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,…
“I love Toronto, I love this team, and we are going to the NBA Finals.” Ugh, Drake why you gotta do us like that? The jubilation of a momentum shifting road victory has put the Toronto Raptors firmly into the driver’s seat to earn their first ever Eastern Conference crown, but there is still a…
I was introduced to clichéd sports mantras at an early age. I remember strapping on my boots in little league soccer — my first foray into organized sports — and my coach telling me, “there is no ‘I’ in team.” It’s an oft-used quote from the ‘Coach Talk’ handbook that I’m sure many readers have…
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…
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…
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…
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 —…
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…
PHI 76ers 90 Final Box Score 92 TOR Raptors B P. Siakam38 MIN, 11 PTS, 11 REB, 2 AST, 2 STL, 4-11 FG, 0-2 3FG, 3-4 FT, 0 BLK, 1 TO, -6 +/- It wasn’t his greatest performance, but Siakam was a focal part of one of the most important moments of the game. His…
Good morning Raptors Republic! I hope everybody enjoyed their one day of bathing in the glory of Kawhi Leonard’s otherworldly performance because now we are back firmly in sphincter-tightening season. Toronto have won back homecourt and are essentially competing in a best of three series now, but that means nothing if they slip up tonight…