GT: Raptors 24-44 vs Suns 31-37 Mar 17 - 10PM

TorontoBarneys · Post #2 » by **TorontoBarneys** » Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:33 pm

Anyone else feel like Scottie has been a bit more offensively aggressive lately? Looking for his shot more etc.

ArthurVandelay · Post #3 » by **ArthurVandelay** » Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:39 pm

Enjoy the win this year Phoenix! Will be a long time before you beat Raptors again after this year!!

Thaddy · Post #4 » by **Thaddy** » Mon Mar 17, 2025 9:54 pm

This is a game I wouldn't mind seeing the Raptors compete hard against with a full line up. Ultimately I want us to lose but it's a good test against real competition that isn't trying to deliberately lose.

WuTang_CMB · Post #5 » by **WuTang_CMB** » Mon Mar 17, 2025 10:01 pm

Poeltl out

causal_fan · Post #6 » by **causal_fan** » Mon Mar 17, 2025 10:21 pm

Remember when posters wanted to give up whatever it took to acquire Durant!

PhilBlackson · Post #7 » by **PhilBlackson** » Mon Mar 17, 2025 10:41 pm

Thaddy wrote:This is a game I wouldn't mind seeing the Raptors compete hard against with a full line up. Ultimately I want us to lose but it's a good test against real competition that isn't trying to deliberately lose.

Nope! No thanks...

PHX is not a good team and easily beatable. If you watched any of their games lately they're a dysfunctional team that's just frustrated with bad/low energy that's just trying to get to the end of the season without fully imploding. Our healthy starting lineup with full depth would work them and there's nothing to be gained by beating a team that isn't a true indicator of anything and won't even exist next season when KD is inevitably traded in the off-season.

If anything it's one of the very few games remaining that give you some decent odds to lose IF we don't play the starters much just due to KD and Booker's "pride" (they don't seem to have much lately) to not get beaten by a G-League squad. We already see how damn near impossible it's been to lose to the bad teams, we're GOING TO get more wins whether we like it or not, we shouldn't waste our better odds to lose "just to see" -- we already damn well know our team is going to be pretty good. Stay the damn course so we can be better next year instead. There is literally nothing to be gained or learnt by playing our starters anymore this season.

artsncrafts · Post #8 » by **artsncrafts** » Mon Mar 17, 2025 10:46 pm

Is Phx trying to win? This could be our first game against a non-tanker in 2 weeks! ..well those 2 wins against Orlando really hurt.

Potential · Post #9 » by **Potential** » Mon Mar 17, 2025 10:48 pm

Phoenix is horrible this is an easy win. They're so bad that even with Dallas potentially forfeiting games they might still fail to make that last play-in spot over Dallas

ArthurVandelay · Post #10 » by **ArthurVandelay** » Mon Mar 17, 2025 11:03 pm

Thaddy wrote:This is a game I wouldn't mind seeing the Raptors compete hard against with a full line up. Ultimately I want us to lose but it's a good test against real competition that isn't trying to deliberately lose.

These days you can’t spell dysfunctional without P-H-O-E-N-I-X

Lots of talent but no chemistry = bad team

KD gone this summer

Bank Shot · Post #11 » by **Bank Shot** » Mon Mar 17, 2025 11:16 pm

Phoenix has been a tanking-level team since early in the year. Even with this being the second half of a B2B on the road, it's going to be a tough one. Darko needs to start offering a pizza party for three-game losing streaks.

Tor_Raps · Post #12 » by **Tor_Raps** » Mon Mar 17, 2025 11:58 pm

Need to sit out Shead to rest the ankle and Scottie because back to backs are tough for 23 year olds lol.

LoveMyRaps · Post #13 » by **LoveMyRaps** » Tue Mar 18, 2025 12:18 am

PhilBlackson wrote:
Thaddy wrote:This is a game I wouldn't mind seeing the Raptors compete hard against with a full line up. Ultimately I want us to lose but it's a good test against real competition that isn't trying to deliberately lose.

Nope! No thanks...

PHX is not a good team and easily beatable. If you watched any of their games lately they're a dysfunctional team that's just frustrated with bad/low energy that's just trying to get to the end of the season without fully imploding. Our healthy starting lineup with full depth would work them and there's nothing to be gained by beating a team that isn't a true indicator of anything and won't even exist next season when KD is inevitably traded in the off-season.

If anything it's one of the very few games remaining that give you some decent odds to lose IF we don't play the starters much just due to KD and Booker's "pride" (they don't seem to have much lately) to not get beaten by a G-League squad. We already see how damn near impossible it's been to lose to the bad teams, we're GOING TO get more wins whether we like it or not, we shouldn't waste our better odds to lose "just to see" -- we already damn well know our team is going to be pretty good. Stay the damn course so we can be better next year instead. There is literally nothing to be gained or learnt by playing our starters anymore this season.

He's asking for an "ethical loss", where the guys play well but lose.
Nothing wrong with wanting IQ and Barnes play well, but the team still losing. That's ideal.

LoveMyRaps · Post #14 » by **LoveMyRaps** » Tue Mar 18, 2025 12:18 am

I think we get smoked tonight.

NinjaBro · Post #15 » by **NinjaBro** » Tue Mar 18, 2025 12:19 am

Tor_Raps wrote:Need to sit out Shead to rest the ankle and Scottie because back to backs are tough for 23 year olds lol.

It's actually wild that we had to sit out our 2nd rounder because he's been playing so good, lol.

Tor_Raps · Post #16 » by **Tor_Raps** » Tue Mar 18, 2025 12:21 am

NinjaBro wrote:
Tor_Raps wrote:Need to sit out Shead to rest the ankle and Scottie because back to backs are tough for 23 year olds lol.
It's actually wild that we had to sit out our 2nd rounder because he's been playing so good, lol.

Hopefully we carry this momentum next year for when we need to win lol

720 · Post #17 » by **720** » Tue Mar 18, 2025 12:25 am

10pm games should be banned

LoveMyRaps · Post #18 » by **LoveMyRaps** » Tue Mar 18, 2025 12:43 am

720 wrote:10pm games should be banned

It's in Phoenix, so the game is 7pm local time for them.
No different from when we host games.

TOStateofMind · Post #19 » by **TOStateofMind** » Tue Mar 18, 2025 12:50 am

this suns team is so trash im not even confident they win this easily lol

720 · Post #20 » by **720** » Tue Mar 18, 2025 1:04 am

LoveMyRaps wrote:
720 wrote:10pm games should be banned

It's in Phoenix, so the game is 7pm local time for them.
No different from when we host games.

Yeah don’t care, west coast games should start at like 9pm vs east coast teams, 6pm their time. This isn’t like back in the day where ticket sales are where most of your revenue is and tv ad revenue is just ancillary. They should accommodate the East coast where I believe something like 67 percent (numbers could be outdated) of sports viewers live.

Can we beat the sun's tanking or not?