Today is January 3rd. Since December 3rd, the Toronto Raptors have played in 16 games. They are .500 in those 16 games.
In those 16 games Kawhi Leonard is averaging 30ppg on 63% TS (not including tonight). Interesting that it isn't translating to wins.
Posted Jan 4, 2019, 3:29 AM UTC
Get outta here with that .500 shit, tryna jack our swag
lol
Lowry has missed 10 games and counting
Kawhi has missed 10 games.
Ibaka has missed 4 games.
JV has missed 9 games and counting.
Danny missed 1 game.
OG has missed 6 games
Siakam missed 1 game.
Powell missed 22 games.
Delon Wright missed 5 games
FVV has missed 5 games
CJ Miles has missed 6 games
We have literally been crippled.
Our starting lineup alone has missed 26 games + JV's extra games because he starts sometimes.
CJ Miles has missed 39 games
Oh no
We want CJ to miss games.
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Kawhi missed the whole season.
No Lowry though
Missing JV on offense and going against traditional big men, he's under rated
We really should be starting Monroe over Ibaka from time to time. There are some matchups that Ibaka clearly can't take and it's hurt the team.
JV being out has been shitty. Got absolutely demolished by teams with great bigs like Vuce and Nurkic. Ibaka has also fallen off a cliff.
Ibaka's offense relies solely on Lowry feeding him open looks off the pick and roll.
Do people just post shit without doing research? What a dumb post imo....
Over the past month, the Raptors are missing Kyle Lowry and JV, 1 top 5 player on our team and the engine that drives the offense
The team has been ravaged by injuries. There's no mystery here.
Define injuries
Kyle Lowry, JV.
You don't know what an injury is?
No Lowry
We get so many open 3's and good shots. But they never fall...
A couple games and you can chalk it up to just a bad shooting spree. Over 16 games... maybe they need some shooting practice lol
Do they have a shooting coach?
no jv, no ibaka until recently, no lowry. I'm surprised we are doing this well
still the best team in the east for sure. every team goes through some down periods throughout the season and theyve been without lowry
I think the Bucks are the better team. More well balanced and they have the best player in the conference.
The Bucks have also been completely healthy the entire season aside from Ersan
And Henson, who we traded because he was out most of the season. And DiVincenzo. And DJ Wilson.
Of course, the Nuggets have way more injuries and they’re doing just fine, perhaps the Raptors aren’t as deep as they think.
If by "just fine" then you mean worse than the Raptors, okay yeah.
Has a Bucks starter even missed a game this season? The Raptors have only played about half of their games with both if their all stars in.
Oh man I apologize on his behalf. I'm sure you guys are in absolute shambles after missing DiVincenzo and DJ Wilson.
Nuggets injury numbers are skewed because they have 2 guys who probably wouldn't get minutes on the team that have been out all season.
giannis is not better then kawhi in my opinion and i think if the 2 teams meet in the playoffs raps would win in 6. bucks rely on bledsoe to be their second best player. thats a huge red flag to me
Um..we most certainly do not rely on bledsoe being out second best player lol. Did you just forget Middleton exists?
He ain't a Celtics fan, they know he exists.
bucks rely on bledsoe to be their second best player. thats a huge red flag to me
And relying on playoff Lowry isn’t?
You lost just by mentioning playoff Lowry as if it's a negative. Go check the stats, it's a meme.
lowrys been really damn good in the playoffs the last 2 seasons. so no
injuries
No Lowry and No JV for a huge chunk of those. Do people not realize how important they are.....especially Lowry.
JV is out
Lowry is out
Norm just came back
OG has missed a good chunk of games due to the death of his father
Kawhi sits on b2bs
Injuries aside, we have had some rough shooting performances and certain players have struggled for the majority of the season (CJ, FVV, Lowry at times) but we haven't really seen the team at full strength, we've had injuries all season.
Kyle Lowry has played in less than half of those games. Valanciunas and Ibaka were also out. Kawhi was also being rested in a few of those games.
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We're so good that even at our worst, we're still at .500
Injuries......JV and Lowry have been since they played the warriors on Dec 12. Kyle came back and played one game against the sixers that’s it.
Probably because they have a lot of injuries, idk thats a reach tho
Lowry is Raptors most important offensive player. They are gonna struggle without him, when he is back at full strength, they will be really dangerous.
he legit does everything for us, to the point where we dont look like a playoff team without him. It's kind of sad
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