GT: Game 65 | Los Angeles Lakers (49-14) @ Toronto Raptors (46-18) | August 1st, 8:30 pm | ESPN

TrustFundBaby · Post #381 » by **TrustFundBaby** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 4:16 am

Easy W, our defense is too much for these scrubs

LJKO · Post #382 » by **LJKO** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 4:28 am

With what I saw today from the Lakers, OG will single handingly lock up the whole Lakers team with ease :nod:

TheAlchemist · Post #383 » by **TheAlchemist** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 4:47 am

After watching that game, Marc will be huge. I don't think the Lakers have the guard quality to compete, and OG/Siakam will deal with LeBron.

Looks like a W.

Son Goku 25 · Post #384 » by **Son Goku 25** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 5:25 am

Lebron will guard our best player down the stretch we can't have guys we intimidated no more vs him. Lebron showed why he's top 2 of all time locking down Kawhi. I've never seen Kawhi act so damn scared vs Lebron before.. too passive. It's so hard to predict these playoffs right now. It could literally be any of the top teams winning it all.

RaptorHusky · Post #385 » by **RaptorHusky** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 7:43 am

Son Goku 25 wrote:Lebron will guard our best player down the stretch we can't have guys we intimidated no more vs him. Lebron showed why he's top 2 of all time locking down Kawhi. I've never seen Kawhi act so damn scared vs Lebron before.. too passive. It's so hard to predict these playoffs right now. It could literally be any of the top teams winning it all.

It's not about LBJ only, help defense was in place and it worked pretty well. Kawhi had passing lines closed in most cases hence he overdribbled and either shot contested or passed it back to the top. Pascal would have nightmare if Raps went to him as ball handler in clutch time

Syd-TK3 · Post #386 » by **Syd-TK3** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 8:28 am

Need to get AD off siakam and exploit the mismatches. They have no one else who can guard him

And1+2 · Post #387 » by **And1+2** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 12:22 pm

Really hope we blow these guys out and humble the cocky Laker fans.

SalamiNcheese · Post #388 » by **SalamiNcheese** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 12:55 pm

The lakers vs. Clippers obviously everyone is rusty but there offense is not fluid like ours. Both teams rely on their stars for iso offense. Defending that is a lot easier and yes they are going to make shots but if you looked the spacing of other players just terrible so easy to double. Our coaching and team play and defense superior. Do we have enough guys to make open shots in playoffs. That’s what it comes down to. We generate so many good looks and play championship d. This will be fun.

LBJKB24MJ23 · Post #389 » by **LBJKB24MJ23** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 1:12 pm

And1+2 wrote:Really hope we blow these guys out and humble the cocky Laker fans.

Raptors fans can get pretty cocky too, even when they weren't good either. :lol:

Mikistan · Post #390 » by **Mikistan** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 1:56 pm

SalamiNcheese wrote:The lakers vs. Clippers obviously everyone is rusty but there offense is not fluid like ours. Both teams rely on their stars for iso offense. Defending that is a lot easier and yes they are going to make shots but if you looked the spacing of other players just terrible so easy to double. Our coaching and team play and defense superior. Do we have enough guys to make open shots in playoffs. That’s what it comes down to. We generate so many good looks and play championship d. This will be fun.

I don't think its that easy to double lebron, he has the court vision to make guys pay - and if not, he can just barrell to the rim like we saw last night over and over

The nice thing is that if we have gasol and ibaka on the court with OG siakam and lowry, we can switch and we are long enough to make AD and Lebron have problems

Vorticity · Post #391 » by **Vorticity** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 2:49 pm

contain AD and we should be fine, banking on skinny Marc to show up!

And1+2 · Post #392 » by **And1+2** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 3:03 pm

What are the odds Lowry would have taken a charge on LeBron's clinching bucket last night?

raptorstime · Post #393 » by **raptorstime** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 3:08 pm

1 more day

vini_vidi_vici · Post #394 » by **vini_vidi_vici** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 3:31 pm

old skool · Post #395 » by **old skool** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 3:55 pm

I think the Lakers are vulnerable as they try to assimilate Smith Jr. and Waiters. A veteran offense can take advantage of the lack of familiarity the L.A. defense will have with those two.

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Mikistan · Post #396 » by **Mikistan** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 4:57 pm

vini_vidi_vici wrote:

Ah yes - the Kobe return game - where he dropped a triple double and we didnt have rudy gay because he was traded but we also didnt have the return players

what a different world it was back then

Scott Hall · Post #397 » by **Scott Hall** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 5:50 pm

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Zeno · Post #398 » by **Zeno** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 6:33 pm

LBJKB24MJ23 wrote:
And1+2 wrote:Really hope we blow these guys out and humble the cocky Laker fans.

Raptors fans can get pretty cocky too, even when they weren't good either.

Nobody was as good at sucking as our team. Sure other team's would try to replicate the way our team would lose but none of them would offer their fans the variety of manners of losing that the Raptors could. From losing every star 'return game", to the apex of Linsanity, to Kobe's 81, to random scrubs continually going off, and refs eliminating game winners and the tyranny of the scorer's table... the Raptors franchise had it all.

JShuttlesworth · Post #399 » by **JShuttlesworth** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 8:17 pm

win here would be huge

Jcity08 · Post #400 » by **Jcity08** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 8:32 pm

Unlike the Clippers last night, all our bigs are healthy. We need to slow down AD and Bron. Force Kuzma to beat us.