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TRex wrote:
This is why stats in the NBA aren't a good way to judge a players' skill. I guarantee you if Ed Davis had been getting starter's minutes all year long he would be averaging around 15 and 11. The same 15 & 11 that garnered Roy Hibbert a MAX CONTRACT.
Big reason this game became competitive is because of KYLE LOWRY. WHen the bench came in the 3rd quarter. DeRozan is a non factor tonight.Quote:
Rapstor4Life wrote:
What game were you watching?
this guy is not overreacting at all, joakim noah pass to nobody was a bloody travesty.Quote:
BasketballCrush wrote:
Thank you. I'm tired of all these damn excuses. "oh well if amir had hit that free throw we woulda won..!!"Quote:
Matt52 wrote:
The Raptors lost because the Bulls are a better team in every possible way, ESPECIALLY COACHING
Sometimes you need to over react to get some notice, this is getting to be ridiculous, we all see it happening before our eyes and we all know why.
We fill the Arena and the NBA sends us dud refs, calling the game ONE SIDED. Casey got a tech for it today! This is at our arena. They put tariff's on soft wood, we should be able to protect our PRO teams from their horribly biased officiating. It's beyond a joke now.
I would also invest in Pi's for this crew, send the bill to the NBA.
I don't want an apology, I want people fired! Fuck you NBA.
(what happen to home team advantage? why are there no games in our favour if this is random?)
How is a guy that shot 5/5 to start ending with 18 points 6 of 6 from the line a non factor??? Explain. It isn't Demar's fault Calderon stayed off him when he was shooting well. You can't be a factor on the scoreboard whoever you are if the ball doesn't come your way for stretches.. You DeRozan hate just doesn't make any sense.Quote:
TRex wrote:
He did that in the 1st half. I am fairly sure 80% of his production is there. We needed players at the end.
EDIT: Yup 12 of his points came in the first half, 10 of them in the 1st quarter. He scored 8 points in 3 quarters and OT.
I'm a pretty diplomatic person.. I recognize that we made mistakes to lose this game.. I mentioned that when I highlighted Amirs missed foul shot, in crunch time it was needed.. I did say that there were other reasons we lost.. But in crunch time ur a lunatic if u don't see how we got fucked on 3 or 4 straight calls.. The refs are usually pretty deliberate during crunch time when it mattersQuote:
Sig wrote:
I get what ur saying but he didn't do anything to earn those points.. They were all midrange jumpers that he did not create and they could have fallen or missed... He did not put forth any effort to help us win this gameQuote:
BasketballCrush wrote:
One of the nicest things in life is seeing 2 teams going bucket for bucket in the final minutes. This is where you need to be fair, or else it goes out the window.
All I ask is for fairness, if you are going to whistle for ticky tacky things on one end, and not the other, than we have a problem. Anyone can watch that tape and see that we got screwed.
I am in total agreement with you, if you re-read it. I also agree with the above point, his jumpers took little investment.Quote:
FoxMachine wrote:
Oops, sorry I meant to quote raptors4life comment before yoursQuote:
BasketballCrush wrote:
Well, you answered your own question.Quote:
Rapstor4Life wrote:
DD was 5/6 10pts in the 1st. 8pts the rest of the game.
40mins 18pts 3rbs 1ast
By that same logic, Terrence Ross and Alan Anderson are just as good scorers as Joe Johnson and OJ Mayo who also score around the same amount as Demar and play around the same minutes. Yes he has struggled of late and no he is certainly not the greatest defender in the world but to say he is terrible is exaggerating. His defensive rating (basketball-reference) is one point better than anderson's and one point worse than Ross'. So they are not astronomically better defenders. (BTW we're talking about a player slumping when he's still putting up 15.6 points a game during january, mind you not at a great percentage but he's still putting up his share).Quote:
TRex wrote:
I would call his play awful if he took like 26 shots but he only took 13 and hit 6 thats almost 50% hes averaging 18ppg 42-45% shooting was touching 45+ percentage with Lowry starting. Thats pretty efficent. Its not his fault he doesn't get more touches with a Calderon run offense.
players like KD/LBJ/KB who you seem to be comparing Demar to those eite guys and on avg are taking 21+ sots a game.... again I dont get your hate.... and the last 8 were scored in the last quarter... so whats your point? he didnt score more because 1.Lowry was scoring stick with him. 2.Anderson was scoring the ball stick with him when he finally shot again he hadnt shot for for the past 10 or so minutes and by the fourth he did the right thing and went to the line for 2 straight posessions a game is 100 posessions dude.
Ignorance... He got touches.. He didn't score because he didn't try to.. The points he got are a credit to the screener and the passer, he did what he was supposed to do and knocked down the shot... Woulda loved to see him earn his points like Anderson did this game but derozan was just not into itQuote:
Rapstor4Life wrote:
This.Quote:
FoxMachine wrote:
But my problem with him is not just his offensive game. DeRozan's overall game is just ridiculously bad. For a guy his size he should be getting more than 4 rebounds/game. Tonight he got 4 in 40mins. Last night he had 2 in 34 mins.
Defensively, he's horrible. The guy couldn't even guard Marco fucking Belinelli. The foul that he committed on Marco tonight was just a bonehead play. There's no reason to be up in a guy's grill 4 feet behind the 3 point line, with no foul to give.
Fan reaction like this is why people don't stay in Toronto. How are you going to say he didn't try smdh come on seriously? That's just disrespectful.
Toronto farms are so dam bipolar.
I agree. Demar Derozan isn't a shot creator. If you run plays for him, the more effective he is, and the better the opportunities come. He's not Dwane Wade, or LeBron James. He's a low-post scorer, off pin-downs, pick-&-roll type guy. He just doesn't have that skill to cross someone up or bully their way to the basket.Quote:
Rapstor4Life wrote:
BUT, Demar Derozan is soft.