PG: Raps avoid epic meltdown, take series lead.

EFF3KT · Post #1041 » by **EFF3KT** » Thu May 1, 2014 2:05 pm

I've done my best to read through a lot of this thread.. and there's one thing being overshadowed due to that 4th Q meltdown.

Lowry.

Lowry was the reason for our 26pt lead. Lowry was the reason for us holding a lead late. Lowry is the reason Deron's ankle is hurting this morning. How is this not THE play of the damn season? He crossed Deron Williams HARD and finished the play to pretty much seal the victory and I haven't seen enough praise of this one play in particular. This was his biggest basket of the game.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thoL5SYboPY[/youtube]

I don't want to overpay him but without him, we would be fishing right now.

djsunyc · Post #1042 » by **djsunyc** » Thu May 1, 2014 2:17 pm

anyone have a gif of the GV shimmy after the 3 in the 4th? it was on the nets telecast front and center.

Rejected · Post #1043 » by **Rejected** » Thu May 1, 2014 2:23 pm

I still feel physical stress from last night. My health can't take much more of this, we better close this out easily on Friday or I could have an actual heart attack

Scooby Snax · Post #1044 » by **Scooby Snax** » Thu May 1, 2014 2:24 pm

EFF3KT wrote:I've done my best to read through a lot of this thread.. and there's one thing being overshadowed due to that 4th Q meltdown.

Lowry.

Lowry was the reason for our 26pt lead. Lowry was the reason for us holding a lead late. Lowry is the reason Deron's ankle is hurting this morning. How is this not THE play of the damn season? He crossed Deron Williams HARD and finished the play to pretty much seal the victory and I haven't seen enough praise of this one play in particular. This was his biggest basket of the game.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thoL5SYboPY[/youtube]

I don't want to overpay him but without him, we would be fishing right now.

He deserves whatever pay day he gets man.

JustWin · Post #1045 » by **JustWin** » Thu May 1, 2014 2:26 pm

Man we need to close this out on Friday, I don't think i'll be able to watch the game on Sunday unless itll be on at 7pm

deeps6x · Post #1046 » by **deeps6x** » Thu May 1, 2014 2:27 pm

Hero wrote:Re sign this man Now!

Thanks SHAW! Got home in time to see this, but the recording I had set on the DVR never took place, so I missed the best 24 minutes of the year. Time to switch providers.

BTW, how is this not a 4 point play?

Jadoogar · Post #1047 » by **Jadoogar** » Thu May 1, 2014 2:28 pm

The same people complaining that this wasn't a good win are the same people who say there's no such thing as a moral victory. If there are no moral victories, there are no moral losses either.

The 4th quarter was all kinds of stupid but a win is a win

Waylanderz · Post #1048 » by **Waylanderz** » Thu May 1, 2014 2:37 pm

What a game. I am still shocked that we actually won it.

ghuytro · Post #1049 » by **ghuytro** » Thu May 1, 2014 2:46 pm

Boogie! wrote:also another positive, valanciunas is looking like a legitimate post presence in there... he's nearly automatic when he gets the ball deep...

Somebody tell that to our coach!

djsunyc · Post #1050 » by **djsunyc** » Thu May 1, 2014 2:47 pm

06-08 teams would've lost that game.

RaptorJ · Post #1051 » by **RaptorJ** » Thu May 1, 2014 2:51 pm

JS_raptors wrote:http://www.netsdaily.com/2014/5/1/5671000/fans-angry-with-brooklynnets-twitter-feed-after-gratuitous-slap

lolol nets fans blaming their horrible crowd on Barclays Center employees

[tweet]https://twitter.com/TheBklynBrigade/status/461713035586183168[/tweet]

That's pretty fail if the staff took away banners from Nets fans though. lol

Volcano · Post #1052 » by **Volcano** » Thu May 1, 2014 2:56 pm

Jadoogar wrote:The same people complaining that this wasn't a good win are the same people who say there's no such thing as a moral victory. If there are no moral victories, there are no moral losses either.

The 4th quarter was all kinds of stupid but a win is a win

what if the people who are saying it's a bad win are the same ones who believe in moral victories? If there are moral victories, then there are moral losses

but I agree, a win is a win..doesn't mean you ignore what happened, just need to take it as a learning experience which is what the Raps are gonna do

BballFan2014 · Post #1053 » by **BballFan2014** » Thu May 1, 2014 3:05 pm

UnderdogRaptors wrote:Can't believe we blew that lead again lowry bailed us out

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yup we got a big bailout package courtesy of Lowry last night, omg, the people at the bar where i was were all doing this :banghead:

after the game got tied.

IMHO, we got a lucky win last night, DW is just not the same and is severely under performing, we were fouling the jump shooters left right and center giving them several and 1s and 2 or 3 (4 point) plays? had any one of those critical 3s from vasques or lowry missed we might be staring down the other end of the 3-2 deficit. Man this team sure knows how to meltdown @ crucial moments. Game 4 (fall apart in 2nd and 3rd) we scrape through somehow, Game 5 (supposed 4th quarter team completely falls apart in the 4th)

I think Game 6 is up for grabs still and if the raptors meltdown again, Brooklyn is going to take it away from us. Brooklyn is gonna come out swinging cuz it is a must win for them, the raps cant have any lapses if they want to close it out in 6. Last night was an ugly win, but it is what it is, this team is still young and still has a lot to learn.

Miami is resting well on the other side...

chimpston17 · Post #1054 » by **chimpston17** » Thu May 1, 2014 3:08 pm

I still can't wrap my head around Vasquez throwing the final inbounds pass towards our own basket, pretty much the riskiest pass you could possibly throw in that situation. Throw it to the other basket and it's basically physically impossible to get a shot off in the other direction in 1 second.

Thank goodness Lowry was in MVP mode tonight and props to DD for making his FT's down the stretch (even though his horrendous D on Johnson allowed them back in the game).

Such a wide range of emotions after this game

primecougar · Post #1055 » by **primecougar** » Thu May 1, 2014 3:08 pm

BackseatBoss wrote:
primecougar wrote:why the hate for salmons? he plays joe johnson really and joe made a couple of tough shots, i swear one layup was a fluke. you guys are over rating fields. i watched that game and the only time fields did anything was when he got the steal. every other time, we doubled hard/or hedged on the pick and roll. as **** as salmon is on offense, he's still getting defended. they just leave field wide open and that hurts our offence even more.

Rewatch the games then, because you have no clue what you're talking about. Fields was so good on Johnson, that Joe was never even thinking about shooting the ball. He couldn't do anything against Fields. Couldn't post him up, couldn't drive past him and couldn't get open to save his life. He was an absolute non factor with Fields on the court. Yeah, our offense might not be that good with Fields on the court, but what does Salmons provide offensively anyway? When was the last time he hit a shot? He's useless offensively and useless defensively.

I missed that game and downloaded it (I knew we won and that fields supposedly shut joe down)! When fields was on the floor, raps just started doubling him and he kept passing it out.
Johnson missed 1 or 2 shots at the end of the shot clock. Fields obv did a decent job of pushing him out but he's no "stopper".

You must not understand. When fields is on the court, they leave him open, no one pays him any attention. Even if salmons is 0-10, his man is still with him. I agree salmons sucks offensively right now but he's still better than fields

Boogie! · Post #1056 » by **Boogie!** » Thu May 1, 2014 3:10 pm

primecougar wrote:
BackseatBoss wrote:
primecougar wrote:why the hate for salmons? he plays joe johnson really and joe made a couple of tough shots, i swear one layup was a fluke. you guys are over rating fields. i watched that game and the only time fields did anything was when he got the steal. every other time, we doubled hard/or hedged on the pick and roll. as **** as salmon is on offense, he's still getting defended. they just leave field wide open and that hurts our offence even more.

Rewatch the games then, because you have no clue what you're talking about. Fields was so good on Johnson, that Joe was never even thinking about shooting the ball. He couldn't do anything against Fields. Couldn't post him up, couldn't drive past him and couldn't get open to save his life. He was an absolute non factor with Fields on the court. Yeah, our offense might not be that good with Fields on the court, but what does Salmons provide offensively anyway? When was the last time he hit a shot? He's useless offensively and useless defensively.

I missed that game and downloaded it (I knew we won and that fields supposedly shut joe down)! When fields was on the floor, raps just started doubling him and he kept passing it out.
Johnson missed 1 or 2 shots at the end of the shot clock. Fields obv did a decent job of pushing him out but he's no "stopper".

You must not understand. When fields is on the court, they leave him open, no one pays him any attention. Even if salmons is 0-10, his man is still with him. I agree salmons sucks offensively right now but he's still better than fields

what are you talking about? salmons is left open to make 3s and he's bricking them all... salmons sucks no matter how to put it, salmons stinks... fields is a positive out there because he brings more than salmons does...

BballFan2014 · Post #1057 » by **BballFan2014** » Thu May 1, 2014 3:13 pm

ghuytro wrote:
Boogie! wrote:also another positive, valanciunas is looking like a legitimate post presence in there... he's nearly automatic when he gets the ball deep...

Somebody tell that to our coach!

It is apparent to everyone else but Casey!!! :banghead:

Hero · Post #1058 » by **Hero** » Thu May 1, 2014 3:13 pm

Hoffa69 wrote:If I knew how to upload a photo I would show the realgm world that I was the guy that got rejected with the kiss lol. I have a photo on my phone, but thought it would be easier to throw it on here. Heavy rejection, daily BJ's for the next year for my gf to make it up to me.

Kudos to confessing bro. Much respect.

Kabookalu · Post #1059 » by **Kabookalu** » Thu May 1, 2014 3:14 pm

chimpston17 wrote:I still can't wrap my head around Vasquez throwing the final inbounds pass towards our own basket, pretty much the riskiest pass you could possibly throw in that situation. Throw it to the other basket and it's basically physically impossible to get a shot off in the other direction in 1 second.

Thank goodness Lowry was in MVP mode tonight and props to DD for making his FT's down the stretch (even though his horrendous D on Johnson allowed them back in the game).

Such a wide range of emotions after this game

My take on it...Vasquez is the ultimate douchebag. He gave the Nets a glimmer of hope of winning the game, but knew it would always be out of reach when he saw Deron's fatass guarding Ross. He always knew Ross would manage to grab the ball no matter what in that situation and was sinisterly laughing to himself that entire possession, toying with their emotions.

That or he's a ****ing idiot.

OAKLEY_2 · Post #1060 » by **OAKLEY_2** » Thu May 1, 2014 3:26 pm

EFF3KT wrote:I've done my best to read through a lot of this thread.. and there's one thing being overshadowed due to that 4th Q meltdown.

Lowry.

Lowry was the reason for our 26pt lead. Lowry was the reason for us holding a lead late. Lowry is the reason Deron's ankle is hurting this morning. How is this not THE play of the damn season? He crossed Deron Williams HARD and finished the play to pretty much seal the victory and I haven't seen enough praise of this one play in particular. This was his biggest basket of the game.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thoL5SYboPY[/youtube]

I don't want to overpay him but without him, we would be fishing right now.

Imagine if we had no KL...? OMG.