Nets, Heat both trying to match up with Raptors?

[Slim_Charles]

Seriously, quit waving your dicks around guys. This is about winning, not pride. No one's gonna care HOW we get to the ECF if we beat the Wizards and shock the Pacers, they'll just be talking the fact that we did. THAT is how you attract big name free agents.

We have a slim chance of beating Indiana, but ZERO chance of beating Miami. Nothing to prove and nothing to gain.

Well said!

[Boogie!]

honestly, i get the heat but i don't get why the nets would favour us... i guess they think they stand a better chance against us than the bulls, but honestly we're better than the nets... **** brooklyn... i hope we face them and destroy them... and if kevin garnett decides to set his **** illegal screens, someone better knock him the **** out.

[AndreasLeftCalf]

WHOEVER WE GET, DEFEND HOMECOURT WE EARNED IT LETS DO THIS

[hankscorpioLA]

I'll be happy if the Raps win a first round series.

But in my heart, I want us to sweep the first round.

Just to shut everyone the hell up.

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[rapz101]

smh, i really hope the raps not only win, but demolish whoever we play...the ish being talked about on different team forums about the raps is amazing...just gunna make the series we play that much more entertaining to watch

[Barraketh]

Of course people want to play the Raps. Just look at our record against teams .500+ : http://espn.go.com/nba/standings/_/type/expanded . We have similar records to Washington and Charlotte, worse than both Chicago and Brooklyn. I hope we can prove everyone wrong, but this season is already a success.

[Son Goku 25]

I was just thinking this, if Fields ends up being used and he does well against PP/JJ/Lebron or whoever, and we actually win lol His contract will be well earned just because of that and I'm not even joking.

[hoopstime]

Seriously, quit waving your dicks around guys. This is about winning, not pride. No one's gonna care HOW we get to the ECF if we beat the Wizards and shock the Pacers, they'll just be talking the fact that we did. THAT is how you attract big name free agents.

We have a slim chance of beating Indiana, but ZERO chance of beating Miami. Nothing to prove and nothing to gain.

Well said!

+1

[Superchunk]

Of course people want to play the Raps. Just look at our record against teams .500+ : http://espn.go.com/nba/standings/_/type/expanded . We have similar records to Washington and Charlotte, worse than both Chicago and Brooklyn. I hope we can prove everyone wrong, but this season is already a success.

Considering the turnaround post trade, I was curious how this held up. I don't know the good stats sites so I just looked it up the old fashioned way.

.500 or above teams we lost to before the trade:
Charlotte
Pheonix
Golden State
Denver
Miami
Portland
Chicago
Houston
Indiana
Miami


.500 or above teams we won against before the trade:
Bucks

Not sure if our first game against Boston, they counted as above or below .500 statistically (0% or 100%?), I'll assume they aren't included.

So, prior to trade we were 1-10 vs. .500 or above teams. That would mean we are 15/15 vs. .500 or above teams since the trade, which I think we can agree is meaningful, since it's an entirely new team since then. This is the same % as BKN and better than everyone else in the East save Indy/Miami.

So our winning percentage against good teams should probably be held up as a positive, not a negative.

[kayliecee]

Of course people want to play the Raps. Just look at our record against teams .500+ : http://espn.go.com/nba/standings/_/type/expanded . We have similar records to Washington and Charlotte, worse than both Chicago and Brooklyn. I hope we can prove everyone wrong, but this season is already a success.

That includes a 2-10 run during our 6-12 start though. Post Rudy, we're 14-15 against .500 teams and 7-6 in the past two months with a NETRTG of 2.3 for fourth best among playoff teams.

[mtcan]

Now that I think of it, I think a 1st round series against the Nets would be a good thing for the Raptors. If we beat them, then we know that this team has potential, but if we can't even beat the Nets then Masai has some fixing to do. Playoffs will be a good experience for the players and it will also be an evaluation on how good this team really is.

History repeating itself perhaps? Raptors played the Nets last time we were Atlantic Division champs...and lost. We were fool's gold back then when you look back retrospectively. We might well be fool's gold this time around too. I will reserve judgement until we actually win a playoff series.

[Abba Zabba]

Last night this was the lead story on Pardon the Interruption. After a brief discussion of the morality of throwing games for a playoff seed Wilbon got to the core of it: "What's being overlooked here is the MASSIVE insult this is to the Toronto Raptors"

You can bet that's not being overlooked by Casey, Lowry, DD, Amire and co.

I wasn't thrilled at the idea of facing the Nets or Bulls early, but now I want to beat the Nets asses bad...and if I am feeling that much way back here on my couch I can't imagine how motivated our team must be right now!

My song for every time we take it hard to the Nets:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVzvRsl4rEM[/youtube]
If we take the series I might have to go to Shaq:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lQW-FWMcBo[/youtube]

[peralta]

im not worried about the Heat just yet....focused on first round regardless of who the team they are up against...Miami knows Raptors will be a tough out.

[slickvik]

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1316119&p=39323522#p39323522

I created this topic in the general forum. You would think a team with some professional pride and championship aspirations would want to avenge a drubbing from the Bulls last year? Does not say much for the competitive "fire" or "heart" of Deron Williams and the guys who were on the team last year?

[rarefind]

You really think a team that throws away games to get a particular seeding gives a damn about avenging anything?

[RINSE]

Let it go.

They are our first round matchup, who cares how we/they got here.

Only thing we need to worry about is the series that's in front of us.

[RxOxP]

Let it go.

They are our first round matchup, who cares how we/they got here.

Only thing we need to worry about is the series that's in front of us.

Amen