It’s good to go home. After a tough afternoon in Detroit on Sunday, the Raptors returned to action Monday night against the visiting New York Knicks, this time with Kyle Lowry back in the lineup and Kawhi Leonard sitting the second leg of a back-to-back for load management, once again. This was a game where…
The Raptors have recently been alternating between looking like a dominant team that has figured out how to play within their game and looking like a team struggling to find the motivation to play, and Monday night in Cleveland, that second group showed up for most of the night. This should’ve, for all intents and…
Danny Green eulogized the game pretty well in his interview with Eric Smith. Evoking the esoteric knowledge that moving the ball creates open shots, and open shots have a better chance of going in. The Raptors did just that in this one, piling up over 30 assists for the 15th time this year, as the…
With Kawhi Leonard sitting once again for load management on Sunday afternoon, the hottest team in the league in the month of February rolled into town and delivered a resounding defeat to the Toronto Raptors. The Orlando Magic have been on an impressive role of late, finding their stride on the defensive end where they’ve…
Wow, could you imagine a better game to take us into All-Star break? While there’s been tons of players to love on the Raptors, Pascal Siakam remains one of the easiest to spend the emotional labour on, and to see him bust out for 44-points was wunderbar. Even though this was Jeremy Lin’s debut with…
After making a big splash at the trade deadline on Thursday to acquire Marc Gasol, the Raptors got their first chance to have him in uniform Saturday in New York. With Gasol still adjusting to the Raptors’ playbook and his new teammates, he came off the bench in this one, with Serge Ibaka getting the…
In my preview for the Raptors-Hawks game, I noted that it was going to be a very rare occasion, as the Raptors were going to be fully healthy for the first time in months. Masai Ujiri spit in my face and traded away a third of the rotation, including the beloved and divisive big man,…
With Kawhi Leonard managing his workload, Jonas Valanciunas on the mend, and OG Anunoby still taking care of things with his family, the Raptors faced an uphill battle against the Eastern Conference’s third best team, the Indiana Pacers. The Pacers have been one of the league’s best teams since December. Even with Victor Oladipo and…
The news broke that Kawhi Leonard would not be joining the Raptors for tipoff early in the day. It also happened to be quite cold outside – or so I hear. The jokes came and went, “anything to keep Leonard out of the snow and cold”. Karmic retribution struck in the favour of the Raptors,…
When a team has a season in which they win a lot of games, some of them are going to be really fun to watch, some of them are going to be stressful and ultimately rewarding, and still others are the type that the team is just happy to be done with. For the Raptors,…
With a streaking Raptors team still dealing with injuries heading into Boston against a Celtics team on a three-game losing streak, and dealing with some drama, but finally getting mostly healthy, this game had the feeling of a potential trap heading into it. The Celtics, despite their struggles on the road all season long, had…
For the first time since Dec. 9th, the Raptors got to clock-in their de-facto starting line-up. After a month of turbulence as far as health goes, the Raptors are returning to form with Kyle Lowry lighting the way. The Nets, who started their turn of fortune with a win over the Raptors (Dec. 7th), came…