Tuesday night the Raptors had the chance to do something they’d never previously done in franchise history, to leave a series the victors without the stress of a drawn-out series, and finish off a playoff opponent in short order, then get a few days rest prior to beginning the second round. They got to work…
There were a lot of elements to Friday night’s Raptors game 3 that felt all too familiar. Tony Brothers was officiating, and the Raptors were clearly frustrated with the calls all night long, and letting it get to them at times. They had a clear talent advantage over their opponent, but couldn’t quite get a…
The Raptors spent five years making the playoffs as a team that relied on beating teams on the margins. Whether that was dominant bench units, like last year, hybrid lineups between starters and the bench, like the year before, or some other method of finding an advantage to mitigate the fact that they didn’t have…
Saturday night, after the frustrating result in game 1 for the Raptors, I went looking for answers, and the method I usually choose to do so is to look at the data. The problem is, the story the data kept telling me was that the Raptors mostly outplayed Orlando, and lost anyways. The game film,…
As the playoff schedule finalized on Wednesday night, and the first round opponent for the Raptors was finally determined to be the Orlando Magic, Raptors fans seemed to be immediately looking for reasons to worry. Whether that was talking about Pascal Siakam and Kawhi Leonard struggling a little bit against Jonathan Isaac and Aaron Gordon…
The Raptors have added the final piece to their playoff roster by bringing back Eric Moreland.
The Toronto Raptors are on their way to their first ever season on top of the Eastern Conference, and with a victory over the Miami Heat tonight could win 60 games, the first time a team in the East has done so since 2014-15. It’ll be their third straight season as a top-3 seed in…
The Raptors will have to put their own imprint on games if they want to be successful in the playoffs
With the success the Raptors have found this year, and April rapidly approaching, pundits around the league have begun to discuss what this year’s Raptors will do in the playoffs, and common threads tend to tie together those pieces. There are discussions about the past playoff struggles of Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan, and the…