GT #5 - Raptors (1-3) vs Rockets (1-2) - October 29th, 2025 - 6:30PM EST - TSN

[bape_lovers]

You are correct, wish chomche wasn’t injured. Maybe we get wiseman or sth

He's just another dude taking up space this year.

Yak?

Sure thing

This team needs more guys to take up space on the DEFENSIVE end. The lineups we're tossing out there are ridiculous and Bobby Webster not being able to get a 3rd Center that someone of us wanted when Poeltl was hurt is a big cause for it. Its been 5 years with the same weaknesses...

[YogurtProducer]

We have more issues than just coaching.

50 points tonight on 2nd chance or fast break.

Not all on Darko, but 27 fas break points when we only have 10 turnovers is **** criminal.

Our defence tonight hasn’t even been horrible… we just spotted them 50 points in those situations.

lol that's a comical number, shouldn't even be possible to lose by 20 when you hit 21 threes and hardly turn it over

I mean I guess I didn’t fully expect Ingram to just be Demar 2.0 in terms of defensive effort in transition. There were SO many times tonight we saw a guy miss and somehow we had 4 guys under the hoop.

Who the **** thinks we are gonna grab boards against this team? **** offensive boards, send 5 guys back on D.

[Appostis]

That’s the problem, we can’t defend opponent’s bigs or rebound. Either we are fouling non stop or give up transition when we go on offence.

Yak?

Sure thing

Yak is definitely important but him being healthy alone absolutely should not be the difference between you being good on defense or the worst in the league

Which Yak is an important part of.

Beyond how much he adds to the offense.

[bape_lovers]

He also will with help setting picks, but boy he looks like a grandpa right now.

That’s the problem, we can’t defend opponent’s bigs or rebound. Either we are fouling non stop or give up transition when we go on offence.

Yak is definitely important but him being healthy alone absolutely should not be the difference between you being good on defense or the worst in the league

Which Yak is an important part of.

Beyond how much he adds to the offense.

[YoungG]

Some positive, BI is extremely good, CMB seems to be best rookie we seen since Scottie, RJ has been great apart from today, mamu has been great off the bench.

We shot the lights out from 3 and are gonna lose by 20.
Like all of that is great but you not gonna do anything in this league playing defense the way we are

This is exactly the type of basketball I despise. Everyone wants to score. Nobody wants to defend. Soft.

I would rather watch a grind if out defensive game & lose by 5.

This is just hard to watch. Not competitive at all.

You hit the nail on the head. I'm hoping that Bobby Webster isn't afraid to cut the evaluation crap as early as reasonably possible. This team needs to get taller, bigger, tougher, and more defensive minded.

[PushDaRock]

Lost the rebounding battle 53-22 lol that shouldn't even possible when the other team shoots 58% from the field and you shoot 51% yourself.

[Tor_Raps]

You are correct, wish chomche wasn’t injured. Maybe we get wiseman or sth

Yak?

Sure thing

This team needs more guys to take up space on the DEFENSIVE end. The lineups we're tossing out there are ridiculous and Bobby Webster not being able to get a 3rd Center that someone of us wanted when Poeltl was hurt is a big cause for it. Its been 5 years with the same weaknesses...

Most teams have their 3rd Center who is better than our backup C. I love Mamu but hes clearly not meant to be a C who can replace Poeltl.

We just played a team who has Capella as their 3rd C man. Its very easy to get but you gotta realize its a massive need for you to do it and this front office hasn't shown that ability.

[Shakril]

Rolling small against these Rockets is just not the thing, man.

Yeah, but we can all acknowledge, that the problems are deeper than missing a big man?

How do you go from Yaks love interest to kind of being down on him so fas?

We probably win this game tonight with (healthy) Jak

Nothing changed, just the perception of the board members was always wrong. I just defended him, when he got false criticism.
Problem was always, that people here hate yak so much, that no matter what was brought up in his defense, was seen as you said "love interest".

I simply like Yak for the things he does, and he is really good at it, which makes him one of the best Centers in the league.
At the same time, i am realistic about what he can impact. Would we have been better with him healthy on the court? Definitly. Would we have won? No. Because our problems are deeper than lacking a big man.

So no, i am not down on him, he simply cant deliver right now, because he is injured. We should all pray, that he gets healthy quickly, before it is too late.

[Harcore Fenton Mun]

You are correct, wish chomche wasn’t injured. Maybe we get wiseman or sth

This team needs more guys to take up space on the DEFENSIVE end. The lineups we're tossing out there are ridiculous and Bobby Webster not being able to get a 3rd Center that someone of us wanted when Poeltl was hurt is a big cause for it. Its been 5 years with the same weaknesses...

Most teams have their 3rd Center who is better than our backup C. I love Mamu but hes clearly not meant to be a C who can replace Poeltl.

We just played a team who has Capella as their 3rd C man. Its very easy to get but you gotta realize its a massive need for you to do it and this front office hasn't shown that ability.

We don't have a starting PG either. Just saying.

[PushDaRock]

50 points tonight on 2nd chance or fast break.

Not all on Darko, but 27 fas break points when we only have 10 turnovers is **** criminal.

Our defence tonight hasn’t even been horrible… we just spotted them 50 points in those situations.

lol that's a comical number, shouldn't even be possible to lose by 20 when you hit 21 threes and hardly turn it over

I mean I guess I didn’t fully expect Ingram to just be Demar 2.0 in terms of defensive effort in transition. There were SO many times tonight we saw a guy miss and somehow we had 4 guys under the hoop.

Who the **** thinks we are gonna grab boards against this team? **** offensive boards, send 5 guys back on D.

lol unreal to be gambling like that for offensive boards and come up with just 4 the entire game. Losing the rebound battle 53-22 on these kind of shooting percentages shouldn't even be possible.

[YogurtProducer]

Yeah, but we can all acknowledge, that the problems are deeper than missing a big man?

How do you go from Yaks love interest to kind of being down on him so fas?

We probably win this game tonight with (healthy) Jak

Nothing changed, just the perception of the board members was always wrong. I just defended him, when he got false criticism.
Problem was always, that people here hate yak so much, that no matter what was brought up in his defense, was seen as you said "love interest".

I simply like Yak for the things he does, and he is really good at it, which makes him one of the best Centers in the league.
At the same time, i am realistic about what he can impact. Would we have been better with him healthy on the court? Definitly. Would we have won? No. Because our problems are deeper than lacking a big man.

So no, i am not down on him, he simply cant deliver right now, because he is injured. We should all pray, that he gets healthy quickly, before it is too late.

Intersting take that in a game in which we grabbed 29 total rebounds wouldn’t have been changed by adding a very good rebounder to the team.

This was a game that was definitely win able with a healthy big

[TeamDisgruntled]

Some positive, BI is extremely good, CMB seems to be best rookie we seen since Scottie, RJ has been great apart from today, mamu has been great off the bench.

We shot the lights out from 3 and are gonna lose by 20.
Like all of that is great but you not gonna do anything in this league playing defense the way we are

This is exactly the type of basketball I despise. Everyone wants to score. Nobody wants to defend. Soft.

I would rather watch a grind if out defensive game & lose by 5.

This is just hard to watch. Not competitive at all.

I gotta agree, outside of CMB last couple games I can’t say I’ve enjoyed watching this team what so ever.

[bape_lovers]

Quick’s fine, his shot will come but we need a big for rim protection.

You are correct, wish chomche wasn’t injured. Maybe we get wiseman or sth

Most teams have their 3rd Center who is better than our backup C. I love Mamu but hes clearly not meant to be a C who can replace Poeltl.

We just played a team who has Capella as their 3rd C man. Its very easy to get but you gotta realize its a massive need for you to do it and this front office hasn't shown that ability.

We don't have a starting PG either. Just saying.

[Tripod]

He's just another dude taking up space this year.

Yak?

Sure thing

This team needs more guys to take up space on the DEFENSIVE end. The lineups we're tossing out there are ridiculous and Bobby Webster not being able to get a 3rd Center that someone of us wanted when Poeltl was hurt is a big cause for it. Its been 5 years with the same weaknesses...

You and I have been screaming for that C depth for so long

[PushDaRock]

21-40 from three and still get blown out....you don't see that often.

lol only 10 turnovers as well

You still hoping for a raptors come back? Darko ball man, i know its not on all on him but he is running a gimmick instead of playing to his teams strengths

yup, it's not over till it's over!!!

[dballislife]

we can put away that chain lol not many people will be wearing it this season

[Harcore Fenton Mun]

Quick’s fine, his shot will come but we need a big for rim protection.

Most teams have their 3rd Center who is better than our backup C. I love Mamu but hes clearly not meant to be a C who can replace Poeltl.

We just played a team who has Capella as their 3rd C man. Its very easy to get but you gotta realize its a massive need for you to do it and this front office hasn't shown that ability.

We don't have a starting PG either. Just saying.

We need somebody who can run an offense. We don't have that.

[Shakril]

How do you go from Yaks love interest to kind of being down on him so fas?

We probably win this game tonight with (healthy) Jak

Nothing changed, just the perception of the board members was always wrong. I just defended him, when he got false criticism.
Problem was always, that people here hate yak so much, that no matter what was brought up in his defense, was seen as you said "love interest".

I simply like Yak for the things he does, and he is really good at it, which makes him one of the best Centers in the league.
At the same time, i am realistic about what he can impact. Would we have been better with him healthy on the court? Definitly. Would we have won? No. Because our problems are deeper than lacking a big man.

So no, i am not down on him, he simply cant deliver right now, because he is injured. We should all pray, that he gets healthy quickly, before it is too late.

Intersting take that in a game in which we grabbed 29 total rebounds wouldn’t have been changed by adding a very good rebounder to the team.

This was a game that was definitely win able with a healthy big

We lost by 18 pts. How much would his impact be? 10 points, 12?. If he were able to impact the game by 19 points, then he should be the guy we build around. Because that is huge. Normally upper tier All-Stars have that kind of impact.

[greekman]

defense is the problem. need a trade or poetl needs to be available to play more games.

[bape_lovers]

We are running the offence, it’s just we can’t defend, how else we are making that many 3s and pulling 100+ pts.

Quick’s fine, his shot will come but we need a big for rim protection.

We don't have a starting PG either. Just saying.

We need somebody who can run an offense. We don't have that.