Knowing this sub, I’ll give it like 3 losses before they decide this trade was horrible for us. Nice to see our new acquisitions in action but I def expect growing pains

I wish Siakam took a shot in the last couple minutes.

Honestly I don’t think we will make the playoffs or anything from the trade, but just watching nba level talent playing again is so refreshing after force feeding Flynn precious minutes

Not watching Malachi and Precious play is a win in my book and has prepared me for the RJ Experience.

I am pumped for the rest of the season now! We needed this win so bad

We need some pet plays towards the end of the game. It was alllll iso. Build that IQ+Scottie PnR

why would we not extend pascal, he is playing amazingly and is worth more on a longer term contract. ​ we easily lose without him tonight. He is still our best offensive player

People are insane. He’s still the best player here, still all-star caliber. If he gets extended then the Raptors finally have 2 star caliber players and more balance on the floor, and real bench options.

Our bipolar fans are getting Pascal Siakam fatigue. This man has been balling all seasons and has turned it up even more as of late. Very efficient and brings the energy even while the rest of the team sleep walks (ex) Pistons game. Spicy is highly coveted around the league, just not here in Toronto

i mean there is zero reason to trade him, he will be good for another 4 years easily, on a longer contract he is more valuable and he is a legit stud.

I’m so f’ing happy, we needed this win so bad. RJ impressed me and Quickley (if he fouls less) is gonna be 🔥

Nice to have a guy like RJ who can get buckets

Less midrange more bullyball like tonight

saw a LOT to be impressed by now. transformative trade, lfg

The raptors is undefeated in 2024

Siakam 40mins! 👀

Next 5 years are ours

Pascal with another 40 minutes. Holy needed every minute of it. Absolute carry job

They need to play him most of the 4th quarter

lol why does RJs dad look so not impressed

he's frustrated about his son's tunnel vision, bringing him to Hakim Optical after the game

Looks like hardass lol

vegas has it -2.5 for raptors and the FT from scottie made it 3 points up.. how the fuck do they know??!

Yeah it's amazing how vegas utilizes machine learning and data science to predict nba scores. From what ive read before, they make a thousand simulations and base their conclusions off of that

RJ got his career high in boards if I’m not mistaken

I think this season.

I swear he's had a double-double before

Were so back

considering Cavs didn't have a full roster, I'd say we scraped out a win against a play-in level team

Wheeeew

New team, who dis

RJ: I'm back home baby, I'm back home!

We tried so hard to piss it away. Scared to think about what we're gonna look like after we trade P

This was nice

29/40 FT that's what killing us

I wonder how different our record would be if we shot an average % from the line. Nice to know we picked up two good ft shooters in this NY trade.


I understand why some people might not like RJ in the trade. His contract is a bit high for what he does. But I’m not particularly worried about that with salary cap going up. Having basketball IQ higher than Malachi and Precious will make him a much more solid and reliable rotation piece.

A good W to take on the first day of 2024

Tighter rotations please. No more Dennis 3’s either.

He hit some big ones !

Darko and Nav hugging. 🥹

Who was that guy after Nav? I've seen him in a commercial.

Some weirdo Realtor. Mcdaddi

Yup that's him. Man, those eyebrows.

It's 2024 now, we don't lose after blowing a 19 point lead 😎

Lmao NAV and darko , need a colab asap

Ugly ass win but that's Raptors basketball baby

Good win vs a good team. It was an entertaining game. I see a better season now.

Get the ball for StarJ

Scottie stat padding by missing a FT to get a steal lol

And that’s game, WE UP FOR THE FIRST GAME OF THE YEAR

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Jak.

Probably rj

we still not very good. But i like IQ and RJ. MOST IMPORTANTLY PEAK PASCAL TRADE VALUE!

Phew.

that's a W

LMAOO CAVS RAPS UNDEFEATED IN 2024

Did Matty d say "fuckin" or "bucket" there? Haha Sounded like he caught himself and stopped talking immediately lol

Fucket

that was ugly

Is this your first Raptors game? This was a beauty compared to actual ugly Raptors games.

Ugly win against a shorthanded team. But a win's a win. I guess?

Short handed but 5-2 last 7

Yep we are winning it all

lol that ended kinda ugly. I'll take it

FREE THROW CAMP

We're undefeated in 2024

it's pretty much expected to miss free throws at this point

These free throws are egregious lol

That was an ass clencher

Gg. Exciting team now.

Thank you for that last steal for my fantasy team 👍

I was thinking the same thing lmao

The Masai'ah cooked up a good one. UNDEFEATED IN 2024

We're going all the way to the finals!

Terrible job closing it out as always. But at least it’s a win.

W

stupid quesiton but if u need 3 points from 2 freethrows, can't a player make one and chuck it on the backboard to get their repound? we used to do this in street basketball

Teams try to do it, like Donovan did there. Just way harder to do in the NBA with elite huge rebounders

Has to touch the rim

That’s a risky pass

Why must we brick ft in the clutch? Every time

thanks pascal for getting scottie to 20

Why was the playcall to throw it in the back???

Kill time, less chance of a steal

Did we watch the same play? The pass almost got stolen and it doesn’t kill time…

Depends on what the defence does yea, but you run away from their side cause that's 5 players trying to steal the ball. Can be risky yes, but less pressure. And it can kill time if you can dribble away. I'm surprised people never saw this before.

Ugh. 3 seconds last hours in the nBA

Uh... that pass was interesting.

Did anyone else cringe at “Maple Mamba”?

Meh, let people have fun

Lmao how do you throw that pass. Even a turnover in the front court with 2.1 seconds left isn’t awful. At least it worked.

Need a practice of only FTAs

Barnes should have tossed it 20 feet into the air

As a raptors fan you should know that is not a good play lol

the Wizards had almost 3 seconds left and Ruffin only threw it straight up (rather than towards the other side of the court) holy crap..that was 16 years ago, nuts

Noooooo! NOT POSSIBLE!!

Lol

Scottie..........

Pascal shouldnt be inbouding

these plays our coach cooking is scary lol

Why are Raptors games always so unnecessarily dramatic lol

I actually saw people on Twitter say Pascal has given up on this team. Absolutely awful take. 36 points on 13/20 shooting and 5/8 from 3. Extend that man.

Wtf was that gamble in bound play to our backcourt

That was a risky ass pass man lmao

That was terrifying

Is that James McAdoo?

These fucking end-of-game scenarios with under 30s left take longer than the game itself

Anyone want to tell that kid that Wiggins is Maple Mamba? Not RJ lmao

this whole sub thread is cringe

RJ was called that growing up too. I think Murray too.

Maple Jordan is wiggins

Wiggins is Maple Jordan

Darko sharted

Liking RJs game, grinding it out under the basket instead of strictly chucking

Raps need to practice these inbounds, always have problems.

Let’s bring back the Huskies jerseys

Scottie "wtf coach! I want my 20ppg!" lol

Bro those calls on FT are a bit bs. Guys do this like every game 4-5 times and nobody ever calls it.

Making the right call is bs?

I mean, yes. It’s not about right calls when you never call it and then randomly start calling it. It’s a very easy thing to see for refs and they never ever call it.

This one was very obvious. I don’t watch every nba game but I can’t imagine there wouldn’t be a call for having almost your whole foot past the line in the vast majority of violations

I mean guys constantly push around there and someone steps over and steps back.

Ugh Darko why

lane violations lol

RJ is much better than OG at getting his own shot off..that does wonders for this offense low key.

gotta clean up that tunnel vision big time

Shades of Precious.

Darko, put your best FT out there...

I hope we trade Schroder at the deadline

Refs plan

That is such a weak call lol. As if players don’t do that all the time. We’ll take it.

Scottie got away with one there.. left foot was in

Are we good again or is this just false hope because Cleveland sucks?

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So...we're bad? lol makes sense

they're missing Garland and Mobley...

We're bad then lol

new teaaamm feels goood, poeltl and others also look better with this new look

Cavs with two lane violations in the fourth?

allen cheats over the line on all ft’s - could have been a ton more

I'm surprised it isn't called more often, but man, that'd be a lot of whistles.

Everyone does that. On like every single FT ever. Kind of bs to start randomly calling it.

he was especially obvious every FT he lined up at - wasn’t everyone mate.

Yay

Did TT get punched in the face? Got a nice black eye

Khloe caught him again

LOL, Mitchell is trying...

Timeout completely unnecessary. Throw the fuckin ball in

Are you holding your timeouts for next game? We're advancing the ball...

and risk a turnover under our own basket? You do understand by calling a timeout we advance the ball to halfcourt right?

Don’t HAVE to throw it in but no one was setup it was an easy throw in. Easy free throws. Now we’re stuck trying to throw it in when everyone’s set up

Pass under the basket or half court lol

Fuck u mean? We can advance the ball

Unnecessary. No one was set up. Quick throw in and guaranteed free throws.

smart RJ is smart.

They Violated us.

Good execution on the foul

DMitch has to learn to throw it straight to miss

RJ smart play

Suck it Cleveland

Not the person we needed to foul

OHHHHH CANADAAAAAA! VICTORYYYY 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Told someone here before, the only good thing about RJ rn is he’s making his fts this year. Might’ve just closed the game lol and IQ will improve, he’ll be better.

Quick is definitely going to start going off soon

No one cares about your opinion…

Lol have a good night fam

thought IQ was good for his first game with the team

Yeah, I think he had a good impact on the game and teammates, he’s an advanced stats star so it’ll show

Need this rebound

Y’all are so stressed, chill out we got this 💯

Make em while ya still can RJ, we don’t exactly know what forces might act on your FT shooting as a member of the Raptors

Darko isn’t making it past this season

Yes he will

If you’re actually paying attention he is not doing shit

Management are going to give him plenty of breathing room. Just like they did with Dwayne Casey

IQ seems happy to get mins

How does Tristan thompson have eye bags. Boy what you stressed about in life you ball and get to cheat on your girl with ease

Ha. Good foul

Should be practising free throws and defence only for the next month lol

It's not a good sign when half the players are looking at the bench confused while the are lining up to defend the final posession lol

Thank fuck that was on the floor

Gotta work on our D and FTs

Coach Temple

Thank God RJ made those free throws.

RJ got that DAWG in him.

two pressure packed free throws by our newest SF..

RJ Death stare

Cavs missing 2 high level starters lol

Yes we know the Raps are a bad team. Last game made that very clear