Post-Game: Raps beat Nets, go back above .500

[bape_lovers]

He is a tier under BI, but his drives is always good. Still, in playoffs, we need two people that can someone break down the defence.

Man how is doomsdays in here, thought everyone played great, it’s always “no defence” but offence wins in this league. We had “no offence” when Scottie was number 1, now we have two wing players can create their own shot, it’s oh but BI/Rj can’t defend. Who wouldn’t want 4 kawhi’s and 1 Wemby. No team has 4 players that can defend at high level plus a wemby. Maybe OKC is only team that has that but that’s why they are champions. Give it time for this team, it’s only the 11th game. We still have the trade deadline to make a deals. ja’Kobe/ochai/Gradey has been most disappointment this season. clear as day we should putting Mamu/Battle/CMB/Shead as the main bench players. Hopefully we grab a big men somehow, maybe Portland can give us one or sth

RJ can't create their own shot....similiar to Norm....can provide offense but not a bucket getter

[mdenny]

Barnes is a glue guy. He's not a first option. He can be a really good 3rd option and someone that does it all from the point forward position, sort of like Draymond without the crazy antics. Ingram is a trash high volume, low IQ player. He reminds me of young Demar Derozan. RJ is the same another low IQ chucker. Not to rain on anyone's parade here but Brooklyn is a trash team and if it wasn't for IQ finding his stroke from 3 we would have been close to losing this game.

We blew up the team to give scotty the keys...traded our players.....hired a coach that called him a "future face of the league" that caters to him at embarrasing levels...signed him to a max contract.

But let's not expect him to be more than a glue guy?

[LoveMyRaps]

IQ haters are real quiet

Team best +20 as well (in a 10 point win)

[HiJiNX]

That was an extremely boring watch. Between the refs calling everything, a sub par opponent and a generally lacklustre effort this felt like a preseason game. Anyway happy with the win.

Feels like every game against BKN is like this tbh.

[LoveMyRaps]

Read on Twitter

He's been stuffing that stat sheet.

THAT'S MY POINT GUARD.

[mathgeek]

Barnes is a glue guy. He's not a first option. He can be a really good 3rd option and someone that does it all from the point forward position, sort of like Draymond without the crazy antics. Ingram is a trash high volume, low IQ player. He reminds me of young Demar Derozan. RJ is the same another low IQ chucker. Not to rain on anyone's parade here but Brooklyn is a trash team and if it wasn't for IQ finding his stroke from 3 we would have been close to losing this game.

a really good glue guy player but nevertheless a glue guy

in baseball terminology, an excellent pitcher, but just a multi-inning reliefer or closer

So what is it exactly that you want to do with him. He's still one of our best players if not the best. We lack talent and are on a rebuild. The issue here is that we should have a few more losing seasons and rebuild through the draft. The management clearly wants this to be a mediocre team and mediocre we will remain for years. Watching guys like Ingram/RJ and having no real point guard and no real starting centre is not fun to watch. But it is good enough for ownership to put butts on seats. Remember we stuck it out with Derozan for years and were a mediocre team with some good seasons but could never get over the hump. The key to us winning and turning things around were drafting well late in the draft like what the spurs did. Getting Siakam and FVV. We have to continue to find gems in the draft. So far CMB looks like a great pick.

[LoveMyRaps]

We need to trade Walter ASAP.

Try to extract a second round pick from him.

He's a terrible basketball player with no real upside.

[Slade3]

Good game but I feel sorry for the Nets players. They busted their butts but still got the L.

[LoveMyRaps]

Play of the game for me was that Shead pass to the corner the CMB three.

[bape_lovers]

You make no sense when BI had 4 assist and RJ had 6. BI and RJ are all high picks. How many high picks you want to rebuilt? How would you built a team then?

Barnes is a glue guy. He's not a first option. He can be a really good 3rd option and someone that does it all from the point forward position, sort of like Draymond without the crazy antics. Ingram is a trash high volume, low IQ player. He reminds me of young Demar Derozan. RJ is the same another low IQ chucker. Not to rain on anyone's parade here but Brooklyn is a trash team and if it wasn't for IQ finding his stroke from 3 we would have been close to losing this game.

a really good glue guy player but nevertheless a glue guy

in baseball terminology, an excellent pitcher, but just a multi-inning reliefer or closer

So what is it exactly that you want to do with him. He's still one of our best players if not the best. We lack talent and are on a rebuild. The issue here is that we should have a few more losing seasons and rebuild through the draft. The management clearly wants this to be a mediocre team and mediocre we will remain for years. Watching guys like Ingram/RJ and having no real point guard and no real starting centre is not fun to watch. But it is good enough for ownership to put butts on seats. Remember we stuck it out with Derozan for years and were a mediocre team with some good seasons but could never get over the hump. The key to us winning and turning things around were drafting well late in the draft like what the spurs did. Getting Siakam and FVV. We have to continue to find gems in the draft. So far CMB looks like a great pick.

[Madvillainy2004]

Read on Twitter

He's been stuffing that stat sheet.

THAT'S MY POINT GUARD.

Yeah but I saw Cole Anthony score 18 pts 2 weeks ago

[Madvillainy2004]

We need to trade Walter ASAP.

Try to extract a second round pick for him.

He's a terrible basketball player with no real upside.

At least Darko had the sense to pull him lol Dick and Battle are both much better options

[HiJiNX]

Man how is doomsdays in here, thought everyone played great, it’s always “no defence” but offence wins in this league. We had “no offence” when Scottie was number 1, now we have two wing players can create their own shot, it’s oh but BI/Rj can’t defend. Who wouldn’t want 4 kawhi’s and 1 Wemby. No team has 4 players that can defend at high level plus a wemby. Maybe OKC is only team that has that but that’s why they are champions. Give it time for this team, it’s only the 11th game. We still have the trade deadline to make a deals. ja’Kobe/ochai/Gradey has been most disappointment this season. clear as day we should putting Mamu/Battle/CMB/Shead as the main bench players. Hopefully we grab a big men somehow, maybe Portland can give us one or sth

Strange energy in here. Raptors won a game playing 3.5 quarters of it at half speed then turned it up in the end to win easily.

Poeltl played great. IQ was great. BI did his job by carrying the scoring. Shead and Gradey and Battle gave good minutes. Barnes gave the team momentum as he typically does, despite foul trouble and generally taking a backseat to other guys who had it going. RJ wasn’t engaged and Walter just can’t find his rhythm but otherwise we were fine. You can’t really glean anything from playing a team as bad as BKN.

[YogurtProducer]

You can never admit when you're clearly wrong lol it's actually hilarious. You said every guard (we'll forget that you never specified PG) but nonetheless none of them are anymore "SGs" than IQ is, so there goes that excuse...and no one cares about the offence, the discussion was his defence (period), that's just a strawman.

uhhhh here’s what I said..

I do see it. I see IQ do it on the other end multiple times as well. I see every single PG in the league get abused.

Like man, your entire post is so ironic consider how badly you blundered that one

But you’re right, IQ is no Caruso, White, or Nembhard defensively. But a ridiculous **** standard to hold him to. Sheesh.

While we’re at it, why not complain Barrett is no Dort, Ingram is no Kawhi, Barnes is no Draymond, and Poeltl is no Gobert?

[YogurtProducer]

I can see this team winning 42-44 games

If we’re average health wise I’d say we’re guaranteed to be .500, with and there’s an outside chance we could approach 48-50 with good health

[SFour]

Barnes is a glue guy. He's not a first option. He can be a really good 3rd option and someone that does it all from the point forward position, sort of like Draymond without the crazy antics. Ingram is a trash high volume, low IQ player. He reminds me of young Demar Derozan. RJ is the same another low IQ chucker. Not to rain on anyone's parade here but Brooklyn is a trash team and if it wasn't for IQ finding his stroke from 3 we would have been close to losing this game.

We blew up the team to give scotty the keys...traded our players.....hired a coach that called him a "future face of the league" that caters to him at embarrasing levels...signed him to a max contract.

But let's not expect him to be more than a glue guy?

He's like a Lowry....you still need better players in front of him if the goal is to be a contender.

The most important thing is that Barnes can be a key player on a contending team...he's not a net negative player, like Beal for example.

[HangTime]

We need to trade Walter ASAP.

Try to extract a second round pick from him.

He's a terrible basketball player with no real upside.

No

[YogurtProducer]

CMB didn’t miss a shot tonight.

I get a Lowry vibe from him. Just a guy that wins.

How many Lowry's can a team have? We already had Barnes labeled at it earlier then Shead and now CMB loll

And none come close to doing what made Lowry, Lowry.

[YogurtProducer]

13 points on 21 shots is wild.

Why give this scrub the ball so much?

Hilarious to think you waited 11 games to be able to complain about RJ

Not convinced you actually watched the game tho. If you did you know he just missed stuff he usually makes.

[anotherhomer]

Barnes is a glue guy. He's not a first option. He can be a really good 3rd option and someone that does it all from the point forward position, sort of like Draymond without the crazy antics. Ingram is a trash high volume, low IQ player. He reminds me of young Demar Derozan. RJ is the same another low IQ chucker. Not to rain on anyone's parade here but Brooklyn is a trash team and if it wasn't for IQ finding his stroke from 3 we would have been close to losing this game.

We blew up the team to give scotty the keys...traded our players.....hired a coach that called him a "future face of the league" that caters to him at embarrasing levels...signed him to a max contract.

But let's not expect him to be more than a glue guy?

He's like a Lowry....you still need better players in front of him if the goal is to be a contender.

The most important thing is that Barnes can be a key player on a contending team...he's not a net negative player, like Beal for example.

barnes still need to shoot the 3 consistently...that's his swing skill, 35% on 3-4 per game attempt will help a lot