1 in the books....3 to go!

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« Reply #168 on: May 31, 2019, 04:38:04 PM »
Game 1 in the books....3 to go!

Hope so but it wouldn’t be easy at all

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« Reply #169 on: June 03, 2019, 07:39:07 AM »
Game 1 in the books....3 to go!

Series tied 1-1 ... wouldn't be easy. Like them or not Golden State knows how to win. Raptors has to be on top of their game every night   

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« Reply #170 on: June 03, 2019, 02:13:38 PM »
Game 1 in the books....3 to go!

Series tied 1-1 ... wouldn't be easy. Like them or not Golden State knows how to win. Raptors has to be on top of their game every night   
Agreed the one thing the Raptors have to take advantage of is the Warriors injuries. With Klay and Looney going out their role players should've stepped up but Cousins stepped up and was effective in that win.

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« Reply #171 on: June 05, 2019, 12:33:10 PM »
Tell them we Reach !!
Can’t believe this .

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« Reply #172 on: June 08, 2019, 09:15:09 AM »
North ?... 3-1 

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« Reply #173 on: June 11, 2019, 12:22:33 PM »
3-2 now for Raptors. Looks like KD wasn't fully ready to return. That's it for him. Going to Oakland now. Will be interesting.     

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« Reply #174 on: June 14, 2019, 08:37:00 AM »
Congrats to the Raptors, well deserved, better team in the finals. Khawi should be knighted King of the North now!

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« Reply #175 on: June 15, 2019, 05:26:59 PM »
Congrats to the Raptors, well deserved, better team in the finals. Khawi should be knighted King of the North now!

yea congrats to all de Raptors fans but some ah dem getting carried away stating basketball started in Canada. It was started by a Canadian  Dr James Naismith but in Massachusetts.       

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« Reply #176 on: November 09, 2019, 07:24:43 PM »
Congrats to the Raptors, well deserved, better team in the finals. Khawi should be knighted King of the North now!

yea congrats to all de Raptors fans but some ah dem getting carried away stating basketball started in Canada. It was started by a Canadian  Dr James Naismith but in Massachusetts.       

Hes Canadian and the first nba game was played in Canada...

But even more telling is the aztecs invented the game a while ago and the English took and refined it... same as football

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« Reply #179 on: December 03, 2020, 01:50:09 AM »
Didn’t like losing Serge, but ah liking the setup for the future. We can compete in the now, and getting ready for a post Covid parade in a couple years.

 

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