Game Thread: Spurs @ Raptors - Fri. (2/22) 6:00 PM CT (2:00am Riga Time)

[bic50]

No he’s right they are overrated .

Biased opinion

[bic50]

The Raptors are ing overrated. Don't they have a ty ass record against top teams? They'd be middle of the pack in the West.

The word "overrated" get thrown around so much these days.

[justinandimcool]

If White and Aldridge weren’t 100% why not just sit them and take the blowout loss

good effort but wasted if the team wasn’t healthy anyways and had no chance

[Hoops Czar]

Even when DeRozan has a good game, he finds a way to screw things up. Leonard made a half-hearted on a steal attempt and DDR completely lost his composure.. He's just a colossel waste of a roster spot.

[Hoops Czar]

If White and Aldridge weren’t 100% why not just sit them and take the blowout loss

good effort but wasted if the team wasn’t healthy anyways and had no chance

White and Aldridge at 50% is better than Forbes and Poeltl at 200%.

[$pursDynasty]

White and Aldridge at 50% is better than Forbes and Poeltl at 200%.

amen czar, preach!

[Rusty]

Nephew played like crap and the Raptors still won. How demoralizing

[sasaint]

We will better off without him next year. Not sure what it is you see in him that can magically break his habits

I pray you are right but fear you are wrong. Pop is gonna stay pat with DeMar.

[Spurtacular]

SMH DeRozan dribbling up against a double team including Kawhi.

[Chillen]

Spurs played well it's just to bad DeMar didn't pass the ball and got klawed by Kawhi at the end of the game. Spurs need to play better and harder now if they want to stay in the playoff race. Hopefully DeMar learns from this to be more aware next time.

Raptors looking like a tough out in the East playoffs for Celtics, 76ers and Bucks.

[LaMarcus Bryant]

I hope adam silver dies in an AIDS riddled plane crash

+1

[heyheymymy]

+1

I hope hes making money from it cause it sure isn't entertaining.

I'm afraid to even follow and get excited about Derrick white. Is Adam silver gonna steal him for his New York market as soon as he gets good?

this 12 year old playing 2k on xbox bull .

[duncan2k5]

Aside from the fact that we lost, big-picture wise, this was a great game for the Spurs. Pop has shown us what his playoff rotation looks like, and we've seen it can win in the home court of the team that will likely make the Finals in the East.

Wait what?? That's just like any other bad team that comes close to beating a good team in the regular season... Let's not be deluded... Any good team would absolutely maul us in the playoffs... Kawhi played horrible today and they still won... DDR played great, which doesn't happen in the playoffs... Let's not count eggs

[duncan2k5]

They were surrounding him, daring the rest of the team to show up.

Ppl do that to good players all the time... Doesn't render them into a piece of

[duncan2k5]

No doubt, but he had opportunities to establish himself. He just didn't seem sharp. Maybe he took extended rest since he didn't have much w/all star weekend.

U thinking too hard... It's because DDR was having a good game

[duncan2k5]

And something else, if this team as presently constracted was being coached by someone else we would be talking about the lottery right now. The only problem i have with Pop is some of the contracts he gave to specific players namely Gasol and Patty even though Patty at least tries. No one knows exactly what the offers were for nephew and his group so we shouldn't place any blame there without knowing the whole story. We have a team with zero all stars and and an inexperienced backcourt and injury prone players, we desperately need to tank next season unless you can get KD for example which is a pipe dream.

We actually have two all stars

[Slippy]

Demar's play was much improved but those last 5min became Defrozan iso ball. Becoming very accustomed to these type of finishes since Demar got here.

This why Derrick White needs to be the floor general. Aside from getting the best out of him , you see less of Demar trying to make plays with the ball. It's predictable and easy to guard against.

[NameLess Scrub]

Couldn't watch and was OK with a blowout, only to find out it was actually close and Spurs lost due to some DeMar turnover. Now I'm angry

[offset formation]

Can't believe Pop didn't call a timeout.

I kept wondering why Kawhi wasn't fouling and then I remembered, yeah, that's why.

[duncan2k5]

I kept wondering why Kawhi wasn't fouling and then I remembered, yeah, that's why.

Ppl just need to stop testing him at the end of games... It doesn't end well... There's no shame in passing it up to someone else

[BackHome]

Worst Rodeo Road Trip ever, guys? Or have there been worse ones?

Yeah when we ranked for David and when we ranked for Timmy.

[BackHome]

Demar's play was much improved but those last 5min became Defrozan iso ball. Becoming very accustomed to these type of finishes since Demar got here.

This why Derrick White needs to be the floor general. Aside from getting the best out of him , you see less of Demar trying to make plays with the ball. It's predictable and easy to guard against.

Thats on ing Poop ��

[TheGoatishere]

How the didn’t any our players stay in the backcourt to help DD when they clearly planned to trap ?

[kaji157]

The entire team was mistaken in that possession, kawhi was lucky, green helped. No spur was there to help out DeMarr.
Other than that it was a good game, if they build on it this can be an important step, let's hope DeMarr doesn't get mentally hit by this.

[Arcadian]

This is our first time being Klaw'd on the receiving end!

(He's lucky no timeout was called, though...shooting 8-23, a loss would've fallen on him.)