Sometimes, the right opponent is all it takes for a team to remember who they are, and that was the case for the Raptors with the Cleveland Cavaliers in town on Monday night. With Cleveland fully in the midst of a rebuild, and a lot of their younger players still learning the ropes in the…
When it was known that Kyle Lowry and Serge Ibaka were going to miss the remained of the Western Conference road trip, and then some, after the win over the New Orleans Pelicans, it looked rough for the Raptors. The rotation had only been 7 players mostly to that point and there were a lot…
You know the woozy feeling you get when you stand up too fast? The Raptors had that for the first 14 minutes of the game against the Bucks last night. There was one exception, that being Kyle Lowry – the man who is never woozy, and by proxy of the size of his butt is…
After a tough loss in Boston on Friday night in which the Raptors looked like they may have had some of their weaknesses exposed, having been dominated on the boards to help the Celtics generate a huge advantage in field goal attempts, Toronto had an opportunity to bounce back against the Bulls on Saturday. Chicago…
Friday night in Brooklyn, the Raptors had their first game of the pre-season with their full rotation intact, in their last outing prior to the start of the season. With Kyle Lowry making his preseason debut, Nick Nurse seemed to give a preview of what the rotation might look like using only eight players in…
There were moments in Thursday night’s game 6 where it felt a lot like the previous game, back home in Toronto. The Raptors had surrendered a lead after controlling the early parts of the game, Kawhi Leonard hadn’t fully established himself, and the Raptors just kept having opportunities to take control, and not quite getting…
The narratives surrounding a NBA playoff series are hard to predict coming in, and often need to adjust for the circumstances as the series goes on. Game three in Oakland was certainly one that would dictate the way the story of this series was told going forward. After coughing up a lead in game two…
There’s something to a team finding themselves in the face of adversity, and it can be an exciting thing to witness. It happened for the Raptors in the second round against Philadelphia when they showcased their strength on the defensive end to win drag-it-out, physical games to escape the series, and that’s what they brought…
Through the first seven games of the Raptors’ playoff run, there was one constant that kept the team moving in a forward direction, the fact that Toronto’s starters had comfortably outplayed their opponents at every turn and found ways to create advantages, and made up for the struggles of nearly every other combination of players.…
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…
Friday night in Charlotte the Raptors opened with a strong push by their starting lineup, and it initially looked reminiscent of most of the team’s recent games, where they would ride out a dominant offensive performance to another victory. Playing against a desperate Charlotte squad looking to keep their season alive for at least one…
Thursday night the Raptors played the Knicks, in a mostly meaningless game sandwiched between two games against the Chicago Bulls during a stretch of the season where the games are equally meaningless for the Raptors as they are for their opponents. The Knicks are just winding down another disappointing season in…