PG: Wasted a Miracle

[No-Man]

No more CoJo or Ross with Wade, put Powell out there +30minpg if you need too, but you cant let him move freely like that, same with Valanciunas, I get that he had a fine offensive game but he was putrid on the other side, he has no idea of how to defend the PNR and he neither flashes or stay put, he makes a weird move/fake to the middle that makes it impossible for him to recover and neither can he bother the shooter, he is so damn slow.

Biyombo hasnt had much impact but at least he can be more versatile there.
The Raps need Lowry in the game even at this level, his playmaking is miles better than the next guy up, and you need his brains and defense, other than helping off Dragic stupidly at the end, he has been solid against Goran.

And just try Delon Wright man, they need to find a better way to use PatPat, he cant be the guy that has to defend Joe when the Heat go small, has struggled there.

What? Biyombo was terrible tonight and Val carried us..

Raptors couldnt get a stop to save their life all clutch long and it was largely due to Joseph or Ross defending Wade and Jonas in the middle been wishy washy and slow.

[Raps Maniac]

Backseat moderating

[raptorstime]

It sucks because if lowry played just a little bit better than garbage, we would win. This team is straight up cursed.

[Young_Buc]

Without the real Lowry this team can't win. They can beat the pacers. MAYBE beat the heat but they're pushing their luck.

[Scott Hall]

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[TheGoodDoctor]

Brick Bros setting out to make history....

As the worst Playoff production of all time

From Damon to leaving to be a full time scrub for the rest of his career, to trading for the corpse of Hakeem Olajuwon, to VC burying us with a 3ptr at the buzzer, to the draft suddenly stopping being able to draft from highschool so instead of Durant it was Bargnani, to our franchise being led by a nerd like Bosh, now to the worst statistical Playoff performance of any top NBA players...

Nightmare Everyseason lives on!!

[WeTheOther]

this is game reminded me of game 1 vs washington last year. we played like a** then get a big 3 from a player (lowry/Trashquez) and **** the bed in ot.

[ruckus]

We need Lowry. Plain and simple. What did he have? 7 points? That isn't going to cut it. Did he even touch the ball in O/T?

do you think he deserved the ball in OT?

Why cause he hit a fluke 3? he was throwing brutal turnovers all night - in transition on 3 on 1s, in the half court, he was throwing up 3 pointers in transition, early in the clock, with no chance of the ball going in

wow

That's the problem. He's not playing well enough to be out there in OT acting as a decoy but, without Lowry playing well or at the very least, half decently, we're dead in the water.

I'm sorry, we aren't getting past the Heat if Lowry continues to **** the bed like this.

[RandomRaptorfan]

This type of game gets me emotional. I need support fam

[720]

Like I said in the pacers series. Lose game 2 and it's all over.

[jeffya2]

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Monkey's been replaced with the Elephant in the room

[PANDABREAD]

Not sure why, but why can't this team ever take care of business on game 1's??? To think that we just killed the 1st round monkey and now this

[bape_lovers]

I think we gotten use to losing game 1 by now


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[[SJJ]]

D-Wade is still a MONSTER.

[Dario]

Casey's in the room, its not the elephant.

[JPHolling]

Dont be soft^

[Dario]

Tyler Ennis on TSN? lol

[YogurtProducer]

what passes and good looks? The 4th Q was contested shot after contested shot

Well we scored 27 points in that quarter and shot the exact same percentage as Miami throughout the game. Miami shoots 73% from 3 and we shoot 24%. That's your ball game right there. Lowry (like all playoffs) is missing wide open threes like there's no tomorrow. Patterson missed threes he usually hits. Just like the pacers series when they shot god numbers from 3, it isn't sustainable and it proved to be that way st the end of the series.

Another positive? That was Lowrys worst game of the entire playoffs and that's a special low to hit.

When Val wasn't on the court tonight we got anihalated, biz played terrible.

Props to Miami, in OT they hit some really really tough shots.

and we didn't hit tough shots? Most of DD's shots were tough shots. The Lowry half court shot, Ross FT, Ross 3 all came with 6.5 seconds left to go. That's 7 points right there and you're crediting a miracle final few seconds in saying that our offense was fine..yet that offense carried over into OT where we needed another almost miracle run at the last second to put up points

Lowry shouldn't even be on the court at this point

DD hit tough shots but every shot he takes is tough

The Ross 3 was great, not really tough either it was well executed. The Kyle 3 was obv. Flukey but again, we shot 23% from 3 and that's with Kyles fluke shot. If we hit 1 or 2 more 3's we win and finish the game shooting 46/47% as a team and no one is complaining. There is variance in shooting and tonight we hit the low from 3 and Miami hit the high.

[RaptorsLife]

I feel like pacers played better than heat in game 1 of the last series. We just played worse

[VinBaker6]

I hate to break it to you guys but Richardson is a lot better than Norm. We overrate our players too much.