In a sport ravaged with high-low actions, advanced analytics and complex defensive schemes, sometimes things really aren’t as complicated as a they’re made out to be. Occasionally basketball is really quite simple. Who wants it more? It sounds cliché, I know. But with each gravity-defying offensive rebound, every body thrown on top of a loose…
The Toronto Raptors grueling double overtime on Sunday showed us a lot of things. It showed that Marc Gasol was actually capable of not only playing, but thriving, in this series. It showed that there is some life hidden in the bench in the form of Norman Powell. And, for those that have not been…
The Raptors get on the board after a marathon double-overtime win over the Bucks.
It’s not the start you wanted if you’re the Toronto Raptors. Down 2-0 to the league’s best team, the Milwaukee Bucks, the Raptors now need to win four out of five games “against a team that has suffered back-to-back losses only once since the beginning of the season and never lost three of four.” The…
There’s basically two schools of thought in the conversations surrounding the Raptors right now: The Raptors played bad, pushed the Bucks and, provided that they play better, they can steal Game 2. This is the stance of a great deal of Raptors fans, as it should be. The Raptors starters played 40+ minutes, the Bucks…
I wrote a piece back in December called “Finding Good Things, in a Sea of Good Things”. I talked about Delon Wright’s 3-point shot, Pascal Siakam’s unparalleled dominance when defending corner threes, and Kawhi Leonard’s forays into the paint. Now, like that time in Raptorland, there’s a lot of things to like from the team.…
The adrenaline of Kawhi Leonard’s game 7 heroics have finally faded. Leonard himself said that he’d moved on from the glorious moment by the next day, though it took the rest of Raptorland a whole lot longer. (I probably still watched 15 times on Twitter this morning, weening myself off of the high.) So what…
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…
Tonight the Toronto Raptors will play the most important game in the franchise’s 24 year history, facing off against the Philadelphia 76ers in game 7 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. Six games between the Raptors and 76ers decided nothing. The series has been so back in forth and unpredictable that either team could have a…
Let’s talk about Seinfeld. Better yet, let’s talk about one of the greatest episodes of the greatest television show, ‘The Bizarro Jerry’. Elaine stumbles into a new friend group, one that weirdly mirrors the trifecta of Jerry, George, and Kramer, but in inverse fashion. She enters a bizarro world in which everything is familiar yet…