Game #5 - Toronto Raptors 103 - Oklahoma City Thunder 98

[Joey]

you're the past, OLD MAN

take your golden watch and enjoy your nice bench in the park

... that's awfully aggressive coming from the guy who will be ran out of town if we lose ... Haha

[Joey]

you're the past, OLD MAN

take your golden watch and enjoy your nice bench in the park

And I fixed the thread title because you did it wrong.

[rocwell]

Welcome back, Joey. I hope your city meeting was about dat long-term contract w/ Masai.

82-1!

[tDotted]

[magoon]

And I fixed the thread title because you did it wrong.

wrong... or BETTER

[Joey]

wrong... or BETTER

... Wrong.

But its cool, appreciate you picking up the slack while I was gone. My title adjustment should get us the win.

[SkywalkerAC]

5 and 0.

[hotfuzz]

lol sorry guys, had a meeting with the city that ran a bit late ... Do we still need a game thread ... Orrrr are we good? Haha thundercats look to be the favourite tonight.

you suck! Boo this man!

[Joey]

[tDotted]

It's alright Joey.. you already got us the best 4 game start in franchise history. We're only going to miss out on having a flawless record at the end of the season because of tonight. Don't worry about it.

[Joey]

Just sneak this in here for good measure ...

vs.

Projected Starters

Toronto	Thunder
PG - Kyle Lowry	PG - Russell Westbrook
SG - Demar Derozan	SG - Andre Roberson
SF - Demarre Carroll	SF - Kevin Durant
PF - Luis Scola	PF - Serge Ibaka
C - Jonas Valanciunas	C - Steven Adams

Last Meeting
MARCH 8, 2015
OKLAHOMA CITY 108, TORONTO 104
Russell Westbrook posted his fifth triple-double in six games to help the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Toronto Raptors 108-104 … Westbrook, the NBA’s leading scorer, had 30 points, matched a career high with 17 assists and grabbed 11 rebounds for his seventh triple-double of the season and 15th of his career … Enes Kanter had 21 points and 12 rebounds and Serge Ibaka had 21 points and five blocks for the Thunder … The Thunder shot 51 per cent from the field and out rebounded the Raptors 49-33 … DeMar DeRozan scored 24 points and Terrence Ross added 20 for the Raptors, who lost their third straight … A power dunk by DeRozan cut Oklahoma City’s lead to 106-104 with 15.4 seconds to play … Westbrook made two free throws with 14.3 seconds left to make it a four-point lead … DeRozan missed a contested 3-pointer, and the Thunder held on … Toronto led by seven in the second quarter before the Thunder rallied … A dunk by Ibaka on an assist by Westbrook cut the Raptors’ lead to 59-58, but Toronto maintained a 61-58 lead heading into the break.


Talking Points
• Toronto enters Wednesday's game with a 4-0 mark to begin a season for the first time in team history.

• The Raptors are alone atop the Eastern Conference standings for the second time in team history.

• Lowry currently leads the NBA with 12 steals and leads all Eastern Conference players with 32 assists.

• Toronto is +43 (232-to-189) in second-half scoring through four games this season.

• According to Basketball-Reference.com Toronto is the ninth team since 2000 to hold opponents under .420 field goal shooting in four consecutive games to start a season.



Go Raps!

[Joey]

Hah, and whats awesome, is it sits at the top of the page for me! Its like it neeeever happened ... RIGHT guys?!?! Lol

[DanH]

Hah, and whats awesome, is it sits at the top of the page for me! Its like it neeeever happened ... RIGHT guys?!?! Lol

Boo!

[octothorp]

For the love of New Thundera, change it back!

[Axel]

Hah, and whats awesome, is it sits at the top of the page for me! Its like it neeeever happened ... RIGHT guys?!?! Lol

Oh my. Good try Joey.