MIL Bucks 94 Final Box Score 100 TOR Raptors A- P. Siakam42 MIN, 18 PTS, 4 REB, 0 AST, 1 STL, 7-17 FG, 1-3 3FG, 3-4 FT, 1 BLK, 2 TO, 8 +/- That steal late in the fourth quarter personifies Pascal Siakam’s entire playoff run. He hasn’t been perfect, far from it in fact,…
MIL Bucks 112 Final Box Score 118 TOR Raptors A P. Siakam51 MIN, 25 PTS, 11 REB, 1 AST, 3 STL, 9-18 FG, 2-5 3FG, 5-9 FT, 1 BLK, 3 TO, 12 +/- Man, life must be hard when Giannis is guarding you. Not if you are Siakam, though. He ditched the three-point attempts and…
TOR Raptors 103 Final Box Score 125 MIL Bucks C- P. Siakam26 MIN, 8 PTS, 1 REB, 2 AST, 1 STL, 4-9 FG, 0-2 3FG, 0-0 FT, 0 BLK, 0 TO, -21 +/- I actually forgot Siakam was playing mid-way through this game. Fouls will do that to ya. Siakam has had a rollercoaster of…
The Toronto Raptors playoff experience doesn’t meddle with mildness. It is truly an all or nothing spectacle. Their series versus Philadelphia bounced between incredible highs and disappointing lows, they have either scorched from deep or laid a brick house of missed three-pointers. On Wednesday night, even the most stabilizing facet of the Raptors game —…
With a little under five minutes remaining in the third quarter, Serge Ibaka set a screen for Kyle Lowry and rolled towards the basket. He was met firmly by Jimmy Butler and proceeded to seal him underneath the hoop, absorbing elbow blows to his midsection while beckoning for the ball. Lowry, standing just inches within…
The Toronto Raptors have made their bread this postseason by forcing turnovers and stymieing their opponent’s offensive flow with a heightened defensive tenacity. On Monday night, the shoe was firmly placed on the other foot as the Sixers jumped on Toronto early in a chippy 94-89 loss at Scotiabank Arena. The Raptors, who entered the…
TOR Raptors 107 Final Box Score 85 ORL Magic A P. Siakam36 MIN, 16 PTS, 6 REB, 2 AST, 0 STL, 7-14 FG, 2-6 3FG, 0-0 FT, 1 BLK, 2 TO, 11 +/- As NBA on TNT acknowledged today, Siakam is a bad, bad boy. He and Leonard eviscerated the Magic on both ends of…
With the Raptors home schedule finished after beating Orlando on Sunday at the Air Canada Centre, they traveled across the border to play in front of a friendly crowd in Detroit, and they’d once again be shorthanded as they rested players to prepare for the playoffs, now less than a week away. With the top…
The best time to write about the NBA is in-between lecture slides about microeconomics. Here are my dilapidated thoughts from last night’s preseason match between the New York Knicks and the Toronto Raptors.
Toronto defeats Boston in a total snooze fest. Landry Fields and Terrence Ross led the Raptors in scoring (no really). Read on to find out how they did it!
A word on Rudy Gay, Jonas Valanciunas and the disgrace to his profession that is Tommy Heinsohn.
Maybe he didn’t get shorted for minutes in this game? Read on to find out. It’s the latest instalment of JonasBasket 2013!