PG: Nurse and Starters all star caliber choke job

[bape_lovers]

Hard fought game..game plan is there..we didn't have a our starting centre and our 6th man

[Klayforspicy]

That was by far the worst national televised performance by our starters, even by previous standards. I wouldn't advise anyone to look at the numbers for Lowry and Ibaka.

[RonaldArtest]

George Hill been living in Kyle’s head rent free for years...

[BradMKE]

You guys had the refs and still lost. Ouch. Take that L. See you in May for the sweep.

Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy some time off.

[Mikistan]

1. I don't think fvv can guard middleton
2. We won't get hot as he'll shooting from Thomas and Boucher like that again
3. Siakam struggles as expected

[D.Brasco]

Why are people so negative? We just lost to a team that might win 70 games. The Raps have won 17 of 19. It seems like some people expect them to never lose.

This was supposed to be a statement game that the Raps can hang with the top level teams and not just get wins against .500 or sub .500 teams.

[720]

Lowry, Ibaka and Fred were **** horrible.

[Randle McMurphy]

Outcome of this one means nothing, especially without Gasol. On to the next.

[ratul]

Way to lay an egg.

Can we stop with the wining - we can def take this bucks team - it's like the guys were out on the town last night - even though the bucks were on a back to back!

[Raptors Realtor]

Tough game... Would have liked to have seen more of Thomas after his hot start, think they could have used his instant offence.

[will]

Welp.

I feel a lot less confident about the playoffs now.

But at the same time it is just a regular season game where sometimes the team on the b2b is just warmed up and in game mode.

We’re also missing Norm who owns the Bucks. Also I feel better about seeing how our team defended Giannis. Marvin Williams and Middleton won’t be this good

Did the Raps have their full squad?

[And1+2]

Don't blame the refs. That was decent as far as the NBA goes. You can't look at total disparity I thought most of the calls were okay. They missed a few on both ends.

Bucks look beatable. We will solve them like a Rubik's cube in a best of 7 series.

Gasol makes a HUGE difference as well over Ibaka in this match up.

I still like our odds.

[PushDaRock]

Holly molly 52 3 point attempts! Have we ever shot more?

Probably should have shot even more considering what we were shooting from 2.

[lobosloboslobos]

nobody thinks it will be easy to beat the Bucks in the playoffs, but with Marc and Norm back I am fairly confident. I also think that Nurse only trotted out a couple things and kept the majority of his tactics under wraps.

OG played well. the bench mob played well. but Lowry, Serge and Freddy shot 9-41 with 10 turnovers between them. serge had his worst game of the year. sheesh. we can play better.

[kingr]

Good test. Ibaka was awful. Lowry bad and boneheaded, and we still had a shot to win. Our defense was good. Good game. We need Siakam to really break out in moments like these. Those types of droughts are where we miss Kawhi.

Also, it was really funny reading some posters on here blaming the refs for calling an offensive foul on Lowry going under George Hill.

[Cobra Kawhi]

Looked like a way back play bk 2018 raptors

**** coaching decisions
lowry a clown
Ibaka dreadful
Siakam irrelevant
Fred too small

I get its just one game, but I've heard "just wasn't their night' too often. That being said, team will adjust and learn alot moving forward. We can beat the bucks with gasol & norm

[baller16]

Team goes as far as Lowry goes. If he stinks it up we're ****. No more superstar to bail us out

[ThemCrookedRefs]

The bench deserved to close this game out. Boucher, TD, Thomas, RHJ and Lowry/FVV should have been out there. The starters were horrendous, they looked shook. Serge had one of his worst games I've ever seen, yikes. Got to be better offensively.

[Lord_Zedd]

Holly molly 52 3 point attempts! Have we ever shot more?

Now this tells me that Nurse is clearly trolling the Bucks. There's no way we were showing them anything tonight

You won't see Ibaka be given the green light to chuck away that many 3pt shots unless he's wide open

[Kabookalu]

This was one of those Lowry games that makes me hesitant about him in the playoffs. Forget the putrid shooting, some of his decisions were just awful (and not just that weird attempt to rip through Hill's nuts).