Sixers vs Raps Round 2 Discussion

[Stanford]

I believe they don’t get ESPN or TNT. They are carried nationally on the Canadian channel.

Correct. Games are on either TSN or Sportsnet.

[youngcrev]

This game will be a raptors blow out (their shooters finding hitting open shots). Toronto has missed a ton of open shots

Or sixers win in the last 1 minute of the game.

I think raptors will win. Home court will matter. I hope I’m wrong.

Depends how raptors play butler. Seems jimmy can get it going anytime he really wants. Does Toronto put Leonard on butler early. It will drain Leonard energy quickly. Leonard will see to play 42 minutes plus in this game unless he gets help.

So blow out by raptors. Or sixers win by 2-4 points end of the game.

As a team they've shot pretty terribly on their open looks from 3, and there's definitely been a lot them, but some of that has been by design. Siakim represents about 1/4 of those wide open looks and they are basically just daring him to shoot. They've kinda been doing that with Gasol too, who seems to be pretty hesitant to take them at times.

Kawhi is hitting 50% of his open 3s and Green is at 46.7%, they just haven't gotten a ton of those looks (seems like it's mostly off broken plays and offensive boards that it happens).

That said, if Siakam and Gasol start hitting those looks it will be an absolute killer for us.

[Sixerscan]

This game will be a raptors blow out (their shooters finding hitting open shots). Toronto has missed a ton of open shots

Or sixers win in the last 1 minute of the game.

I think raptors will win. Home court will matter. I hope I’m wrong.

Depends how raptors play butler. Seems jimmy can get it going anytime he really wants. Does Toronto put Leonard on butler early. It will drain Leonard energy quickly. Leonard will see to play 42 minutes plus in this game unless he gets help.

So blow out by raptors. Or sixers win by 2-4 points end of the game.

As a team they've shot pretty terribly on their open looks from 3, and there's definitely been a lot them, but some of that has been by design. Siakim represents about 1/4 of those wide open looks and they are basically just daring him to shoot. They've kinda been doing that with Gasol too, who seems to be pretty hesitant to take them at times.

Kawhi is hitting 50% of his open 3s and Green is at 46.7%, they just haven't gotten a ton of those looks (seems like it's mostly off broken plays and offensive boards that it happens).

That said, if Siakam and Gasol start hitting those looks it will be an absolute killer for us.

One game is way too small of a sample to expect some sort of regression. They might start hitting again they might not. Hopefully not!

Speaking of regression, it would be great if Tobias Harris could join the party today.

[youngcrev]

This game will be a raptors blow out (their shooters finding hitting open shots). Toronto has missed a ton of open shots

Or sixers win in the last 1 minute of the game.

I think raptors will win. Home court will matter. I hope I’m wrong.

Depends how raptors play butler. Seems jimmy can get it going anytime he really wants. Does Toronto put Leonard on butler early. It will drain Leonard energy quickly. Leonard will see to play 42 minutes plus in this game unless he gets help.

So blow out by raptors. Or sixers win by 2-4 points end of the game.

As a team they've shot pretty terribly on their open looks from 3, and there's definitely been a lot them, but some of that has been by design. Siakim represents about 1/4 of those wide open looks and they are basically just daring him to shoot. They've kinda been doing that with Gasol too, who seems to be pretty hesitant to take them at times.

Kawhi is hitting 50% of his open 3s and Green is at 46.7%, they just haven't gotten a ton of those looks (seems like it's mostly off broken plays and offensive boards that it happens).

That said, if Siakam and Gasol start hitting those looks it will be an absolute killer for us.

One game is way too small of a sample to expect some sort of regression. They might start hitting again they might not. Hopefully not!

Speaking of regression, it would be great if Tobias Harris could join the party today.

Yeah, that would be cool. It's kinda crazy because I haven't felt like he's played that poorly while watching (hasn't really seemed like he's pressing too much and takes mostly good looks), but then I look at the stat sheet and he'll be like 5 for 17. They just aren't dropping for him. It's particularly disappointing when you factor in that he's mostly been the guy they hide their worst defender on (not that their worst defender is bad on that end)

[AI_Efficiency]

As a team they've shot pretty terribly on their open looks from 3, and there's definitely been a lot them, but some of that has been by design. Siakim represents about 1/4 of those wide open looks and they are basically just daring him to shoot. They've kinda been doing that with Gasol too, who seems to be pretty hesitant to take them at times.

Kawhi is hitting 50% of his open 3s and Green is at 46.7%, they just haven't gotten a ton of those looks (seems like it's mostly off broken plays and offensive boards that it happens).

That said, if Siakam and Gasol start hitting those looks it will be an absolute killer for us.

One game is way too small of a sample to expect some sort of regression. They might start hitting again they might not. Hopefully not!

Speaking of regression, it would be great if Tobias Harris could join the party today.

Yeah, that would be cool. It's kinda crazy because I haven't felt like he's played that poorly while watching (hasn't really seemed like he's pressing too much and takes mostly good looks), but then I look at the stat sheet and he'll be like 5 for 17. They just aren't dropping for him. It's particularly disappointing when you factor in that he's mostly been the guy they hide their worst defender on (not that their worst defender is bad on that end)

As far as the future goes, I don’t want to overreact to Tobias having a bad series. James Harden had a bad finals series the year the Thunder let him go and we saw how that turned out. Obviously different players, and who knows if the thunder do anything different if he played well, but I just don’t want to overreact to a few poor shooting nights.

[76ciology]

This game will be a raptors blow out (their shooters finding hitting open shots). Toronto has missed a ton of open shots

Or sixers win in the last 1 minute of the game.

I think raptors will win. Home court will matter. I hope I’m wrong.

Depends how raptors play butler. Seems jimmy can get it going anytime he really wants. Does Toronto put Leonard on butler early. It will drain Leonard energy quickly. Leonard will see to play 42 minutes plus in this game unless he gets help.

So blow out by raptors. Or sixers win by 2-4 points end of the game.

As if Tobias, JJ and Embiid aren’t struggling either.

The Raps -7 gives me doubt of how well our team will perform though. Vegas seems to really underestimate us or this line could be a trap for the house to make money

[76ciology]

My friend told me this. Not sure if true.

They say that tv ratings drop with the raptors because tv ratings only counts US viewers not canadian viewers. Is this true?

I believe they don’t get ESPN or TNT. They are carried nationally on the Canadian channel. The Neilson ratings only count US viewers.

I assume NBA gets paid well from all the channels so they don’t care as much.However, TNT’s first choice probably isn’t to televise a game where one team’s audience doesn’t get the channel.

But yes, I believe Neilson ratings are just US viewers, so the television statistics wouldn’t be accurate in that regard.

And with the tv ratings of the playoffs dropping, they say it’s not good if Raps continue on to the playoffs and pretty much explains why raps have been a failure in the playoffs. Well if u believe in conspiracy theories..

[76ciology]

I can accept losing as long as we play hard and not play like zombies like in G1&G5.

And as long as we play hard, i can’t see us losing. We played hard in G3 and G5 and we won both these games decisively.

Biid wasnt 100% and we even almost beat them in G4 with Butler and Jj making big shots but was overpowered with Kawhi’s shot over Biid.

The only chance Raps will blow us out is if we played like Zombies like in G1&G5.

G1 = Raps blowout. Sixers zombies
G2 = Sixers win close game. Sixers semi zombie
G3 = Sixers blowout. Sixers 100%
G4 = Raps win close games. Sixers semi zombie
G5 = Raps win blow out game. sixers zombie
G6 = Sixers blowout.
G7 = Raps blowout win IF WE PLAY LIKE ZOMBIES

[76ciology]

Kawhi = send doubles
Siakam = put Embiid

After 6 games, I feel we have countered Raps attack. And know what they will throw at us.

While I still don’t see how they’ve countered the Biid-Butler 2 man game and our dominance in getting ORebs.

As long as they’re focused on Gasol, Butler will have his opportunity. And as long as there isn’t any modern pills where you can grow 4-6” in 48 hours or less, I don’t think they’ll solve the OReb problem.

[youngcrev]

One game is way too small of a sample to expect some sort of regression. They might start hitting again they might not. Hopefully not!

Speaking of regression, it would be great if Tobias Harris could join the party today.

Yeah, that would be cool. It's kinda crazy because I haven't felt like he's played that poorly while watching (hasn't really seemed like he's pressing too much and takes mostly good looks), but then I look at the stat sheet and he'll be like 5 for 17. They just aren't dropping for him. It's particularly disappointing when you factor in that he's mostly been the guy they hide their worst defender on (not that their worst defender is bad on that end)

As far as the future goes, I don’t want to overreact to Tobias having a bad series. James Harden had a bad finals series the year the Thunder let him go and we saw how that turned out. Obviously different players, and who knows if the thunder do anything different if he played well, but I just don’t want to overreact to a few poor shooting nights.

Yeah. As we went over with Covington so frequently, 3 point shooting has some serious variance, so he could look awful one series and amazing the next. I don't really think it's anything they are doing to him, the shots just aren't falling