djsunyc wrote:Thats a Rap wrote:dukes_wild wrote:All I hope is that Philly finishes over 7th. We have to avoid them
I wrote this in the post right above yours but why are you so nervous about Philly? Is there even a precedent for a team that young with no playoff experience winning a single round as a lower ranked seed? My history of the Raptors through the eras (first try against NYK, first try against NJN, first try against BKN) shows those teams come up short - we almost won the BKN series but we were the higher seed there and our guys were not as young as the Sixers' core is today (where their two best players are a rookie and a sophomore). Reminds me much more of the 2000 Raptors (with a young Vince and T-Mac) against the rugged Knicks, where we got destroyed.
bruh - have you never watched kyle + dd in the playoffs? lol.
embiid will singlehandedly shut down our offense. then what happens? we can still win the series, i agree...but it's not a gimme. for once can we win a series convincingly?
The Lowry/DeRozan in the playoffs thing is a different argument. I don't see how that's really related to who we want to play. Ultimately we want to play worse teams and avoid better ones regardless of what those guys' playoff capabilities are.
As far as your other contention that Embiid will "singlehandedly" shut down our offense, there's no evidence for that. We've played against him 3x now, and true are 1-2 against them when he plays. But he didn't "shut down" our offense, especially this year, and certainly not singlehandedly. In the two games this year, he was lousy in ACC game (14 points, -17) and ok at the Philly game (34 points but 7 TOs and was a -2). In both cases we scored a lot of points. Frankly Lowry was coming off his injury in the MLK Day game and was awful.
Either way I'm not sure you can take anything there from these three games and translate it to a hypothetical playoff matchup.
Besides, I think we are better coached and for all the shade people throw our way, just wait until you see a first time team in the playoff when we know all THEIR tricks. Like I say, show me precedents to suggest a first time playoff team with its best players this young having any real success as a lower seed. I think we would win 4-0 or 4-1 to be honest.
Miami is the exact opposite of that. Championship pedigree, championship coaching experience, tons of experience and won't get rattled at all being a lower seed on the road. That's what I would want to avoid.
out of all the channels to terminate they pick the one who gets the least amount of views because he celebrates scrubs and non stars going off instead of uploading the same ten players every night.
