Following the Toronto Raptors & the NBA
Big-spending teams are on the sidelines As we consider what next season and beyond might look like for the Toronto Raptors, money sticks its ugly nose into the tent. Here’s a lengthy quote: Seven of the NBA’s 10 biggest spenders in 2023/24 have already been eliminated from championship contention, tweets ESPN’s Bobby Marks. Those teams are, in […]
Variances in draft boards are as extreme as I’ve ever seen I know I told you I wasn’t go to write about the Toronto Raptors and the NBA Draft. I’m not really changing my mind with this post. Instead, I’m going to share with you my astonishment at the range of choices Masai Ujiri and […]
We’re waiting for the ping pong balls to fall happily Normally at this time of year, I’d be avidly looking at film to consider draft selections for the Toronto Raptors. However, I’m going to wait until after the night of May 12, which is when the NBA will hold its draft lottery. Why? The Raptors […]
So much bad stuff The Toronto Raptors’ season ended as we could have predicted, namely, with double-digit losses, both in Miami against the Heat. At what might laughably be called the high point of 2023-24, on November 24 the Raptors were 8-8 following a home win over the Chicago Bulls. After that, Toronto went 17-49, […]
Are Masai & Bobby through? My pre-season prediction for the Toronto Raptors season was a record of 41-41. Before surprising the Milwaukee Bucks 117-111, the Raptors had one win in their previous 18 games. Their record of 25-53 actually flatters the team, whose recent losses have been so one-sided as to be embarrassing. If Toronto […]
A pipedream, or perhaps not I’m looking ahead to the Paris Olympics in late July, at which both our Canadian men’s and women’s national teams will be battling for medals. Surely that’s better than considering the present state of the Toronto Raptors, who dropped their 14th straight game (another blowout at home) to the Los […]
Time to reconsider all positions The Toronto Raptors rolled out another minor-league roster on March 20 against the Sacramento Kings, and got embarrassed by a 123-89 count. That’s not a reason to write this post, but here’s one that is: Jontay Porter managed fewer than three minutes on court before heading to the dressing room, […]
Mavs’ Doncic & Irving show off star power The Toronto Raptors’ modest 3-game winning streak was halted by the Dallas Mavericks. In a match decided in Q3 (flashback to memories of the early, lean years at Skydome, in which our guys would often slip ahead after 24 minutes, then get crushed following intermission), the visiting […]
Can we find a few positives in a dismal first ‘half’? In what has been a period of dizzying change for our team, the Toronto Raptors, I want to look to the future. What has all the recent sturm und drang produced? I’m going to break this analysis in two parts, one to examine those […]
Two players promoted from 905 The Toronto Raptors were blown out at home by the Cleveland Cavaliers. The score of 119-95 actually flatters our guys, as this game was essentially over by halftime, with the visitors holding a 20-point lead. Cleveland, which boasts a second unit capable of defeating many teams’ first, looks like a […]