PG: Raps avoid epic meltdown, take series lead.

[gp2015]

Teletovic had way too many wide open 3's too. If Fields is healthy he's gotta be in there for Salmons. Salmons makes his minutes count -15 in 12 minutes.

I don't understand how Teletovic is open almost every half court set, of all the people to leave open on the court they don't want to guard Joe Johnson or Teletovic when then they are camping the 3 point line... crazy!

Patterson and AMir are to blame. They just leave him wide open like idiots.

[Inklink]

WTF was that. Geez. Lowry too clutch.

[Steven1562]

We have some of the dumbest players I've ever seen. Some of those decisions were horrible. Wow.

This. Whose **** idea was it to inbound the ball(with a 40 foot pass no less) into the Brooklyn end with 1 second left? We almost pulled a Mo Pete. If you really have to throw it in you are better off turning it over closer to your end. Or just take the 5 second violation, Brooklyn was out of timeouts, they wouldn't have enough time to advance the ball. Just unbelievably stupid.

I was screaming at my tv so loud thought Williams was gonna pull a Patman with 1 second left

[Raps Maniac]

teams that go up 3-2 take the series 83% of the time.

Teams that are up 22 going into the 4th probably win 99% of the time. You think any of these stats apply to the Raptors?

[RapsFanInOhio]

If I'm Kidd, I throw out a lineup of:

Plumlee
Teletovic
Pierce
Johnson
Williams

And then watch them truck the Raptors by 20.

Replace Plumlee with Blatche and Casey wouldn't have an answer.

[TorontoRapture]

You heard Jack..."The team that wins game five, has gone on to win the series 83% of the time".

83%
83%
83%

I hope he's 100% right.

We are the 17%

Occupy Brooklyn

lmao

[emphatikdunker]

casey says we're the best home crowd he's seen in his career

[ash_k]

The team has some HUGE *alls though...HUGE... JJ ties the game with a big 3 'and all feels lost'..timeout...Vasquez big 3...Lowry big 3..DD big Free throws...

IMPRESSIVE

[nitrous]

Agreed, I think this is more of an emotional loss to Brooklyn because they came so close. I think domination would of resulted in anger from the Nets using it as motivation.

And as you have said, this prevents overconfidence from the Raptors. The result of overconfidence occured in the second half tonight.

As Jack always says: "Better to win ugly than lose pretty."

[knickerbocker2k2]

Typically the reason we give up leads is because we play conservatively, waste the shot clock, and then just get a shot up. Teams run off the misses and able to get into their sets much quicker, and get good opportunities.

This time though it was like they were so careless on the offensive side. Quick shots. TOs leading to like 6-8 PTs. I think we had 3 and 1s + 3 fouls on 3pointers? JJ was playing like man possessed. They were also hitting 3s with Anderson / Mirza.

We kept JJ in check. I think if they play Plumlee and/or Livingston, our strategy was perfect. Double off that guy and recover. We did that beatuifily in the first 3 quarters. Kidd to his credit brought in Mirza/Anderson/Blatche, and did good job of spacing. It will be interesting to see what lineup Kidd goes with in the 6th game.

[Crazomali]

Kyle Lowry.

I have to shake the man's hand.

[6ixSideSniper]

Amir Johnson had about 10 minutes of complete idiocy in terms of turnovers and fouling on 3's. TERRIBLE game.

If we lost on a JV goaltend at the end it would probably go down in infamy like 50 years from now.

It would be a bigger meltdown then the Leafs 4-1 debacle.

[Patman]

The Heat are laughing right now that they have to play one of these two clown teams.

[Waylanderz]

Why no fields? He knows his place on offense, good ball-movement. Steals. Cuts baseline. Would have done much better than salmons -_-

I read that Fields is hurting...

[chuckdevlin]

3 4 point plays???????????????????????????????????????????

Vasquez was the catalyst in the collapse. If we started the 4th with Lowry he could have rested in the end.

[barrist]

You heard Jack..."The team that wins game five, has gone on to win the series 83% of the time".

83%
83%
83%

I hope he's 100% right.

What stats are if the winning coach is Casey

I'm sure the percentage of teams with a +20 point lead going into the fourth have usually gone on to win the game too but we almost defied that tonight.

[2pat]

Hayes and Salmons shouldn't be on the floor when the Nets run their High press D. Plain and Simple. Hayes gave us some good minutes. But the guy has NO finishing abilities at this point. Salmons does nothing.

Salmons has been the only guy keeping JJ in check. Are you morons even watching the games? Jesus christ, it was JJ behind this meltdown and nobody there to guard him. As soon as Salmons came out JJ stopped scoring.

[OAKLEY_2]

The same hockey games are on tsn and tsn 2 wtf is this???

No proper post game either.

You could also see how the they started airing hockey commercials right after the game ended so you know the feed was switched quite fast.

Good there is nothing to say they fk'd up. Smelled like a loss.

[gp2015]

I don't remember the last time we played a full game without majorly **** something up.

[EventHorizon]

Without Lowry playing like MJ we lose this game....things are not as rosy as you make them sound