DOOMSDAY:Cookin The Tears Of The Oposition

I never saw a team like the Raptors giving the ball back to the other team so many times just after stealing it

WTF was that

 

i had tons of questions about toronto as i watched.

i was pretty sure fvv and trent would be traded at the deadline, and i think they should have been. you're now in a position where you lose one or both for nothing (or very little) in a s&t or be forced to overpay to keep them.

maybe ujiri re-earns his rep and does better over the summer in that situation than i'm expecting, but when it was clear fvv wasn't thrilled with his contract situation, the writing was on the wall, imo.

i'm also not sure barnes is as good as barnes thinks he is. it almost looked like our gameplan was to seduce him into taking shots. and yes, he made most of them, but their offense was pretty stagnant considering the amount of firepower they have.

 

Offensively the Raptors look like the Clippers without the 3pts shot.

They play 3 wings so they hunt the mismatch available ... a lot of midrange but can't pass the ball and create easy shots

 

Pel fans were so smug last December when they were 2nd in the West, welcome to the basement fools

 

Reading your comments, crack me up. You must have grown up with a bunch of brothers!! Your sense of humor seems a bit rowdy, in a good way.

 

lol

really? you were probably nodding along with the media who swore (thanks to sources from rival front offices and only rival front offices) that we'd have to pay two firsts and eat the worst contracts in the league to move russ.

patience is a virtue. we waited for the right deal, and for your garbage team to fold. check. check.

 

Big Game James compared Reeves to CP3 after the game.

 

lol, i think that may have been the OP's joke, and it's a good one.

 

my dad and i were talking about this the other day. paul's antics just suck the life out of his otherworldly talent, much like kyrie's off-court issues suck the life out of his similar talent.

to me, it's not that hard to just "not punch guys in the nuts" or "apologize for saying stupid things". if these guys could do this, their legacies would be entirely different than they will be as is.

 

I just learned recently that CPFlop’s propensity for punching people in the nuts started in college and it was widely publicized too.

 

it's hard to turn off aspects of your personality, and these pro athletes can be really extreme.

anyone read that piece on dillon brooks recently? i think it was trying to help him explain himself, and he just comes off as a misguided a******.

paul can't help himself; beverley can't help himself. these extreme edges have gotten them so many things they wanted that they become what we in the ol' biz used to call generalized operants--behaviors that are going to be repeated across contexts, even to the occasional point of detriment.

this is part of why, for me, kobe's early death was even more tragic. as a psychologist, i felt like he changed pretty substantially over his career, moving from self-serving and petulant to wise and more collaborative. i was curious to see how that would play out in other ventures, etc., in part because it's not that common to see.

 

BUMPING RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I need to hear those crybabies b****ing about Reeves

 

Suns of b****es

 

reaves did get some ticky tack stuff, but booker got the same treatment. i get the argument that booker has proven he'll score 50 sometimes if you don't foul him, and reaves hasn't, though. it's why harden never sat well with me: he was a FT superstar before he proved you needed to foul him to stop him, imo.

i don't think reaves is nearly as shameless as harden, but he definitely is looking to get fouled on some plays, which would frustrate me as an opposing fan.